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solitudinous

solitudinous adjective: characterised by solitude.

Adjective

solitudinous (comparative more solitudinous, superlative most solitudinous)

  1. Characterised by solitude
    • Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house.

Forms of solitudinous

comparativemore solitudinous
superlativemost solitudinous

Origin of solitudinous

From Latin sōlitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin sōlitūdō, from sōlus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, solitude + -ous.

Words formed from solitudinous

Questions about solitudinous

What does solitudinous mean?
Solitudinous means characterised by solitude.
What part of speech is solitudinous?
Solitudinous is an adjective.

Words near solitudinous in the dictionary

  1. solitude
  2. solitudes
  3. solitudinal
  4. solitudinarian
  5. solitudinarians
  6. solitudinous
  7. solitudinously
  8. solitudinousness
  9. solivagant
  10. solivagants
  11. solivagous

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