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stomachous

stomachous adjective: bitter, resentful.

Adjective

stomachous (comparative more stomachous, superlative most stomachous)

  1. (obsolete) Bitter, resentful.
    • By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297

Forms of stomachous

comparativemore stomachous
superlativemost stomachous

Origin of stomachous

From Latin stomachōsus, from stomachus (“stomach”). By surface analysis, stomach (“irritation; malice, ill-will, spite; vexation”) + -ous.

Questions about stomachous

What does stomachous mean?
Stomachous means bitter, resentful.
What part of speech is stomachous?
Stomachous is an adjective.

Words near stomachous in the dictionary

  1. stomaching
  2. stomachings
  3. stomachless
  4. stomachlessness
  5. stomachlike
  6. stomachous
  7. stomachs
  8. stomachsful
  9. stomachy
  10. stomack
  11. stomacked

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