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subrident

subrident adjective: characterized by a smile; smiling.

Adjective

subrident (comparative more subrident, superlative most subrident)

  1. (literary, rare) Characterized by a smile; smiling.
    • In 1852 a correspondent to Notes and Queries recalled having heard many years before (as usual from somebody whose name he had forgotten) that the Cheshire Cat owed its origin to the unhappy attempts of a sign-painter of that county to represent a lion rampant, which was the crest of an influential...1980, Philip Howard, Words Fail Me, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 44

Forms of subrident

comparativemore subrident
superlativemost subrident

Origin of subrident

Borrowed from Late Latin subrīdēns, subrīdentem (“smiling”), from Latin subrīdeō (“to smile”).

Questions about subrident

What does subrident mean?
Subrident means characterized by a smile; smiling.
What part of speech is subrident?
Subrident is an adjective.

Words near subrident in the dictionary

  1. subrhomboid
  2. subrhomboidal
  3. subribosomal
  4. subribosome
  5. subribosomes
  6. subrident
  7. subrigid
  8. subring
  9. subrings
  10. subrision
  11. subrisive

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