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surfeitive

surfeitive adjective: excessive.

Adjective

surfeitive (comparative more surfeitive, superlative most surfeitive)

  1. excessive
    • They lay thick, viscid underfoot, sweet and oversweet in the nostrils with a sweetness surfeitive and moribund, and at night now the ragged shadow of full-fledged leaves pulsed upon the barred window in shabby rise and fall.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 86

Forms of surfeitive

comparativemore surfeitive
superlativemost surfeitive

Origin of surfeitive

From surfeit + -ive.

Questions about surfeitive

What does surfeitive mean?
Surfeitive means excessive.
What part of speech is surfeitive?
Surfeitive is an adjective.

Words near surfeitive in the dictionary

  1. surfeited
  2. surfeiter
  3. surfeiters
  4. surfeiting
  5. surfeitings
  6. surfeitive
  7. surfeits
  8. surfel
  9. surfelled
  10. surfelling
  11. surfels

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