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swarter

swarter is the comparative form of swart.

Meaning of swart

Adjective

swart (comparative swarter, superlative swartest)

  1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
    • 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin
      Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
  2. (UK, dialectal) Black.
  3. (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
    • Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 4

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Questions about swarter

What is swarter the comparative form of?
Swarter is the comparative form of swart.

Words near swarter in the dictionary

  1. swarted
  2. swarten
  3. swartened
  4. swartening
  5. swartens
  6. swarter
  7. swartest
  8. swarth
  9. swarthaak
  10. swarthes
  11. swarthier

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