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teterrimous

teterrimous adjective: extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.

Adjective

teterrimous (comparative more teterrimous, superlative most teterrimous)

  1. (rare) Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
    • Captain Magan, the teterrimous occasion of the wars of the week, enters battle in a red shirt!1854, Edward Michael Whitty, The Derbyites and the Coalition: Parliamentary Sketches, Trübner & Co, page 128
    • Halliford Bridge was washed away some years ago by the floods; and now the Surrey and Middlesex shores are connected by a brick and iron structure which is named Walton Bridge, and which, being the teterrimous cause of war between Bumbledon on both sides the river, was painted of two colours, a...1885, The Royal River: The Thames, From Source to Sea, Gresham Books Limited, published 1983, →ISBN, page 194

Forms of teterrimous

comparativemore teterrimous
superlativemost teterrimous

Origin of teterrimous

From Latin teterrima (“most foul, most ugly”).

Questions about teterrimous

What does teterrimous mean?
Teterrimous means extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
What part of speech is teterrimous?
Teterrimous is an adjective.

Words near teterrimous in the dictionary

  1. Tetelcingo Nahuatl
  2. tetels
  3. Tetepan Norte
  4. Tetepan Sur
  5. Teter
  6. teterrimous
  7. Teters
  8. Teterses
  9. Tetford
  10. teth
  11. tether

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