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unhippocratic

unhippocratic adjective: not befitting a doctor.

Adjective

unhippocratic (comparative more unhippocratic, superlative most unhippocratic)

  1. (rare) Not befitting a doctor.
    • Similarly, those doctors who decry the operation as an "unhippocratic" act need not perform it.1973, W. Gifford-Jones, On Being a Woman
    • But the young Doctor has entered the throes of a most unhippocratic excitement at the boatman's cry, and shouts, 'I'm coming just now! Just let me bring my things!'1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's children
    Synonyms:
    undoctorly

Synonyms of unhippocratic

Forms of unhippocratic

comparativemore unhippocratic
superlativemost unhippocratic

Origin of unhippocratic

From un- + Hippocratic.

Questions about unhippocratic

What does unhippocratic mean?
Unhippocratic means not befitting a doctor.
What part of speech is unhippocratic?
Unhippocratic is an adjective.

Words near unhippocratic in the dictionary

  1. unhinted
  2. unhip
  3. unhiply
  4. unhipness
  5. unhipped
  6. unhippocratic
  7. unhirable
  8. unhirables
  9. unhire
  10. unhireable
  11. unhireables

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