Adjective: adusk
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more adusk |
| Superlative | most adusk |
Sample Sentences
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You wish to die and leave the world adusk
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For others, with your naughty light blown out? [1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh:]
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The low sun had already made it adusk in the ravine, and she walked on to seek the crimson that must soon be burning over sky and sea. [1866, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, volume 2, page 262:]
Adjectives inflected like adusk
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From a- (“on, at”) + dusk.