Adjective: beaverly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more beaverly |
| Superlative | most beaverly |
Sample Sentences
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"[…] Great idea, isn't it? I wonder how long they would take to Darwinize into webbed feet and a beaverly breadth of tail." [1892, Rolf Boldrewood, The Squatter's Dream:]
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Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods. [1963, The Canadian Forum: A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs:]
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Tao The Ching, the Upanishads, or Ojibway creation tales it's not owing to any sense of piety or to the beaverly enthusiasms of a pedant, but because of an ardent and abiding curiosity. [1997, Steven Heighton, The Admen Move on Lhasa:]
Adjectives inflected like beaverly
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 beaver + -ly.