Adjective: dulciferous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dulciferous |
| Superlative | most dulciferous |
Sample Sentences
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It put a touch of acid into his dulciferous mildness. [1892, Israel Zangwill, The Grandchildren of the Ghetto:]
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He may roil your mind with his collusions but I will elaqueate your dulciferous egoity when your heart dehisces to the epiphoras which house no elench. [1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide Into the South, volume I, Atlanta: Index Printing Company, page 35:]
Adjectives inflected like dulciferous
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 Latin dulcifer (“containing sweetness”), from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Equivalent to dulce + -i- + -ferous. See: Latin Adjectives '
dulcifer', Latin Adjectives '
dulcis'.