Adjective: homeopathic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more homeopathic |
| Superlative | most homeopathic |
Sample Sentences
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Therefore, with a slight misgiving that so delicate a creature as an embryo shad might possibly be affected by the homœopathic amount of alcohol still present, I set up my apparatus on the shaded piazza of the hotel. [1875, United States. Congress. Senate, Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2d Session and Special Session, page 373:]
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On the other hand, the pop psychology titles are usually very accessible (hence their popularity) but frequently state the obvious or simply retread the same old ground – the psychological content is so diluted it's positively homeopathic! [2008 May 5, Gary Wood, Don't Wait For Your Ship to Come In...Swim Out to Meet It: Tools and Techniques for Positive Lasting Change, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 4:]
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Scott: […] – cos I was running on fumes there. Not even fumes. I was running on the homeopathic / memory of fumes
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Catrin: / Have you got a tissue or something? [2010, Gary Owen, Love Steals Us from Loneliness, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 13:]
Adjectives inflected like homeopathic
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *somHós
4. Proto-Hellenic *homós
5. Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
7. Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
8. Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios)bor.
9. English homeo-
10. Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
11. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)
12. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
13. Proto-Italic *-ikos
14. Latin -icuslbor.
15. Old French -iquebor.
16. Middle English -ik
17. English -ic
18. English -pathic
19. English homeopathic
20. From homeo- (“similar”) + -pathic (“suffering, disease”).
Verbs referencing "homeopathic"
Finnish Adjectives
homeopaattinen.