Adjective: idolatrous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more idolatrous |
| Superlative | most idolatrous |
Sample Sentences
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the priests of an idolatrous religion
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Once Robert Smellie found her in a ruinous kirk on the Lang Muir, where of old the idolatrous rites of Rome were practiced. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
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An idolatrous veneration for antiquity.
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An idolatrous image or temple.
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Next morning, I sent two of my companions to make enquiry about our prospects, but they returned in the afternoon to report that things were not at all promising, as a number of shopkeepers who traded in articles used for idolatrous worship had already engaged the Towncrier to go round and announce that anyone who rented, leased, or sold premises to the "Jesus-Church" would be seized and buried alive! [1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 75:]
Adjectives inflected like idolatrous
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. English idolatry
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-os
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
6. Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?
7. Old Latin -ōssus
8. Latin -ōsus
9. Old French -usbor.
10. Middle English -ous
11. English -ous
12. English idolatrous
13. From idolatry + -ous.