Adjective: illustre
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more illustre |
| Superlative | most illustre |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like illustre
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 Middle French illustre (French illustre), from Latin illūstris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“to illustrate”). See: French Adjectives '
illustre', Latin Adjectives '
illūstris'.