Adjective: longilateral
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more longilateral |
| Superlative | most longilateral |
Sample Sentences
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naturally making a longilateral figure, the perfect quadrate being made by nine. [1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:]
Adjectives inflected like longilateral
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 longus (“long”) + lateralis (“lateral”), from latus (“side”). See: Latin Adjectives '
longus'.