Adjective: mutagenic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mutagenic |
| Superlative | most mutagenic |
Sample Sentences
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Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel? [2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25:]
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For the antimutagenicity evaluation, the same doses of CPN employed in the mutagenic evaluation were co-treated with their respective positive controls. [2015 September 4, “Genotoxic, Cytotoxic, Antigenotoxic, and Anticytotoxic Effects of Sulfonamide Chalcone Using the Ames Test and the Mouse Bone Marrow Micronucleus Test”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:]
Adjectives inflected like mutagenic
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 muta-
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-os
5. Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
6. Proto-Hellenic *génos
7. Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
8. Proto-Indo-European *-os
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
10. Proto-Hellenic *-ēs
11. Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
12. Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
13. French -gènebor.
14. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
15. Proto-Italic *-ikos
16. Latin -icuslbor.
17. Old French -iquebor.
18. Middle English -ik
19. English -ic
20. English -genic
21. English mutagenic
22. From muta- + -genic.
Verbs referencing "mutagenic"
Finnish Adjectives
mutageeninen.