Adjective: ovate
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ovate |
| Superlative | most ovate |
Sample Sentences
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The Geese, Anserinæ, have the body ovate, the head small, the bill stout and somewhat conical; the legs rather long; the wings of great length and breadth. [1852, William Macgillivray, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, page 573:]
Adjectives inflected like ovate
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
Borrowed from Latin ōvātus, from ōvum (“an egg”) + -ātus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). See: Latin Adjectives '
ōvātus'.