Adjective: taurine
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more taurine |
| Superlative | most taurine |
Sample Sentences
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I am the Ionian Minotaur, the mightiest
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Of all Europa’s taurine progeny—
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I am the old traditional Man-Bull; [1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:]
Adjectives inflected like taurine
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 taurīnus, from taurus (“bull”).