Adjective: dragging
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dragging |
| Superlative | most dragging |
Sample Sentences
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[T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road. [1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:]
Adjectives inflected like dragging
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. Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰrógʰ-e-ti
4. Proto-Germanic *draganą
5. Proto-West Germanic *dragan
6. Old English dragan
7. Middle English dragen
8. Middle English draggen
9. Low German draggeinflu.
10. English drag
11. Proto-Germanic *-ungō
12. Old English -ung
13. Middle English -ynge
14. English -ing
15. English dragging
16. From drag + -ing.