Adjective: metal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more metal |
| Superlative | most metal |
Sample Sentences
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The beast will destroy everything in his path
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With this song on the upcoming brawl
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It sure is a long one and tough to pronounce but
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It's the most metal title of all [2008, Lich King, “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:]
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Top tip: Bowling gloves are for sissies, although they look metal as fuck. [2012 August, “Tested Bowling Balls”, in Front, number 171, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:]
Adjectives inflected like metal
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. Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der.
3. Latin metallum
4. Old French metalbor.
5. Middle English metal
6. English metal
7. From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).