Adjective: plagiaristic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more plagiaristic |
| Superlative | most plagiaristic |
Sample Sentences
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[…] the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. [1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby:]
Adjectives inflected like plagiaristic
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. Latin plagium
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusnom.
6. Latin -ārius
7. Latin plagiārius
8. English plagiary
9. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
12. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
13. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
14. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
15. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
16. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
17. Latin -istader.
18. Old French -istebor.
19. Middle English -ist
20. English -ist
21. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
22. Proto-Italic *-ikos
23. Latin -icuslbor.
24. Old French -iquebor.
25. Middle English -ik
26. English -ic
27. English -istic
28. ▲
29. English plagiary
30. ▲
31. English -ist
32. English plagiarist
33. ▲
34. English -ic
35. English plagiaristic
36. From plagiary + -istic, or from plagiarist + -ic.