Adjective: galvanic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more galvanic |
| Superlative | most galvanic |
Sample Sentences
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[S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion. [1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 22, in Pink and White Tyranny:]
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Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck. [1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in North America:]
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Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt. [1908, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 19, in Salthaven:]
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But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis. [2014 April 4, Zachary Woolfe, “Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014:]
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Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil. [2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American:]
Adjectives inflected like galvanic
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 French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique. See: French Adjectives '
galvanique'.