Adjective: perite
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more perite |
| Superlative | most perite |
Sample Sentences
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[…] some of our friends who are in the habit of exercising a profuse rather than a perite hospitality […] [1820, Blackwood's magazine, volume 7, page 668:]
Adjectives inflected like perite
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 perītus. See: Latin Adjectives '
perītus'.