Adjective: solute
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more solute |
| Superlative | most solute |
Sample Sentences
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a solute interpretation
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The Interpretations of the Scriptures are of two ſorts: Methodical, and Solute, or at large, […] [1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 112, verso:]
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So ſung Philander, as his Friend went round / In the rich Ichor, in the gen'rous Blood / Of Bacchus, purple God of joyous Wit, / A Brow ſolute, and ever-laughing Eye. [1742, [Edward Young], “Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 44:]
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a solute salt
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a solute stipule
Adjectives inflected like solute
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
Borrowed from Latin solutus, past participle of solvo. See: Latin Adjectives '
solutus'.
Verbs referencing "solute"
Spanish Adjectives
suelto.