Adjective: tharf
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more tharf |
| Superlative | most tharf |
Adjectives inflected like tharf
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. From Middle English therf, from Old English þeorf (“unleavened, fresh, skim”), from Proto-West Germanic *þerb, from Proto-Germanic *þerbaz (“unleavened, simple”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terbh-, *(s)trebh- (“rigid, stiff, tight”).
2. Cognate with German derb (“rough, coarse, rude”), Old Frisian therve, Middle Dutch derf. See: German Adjectives '
derb'.