Meanings
comparative more amadelphous · superlative most amadelphous
- Outgoing; gregarious.
Throughout her existence under their roof, even in their bathtub, she had been a troubled, salient child, eyeful as a scan daisy, as probing as a scutiger, but ever so rationally troubling to the dokladchiki under a load of birchbark documents, business notes, and amadelphous messages.
2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber: A Novel by Neil Baker, →ISBN, page 38
Origin
- Ancient Greekἅμα“together”
- Englishamadelphous
From Ancient Greek ἅμα (háma, “together”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brotherly”).
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