assai

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adverb

A tempo direction equivalent to "very".

OriginItalian assai →
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Meanings

assai1

adverbassai (not comparable)
  1. not comparableentertainmentA tempo direction equivalent to "very".

assai2

nounassai (plural assais)

plural assais

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of acai.

    "What do you make of that?" he asked. "It is surely an Assai palm," said Summerlee. "Exactly. It was an Assai palm which I took for my landmark. The secret opening is half a mile onwards upon the other side of the river."

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Italianassai
  2. Italianassai
  3. Englishassai

Borrowed from Italian assai.

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Cite this entry
APA

assai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assai

MLA

“assai.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assai. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “assai,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assai.

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