eulogistic

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adjective

Conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveeulogistic (comparative more eulogistic, superlative most eulogistic)

comparative more eulogistic · superlative most eulogistic

  1. Conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.

    He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.

    1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
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    But on one fatal occasion I happened to change my tactics and warmly praised a work[…] my eulogistic review of the hated individual, unfortunately for me, appeared, with the result that private spite outweighed public justice and I was immediately dismissed.

    1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 8

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveformally expressing praise

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Catalan elogiós
  • elogiósof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
French dithyrambique, élogieux
  • dithyrambiqueof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
  • élogieuxof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
Irish adhmholtach
  • adhmholtachof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
Italian elogiativo, lodativo
  • elogiativoof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
  • lodativoof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
Romanian lăudător
  • lăudătorof, pertaining to, or in the form of a eulogy
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Chicago

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