inverecund

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/ɪnˈvɛɹɪkʌnd/

adjective

Immodest; shameless.

OriginLatin inverecundus →
Scrabble 16
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Meanings

adjectiveinverecund (comparative more inverecund, superlative most inverecund)

comparative more inverecund · superlative most inverecund

  1. archaicrareImmodest; shameless.

    Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.

    1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato
    1 more example

    […] if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs […]

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 366

Origin

  1. Latininverecundus
  2. Englishinverecund

From Latin inverecundus, from in- + verecundus (“modest”), from vereri (“to revere”).

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APA

inverecund. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inverecund

MLA

“inverecund.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inverecund. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inverecund,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inverecund.

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