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adjectiveleopardine (comparative more leopardine, superlative most leopardine)
comparative more leopardine · superlative most leopardine
- Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
Near-synonym: leopardlike (sometimes synonymous)
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My leopardine beauties are rarer
1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73Synonyms: leopardlike
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adjectiveResembling or characteristic of a leopard.
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leopardine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leopardine
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