misozoic

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adjective

life-hating

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivemisozoic (comparative more misozoic, superlative most misozoic)

comparative more misozoic · superlative most misozoic

  1. rarelife-hating

    The Duke urges him to prepare for death and to desire it because of life's worthlessness. His image of life is hyperbolically misozoic because he is practicing — and getting off on — homiletics: […]

    1997, Harry Berger, Peter Erickson, Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare
    1 more example

    The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.

    1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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