amadelphous

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἅμα (háma, together) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, brotherly).

Pronunciation

Adjective

amadelphous (comparative more amadelphous, superlative most amadelphous)

  1. Outgoing; gregarious.
    • 2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber: A Novel by Neil Baker, →ISBN, page 38:
      Throughout her existence under their roof, even in their bathtub, she had been a troubled, salient child, eyeful as a scan daisy, as probing as a scutiger, but ever so rationally troubling to the dokladchiki under a load of birchbark documents, business notes, and amadelphous messages.