Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Froward; perverse; harsh; sour; crabbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.
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- adjective obsolete
Morose ,bitter . - adjective chemistry Denoting a kind of
acid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Philosophos et severos, severe, sad, dry, tetric, are common epithets to scholars: and [1975] Patritius therefore, in the institution of princes, would not have them to be great students.
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Her youthful days are over, and her face hath become wrinkled and tetric.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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A lover of his native tongue will tremble to think what that tongue would have become, if all the vocables from the Latin and the Greek which were then introduced or endorsed by illustrious names, had been admitted on the strength of their recommendation; if ‘torve’ and ‘tetric’ (Fuller),
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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They are commonly sad and tetric by nature, as Achab's spirit was because he could not get Naboth's vineyard, (1.
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The truth is that it's quite tetric, it looks like a spirit emerging from the fog (the
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The truth is that it's quite tetric, it looks like a spirit emerging from the fog (the
chained_bear commented on the word tetric
See also tetrix.
August 27, 2008
qms commented on the word tetric
The fare at the fair is eclectic:
You might spy a clown with a pet trick,
See shows of all styles
For thrills and for smiles
And nary a visage that's tetric.
May 15, 2017
qms commented on the word tetric
I see that some GNU collaborator (or perhaps an imperious spell checker), in plundering The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia for a definition of "tetric " has assumed the old and honorable "froward" to be a misspelling of "forward" and has "corrected" it.
Obscurity makes one a coward
Another finds language empowered:
It's timid and horrid
To substitute forward
From distrust of stubborn old froward.
May 15, 2017