This week’s theme
Words used figuratively

This week’s words
scaturient
relucent
miasmic
labyrinthine
superincumbent


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PRONUNCIATION:

(soo-puhr-in-KUHM-buhnt)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Lying or resting on something else.
2. Weighty; oppressive.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin, present participle of superincumbere (to lie on top of), from super- (above) + incumbere (to lie or lean upon), from in- (in) + cumbere (to lie down). Earliest documented use: 1659.

USAGE:

“The superincumbent weight of the coping renders the wall very insecure.”
Argen Duncan; Bullis: Multiple Cultures Helped Develop Adobe Building Methods; Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico); Aug 26, 2020.

“Each year the three-hour Oscar show becomes a more impressive, superincumbent global ritual.”
Vernon Scott; UPI; Mar 21, 1995.

See more usage examples of superincumbent in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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