This week’s theme
Misc. words

This week’s words
froward
listless
indolent
matronly
valorous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(MAY-truhn-lee)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Stately; dignified.
2. Characteristic of a mature, plump, unfashionable woman.

ETYMOLOGY:

From matron (a married woman; a woman in charge), from Latin matrona (married woman, wife), from mater (mother). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mater (mother), which also gave us mother, material, matter, matrix, and matrimony. Earliest documented use: 1590.

USAGE:

“She had grown somewhat stouter of late, and her movements were already a little matronly, a little indolent.”
Anton Chekhov (translation: Constance Garnett); The Darling and Other Stories; Macmillan; 1916.

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

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