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Adventitious Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Adventitious has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

associated by chance and not an integral part

"poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"

"they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"

2

From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.

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Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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