limboid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

limbo +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

limboid (comparative more limboid, superlative most limboid)

  1. Having a likeness or similarity to the conditions of limbo or to those held therein.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 168:
      Whole legions of the maimed and mute and crooked deployed over the streets in a limboid vapor of smoke and fog.