amadelphous

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἅμα (háma, “together”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brotherly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæməˈdɛlfəs/

Adjective

amadelphous (comparative more amadelphous, superlative most amadelphous)

1. Outgoing; gregarious.
   • 2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber: A Novel by Neil Baker, →ISBN, page 38:

     Throughout her existence under their roof, even in their bathtub, she had been a troubled, salient child, eyeful as a scan daisy, as probing as a scutiger, but ever so rationally troubling to the dokladchiki under a load of birchbark documents, business notes, and amadelphous messages.