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ululatory en · ADJ

Etymology

From ululation + -ory, from Latin ululō (“to howl, shriek, yell”).

Meanings

  1. Being or relating to a ululation.
    • In a critical climate that venerates slick, hyperproduced Top 40 pop, why is she [Celine Dion] immune to praise? Is her ululatory arm-flinging really so unforgivable? 2007 December 13, Sam Anderson, “Taster’s Choice”, in New York Magazine, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2017:

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most ululatory Degree=Sup lexicographic
more ululatory Degree=Cmp lexicographic