And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.
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Leprous
//ˈlɛpɹəs//
Synonyms for "leprous" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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15 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 21 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λεπρός adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Arabic
3 entries- أَبْرَص adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- جُذَامِيّ adj (similar to leprosy or its symptoms)
- مَجْذُوم adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Armenian
1 entries- բորոտ adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Bulgarian
2 entries- прока́жен adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- прока́жен adj (ostracized, shunned — see also ostracized)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- گول adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Czech
1 entries- leprozní adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Danish
1 entries- spedalsk adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Finnish
1 entries- spitaalinen adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
French
1 entries- lépreux adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Galician
2 entries- gafo adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- leproso adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Georgian
1 entries- კეთროვანი adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
German
4 entries- aussätzig adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- leprakrank adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- lepros adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- leprös adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍃 adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Greek
1 entries- λεπρός adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Icelandic
1 entries- holdsveikur adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Italian
1 entries- lebbroso adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Latin
2 entries- leprosus adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
- leprōticus adj (similar to leprosy or its symptoms)
Old Armenian
1 entries- ուրուկ adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Old English
1 entries- hrēof adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پیس adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Portuguese
1 entries- leproso adj (infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
1748, Philip Luckombe, A Tour Through Ireland, London: T. Lowndes & Son, 1783, Journey the Fourth, p. 324, […] a dissenting minister […] came to this well, over-run with leprous eruptions on the skin, which had rendered his joints so rigid, that he could neither hold his bridle, nor feed himself […]
Source: wiktionary
Nor shall the art which you and I need be merely a purple robe woven by a slave and thrown over the whitened body of some leprous king to adorn or to conceal the sin of his luxury, but rather shall it be the noble and beautiful expression of a people’s noble and beautiful life.
Source: wiktionary
‘If they die,’ he said, ‘the cell shall be their tomb. They were put there to die, and be lost. The cell is leprous. Do you understand?’
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