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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger")..
It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.
Some stayed on in the old house and, with consummate dignity, would totter down avenues choked with weeds and brambles which grow at a triffidian rate in Ireland, to a servant's cottage pretending to inquire about the ancient groom's.
Use triffidian when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Triffidian means Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger")..
Common synonyms include triffidlike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.
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