prestiginous
/prɛˈstɪdʒɪnəs/ /prɛˈstɪdʒ(ə)nəs/rare
adjective
Viewed in terms of prestige; prestigious.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), playwright and polemicist. Irregularly from prestige + -ous, after vertiginous, magnitudinous, multitudinous, etc.
- macro-phylum
- macrophysical
- macrophysics
- macrophyte
- macrophytic
- macropinacoid
- macropine
- macroplankton
- macroplanktonic
- macropleural
- macropod
- macropodid
- macropodine
- macropore
- macroporosity
- macroporous
- macropsia
- macropterous
- macroradical
- macro-scale
- macroscopic
- macroscopical
- macroscopically
- macrosegment
- macrosegregation