 |  |  | | | Word of the Day for Saturday, September 14, 2013 dissilient \dih-SIL-ee-uhnt\, adjective: bursting apart; bursting open. I imagined the dissilient pod of rumours a creative bureau chief up for promotion might hatch. Stories, once sprung, would snowball out of control, growing more damaging with each repetition.
-- Susan Daitch, L.C., 2002 The court was dissilient, generationally fractured, manned (as it were) by an increasingly impatient and acquisitive nobility.
-- Eric Scott Mallin, Inscribing the Time, 1995 Dissilent comes from the Latin word dissilīre meaning "to leap apart." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help |
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