chitinous
/ˈkaɪtɪnəs/adjective
chitinous is an adjective meaning “Made of, pertaining to, or resembling chitin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-T-I-N-O-U-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chitinous mean?
adjective
- 1
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling chitin.
Not to mention you were too much of a scaredy cat to kill one of those chitinous shit-heads with your axe, my grandmother is less of a pussy than you and she’s gotten several painful diseases!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chitinous?
- /ˈkaɪtɪnəs/
Chitinous has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chitinous
- more chitinous comparative
- most chitinous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chitinous?
Chitinous appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Chitinous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense made of, pertaining to, or resembling chitin:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chitinous come from?
From chitin + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).