gominé
French, adjective
gominé is spelled G-O-M-I-N-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gominé is a French adjective meaning “slicked-down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of gominer. Without its accent, gomine is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est imprégné de gomina”.
What does gominé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
slicked-down
verb
- 1
past participle of gominer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est imprégné de gomina.
noun: 1. Personnage qui oint ses cheveux de gomina pour paraître en public.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gominé
- gominée feminine
- gominés masculine plural
- gominées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gominé in French?
gominé appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).