Relating to or characteristic of an adage; containing the nature or quality of a traditional saying or proverb.
From adage + '-ial' (adjective suffix). A rare literary term developed in the 18th-19th centuries to describe writing or speech marked by proverbial wisdom.
This uncommon adjective shows English's obsession with creating adjectives for everything—while 'adagial' rarely appears in modern text, it reveals how writers once tried to add philosophical weight to their descriptions.
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