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EUGENIC

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Dictionary entry overview: What does eugenic mean?

• EUGENIC (adjective)
The adjective EUGENIC has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced

Familiarity information: EUGENIC used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EUGENIC (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Antonym:

dysgenic (pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced)

Pertainym:

eugenics (the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating))

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