BURGLARIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burglarious mean? 

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

1. involving or resembling burglary

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURGLARIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving or resembling burglary

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

burglarious tools

Pertainym:

burglary (entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property)

Derivation:

burglary (entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property)

 Context examples 

A little while afterwards, he broke out in an entirely new direction, and confessed to a knowledge of burglarious intentions as to our premises, on the part of the pot-boy, who was immediately taken up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)