a. rare. [f. Gr. εὔφημ-ος (see EUPHEMIOUS) + -OUS.] = EUPHEMISTIC.
1859. Times, 15 March, 9/3. The name of this noisy bustling, quarrelsome, discontented, and insalubrious little island [Hongkong] may no inaptly be used as a euphemous synonym for a place not mentionable to ears polite.
