Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bemarbled

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-mar-bled
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Composed of marble.

Example Sentences

"A vast club begilt and bemarbled is the modern temple."
"Not till many years later did labor skates compete with modernistic, beglassed, bemarbled headquarters for their greater glory."
"Interiors could be of the elegant, graduated pastel-hued Streamline Moderne variety – like the Muswell Hill Odeon (well maintained today) and the Woolwich Odeon – or they could be baroque extravaganzas, like the Tooting Granada (1931; conceived as a neo-Gothic cathedral by its creator, Theodore Komisarjevsky), or the Gaumont State in Kilburn, George Coles’s 1937 begilt, bemarbled and bejewelled palais."

Etymology

From be- + marble + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be
Suffix: marble

Inflected Forms

more bemarbled (comparative) most bemarbled (superlative)

Synonyms

marbled

Questions

What does bemarbled mean?: Composed of marble.
Where does bemarbled come from?: From be- + marble + -ed.

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