Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bladish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bladish
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a blade (dashing young man).

Archaic

Example Sentences

"[…] a bladish flake of tachylite […] recovered from the tilted basal hardened sandy fine gravel ascribable to the second phase of this period."
"[…] the smaller portrait painted a brisk, unentangled, young bachelor, gayly ranging up and down in the world; light-hearted, and a very little bladish perhaps; […]"

Etymology

From blade + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: blade

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more bladish (comparative) most bladish (superlative)

Questions

What does bladish mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).
Where does bladish come from?: From blade + -ish.

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