carbuncularly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.
Example Sentences
- "He was commonly known as 'the Tulip', and according to a settler who knew him, 'he almost invariably wore a green cloth coat and had a big bulbous purply face, somewhat carbuncularly inclined'."
- "On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft."
Etymology
From carbuncular + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more carbuncularly (comparative)
most carbuncularly (superlative)