connoisseurly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, related to, or having the deep expertise in some area; characteristic of a connoisseur.
adv
in connoisseurly manner
Example Sentences
- "His connoisseurly refinement helped him to gain our respect."
- ""Connoisseurly sensibility and discrimination developed among critics and collectors, and the importance of drawings in appreciating an individual artist's work began to be recognised.""
- "He talked about the Italian wines connoisseurly."
- ""[…] he said, just as you'd expect from somebody who's been around such things and appreciates them connoisseurly but also with a passionate innocence so it's always the first time, the only time love's ever happened and Monk can't help but […]""
Etymology
From connoisseur + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more connoisseurly (comparative)
most connoisseurly (superlative)