corduroylike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of corduroy.
Example Sentences
- "One of the oldest works, a rather primitive tomb door from the Eastern Han (25 to 220), shows a dragon chasing a bird above a wonderfully crude crowned mask; their smooth silhouettes are defined by a roughly chiseled corduroylike background whose parallel lines also bring to mind Jasper Johns’s crosshatch patterns."
Etymology
From corduroy + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more corduroylike (comparative)
most corduroylike (superlative)