dearthy
/ˈdɝθi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] the natural has become the artificial; the noble and desirable, the dearthy and uninteresting; the simple the complex; the intelligible the unintelligible."
- "In such a day as this, many a “little sanctuary” or worshipping knot of God's people (Ezek.11.16) may find the loved and deeply experienced Luther calculated, though dead, still to speak to their souls, through this his grand Testimony, more profitably, than many, or perhaps any, ministers they may be able to procure, in this dreary and dearthy last half of the nineteenth century."
- "The dearth of new British cars grows dearthier."
- "When the day of the cheap computer arrives, the problem of materials-dearth will only get dearthier because educational technology is still a writer's craft no matter what the medium of presentation is. So, where are the writers?"
Etymology
From dearth + -y.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɝθi/
- British English: /ˈdɜː.θi/
Inflected Forms
dearthier (comparative)
more dearthy (comparative)
dearthiest (superlative)
most dearthy (superlative)