Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dungeony

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dun-geony
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.

Informal

Example Sentences

"As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]"
"The restaurant proper is dungeony, the red walls hung with the required bullfight pictures, the rough plaster ceiling adorned with non-supporting beams, the air filled with talk, […]"

Etymology

From dungeon + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dungeon

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more dungeony (comparative) most dungeony (superlative)

Questions

What does dungeony mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
Where does dungeony come from?: From dungeon + -y.

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