Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

egretlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: egret-like
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of an egret.

Example Sentences

"Instead the play focuses on Don Juan (the egretlike Rhys Ifans) as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur."

Etymology

From egret + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: egret

Inflected Forms

more egretlike (comparative) most egretlike (superlative)

Questions

What does egretlike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of an egret.
Where does egretlike come from?: From egret + -like.

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