frictiony
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a lot of friction (physical or figurative).
Example Sentences
- "Few in these hot, dim, frictiony times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money,― or so little,― they are no longer good themselves"
- "We nipped back along the top to the Sentinel Area, where there's the poorly protected Back Slab. It's a frictiony, walk-up thing, with a delicate finish that I wouldn't like to jump off."
- "I can hear the frictiony swish of leaf against leaf."
- "Slitterhead is not a particularly polished experience. It starts very slow, the combat always has a hint of jank, the budget limitations are very obvious. But I have to admit, this has just endeared me more to it. I love how frictiony my playthrough was, how I found the edges of the game's design and adapted to them rather than it arriving pre-adapted to me."
Etymology
From friction + -y.
Inflected Forms
more frictiony (comparative)
most frictiony (superlative)