Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

genuflective

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gen-u-flec-tive
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"But as with many journalists provided such access, the trade-off seems to have been an agreement signed in blood to conduct the interviews in the genuflective mode."

Etymology

From genuflect + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: genuflect

Inflected Forms

more genuflective (comparative) most genuflective (superlative)

Questions

What does genuflective mean?: servile
Where does genuflective come from?: From genuflect + -ive.

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