Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

goblinish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gob-lin-ish
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a goblin.

Example Sentences

"[…] the castellated towers of laurel in the middle of the garden, the gigantic warrior that stood on one side of the gateway, and the lion that guarded the other, were sprouted into such fantastic shapes as resembled nothing either in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the earth; but, to my young imagination, they presented all of them a goblinish appearance, that harmonized well with the ghostly legions and dark traditions our old nurse had told us respecting the haunted hall and its departed occupants."
"[…] the phrase ‘grotesque’ is a misleading description of ugliness in art. It does not follow that either the Chinese dragons or the Gothic gargoyles or the goblinish old women of Rembrandt were in the least intended to be comic."

Etymology

From goblin + -ish. Piecewise doublet of goblinesque.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: goblin

Inflected Forms

more goblinish (comparative) most goblinish (superlative)

Synonyms

goblinesque goblinlike

Questions

What does goblinish mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a goblin.
Where does goblinish come from?: From goblin + -ish. Piecewise doublet of goblinesque.

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