Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

headmistressly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: head-mistress-ly
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Befitting a headmistress.

Example Sentences

"They’d split a salad and even that they’d be careful not to finish: “We’ll each leave a leaf,” Edwige would whisper, tucking in her chin in a headmistressly way and looking at her friend over the tops of nonexistent glasses."
"Sarah’s half-moon reading spectacles gave her a headmistressly air, ‘. . . eyes of blue and very nice too.[…]’"
"‘Now,’ said the head in her most headmistressly voice, ‘I have just had some very exciting news. This is Miss McCarthy from the Highthorn Academy. She heard Jazeera play and she was very impressed.’"

Etymology

From headmistress + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: headmistress

Inflected Forms

more headmistressly (comparative) most headmistressly (superlative)

Synonyms

headmistressy

Questions

What does headmistressly mean?: Befitting a headmistress.
Where does headmistressly come from?: From headmistress + -ly.

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