hypergamously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a hypergamous manner.
Example Sentences
- "At the middle and lower levels of the status hierarchy among Kanbis and Rajputs, families faced a double financial burden of dowry payment for marrying their daughters hypergamously and bride price for marrying sons."
- "Ravi had married hypergamously—he had married up—and Vimalesh hypogamously, down."
- "Kamil's parents disapprove of Marilyn because her family is poor and lower class. Like Cinderella, Marilyn wants to marry hypergamously."
- "“Some sugar babies will refer to themselves as not sugar babies, but that they’re just dating hypergamously,” Ms. Upadhyay said."
Etymology
From hypergamous + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more hypergamously (comparative)
most hypergamously (superlative)