ill-received
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Human Stain tells the tale of Coleman Silk, a classics tutor at a fictional Massachusetts college, whose life spirals into chaos after he makes an ill-received remark judged by some as a racial slur."
- "Being one day ill-received, he left off his visits: Rousseau met him afterwards in the street, and asked him why he did not come."
- "President Clinton's campaign of contrition began in his ill-received Aug. 17 expression of regret."
Inflected Forms
more ill-received (comparative)
most ill-received (superlative)