in-betweeny
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
6
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She thought about the color black, the nature of blackness, and the in-betweeny shades therein."
- "I half slept and half woke and enjoyed for several hours that dreamy, in-betweeny state of living that hovers between consciousness and sleep."
- "Then there are those in-betweeny spring and autumn days when you're in two minds about what the “real-feel” temperature is — and no matter what you wear, it always seems to be the wrong thing."
- "I was an in-betweeny, neither one thing nor the other, and though on the one hand it was frustrating and at times even made me feel freakish, there were also many occasions when my situation gave me cause for amusement."
- "He calls her an 'in-betweeny', neither a Taig nor a Prod, and that^([sic]) she should never have tried to be something she is not."
- "A suboptimal outcome usually results when a business vacillates between the two – becoming an 'in-betweeny' – or where there are tensions between key functions, pulling in opposite directions through their allegiance to different strategies."
Etymology
From in-between + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more in-betweeny (comparative)
most in-betweeny (superlative)
in-betweenie (alternative)
in-betweenies (plural)