jailish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of prison.
Example Sentences
- "March 9 1788, Anna Seward, a letter […] the jailish gloom of Venetian blinds […]"
- "751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […] a certain want of decorum, a squalor of sentiment, a sort of jailish cast, contracted in the course of confinement, which disgusted the delicacy of our hero's observation."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more jailish (comparative)
most jailish (superlative)