julietesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of Juliet from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Example Sentences
- "She was not Julietesque; Junoesque was more like it. I had little doubt that I would win any fair competition against her, but would her father dangle a check, demanding that his daughter get the part?"
- "Abdul, the Romeoesque son of Ismail, the Muslim houseman of A. J. (why such an Indophobe chose an Indian as his houseman was never clear to me), had attempted to abduct Kamla, the elegant Julietesque daughter of the Hindu court clerk, Gajadhar Singh."
Etymology
From Juliet + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Julietesque (comparative)
most Julietesque (superlative)