learlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
Example Sentences
- "He even declined their company, and went down to the beach alone for his daily walk, to ponder on the event;—wondering whether it excited as much sensation in the family as when, in his early days of wedded life, an heir to the barony of Hartingham was looked for in his own household; and feeling perhaps a Learlike sympathy with the elements raging around him, and bringing the billowy surges to his feet."
- "[…] that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in the Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom […]"
- "Of course, no one in the system cares, so his anger is Learlike, screaming to the deaf heavens."
Inflected Forms
more Learlike (comparative)
most Learlike (superlative)