messengerly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of a messenger.
Example Sentences
- "I'm just the messenger. […] Not the authority on how these things are done. And I don't think I should talk about it with you before I've done my messengerly duties."
- "Although distressing and truly contemporary, this cellular and messengerly death presents itself to us as endowed with the same meaning as the other ones."
Etymology
From messenger + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more messengerly (comparative)
most messengerly (superlative)