monkeyesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of monkeys (animal).
Example Sentences
- "The sailors alleged, and probably believed, that such cats were the result of the cross between a monkey and a cat, which we recognize to be preposterous despite that the Siamese evinces in his nature a monkeyesque temperament and disposition which may well have inspired the concept of such hybridization."
- "The old man who runs the benevolent association is finally worn down by Wittman's manic, monkeyesque one-man performance […]"
- "I hadn't noticed that tree-swinging and other howler monkeyesque behaviour has helped them any, but maybe you'll get different mileage."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more monkeyesque (comparative)
most monkeyesque (superlative)