naufrageous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Whence this incongruous union, suggestive only of mutual reproaches, eternal bickerings, plumbaginous and naufrageous epithets, broken crockery, charges of cold feet and a final appeal to the courts ?"
- "The shipwreck portends disaster for the body politic when error undoes the social fabric. Petrarch’s amatory conflict blurs into an ideological one about the poet’s responsibilities to the structures of power in his time. All this for a naufrageous song."
Etymology
From Latin naufragium (“shipwreck”) + -eous.