necessitudinous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by or a result of necessity.
Example Sentences
- "Wherever, in this architecture, forms can legitimately break loose from mere construction, wherever composition stands free of mere necessitudinous building, the expression towards which it strains with all the force of well-tutored simplicity is the manifestation of the Classical."
- "I believe every Princeton man, on graduation, absconds with something or other as a memento; it may be some extraneous signs, or an eleemosynary book from the Library, or necessitudinous laundry boxes."
Etymology
From Latin necessitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin necessitūdō, from necesse + -tūdō, from ne- + cessus, from cēdō. By surface analysis, necessitude + -ous.
Origin
- Source language: Latin