Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nohowish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: no-how-ish
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Feeling out of sorts.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Perhaps I worked too hard, or the Oxford climate after the Cotswold air got me down. Within a fortnight I was feeling nohowish, as Keats called it."

Etymology

From nohow + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nohow

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more nohowish (comparative) most nohowish (superlative)

Questions

What does nohowish mean?: Feeling out of sorts.
Where does nohowish come from?: From nohow + -ish.

How to pronounce nohowish

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