octopusal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Instead of being so ruthless and octopusal as most of us are so thoughtlessly prone to characterize such corporation it merely worships at the shrine of that fair and gracious goddess, Science, […]"
- "For 20 years, the Kollege Klub was practically on the doorstep of the Memorial Library. Then the octopusal arms of a creeping university encircled the area. So in November, 1972, the KK relocated […]"
- "The result of the series of merger of firms in this region culminated in the solution of the octopusal United Africa Company (UAC) in 1933."
- "Drawing lines between the red spots on the racial map, the editor connected them to the new Ku Klux Klan, whose octopusal spread across the nation he detailed in the article out of his own extensive travels."
- "High medievalism had the Church, with its octopusal canon law, cashing out all the most interesting questions of life in terms of duties to Christendom or God."
- "The concept of actually climbing this shimmering white behemoth of groaning, octopusal glaciers was so beyond the imagination of most humans that no one even took him up on the offer for fifteen years."
Etymology
From octopus + -al.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more octopusal (comparative)
most octopusal (superlative)
Synonyms
list in octopuslike