octopuslike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an octopus, for example in having eight (or many) arms.
adj
Widespread or able (from a central point) to control or manipulate many things.
Example Sentences
- "The divers grappled each other in an octopuslike duel."
- "A white octopuslike beast is described as something that escapes when the ice thaws to collect "escaped spirits until the next frost"; a hulking presence in the painting, it's rendered even more alarming by the diagram, in which it looms over the silhouetted man."
- "Matsui, the Mitsubishi and other great families which had built up an octopuslike control of industry, banking and trade — would be put out of action."
- "The agency announced plans yesterday to subdivide the octopuslike system and make the manager of each line responsible for everything on that line, from bunched-together trains to unintelligible public-address announcements."
Etymology
From octopus + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more octopuslike (comparative)
most octopuslike (superlative)