onomotopoetically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By means of onomatopoeia.
Example Sentences
- "The “musical sign,” on the other hand, suggests cultural signals that function onomatopoetically by calling to mind “natural” sounds, or sounds “naturally” associated with common human situations."
- "Just as the word “buzz” onomatopoetically “sounds like” buzzing, so too do words such as “noocytes,” "positronic," and "ansible"" onomatopoetically "sound like" science."
- "Camels walk with a lurching gait, onomatopoetically called jonjoo in Mongolian (“jon-joo jon-joo jon-joo”), which English might render, less onomatopoetically, as “clump, clump, clump.”"
Etymology
From onomatopoetical + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more onomotopoetically (comparative)
most onomotopoetically (superlative)