Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overpaternalistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
over-pa-ter-nal-is-tic
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Too paternalistic.

Etymology

From over- + paternalistic.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more overpaternalistic (comparative) most overpaternalistic (superlative)

Questions

What does overpaternalistic mean?
Too paternalistic.
Where does overpaternalistic come from?
From over- + paternalistic.

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