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overstringent

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
over-strin-gent
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively stringent.

Etymology

From over- + stringent.

Inflected Forms

more overstringent (comparative) most overstringent (superlative)

Questions

What does overstringent mean?
Excessively stringent.
Where does overstringent come from?
From over- + stringent.

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