oversweeping
/ˌəʊvəˈswiːpɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Now, hearing the man made conreate by that virile voice, her whole nature roused to defiance and to an oversweeping desire to see him face to face."
- "In this low portion there is here and there a rounded upswelling of more resist ing rock, with trends, all telling the same story of a vast oversweeping ice-flood from the north."
- "He had never been even in a magistrate's court, but he had heard the legends and traditions of the advocates; had read that eminent fiction, Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, and a volume of Charles Philips's speeches, and had felt that strong inner going forth of the soul that yearned to find utterance in oversweeping reach."
Etymology
From over- + sweeping.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Inflected Forms
more oversweeping (comparative)
most oversweeping (superlative)