peakèd
/pˈikt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of peaked.
Example Sentences
- "O blue sky! it mindeth me / Of places where I used to see / Its vast unbroken circle thrown / From the far pale-peakèd hill / Out to the last verge of ocean— / As by God’s arm it were done / Then for the first time, with the emotion / Of that first impulse on it still."
- "“I did not ask her name, miss; but she’s a poor-looking, peakèd little thing” (“peakèd” signifying thin in the face)."
- "[…] Rivers, with low squat bridges; every where / Women and children; beardless men, with queues, / In tunics, short wide trowsers, silken shoes, / Some with the peakèd caps of Mandarins; […]"
- "The shepherd he stood on the side of the hill, / And he looked main cold and peakèd; […]"
- "And as he spoke, / He threw off his cloak, / He flung to the floor his peakèd hood, / And a gallant knight before her stood!"
- "City life would doubtless soon reduce her to a thin, pale, peakèd specimen of humanity, unrecognisable by her friends."
Inflected Forms
more peakèd (comparative)
most peakèd (superlative)