persiflageous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Discussed in a frivolous, light-hearted way, in the manner of persiflage.
Example Sentences
- "“He's persiflageous, Sarge! And how do you like that ace, Hennesy?”"
- "The style became at once more elegant, more matey, more persiflageous but sufficiently overwrought for us, in this grim post-war period, to charge it with a form of naïveté wholly different from that noted in the first volumes."
- "The only chilling thought among all this persiflageous disputation is the possibility that powerful Born Agains, with their fingers close not to swords but nuclear buttons, will conspire to bring about Armageddon and thereby, at the expense of civilization, murderously verify their ludicrous but professedly sincerely held beliefs."
Etymology
From persiflage + -ous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more persiflageous (comparative)
most persiflageous (superlative)