poulticelike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a poultice.
Example Sentences
- "Thus he suggested beginning with Milton — “My own choice would tend to include the final scene of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ” he wrote, “with what is probably the most poignant moment in all our literature coming at lines 624-6” — before running through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Eric Ambler and, finally, a poulticelike application of light comedies by P. G. Wodehouse and Peter De Vries."
Etymology
From poultice + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more poulticelike (comparative)
most poulticelike (superlative)