Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recapitulant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-ca-pit-u-lant
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls."

Etymology

From recapitulate + -ant.

Inflected Forms

more recapitulant (comparative) most recapitulant (superlative)

Questions

What does recapitulant mean?: recapitulating
Where does recapitulant come from?: From recapitulate + -ant.

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