Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

retardataire

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-tar-dataire
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.

Example Sentences

"Ditto with "community." [He says that] the notion that there's such a thing (or should be such a thing!) as a gay "community" is a product of those messy gay lib days. It comes in for a similarly superficial and retardataire drubbing, with however the extra good laugh that he can't refrain from referring to that nonexistent community himself a couple times."

Etymology

Borrowed from French retardataire.

Questions

What does retardataire mean?: anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.
Where does retardataire come from?: Borrowed from French retardataire.

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