Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rope-worthy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables: rope--wor-thy
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Deserving of being hanged.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actionds of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen […] canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? Supposest thou that if the impression of their faces on a farthing be felonious and rope-worthy, the imitation of head and body, voice and bearing, plume and strut, crown and mantle, and everything else that maketh them royal and glorious, be aught less?"

Etymology

From rope + -worthy.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: rope

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more rope-worthy (comparative) most rope-worthy (superlative)

Synonyms

rope-ripe

Questions

What does rope-worthy mean?: Deserving of being hanged.
Where does rope-worthy come from?: From rope + -worthy.

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