Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sarcophaguslike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sar-coph-a-gus-like
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.

Example Sentences

"From the mail-order car hoods that he first started painting and hanging in the late 1980s to evoke Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko (“They were really minimal, and I don’t think anybody got them,” he said), Mr. Prince progressed to appropriating heftier chunks of automotive anatomy, making sarcophaguslike sculptures crowned with air scoops, usually left with the appearance of being only partly primed and spackled with body-shop Bondo compound."

Etymology

From sarcophagus + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: sarcophagus

Inflected Forms

more sarcophaguslike (comparative) most sarcophaguslike (superlative)

Questions

What does sarcophaguslike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a sarcophagus.
Where does sarcophaguslike come from?: From sarcophagus + -like.

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