semigratuitous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Somewhat but not entirely gratuitous
Example Sentences
- "Making Sabina and Franz more marginal--in effect, characters who matter only in relation to Tomas and Tereza--the film never knows quite what to do with them; Franz, in particular, seems stranded in a semigratuitous Gig Young part, and the movie drops him like a hot potato the first chance that it gets."
Etymology
From semi- + gratuitous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more semigratuitous (comparative)
most semigratuitous (superlative)