slooplike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a sloop.
Example Sentences
- "They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine."
- "A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove. No threat. "Messenger boat," said Fat Poppo […]"
- "When all this loose stuff had drifted away we found we had but two sails, the mainsail and the slooplike sail on the mizzenmast […]"
Etymology
From sloop + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more slooplike (comparative)
most slooplike (superlative)