Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

so-soish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: so--soish
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.

Example Sentences

"[…] being one of very great merit and beauty, which, to say the truth, is more than we dare affirm of any of those we here notice, for they strike us as being of a very so-soish character."

Etymology

From so-so + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: so-so

Questions

What does so-soish mean?: Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.
Where does so-soish come from?: From so-so + -ish.

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