sunflowery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a sunflower.
Example Sentences
- "c. 1877-1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, letter I am well into the second book or canto of your Tristram, containing the adventure illustrated by Morris on the walls of the Oxford Union in the sunflowery style which you may remember."
- "There is a way it seems to us to see sunflowers not just as some more shaped and colored things, but as what has a distinctively sunflowery look."
- "It smelled sunflowery though, and when, during the initial application, some of it had dribbled into my mouth, its taste was not unpleasant."
Etymology
From sunflower + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sunflowery (comparative)
most sunflowery (superlative)