Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teterrimous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: teter-ri-mous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.

Example Sentences

"Captain Magan, the teterrimous occasion of the wars of the week, enters battle in a red shirt!"
"Halliford Bridge was washed away some years ago by the floods; and now the Surrey and Middlesex shores are connected by a brick and iron structure which is named Walton Bridge, and which, being the teterrimous cause of war between Bumbledon on both sides the river, was painted of two colours, a chromatic difference that greatly increased the normal ugliness of the design."
"On the very edge of sight the teterrimous mountains, huge, made of brass, scaling the dark heavens, rimmed with blue flames."

Etymology

From Latin teterrima (“most foul, most ugly”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: teterrima

Inflected Forms

more teterrimous (comparative) most teterrimous (superlative)

Questions

What does teterrimous mean?: Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
Where does teterrimous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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