tragelaphic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "And he who has ever felt what it means in our present tragelaphic humanity to find a harmonious being, swinging on his own axis, unimpeded and free from dissimulation, will understand my happiness and amazement when I discovered Schopenhauer."
- "[…] I have composed a tragelaphic sort of work, partly a work of classics, partly of philosophy, partly of literary criticism, full of quotations acknowledged and deformed, indebted to various and perhaps not always compatible approaches."
- "Those eager to compare Byzantium with the glory of ancient Greece to the detriment of the former might find in Gregoras’ self-portrayal as a modern Leonidas a tragelaphic mixture of Byzantine rhetorical exaggeration and unintentional self-parody."
Etymology
From tragelaphus + -ic.