Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trinketize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: trin-ke-tize
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship."
"One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience."
"For the tourist, Indianness is trinketized as turquoise jewelry or prayer circles strung with feathers and shells, suggesting something earthy, exotic, mysterious[…]"

Etymology

From trinket + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: trinket

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

trinketizes (present, singular) trinketizing (participle, present) trinketized (participle, past) trinketized (past)

Questions

What does trinketize mean?: To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
Where does trinketize come from?: From trinket + -ize.

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