underwaterish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
As if underwater.
Example Sentences
- "The scene around her—the buildings, the people—all appeared underwaterish—insubstantial and weaving."
- "With lovely, underwaterish movements, she settled her wide-trunked body into her chair, and there she would remain, expecting to be waited upon by those around her, which indeed nearly always happened."
- "But in the end the thumping turned out to be the strange, underwaterish rhythm of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', coming from a small transistor radio belonging to a fed-up-looking North Countryman with a big family and sand in his turn-ups."
Etymology
From underwater + -ish.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more underwaterish (comparative)
most underwaterish (superlative)