Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpatriarchial

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-pa-tri-archial
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not patriarchial.

Example Sentences

"[…] but come it should and will, unless they become metamorphosed, for their barbaric sloth can hardly be tolerated in these unpatriarchial times;"
"For example, in “A Family Matter” he treats the interaction of character and personality within a family group of three brothers and their respective wives and children when the father - a most unpatriarchial patriarch - decides to settle down with one of them."
"It will be interesting to see if Rowling ever allows Ginny to save Harry in subsequent books, which of course would be a very unpatriarchial thing to do - I love it."

Etymology

From un- + patriarchial.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Questions

What does unpatriarchial mean?: Not patriarchial.
Where does unpatriarchial come from?: From un- + patriarchial.

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