Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vitriolical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vit-ri-oli-cal
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Archaic form of vitriolic.

Archaic

Etymology

From vitriol + -ical.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more vitriolical (comparative) most vitriolical (superlative)

Questions

What does vitriolical mean?
Archaic form of vitriolic.
Where does vitriolical come from?
From vitriol + -ical.

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