Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

censurious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cen-su-ri-ous
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of censorious.

Example Sentences

"I KNOW full well that all actions of men of whatsoeuer condition in these censurious tymes shal be scanned, as alredy I am informed mine haue bine in the execution of my souuerains late commands: euen since yesterday that I parformed the same, committinge sir Walter Rawligh, and some of his adherants and instruments to his intended scape from out of my custody to the Tower."
"Since taking over Twitter, Musk has regularly boosted, echoed, and embraced thoughts and thinkers commonly classified (often by the practitioners themselves) under the ideological category "neoreaction," which roughly thinks a domineering, censurious machine of progressive thought control has ruined the West with dangerously wrong beliefs in things such as democracy, cosmopolitanism, and equality of the sexes or races."

Etymology

From censure + -ious.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: censure
Suffix: -ious

Inflected Forms

more censurious (comparative) most censurious (superlative)

Questions

What does censurious mean?: Alternative form of censorious.
Where does censurious come from?: From censure + -ious.

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