fissiparous
/fɪˈsɪpəɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.18 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Factious, tending to break into pieces.
adj
Example Sentences
- "That nation, inescapably, is Germany, the largest, richest, most important, perhaps most admirable and certainly most pivotal nation in the European Union, the nation around which a flourishing Europe will always centre and the nation upon which a fissiparous Europe always risks foundering."
- "There is no panacea. Iraq is a destroyed and fissiparous country."
- "Like empires, world orders grow old, fissiparous, complacent and grumpy — despite the Champagne, the thrill is gone."
- "fissiparous tendencies"
- "Was he impressed with the cohesion of the Christians among themselves, and by the contrast thus offered to the fissiparous tendencies of his feudal polity?"
- "The sea was such a link in the case of Greece and her city colonies enabling her (no hostile power having command of the Mediterranean) to maintain connexion with her foreign colonies, in spite of the fissiparous influence of her physical configuration on the mainland."
Etymology
An adaptation of New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split, cleft”) + pariō (“to bring forth”) by analogy with vīviparus.
Word Breakdown
- Root: fissiparus
Inflected Forms
more fissiparous (comparative)
most fissiparous (superlative)