ironclad
/ˈaɪɚnklˌæd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.72 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Solid or certain; not able to be disputed or questioned; irrefutable.
adj
noun
An armor-plated warship, (especially) one preceding the invention of harveyized steel.
Example Sentences
- "Unlike the average vehicle, cash delivery vans are ironclad and almost unstoppable."
- "In that flickering pallor it had the effect of a large and clumsy black insect, an insect the size of an ironclad cruiser, crawling obliquely to the first line of trenches and firing shots out of portholes in its side."
- "The suspect had an ironclad alibi for his whereabouts on the night of the crime."
- "an ironclad oath or pledge"
- "Observers of the day considered his rule more ironclad than that of the Prendergast machine in Kansas City, or even Tammany Hall in New York."
- "He is in his seventieth year, and has done work enough in his life to try the most ironclad constitution."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēsh₂r̥no-der.? Proto-Celtic *īsarnombor. Proto-Germanic *īsarną Proto-West Germanic *īsarn Old English īsern Old English īren Middle English iren English iron Proto-Indo-European *gley-der. Proto-Germanic *klaiþijaną Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan Old English clǣþan Middle English clethen Middle English clad English clad English ironclad From iron + clad.
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steelclad[Appendix:Glossary
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