Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muddlesome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mud-dle-some
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.

Example Sentences

"1945, Lawrence Wolfe, The Reilly Plan: A New Way of Life, London: Nicholson & Watson, cited by George Orwell in a review published in Tribune, 25 January, 1946, in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (eds.), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume IV, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, p. 91, […] the abolition of the muddlesome, costly and wasteful apparatus of the kitchen"
"Lucy peered at the pictures with her face close to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see them quite clearly."
"Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster."

Etymology

From muddle + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: muddle

Inflected Forms

more muddlesome (comparative) most muddlesome (superlative)

Questions

What does muddlesome mean?: Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
Where does muddlesome come from?: From muddle + -some.

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