Speakur

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prestigious

/pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables
pres-ti-gious
IPA
/pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of high prestige.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: praestigiosus

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/
  • British English: /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/

Inflected Forms

more prestigious (comparative) most prestigious (superlative) præstigious (alternative)

Derived Forms

nonprestigious prestigiously prestigiousness superprestigious ultraprestigious unprestigious

Synonyms

esteemed honored honoured

Rhymes With

religious non-religious prodigious litigious nonreligious semireligious sacrilegious irreligious ethnoreligious egregious sortilegious regious

Questions

How do you pronounce prestigious?
The recorded pronunciation is /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/.
What does prestigious mean?
Of high prestige.
Where does prestigious come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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