Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stewed

/stuːd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: stewed
IPA: /stuːd/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).

adj

Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.

adj

Slang

verb

simple past and past participle of stew

Example Sentences

"Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything."

Etymology

From stew + -ed.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

more stewed (comparative) most stewed (superlative)

Derived Forms

unstewed

Phrases

stewed as a prune stewed to the ears stewed to the eyeballs stewed to the eyebrows stewed to the gills

Synonyms

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Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce stewed?: The recorded pronunciation is /stuːd/.
What does stewed mean?: Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
Where does stewed come from?: From stew + -ed.

How to pronounce stewed

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