jeremiad
/ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: diatribe, tirade, lamentation, lament, litany; see also Thesaurus:diatribe"
- ""Father Maguire," he said in the broadest of Cork brogues, without the ghost of a smile on his grave Irish face, "is it a song yez wantin'? Well, thin, it's just a jeremiad I 'd be singin' yez, an' not another song at all, at all.""
- "According to the ‘business as usual’ school of modern historians, the millennial preoccupations of Glaber and Wulfstan hold no more significance than the jeremiads of the gullible and doom-laden who agonise in every society - the medieval equivalents of believers in UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, and the X files."
- "“This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, “The Disuniting of America.””"
- "Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today."
- "His warnings ignored in Washington, Dalio issued more jeremiads to his clients. “If the economy goes down, it will not be a typical recession,” his newsletter said in January, 2008."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: jérémiade, Ieremias, ירמיה
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/
- British English: /ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/