adenoidal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
Example Sentences
- "There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return."
- "Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection."
- "Neither man has an alternative career in audiobook narration awaiting him upon retirement. Ron DeSantis speaks in a sort of monotone nag. Rishi Sunak can sound adenoidal."
Etymology
Etymology tree English adenoid Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English adenoidal From adenoid + -al.
Inflected Forms
more adenoidal (comparative)
most adenoidal (superlative)