Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pre-dead

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables: pre-dead
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

adj

adj

Example Sentences

"As always Mullen speaks for the dead, the pre-dead, and the after-dead:"
"Garbage removal in and around private pre-dead rats initially low."
"The anchors that hold him to earth pull loose, a common phenomenon among the pre-dead."
"He was feeling better now and had upgraded his own condition from pre-dead to feeble."
"Few of us have enough experience with severe disability to make an informed choice in an advance directive, but clearly, having a significant disability does not mean you are "pre-dead.""
"Echoing this constellation, a version of Mcllvaine, the narrator of The Waterworks, reappears in City of God, where he is visited by "the Reverend Dr. Thomas Pemberton" in a hospice replete with "the generic blank stares of the pre-dead"."

Etymology

From pre- + dead.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Inflected Forms

predead (alternative)

Questions

What does pre-dead mean?: Not yet dead.
Where does pre-dead come from?: From pre- + dead.

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