Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

repercussive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: reper-cus-sive
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

adj

Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.

adj

Repellent; driving back.

Obsolete

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound."
"Rages loud the repercussive roar."
"Blood is stanched[…] by astringent and repercussive medicines."
"rheums and defluxions, which if you apply a strong repercussive to the place affected , and do not take away the cause of the disease , will shift and fall straightways to another joint or place"

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more repercussive (comparative) most repercussive (superlative) repercussives (plural)

Derived Forms

repercussively repercussiveness

Questions

What does repercussive mean?: Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

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