sartorial
/sɑɹˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the quality of dress.
adj
Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
Example Sentences
- "His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials."
- "Suits are full of joy. They are the sartorial equivalent of a baby’s smile."
- "The occasion, back then, was his decision to wear a hoodie with a suit jacket while on the air, which proved such an unexpected sartorial choice for an anchorman that it went viral, creating its own mini-news cycle."
- "In his smart suit, Jacob was by far the most sartorial of our party."
- "The UPI report noted that demonstrators sported "neon hairdos and tight leather clothes" as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in a "Stop the City" demonstration. Sartorial descriptions were the order of the day in the UPI dispatch, as it went on to describe a protesting teenager with "pink hair and 11 earrings" and "youths with rainbow hairdos.""
- "He was just a college instructor at the time, long before he had written his book and long before his sartorial conversion. The pockets of his sports coat bulged from having had fists thrust into them too long."
Etymology
From New Latin sartorius (“pertaining to a tailor”), from Late Latin sartor (“tailor”), from Latin sarcire (“to patch, mend”) + -ial.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sɑɹˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
- British English: /sɑːˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/
Inflected Forms
more sartorial (comparative)
most sartorial (superlative)