theroid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Bestial, resembling an animal.
Example Sentences
- "There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it."
- "Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design."
- "Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically."
- "1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119, Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster."
- "[…]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…]."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: θήρ
Usage
Inflected Forms
more theroid (comparative)
most theroid (superlative)