alice in wonderland
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.45 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
As in a surreal fairy tale where things work at odds to the way they do in the real world.
noun
An observer of strange, incomprehensible or disorienting situations.
Example Sentences
- "It is an Alice in Wonderland question. Let me answer it this way: To design a car, you must — emphasize must — have restrictions to guide you."
- "The law-making affair often has an Alice in Wonderland touch. Terms are defined by law, and if the law says black is white, then for the purpose of the law, black is white."
- "IBM's current system and network management story has an Alice in Wonderland touch to it, with incongruity as the prevailing theme. Just as it is in Wonderland, most things in IBM's management story are not what they appear to be."
- "What makes this debate an Alice in Wonderland debate is that the people who support this bill are the very people who will benefit from taking the American people out of the debate by limiting the ability of people to put up their time."
- "It became more Alice in Wonderland all the time: was I now to navigate as well?"
- "This is all a little more Alice in Wonderland than I had expected."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more Alice in Wonderland (comparative)
most Alice in Wonderland (superlative)
Alice-in-Wonderland (alternative)
Alices in Wonderland (plural)
Alice in Wonderlands (plural)