Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beetrooty

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beet-rooty
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.

adj

Containing beetroot.

Example Sentences

""She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of."
"The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty."
"Swelling up with a beetrooty apoplectic rage, the Councillor seized the white silk chair and, swinging it by the arms, banged it violently against the floor […]"
"The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair."
"Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea."

Etymology

From beetroot + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: beetroot

Inflected Forms

more beetrooty (comparative) most beetrooty (superlative)

Synonyms

beetrootish

Questions

What does beetrooty mean?: Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.
Where does beetrooty come from?: From beetroot + -y.

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