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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cankered

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cankered
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part.

adj

Ulcerated.

adj

Corrupted; morally corrupt.

adj

Bad-tempered.

verb

simple past and past participle of canker

Etymology

From Middle English cankered, y-cancred, past participle of Middle English cankren, equivalent to canker + -ed.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: cankered, cankren, cancrede

Inflected Forms

more cankered (comparative) most cankered (superlative) cankred (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

cankeredly cankeredness uncankered

Questions

What does cankered mean?
Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part.
Where does cankered come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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