centauresque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having attributes like those of the mythical centaur.
adj
By extension, having the characteristics of two things combined together; hybridized; chimeric.
Example Sentences
- "More distrustful and irritable than ever, in this section, this watchdog character was to be obsessed with the centauresque likeness of my four boys."
- "Here they take on their true centauresque form, each one mounting a hired courser and clattering through the town in the direction of the Wood of Verrières."
- "Message and method merge, centauresque, to assist him."
- "Machiavelli begins chapter 26 by asking if the times are right for a "new prince" in Italy, one "prudente e virtuoso," like Borgia, like the profeta armato, like the hybrid centauresque monster to be composed of Machiavelli's counsel and Medicean power."
- "We are of opinion in any way, that the grace is more obvious than the strength ; and there may be something centauresque and of twofold nature in their rushing mutabilities, and changes on passion and weakness."
Etymology
From centaur + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more centauresque (comparative)
most centauresque (superlative)