Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cobwebbery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cob-web-bery
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?"
"Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear so readily."

Etymology

From cobweb + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cobweb

Usage

Inflected Forms

cobwebberies (plural)

Questions

What does cobwebbery mean?: A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
Where does cobwebbery come from?: From cobweb + -ery.

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