comminuted
/ˈkɒmɪnjuːtɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of comminute
Example Sentences
- "The student will, however, have some idea of the minuteness of the unit which would then be wanting to complete the square, when he is informed that, if we suppose the whole globe we inhabit to be composed of sand, such that a cubic inch would contain ten millions of grains, a ten-tredecillionth of the globe would be less than the billionth part of one of these extremely minute grains, which part, could the grain be so comminuted, could never be discovered, even by the aid of the most powerful microscope."
- "Hawaiian sand is utterly different: it is comminuted coral and algae, the broken detritus of a hundred thousand storms washed up against the land."
- "Although WOF [warmed-over flavor] has generally been recognized as pertaining to cooked meat, it can also develop rapidly in raw comminuted meat when exposed to air."
Etymology
From comminute + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈkɒmɪnjuːtɪd/
Inflected Forms
more comminuted (comparative)
most comminuted (superlative)