corpsy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a corpse; resembling that of a corpse.
Example Sentences
- "But I must acknowledge there was something truly corpsy in the solemnity with which he would “lay out” a clean shirt."
- "How it came back to me! That peculiar feeling—it was only a feeling, you couldn't describe it as an activity—that we used to call 'Church'. The sweet corpsy smell, the rustle of Sunday dresses, the wheeze of the organ and the roaring voices […]"
- "Christmas Eve Father took us into town to see the shops lit up. Every lamp post had a fir tree tied to it—not corpsy old trees but fresh cut firs."
Etymology
From corpse + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more corpsy (comparative)
most corpsy (superlative)