countercultural
/kˌaʊntɚkˈʌltʃɚəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to a counterculture.
Example Sentences
- "In this respect the tribe was not countercultural but counternatural."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English counterculture English -al English countercultural From counter- + cultural or counterculture + -al.
Inflected Forms
more countercultural (comparative)
most countercultural (superlative)