cripplesome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by crippledness; crippled.
Example Sentences
- "And, Mr. Speaker, it's interesting to note, the Finance minister when in Swift Current said no, we can't change the taxation system, we cannot address the E&H tax, which is a cripplesome burden to businesses in small communities along the western side of this province and also along the eastern border in many of the communities on my side of the province."
- "“Fly-bitten—”The girl paused. “You have yet to say cripplesome or crookleg or leaden foot. Why do you not?”"
- ""Kind of — cripplesome, is n't if?" said Dorothy rather confusedly. "Cripplesome?" exclaimed the Admiral. "Why, that's no word for it. It's positively decrepitoo-dle" [...]"
Etymology
From cripple + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more cripplesome (comparative)
most cripplesome (superlative)