daedalian
/dɪˈdeɪliən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Difficult to comprehend due to complexity or intricacy.
adj
Example Sentences
- "1812, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations volume 1, book 2, chapter 2, page 484, published in London by Cadell and Davies "The commerce and industry of the country, ... cannot be altogether so secure when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver""
- "Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump.""
Etymology
Etymology tree English Daedalus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Daedalian From Daedalus + -ian.
Inflected Forms
more Daedalian (comparative)
most Daedalian (superlative)
Daedalean (alternative)
Dedalian (alternative)