Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dandiacal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dan-di-a-cal
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Dandyish; like a dandy.

Example Sentences

"For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled."
"That open neck that met with Hilton Kramer's bourgeois disapproval, like the Harley Davidson Bob affected, may remind us of that ocker strain which the dandiacal Barry Humphries caught in his comment: "There is no truth in the rumour that Les Patterson has been admitted to a funny farm and has changed his name to Robert Hughes.""

Inflected Forms

more dandiacal (comparative) most dandiacal (superlative) dandical (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

dandiacally

Synonyms

dandyish dudish beauish buckish coxcombical dandiacal dandified dandy dandyistic foppish foppy Jemmy-Jessamy

Questions

What does dandiacal mean?: Dandyish; like a dandy.

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