dartlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a dart.
adj
Resembling a dart.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: darting"
- "dartlike movements"
- "The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has a brittle and dartlike style, well suited to exploratory post-bop or slippery free-funk."
- "dartlike projectiles"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂ Proto-Germanic *darō Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz Proto-Germanic *darōþuz Frankish *darōþubor. Medieval Latin dardus Old French dartbor. Middle English dart English dart Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English dartlike From dart + -like.
Inflected Forms
more dartlike (comparative)
most dartlike (superlative)