deathy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1829, Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay, Canto IV, XXXVIII, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 569, The sunny hue that tinged her cheek was gone, / A deathy paleness settled in its stead;"
- "The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins,^([sic]) look melancholy."
- "I heard a lady near whom I happened to sit one evening in a river-steamer describe it to a companion, when its swampy flats came into sight, as "a deathy place." The phrase was picturesque, effective and very appropriate. It did look a deathy place; but it had the advantages — to me supreme — of being very cheap, and of having easy access to the river, and therefore to town."
Etymology
From death + -y.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more deathy (comparative)
most deathy (superlative)