Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

diplomatize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: diplo-m-a-tize
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To engage in diplomacy.

Intransitive verb

verb

To effect by means of diplomacy.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Without diplomatising to do so, with no effort to square her, none to bribe her to an attitude for which he would have had no use in her if it weren't sincere, he yet felt how he both held her and moved her by the felicity of his taking pity, all instinctively, on her just discernible depression."

Etymology

From diplomat + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: diplomat

Usage

Inflected Forms

diplomatizes (present, singular) diplomatizing (participle, present) diplomatized (participle, past) diplomatized (past)

Derived Forms

diplomatization

Questions

What does diplomatize mean?: To engage in diplomacy.
Where does diplomatize come from?: From diplomat + -ize.

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