Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

distortive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables
dis-tortive
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Causing distortion.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From distort + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more distortive (comparative) most distortive (superlative)

Derived Forms

antiferrodistortive distortively distortiveness ferrodistortive nondistortive

Questions

What does distortive mean?
Causing distortion.
Where does distortive come from?
From distort + -ive.

How to pronounce distortive

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