draconic
/dɹəˈkɑnɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).
Example Sentences
- "There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms."
- "[…] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause."
- "The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies."
- "In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline.""
- "Beggars, cut-purses, swindlers, tavern-bilks, broken life-guardsmen, foreign counts, native highwaymen, and some poor honest unfortunates, the victims of a Draconic law of debtor and creditor, all found their Patmos turn out to be a mere shifting quicksand."
- "The inference is, therefore, that they were all the property of this Nicholas de la Reynie, who was, as I understand, the gentleman specially concerned with the maintenance and execution of the Draconic laws of that epoch."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-der. Proto-Hellenic *dérkomai Ancient Greek δέρκομαι (dérkomai) Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn)der. Latin dracō Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English draconic From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + English -ic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɹəˈkɑnɪk/
- British English: /dɹəˈkɒnɪk/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.
Inflected Forms
more draconic (comparative)
most draconic (superlative)