dust-ridden
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality."
- "[…] carob-trees, dense and varnished of foliage […] met and mingled their branches together overhead, giving a vault of shadow from a midday sun, but now as the day drew near to its close, the level rays poured dazzling between the tree-trunks, turning the dust-ridden air into a mist of dusky gold."
- "A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more dust-ridden (comparative)
most dust-ridden (superlative)