Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eeyorish

/ˈiːɔːɹɪʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eey-or-ish
IPA: /ˈiːɔːɹɪʃ/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very gloomy or pessimistic.

British usage

adj

Alternative letter-case form of Eeyorish.

Example Sentences

"More important for Brienne than the king's disengagement and eeyorish bad temper, however, was the consistency of the queen's favour."
"We all know how that particular story ended, of course, and while Her late Majesty never had to suffer the indignity of opening up the accounts from which the project was funded, it could be argued that the occasional brush with realism - however aesthetically distasteful - would do our Eeyorish prince no harm."
"The Great Exhibition and the Festival of Britain, declared one Eeyorish historian in the Daily Mail, had been ‘celebrations of the best in education, art and design, temples to technology and industry’."

Etymology

From the character Eeyore (in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne) + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ish

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈiːɔːɹɪʃ/

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

more Eeyorish (comparative) most Eeyorish (superlative) Eeyore-ish (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce eeyorish?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈiːɔːɹɪʃ/.
What does eeyorish mean?: Very gloomy or pessimistic.
Where does eeyorish come from?: From the character Eeyore (in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne) + -ish.

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