endlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or pertaining to the end; final; terminal.
Example Sentences
- "[…] and if there is more than one virtue, from the best and most final (or endlike) of them over a finished lifetime."
- "I am proposing here to understand the qualifier τελεα in application to eudaimonia in X 7 (as with τελειοτάτη ἀρετÆ at I 7, 1098a18) as meaning “final” or “endlike,” in accordance with Aristotle's explicit statement [...]"
- "Thus what Aristotle is referring to are endlike results that arise in nature but are produced in an unusual or exceptional fashion; […]"
- "Or, rather, here are some things that seem endlike, but they are not truly endlike. They only seem endlike because they reflect a posturing of false pretensions and surrogate determinances."
- "Invoking once again the criteria he laid down in I.7 for the best good, he tries to show that the contemplative life is most endlike and most self-sufficient, […]"
Etymology
From end + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more endlike (comparative)
most endlike (superlative)