equipoise
/ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.
Example Sentences
- "Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone."
- "“An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise."
- "The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes."
- "And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise."
- "To my mind, the textual arguments in this case are close to equipoise."
- "Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *aikʷos? Old Latin aiquos Latin aequus Latin aequi-der. English equi- English poise English equipoise From equi- + poise.