Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exigeante

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-igeante
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A demanding woman.

Dated

adj

Of a woman: demanding.

Dated

Example Sentences

"Now mammas are sometimes exigeantes; and on a winter's evening I am loath to leave my comfortable fireside because Tommy has over-eaten himself and has the stomach-ache, or because that angel, Miss Lucy, has fallen down […]"
"One has had a bad supper, an exigeante dowager that he was obliged to escort having prevented his enjoying anything […]"

Etymology

From French exigeante, feminine form.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: exigeante

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

exigeantes (plural) more exigeante (comparative) most exigeante (superlative)

Questions

What does exigeante mean?: A demanding woman.
Where does exigeante come from?: It is traced to French.

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