Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

extenuatory

/ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-ten-u-a-to-ry
IPA: /ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to extenuate or palliate.

Example Sentences

"Johnson has spread over Savage's character the varnish, or rather the veil, of stately diction and extenuatory phrases, but cannot prevent the observant reader from seeing that Savage was an ungrateful and insolent profligate."

Etymology

Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).

Inflected Forms

more extenuatory (comparative) most extenuatory (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonextenuatory

Questions

How do you pronounce extenuatory?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɛksˈtɛnjuət(ə)ɹi/.
What does extenuatory mean?: Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Where does extenuatory come from?: Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).

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