fashionably late
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Three hours later—fashionably late, of course—the Stuart party swept in state into their box."
- "Ex-Senator Blount's party of three was fashionably late at the function in Mesa Circle, but in the crush filling the spacious drawing-rooms the hostess and her long line of receiving assistants were still on duty."
- "The sofa which she had counted on to hold four looked crowded with three[…] and when the Simpsons came, fashionably late (having only just finished dinner), they had to content themselves with the end of a holland-covered form hired from the baker."
- "Well, she's fashionably lean / And she's fashionably late / She'll never rank a scene / She'll never break a date"
Inflected Forms
more fashionably late (comparative)
most fashionably late (superlative)