Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fraudful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fraud-ful
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Archaic

Example Sentences

"From this curſt hour, the fraudful dame / Of ſacred Truth uſurps the name, / And, vvith a vile, perfidious mind, / Roams far and near, to chat mankind; / Falſe ſighs ſuborns, and artful tears, / And ſtarts vvith vain pretended fears; […]"
"[C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo."

Etymology

From Middle English fraudful, equivalent to fraud + -ful.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: fraudful
Suffix: fraud

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more fraudful (comparative) most fraudful (superlative)

Derived Forms

fraudfully fraudfulness

Synonyms

deceitful

Questions

What does fraudful mean?: fraudulent.
Where does fraudful come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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