Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geognostic

/dʒɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ge-og-nos-tic
IPA: /dʒɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to geognosy; geological.

Example Sentences

"To a ploughboy, a pebble is an insignificant thing, suggestive possibly of some discomfort in walking, and fit only to shy at a bird, may be; but to the geologist it appears worthy a volume, and speaks to him of strata may be a million of years old, of glacial attrition, of volcanic action, of chemical constituents, of mineralogical principles, and crystallogenic attraction, of mathematical laws and geometric angles, and of future geognostic changes."
"Unfortunately I do not possess sufficient geognostic knowledge to be able to set this cavern down as an extinct volcano."
"There is, indeed, one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system, altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic appearances of the surface of our planet."

Etymology

From German geognostisch, equivalent to geo- + gnostic.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: geognostisch

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /dʒɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/

Derived Forms

geognostically

Questions

How do you pronounce geognostic?: The recorded pronunciation is /dʒɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/.
What does geognostic mean?: Pertaining to geognosy; geological.
Where does geognostic come from?: It is traced to German.

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