gordian
/ɡˈɔɹdiən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia
adj
Of the Gordian knot.
adj
Twisted; convoluted; tied as a knot.
adj
Alternative form of Gordian.
Example Sentences
- "[…] cloſe the Serpent ſly, Inſinuating, wove with Gordian twine His braided train, […]"
- "[…] he found a palpitating snake, / Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. / She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, / Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; […]"
- "When you put it that way it was so simple, so self-explanatory, so beautiful, so obvious that what had seemed the most Gordian problem was instantly almost mundane, and its elegance was its own proof."
- "The final disentanglement of sister chromatids can only be achieved by cleavage of the "gordian knot" by separin."
- "This fire, like the eye of gordian snake, Bewitch'd me towards; and I soon was near A sight too fearful for the feel of fear: In thicket hid I curs'd the haggard scene-- 500 The banquet of my arms, my arbour queen, Seated upon an uptorn forest root; And all around her shapes, wizard and brute, Laughing, and wailing, groveling, serpenting, Shewing tooth, tusk, and venom-bag, and sting!"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Gordian (comparative)
most Gordian (superlative)