gormenghastian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or pertaining to Gormenghast, an enormous sprawling Gothic castle mired in inexplicable traditions, introduced in a series of novels by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968).
Example Sentences
- "The setting, a Gormenghastian castle, is rich with expectancy, and so is quite a lot of the language […]"
- "The rules and rites that have come down through time are followed with Gormenghastian rigour, even though the reasons for some bits have long been forgotten […]"
- "She'd been picturing some Gormenghastian monstrosity, a mass of dark stone and hulking, spiked towers."
- "Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Gormenghast Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Gormenghastian From Gormenghast + -ian.
Inflected Forms
more Gormenghastian (comparative)
most Gormenghastian (superlative)