gruntulous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a sound, resembling a grunt; gruntlike.
Example Sentences
- "We crawled, as it seemed, a long time before we saw either Selenite or mooncalf, though we heard the bellowing and gruntulous noises of these latter continually drawing nearer to us."
- "Back at the shanty, Bradly's compunction for bellowing at Podson was a good deal relieved by Podson's gruntulous annoyance at being bellowed at."
- "[…] he walked about the garden or stood in gruntulous meditation before the fire, none daring to interrupt his cogitations by a whisper."
Etymology
From grunt + -ulous.
Inflected Forms
more gruntulous (comparative)
most gruntulous (superlative)