Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hagiographical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables: ha-gio-graph-i-cal
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work."

Etymology

From hagiography + -ical.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hagiography

Questions

What does hagiographical mean?: hagiographic
Where does hagiographical come from?: From hagiography + -ical.

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