hasidic
/həsˈɪdɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Hasidic Judaism; being a Hasid.
Example Sentences
- "Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation."
- "About 30 miles away, the rural Sullivan County village of Bloomingburg also has a notable Hasidic Jewish community, but it is not very big, nor considered to have the explosive growth associated with Kiryas Joel, Gestetner said."
- "[Marc] Chagall’s parents were Hasidics, members of a group of Jewish mystics."
- "He [Yankel Rosenbaum] was the second person to die violently in the Crown Heights district of Brooklyn in less than 12 hours. The first was a 7-year-old black child by the name of Gavin Cato, knocked down at 4.30pm the previous day by a speeding car driven by a Hasidic who, it was said, had then tried to run away from the scene of the accident."
- "Of the msgs on the voicemail we checked, what surprised us the most were the appointment confirmations from gun ranges and attendance requests from Hasidics seeking a minyan."
Etymology
From Hasid + -ic.