Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hebetudinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: he-be-tudi-nous
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Displaying mental lethargy or dullness.

Example Sentences

"His hebetudinous lack of curiosity enraged the instructor."
"Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow."
"comebacks concocted, not said out loud, / would have been incomprehensible to the hebetudinous."

Etymology

From Latin hebetūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin hebetūdō, from hebes + -tūdō, from hebeō. By surface analysis, hebetude + -ous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: hebetūdō
Suffix: -ous, hebes

Inflected Forms

more hebetudinous (comparative) most hebetudinous (superlative)

Questions

What does hebetudinous mean?: Displaying mental lethargy or dullness.
Where does hebetudinous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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