hermetically
/hɚˈmɛt.ɪk(.ə)li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a hermetically sealed jar"
- "they hermetically seal the jars"
- "living hermetically"
- "Too often, this interchange of knowledge is thwarted, one way or another: the entropic leanings of the workplace foster hermetically isolated patterns of behavior."
- "This was partly because of the fact that race issues were so contentious in the late 2010s, but anyone who thinks race wasn’t being discussed hotly in the late 1980s either wasn’t there or was living quite hermetically. The more important difference was social media, which propagates and even transforms terms more rapidly than broadcasting and print."
Etymology
Etymology tree English hermetic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English hermetically From hermetic + -ally.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɚˈmɛt.ɪk(.ə)li/
Inflected Forms
more hermetically (comparative)
most hermetically (superlative)