Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hieroglyphical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hi-ero-glyph-i-cal
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.

Example Sentences

"[M]ay we not say that Teufeldröckh's Biography, allowing it even, as suspected, only a hieroglyphical truth, exhibits a man, as it were preappointed for Clothes-Philosophy?"
"Indisputable historical facts, recorded in this invaluable book, were treated by them as hieroglyphical symbols of chemical processes: and the fundamental truths of the christian religion were applied, in a wanton and blasphemous manner, to the purposes of making gold, and distilling the elixir of life."
"It is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and of the creatures of God."
"Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets."
"a hieroglyphical scrawl.'"

Etymology

From hieroglyph + -ical.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hieroglyph

Inflected Forms

more hieroglyphical (comparative) most hieroglyphical (superlative)

Derived Forms

hieroglyphically

Synonyms

hieroglyphic

Questions

What does hieroglyphical mean?: Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
Where does hieroglyphical come from?: From hieroglyph + -ical.

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