hydrophobe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hydrophobic compound or material.
Example Sentences
- "The shock of the meeting triremes was tremendous, and in a moment the poor little hydrophobes were spluttering in the pond: […]"
- "If I talk to 10 people, there is usually a fellow hydrophobe among them. It is hard to pick them out, because a person who is afraid of water looks very much like a normal person. But, from talking with fellow hydrophobes, I have discovered something we almost all share: more times than not, our fear of water stems from one intensely bad experience that came during our childhoods."
Etymology
Borrowed from French hydrophobe, from Latin hydrophobus, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφόβος (hudrophóbos), from ὑδρο- (hudro-, “water”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear, dread”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hydrophobus, ὑδροφόβος
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
hydrophobin
superhydrophobe