Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypochondriacal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: hypochon-dri-a-cal
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.

Obsolete

adj

Suffering from hypochondria.

Example Sentences

"Fracastorius, Fallopius, and others, being to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy, could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected […]."
"[…] the hypochondriacal British ceramist William De Morgan, who spent winters in Florence for his health while gradually bankrupting his business back home producing iridescent mythological scenes on tiles, vases and plates."

Etymology

From hypochondriac + -al.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more hypochondriacal (comparative) most hypochondriacal (superlative)

Derived Forms

hypochondriacally

Synonyms

hypochondriac

Questions

What does hypochondriacal mean?: Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.
Where does hypochondriacal come from?: From hypochondriac + -al.

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