Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inconcinne

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-concinne
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle."
"He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic."
"Xuthus' exit has sharpness and rhetorical wit, with the inconcinne construction making the second line a drastic, even sarcastic aprosdoketon."

Etymology

See inconcinnous.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more inconcinne (comparative) most inconcinne (superlative)

Questions

What does inconcinne mean?: dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable
Where does inconcinne come from?: See inconcinnous.

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