inlandish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of one who is native or native-born; inexperienced, naïve, simplistic, unrefined.
Example Sentences
- "Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]"
- "So also let every one who is cognizant or perpetrator, where an outlandish man injures an inlandish one, clear himself of that privity, according to the value of the property; […]"
- "That the company will take all the colonists as well free, as those that are in service, under their protection, and the same against all outlandish and inlandish wars and powers, with the forces they have there, as much as in their power layeth to defend."
- "In Fife or Forfar? Or some one or other of your outlandish, or inlandish, Lowland or Highland Counties?"
- "[…] and sometimes pushing too far, the transformation from an outlandish colonial history into an inlandish national one."
- "The text is quite “outlandish” in its format, and if we only allow for “inlandish” styles of writing, the Laozi will always remain alien to us."
Etymology
In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).