Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ironhanded

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: iron-hand-ed
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of iron-handed.

Example Sentences

"Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier."
"He was an “ironhanded father-figure” (C. Reid, 1998, p. 216). This ironhanded aspect sometimes went too far, like when he forced Erich Lehmann to resign his editorship of Annals of Mathematical Statistics."
"In this traditional context, it's easy to assume that anything short of an ironhanded, authoritarian attitude toward discipline is flat-out permissive, although this common belief is not remotely true."

Etymology

From iron + handed, from the idea of having an iron hand.

Inflected Forms

more ironhanded (comparative) most ironhanded (superlative)

Derived Forms

ironhandedly ironhandedness

Questions

What does ironhanded mean?: Alternative form of iron-handed.
Where does ironhanded come from?: From iron + handed, from the idea of having an iron hand.

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