irrepressible
/ˌɪɹəpɹˈɛsəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not containable or controllable.
adj
Example Sentences
- "[...] here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter [...]"
- "The irrepressible landlady gave the freest expression to her feelings."
- "Schomberg, [...] an irrepressible retailer of all the scandalous gossip of the place, would, with both elbows on the table, impart an adorned version of the story to any guest who cared to imbibe knowledge along with the more costly liquors."
- ""The irrepressible Yank is knocking at the doors of their temples and he will want to sell 'em carpet-sweepers for their harems.""
- "It was Paris' irrepressible High Fashion Doyenne Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 80, so-soing this and high-hatting that, while Women's Wear Daily took notes."
- "High-strung and irrepressible, George Jefferson quickly became one of America’s most popular television characters, a high-energy, combative black man who backed down to no one."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English ir- Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English press English repress Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English repressible English irrepressible From ir- + repressible.
Inflected Forms
more irrepressible (comparative)
most irrepressible (superlative)