Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

juvenalian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ju-ve-na-lian
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Juvenal or to his (satirical) works or style.

Example Sentences

"The satire here is more heavy-handed and the tone more Juvenalian than in any passage in the first volume."
"The satiric voice, as Gadeken (2002) argues, is more Juvenalian in tone, but is confined almost exclusively to the narrator."
"2019, Ronald Paulson, The Fictions of Satire, Johns Hopkins University Press, Open access edition, unnumbered page, At its most Juvenalian, it follows from Horace's Venusian ancestors, who guarded the Roman border against barbarians, as Horace does figuratively now."

Etymology

From Juvenal + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Juvenal

Inflected Forms

more Juvenalian (comparative) most Juvenalian (superlative)

Questions

What does juvenalian mean?: Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Juvenal or to his (satirical) works or style.
Where does juvenalian come from?: From Juvenal + -ian.

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