litmus test
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A simple, binary test for the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, using litmus paper.
Example Sentences
- "Exams, not interviews, have become the litmus test for entry to university."
- "Temple, under its new coach, Ray Morrison, formerly of Vanderbilt, will be put to the blue litmus test Friday night when it takes on Georgetown."
- "For good reasons or bad, early membership of the currency union has become the litmus test of being a "good European.""
- "He opposes a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage—a litmus test for many social conservatives"
- "For years, quoting lines from “Manhattan” or another film by Mr. Allen on a date could be a romantic litmus test, a way to find out if a potential partner also loved E. E. Cummings, Paris, 1930s jazz and the sophisticated, cultured world the films often came to represent."
- ""[…] I don't know National Rail numbers, but I do know that after the pandemic I used to go round a lot of the London stations, and they had far more locations shut than I did at St Pancras. That was very much my litmus test.""