lizardly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reminiscent of or similar to a lizard.
adj
Pertaining to lizards; lizard-related.
Example Sentences
- "[…] the eyes of replicants creator Dr. Eldon Tyrell are magnified by large lenses in his glasses, giving him a lizardly look."
- "Only the taloned fingers at the "shoulders" of their wings showed the lizardly blood, and their orange bills full of sharp fishy teeth."
- "But whatever malign emotions we tried to pin on to the lizard, we knew that they weren't the lizard's emotions at all, only ours. The lizard was simply going about its lizardly business in a simple, straightforward lizardly way."
Etymology
From lizard + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more lizardly (comparative)
most lizardly (superlative)