Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maternalistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ma-ter-nal-is-tic
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Exhibiting or relating to maternalism.

Etymology

From maternal + -istic.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more maternalistic (comparative) most maternalistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

maternalistically

Questions

What does maternalistic mean?
Exhibiting or relating to maternalism.
Where does maternalistic come from?
From maternal + -istic.

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