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mollient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mol-lient
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving to soften or assuage; emollient.

Etymology

From Latin molliens, past participle of mollire (“to soften”), from mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -i- + -ent.

Inflected Forms

more mollient (comparative) most mollient (superlative)

Derived Forms

molliently

Questions

What does mollient mean?
Serving to soften or assuage; emollient.
Where does mollient come from?
From Latin molliens, past participle of mollire (“to soften”), from mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -i- + -ent.

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