Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mountainously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: moun-tain-ous-ly
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a mountainous manner.

Example Sentences

"Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length, Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie, And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;"

Etymology

From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mountainous

Inflected Forms

more mountainously (comparative) most mountainously (superlative)

Questions

What does mountainously mean?: In a mountainous manner.
Where does mountainously come from?: From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

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