Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nefandous

/nəˈfændəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ne-fan-dous
IPA: /nəˈfændəs/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unspeakable, appalling.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High."
"It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it."
"some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia."

Etymology

From Latin nefandus, from ne- (“not”) + fandus, gerundive of fārī (“to speak”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /nəˈfændəs/
British English: /nɪˈfandəs/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more nefandous (comparative) most nefandous (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce nefandous?: The recorded pronunciation is /nəˈfændəs/.
What does nefandous mean?: Unspeakable, appalling.
Where does nefandous come from?: From Latin nefandus, from ne- (“not”) + fandus, gerundive of fārī (“to speak”).

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