new-fangled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Well, I'm an old man, you know. I've got old-fashioned ways. And I'm afraid of all this progress, and these new-fangled ideas."
- "All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: […] “I am too much i’ the sun” – […] incidentally, a clear case of a writer employing a new-fangled punctuation mark entirely for the sake of it, and condemning countless generations of serious long-haired actors to adopt a knowing expression and say i’ – as if this actually added anything to the meaning."
Inflected Forms
more new-fangled (comparative)
newer-fangled (comparative)
most new-fangled (superlative)
newest-fangled (superlative)