noirish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His feature directing career began with the third installment of the "Alien" franchise, and before "Benjamin Button" all his movies were noirish thrillers of a sort."
- "It must be acknowledged that the now global recognition his work has received […] has no doubt to do with his works’ noirish mixture of extraordinary artistic delicacy and ultra-creepy subject matter […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English noir Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English noirish From noir + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more noirish (comparative)
most noirish (superlative)