nonconfrontational
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not confrontational; approaching a dispute indirectly.
Example Sentences
- "Of course,[…] physicians and students need to be educated about how to give feedback in professional and nonconfrontational ways."
- "Just a few days before McNamara died, Politico uncovered a particularly graphic example involving The Post: an invitation to lobbyists to shell out $25,000 to $250,000 to sponsor off-the-record, nonconfrontational "salons" where they could mix with what a promotional flier called "the right people" and "alter the debate.""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- English confrontation English -al English confrontational English nonconfrontational From non- + confrontational.
Inflected Forms
more nonconfrontational (comparative)
most nonconfrontational (superlative)
non-confrontational (alternative)