Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

novelish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nov-el-ish
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a novel.

Example Sentences

"Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]"
"Two such books dawned in me when I first saw our post-encephalitic patients: Compulsion and Constraint (a study of subcortical disorders and mechanisms) and People of the Abyss (a novelish, Jack Londonish book)."

Etymology

From novel + -ish. Piecewise doublet of novelesque.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: novel

Inflected Forms

more novelish (comparative) most novelish (superlative)

Synonyms

novelesque novellike

Questions

What does novelish mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a novel.
Where does novelish come from?: From novel + -ish. Piecewise doublet of novelesque.

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