ochreous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of ochrous.
Example Sentences
- "The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate."
- "The white-walled drawing-room, dim in the ochreous twilight of drawn blinds, was hung with Richard's Italian water-colours and other pictorial mementos of the honeymoon[…]"
Inflected Forms
more ochreous (comparative)
most ochreous (superlative)