pandemonian
/ˌpæn.dəˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
noun
One who takes part in a pandemonium; a rioter.
Example Sentences
- "How could the private gentlemen of our Church militant here on earth march forth, when their Generals were afraid to attack the pandemonian army?"
- "Then, Gentlemen, said he, but not till then, shall you see hurled down from their lofty pedestals, those abominable reptiles, monsters, and demons, the gods of corruption, whose images, like the plagues of Egypt, now every where blast our light; whose pandemonian temples are seen in every rotten borough, and whose tottering cathedral, once a Christian chapel, stands near the Treasury."
- "We bid all the tricks, technicalities, and pettifoggeries, whereby law has been made the handmaid of OPPRESSION, be gone to the limbos of vanity and pandemonian mint which gave them birth."
- "[…]it was a rush and a jump and a caper, a shooting out of legs and arms, hair dishevelled dancing about the face, dresses flying horizontal this way and that, hats whirling up to the ceiling and back, shouting and screaming, a pandemonian noise of thump, thump, thump, thump on the hard floor."
Etymology
From pandemonium + -an.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpæn.dəˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
- British English: /ˌpæn.dɪˈməʊ.ni.ən/