Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

passive-aggressively

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: pas-sive-ag-gres-sive-ly
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a passive-aggressive manner.

Example Sentences

"[W]ould I like it if I left the dishes in the sink just once, and went into the next room to play my guitar, and Tom sighed all passive-aggressively and banged around the dishes as he sacrificingly cleaned them?"

Etymology

From passive-aggressive + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: passive-aggressive

Inflected Forms

more passive-aggressively (comparative) most passive-aggressively (superlative)

Questions

What does passive-aggressively mean?: In a passive-aggressive manner.
Where does passive-aggressively come from?: From passive-aggressive + -ly.

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