paternalistically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a paternalistic manner.
Etymology
Etymology tree English paternalistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English paternalistically From paternalistic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more paternalistically (comparative)
most paternalistically (superlative)