Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pave the road to hell

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

Syllables: pave the road- -to hell
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To lead to a disaster by acting with good intentions.

Example Sentences

"In the other direction, treatments that were decried in their time as paving the road to hell, including vaccination, transfusions, anesthesia, artificial insemination, organ transplants, and in-vitro fertilization, have become unexceptional boons to human well-being."

Etymology

From the proverb the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Inflected Forms

paves the road to hell (present, singular) paving the road to hell (participle, present) paved the road to hell (participle, past) paved the road to hell (past)

Questions

What does pave the road to hell mean?: To lead to a disaster by acting with good intentions.
Where does pave the road to hell come from?: From the proverb the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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