penumbrous
/pɪˈnʌmbɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "the penumbrous calm of the cathedral interior"
- "Yet such Commissions were awarded, and far more frequently than might be supposed in view of the infinitely wider gulf—both social and educational—which divided the eighteenth-century Officer from the rank and file, than the penumbrous border line which separates them today."
- "Everyone knows God in his penumbrous knowledge of common esse."
- "This is that from which metaphor springs dissatisfying, penumbrous - the silence on occult matters, or those of predestination, of genetics or environment - and the source of circumlocution, the ambiguous alchemical directives."
- "In the early nineteenth century, when high school and college education was a rare experience for the average American citizen, judicial determination of vague, penumbrous fundamental rights was carried out by the educated classes."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɪˈnʌmbɹəs/
Inflected Forms
more penumbrous (comparative)
most penumbrous (superlative)