Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pestiferously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pes-tif-er-ous-ly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a pestiferous manner.

Example Sentences

"After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there."

Etymology

From pestiferous + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pestiferous

Inflected Forms

more pestiferously (comparative) most pestiferously (superlative)

Questions

What does pestiferously mean?: In a pestiferous manner.
Where does pestiferously come from?: From pestiferous + -ly.

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