Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

philanthropistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phi-lan-thropis-tic
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).

Dated

Example Sentences

"Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]"

Etymology

From philanthropist + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: philanthropist

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

more philanthropistic (comparative) most philanthropistic (superlative)

Questions

What does philanthropistic mean?: philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).
Where does philanthropistic come from?: From philanthropist + -ic.

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