phoenixlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a phoenix, especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.
Example Sentences
- "Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]"
- "Weaving from tree to tree in an obstacle-course marathon that she could only lose, in a dream-strange showdown amont the phoenixes from which she could not rise phoenixlike if she were killed, Jane felt a tugging at her right sleeve."
Etymology
From phoenix + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more phoenixlike (comparative)
most phoenixlike (superlative)