Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pointillistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pointil-lis-tic
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.

adj

Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism.

Example Sentences

"a pointillistic work of art"
"Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions."

Etymology

From pointillist + -ic, from Pointillism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pointillist

Inflected Forms

more pointillistic (comparative) most pointillistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

pointillistically

Synonyms

pointillist

Questions

What does pointillistic mean?: Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.
Where does pointillistic come from?: From pointillist + -ic, from Pointillism.

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