postcardy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Suggestive of a postcard.
Example Sentences
- "By three next afternoon I was waiting under Coggeshall's clock tower. The postcardy little place still has a free car park."
- "“He protested vigorously,” Brower recalled, arguing that the photograph was “too postcardy.” According to Brower, Porter felt that “everyone knows [the sky]^([sic]) is blue, so we might as well take it for granted and omit it, concentrating instead upon its indirect effect.”"
- "Lots of these sites have postcardy country names: Bog Creek Farm, Reich Farm, Burnt Fly Bog."
- "If I saw a cool, postcardy subject, like the partially burned-out neon Chow Mein sign on Second Avenue and Twelfth Street, I'd make Herve or a visiting Ron or Jack pose under it."
Etymology
From postcard + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more postcardy (comparative)
most postcardy (superlative)