Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pretenseful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pre-tense-ful
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of pretense or pretenses.

Etymology

From pretense + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more pretenseful (comparative) most pretenseful (superlative)

Questions

What does pretenseful mean?
Full of pretense or pretenses.
Where does pretenseful come from?
From pretense + -ful.

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