Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

proscriptively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pro-scrip-tive-ly
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a proscriptive manner.

Etymology

From proscriptive + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more proscriptively (comparative) most proscriptively (superlative)

Questions

What does proscriptively mean?
In a proscriptive manner.
Where does proscriptively come from?
From proscriptive + -ly.

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