Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prudentialist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pru-den-tial-ist
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.

Example Sentences

"This is beautiful: yet I can not but think it would have been still more appropriate, if the water-pourer had been a Mr. Legality, a prudentialist offering his calculation of consequences as moral antidote to guilt and crime […]"

Etymology

From prudential + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: prudential

Inflected Forms

prudentialists (plural)

Questions

What does prudentialist mean?: One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
Where does prudentialist come from?: From prudential + -ist.

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