pulchritudinous
/ˌpʌlkɹɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But Shedemei had long since grown out of her adolescent jealousy of pulchritudinous girls."
- "“The first example in each series,” Mike offered, “would be, on the basis of my associational analyses of such data, of such pulchritudinous value as to please any healthy, mature human male.”"
- "“I had standing instructions to let any pulchritudinous females into Mr. Cooke’s dressing room,” Mike admitted. “Pulchritudinous? He really said that?” “No, I said that.”"
- "Jorja you look pulchritudinous today."
Etymology
From Latin pulchritūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher + -tūdō. By surface analysis, pulchritude + -ous.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more pulchritudinous (comparative)
most pulchritudinous (superlative)