Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

radiculous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: radicu-lous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).

adj

Obsolete spelling of ridiculous.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"For quotations using this term, see Citations:radiculous."
"[…] somebody was laughing at us, and that somebody [was] a very nice young lady, whom we had just parted from in what a Kentuckian would have styled "a most extraordinary and radiculous manner.""
"The rabbits, the squirrels and the crickets held court, And resolved to pravint all radiculous spourt; […]"

Etymology

From radicle + -ous.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: radicle

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more radiculous (comparative) most radiculous (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

radicular radical

Questions

What does radiculous mean?: Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
Where does radiculous come from?: From radicle + -ous.

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