Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recidivistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-cidi-vis-tic
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being a recidivist; inclined to revert to previous behaviours.

Etymology

Etymology tree English recidivist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English recidivistic From recidivist + -ic.

Inflected Forms

more recidivistic (comparative) most recidivistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

recidivistically

Questions

What does recidivistic mean?: Being a recidivist; inclined to revert to previous behaviours.
Where does recidivistic come from?: Etymology tree English recidivist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English recidivistic From recidivist + -ic.

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