rudderless
/ɹˈʌdɚləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without a rudder.
Example Sentences
- "Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless."
- "As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁roh₁-(ye-)-tider. Proto-Germanic *rōaną Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Germanic *-þrą Proto-Germanic *rōþrą Proto-West Germanic *rōþr Old English rōþor Middle English rother English rudder Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English rudderless From rudder + -less.
Inflected Forms
more rudderless (comparative)
most rudderless (superlative)