Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sadistic

/səˈdɪstɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: sadis-tic
IPA: /səˈdɪstɪk/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.

adj

Of behaviour which takes pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.

adj

Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead."

Etymology

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

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more sadistic (comparative) most sadistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

necrosadistic nonsadistic sadistically sadisticness unsadistic unsadistically zoosadistic

Phrases

anal-sadistic sadistic personality disorder

Frequently Paired Words

sadism

Synonyms

demonic inhuman spiteful barbarous bowelless brutal compassionless cruel flagitious despiteful diabolic diabolical

Rhymes With

artistic realistic characteristic optimistic linguistic mystic unrealistic ballistic statistic autistic futuristic holistic

Questions

How do you pronounce sadistic?: The recorded pronunciation is /səˈdɪstɪk/.
What does sadistic mean?: Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
Where does sadistic come from?: Etymology tree English sadist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English sadistic From sadist + -ic.

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