sophoclean
/sɒfəˈkliːən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Sophocles or his works.
Example Sentences
- "It was one of those sequestered spots outside the gates of the world where may usually be found more meditation than action, and more passivity than meditation; where reasoning proceeds on narrow premises, and results in inferences wildly imaginative; yet where, from time to time, no less than in other places, dramas of a grandeur and unity truly Sophoclean are enacted in the real, by virtue of the concentrated passions and closely knit interdependence of the lives therein."
- "Of course, we would have been insulted if someone had accused us of cheating on an exam or confounding lie and lay, but we smiled charmingly when charged with wanting to murder our father—smiled and shrugged our shoulders. The attribution of Sophoclean passions to ditherers could only be heartening."
Etymology
From Latin Sophoclēus + English -an.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /sɒfəˈkliːən/
Inflected Forms
more Sophoclean (comparative)
most Sophoclean (superlative)