splendiloquent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "After a long absence, D—— returned with a still longer face, and, after some hesitation, informed us that the whole of our baggage, including S——'s splendiloquent Scheidam, on whose restorative powers we had so much reckoned, was lost : so that we were obliged to content ourselves, after all, with the ration-biscuit D—— carried in his haversack, and the water we had in our canteens."
- "ANNIE: Oh, my eyes feel hundreds of per cent better already, and pretty, why, do you know how I look in them? Spendiloquent. Like a race horse!"
- "I saw her new doo^([sic]) at Fergie's yesternight and it was splendiloquent."
- "Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses! And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen! hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely, first citizen of the joyous lexical state!"
- "Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers."
Etymology
Blend of splendid + eloquent, probably modelled after grandiloquent and magniloquent. First attested in 1848.
Origin
Inflected Forms
more splendiloquent (comparative)
most splendiloquent (superlative)