spookish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish."
- "Religion is everywhere a gauge of respectability. . . . The right to participate, however humbly, in His august and transcendental operations offers a powerful satisfaction to the will to power; the same privilege, on a smaller scale, is what takes hordes of human blanks into the Freemasons and other such spookish amalgamations of nonentities."
- "In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things."
- "As a lesson horse she needs to gain confidence in her rider, or can become spookish over the jumps, dodging out of them."
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Inflected Forms
more spookish (comparative)
most spookish (superlative)