Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

succedaneous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: suc-ceda-neous
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

Example Sentences

"Hence the cure of the gout, by our artificial oyls, analogous and succedaneous to the natural."

Derived Forms

succedaneously

Questions

What does succedaneous mean?: Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

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