Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

surfeitive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sur-feitive
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"They lay thick, viscid underfoot, sweet and oversweet in the nostrils with a sweetness surfeitive and moribund, and at night now the ragged shadow of full-fledged leaves pulsed upon the barred window in shabby rise and fall."

Etymology

From surfeit + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more surfeitive (comparative) most surfeitive (superlative)

Questions

What does surfeitive mean?: excessive
Where does surfeitive come from?: From surfeit + -ive.

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