Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tendentiously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables
ten-den-tious-ly
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a tendentious manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English tendentious Middle English -ly English -ly English tendentiously From tendentious + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more tendentiously (comparative) most tendentiously (superlative)

Questions

What does tendentiously mean?
In a tendentious manner.
Where does tendentiously come from?
Etymology tree English tendentious Middle English -ly English -ly English tendentiously From tendentious + -ly.

How to pronounce tendentiously

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