umbrageous
/ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]"
- "Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]"
- "... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top."
- "Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared."
- "Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees."
- "A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
Inflected Forms
more umbrageous (comparative)
most umbrageous (superlative)