Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unfelicitous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-fe-lic-i-tous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not felicitous; unhappy, unfortunate.

Etymology

From un- + felicitous.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more unfelicitous (comparative) most unfelicitous (superlative)

Derived Forms

unfelicitously unfelicitousness

Questions

What does unfelicitous mean?
Not felicitous; unhappy, unfortunate.
Where does unfelicitous come from?
From un- + felicitous.

How to pronounce unfelicitous

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