vaunted
/vˈɔntɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of vaunt
Example Sentences
- "We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards."
- "We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”."
- "AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers."
- "And for the past 36 years, his initials have been stamped onto every brake disc or chassis he’s assembled – part of the company’s vaunted accountability practice."
Etymology
Etymology tree English vaunt Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English vaunted From vaunt + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more vaunted (comparative)
most vaunted (superlative)