Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

veriest

/ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: ver-i-est
IPA: /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

superlative form of very: most very

Example Sentences

"Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings."
"If it had come to crawling before Mr Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all."
"He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict."
"One commentator observed that “to connect the dinosaurs, creatures of interest to but the veriest dullards, with a spectacular extraterrestrial event” seemed “like one of those plots a clever publisher might concoct to guarantee sales.”"

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst/
British English: /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst/

Synonyms

most truest

Questions

How do you pronounce veriest?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪst/.
What does veriest mean?: superlative form of very: most very

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