Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vomitous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: vom-i-tous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of, or causing one to vomit.

American usage

Example Sentences

"Their communications from the peace talks are vomitous torrents of insult and threat."

Etymology

Etymology tree English vomit Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English vomitous From vomit + -ous.

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

more vomitous (comparative) most vomitous (superlative)

Derived Forms

vomitously

Homonyms

vomitus

Questions

What does vomitous mean?: Characteristic of, or causing one to vomit.
Where does vomitous come from?: Etymology tree English vomit Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English vomitous From vomit + -ous.

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