out-of-doors
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.53 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors."
- "Three children, with the rich brown and richer crimson colour, and the bright black eyes which mark a southern extraction, were rolling on the grass at a little distance; and close beside the fire were seated two men, with red kerchiefs knitted round their close-curled dark hair. There was something in the complexions and the out-of-doors life that at once carried the Italians back to their own country."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more out-of-doors (comparative)
most out-of-doors (superlative)