4d chess
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sophisticated strategy that is far beyond the comprehension of others, especially one in which apparent blunders are simply indicators of yet-to-be-understood brilliance.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Mr. STRATTON. Now, with respect to that theory - and all I have is the newspaper articles to go on, to attribute it to you and the Air Force - how can you build missiles to knock out Soviet sites if we don't know where the sites are? General WHITE. A very good question. [Laughter.] This whole subject I would describe as a four-dimensional chess game. There are books and studies all over the country. Unfortunately, I am afraid the public as a whole doesn't read them. I think the first thing to bear in mind is that knowing where your enemy is is an age-old military game."
- "Steve Bannon, who once referred to Trump as a “blunt instrument” for his ideology, risks 4-D-chess-playing his way straight out of his position of influence, as his president has reportedly become either annoyed or threatened by his attempts to cast himself as the real grandmaster."
- "He plays four-dimensional chess while his current analogue often seems to play Whac-a-Mole."
- "These are the actions of a club flailing around to make things work, not the 4D chess moves of some Machiavellian puppet master."
- "While everyone else had been playing checkers, Pannenkoek busted out the 4D chess."
- "Such speculations are often met with a retort that leans even harder into the stupidity allegation. No, Trump and his people are not playing four-dimensional chess, the response goes – we are simply witnessing the consequences of allowing a deranged man into the highest office, backed by a coterie of dim and unqualified cronies."