antipreformationist
/antipɹiːfɔːˈmeɪʃn̩ɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Opposed to the theory of preformationism.
Example Sentences
- "Leading the antipreformationist camp was William Harvey, the first scientist to correctly describe the circulation of blood."
- "Despite his antipreformationist skepticism, he gradually became convinced both of the chromosome theory and of Mendelism by the discovery of Drosophila mutations that segregated with the sex chromosome."
Etymology
From anti- + preformationist.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /antipɹiːfɔːˈmeɪʃn̩ɪst/
Inflected Forms
more antipreformationist (comparative)
most antipreformationist (superlative)