austenish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And she gives us the peculiarly Austenish pleasure of watching good, intelligent, and articulate people work their way through much painful error to the relief of shared understanding."
- "The Egoist takes place in an Austenish world of country houses—more than Austenish, indeed, for despite Williams’s depreciating comment that Austen’s ‘country is weather or a place for a walk’, her walks at least strike out across fields and take to public roads."
- "For instance, Mrs Williams is described in an Austenish vein early in the text as ‘a little insignificant “nobody,” the daughter of a missionary, having neither connections nor money, nothing in the world to her advantage save a singularly pretty face’ (9) – a description that, following the death of her grandmother, describes Anne, too, who suddenly finds herself the daughter of a missionary, with few connections and less money, but still in possession of a pretty face."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Austenish (comparative)
most Austenish (superlative)
Austen-ish (alternative)