aposiopetic

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis

Questions about aposiopetic

What does aposiopetic mean?

aposiopetic means "relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis".

How many syllables are in aposiopetic?

aposiopetic has 6 syllables and divides as a-po-si-o-pe-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is aposiopetic a common word?

aposiopetic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.