catachrestical

1. 1.

   constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis

   Synonymscatachrestic

Questions about catachrestical

What does catachrestical mean?

catachrestical means "constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis".

How many syllables are in catachrestical?

catachrestical has 5 syllables and divides as ca-tach-re-sti-cal 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.

What is another word for catachrestical?

Close synonyms include catachrestic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catachrestical a common word?

catachrestical 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.