cliquish

Questions about cliquish

What does cliquish mean?

cliquish means "befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior".

How many syllables are in cliquish?

cliquish has 2 syllables and divides as cliq-uish 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 cliquish?

Close synonyms include clannish, clubby, snobbish, snobby. 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 cliquish a common word?

cliquish 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.