ill-chosen

What does ill-chosen mean?

ill-chosen means "not elegant or graceful in expression".

How many syllables are in ill-chosen?

ill-chosen has 3 syllables: ill--cho-sen. The stress falls on "ill-".

What is another word for ill-chosen?

Close synonyms include awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept. 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 ill-chosen a common word?

ill-chosen 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ill-chosen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.