incestuous

1. 1.

   resembling incest as by excessive intimacy
2. 2.

   relating to or involving incest

Questions about incestuous

What does incestuous mean?

incestuous means "resembling incest as by excessive intimacy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incestuous?

incestuous has 3 syllables: in-ces-tuous. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsɛstʃwəs/.

Is incestuous a common word?

incestuous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.