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say it: MAH-di-kuhm
modicum is a noun meaning "a small or moderate or token amount". It is pronounced /ˈmɑdɪkəm/ — MAH-di-kuhm. It carries one recorded sense.
a small or moderate or token amount
“England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for modicum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.