piratical

1. 1.

   characteristic of pirates

   “piratical attackers”
2. 2.

   characteristic of piracy

   “piratical editions of my book”

Questions about piratical

What does piratical mean?

piratical means "characteristic of pirates". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piratical?

piratical has 4 syllables: pi-ra-ti-cal. The stress falls on "ra".

Is piratical a common word?

piratical 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.