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 and divides as pi-ra-ti-cal 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.

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.