sesquipedalian

Other forms of sesquipedalian

plural

sesquipedalians·

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.

Questions about sesquipedalian

What does sesquipedalian mean?

sesquipedalian means "given to the overuse of long words". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sesquipedalian?

sesquipedalian has 6 syllables: se-squi-pe-da-li-an. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for sesquipedalian?

Close synonyms include polysyllabic, sesquipedalia. 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 sesquipedalian a common word?

sesquipedalian 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.