thrasonical

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/θɹəˈsɒnɪkəl/

Definition of thrasonical

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Boastful, bragging, vainglorious.
    “The Sorbonicall clamours (which at Paris I haue ſene in time paſt whē poperie moſt raigned) might be worthily thought in compariſon of thys traſonicall oſtentation to haue had much modeſtie.”
    “His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.”
    “In amongst his general thrasonical ranting and ravings concerning his own merits, Skogan had promised the company that tomorrow the world would know how good his verses were – when he read aloud at the court gate some poem which he had written in honour of the birthday of Thomas, Duke of Clarence.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Latin Thrasō, Thrason-, the name of a boastful soldier in the play Eunuchus by Terence. The name is derived from Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús, “bold, audacious”).

Words you can make from thrasonical

200+ playable · top: ANTICHLORS (15 pts)

Best play antichlors 15 points

10-letter words

1 word

9-letter words

15 words

8-letter words

36 words

7-letter words

113 words

6-letter words

34 words

Find your best play with thrasonical

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes thrasonical, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.