infelicities
Meaning of infelicities
plural noun
- a thing that is inappropriate, especially a remark or expression.
she winced at their infelicities and at the clumsy way they talked
- unhappiness; misfortune.
the infelicity which accompanies some people through life
late Middle English (in the sense ‘unhappiness’): from Latin infelicitas, from infelix, infelic- ‘unhappy’, from in- ‘not’ + felix ‘happy’.
Information about infelicities
- It is a name.
- The singular form of infelicities is: infelicity.
- Languages in which infelicities is used:
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Hyphenation of infelicities
in-fe-lic-i-ties
- It consists of 5 syllables and 12 chars.
- infelicities is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
infelicities synonyms
Meaning an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong:
Meaning a mistake:
Meaning a stupid or careless mistake:
Meaning an act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance:
Meaning a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement:
Meaning a breach of good manners; an instance of incorrect behaviour:
Meaning unjust treatment:
Meaning failure to observe standards of honesty or modesty; improper behaviour or character:
Words that rhyme with infelicities
ties, Wheaties, boaties, chapaties, democraties, encraties, entreaties, intreaties, maties, nonambulaties, nontreaties, platies, praties, prelaties, sosaties, taties, treaties, wheaties, nonsancties, sancties, Eyeties, Nineties, anxieties, biosafeties, blanketies, contrarieties, dieties, dubieties, ebrieties, entireties, furmeties, gaieties, gayeties, goeties, heterogameties, impieties, improprieties, inebrieties, insatieties, insobrieties, minisocieties, moieties, naiveties, niceties, nimieties, nineties, noncontrarieties, nonsubtleties, nonvarieties, notorieties
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