What it means
- (adjective) Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- (adjective) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship)
- (adjective) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
Letter analysis
- Meretricious contains 12 letters: 6 vowel(s) and 6 consonant(s).
- It uses 9 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 4.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 16.
Sub-words
- courtiers
- eroticism
- isometric
- rectories
- turmerics
- coteries
- couriers
- courtier
- crustier
- customer
- cutesier
- emeritus
- esoteric
- merriest
- meteoric
- moieties
- moisture
- mortices
- outcries
- recourse
- recruits
- reroutes
- resource
- stormier
- tiresome
- turmeric
- citrous
- costume
- coterie
- courier
- courser
- crosier
- cruiser
- curries
- emetics
- erotics
- mercies
- meteors
- metrics
- mistier
- moister
- mortice
- mortise
- mousier
- mustier
- recites
- recruit
- rectors
- rectums
- remorse
- remoter
- remotes
- reroute
- rescuer
- restore
- retires
- retries
- rioters
- roister
Related words
Other 12-letter words
- abbreviating
- abbreviation
- abolitionist
- abominations
- abortionists
- abrasiveness
- abridgements
- abstractedly
- abstractions
- abstractness
- abstruseness
- academically
- academicians
- accelerating
- acceleration
- accelerators
- accentuating
- accentuation
Words starting with MER
- mercantile
- mercenaries
- mercenary
- mercerize
- mercerized
- mercerizes
- mercerizing
- merchandise
- merchandised
- merchandises
- merchandising
- merchandize
- merchandized
- merchandizes
- merchandizing
- merchant
- merchantman
- merchantmen
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Words ending with OUS
Common questions
What does Meretricious mean?
Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
How many letters are in Meretricious?
Meretricious has 12 letters.
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