swainish

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8

Definition of swainish

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain according to any definition; but commonly conveying the sense of "ignorant", or "rustic".
    “[W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallow Judgement, and withall an ungentle, and ſwainiſh breſt.”
    “Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagacious commander, and the rough obstinate Rodmond, are well contrasted. Some part of the love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and protracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the calamity, leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her at once deprived both of a father and a lover.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From swain + -ish.

Find your best play with swainish

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