Meaning and example
like or relating to a prostitute
Meretricious relationships
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.020 places meretricious in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 50.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 50.7%
blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
- Known by
- 50.4%
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- Known by
- 51.3%
betrayal of a trust
- Known by
- 51.5%
last 2 million years
- Known by
- 51.6%
inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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