eminent
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɛmɪnənt/
Definition of eminent
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Noteworthy, remarkable, great.
“His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.”
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adj
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Noteworthy, remarkable, great.
“His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.”
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Distinguished, important, noteworthy.
“In later years, the professor became known as an eminent historian.”
“Why did the eminent Italian writer Primo Levi die in the shocking way he did?”
““So. Miss Alice. Are you game?” The question is posed by an eminent novelist of about 70, who has sat on a Manhattan park bench and struck up conversation with a young woman reading a book.”
- (archaic)High, lofty.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French éminent, from Latin present participle ēminēns, ēminentis, from verb ēmineō (“to project, protrude”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + mineō, related to mons (English mount). Compare with imminent. Unrelated to emanate, which is instead from mānō (“to flow”).
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