Hyphenation of meretricious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word meretricious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

mere-tri-cious

Synonyms of meretricious:

adj	woman, adult female
adj	brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, tasteless
adj	gilded, specious, insincere

Last hyphenations of this language

hysteric expiate Heligoland tax-deductible cephalization reflexively cop-out flambé glycosuric garish bedsock emperor expostulate primness paroxysmal barbel cholerically alphanumeric contraception

Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.