Definitions for doornail

doornail door·nail

Spelling: [dawr-neyl, dohr-]
IPA: /ˈdɔrˌneɪl, ˈdoʊr-/

Doornail is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 290 anagrams from letters in doornail (adilnoor).

Definitions for doornail

noun

  1. a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.

Idioms

  1. dead as a doornail, stone-dead:

Origin of doornail

First recorded in 1300-50, doornail is from the Middle English word dornail. See door, nail

Examples for doornail

"Say, it's been deader'n a doornail around here for a week," confessed the Meadow Street youth.

He had been a great King but he was deader than a doornail now.

All of a sudden one of the horses dropped down dead as a doornail.

"Anyhow, Mr. Fenley is dead as a doornail," said Eliza firmly.

A loud crack was heard, and she was seen to spring up and fall back upon the snow, dead as a doornail.

Bethany is dumb as a doornail, and seems to bore Don about as much as his high-profile clients do.

"Dead as a doornail," he murmured to Chick, who also had approached.

The rat's dead as a doornail, and now all of us have got things to do, but fast!

And when the troll saw the sun he burst—and was as dead as a doornail!

Word Value for doornail
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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