ARGUTE

  

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ARGUTE

Definition: ARGUTE

ARGUTE

Adjective

1. Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd.

2. Sharp; shrill.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Argute \Ar*gute"\, adjective. [Latin expression argutus, past participle of arguere. See Argue.]. (Websters 1913)

"ARGUTE" is a common misspelling or typo for: argot, argue, argued, arguer.


Synonyms within Context: ARGUTE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Intelligence Wisdom

Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Sounds Captioned with "ARGUTE".

PlayCaption
Alert; shrill; acute; argute; blaring; blatant; cacophonous; clanging; clangorous; deafening; discordant; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; harsh; high; metallic; noisy; penetrating; piercing; piping; raucous; screeching; sharp; strident; thin; treble.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ARGUTE

"ARGUTE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ARGUTE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ARGUTE

Language Translations for "ARGUTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ashpër (austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry), dinak (artful, canny, crafty, cunning, daedalian, devious, furtive, leery, pawky, sleeky, sly, wily). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مجادل, ‏جدال (altercation, argument, controversy, debate, dispute). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), пронизителен (acute, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, screamy, shrill). (various references)

   

French

  

argutie. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

éles szemû. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arguteay

   

Portuguese

  

agudo (acerbic, acute, brazen, clear-sighted, incisive, keen, out and out, penetrating, penguin, piercing, poignant, pungent, sharp, shrill, smart, treble, trenchant), aguçado (acuminate, acute, keen, pointed, spiked, tapering), vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gauffer, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, parlance, perm, pertain, piddle, poignantly, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), perspicaz (acute, apprehensive, astucious, astute, canny, clear, clearheaded, clear-sighted, cute, discerning, far sighted, far-seeing, keen, long sighted, longheaded, penetration, penetrative, perspicacious, quick-eyed, sagacious, sharp, shrewd). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ascuţit (acute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), perspicace (acute, perspicacious, perspicaciously, ready-witted, sagacious, shrewd, understanding), iscusit (able, adroit, apt, clean, clever, cute, daedal, deft, ingenious, learned, ready, sharp-sighted, skilful, skilled, skillful, workmanlike), inteligent (apprehensive, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

острый (acrid, acute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy), пронзительный (acute, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piping, pipy, reedy, sharp, shrill, shrilly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pronicljiv (clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, keen, perspicacious, piercing, poignant, trenchant), prodoran (cutting, penetrative, piercing, pointed, trenchant), oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acrid, acute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, nippy, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), хитрий (arch, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), гострозубчастий, гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful), пронизливий (acute, brazen, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, screaming, searching, shrill, stabbing, thrilling). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tinh khôn (downy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ARGUTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rugate.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-t-u"

-1 letter: argue, auger, grate, great, retag, rugae, targe, tegua, terga, urate.

-2 letters: ager, ague, gate, gaur, gear, geta, grat, grue, guar, rage, rate, ruga, tare, tear, true, trug, urea, urge.

-3 letters: age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, erg, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, gut, rag, rat, reg, ret, rue, rug, rut, tae.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: gaunter, outrage, tegular.

 

+2 letters: ageratum, argentum, argument, auguster, barguest, daughter, figurate, fruitage, gestural, graduate, grateful, laughter, ligature, outargue, outglare, outraged, outrages, outrange, ragouted, regulate, retaught, runagate, truckage, tutorage, upgather.

 

+3 letters: ageratums, argentums, argumenta, arguments, assurgent, augmenter, augmentor, barguests, budgetary, ciguatera, corrugate, curettage, curtilage, daughters, draughted, entourage, expurgate, featuring, fraughted, fruitages, fulgurate, garniture, gastrulae, gauntries, graduated, graduates, granulate, granulite, graticule, gratitude, gratulate, grubstake, guarantee, haughtier, laughters, ligatured, ligatures, naughtier, objurgate, outargued, outargues, outcharge, outglared, outglares, outranged, outranges, pasturage, purgative, regulated, regulates, regulator, repugnant, runagates, signature, slaughter, stegosaur, subrogate, sugariest, surrogate, trialogue, truckages, tutorages, upgathers, uptearing, vulgarest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ARGUTE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 52 47 55 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010010 01000111 01010101 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#82 &#71 &#85 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0047 0055 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

355241555439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Sounds
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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