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Definition: ARGUTE |
ARGUTEAdjective1. Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. 2. Sharp; shrill. |
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. |
| Context | Synonyms 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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| 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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) tinh khôn (downy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 52 47 55 54 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. --. ..- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010010 01000111 01010101 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R G U T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0047 0055 0054 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)355241555439 |
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