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Definitions: Degage |
DegageAdjective1. Free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson. 2. Showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "degage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: DegageSynonyms: detached (adj), uninvolved (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fashion | Polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing, fast. |
Freedom | Free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Degage |
| English words defined with "degage": detached ♦ uninvolved. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
degage | 6 |
degage furniture | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Degage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Debarge, decage, deega, dega, Degale, degame, degate, Degg, Dejager, Delage, Delagi, demage, desage, dgag, diage, divage, Dupage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g" | |
-1 letter: egged, gaged. | |
-2 letters: aged, agee, edge, egad, gaed, gage, geed. | |
-3 letters: age, dag, dee, egg, gad, gae, gag, ged, gee. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g" | |
+1 letter: egghead, engaged. | |
+2 letters: beggared, daggered, eggheads, jaggeder, raggeder, regauged, retagged, saggered. | |
+3 letters: aggressed, aggrieved, bedraggle, beflagged, demagoged, demagogue, disengage, earwigged, eggheaded, gadgeteer, gangrened, jaggedest, pedagogue, raggedest, reengaged, staggered, swaggered. | |
+4 letters: aggregated, bedraggled, bedraggles, beggarweed, daggerlike, degreasing, delegating, demagogies, demagogued, demagogues, disengaged, disengages, gadgeteers, gadgetries, jaggedness, loggerhead, pedagogies, pedagogues, raggedness, renegading, segregated. | |
+5 letters: aggrievedly, arpeggiated, beggarweeds, congregated, demagoguery, desegregate, disagreeing, endangering, exaggerated, gingerbread, leapfrogged, loggerheads, remortgaged, waterlogged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 67 61 67 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . --. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100111 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e g a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0067 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387173677371 |
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