DISPITEOUS

  

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DISPITEOUS

Definition: DISPITEOUS

DISPITEOUS

Adjective

1. Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISPITEOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Note: Dispiteous \Dis*pit"e*ous\, adjective. [Prefix dis- piteous. Compare to Despiteous.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: DISPITEOUS

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

Albanian

  

i pamëshirshëm (flint hearted, grim, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, savage, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

krutý (atrocious, bitter, brutal, cruel, extreme, fierce, gory, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, heathenish, rigid, ruthless, savage, severe, torsion, unkind, unrelenting, vicious, wolfish). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نفرت اور, کینه توز (Implacable, Spiteful, Vengeful, Venomous), ستمگر (Atrocious, Cruel, Despot, Oppressor, Tyrannous, Tyrant, Unjust), بیرحم (Atrocious, Bloodthirsty, Cruel, Relentless, Uncharitable, Unrelenting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kegyetlen (atrocious, bloody, brutal, brutish, cruel, felon, ferocious, grim, hard, heinous, inhuman, insensate, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, scathing, tigerish, tyrannical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ispiteousday

   

Portuguese

  

desalentado (downcast). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fãrã milã (pitiless, pitilessly, ruthless, ruthlessly, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безжалостный (hard-faced, heartless, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

okrutan (cruel, flagitious, flinty, hardhearted, harsh, truculent), nemilosrdan (cruel, graceless, hardhearted, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful, wanton). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

despiadado (cutthroat, flint hearted, inhumane, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unkind, unmerciful, unremorseful, unsparing). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

obarmhärtig (merciless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

безжалісний (cold blooded, compassless, devoid of pity, grim, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, stony, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

t n nhẫn (cruelly, grim, harsh, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unfeeling), nhẫn tâm (cold-hearted, coldly, grim, hard-hearted, iron-fisted, iron-hearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonily, unfeeling), không thương xót (hard, pitiless, unmerciful). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DISPITEOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-o-p-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: seditious.

-2 letters: deposits, disputes, outsides, soupiest, topsides, uptossed.

-3 letters: deposit, despots, dispose, dispute, dopiest, iodises, outside, outsped, piteous, podites, posited, potsies, poussie, pseudos, sopited, sopites, spoused, spouted, studies, studios, stupids, tedious, tissued, topside, upsides.

-4 letters: deists, depots, desist, despot, diesis, dipsos, disuse, douses, duties, estops, idiots, iodise, issued, odists, opuses, ousted, pestos, pissed, pistes.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-o-p-s-s-t-u"
 

+3 letters: serendipitous.

 

+4 letters: pseudonymities, superadditions.

 

+5 letters: expeditiousness, hyperfastidious, postdivestiture, pseudoscientist, repudiationists, serendipitously, superinductions, unsophisticated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISPITEOUS


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

44 49 53 50 49 54 45 4F 55 53

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)

-..    ..    ...    .--.    ..    -    .    ---    ..-    ...

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

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

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001001 01010100 01000101 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#73 &#84 &#69 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 0049 0054 0045 004F 0055 0053

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

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

38435350435439495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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