INDILIGENT

  

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INDILIGENT

Definition: INDILIGENT

INDILIGENT

Adjective

1. Not diligent; idle; slothful.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "INDILIGENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Indiligent \In*dil"i*gent\, adjective. [Latin expression indiligens: compare to the French expression indiligent. See Diligent.]. (Websters 1913)

Rhyming with "INDILIGENT"

Words rhyming with "INDILIGENT" (pronounced 'In*dil"i*gent'): Adstringent, Assurgent, Bitangent, Circumfulgent, Coagent, Cogent, Constringent, Convergent, Co-regent, Corrigent, Corrugent, Cotangent, Detergent, Diligent, Divergent, Effulgent, Emergent, Exurgent, Frangent, Fringent, fulgent, gent, Impingent, indigent, indulgent, intelligent, Interagent, Interfulgent, Interregent, intransigent, Minargent, Negligent, Nonregent, Plangent, Profulgent, Pungent, reagent, Refringent, refulgent, Restringent, Retromingent, Ringent, self-indulgent, Semitangent, stringent, Subagent, Subastringent, Subtangent, Surgent, Tingent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: INDILIGENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-t"

-2 letters: diligent, enditing, indigent, inditing.

-3 letters: denting, dieting, dinting, editing, eliding, glinted, ignited, indigen, lending, lignite, tending, tingled.

-4 letters: dentil, dentin, dieing, dingle, dining, ending, engild, gentil, ginned, idling, ignite, indent, indign, indite, intend, intine, lignin, linden, lining, linnet, nidget, niding, tiding, tieing, tiling, tineid, tinged, tingle, tining, tinned.

-5 letters: deign, digit, dinge, elint, gelid.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-t"
 

+2 letters: disentailing, disentitling.

 

+4 letters: underutilizing.

 

+5 letters: denationalizing, occidentalizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: INDILIGENT


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

49 4E 44 49 4C 49 47 45 4E 54

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)

01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#68 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#71 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0044 0049 004C 0049 0047 0045 004E 0054

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

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

43483843464341394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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