LETHARGICAL

  

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LETHARGICAL

Definition: LETHARGICAL

LETHARGICAL

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: LETHARGICAL

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

Inactivity

Sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: LETHARGICAL

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

Hungarian

  

letargikus (lethargic, stuporous), tespedt (lethargic), apatikus (apathetic, lethargic, torpid). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiastey (diffident, dilatory, idle, inactive, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, reluctant, remiss, slothful, workshy), lhiastagh (haggler, idle, inactive, indolent, languid, latecomer, lethargic, loath, moribund, remiss, slothful, sluggish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethargicallay

   

Romanian

  

letargic (lethargic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), uyku halinde (dormant, lethargic). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thờ ơ (apathetic, cool, disinterested, indifferent, lethargic, listless, nonchalant, pococurante). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LETHARGICAL

Derivations

Words beginning with "LETHARGICAL": lethargically. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LETHARGICAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-i-l-l-r-t"

-2 letters: cartilage, lethargic, rachillae, theriacal.

-3 letters: achillea, allergic, arillate, galleria, glaciate, heliacal, litharge, rachilla, taiglach, tailrace, teiglach, theriaca, thirlage, tracheal, tragical.

-4 letters: alright, article, calathi, cartage, chaetal, challie, charlie, chiller, cigaret, cithara, ethical, gallate, galleta, gharial, glacial, glacier, gracile, helical, hellcat, hetaira, lacteal, lateral, lathier, lighter, literal, rachial, recital, regalia, relight, tallage, tallier, thallic.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-i-l-l-r-t"
 

+2 letters: lethargically.

 

+3 letters: metallographic.

 

+4 letters: telegraphically.

 

+5 letters: ethnographically, petrographically, stenographically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LETHARGICAL


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

4C 45 54 48 41 52 47 49 43 41 4C

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)

01001100 01000101 01010100 01001000 01000001 01010010 01000111 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#71 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0054 0048 0041 0052 0047 0049 0043 0041 004C

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

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

4639544235524143373546

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INDEX

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


  

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