NEFAST

  

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NEFAST

Definition: NEFAST

NEFAST

Adjective

1. Wicked.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Nefast \Ne"fast\, adjective. [Latin expression nefastus.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: NEFAST

Non-English Usage: "NEFAST" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (bad, baleful, baneful, black letter, evil, poisonous, poisonously).

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Modern Usage: NEFAST

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Nefast voor de feestvreugde 3 (2002)

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

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Modern Translations: NEFAST

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

Pig Latin

  

efastnay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "NEFAST"

Words rhyming with "NEFAST" (pronounced 'Ne"fast'): Breastfast, holdfast, Shamefast, steadfast. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NEFAST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fasten.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-s-t"

-1 letter: antes, etnas, fanes, fates, feast, feats, fetas, nates, neats, stane.

-2 letters: anes, ante, ants, ates, east, eats, efts, etas, etna, fane, fans, fast, fate, fats, feat, fens, feta, fets, neat, nest, nets, safe, sane, sate, seat, sent, seta, tans, teas, tens.

-3 letters: aft, ane, ant, ate, eat, efs, eft, ens, eta, fan, fas, fat, fen, fet, nae, net, sae, sat, sea, sen, set, tae, tan, tas, tea, ten.

-4 letters: ae, an, as, at, ef, en, es, et, fa, na, ne, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: fainest, fanjets, fastens, fatness, fattens.

 

+2 letters: daftness, engrafts, fainters, faintest, fanciest, fantasie, fastened, fastener, fastness, fawniest, feasting, fenestra, flatness, flattens, frankest, infantes, inflates, manifest, raftsmen, refasten, seafront, transfer, unfasten, unsafety.

 

+3 letters: afferents, affluents, antefixes, conflates, craftsmen, draftsmen, faineants, faintness, falconets, fantasied, fantasies, fantasise, fantasize, fascinate, fasteners, fastening, fatnesses, fatteners, fattiness, fenestrae, fenestral, festinate, fetations, filaments, flagstone, flatlines, flaunters, fontanels, fragments, frontages, halftones, infestant, inflaters, manifesto, manifests, pantofles, refastens, safetying, safetyman, safetymen, seafronts, sulfonate, tiffanies, transfect, transfers, transfuse, unfairest, unfastens.

 

+4 letters: affections, affinities, affixments, afternoons, artfulness, chieftains, confiscate, cotransfer, craftiness, daftnesses, defendants, deflations, defoliants, draftiness, famishment, fantasised, fantasises, fantasized, fantasizer, fantasizes, fascinated, fascinates, fastenings, fastnesses, faultiness, fecundates, fellations, fenestrate, festinated, festinates, finalities, firmaments, flagstones, flatliners, flatnesses, flatteners, flauntiest, forestland, fornicates, fulminates, fundaments, handfasted, infantries, infatuates, infestants, infuriates, insufflate, interfaces, lakefronts, manifested, manifester, manifestly, manifestos, quantifies, rainforest, refastened, reflations, reinflates, restaffing, retransfer, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctifies, sulfonated, sulfonates, tamoxifens, threadfins, transfects, transferal, transferee, transferor, transfixed, transfixes, transfused, transfuses, unfastened, unsafeties, ventifacts, xenografts.

 

+5 letters: afforesting, antifreezes, bafflements, beachfronts, benefactors, breakfronts, confidantes, confiscated, confiscates, cotransfers, craftswomen, crestfallen, defacements, defamations, defecations, effacements, effeminates, factualness, faintnesses, famishments, fanaticizes, fantasizers, fatefulness, fatherlands, fattinesses, fatuousness, featherings, federations, fenestrated, festinately, festinating, fianchettos, filamentous, flagellants, flatlanders, flatulences, floatplanes, fluorinates, fontanelles, forecasting, forestation, forestlands, foretasting, fortepianos, franticness, fraternizes, freemartins, hatefulness, infestation, infibulates, infiltrates, inflatables, insufflated, insufflates, intergrafts, manifestant, manifesters, manifesting, manifestoed, manifestoes, mantelshelf, oceanfronts, outfeasting, painfullest, pathfinders, pianofortes, pinfeathers, prefrontals, profanities, quantifiers, rainforests, refastening, refractions, refutations, retransfers, retransform, sanctifiers, sinfonietta, tactfulness, tearfulness, teaspoonful, transfected, transferals, transferase, transferees, transferors, transferred, transferrer, transferrin, transfigure, transfinite, transformed, transformer, unfastening, unsatisfied, waterfronts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEFAST


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

4E 45 46 41 53 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)

01001110 01000101 01000110 01000001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#70 &#65 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0046 0041 0053 0054

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

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

483940355354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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