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Definitions: Adversity |
AdversityNoun1. A state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship". 2. A stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event: "a period marked by adversities". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adversity" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | A bottomless lake, surrounded by near-sighted friends. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are in the clutches of adversity, denotes that you will have failures and continued bad prospects. To see others in adversity, portends gloomy surroundings, and the illness of some one will produce grave fears of the successful working of plans. The old dream books give this as a sign of coming prosperity. This definition is untrue. There are two forces at work in man, one from within and the other from without. They are from two distinct spheres; the animal mind influenced by the personal world of carnal appetites, and the spiritual mind from the realm of universal Brotherhood, present antagonistic motives on the dream consciousness. If these two forces were in harmony, the spirit or mental picture from the dream mind would find a literal fulfilment in the life of the dreamer. The pleasurable sensations of the body cause the spirit anguish. The selfish enrichment of the body impoverishes the spirit influence upon the Soul. The trials of adversity often cause the spirit to rejoice and the flesh to weep. If the cry of the grieved spirit is left on the dream mind it may indicate to the dreamer worldly advancement, but it is hardly the theory of the occult forces, which have contributed to the contents of this book. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: AdversitySynonym: hardship (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond. |
Evil | Disaster, accident, casualty; mishap; (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin; (destruction); adversity. |
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Crosswords: Adversity |
| English words defined with "adversity": Adversities, affliction ♦ come through ♦ distress ♦ extremity ♦ forbearing, fortitude ♦ ill ♦ longanimous, low-water mark ♦ make it ♦ nadir ♦ pull round, pull through ♦ resilient ♦ Spartan, survive, survivor ♦ To take the trouble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adversity": Agonistes ♦ BACK, Balloon ♦ Christ, Clergyman, Coffee, Crescit, Cunning ♦ Lamp-post ♦ optimism ♦ Path, Pregnancy ♦ Reindeer ♦ Stumps ♦ Want, Well, Windmill, Wings. (references) |
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Screenplays | Wit in the face of adversity! Good! (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) The flower that blooms amid adversity is the most rare and beautiful. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao) You really showed me how the mother-daughter bond could survive adversity. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Sweet are the uses of adversity. (As You Like It; writing credit: J.M. Barrie; Robert Cullen) But one day, in a week, a month, a year, on that day when, God willing, we all return to our homes again, you're going to feel very proud of what you have achieved here in the face of great adversity. What you have done should be, and I think will be, an example to all our countrymen, soldier and civilian alike. (The Bridge on the River Kwai; writing credit: Pierre Boulle) | |
Clever | By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's. (references; author: Mark Twain) A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cycle of Adversity (1914) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. |
Horace | In adversity remember to keep an even mind. |
| Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. | |
Marcus T. Cicero | Friends are proved by adversity. |
Pliny The Elder | Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. |
Publilius Syrus | Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. |
Seneca | Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. |
Sir Walter Scott | Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. |
Victor Hugo | Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity, ought to hold his peace in the presence of adversity. |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity. |
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Dennis Miller | Because nobody takes advantage of adversity better than the lawyers who specialize in looking at a disaster and figuring out how to make a buck off of it. |
Rush Limbaugh | America exists to defend freedom, overcome adversity, and right wrongs. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | Whilst other portions of mankind are laboring under the distresses of war or struggling with adversity in other forms, the United States are in the tranquil enjoyment of prosperous and honorable peace. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | From adversity, let us seize opportunity. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and to ourselves. |
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| "Adversity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adversity" is used about 157 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 157 | 25,059 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "adversity": in adversity. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "adversity": adversity-unemployment. | |
Ending with "adversity": fortitude-in-adversity. | |
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| 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. |
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adversity | 33 |
overcoming adversity | 11 |
adversity quote | 11 |
adversity quotient | 6 |
adversity air max nike | 4 |
adversity overcoming quote | 3 |
adversity club volleyball | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "adversity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mjerim (destitution, grief, hardship, misery, misfortune, pauperism, penury, squalor, woe), fatkeqësi (accident, bane, calamity, casualty, disaster, distress, doom, evil, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misery, misfortune, plague, teen, tribulation, woe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكروه (abhorrent, detestable, discomfort, hateful, misfortune, obnoxious, odious, ugly), محنة (affliction, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, distress, misfortune, ordeal, trial, tribulation, woe), مصيبة (affliction, blow, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, distress, misfortune, ordeal, scourge, trial, tribulation, woe), حظ عاثر (hoodoo, mishap), ضراء, شدة (exaltation, ferocity, harshness, hindrance, intensity, misery, need, rigor, solidity, strength, temperature, vehemence, violence, warmth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нещастие (accident, affliction, buffet, desolation, distress, evil, fatality, hard luck, infelicity, misery, misfortune, sorrow, stroke, trouble, unhappiness), напаст (curse, menace, nuisance, pest, plague, scourge, terror), злополучие (infelicity), бедствие (affliction, calamity, curse, disaster, distress, evil), беда (bale, disaster, distress, hardship, infelicity, infliction, mischief, misfortune, plight, stroke, teen, trouble, woe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 逆境 , 患难 (Adversities), 不幸 (misfortune, sad, unfortunate, unfortunately). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nepřízeò osudu (ill fortune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | modgang (hardship), genvordigheder (hardship), forfald (blight, decadence, decay, degeneration, maturity, obsolescence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verval (decadence, decay, desintegration, disintegration, lift, radioactive decay, radioactive desintegration, radioactive disintegration, rise, slope), tegenspoed (decay), rampspoed (decay), overmacht en schade (hardship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فلاکت (Poverty), ادبارومصیبت , روزبد, بدبختی (Calamity, Disaster, Misadventure, Mischance, Misery, Misfortune, Mishap, Reverse, Wrack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ylivoimainen este (act of God, cause outside one's control, circumstances outside one's control, force majeure, hardship, vis major), force majeure (hardship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adversité, abaissement, malheur, hardship. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | widrigkeit (adverseness, contrariety, unfavorability), ungunst (disfavor, disfavour, inclemency), unglück (accident, bad luck, calamity, disaster, evil, hoodoo, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, tragedy, unhappiness, wreck), Missgeschick (accident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, reverse, slip-up), Force majeure (hardship), bitternis (bitterness, embitterment, gall, hardship), Übermacht (hardship, superiority, upper hand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εναντιότητα (adverseness, cintrariness, contrariety), αντιξοότητα (reverse), απρόβλεπτη αλλαγή των συνθηκών (hardship), ατυχία (bad break, distress, haplessness, infelicity, lucklessness, misfortune, reverse, tough luck, unfortunateness, unluckiness), δυστυχία (distress, misery, misfortune, unfortunateness, unhappiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצוק" (distress, hardship, misery, need, straits, stress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerencsétlenség (amiss, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, fatality, grief, ills, misadventure, misfortune, misgiving, mishap, smash, wretchedness), hányattatás (vicissitudes), csapás (affliction, attack, bane, calamity, chop, clash, dent, disaster, follow-up attack, hack, hit, ills, misfortune, plague, raid, runway, slap, sorrow, strike, striking, stroke, thrust, track, tribulation, whack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kesengsaraan (agony, distress, misery, suffering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avversit (hardship, hostile, ill), hardship (hardship), forza maggiore (act of God, cause outside one's control, circumstances outside one's control, force majeure, hardship, vis major). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 逆境 , 悲況 (sad circumstances), 悲境 (sad circumstances), 失意 (despair, disappointment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎゃっきょう, しつい (despair, disappointment), ひきょう (comparison, cowardice, esoteric religion, meanness, one of the most secluded regions, sad circumstances, similitude, unexplored region, unfairness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 역경 (Adversities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adversityay adversidade (misfortune, recusance, recusancy, rough, tribulation), hardship (hardship), desgraça (bane, blow, cloud, contempt, disaster, disgrace, distress, misfortune, reproach, tragedy, undoing). (various references) adversitate (calamity, disaster, misfortune), bucluc (affliction, bother, calamity, coil, cross, disgrace, embarrassment, jam, quagmire, scrape, tribulation, trouble, upset), belea (affliction, bother, embarrassment, jam, mess, mishap, nuisance, pest, scrape, tribulation, trouble). (various references) несчастье (affliction, disaster, distress, evil, fatality, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, teen, tribulation, unhappiness, woe, woes). (various references) ancachd, unradh, cruaidh-ch s (peril, predicament). (various references) nesreće, nepovoljne okolnosti, nedaće. (various references) adversidad (accidentprone, adverseness, mishap, need, setback, trial), infortunio (hardship, ill, mischance, misfortune), contingencia o condición negativa (hardship). (various references) motgång (reverse, setback). (various references) zorluk (arduousness, complexity, complication, difficulty, entanglement, gaff, grueling, gruelling, hardness, hardship, hassle, hobble, rigor, rigour, rough, strain, stumbling block, tightness, toughness), sıkıntı (agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), güçlük (arduousness, complexity, complicacy, difficulty, hardship, hassle, hurdle, oppression, rub, stumbling block), şanssızlık (bad, bad luck, blow, contretemps, hard line, hard luck, hoodoo, ill luck, mischance, misfortune, rotten luck, sorrow). (various references) скрута (cumber, flounder), нещастя (affliction, bale, calamity, catastrophe, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, tribulation, unhappiness, work), напасть (catastrophe, misfortune), лихо (affliction, bad, bale, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, harm, ill, mischief, mishap, plague, woe). (various references) vận rủi (ambs-ace, ames-ace, bad, reverse, unhappiness), vận nghịch tai hoạ, vận đen, tai ương (calamity, catastrophe, woe), sự bất hạnh (inauspiciousness, mischance, unhappiness), cảnh nghịch. (various references) adfyd (affliction), drygfyd, cyni (anguish, distress), ba+r (anger, fury, greed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adversitatem, adversum, aspera, aspere, asperum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En hmera kakh kai en hmera qliyewV ewV an ekliph |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si desperaveris lassus in die angustiae inminuetur fortitudo tua |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If slyden thou despeire, in the dai of anguysh `shal be `maad litil thi strengthe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 10 |
| Bulgarian | Ако покажеш малодушие в усилно време, Силата ти е малка. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kong ikaw punawan sa adlaw sa kalisdanan, Ang imong kusog diyutay ra. |
| Chinese | 在 患 難 之 日 若 膽 怯 、 的 力 量 就 微 小 。 |
| Croatian | Kloneš li u dan bijede, bijedna je tvoja snaga. |
| Danish | Taber du Modet på Trængslens Dag, da er din Kraft kun ringe. |
| Dutch | Vertoont gij u slap ten dage der benauwdheid, uw kracht is nauw. |
| Finnish | Jos olet ollut veltto, joutuu ahtaana aikana voimasi ahtaalle. |
| French | Si tu faiblis au jour de la détresse, Ta force n`est que détresse. |
| German | Der ist nicht stark, der in der Not nicht fest ist. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Si jou malè ou pa gen kouraj pou kenbe, ou pa t' janm gen fòs vre. |
| Hungarian | Ha lágyan viselted magadat a nyomorúságnak idején: szûk a te erõd. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jika engkau putus asa dalam keadaan gawat, maka engkau orang yang lemah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau pada masa kesukaran tawarlah hatimu, maka kuasamupun akan lemah adanya. |
| Italian | Se ti avvilisci nel giorno della sventura, ben poca è la tua forza. |
| Korean | 네 가 만 일 환 난 에 낙 담 하 면 네 힘 의 미 약 함 을 보 임 이 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ Ki te ngoikore koe i te ra o te he, he iti tou kaha. |
| Norwegian | Viser du dig motløs på trengselens dag, så er din kraft ringe. |
| Portuguese | Se enfraqueces no dia da angústia, a tua força é pequena. |
| Rumanian | Dacq slqbewti kn ziua necazului, micq kyi este puterea. - |
| Russian | еУМЙ ФЩ Ч "ЕОШ 'Е"УФЧЙС ПЛБЪБМУС УМБ'ЩН, ФП 'Е"ОБ УЙМБ ФЧПС. |
| Spanish | Si desmayas en el día de la dificultad, también tu fuerza se reducirá. |
| Swedish | Låter du modet falla, när nöd kommer på, så saknar du nödig kraft. |
| Thai | ถ้าเจ้าท้อใจในวันแห่งความชั่วร้าย กำลังของเจ้าก็น้อย |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Якщо ти в день недолі знесилився, то мала твоя сила. |
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"Adversity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adhersity, adversaty, adversay, adversidy, adversite, adverstiy, advertsity, aversity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adversity" (pronounced adver"sutē or udver"sutē) |
| 6 | -v er" s u t ē | biodiversity, diversity, perversity, university. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | analyticity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, capacity, complexity, complicity, curiosity, density, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, laxity, mendacity, monstrosity, multiplicity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, pomposity, propensity, publicity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, simplicity, specificity, tenacity, toxicity, varsity, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -v er" s u t ē | biodiversity, diversity, perversity, university. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | analyticity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, capacity, complexity, complicity, curiosity, density, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, laxity, mendacity, monstrosity, multiplicity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, pomposity, propensity, publicity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, simplicity, specificity, tenacity, toxicity, varsity, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-1 letter: vestiary. | |
-2 letters: adverts, adviser, aridest, astride, datives, diaster, dietary, disrate, diverts, satyrid, staider, starved, strayed, strived, tardies, tirades, variety, varsity, vastier, veritas, vistaed. | |
-3 letters: advert, advise, aiders, airest, airted, aivers, averts, daters, dative, davies, davits, deairs, derats, derays, direst, divers, divert, divest, driest, drives, dryest, estray, irades, raised, redias, resaid, rivets, satire, stared, starve, staved, stayed, stayer, steady, stiver, striae, stride, strive, terais, tirade, trades, traves, treads, triads, varied, varies, vaster, verist, verity, vestry, visaed, visard, yairds, yarest. | |
-4 letters: adits, aider, aides, aired, airts, aiver, arise, artsy, aside, aster, astir, avers, avert, dairy, daisy, dares, darts, dater, dates, davit, deair, dears, deary, deist, deity, derat, deray, devas, diary, diets, dirts, dirty, ditas, dites, ditsy, divas, diver, dives, drats, drave, drays, drest, dries, drive, dyers, edits, eyras, ideas, irade, irate, raids, raise, rased, rated, rates, raved, raves, rayed, reads, ready, redia, resay, resid, retia, rides, rites, rived, rives, rivet, sated, satyr, saved, saver, sayer, sayid, serai, sired, sitar, sited, siver, stade, staid, stair, stare, stave, stead, stied, stray, stria, styed, tardy, tared, tares, tarsi, tears, teary, terai, tides, tiers, tired, tires, trade, trave, trays, tread, treys, triad, tried, tries, tsade, tsadi, tyers, tyred, tyres, vairs, vasty, verst, verts, vesta, viers, vires, vised, vista, vitae, yaird, yards, years, yeast, yetis, yirds. | |
-5 letters: adit, aery, aide, aids, airs, airt, airy, aits, ares, arid, arse, arts, arty, ates, aver, aves, avid, ayes, dais, dare, dart, date, davy, days, dear, deva, devs, deys, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dita, dite, dits, diva, dive, drat, dray, drys, dyer, dyes, ears, east, easy, eats, edit, eras, erst, etas, eyas, eyra, idea, ides, ired, ires, rads, raid, rase, rate, rats, rave, rays, read, reds, reis, rest, rets, revs, rias, ride, rids, rise, rite, rive, ryas, ryes, sade, sadi, said, sard, sari, sate, sati, save, sear, seat, sera, seta, side, sire, site, star, stay, stey, stir, stye, tads, tare, tars, tavs, tear, teas, teds, tide, tidy, tied, tier, ties, tire, tivy, trad, tray, trey, tsar, tyer, tyes, tyre, vair, vars, vary, vase, vast, vats, vera, vert, very, vest, vets, vide, vied, vier, vies, visa, vise, vita, yard, yare, year, yeas, yeti, yids, yird. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r-s-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: vineyardist. | |
+3 letters: vineyardists. | |
+4 letters: adversatively. | |
+5 letters: dorsiventrally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 76 65 72 73 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ...- . .-. ... .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d v e r s i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0076 0065 0072 0073 0069 0074 0079 |
| 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)357088718485758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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