Amnesic

  

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Amnesic

Definitions: Amnesic

Amnesic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or caused by amnesia.

2. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.

Noun

1. A person suffering from amnesia.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Amnesic

Synonyms: amnestic (adj), amnesiac (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Amnesic

English words defined with "amnesic": amnesic aphasia. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Amnesic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Deranged Memory a Psychonomic Study of the Amnesic (reference)

  • Korsakoff-like amnesic syndrome in penetrating brain injury; a study of Finnish war veterans (reference)

  • Neuropsychological Amnesic Syndrome (reference)

  • Neuropsychology of the Amnesic Syndrome (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Amnesic

"Amnesic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amnesic" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Amnesic

Expression using "amnesic": amnesic aphasia. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Amnesic

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

Arabic 

  

‏شخص فاقد الذاكرة. (various references)

   

Danish

  

amnestisk, ramt af hukommelsestab. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

amnestisch. (various references)

   

French

  

amnésique (amnesiac). (various references)

   

German

  

gedächnislos. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

amnéziás (amnesiac), emlékezetét vesztett (amnesiac). (various references)

   

Italian

  

amnesico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amnesicay

   

Portuguese

  

amnésico. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

относящийся к амнезии (amnestic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amnésico. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що втратив пам'ять, людина, що втратила пам'ять. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Amnesic

Derivations

Words beginning with "amnesic": amnesics. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Amnesic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ambesi, amenic, amnesics, amnestic, amnesy, amnetic, amnosics, Camensac, Manasik, Mannesi. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Amnesic"

Words rhyming with "amnesic" (pronounced 'Am*ne"sic'): Akinesic, Antilyssic, Aphasic, BASIC, Bibasic, Ferriprussic, Ferroprussic, Glossic, Gneissic, Jurassic, Liassic, Magnesic, Manganesic, Melassic, Melissic, Monobasic, Music, Neoclassic, Nitroprussic, Pectosic, Pentabasic, Persic, Polybasic, Pottassic, Prussic, Quadribasic, Sesquibasic, thalassic, Triassic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Amnesic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cinemas.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-s"

-1 letter: amices, amines, anemic, animes, camise, casein, cinema, iceman, incase, inseam, manics, mesian, minces, semina.

-2 letters: acmes, acnes, amens, amice, amies, amine, amins, amnic, anime, anise, cains, cames, canes, cines, maces, mains, manes, manic, manse, means, mensa, mesic, micas, miens, minae, minas, mince, mines, names, nemas, saice, scena, since.

-3 letters: aces, acme, acne, aims.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-s"
 

+1 letter: amnesiac, amnesics, amnestic, carmines, cremains, machines, magnesic, melanics, meniscal, pemicans, semantic, sycamine.

 

+2 letters: ambiances, ambiences, amnesiacs, analcimes, calamines, calumnies, campesino, camphines, campiness, coinmates, comedians, companies, demoniacs, encomiast, exciseman, lemniscal, magnetics, manciples, manicures, masculine, mechanics, mechanism, mechanist, mescaline, messianic, mischance, miscreant, muscadine, muscarine, nicknames, pandemics, pemmicans, screaming, semantics, sycamines.

 

+3 letters: acrimonies, adamancies, anamnestic, calcimines, campaniles, campesinos, centesimal, centigrams, centralism, clamminess, creaminess, cremations, criminates, culminates, cyanamides, cysteamine, dominances, dormancies, egomaniacs, emittances, encomiasts, feminacies, geomancies, hematinics, imbalances, immanences, impedances, intimacies, kinematics, lambencies, lemniscate, luminances, macaronies, macedoines, machinates, manticores, masculines, mechanisms, mechanists, mechanizes, medicinals, melanistic, mendacious, mendicants, mescalines, militances, minacities, mincemeats, misbalance, miscellany, mischances, mischannel, miscreants, monarchies, mordancies, muscadines, muscarines, myasthenic, naumachies, nicknamers, nomarchies, normalcies, numeracies, rampancies, revanchism, scammonies, scampering, semantical, serviceman.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Amnesic


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

41 6D 6E 65 73 69 63

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)

01000001 01101101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 006E 0065 0073 0069 0063

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

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

35798071857569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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