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Definition: Asocial |
AsocialAdjective1. Given to avoiding association with others; "bears are asocial secretive animals"; "are you asocial or do you just enjoy living in the Antarctic?". 2. Unwilling or unable to conform to normal standards of social behavior; "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AsocialSynonym: antisocial (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Asocial |
| English words defined with "asocial": antisocial. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Asocial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (antisocial, unsocial), French (asocial), Spanish (asocial), Swedish (antisocial, asocial). |
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Worker Rights | Lithuania | Traffickers particularly target the socially most vulnerable groups: Young females from poor, asocial, or unstable families. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Asocial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asocial" is used about 16 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
asocial | 12 |
asocial conducta | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "asocial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أناني (egocentric, egoist, egoistic, greedy, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | необществен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | asociální. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | socialt svag (socially deteriorated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | asociaal (antisocial, unsocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غیراجتماعی (Unsociable, Unsocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | asocial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungesellig (non-gregarious, unsociable, unsociably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινωνικά υποβαθμισμένος (socially deteriorated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem szociális. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | asociali (socially deteriorated), asociale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asocialay insocial (unsocial), insociável (intractable, morose, sullen, unsociable, unsocial). (various references) необщественный. (various references) asocijalan. (various references) asocial (socially deteriorated). (various references) asocial (antisocial). (various references) asosyal (unsocial), toplumdan kaçan. (various references) негромадський. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Asocial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ascil, associa, Associes, bajocian, Escocia, izekial, mascimal, nasicola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: coalas, social. | |
-2 letters: alias, calos, coala, coals, coils, colas, laics, salic. | |
-3 letters: aals, ails, alas, also, asci, calo, casa, ciao, coal, coil, cola, cols, lacs, laic, loca, loci, ocas, oils, sail, sial, silo, soil, sola, soli. | |
-4 letters: aal, aas, ail, ais, ala, als, cis, col, cos, lac, las, lis, oca, oil, sac, sal, sic. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: acholias. | |
+2 letters: alopecias, bicoastal, braciolas, coattails, coxalgias, guaiacols, maiolicas, majolicas, salacious, scagliola, tailcoats. | |
+3 letters: acoustical, acrostical, acylations, alacritous, alliaceous, antisocial, axoplasmic, botanicals, calamitous, canonicals, catabolism, chalazions, cobalamins, echolalias, escalation, factorials, fallacious, kilopascal, lactations, miscatalog, mosaically, occasional, placations, sacroiliac, scagliolas, simoniacal. | |
+4 letters: accessional, accessorial, aeroelastic, ahistorical, allocations, applicators, ascensional, audaciously, baldachinos, calamondins, calibrators, calypsonian, cannabinols, capaciously, catabolisms, catabolites, catabolizes, complaisant, escalations, galactoside, glaciations, icosahedral, isallobaric, kilopascals, lacerations, lacrimators, maculations, misallocate, miscatalogs, monochasial, noncapitals, nyctalopias, piscatorial, plagioclase, postcranial, postglacial, prosaically, rapaciously, rapscallion, rhapsodical, sacculation, sacroiliacs, sagaciously, salaciously, saltimbocca, scalariform, somatically, thrasonical, vacillators. | |
| 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 73 6F 63 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... --- -.-. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s o c i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35858169756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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