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Definition: Cunctator |
CunctatorNoun1. Someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cunctator" is a common misspelling or typo for: Punctuator. |
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Literature | Cunctator [the delayer ]. Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman general who baffled Hannibal by avoiding direct engagements, and wearing him out by marches, countermarches, and skirmishes from a distance. This was the policy by which Duguesclin forced the English to abandon their possessions in France in the reign of Charles V. (le Sage). (See Fabian.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CunctatorSynonyms: postponer (n), procrastinator (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cunctator |
| Non-English Usage: "Cunctator" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (delayer, procrastinator). |
| Words rhyming with "cunctator" (pronounced 'Cunc*ta"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bisector, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Devotor, fetor, Fictor, Flector, foetor, Glossator, IMPOSTOR, laudator, lector, Lentor, Levator, Lictor. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: contract, turncoat. | |
-2 letters: account, contact, courant. | |
-3 letters: attorn, cantor, carton, concur, contra, cornua, cottar, craton, octant, outact, outran, ratton, toucan, truant, turaco. | |
-4 letters: acorn, actor, canto, coact, cornu, cotan, cotta, count, court, narco, occur, octan, ottar, racon, tanto, taroc, tarot, taunt, tract, trona, trout, tutor. | |
-5 letters: arco, aunt, auto, cant, carn, cart, coat, coca, corn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: counteract. | |
+2 letters: contractual, contracture, counteracts, subcontract. | |
+3 letters: accouterment, accoutrement, contractures, cosurfactant, counteracted, subcontracts, uncontracted. | |
+4 letters: accouterments, accoutrements, acculturation, antiscorbutic, contractually, cosurfactants, counteracting, counteraction, counteractive, counterattack, subcontracted, subcontractor. | |
+5 letters: acculturations, antiscorbutics, constructional, contradictious, cotransduction, counteractions, counterattacks, counterfactual, countertactics, fructification, noncontractual, overaccentuate, subcontracting, subcontractors, uncontradicted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 75 6E 63 74 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. ..- -. -.-. - .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110101 01101110 01100011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C u n c t a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0075 006E 0063 0074 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378780698667868184 |
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