Cunctator

  

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Cunctator

Definition: Cunctator

Cunctator

Noun

1. 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.


Specialty Definition: Cunctator

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Cunctator

Synonyms: postponer (n), procrastinator (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cunctator

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

Latin (delayer, procrastinator).

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Rhyming with "Cunctator"

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)

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Anagrams: Cunctator

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cunctator


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

43 75 6E 63 74 61 74 6F 72

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)

01000011 01110101 01101110 01100011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#117 &#110 &#99 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0075 006E 0063 0074 0061 0074 006F 0072

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

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

378780698667868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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