Dreadfulness

  

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Dreadfulness

Definition: Dreadfulness

Dreadfulness

Noun

1. A quality of extreme unpleasantness.

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

Date "dreadfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Synonyms: Dreadfulness

Synonyms: awfulness (n), horridness (n), terribleness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dreadfulness

English words defined with "dreadfulness": Horribleness. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Dreadfulness

"Dreadfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dreadfulness" is used about 5 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
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

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

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Modern Translation: Dreadfulness

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

Finnish

  

kauheus, kamaluus (ghastliness), hirmuisuus (frightfulness). (various references)

   

German

  

scheußlichkeit (atrociousness, beastliness, hideousness, horridness, nastiness, vileness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τρομερότησ (terribleness), τρομερότητα (terribleness). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

凄味 (ghastliness, weirdness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

す"み (ghastliness, weirdness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadfulnessdray

   

Thai

  

ความน่ากลัว (dread, fearfulness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

korkunçluk (awfulness, frightfulness, hideousness, terribleness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dreadfulness

Derivations

Words beginning with "dreadfulness": dreadfulnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dreadfulness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deathfulness. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Dreadfulness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-f-l-n-r-s-s-u"

-3 letters: dreadfuls, laundered, laundress, resaddles, slandered, underseas, undressed, unsaddles.

-4 letters: anureses, dandlers, danseurs, danseuse, daunders, deadness, deafness, dearness, defrauds, deluders, denuders, dreadful, fadeless, fearless, federals, fernless, flaneurs, flensers, fresnels, funerals, funereal, launders, lurdanes, needfuls, realness, refunded, refusals, resaddle, rudeness, saddlers, senseful, slanders, sledders, sneerful, sundered, underfed, undersea, unerased, unfeared, unleaded, unleased, unsaddle, unsealed.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-f-l-n-r-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: dreadfulnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dreadfulness


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

44 72 65 61 64 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#102 &#117 &#108 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0061 0064 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073

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

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

388471677072877880718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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