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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Content | Interjection: amen; (assent); very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped. |
Insensibility | Phrase: never mind; macht nichts, it is of no consequence; (unimportant); it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one to. |
Necessity | Phrase: it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter visum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus; aujord'hui roi demain rien; quisque suos patimur manes;"The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety and wit can bring it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes | It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "IT CANNOT BE HELPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | と"べて (after all, anyhow, at all, at any rate, at best, at most, by all means, compared with, in any case, kindly, please, somehow or other, there is a possibility, there is a tendency, there is no other way, what's the best thing to do?, What's the matter?, What's wrong?). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | どうしようもない (there is no other way). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | itay annotcay ebay elpedhay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-e-h-i-l-n-n-o-p-t-t" | |
-4 letters: diencephalon. | |
-5 letters: deceptional, delectation, elephantine, needlepoint, nonathletic, pentlandite, pitchblende. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Quotations: Familiar 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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