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Definition: ACCIDIE |
ACCIDIENoun1. Sloth; torpor. |
Date "ACCIDIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Accidie \Ac"ci*die\, noun. [Old French expression accide, accidie, Late Latin expression accidia, acedia, from the Greek expression 'a priv. care.]. (Websters 1913) |
"ACCIDIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: accede, acidic, aecidia, ascidia. |
| "ACCIDIE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ACCIDIE" is used about 3 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ACCIDIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | неподвижност (acedia, fixedness, fixity, immobility, immovability, quiescence, quiescency, rigidity, stagnancy, torpor), апатия (acedia, apathy, indifference, insensibility, languor, lassitude, torpor), ленивост (acedia). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lustaság (laziness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accidieay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ACCIDIE": accidies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ACCIDIE" (pronounced 'Ac"ci*die'): Geordie, laddie. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-i" | |
-1 letter: acidic. | |
-3 letters: aced, acid, aide, cade, cadi, caid, ceca, cedi, dace, dice, iced, idea. | |
-4 letters: ace, aid, cad, die, ice. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, de, ed, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-i" | |
+1 letter: accidies. | |
+2 letters: acaricide, calcified, cichlidae, dialectic. | |
+3 letters: acaricides, apodeictic, caducities, calcimined, cicatrized, cocainized, delicacies, dialectics, indelicacy, sacrificed. | |
+4 letters: academician, academicism, accrediting, acidimetric, bactericide, candidacies, cardiogenic, classicized, conciliated, decalcified, decalcifies, desiccating, desiccation, desiccative, dialectical, uncalcified. | |
+5 letters: academicians, academicisms, acclimatised, acclimatized, antiacademic, bactericidal, bactericides, catholicized, certificated, circularised, circularized, coincidental, decalcifying, desiccations, dialectician, diencephalic, disaccharide, epicycloidal, flaccidities, incandescing, indelicacies, insecticidal, mendicancies, saccharified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 43 49 44 49 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. .. -.. .. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01000011 01001001 01000100 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C C I D I E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0043 0049 0044 0049 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35373743384339 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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