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ABSONANT

Definition: ABSONANT

ABSONANT

Adjective

1. Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Absonant \Ab"so*nant\, adjective. [Latin expression ab sonans, present participle of sonare to sound.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: ABSONANT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Reasoning,

Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: ABSONANT

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

Greek 

  

παράφωνοσ (discordant, dissonant), παράλογοσ (absurd, illogical, irrational, preposterous, reasonless, senseless, unconscionable, unreasonable), ασύμφωνοσ (discordant, inconsonant), ασυμβίβαστοσ (incompatible, irreconcilable), αντίθετοσ (adverse, contrary, contrasting, jarring, opposed, opposite), αφύσικοσ (abnormal, constrained, freakish, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

absonantay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

akla uygun olmayan. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trái với không hợp lý, không hợp điệu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ABSONANT"

Words rhyming with "ABSONANT" (pronounced 'Ab"so*nant'): Agglutinant, Alternant, Altisonant, Asonant, Assonant, Benignant, Conglutinant, Conterminant, Culminant, Discovenant, Discriminant, Dissonant, Eliminant, Emanant, Equisonant, Examinant, fulminant, Germinant, Horrisonant, illuminant, Imaginant, Inconsonant, indignant, Lenocinant, Luminant, Mendinant, Nonmalignant, Nonruminant, Nonsonant, Oppugnant, Ordonnant, Originant, Pennant, Predominant, Pregnant, Preregnant, Rayonnant, regnant, Remenant, repugnant, Restagnant, Rhonchisonant, Self-examinant, Self-repugnant, sonant, stagnant, Subalternant, subdominant, Superdominant, Terminant, Unconsonant, Unisonant, Vaginant, Vernant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ABSONANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-n-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: sabaton.

-2 letters: batons, sonant, sonata.

-3 letters: annas, anoas, antas, banns, baton, boast, boats, botas, naans, nanas, nonas, sabot, santo.

-4 letters: abas, abos, anas, anna, anoa, anon, ansa, anta, ants, baas, bans, bast, bats, boas, boat, bota, bots, naan, nabs, nana, nans, naos, nobs, nona, nota, oast, oats, snob, snot, stab, stoa, stob, tabs, tans, taos, tons.

-5 letters: aas, aba, abo, abs, ana, ant, baa, ban, bas, bat, boa, bos, bot, nab, nan, nob, nos, not, oat, ons, sab, sat, sob, son, sot, tab, tan, tao, tas, ton.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-n-n-o-s-t"
 

+3 letters: abnegations, antibaryons, contrabands, nonabstract, nontaxables, subnational.

 

+4 letters: abandonments, abominations, bastinadoing, carbonations, nonabstracts, nonbroadcast, sanctionable, somnambulant, urbanisation.

 

+5 letters: contrabandist, contrabassoon, inhabitations, labanotations, nonbroadcasts, noncombatants, urbanisations, urbanizations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABSONANT


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

41 42 53 4F 4E 41 4E 54

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)

01000001 01000010 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#83 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0053 004F 004E 0041 004E 0054

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

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

3536534948354854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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