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Definition: ABSONANT |
ABSONANTAdjective1. Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. |
Etymology: Absonant \Ab"so*nant\, adjective. [Latin expression ab sonans, present participle of sonare to sound.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 53 4F 4E 41 4E 54 |
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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 01000010 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B S O N A N T |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3536534948354854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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