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Definition: ASTEISM |
ASTEISMNoun1. Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ridicule | Noun: ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision; scoffing; (disrespect); mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing; Verb: asteism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ASTEISM": casteism. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ASTEISM": casteisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ASTEISM" (pronounced 'As"te*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: miseats, misseat, samites, tamises. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: maists, misate, miseat, misset, samite, siesta, smites, steams, stimes, tassie, tmesis. | |
-2 letters: amies, amiss, asset, easts, emits, items, maist, masse, masts, mates, meats, mesas, metis, mises, mists, mites, satem, sates, satis, seams, seats, seism, semis, simas, sites, smite, steam, stems, sties, stime, tames, tamis, tasse, teams, times. | |
-3 letters: aims, aits, amie, amis, ates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: amitoses, amosites, asterism, atheisms, atomises, casteism, diastems, etatisms, impastes, mantises, massiest, mastixes, matiness, mestizas, misdates, mismates, misrates, misseats, misstate, mistakes, pastimes, seamiest, smarties. | |
+2 letters: adamsites, amnesties, amortises, asterisms, atomisers, autecisms, campsites, casteisms, ceramists, demitasse, dismalest, dismasted, estimates, lamisters, magisters, majesties, manifests, marshiest, masteries, mastiches, mateships, measliest, meatiness, medalists, melanists, metalises, metalists, misagents, misalters, misatones, misseated, misstated, misstates, mistakers, mistraces, mistreats, psammites, scimetars, semantics, shipmates, simulates, smaltines, smaltites, smarmiest, smeariest, steamiest, steamship, sterigmas, swampiest, tachismes, teratisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 53 54 45 49 53 4D |
| 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 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001001 01010011 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A S T E I S M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0053 0054 0045 0049 0053 004D |
| 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)35535439435347 |
| 1. Definition 2. Derivations 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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