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Definition: BLACK-BROWED |
BLACK-BROWEDAdjective1. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. |
Date "BLACK-BROWED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Adjective: malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "BLACK-BROWED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLACK-BROWED" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLACK-BROWED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vetullzi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | underart af Geoffrey's edderkoppeabe (black-browed spider monkey, red spider monkey), sortbrynet albatros (black-browed albatross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwarthandslingeraap (black-browed spider monkey, red spider monkey), wenkbrauwalbatros (black-browed albatross), malmokalbatros (black-browed albatross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | atèle de Geoffroy (black-browed spider monkey), albatros à sourcils noirs (black-browed albatross), albatros à sourcil noir (black-browed albatross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwarzbrauenalbatros (black-browed albatross), Geoffroy-Klammeraffe (black-browed spider monkey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ατελής του Geoffroy (black-browed spider monkey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | atele (black-browed spider monkey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ack-browedblay macaco-aranha-Geoffroy (subespécie) (black-browed spider monkey), albatroz-olheirudo (black-browed albatross). (various references) mânios (angry, crazy, furious, furiously, high, hot, in warm blood, infuriated, ireful, out of temper, waxy, wrathful, wroth). (various references) albatros ojeroso (black-browed albatross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ateles geoffroyi frontatus, Diomedea melanophris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-d-e-k-l-o-r-w" | |
-2 letters: blockader. | |
-3 letters: beadwork, becoward, blockade, blowback, lacework, leadwork, workable. | |
-4 letters: becloak, becrawl, becrowd, bedrock, belabor, blacked, blacker, blocked, blocker, bowlder, brawled, brocade, caroled, clabber, cloaked, clobber, clowder, cobbled, cobbler, codable, crabbed, crawled, croaked, dabbler, dowable, drabble, earlock, labored, lowbred, rabbled, rowable, wabbled, wabbler, warbled, warlock, wedlock, wobbled, wobbler, wracked. | |
-5 letters: albedo, arcked, backed, backer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 43 4B 2D 42 52 4F 57 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01000010 01010010 01001111 01010111 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K - B R O W E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 002D 0042 0052 004F 0057 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364635374515365249573938 |
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