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Definition: CHURLISHNESS |
CHURLISHNESSNoun1. Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy. |
Date "CHURLISHNESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Churlishness; Adjective: spinosity, perversity; moroseness; (sullenness) a. sternness; Adjective: austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; Adjective: acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. |
Irascibility | Ill humor; (sullenness) a; asperity; churlishness; (discourtesy). |
Malevolence | Uncharitableness; Adjective: incompassionateness; a; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness; (discourtesy). |
Sullenness | Noun: sullenness; Adjective: morosity, spleen; churlishness; (discourtesy); irascibility. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "CHURLISHNESS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CHURLISHNESS" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CHURLISHNESS": acerbity churlishness. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CHURLISHNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ungehobeltheit (roughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωριατιά (boorishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tirchieria (stinginess), sgarbatezza (bluffness, rudeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | granganid (captiousness, crabbedness, crossness, ill temper, ill-naturedness, peevishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urlishnesschay mojicie (gruffness, indelicacy, rudeness, scurrility, uncouthness), bãdãrãnie (boorishness, oafishness, roughness, rusticity). (various references) doicheall. (various references) tính thô bỉ (crudness, grossness, harshness), tính mất dạy tính cáu kỉnh tính keo cú, tính chất tiện dân tính thô tục, tính chất người hạ đẳng, tính bủn xỉn (closeness, costiveness, miseriliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, scrimpiness, skimpiness, stinginess). (various references) afrywiogrwydd (roughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CHURLISHNESS": churlishnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CHURLISHNESS" (pronounced 'Churl"ish*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-h-i-l-n-r-s-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: curliness, surliness. | |
-4 letters: chinless, churlish, inrushes, lunchers, lushness, richness, schusser, scissure, slushier, suchness, sunrises. | |
-5 letters: cherish, chisels, cruises, crushes, cuishes, cuisses, cushier, cussers, echinus, hirsels, hirsles, hissers, hunches, hurlies, hussies, incuses, insures, issuers, leucins, lichens, lucerns, luncher, lunches, lurches, richens, risuses, runless, sheuchs, shiners, shrines, shushes, silenus, sinless, sinuses, slicers, sluices, slushes, sunless. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-h-i-l-n-r-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: churchlinesses, churlishnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 48 55 52 4C 49 53 48 4E 45 53 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .... ..- .-. .-.. .. ... .... -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001000 01010101 01010010 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001000 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H U R L I S H N E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0055 0052 004C 0049 0053 0048 004E 0045 0053 0053 |
| 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)374255524643534248395353 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, neamţ, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, greacã, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, Groegwr |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, rumeno, Roomainagh, român |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, scozzese, Albinagh, scoţian |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, gallese, Bretnagh, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, englezesc, beurla, Saesneg |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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