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CIRCUMVENTIVE

Definition: CIRCUMVENTIVE

CIRCUMVENTIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonym: CIRCUMVENTIVE

Synonym: insidious. (additional references)

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Crosswords: CIRCUMVENTIVE

English words defined with "CIRCUMVENTIVE": Insidious disease. (references)

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Rhyming with "CIRCUMVENTIVE"

Words rhyming with "CIRCUMVENTIVE" (pronounced 'Cir`cum*vent"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Fluxive, impressive, ineffective, inexpressive, infective, instructive, inventive, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Protective. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CIRCUMVENTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-i-m-n-r-t-u-v-v"

-3 letters: circumvent, ivermectin.

-4 letters: invective.

-5 letters: ceinture, cincture, ecumenic, enuretic, eremitic, eucritic, evincive, mutineer, neuritic, reincite, reinvite, urinemic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CIRCUMVENTIVE


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

43 49 52 43 55 4D 56 45 4E 54 49 56 45

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)

01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001101 01010110 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#86 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0052 0043 0055 004D 0056 0045 004E 0054 0049 0056 0045

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

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

37435237554756394854435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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