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Definition: CLEAR-HEADED |
CLEAR-HEADEDAdjective1. Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. |
Date "CLEAR-HEADED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CLEAR-HEADED |
| Specialty definitions using "CLEAR-HEADED": Screwed on Right. (references) |
| "CLEAR-HEADED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "CLEAR-HEADED" is used about 12 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) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CLEAR-HEADED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 清' (sober). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tisztafejű, nyílt eszű, józan (advised, discrimination, Douce, down to earth, hard-headed, judicious, moderate, philosophic, philosophical, sane, sensible, sober, sound, steady), helyes meglátású (clear-sighted), éles látású (clear-sighted, keen-eyed), éles eszű (clear-sighted, keen-witted, nimble-minded, nimble-witted, perspicacious, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | pandai (accomplished). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | leayr (clear, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, glaring, graphic, obvious, perceivable, unequivocal), glen-inchynagh. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ear-headedclay трезво мыслящий (clear headed, clearheaded), здравомыслящий (clearheaded, judicious, man of sense, sane, sober-minded, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "CLEAR-HEADED" (pronounced 'Clear"-head`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted, foresighted. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: clearheaded. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-e-h-l-r" | |
-2 letters: cheerlead, decahedra. | |
-3 letters: cheerled, declared, headrace, heralded, lechered. | |
-4 letters: adhered, arcaded, caldera, charade, cheddar, cheered, cleared, craaled, cradled, creedal, creeled, decadal, declare, decreed, earache, leached, leacher, leeched, reached, receded, redhead, relaced. | |
-5 letters: adhere, alcade, arcade, arched, carded, cereal, chadar, chared, cheder, chelae, cradle, credal, daedal, daledh, deader, dealer, decade, decare, decree, delead, echard, headed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-e-h-l-r" | |
+2 letters: clearheadedly. | |
+4 letters: clearheadedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 45 41 52 2D 48 45 41 44 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010010 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L E A R - H E A D E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0045 0041 0052 002D 0048 0045 0041 0044 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374639355215423935383938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kínai, Sheenish, Sheenagh, китайский, китаец |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский |
Indonesian | 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indonéz, Indoneesagh, индонезийский, индонезиец | |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, orosz, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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