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Definition: Contumely |
ContumelyNoun1. A rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contumely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Contumely \Con"tu*me*ly\, noun. [Latin expression contumelia, probably akin to contemnere to despise: compare to Old French expression contumelie. Compare to Contumacy.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ContumelySynonyms: abuse (n), insult (n), revilement (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Noun: contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect. |
Disapprobation | Chiding, upbraiding;Verb: exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words. |
Discourtesy | Scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality. |
Disrespect | Vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony; (ridicule); sarcasm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contumely |
| English words defined with "contumely": Contek. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "contumely": Printing Office. (references) |
| "Contumely" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contumely" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
contumely | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "contumely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjuhë fyese, fyerje (affront, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, injury, insult, offence, opprobrium, resentment, umbrage, vituperation). (various references) | |
Arabic | إزدراء (contempt, disdain, disfavor, disfavour, disrespect, pride, scorn). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оскърбление (abuse, affront, flout, galling, hurt, insult, knock, offence, outrage), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), позор (attaint, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, cheek, daring, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness). (various references) | |
Czech | urážka (affront, brickbat, injury, insult, offence, outrage, violence). (various references) | |
French | mépris (contempt). (various references) | |
German | Hohn (derision, mockery, scoff, scorn, taunt). (various references) | |
Greek | ύβρισ (abuse, affront, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, vituperation), περιφρόνηση (contempt, defiance, scorn), χλεύη (mockery, raillery, scoff, sneer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | arcátlanság (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, cheek, cockiness, cock-sureness, confidence, effrontery, impertinence, impudence). (various references) | |
Italian | contumelia, insolenza (hubris, insolence, sass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontumelycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | contumélia, insulto (abuse, affront, indignity, injury, insult, lash, scurrility, taunt, vituperation), insolência (audacity, cockiness, insolence, mouth, pride, rudeness, sass, sauce), injúria (abuse, bruise, despite, insult, invective, mischief, outrage, railing, violence, vituperation, wrong), infâmia (abjection, baseness, discredit, obloquy, villainy). (various references) | |
Romanian | umilire (abasement, crouch, humiliation, mortification, stoop), neobrãzare (boldness, cheek, flippancy, immodesty, neck, nerve), insultã (abuse, affront, dirt, hurt, insult, invective, offence, slap, slur), insolenţã (cheek, face, impertinence, insolence, piece of insolence). (various references) | |
Russian | оскорбление (abuse, affront, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, wound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uvreda (affront, assault, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, knock, offence, offense, outrage, pique, umbrage, wound), pogrda (affront), bezobrazluk (gall, impudence, insolence, sauce). (various references) | |
Spanish | contumelia. (various references) | |
Swedish | vanära (degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, opprobrium, taint), skymf (affront, indignity, insult, libel, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage). (various references) | |
Turkish | küfür (a bad word, abuse, blasphemy, curse, cuss, cuss word, expletive, invective, invectives, oath, profanity, revilement, scurrility, strong language, swearing, swearword), hakaret (affront, contempt, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub), gözden düşme (disfavor, disfavour, disgrace). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | образа (abuse, affront, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, effrontery, hardihood, insolence, insolency, neck, nerve, sauce), заразумілість, безчестя (ignominy, opprobrium). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thái độ vô lễ, điều sỉ nhục thái độ hỗn xược, điều nhục nhã (disgrace, dishonour, opprobrium). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Contumely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comtumely, contume, contumelie, cotumely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "contumely" (pronounced 'Con"tu*me*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-m-n-o-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: uncomely. | |
-2 letters: noctule. | |
-3 letters: centum, column, comely, county, cutely, etymon, lemony, loment, lucent, lyceum, melton, molten, motley, mutely. | |
-4 letters: celom, cento, centu, clone, clout, comet, comte, coney, conte, count, culet, cutey, cymol, cyton, lemon, lento, locum, lumen, lunet, melon, money, monte, motel, motey, moult, mount, mulct, muley, muton, notum, octyl, oleum, ounce, toney, uncle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-m-n-o-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: consummately. | |
+4 letters: consumptively, coterminously, countermelody, documentarily, pneumatolytic. | |
+5 letters: commensurately, contemptuously, conterminously, contumeliously, unaccustomedly. | |
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