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Definition: DIRENESS |
DIRENESSNoun1. Terribleness; horror; woefulness. |
Date "DIRENESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references) |
Note: Direness \Dire"ness\, noun. [Dire- -ness.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "DIRENESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Entsetzlichkeit (deadliness, horribleness, terribly). (various references) | ||||
Manx | dooghid (despair). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irenessday | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DIRENESS": direnesses. (additional references) | |
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"DIRENESS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diriness, drieness, drivenness, Dukeness, Ireneusz, tireness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: deniers, desires, nereids, redness, resends, resides, resined, seiners, senders, sereins, serines. | |
-2 letters: denier, denies, denser, desire, dienes, dieses, diners, eiders, enders, nereid, nereis, reined, resend, reside, resids, resins, rinsed, rinses, seders, seined, seiner, seines, seised, seiser, sender, sensed, serein, series, serine, serins, sirees, sirens, sneers, snider. | |
-3 letters: deers, denes, dense, diene, diner, dines. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: arsenides, deerskins, designers, dispenser, dissenter, indorsees, nearsides, readiness, redesigns, reediness, residents, tiredness, weirdness. | |
+2 letters: aridnesses, depressing, depression, desertions, deservings, dinnerless, directness, direnesses, discerners, dispensers, dissenters, dreaminess, dreariness, dressiness, drivenness, fervidness, friendless, gesneriads, greediness, misrenders, modernises, presidents, reassigned, redressing, rescinders, residences, rosinweeds, sideliners, stridences, swineherds, trendiness, undersides, wilderness. | |
+3 letters: acridnesses, coresidents, dentistries, depressions, dirtinesses, disendowers, disheartens, disinterest, dissevering, diverseness, dysenteries, elderliness, hardinesses, hesperidins, hurriedness, luridnesses, orderliness, overdesigns, pedestrians, preassigned, predestines, prednisones, rabidnesses, rapidnesses, readinesses, reconsiders, reddishness, reedinesses, residencies, retiredness, rigidnesses, rinderpests, rowdinesses, ruddinesses, secondaries, serriedness, sidewinders, slenderizes, stridencies, superseding, syncretised, tardinesses, threadiness, tirednesses, unimpressed, unreadiness, vinedresser, weirdnesses, westernised, windscreens, wordinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 52 45 4E 45 53 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. .-. . -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010010 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I R E N E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0052 0045 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)3843523948395353 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | deutsch, Deutsche, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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