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DISMALNESS

Definition: DISMALNESS

DISMALNESS

Noun

1. The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISMALNESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1682. (references)


Modern Translation: DISMALNESS

Language Translations for "DISMALNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Düsterkeit (darkness, dimness, drabness, duskiness, gloom, gloominess, grayness, luridness, morbidity, somberness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vigasztalanság, szomorúság (dejection, discomfort, dreariness, dumps, gloom, grief, mournfulness, ruefulness, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, woe), komorság (dimness, gloominess, glumness, sombreness, sullenness), borzalmasság (horror, monstrosity, monstruosity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ismalnessday

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự u sầu (gloominess, melancholy), sự phiền muộn (desolation), cảnh tối tăm (gloominess, mirk, murk, night), cảnh bu"n thảm, cảnh ảm đạm sự bu"n nản. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DISMALNESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISMALNESS": dismalnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DISMALNESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m-n-s-s-s"

-2 letters: mildness, mindless, misdeals, misleads, missends, samisens, slimness.

-3 letters: aidless, aimless, damsels, dassies, denials, desmans, dimness, dismals, inseams, islands, lassies, madness, maidens, malines, manless, medials, medians, medinas, menials, messans, mildens, misdeal, mislead, missals, missels, missend, sadisms, sadness, salines, samiels, samisen, sanseis, seismal, seminal, sendals, sideman, silanes, simnels, sinless, snailed.

-4 letters: aidmen, aisled, aisles, aliens.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m-n-s-s-s"
 

+2 letters: dismalnesses.

 

+3 letters: disassembling.

 

+4 letters: aldosteronisms, maidenlinesses, manifoldnesses.

 

+5 letters: admirablenesses, comradelinesses, maladroitnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISMALNESS


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

44 49 53 4D 41 4C 4E 45 53 53

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)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01001101 01000001 01001100 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#77 &#65 &#76 &#78 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 004D 0041 004C 004E 0045 0053 0053

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

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

38435347354648395353

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Non-English Dictionaries with "DISMALNESS"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionnémet, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításUngar, magyar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

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 thíchvietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, angol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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