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DISSOCIAL

Definition: DISSOCIAL

DISSOCIAL

Transitive verb

1. Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Dissocial \Dis*so"cial\, adjective. [Prefix dis- social: compare to Latin dissocialis. See Dissociate, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: DISSOCIAL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Seclusion Exclusion

Unsociable; unsocial, dissocial; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DISSOCIAL

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

Albanian

  

i pashoqërueshëm (cantankerous). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dry, incommunicable, incommunicative, morose, reserved, reticent, segregative, self contained, taciturn, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nespoleèenský (antisocial, dissociable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

issocialday

   

Portuguese

  

separável (detachable, dissociate, fission, resoluble, separable). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

необщительный (dissociable, incommunicative, inconversable, offish, segregative, standoffish, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nesocijalan (dissociable, unsociable, unsocial). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

disociable (dissociable), hostil (hostile, inimical, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriended, unfriendly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

osällskaplig (antisocial, farouche, inconversable, unsociable). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

недружний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thích giao thiệp, không ưa giao du. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DISSOCIAL

Misspellings

"DISSOCIAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dystocia, Idrissocial. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DISSOCIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-i-l-o-s-s"

-1 letter: acidosis.

-2 letters: cissoid, sialids, sialoid, silicas, socials.

-3 letters: aiolis, alcids, asdics, assoil, discos, dossal, dossil, iliads, scalds, scolds, sialic, sialid, silica, sloids, social, solidi, solids.

-4 letters: acids, acold, adios, aioli, alcid, asdic, cadis, caids, calos, cilia, clads, class, clods, coals, codas, coils, colas, colds, dials, diols, disci, disco, discs, dolci, idols, iliac, iliad, iodic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-i-l-o-s-s"
 

+1 letter: socialised.

 

+2 letters: dissociable.

 

+3 letters: caudillismos, dislocations, solidaristic.

 

+4 letters: cardiologists, disclamations, indissociable, indissociably, nonclassified.

 

+5 letters: clavichordists, consolidations, diabolicalness, discolorations, disconsolation, dissociability, overclassified.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISSOCIAL


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

44 49 53 53 4F 43 49 41 4C

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 01010011 01001111 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#79 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0053 004F 0043 0049 0041 004C

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

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

384353534937433546

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INDEX

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


  

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