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DRONISH

Definition: DRONISH

DRONISH

Adjective

1. Like a drone; indolent; slow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DRONISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)


Synonym: DRONISH

Synonym: sluggish. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: DRONISH

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

Inactivity

Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DRONISH

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

Manx

  

litcheragh (idle, idling, lazy, sluggish, workshy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onishdray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DRONISH

Misspellings

"DRONISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darrawish, donish, dorigish, Dranich, drentish, Drnis, dronnies, ironish. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DRONISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-h-i-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: rhinos.

-2 letters: hinds, horns, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, rhino, rinds, rosin, shorn.

-3 letters: dins, dish, dons, dors, hind, hins, hisn, hods, hons, horn, inro, ions, iron, nodi, nods, noir, nori, nosh, rhos, rids, rind, rins, rods, shin, shod, shri, sinh, sord, sori, sorn.

-4 letters: din, dis, don, dor, dos, hid, hin, his, hod, hon.

 Words containing the letters "d-h-i-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: dishonor, hordeins, roundish.

 

+2 letters: dihedrons, dishonors, dragonish, hoardings, nourished, phoronids, rhodamins, rhodopsin, shrouding.

 

+3 letters: admonisher, arachnoids, bounderish, chancroids, chondrites, dichondras, disharmony, dishonored, dishonorer, endorphins, groundfish, handiworks, harmonised, horridness, hydrations, hydroniums, monorchids, rhodamines, rhodonites, rhodopsins, threnodies, threnodist, trihedrons, windhovers, windthrows.

 

+4 letters: achondrites, admonishers, anthropoids, beshrouding, chironomids, diachronies, dishonorers, dishonoring, downhillers, echinoderms, enshrouding, fingerholds, hemosiderin, hoodwinkers, hydroponics, icosahedron, monohybrids, ornithopods, prehominids, premonished, radiophones, refashioned, rhinestoned, shouldering, threnodists, withindoors.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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