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Definition: FLURRIED |
FLURRIEDAdjective1. Agitated; excited. Imperative & past participle1. Of Flurry |
Date "FLURRIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: FLURRIED |
| English words defined with "FLURRIED": Gallied. (references) |
| "FLURRIED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "FLURRIED" is used about 10 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "FLURRIED": be flurried ♦ get flurried. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "FLURRIED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i trazuar (agog, boisterous, distempered, disturbed, haywire, lumpy, mixed, on edge, rough, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, vexed), i shqetësuar (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distempered, distraught, distressed, disturbed, fidgety, flustered, jittery, preoccupied, restless, troubled, troublous, uneasy, vexed, worried). (various references) | |
Arabic | متساقط (caducous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смутен съм (be flurried), обърквам се (become confused, get flurried, go wrong, lose oneself, stumble). (various references) | |
Chinese | 怳 (disappointed, indistinct), 恍 (disappointed, indistinct). (various references) | |
Czech | znervóznìt (get flurried). (various references) | |
Finnish | häkeltyä (get confused, get flurried). (various references) | |
French | paniqué. (various references) | |
German | beunruhigte (disquieted, fazed, harassed, perturbed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבולבל (addled, confused, disturbed, fuddled, incoherent, muddleheaded, perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
Hungarian | izgatott (ablaze, jumpy, excited, hectic, to be keyed up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 慌ただしい (busy, confused, hurried). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あわただしい (busy, confused, hurried). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forfjamset. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urriedflay.(various references) | |
Romanian | uluit (amazed, astonished, astounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, mused, perplex, thunder-struck), turlac, nãuc (bewildered, blockhead, crazy, dumbfounded, dunderhead, foolish, giddy, silly). (various references) | |
Russian | взволнованный (agitated), взбудораженный (revved up). (various references) | |
Spanish | aturdido (abashed, bewildered, confound, confused, dopey, dopy, fuddled, headless, numbs, stunned, torpid), agitado (agitated, choppy). (various references) | |
Swedish | altererad (excited). (various references) | |
Turkish | telaşlı (bustling, discomposedly, disconcerted, disconcerting, excitable, excited, feverish, fussy, hectic, hurried, uptight), heyecanlanmış (all of a doodah, electrified, excited, worked up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схвильований (affected, agitated, excited, keyed, perturbate, touched, unquiet). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffwdanus (fidgety, fussy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLURRIED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flerried, floride, Fluria, fluride, flurrie, furied, slurried. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLURRIED" (pronounced fler"ēd) |
| 3 | -er" ē d | curried, hurried, scurried, unhurried, unworried, worried. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: direful. | |
-2 letters: durrie, furled, furler, furred, ireful, rifled, rifler, rulier. | |
-3 letters: direr, drier, felid, field, filed, filer, fired, firer, flied, flier, flued, fluid, fried, frier, idler, lifer, lured, lurer, lurid, rider, rifer, rifle, riled, ruder, ruled, ruler. | |
-4 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, diel, dire, dirl, duel, dure, durr, feud, file, fire, fled, flue, fuel. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-r-u" | |
+4 letters: disregardful, formularized, ultrarefined, unfriendlier. | |
+5 letters: odoriferously, tetrafluoride, ultrararefied. | |
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