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Definition: HOLLOW-HEARTED |
HOLLOW-HEARTEDAdjective1. Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. |
Date "HOLLOW-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: HOLLOW-HEARTEDSynonyms: dishonest, false, treacherous. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Adjective: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "HOLLOW-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فارغ القلب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neupřímný (disingenuous, hypocritical, insincere, two-tongued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | de c"ur vide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | álnok (deceitful, deceptive, deep, disingenuous, disloyal, double dealing, double faced, false-hearted, felon, perfidious, treacherous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollow-heartedhay perfil vazio, falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double decker, double faced, double-tongued, dummy, error, faked, false, flash, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchers, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), desleal (cammed, devious, dishonest, disloyalty, fake, false, recreant, shifty, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, trustless, truthless, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy). (various references) prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), nesincer (backhand, devious, disingenuous, double faced, insincere, insincerely, pecksniffian, tortuous, truthless), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references) неискренний (affected, canting, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, fulsome, hollow, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed, tongue in cheek, tortuous). (various references) neiskren (affected, devious, disingenuous, double-tongued, fulsome, insincere, left handed, lip-deep, oblique). (various references) insincero (disingenuous, glib, insincere, phoney). (various references) yürekten olmayan, samimiyetsiz (double-minded, insincere, mealy mouthed), içten olmayan (set). (various references) лукавий (ambidextrous, arch, canny, crafty, wicked, wily), бездушний (brute, callous, chill, hardened, hard-hearted, inanimate, ossified, soulless). (various references) không th nh thật (backhanded, devious, disingenuous, double, double-faced), giả dối (insincere, lubricous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "HOLLOW-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Hol"low-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Dim-sighted, Discalceated, Dog-headed, Dog-hearted, Double-breasted, Doublethreaded, Dough-kneaded. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-h-l-l-o-o-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: leatherwood. | |
-3 letters: holohedral. | |
-4 letters: heartwood, holloware, trowelled. | |
-5 letters: hallooed, hallowed, hallower, haltered, hollered, holloaed, hollowed, hollower, hoorahed, latewood, lathered, leadwort, retooled, rowelled, tallowed, thralled, toolhead, towelled, troweled, waterloo, welldoer, wellhead, wreathed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 4C 4C 4F 57 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O L L O W - H E A R T E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 004C 004C 004F 0057 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4249464649571542393552543938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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