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Definition: IMPOLICY |
IMPOLICYNoun1. The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. |
Date "IMPOLICY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unskillfulness | Mismanagement, misconduct; impolicy; maladministration; misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance; petticoat government. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: IMPOLICY |
| English words defined with "IMPOLICY": Mispolicy ♦ policy. (references) |
| "IMPOLICY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IMPOLICY" is used about 3 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "IMPOLICY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mungesë mirësjelljeje (impoliteness, incivility), harbutëri (discourtesy, disrespect). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неразумност (irrationality), неразумна политика. (various references) | |
Czech | nevhodnost (impropriety, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incongruity, inexpediency, untimeliness). (various references) | |
French | impolitesse (impoliteness), atrocité. (various references) | |
Hungarian | helytelen politika. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impolicyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insinuar (glance, hint, innumerable, insinuate, instill, instillation, intimate, suggest), pouca habilidade, má política, má orientação (misguidance). (various references) | |
Romanian | politicã proastã, lipsã de tact (indelicacy), lipsã de educaţie. (various references) | |
Russian | неразумная политика, нетактичность. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rđava politika, nepolitičnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | mala política. (various references) | |
Swedish | ohövlighet (discourtesy, disrespect, incivility), oartighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | tedbirsizlik (improvidence, imprudence, inconsiderateness, unwariness), kötü politika. (various references) | |
Ukranian | нерозумна політика, нетактовність (atrocity, clumsiness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chính sách vụng, chính sách khôn ngoan việc l m thất sách. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "IMPOLICY" (pronounced 'Im*pol"i*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy, Autocracy, Axinomancy, Bankruptcy, Baronetcy, Belomancy, Benignancy, Bibliomancy, Bivalency, Blatancy, Botanomancy, Brevetcy, Brillancy, Buoyancy, Bureaucracy, Cadency, Candidacy, Capnomancy, Captaincy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Cecutiency, Celibacy, Centripetency, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chaplaincy, Chartomancy, Chiromancy, Circumambiency, Clemency, Cleromancy, Cliency, Coadjuvancy, Coagency, Coefficacy, Coefficiency, Cogency, Coincibency, Colluctancy, Colonelcy, Commorancy, Compliancy, Complicacy, Concludency, Concordancy, Concubinacy, Concurrency, Congeneracy, Congruency, Connivency, Conservancy, Conspiracy, Constancy, Constituency, Contingency, Contumacy, Conversancy, Cornetcy, Correspondency, Coscinomancy, Couchancy, Crystallomancy, Curacy, Currency, Dactyliomancy, Dactylomancy, Dancy, Daphnomancy, Decency, Decipiency, Deficiency, Degeneracy, Delegacy, Delicacy, Delinquency, Deliracy, Delirancy, Delitescency, Demency, Democracy, Demonocracy, Dependency, Depopulacy, Despiciency, Despondency, Detergency, Determinacy, Diffidency, Diligency, Diplomacy, Disappendency, Disconsolacy, Discumbency, Disfancy, Disobediency, Displacency, Dissonancy, Distancy, Docimacy, Dormancy, Doulocracy, Dubitancy, Durancy, Effeminacy, Efficacy, Efflorescency, Effluency, Electro-thermancy, Emergency, Eminency, -ency, Enoptomancy, Ensigncy, Episcopacy, Equipendency, Equitancy, Equivalency, Equivocacy, Errancy, Esnecy, Excellency, Excrescency, Exigency, Existency, Exsiliency, Extacy, Extancy, Extravagancy, Extuberancy, Exuberancy, Fallacy, Fallency, Farcy, Feculency, Fermacy, fervency, Flagrancy, fleecy, flippancy, fluency, frequency, Fritinancy, Fugacy, Fulgency, Gastromancy, Geomancy, Gerontocracy, Gramercy, Gunocracy, Gynecocracy, Gyneocracy, Gynocracy, Gyromancy, Habiitancy, Hagiocracy, Haruspicy, hesitancy, Heterocercy, Hierocracy, Hieromancy, Homocercy, hydromancy, Ichthyomancy, icy, Idiocracy, idiocy, Idiotcy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, Imitancy, immediacy, Immoderacy, Immoderancy, Impatiency, Impeccancy, impenitency, Impertinency, Importancy, Importunacy, Impudency, inaccuracy, inadequacy, Incalescency, incessancy, Incidency, inclemency, Inconsideracy, inconsistency, inconstancy, Inconveniency, incumbency, indecency, Indeficiency, indelicacy, independency, Indifferency, Indigency, Indistancy, Indolency, Indulgency, inefficacy, inefficiency, inerrancy, INFANCY, Inmacy, Innitency, Innocency, Inordinacy, Insignificancy, Insitency, Insolency, insolvency, instancy, insufficiency, Intelligency, Intemperancy, Intendancy, Interagency, interdependency, Interluency, Intermediacy, Interregency, Intestacy, INTIMACY, Intolerancy, intricacy, Inveteracy, Inviolacy, Irregeneracy, Irrelavancy, Itineracy, Itinerancy, Jactancy, Jesuitocracy, Joyancy, juicy, Kakistocracy, Lasciviency, latency, Latitancy, Lecanomancy, legacy, legitimacy, Leucophlegmacy, Liegiancy, lieutenancy, Liquescency, literacy, lithomancy, Lucency, lunacy, Luxuriancy, Macilency, magistracy, Maledicency, -mancy, Manutenency, mediacy, mendicancy, mercy, Meteoromancy, Metopomancy, militancy, Ministracy, Mispolicy, Mobocracy, monocracy, Mordicancy, Mugiency, Myomancy, Nascency, Necromancy, Neocracy, Nomancy, Nomocracy, Nonproficiency, Nonsolvency, normalcy, Obduracy, Obeisancy, Observancy, Obstancy, Obstetricy, Obstinacy, Occupancy, Ochlocracy, Omnipresency, Omnisciency, Omphalomancy, Oneiromancy, onomancy, Onomomancy, Onychomancy, Ophiomancy, Opponency, Oppugnancy, Optimacy, Opulency, Oriency, Ornithomancy, Orphancy, Oscillancy, Oscitancy, pancy, Pantisocracy, Papacy, Parturiency, Patency, Peccancy, Pedantocracy, Pedomancy, Pegomancy, Pendency, Penitency, Pernancy, Perspicacy, Pervicacy, Pharmacy, Piquancy, piracy, Plangency, Plantocracy, Pliancy, Plutocracy, Poignancy, Polycracy, Polypharmacy, Populacy, Potency, Potentacy, Predisponency, Predominancy, Preexistency, Prefulgency, Pregnancy, Prejudicacy, Prelacy, Preoccupancy, Prepotency, Presidency, Prevalency, Prevenancy, Primacy, Privacy, Probacy, Procuracy, Profligacy, Prolificacy, Propendency, Prophecy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-m-o-p-y" | |
-2 letters: comply, myopic, policy. | |
-3 letters: clomp, cymol, icily, imply. | |
-4 letters: clip, clop, cloy, coil, coly, comp, copy, impi, limo, limp, limy, loci, milo, moil, moly, mopy, oily, pili, pily, ploy, poly, pyic. | |
-5 letters: col, cop, coy, icy, imp, lip, lop, mil, moc, mol, mop, oil, pic, ply, poi, pol, pom, yip, yom. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-m-o-p-y" | |
+2 letters: complicity. | |
+3 letters: impoliticly. | |
+4 letters: compulsivity, incompatibly. | |
+5 letters: apomictically, comparability, compatibility, competitively, complainingly, complexifying, computability, impecuniously, impolitically, microphysical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 4F 4C 49 43 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. --- .-.. .. -.-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P O L I C Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 004F 004C 0049 0043 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4347504946433759 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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