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INCURIOUSLY

Definition: INCURIOUSLY

INCURIOUSLY

Adverb

1. In an curious manner.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "INCURIOUSLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Usage Frequency: INCURIOUSLY

"INCURIOUSLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INCURIOUSLY" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: INCURIOUSLY

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

Spanish

  

sin curiosidad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ilgisizce (carelessly, listlessly, lukewarmly), meraksızca, merak etmeyerek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "INCURIOUSLY"

Words rhyming with "INCURIOUSLY" (pronounced 'In*cu"ri*ous*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: INCURIOUSLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-u-u-y"

-2 letters: curiously, incurious, ruinously.

-3 letters: cousinly, cousinry, incisory.

-4 letters: cornily, crusily, curious, incisor, noisily, ricinus, ruinous, silicon, sirloin, uncoils, uncurls, urinous.

-5 letters: clonus, clours, colins, consul, cornus, cosily, coulis, cousin, curios, incurs, insoul, ionics, ironic, lyrics, nicols, nosily, oculus, orcins, ricins, rosily, rosiny, sluicy, sourly, uncoil, uncurl, unruly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: INCURIOUSLY


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

49 4E 43 55 52 49 4F 55 53 4C 59

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)

01001001 01001110 01000011 01010101 01010010 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#67 &#85 &#82 &#73 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0043 0055 0052 0049 004F 0055 0053 004C 0059

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

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

4348375552434955534659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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