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Definition: INDIGN |
INDIGNAdjective1. Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading. |
Date "INDIGN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
Etymology: Indign \In*dign"\, adjective. [Latin expression indignus; prefix in- not dignus worthy: compare to the French expression indigne. See Dignity.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Undignified, indign; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INDIGN |
| Etymologies containing "INDIGN": indignant, indignation. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INDIGN": indignant, indignantly, indignation, indignations, indignities, indignity, indignly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dining, niding. | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-n" | |
-2 letters: ding, nidi. | |
-3 letters: dig, din, gid, gin, inn. | |
-4 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: binding, dinging, dinking, dinning, dinting, dwining, finding, indigen, induing, minding, winding. | |
+2 letters: bindings, blinding, defining, deigning, dindling, divining, dizening, draining, drinking, enditing, findings, grinding, guanidin, indexing, indigene, indigens, indigent, indignly, inditing, indowing, inducing, invading, kindling, nidering, nonrigid, pindling, poinding, widening, windings, windling, wingding. | |
+3 letters: adjoining, anodizing, bindingly, cindering, confiding, cyaniding, declining, designing, destining, detaining, deveining, dezincing, digitonin, dinginess, disowning, dwindling, engilding, engirding, enwinding, friending, guanidine, guanidins, hindering, hoidening, impending, including, indenting, indexings, indicting, indigence, indigenes, indigents, indignant, indignity, indigotin, indorsing, inducting, indulging, infolding, infringed, ingrained, inholding, intending, intruding, inwinding, islanding, kidnaping, kindlings, mildening, niderings, nidifying, nitriding, ordaining, rebinding, redlining, refinding, reminding, rewinding, spindling, swindling, trindling, unbinding, ungirding, untidying, unwinding, upbinding, windlings, windowing, wingdings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 44 49 47 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01001110 01000100 01001001 01000111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N D I G N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0044 0049 0047 004E |
| 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)434838434148 |
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