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INDIGN

Definition: INDIGN

INDIGN

Adjective

1. Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)

Synonyms within Context: INDIGN

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: INDIGN

Etymologies containing "INDIGN": indignant, indignation. (references)

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Derivations: INDIGN

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).

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Anagrams: INDIGN

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: INDIGN


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

49 4E 44 49 47 4E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01000111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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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)

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

434838434148

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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