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INFAUST

Definition: INFAUST

INFAUST

Adjective

1. Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Infaust \In*faust"\, adjective. [Latin expression infaustus; prefix in- not faustus fortunate, lucky.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: INFAUST

DomainDefinitions

Health

Unfavourable. (references)

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

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Crosswords: INFAUST

Non-English Usage: "INFAUST" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (infaust), German (infaust).

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Modern Translations: INFAUST

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

Danish

  

ugunstig (unfavourable). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

infaust (unfavourable). (various references)

   

French

  

défavorable (inimical), défavorable. (various references)

   

German

  

infaustus (unfavourable), infaust. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανεπιθύμητος (undesirable, unfavourable, unwanted), ο μη ευνοϊκός (unfavourable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

infausto (accursed, baleful, inauspicious, ominous, ominously, unfavourable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

infaustay

   

Portuguese

  

desfavorável (adverse, bad, ill, unfavorable, unfavourable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

infausto (ill fated, unfavourable, unhappy, unlucky). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: INFAUST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fustian.

Words within the letters "a-f-i-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: faints, fusain, unfits.

-2 letters: antis, aunts, faint, fauns, fiats, naifs, saint, satin, snafu, stain, suint, tains, tufas, tunas, unais, unfit, units.

-3 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, fain, fans, fast, fats, faun, fiat, fins, fist, fits, funs, naif, nits, nuts, sain, sati, sift, snit, stun, suit, tain, tans, taus, tins, tufa.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-i-n-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: fustians, unfaiths.

 

+2 letters: faunistic, figurants, fountains, fumigants, sulfating, trainfuls, unfairest.

 

+3 letters: faultiness, flauntiest, fulminates, furcations, infatuates, infuriates, insufflate, outfasting, quantifies, sufflating, unsafeties.

 

+4 letters: antifungals, figurations, filamentous, fluorinates, foundations, fruitarians, frustrating, frustration, fumigations, funambulist, fungistatic, fustigating, fustigation, infibulates, insufflated, insufflates, insufflator, latifundios, nitrofurans, obfuscating, obfuscation, outfeasting, painfullest, quantifiers, refutations, suffixation, suffocating, suffocation, sulfonating, sulfonation, transfigure, transfusing, transfusion, unfastening, unsatisfied.

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

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Alternative Orthography: INFAUST


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

49 4E 46 41 55 53 54

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 01000110 01000001 01010101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#70 &#65 &#85 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0046 0041 0055 0053 0054

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

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

43484035555354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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