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Definition: INTRIGUED |
INTRIGUEDImperative & past participle1. Of Intrigue |
Date "INTRIGUED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: INTRIGUED |
| Specialty definitions using "INTRIGUED": Creek, Cuckold King ♦ Geneura ♦ Mazeppa. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because, I'm intrigued. (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) | |
Lyrics | Im intrigued and im (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "New Mosque 1660 A.D." by William J. Ray Commentary: "Anything looks good in the light of the setting sun. It has always intrigued me that this mosque, called New Mosque, was completed in the 1600s." | "White & Black" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "I'm intrigued by the textures in nature, and by the way a color photo can look duotoned if taken in the right light at dusk." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Only as additional populations and families are studied with refined methodologies and as the various research groups share their data will it become clear exactly what genes are risk factor genes for AD. In a related research area on genetic links to AD and aging, scientists have long been intrigued by the fact that some people retain healthy and vigorous cognitive function into very old age, while others become cognitively impaired. (references) | |
Business | As in the U.S., U.K. “baby boomers” are reaching middle age and are intrigued by so-called “soft” adventure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INTRIGUED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 63.29% of the time. "INTRIGUED" is used about 365 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 63.29% | 231 | 19,761 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 28.49% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.03% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.19% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 365 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
intrigued | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INTRIGUED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 吸引 (Attract, Attracted, Attracting, enthrall, enthralled, enthralling, intriguing). (various references) | |
German | intrigierte (caballed, machinated). (various references) | |
Korean | 음모를 꾸미는 (Plotted). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intrigueday.(various references) | |
Russian | интриговать заинтригованный. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "INTRIGUED": outintrigued. (additional references) | |
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"INTRIGUED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entrigue, inrigue, intigue, intigued, intirgued, intreague, intregue, intribue, intrige, intriguesd, intrigute, intrique, intriqued, intriuge, intriuged, intruige. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intrigue, untidier. | |
-2 letters: dieting, dingier, dungier, editing, grunted, ignited, igniter, inditer, intrude, nitride, tiering, trudgen, trueing, turdine, untired, untried, uridine. | |
-3 letters: dieing, dinger, dunite, during, engird, engirt, gerund, girned, girted, guider, gunite, gurnet, ignite, indite, inured, nidget, nitrid, nudger, reding, rident, riding, ringed, ruined, tidier, tiding, tieing, tinder, tineid, tinged, tinier, tiring, trined. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: indenturing, ingratitude, reinducting, repudiating, unirrigated. | |
+3 letters: ingratitudes, ingurgitated, outintrigued, underwriting, ungentrified. | |
+4 letters: disfigurement, outdelivering, rediscounting, reduplicating, reintroducing, ruggedization, underpainting. | |
+5 letters: counterbidding, counterraiding, denaturalizing, disfigurements, interdiffusing, redistributing, ruggedizations, superintending, underpaintings, underutilizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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