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IRRIGUOUS

Definition: IRRIGUOUS

IRRIGUOUS

Adjective

1. Gently penetrating or pervading.

2. Watered; watery; moist; dewy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "IRRIGUOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Etymology: Irriguous \Ir*rig"u*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression irriguus. See Irrigate.]. (Websters 1913)

"IRRIGUOUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: egregious.


Synonyms within Context: IRRIGUOUS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Moisture

Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: IRRIGUOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-o-r-r-s-u-u"

-2 letters: rigours.

-3 letters: guiros, rigors, rigour, rugous.

-4 letters: giros, guiro, gurus, orris, rigor.

-5 letters: giro, guru, iris, ours, rigs, rugs, sori, sour, urus.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IRRIGUOUS


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

49 52 52 49 47 55 4F 55 53

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 01010010 01010010 01001001 01000111 01010101 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#82 &#82 &#73 &#71 &#85 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0052 0052 0049 0047 0055 004F 0055 0053

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

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

435252434155495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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