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Definition: ISSUELESS |
ISSUELESSAdjective1. Having no issue or progeny; childless. |
Date "ISSUELESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unproductiveness | Adjective: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable; (useless); null and void, of no effect. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "ISSUELESS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ISSUELESS" is used about 8 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ISSUELESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бездетен (childless), без резултат, без изход, без излаз. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ohne Nachkommen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utód nélküli, gyermektelen (childless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza sbocco, senza prole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn sluight, gyn cloan (childless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issuelessay fãrã urmaşi. (various references) çocuksuz (childless, without encumbrance, without encumbrances). (various references) безрезультатний (ineffective, ineffectual, negative, non-effective, null, sterile, without effect). (various references) tuyệt giống không đem lại kết quả gì không nêu vấn đề gì để tranh cãi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ISSUELESS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isuele. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ISSUELESS" (pronounced i"shuwlus) |
| 4 | -uw l u s | valueless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-s-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: ileuses, sessile, useless. | |
-3 letters: issues, seises, susses. | |
-4 letters: esses, ileus, isles, issue, lieus, seels, seise, sises, slues. | |
-5 letters: eels, else, eses, isle, lees, leis, less, lies, lieu, lues, seel, sees, seis, sels, slue, sues, suss, uses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-s-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: lousinesses, lustinesses, sulkinesses, surlinesses. | |
+3 letters: bluishnesses, clumsinesses, mulishnesses, plushinesses, sinfulnesses, slushinesses, sultrinesses. | |
+4 letters: biliousnesses, bullishnesses, cultishnesses, dissoluteness, elusivenesses, fruitlessness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, loutishnesses, lumpishnesses, seclusiveness, slouchinesses, squalidnesses, subassemblies, sublimenesses, subtilenesses, unselfishness, wishfulnesses, wistfulnesses. | |
+5 letters: allusivenesses, assaultiveness, bibulousnesses, blissfulnesses, churlishnesses, cliquishnesses, delusivenesses, ghoulishnesses, gloriousnesses, illusivenesses, illusorinesses, luminousnesses, lusciousnesses, perilousnesses, qualmishnesses, salutarinesses, skillfulnesses, sluggishnesses, sluttishnesses, spitefulnesses, suitablenesses, tristfulnesses, unseemlinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 53 53 55 45 4C 45 53 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01010011 01010011 01010101 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I S S U E L E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0053 0053 0055 0045 004C 0045 0053 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)435353553946395353 |
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