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MACILENT

Definition: MACILENT

MACILENT

Adjective

1. Lean; thin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Macilent \Mac"i*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression macilentus, from macies leanness, macere to be lean.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: MACILENT

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

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MACILENT

Etymologies containing "MACILENT": Macilency. (references)

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Modern Translations: MACILENT

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

Hebrew 

  

כחוש (gaunt, haggard, lean, peaky, scraggy, skinny, spare, thin), רז×" (lean, meagre, peak, peaky, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acilentmay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "MACILENT"

Words rhyming with "MACILENT" (pronounced 'Mac"i*lent'): Acidulent, Attollent, Benevolent, Bivalent, Cinerulent, Convellent, Corpulent, Dedolent, Divalent, Divellent, Diversivolent, Dolent, Equipollent, Equivalent, Feculent, flatulent, Florulent, fraudulent, Frustulent, Glent, Graveolent, Heptavalent, Hexavalent, indolent, Inopulent, insolent, Interrepellent, Intranscalent, Jack-a-lent, luculent, Lutulent, malevolent, Maltalent, monovalent, Mucopurulent, Muculent, Multivalent, Octavalent, Olent, Omniprevalent, Opulent, Pentavalent, Pestilent, Poculent, Polyvalent, Potulent, Precellent, Prevalent, Puberulent, Pulverulent, Purulent, Quadrivalent, Quantivalent, Quinquivalent, redolent, Revellent, Rorulent, Sanguinolent, Sexavalent, Sexivalent, Slent, somnolent, Superexcellent, Temulent, tetravalent, Transcalent, trivalent, truculent, turbulent, univalent, Vinolent, Virulent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MACILENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-n-t"

-1 letter: ailment, aliment, climate, melanic, metical, nematic.

-2 letters: acetin, anemic, atelic, camlet, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, cinema, client, enatic, entail, etamin, iceman, inlace, inmate, lament, lancet, lectin, lentic, malice, maline, mantel, mantic, mantle, menial, mental, tamein, tenail, tincal, tineal.

-3 letters: actin, alien, aline, ament, amice, amine, amnic, anile, anime, antic, camel, claim, clean, cleat, clime, cline, eclat, elain, elint, email, enact, entia, ileac, inlet, lance, laten, leant, leman, liane, liman, limen, linac, macle, maile, malic, manic, matin, meant, melic, menta, metal, minae, mince, telia, telic, tenia, tical, tinea.

-4 letters: acme, acne, alec, alit, alme, amen, amie, amin, anil, ante, anti, cain, calm, came, cane, cant, cate, ceil, celt, cent, cine, cite, clam, clan, clit, elan, emic, emit, etic, etna, ilea, item, lace, laic, lain, lame, lane, late, lati, lean, lent, lice, lien, lima, lime, limn, line, lint, lite, mace, mail, main, male, malt, mane, mate, meal, mean, meat, melt, meta, mica, mice, mien, mile, milt, mina, mine, mint, mite, nail, name, neat, nema, nice, nite, tace, tael, tail, tain, talc, tale, tali, tame, teal, team, tela, tile, time, tine.

-5 letters: ace, act, ail, aim, ain, ait, ale, alt, ami, ane, ani, ant, ate, cam, can, cat, cel, eat, elm, eta, ice, lac, lam, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, mac, mae, man, mat, mel, men, met, mil, nae, nam, net, nil, nim, nit, tae, tam, tan, tea, tel, ten, tic, tie, til, tin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-n-t"
 

+1 letter: culminate, melanitic, melanotic, militance.

 

+2 letters: calumniate, catamenial, centesimal, centralism, colemanite, culminated, culminates, lemniscate, maleficent, melanistic, mercantile, militances, semantical.

 

+3 letters: amylopectin, analemmatic, calumniated, calumniates, centralisms, colemanites, condimental, curtailment, declamation, enigmatical, exclamation, incremental, kinematical, lemniscates, maledicting, malediction, malefaction, mantelpiece, mentalistic, metonymical, militancies, multiagency, nematicidal, nematocidal, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, planimetric, reclamation, retinaculum.

 

+4 letters: amylopectins, anecdotalism, anthelmintic, anticlimaxes, antileukemic, commonalties, compellation, complexation, componential, counterclaim, curtailments, declamations, displacement, emasculating, emasculation, exclamations, incommutable, incompatible, incomputable, kleptomaniac, magnetically, maledictions, malefactions, mantelpieces, mercantilism, mercantilist, metronomical, miscellanist, misplacement, monometallic, multichannel, multinuclear, multivalence, pinealectomy, reclamations, sectionalism, semantically, unacclimated.

 

+5 letters: anecdotalisms, anthelmintics, antimetabolic, catecholamine, ceremonialist, cinematically, cliometrician, commonalities, communalities, compellations, complexations, complimentary, conceptualism, conglomeratic, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, counterclaims, craftsmanlike, credentialism, criminalities, displacements, documentalist, documentarily, emasculations, endolymphatic, enigmatically, entomological, enzymatically, galactosamine, galvanometric, hermeneutical, incompatibles, incrementally, intercommunal, interlacement, intermetallic, kinematically, kleptomaniacs, magnificently, malfunctioned, masculinities, mercantilisms, mercantilists, metafictional, metencephalic, microfilament, miscellanists, misplacements, multibranched, multichannels, multinucleate, multivalences, mutagenically, nematological, neoplasticism, noncompatible, noncumulative, paleomagnetic, pneumatically, pneumatolytic, recompilation, sectionalisms, semitonically, triamcinolone, uncomplicated, unproblematic, unsymmetrical, vermiculation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MACILENT


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

4D 41 43 49 4C 45 4E 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)

01001101 01000001 01000011 01001001 01001100 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0043 0049 004C 0045 004E 0054

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

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

4735374346394854

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INDEX

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


  

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