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PECUNIOUS

Definition: PECUNIOUS

PECUNIOUS

Adjective

1. Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: PECUNIOUS

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

Wealth

Flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin; in funds, in cash, in full feather; solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: PECUNIOUS

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

Romanian

  

cu bani (heeled, moneyed), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off), avut (had, moneyed, propertied, prosperous, rich, wealthy, well off, well to do). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PECUNIOUS

Derivations

Words ending with "PECUNIOUS": impecunious. (additional references)

Words containing "PECUNIOUS": impecuniously, impecuniousness, impecuniousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PECUNIOUS"

Words rhyming with "PECUNIOUS" (pronounced 'Pe*cu"ni*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PECUNIOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-o-p-s-u-u"

-2 letters: piceous, pounces.

-3 letters: conies, copens, copies, cosine, coupes, cousin, icones, incuse, opines, oscine, ounces, ponces, ponies, pounce, puisne, supine.

-4 letters: cines, cions, coins, cones, conus, copen, copes, copse, cosie, coupe, coups, eosin, epics, icons, incus, noise, onces, opens, opine, opsin, ounce, peins, penis, peons, pines, pions, pious, pisco, poise, ponce, pones, puces, scion.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-o-p-s-u-u"
 

+2 letters: impecunious.

 

+4 letters: impecuniously.

 

+5 letters: auspiciousness, micropunctures, proventriculus, pugnaciousness, repunctuations, superinduction, suspiciousness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PECUNIOUS


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

50 45 43 55 4E 49 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)

01010000 01000101 01000011 01010101 01001110 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#67 &#85 &#78 &#73 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0043 0055 004E 0049 004F 0055 0053

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

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

503937554843495553

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INDEX

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


  

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