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Definition: RECIDIVOUS |
RECIDIVOUSAdjective1. Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit. |
Etymology: Recidivous \Re*cid"i*vous\, adjective. [Latin expression recidivus, from recidere to fall back.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Adjective: receding; Verb: retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: RECIDIVOUS |
| Etymologies containing "RECIDIVOUS": recidivate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "RECIDIVOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | rückfällig (recidivistic, relapsed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | recidivo (recidivist, recidivistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecidivousray reincidente (backslider, recidivist, recidivistic, relapsing, repeater, second offender). (various references) sabıkalı (criminal, picaroon, previously convicted, recidivist, repeater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "RECIDIVOUS" (pronounced 'Re*cid"i*vous'): Acclivous, Ambilevous, Bivalvous, Coevous, Concavous, Confervous, Festivous, Flavous, Fulvous, Grandevous, Longevous, mischievous, Multicavous, Plentevous, Primevous, Proclivous, Recurvous, Salivous, Saxicavous, Torvous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-o-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: virucides. | |
-2 letters: codrives, diecious, discover, divorces, ovicides, sciuroid, virucide. | |
-3 letters: cirsoid, codrive, coursed, cruised, cursive, devious, devisor, devoirs, devours, divisor, divorce, ericoid, ivories, ovicide, sciurid, scoured, scrived, sourced, suicide, veridic, vicious, viroids, viscoid, visored, voicers, voiders. | |
-4 letters: cerous, cervid, ciders, civies, coders, corves, cosied, cosier, course, covers, credos, crouse, crudes, cruise, curies, curios, cursed, curved, curves, decors, devoir, devour, dicers, dicier, divers, dories, douser, drives, droves, durocs, escudo, iodise, irides, irised, roused, scored, scried, scrive, source, soured, uredos, videos, vireos, viroid, viscid, voiced, voicer, voices, voider. | |
-5 letters: cedis, ceros, cider, cires, civie, coder, codes, coeds, coirs, cords, cored, cores, corse, cosie, coude, coved, cover, coves, credo, cried, cries, crude, cruds, cruse, curds, cured, cures, curie, curio, curse, curve, decor, decos, dicer, dices, disci, disco, diver, dives, doers, doser, douce, douse, doves, dries, drive, drove, druse, duces, dures, duroc, duros, ecrus, eidos, euros, icier, iodic, irids, ivied, ivies, osier, ourie, overs, redos, resid, resod, riced, rices, rides, rived, rives, rosed, roues, rouse, roved, roves, score, scour, scrod, scudi, scudo, servo, sieur, sired, siver, sodic, sucre, sudor, uredo, ureic, verso, viced, vices, video, viers, vireo, vires, virid, virus, vised, visor, voces, voice, voids. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-o-r-s-u-v" | |
+3 letters: nondiscursive. | |
+4 letters: diverticuloses, diverticulosis, productivities. | |
+5 letters: overdiscounting. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 43 49 44 49 56 4F 55 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .. -.. .. ...- --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000011 01001001 01000100 01001001 01010110 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E C I D I V O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0043 0049 0044 0049 0056 004F 0055 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52393743384356495553 |
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