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SOMNAMBULISTIC

Definition: SOMNAMBULISTIC

SOMNAMBULISTIC

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SOMNAMBULISTIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)


Crosswords: SOMNAMBULISTIC

English words defined with "SOMNAMBULISTIC": Somnambular, Somnambulic. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SOMNAMBULISTIC

"SOMNAMBULISTIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SOMNAMBULISTIC" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SOMNAMBULISTIC

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

Arabic 

  

‏مسرنم نائم أثناء سيره. (various references)

   

French

  

somnambule (somnambulist). (various references)

   

German

  

schlafwandlerische, schlafwandlerisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπνοβατικόσ (sleepwalking, somnambulistical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omnambulisticsay

   

Romanian

  

lunatic (lunatic, moon-struck, somnambulist). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyurgezer (night walker, noctambulist, sleepwalker, sleepwalking, somnambulist). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

miên h nh (noctambulant, somnambulant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SOMNAMBULISTIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "SOMNAMBULISTIC": somnambulistically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SOMNAMBULISTIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sonambulistic, sumnambulistic. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SOMNAMBULISTIC"

Words rhyming with "SOMNAMBULISTIC" (pronounced 'Som*nam`bu*lis"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SOMNAMBULISTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-l-m-m-n-o-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: communalists, somnambulist, sublimations.

-3 letters: communalist, masculinist, monasticism, numismatics, simulations, sublimation.

-4 letters: absolutism, columnists, communists, numismatic, simulation, sublations, subminimal, summations.

-5 letters: ablutions, abutilons, aconitums, actinisms, actiniums, albinisms, albinotic, ambitions, ambitious, ammonitic, binomials, botulisms, cimbaloms, colistins, columnist, communist, iotacisms, laconisms, libations, luminisms, luminists, malicious, misclaims, miscounts, monastics, mosaicism, mosaicist, musicians, olibanums, outclimbs, sibilants, simoniacs, simulants, simulcast.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-i-l-m-m-n-o-s-s-t-u"
 

+4 letters: commensurabilities, somnambulistically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SOMNAMBULISTIC


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

53 4F 4D 4E 41 4D 42 55 4C 49 53 54 49 43

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)

01010011 01001111 01001101 01001110 01000001 01001101 01000010 01010101 01001100 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004D 004E 0041 004D 0042 0055 004C 0049 0053 0054 0049 0043

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

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

5349474835473655464353544337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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