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Definition: STUBBED |
STUBBEDAdjective1. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. 2. Abounding in stubs; stubby. 3. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. Imperative & past participle1. Of Stub |
Date "STUBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Shortness | Adjective: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STUBBED |
| English words defined with "STUBBED": Stubbedness. (references) |
| "STUBBED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "STUBBED" is used about 80 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 87.5% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 11.25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "STUBBED": stubbed-out. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stubbed toe | 11 |
stubbed | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STUBBED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скъсен (truncate), разчистен от пънове и коренища, отсечен (abrupt, curt, hewn, jerky, sharp, short), притъпен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 碰 (Stubbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rodete. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοντοκομμένοσ (close cut, stubby), σκληρόσ (bloody minded, callous, cold-hearted, cruel, crusty, flinty, hard, scirrhous, steely, stiff, stony, stubbly, tough, truculent), χονδρόσ (beefy, big, blocky, bluff, bouncing, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, crass, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, pursy, thick, thickset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 그루터기를 뽑". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubbedstay расшибать коренастый. (various references) desarraigar (deracinate, dig up, disroot, grub up, stub up, stubbing, tear up, uproot). (various references) укритий пнями, кремезний (burly, chunky, runty, solid, stocky, stubby, stumpy, upstanding), дужий (beefy, bouncing, hard, hefty, iron, lusty, nervous, nervy, pretty, robust, strapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STUBBED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shubber, Stubai, stube, stubed, stuben, stubie, tubbed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STUBBED" (pronounced stu"bd) |
| 3 | -u" b d | clubbed, drubbed, dubbed, rubbed, scrubbed, snubbed, subbed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bestud, busted, debuts, subbed, subdeb, tubbed. | |
-2 letters: bused, butes, debts, debut, duets, tubed, tubes. | |
-3 letters: beds, bedu, best, bets, bubs, buds, bust, bute, buts, debs, debt, dubs, dues, duet, dust, ebbs, stub, stud, sued, suet, teds, tube, tubs, used. | |
-4 letters: bed, bet, bub, bud, bus, but, deb, dub, due, ebb, eds, set, sub, sue. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: stubbled. | |
+5 letters: boatbuilders, subdebutante. | |
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