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SUBDOLOUS

Definition: SUBDOLOUS

SUBDOLOUS

Adjective

1. Sly; crafty; cunning; artful.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Subdolous \Sub"do*lous\, adjective. [Latin expression subdolus, sub dolus deceit.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: SUBDOLOUS

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

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "SUBDOLOUS"

Words rhyming with "SUBDOLOUS" (pronounced 'Sub"do*lous'): Acanthocephalous, Acarpellous, Acephalous, Achilous, Acholous, Achylous, Acidulous, Adenophyllous, Amphibolous, Amyelous, Androcephalous, Anemorphilous, Angulous, Anhelous, Anisodactylous, Anisophyllous, Anomalous, Anomophyllous, Anthophilous, Antibillous, Antivariolous, Apellous, Aphyllous, Arenulous, Argillous, Artiodactylous, Aurocephalous, Autocephalous, Basylous, benevolous, Biangulous, Bibulous, Bicephalous, Calculous, Callous, Cancellous, Caryophyllous, Cautelous, Cavernulous, Cephalous, Chylous, Corpusculous, Credulous, Daedalous, Decaphyllous, Dedalous, Fibrillous, Filipendulous, fistulous, Flosculous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SUBDOLOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-l-o-o-s-s-u-u"

-3 letters: bloods, obolus.

-4 letters: blood, bolds, bolos, bolus, lobos, lusus, obols, slobs, slubs, soldo, solos, solus, souls, sulus.

-5 letters: bods, bold, bolo, boos, boss, buds, buss, dols, doss, dubs, duos, lobo, lobs, loos, loss, loud, obol, olds, ouds, slob, slub, sobs, sods, sold, solo, sols, soul, sous, subs, suds, sulu, udos, ulus.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SUBDOLOUS


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

53 55 42 44 4F 4C 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)

01010011 01010101 01000010 01000100 01001111 01001100 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#66 &#68 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0042 0044 004F 004C 004F 0055 0053

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

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

535536384946495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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