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Definition: UNBLEST |
UNBLESTAdjective1. Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched. |
Date "UNBLEST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need. |
Disapprobation | Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting. |
Exemption | Adjective: exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "UNBLEST" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNBLEST" is used about 5 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "UNBLEST": unblest with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "UNBLEST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | ملعون (Cursed, Cussed, Execrable, Foul, Unblessed), نامیمون (Inauspicious, Ominous, Sinister, Unblessed), نامبارک (Inauspicious), بینوا (Destitute, Poor, Unblessed), بدبخت (Gray, Infelicitous, Miserable, Sorry, Unblessed, Unfortunate, Unhappy, Woeful, Wretch, Wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | άθλιοσ (abject, beastly, beggarly, caitiff, forlorn, miserable, putrid, scullion, squalid, unblessed, villainous, wretched), Ανευλόγητοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | neuvannit (unblessed), neuvannee (unblessed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | estunblay bất hạnh (ill-fated, unhappy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sunbelt, unbelts. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bluest, bluets, blunts, bustle, butles, lunets, sublet, subnet, subtle, unbelt. | |
-2 letters: belts, bents, blent, blest, blets, blues, bluet, blunt, bunts, butes, butle, lubes, lunes, lunet, lunts, lutes, tubes, tules, tunes, unlet, unset. | |
-3 letters: bels, belt, bens, bent, best, bets, blet, blue, buns, bunt, bust, bute, buts, lens, lent, lest, lets, lube, lues, lune. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abluents, bluntest, bustline, sunbelts, unstable, unsubtle. | |
+2 letters: betelnuts, bluestone, bluntness, bulletins, buntlines, bustlines, butylenes, nubbliest, subaltern, unstabler. | |
+3 letters: bluepoints, blueprints, bluestones, blustering, buttonless, doubletons, nebulosity, nubilities, subalterns, subcentral, subletting, subtleness, turntables, unstablest, unsuitable, untestable. | |
+4 letters: bladdernuts, blanquettes, bluebonnets, bluetongues, bluntnesses, botulinuses, bounteously, buttonholes, construable, cuttlebones, ebullitions, infibulates, inscrutable, isobutylene, obnubilates, outbalances, outblessing, returnables, roundtables, subinterval, subjacently, subterminal, subtileness, sustainable, tuberculins, tunableness, turbulences, turnbuckles, unballasted, unstoppable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 42 4C 45 53 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -... .-.. . ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01000010 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N B L E S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0042 004C 0045 0053 0054 |
| 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)55483646395354 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, Greagish, Greagagh, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 'ιετναμέζος, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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