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Unexcited

Definition: Unexcited

Unexcited

Adjective

1. Not excited; "made an unexcited appraisal of the situation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unexcited" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references)


Antonym: excited (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unexcited

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

Excitability

Temperate; (moderate); composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting.

Insensibility

Unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck; unblushing; (shameless); unanimated; vegetative.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Unexcited

"Unexcited" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unexcited" is used about 8 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%8124,375

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

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Modern Translation: Unexcited

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

German

  

ruhig (calm, calmly, cold, collectedly, composed, composedly, easeful, easy, level, orderly, peaceable, peaceful, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiescently, quiet, quietly, relaxed, reposeful, restful, restfully, sedate, sedately, self-composed, serene, silent, smooth, smoothly, staid, steadily, steady, still, stilly, subdued, tranquil, tranquilly, uneventful, unflustered, unharried, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδιέγερτοσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tranquillo (calm, cool, easy, even tempered, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, quiet, restful, secure, smooth, still, tranquil), calmo (calm, composed, cool, equal, even tempered, halcyon, passionless, peaceable, quiet, sedate, serene, settled, silent, silently, smooth, still, tranquil). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

excitedunay

   

Turkish

  

heyecansız (lowpitched, nonchalant, passionless, unemotional, unexciting, unimpassioned, unsensational). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unexcited

Misspellings

"Unexcited" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ulexite, unexcite. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Unexcited

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-n-t-u-x"

-1 letter: inductee.

-2 letters: detinue, enticed, excited.

-3 letters: deceit, decent, dunite, edenic, endite, entice, excide, excite, exeunt, exited, extend, induce, induct, united, untied.

-4 letters: centu, cited, cutie, cutin, deice, deuce, dexie, diene, dunce, edict, educe, educt, endue, etude, exine, exude, index, indue, niece, nixed, nudie, teind, tined, tuned, tunic, undee, unite, untie, xenic.

-5 letters: cede, cedi, cent.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-n-t-u-x"
 

+3 letters: inexactitude.

 

+4 letters: inexactitudes.

 

+5 letters: contextualized, excommunicated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unexcited


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

55 6E 65 78 63 69 74 65 64

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)

01010101 01101110 01100101 01111000 01100011 01101001 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#101 &#120 &#99 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0065 0078 0063 0069 0074 0065 0064

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

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

558071906975867170

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INDEX

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


  

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