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UNFILIAL

Definition: UNFILIAL

UNFILIAL

Adjective

1. Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNFILIAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)


Crosswords: UNFILIAL

Specialty definitions using "UNFILIAL": Regan and Goneril. (references)

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Modern Translation: UNFILIAL

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

Bulgarian 

  

несиновен, непочтителен (disrespectful, irreverent), непокорен (contumacious, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, indocile, insubordinate, rambunctious, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, restive, tumultuous, unbowed, uncontrollable, undutiful, unruly, unsubdued, unsubmissive, untoward, wayward). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(disobedient). (various references)

   

German

  

respektlos (disrespectful, disrespectfully, impious, impiously, irreverent, irreverently, unfilially, unrespectful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hálátlanul viselkedő, gyengédtelenül viselkedő, fiúi tiszteletet nem tanúsító, fiúi szeretetet nem tanúsító. (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuvacoil. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilialunfay

   

Turkish

  

saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, ungalant, unmannerly), evlâda yakışmaz. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không đúng với đạo l m con, bất hiếu (impious). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNFILIAL

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNFILIAL": unfilially. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "UNFILIAL"

Words rhyming with "UNFILIAL" (pronounced 'Un*fil"ial'): Congenial, filial. (additional references)

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Anagrams: UNFILIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-l-l-n-u"

-2 letters: filial, finial, infall.

-3 letters: final, flail, ilial.

-4 letters: alif, anil, fail, fain, fall, faun, fila, fill, flan, full, ilia, inia, lain, luna, naif, nail, nill, null, ulan, ulna, unai.

-5 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, fan, fil, fin, flu, fun, ill, lin, nil.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-l-l-n-u"
 

+2 letters: unfilially.

 

+3 letters: influential, trifluralin, unfailingly.

 

+4 letters: disdainfully, fungicidally, influentials, interfluvial, trifluralins, unfamiliarly, unifoliolate, unofficially.

 

+5 letters: faunistically, influentially, multifilament, nullification, sulfanilamide, unfalsifiable, unqualifiedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNFILIAL


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

55 4E 46 49 4C 49 41 4C

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 01001110 01000110 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#70 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0046 0049 004C 0049 0041 004C

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

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

5548404346433546

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INDEX

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


  

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