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UNPITIED

Definition: UNPITIED

UNPITIED

Adjective

1. Pitiless; merciless.

2. Not pitied.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNPITIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)


Synonyms within Context: UNPITIED

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

Condemnation

Phrase: mutato nomine de te fabula narratur; "unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved".

Disapprobation

Unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Familiar Quotations: UNPITIED

AuthorQuotation

Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: UNPITIED

TitleAuthorQuote

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

But at hand, at hand, Ensues his piteous and unpitied end.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNPITIED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unpitied

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNPITIED

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

Turkish

  

merhametsiz (cruel, draconic, fell, inexorable, inhuman, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không ai thương xót (unlamented), không ai thương hại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "UNPITIED"

Words rhyming with "UNPITIED" (pronounced 'Un*pit"ied'): Able-bodied, Citied, Foistied, honied, Lilied, monied, Rosied, Unbusied, unembodied, unstudied. (additional references)

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Anagrams: UNPITIED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: dipnet, dunite, indite, pinite, pitied, pundit, punted, tiepin, tineid, united, untied.

-3 letters: indie, indue, inept, input, nitid, nudie, pined, teiid, teind, tepid, tined, tuned, unite, untie, upend.

-4 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dipt, dite, duet, duit, dune, dunt, dupe, edit, etui, inti, nide, nidi, nite, nude, pein, pend, pent, pied, pine, pint.

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

+2 letters: deputizing, inaptitude, ineptitude, punditries.

 

+3 letters: inaptitudes, ineptitudes, repudiating, repudiation.

 

+4 letters: deputization, indisputable, preinduction, profundities, repudiations.

 

+5 letters: deputizations, nondisruptive, platitudinize, plenitudinous, pneumonitides, preinductions, preindustrial, reduplicating, reduplication, serendipitous, superaddition, unanticipated, uncapitalized, underpainting, unparasitized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNPITIED


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

55 4E 50 49 54 49 45 44

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 01010000 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#80 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0050 0049 0054 0049 0045 0044

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

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

5548504354433938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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