UNWISDOM

Definition: UNWISDOM

UNWISDOM

Noun

1. Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "UNWISDOM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

Crosswords: UNWISDOM

English words defined with "UNWISDOM": Unintelligence. (references)

Author	Quotation
Thomas Carlyle	In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to Say, Like People like Government.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"UNWISDOM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNWISDOM" 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 (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Language		Translations for "UNWISDOM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mosmaturi. (various references)

Arabic		‏حماقة (blindness, brainlessness, brutishness, crap, doltishness, dumbness, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, fat-wittedness, feeblemindedness, folly, foolery, gaffe, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, nonsense, rot, silliness, stupidity, thick-wittedness, tomfoolery, weak-mindedness), ‏طيش (foolishness, frivolity, impetuosity, imprudence, indiscretion, inexpediency, levity, libertinism, light-heartedness, lightness, prank, puerility, rashness, recklessness, temerity, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Bulgarian		глупост (density, fatuity, fatuousness, fiddlestick, foolishness, foppery, hokum, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, nonsense, puerility, silliness, simplicity, stupidity, stupidness, thick skull, trash, unreason), неблагоразумие (imprudence, indiscretion), безразсъдство. (various references)

Czech		nerozum (foolishness, unreason). (various references)

French		imprudence (unwariness). (various references)

Hungarian		oktalanság. (various references)

Pig Latin		isdomunway

Portuguese		insensatez (absurdity, folly, insanity, nonsense, unreason), incompreensão, imprudência (presumption, rashness), falta de inteligência, disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason). (various references)

Russian		глупость (asininity, crassitude, craziness, density, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, long ears, piffle, silliness, stupidity, unreason, witlessness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepromišljenost (light-head, mindlessness, thoughtlessness), nemudrost. (various references)

Turkish		akılsızlık (absurdness, fatuity, fatuousness, imprudence, stupidity, unreason, vacancy). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thiếu khôn ngoan. (various references)

Welsh		annoethineb (folly, imprudence), anghallineb (imprudence). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "UNWISDOM": unwisdoms. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "UNWISDOM" (pronounced 'Un*wis"dom'): Archdukedom, Birthdom, Boredom, Churchdom, Freedom, kingdom, Peerdom, Popedom, Princedom, Queendom, Rhabdom, Saintdom, seldom, subkingdom, Swelldom, thraldom, Unseldom, Uppertendom, Whoredom, Wisdom. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-m-n-o-s-u-w"
	-2 letters: disown, indows, mounds, nudism, odiums, osmund, sodium, swound, wisdom, wounds.
	-3 letters: doums, downs, duomi, indow, minds, minus, misdo, modus, mound, munis, muons, nidus, nodus, odium, onium, sound, swoun, winds, winos, wound.
	-4 letters: dims, dins, doms, dons, doum, down, dows, duns, duos, ions, mids, mind, miso, modi, mods, mons, mown, mows, muds, muni, muns.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-m-n-o-s-u-w"
	+1 letter: unwisdoms.
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