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Definition: VIRTUELESS |
VIRTUELESSAdjective1. Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. |
Date "VIRTUELESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vice | Evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "VIRTUELESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | άνευ αρετήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irtuelessvay бесполезный (abortive, bootless, fatuous, feckless, fiddling, fruitless, futile, good for nothing, idle, inutile, naught, needless, nugatory, of no avail, otiose, unavailing, unhelpful, unprofitable, useless, valueless). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "VIRTUELESS" (pronounced 'Vir"tue*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Ambitionless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: leisters, leisures, revuists, rivulets, streusel, stuivers, sureties, surliest, surveils, tireless, vestries, vestures. | |
-3 letters: elusive, evilest, ileuses, ireless, leister, leisure, leviers, lievest, listees, listers, lusters, lustier, lustres, reissue, relists, relives, resiles, resites, restive, results, retiles, revests, reviles, revises, revuist, rivulet, ruliest, rustles, rutiles, seisure, servile, silvers, slivers, sterile, stivers, streels, strives, stuiver, suiters. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: lentiviruses, superlatives. | |
+3 letters: lucrativeness, subserviently, unassertively, volunteerisms. | |
+4 letters: diverticuloses, multiversities, overstimulates, revolutionises, ultrasensitive, universalities, vesicularities. | |
+5 letters: lucrativenesses, superelevations, superlativeness, verisimilitudes, voluntarinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 49 52 54 55 45 4C 45 53 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. .-. - ..- . .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01001001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V I R T U E L E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0049 0052 0054 0055 0045 004C 0045 0053 0053 |
| 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)56435254553946395353 |
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