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VIRTUELESS

Definition: VIRTUELESS

VIRTUELESS

Adjective

1. Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VIRTUELESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: VIRTUELESS

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translations: VIRTUELESS

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

Greek 

  

άνευ αρετήσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irtuelessvay

   

Russian 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VIRTUELESS"

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)

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Anagrams: VIRTUELESS

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VIRTUELESS


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

56 49 52 54 55 45 4C 45 53 53

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)

01010110 01001001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#82 &#84 &#85 &#69 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#83

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)

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

56435254553946395353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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