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Definition: Blameful |
BlamefulAdjective1. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blameful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonyms: BlamefulSynonyms: blamable (adj), blameable (adj), blameworthy (adj), censurable (adj), culpable (adj). (additional references) |
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Tongue Twisters | Whereat with blade, with bloody, blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "blameful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | tadelnswürdig. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | υπεύθυνοσ (accountable, liable, reliable, responsible). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | biasimevole (blameworthy, censurable, condemnable, objectionable, reprehensible), riprovevole (blameworthy, despicable, reprehensible). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | amefulblay de blamat, condamnabil (blamable, blameworthy, chargeable, condemnable, culpable, damnable, damnably, damnatory, detestable, impeachable, imputable, indictable, reprehensible, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blameful": blamefully. (additional references) | |
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"Blameful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beakerful, blumenfeld, lineful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "blameful" (pronounced 'Blame"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful, Debateful. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-l-l-m-u" | |
-1 letter: baleful. | |
-2 letters: befall, bullae, flambe, fullam, fumble. | |
-3 letters: album, amble, blame, blume, bulla, fable, fella, flame, fleam, flume, label, mulla, ulema, umbel. | |
-4 letters: able, alef, alme, alum, bale, ball, balm, beam, beau, bell, bema, blae, blam, blue, bull, bumf, fall, fame, feal, fell, flab, flam, flea, flub, flue, fuel, full, fume, lamb, lame, leaf. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-l-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: flabellum. | |
+2 letters: blamefully. | |
+4 letters: emulsifiable. | |
+5 letters: liebfraumilch. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 6D 65 66 75 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- -- . ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a m e f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 006D 0065 0066 0075 006C |
| 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)3678677971728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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