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Blameful

Definition: Blameful

Blameful

Adjective

1. 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: Blameful

Synonyms: blamable (adj), blameable (adj), blameworthy (adj), censurable (adj), culpable (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Blameful

DomainUsage

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.

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Modern Translations: Blameful

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

   

Romanian

  

de blamat, condamnabil (blamable, blameworthy, chargeable, condemnable, culpable, damnable, damnably, damnatory, detestable, impeachable, imputable, indictable, reprehensible, wicked). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Blameful

Derivations

Words beginning with "blameful": blamefully. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Blameful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beakerful, blumenfeld, lineful. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Blameful"

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)

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Anagrams: Blameful

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Blameful


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

42 6C 61 6D 65 66 75 6C

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)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#102 &#117 &#108

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)

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

3678677971728778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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