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Bleary-eyed

Definition: Bleary-eyed

Bleary-eyed

Adjective

1. Tired to the point of exhaustion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bleary-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)


Synonyms: Bleary-eyed

Synonyms: blear (adj), blear-eyed (adj), bleary (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Bleary-eyed

"Bleary-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bleary-eyed" is used about 34 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3459,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Bleary-eyed

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "bleary-eyed": yellow-bleary-eyed.

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

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Modern Translations: Bleary-eyed

Language Translations for "bleary-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

verschlafen (bleary, dozy, miss by oversleeping, oversleep, sleep away, sleep in, sleep through, sleepily, sleepy, to oversleep), übernächtigt (tired out). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θολά μάτια. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

目腐れ (bleary-eyed person). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

めくされ (bleary-eyed person). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eary-eyedblay

   

Russian 

  

осоловелый. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

con la vista nublada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

surögd. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งตาพร่ามัวและเหนื่อยล้า. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

короткозорий (dim-sighted, mope-eyed, myopic, near-sighted), з затуманеним поглядом. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bleary-eyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-l-r-y-y"

-3 letters: beeyard, belayed, bleared, bleeder, delayer, dryable, dyeable, eyeable, layered, relayed.

-4 letters: balder, barely, barley, beadle, belady, blared, bleary, brayed, bready, byrled, dealer, dearly, drably, dyable, eyebar, leader, leered, redbay, redeye, reeled, yarely, yearly.

-5 letters: abele, abler, alder, ardeb, badly, baldy, baled, baler, barde, bared, barye, bayed, beady, beard, bedel, beery, belay, beryl, blade.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bleary-eyed


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

42 6C 65 61 72 79 2D 65 79 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#45 &#101 &#121 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0065 0061 0072 0079 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064

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

3678716784911571917170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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