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Definition: Bleary-eyed |
Bleary-eyedAdjective1. 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-eyedSynonyms: blear (adj), blear-eyed (adj), bleary (adj). (additional references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bleary-eyed": yellow-bleary-eyed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 осоловелый. (various references) con la vista nublada. (various references) surögd. (various references) ซึ่งตาพร่ามัวและเหนื่อยล้า. (various references) короткозорий (dim-sighted, mope-eyed, myopic, near-sighted), з затуманеним поглядом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 65 61 72 79 2D 65 79 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e a r y - e y e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 0061 0072 0079 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678716784911571917170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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