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Definition: Canty |
CantyAdjective1. (British) lively and brisk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
"Canty" is a common misspelling or typo for: Candy, Canny, Cant, Canteen, Canto, Catty, Scanty. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "canty" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Canty | Last name | 4,000 | 3,097 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
canty thomas | 8 |
kevin canty | 3 |
canty patrick | 2 |
chris canty | 2 |
canty school | 2 |
canty | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "canty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, lively, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antycay contente (content, contented, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, jolly, joyful, mirthful, pleased, satisfied, triumphant), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocularity, jollier, jolly, jovial, liven, mellow, merry, merry andrew, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), folgazão (frolic, from, gamester, jolly, merry, rakish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, volatile), divertido (amused, amusing, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gander, gay, hilarity, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), bem disposto (agreeable, cheerful, jaunty, jolly, orderly, peas, tidy, well disposed), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, Corky, divertissement, entertainment, exhilarated, fester, festively, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday maker, jaunty, jocular, jocundity, jolly, joviality, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larkspur, laughing, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly). (various references) veseo (blithe, blithesome, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), životan (vital). (various references) alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references) glad (bonny, bright, cheerful, cheery, Chirk, chirpy, debonair, delighted, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, happy, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased). (various references) веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), житт"радісний (blithe, buoyant, chirpy, exuberant, jocund, resilient). (various references) vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "canty": scanty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "canty" (pronounced ka"ntē) |
| 5 | k a" n t ē | scanty. |
| 4 | -a" n t ē | ante, anti, Auntie, panty, Shanti, shanty, vigilante. |
| 3 | -n t ē | aplenty, appointee, bounty, certainty, cognoscenti, county, dainty, diamante, flinty, inti, jaunty, Monte, ninety, plenty, pointy, seventy, sovereignty, twenty, uncertainty, warranty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: cant, cyan. | |
-2 letters: act, ant, any, can, cat, cay, nay, tan. | |
-3 letters: an, at, ay, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: chanty, scanty. | |
+2 letters: anticly, chantey, chantry, cyanate, cyanite, latency, nectary, patency, scantly, snatchy, tachyon, tenancy, truancy. | |
+3 letters: analytic, ancestry, anticity, antipyic, blatancy, caninity, cartoony, caryotin, catenary, centaury, chanteys, contrary, corybant, cyanates, cyanites, cyanitic, cyanotic, dynastic, enactory, hyacinth, instancy, intimacy, minacity, octonary, sanctify, sanctity, scantily, secantly, stanchly, synaptic, syncytia, tachyons, tangency, tenacity, tympanic, tyrannic, uncatchy, vacantly, yachting, yachtman, yachtmen. | |
+4 letters: acetylene, acylating, acylation, adjunctly, adjutancy, analytics, anciently, ancientry, ankylotic, anthocyan, antically, antimycin, antipyics, antonymic, appetency, asyndetic, baronetcy, cabinetry, candytuft, captaincy, carnality, carpentry, caryotins, centenary, centrally, certainly, certainty, chatoyant, clamantly, cognately, concavity, connately, constancy, contrasty, contumacy, copayment, corybants, countably, crayonist, dilatancy, dynamitic, enzymatic, exultancy, gymnastic, hesitancy, hyacinths, inexactly, insectary, intestacy, intricacy, mendacity, militancy, nystagmic, obstinacy, ontically, pachytene, peccantly, pentarchy, petulancy, pugnacity, rancidity, sanctuary, stagnancy, staunchly, sycophant, syncopate, syncytial, syndicate, syntactic, thylacine, tonically, unclarity, untypical, yachtings, yachtsman, yachtsmen. | |
+5 letters: accidently, acetifying, acetylenes, acetylenic, actionably, actomyosin, acylations, adjacently, advertency, analytical, anthocyans, antimycins, antipiracy, anxiolytic, bankruptcy, candytufts, canonicity, catalyzing, catchpenny, cautionary, centrality, chatoyance, chatoyancy, chatoyants, choanocyte, commentary, commonalty, constantly, contrarily, copayments, corybantes, corybantic, countryman, covalently, craniotomy, crayonists, cybernated, cysteamine, cystinuria, decadently, dictionary, dynamistic, ethnically, exactingly, expectancy, flatulency, gymnastics, iconolatry, importancy, inactively, inactivity, incapacity, inchoately, incubatory, indicatory, inveteracy, invocatory, isocyanate, itinerancy, laryngitic, lectionary, matronymic, melanocyte, myasthenic, mycetozoan, nautically, nematocyst, nonfaculty, nontypical, noticeably, nyctalopia, organicity, pachytenes, patronymic, playacting, postulancy, punctually, pyracantha, reluctancy, sanctimony, scathingly, subtenancy, sycophants, syncopated, syncopates, syncopator, syndactyly, syndicated, syndicates, syndicator, synoptical, syntactics, tackifying, thylacines, transiency, trenchancy, tympanitic, tyrannical, unchastely, unchastity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 0074 0079 |
| 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)3767808691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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