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Definition: Carious |
CariousAdjective1. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Carious \Ca"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression cariosus, from caries dacay.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: CariousSynonym: rotten. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Carious |
| English words defined with "carious": Fever sore ♦ Rotten stone ♦ Scalping iron. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carious": Dental Pulp Exposure. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | The detection and treatment of early carious lesions by nonsurgical measures has considerable potential to further the reduction of this burden. (references) | |
Additionally, carious lesions occur in a variety of anatomic locations, often adjacent to existing restorations, and have unique aspects of configuration and rate of spread. (references) | ||
Such studies will promote true staging of carious lesions, based on highly sensitive and specific diagnoses, followed by appropriate, linked, treatment-planning decision algorithms. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Carious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carious" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "carious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me karies, i kalbur (carrion, corrupt, decayed, putrid, rotten, rotting, saprogenic, saprogenous, tainted, unsound), i gërryer (honeycombed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نخر (gnaw, grunt, rot, sneer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кариозен, загнил (carrion, stagnant, unsound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 骨. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | shnilý (putrid, rotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kariøs defekt (carious defect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | caries dentium (carious defect, dentinal caries), caries dentalis (carious defect, dentinal caries), tandcariës (carious defect, dentinal caries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carié. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kariös (decayed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σάπιοσ (putrid, rotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | füge alakú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cariato (decayed, pumped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loau (bad, bad as meat, corrupt, decayed, foul, gangrenous, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, rotted, rotten, stagnate, stale), carragh (crazy, rocky, rough, scab, scurfy, scurvy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ariouscay carioso, cariado. (various references) cariat (rotten). (various references) кариозный. (various references) kariozan. (various references) cariado (rotten). (various references) kariesangripen. (various references) çürümüş (black and blue, blue, decayed, decomposed, putrefacient, putrefactive, rotten, went bad), çürük (bad, bruise, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references) каріозний, гнилий (bad, carrion, putrescent, rotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "carious": precarious, scarious, vicarious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "carious": precariously, precariousness, precariousnesses, vicariously, vicariousness, vicariousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Carious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acarigua, Acroloxus, arious, cadious, caius, capious, caprious, caraque, Carcinus, cardious, Carios, cariosus, carous, Carpinus, Carrabus, Carzolus, catious, cavitous, Cerius, circinus, cirius, Coiruisk, corioos, coronopus, Cyriacus, dariyoun, Kerasous, parious, sarious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "carious" (pronounced 'Ca"ri*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: curiosa. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: curios, scoria, souari, soucar. | |
-2 letters: arcus, auric, auris, coirs, coria, curia, curio, orcas, scaur, scour. | |
-3 letters: airs, arco, arcs, asci, cars, ciao, coir, cors, cris, crus, curs, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, ours, rias, rocs, sari, scar, soar, sora, sori, sour, sura, uric, ursa. | |
-4 letters: air, ais, arc, ars, car, cis, cor, cos, cur. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: caribous, gracious, scarious. | |
+2 letters: atrocious, carousing, coumarins, cursorial, fractious, ocularist, ossicular, rapacious, suctorial, suctorian, veracious, vicarious, voracious. | |
+3 letters: acquisitor, alacritous, avaricious, binoculars, capricious, chivalrous, coriaceous, curvacious, dicumarols, discourage, ericaceous, furcations, glycosuria, graciously, incubators, miraculous, obduracies, ocularists, precarious, predacious, rusticator, suctorians, supraoptic, ultrasonic, unactorish, ungracious. | |
+4 letters: acquisitors, acrimonious, aeronautics, arenicolous, astronautic, atrociously, auctioneers, autocracies, buccinators, cafetoriums, calciferous, carnivorous, chiaroscuro, circulators, coinsurance, commissural, contrarious, cornucopias, coruscating, coruscation, cultivators, curatorship, customarily, dicoumarins, dicoumarols, discouraged, discourager, discourages, duplicators, elucidators, enunciators, eructations, farinaceous, fractiously, glycosurias, ichthyosaur, inculcators, inoculators, lactiferous, lubricators, microfaunas, microquakes, nonsurgical, obscurantic, obscuration, oceanariums, oversaucing, precautions, procambiums, rapaciously, rubricators, rustication, rusticators, scoriaceous, staurolitic, subcortical, subtraction, subtropical, surrogacies, thiouracils, truncations, ulcerations, ultrasonics, urtications, veraciously, vicariously, voraciously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
| 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)37678475818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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