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Catachrestic

Definition: Catachrestic

Catachrestic

Adjective

1. Constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis.

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

Synonym: Catachrestic

Synonym: catachrestical (adj). (additional references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Catachrestic

Derivations

Words beginning with "catachrestic": catachrestical, catachrestically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Catachrestic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cataphoretic. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Catachrestic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-h-i-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: architects, cathartics.

-3 letters: architect, attachers, catchiest, catechist, cathartic, cathectic, hatterias, theatrics, theriacas.

-4 letters: archaise, archaist, ariettas, aristate, attacher, attaches, castrate, castrati, catchers, catchier, cathects, chariest, chartist, chatters, chattier, chitters, citharas, citrates, cratches, cristate, ecstatic, hatteria, hetairas, ratchets, reattach, restitch, scattier, staccati, stitcher, tachiste, teacarts, theatric, theriaca, theriacs, tracheas.

-5 letters: achiest, aitches, archaic, arctics, arietta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-h-i-r-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: catachrestical, characteristic.

 

+3 letters: characteristics.

 

+4 letters: catachrestically, uncharacteristic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Catachrestic


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

43 61 74 61 63 68 72 65 73 74 69 63

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)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01100011 01101000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0061 0063 0068 0072 0065 0073 0074 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

376786676974847185867569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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