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Clewless

Definition: Clewless

Clewless

Adjective

1. Totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring.

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

Synonym: Clewless

Synonym: clueless (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Clewless

Specialty definitions using "clewless": maiden. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: Clewless

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide geographical distribution, being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow, and, with regard to the part of her that is audible, bleating out of the field by the canary -- which, also, is more portable. A lovelorn maiden she sat and sang -- This quaint, sweet song sang she; "It's O for a youth with a football bang And a muscle fair to see! The Captain he Of a team to be! On the gridiron he shall shine, A monarch by right divine, And never to roast on it -- me!" Opoline Jones
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: Clewless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-l-s-s-w"
	-2 letters: selles, swells.
	-3 letters: cells, clews, seels, selle, sells, slews, swell, wells.
	-4 letters: cees, cell, cels, cess, clew, eels, ells, else, eses, ewes, lees, less, secs, seel, sees, sell, sels, sews, slew, weel, wees, well.
	-5 letters: cee, cel, eel, ell, els, ess, ewe, lee, sec, see, sel, sew, wee.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-l-s-s-w"
	+4 letters: callownesses.
	+5 letters: lowerclassmen.
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Alternative Orthography: Clewless

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

43 6C 65 77 6C 65 73 73

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 01101100 01100101 01110111 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#101 &#119 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0065 0077 006C 0065 0073 0073

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

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

3778718978718585

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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