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Coldhearted

Definition: Coldhearted

Coldhearted

Adjective

1. Lacking in sympathy or feeling.

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

Date "coldhearted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)


Antonym: warmhearted (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Coldhearted

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coldhearted

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coldhearted

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coldhearted

Language Translations for "coldhearted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

kaltherzig. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kőszívű (callous, have a heart of flint, he's as hard as a flint, stony-hearted). (various references)

   

Italian

  

insensibile (callous, dead, hard-hearted, heartless, heartlessly, imperceptible, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, loveless, thick skinned, thick-skinned, unfeeling, ungiving, unkind, unkindly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

情知らず (pitiless), 情け知らず (pitiless), 冷たい (chilly, cold, freezing, icy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

なさけしらず (pitiless), つめたい (chilly, cold, freezing, icy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldheartedcay

   

Thai

  

ที่ใจไม่รู้สึกรู้สา. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

katı yürekli (hard-hearted, insensitive, obdurate, unrelenting), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coldhearted

Derivations

Words beginning with "coldhearted": coldheartedly, coldheartedness, coldheartednesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Coldhearted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coldheart. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Coldhearted

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-h-l-o-r-t"

-2 letters: corelated, decorated, leotarded, reclothed, relocated, tracheole, trochleae.

-3 letters: chelated, chelator, chlorate, chordate, chortled, coheaded, coleader, corelate, declared, decorate, decretal, dehorted, detached, detacher, haltered, hectored, heralded, lathered, reclothe, recoaled, redacted, reloaded, relocate, threaded, tochered, trachled, treadled, trochlea.

-4 letters: adhered, alerted, altered, caroled, catered, cathode, cerated, charted, cheated, cheater, cheddar, chelate, cholate, cholera, chorale, chordal.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-h-l-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: coldheartedly, dechlorinated.

 

+4 letters: coldheartedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Coldhearted


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

43 6F 6C 64 68 65 61 72 74 65 64

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 01101111 01101100 01100100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#108 &#100 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 0064 0068 0065 0061 0072 0074 0065 0064

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

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

3781787074716784867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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