Disabused

Definition: Disabused

Disabused

Adjective

1. Freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth".

Date "disabused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Disabused

Synonyms: disabused(p) (adj), undeceived (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Disabused

English words defined with "disabused": undeceived. (references)

Etymologies containing "disabused": Disabuse. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Disabused

"Disabused" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.63% of the time. "Disabused" is used about 19 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)	52.63%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (past tense)	42.11%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	5.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Disabused

Language		Translations for "disabused"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		klärte auf, eines Besseren belehrt. (various references)

Pig Latin		isabusedday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Disabused

Misspellings
	"Disabused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disabase, dissabuse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Disabused"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disabused" (pronounced di'subyuw"zd)
6	-u b y uw" z d	abused.
4	-y uw" z d	accused, amused, bemused, confused, defused, diffused, excused, fused, infused, misused, mused, overused, recused, refused, suffused, transfused, underused, unused, used.
3	-uw" z d	bruised, cruised, enthused, oozed, perused, reused.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Disabused

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: disabuse, dissuade, subideas, subsided.
	-2 letters: baddies, biassed, buddies, disbuds, disused, subidea, subside.
	-3 letters: abided, abides, abused, abuses, adieus, asides, baddie, biased, biases, busied, busies, bussed, daises, dassie, daubed, daubes, disbud, dissed, disuse, issued, subsea, sudsed.
	-4 letters: abide, abuse, adieu, aided, aides, aside, assed, based, bases, basis, bassi, bauds, beads, beaus, bided, bides, bises, bused.
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