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Definition: Disapproved |
DisapprovedAdjective1. Not approved; "the disapproved tax proposal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disapproved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Antonym: approved (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disapproved |
| English words defined with "disapproved": censured, condemned ♦ illegitimately, illicitly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disapproved": Disapprove. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She disapproved them, which ought to have been enough. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | More than 80 percent of seniors disapproved of people trying LSD once or twice, and almost 93 percent disapproved of people taking LSD regularly. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | In practice the courts ignore the theoretical distinction and frequently convict members of disapproved Muslim groups under both statutes. (references) |
Economic History | Switzerland | An investment or joint venture by a foreign firm could be disapproved on grounds of competition policy, although there is no indication that this possibility will have a discriminatory effect. (references) |
Costa Rica | Cellular services provider Millicom had its contract cancelled by the Supreme Court, which disapproved of the way the contract was written by the government to skirt the legal barriers to private sector participation in the telecommunications market. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | A 1998 study reported that 51 percent of all women who had undergone FGM were excised before the age of 1, and 85 percent of total excisions were performed on girls under the age of 15. A 1999 survey indicated that more than 50 percent of the women who had undergone FGM indicated that they disapproved of the practice. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | No strikes were disapproved during the year, and five legal strikes were held. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. |
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| "Disapproved" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 71.35% of the time. "Disapproved" is used about 192 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 tense) | 71.35% | 137 | 27,138 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 27.08% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 192 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "disapproved": disapproved-of. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disapproved"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 不许可 (Disapprove, Disapproving, impermissible, INADMISSIBLE). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | réprouvai, réprouvée, réprouvâmes, réprouva. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | missbilligte (deprecated), missbilligetem. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 부인하". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | isapprovedday осуждать неодобренный. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Disapproved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disimproved. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disapproved" (pronounced di'supruw"vd) |
| 6 | -u p r uw" v d | approved, unapproved. |
| 5 | -p r uw" v d | disproved, improved, proved, unimproved, unproved. |
| 3 | -uw" v d | moved, removed, unmoved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-o-p-p-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: disapprove. | |
-2 letters: didappers, disproved, vaporised. | |
-3 letters: apprised, approved, approves, avodires, avoiders, diaspore, didapper, dispread, disprove, dropsied, overpaid, parodied, parodies, provided, provides, roadside, vaporise. | |
-4 letters: adipose, advised, adviser, advisor, apposed, apposer, apprise, approve, aspired, avodire, avoided, avoider, deodars, despair, devisor, devoirs, diapers, dippers, dripped, dropped, ovaries, overdid, oversad, padders, paddies, parvise, paviors, paviser, periods, praised. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 61 70 70 72 6F 76 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s a p p r o v e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0061 0070 0070 0072 006F 0076 0065 0064 |
| 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)3875856782828481887170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, 중국, китайский, китаец |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, "랑스, французский |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, 독일, немецкий |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, 영국, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Historic | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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