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Definition: Discombobulated |
DiscombobulatedAdjective1. Having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion; "the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand"; "looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted"- G.B.Shaw. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DiscombobulatedSynonym: disconcerted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Discombobulated |
| English words defined with "discombobulated": disconcerted. (references) |
| "Discombobulated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Discombobulated" is used about 2 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
discombobulated | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "discombobulated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | abstrus. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verworren (complicated, confused, confusedly, intricate, involved, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, nebulous, obscure, perplexed, promiscuous, promiscuously, turbid, woolly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | astruso (abstruse, recondite). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscombobulatedday tortuoso (anfractuous, circuitous, devious, snaky, tortuous, winding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Discombobulated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dicombobulated, discombobbulated, discombobolate, discombobulat, discombogulate, discombogulated, discombojulate, discombolulated, discombombulated, discomboobulate, discombopulated, discombubulate, discombubulated, disconbobulate, disconbobulated, discumbobulated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-d-d-e-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: discombobulate. | |
-4 letters: automobiled, automobiles, combustible, duodecimals. | |
-5 letters: automobile, columbites, dislocated, duodecimal, duodecimos, misdoubted, mislocated, outclimbed, outscolded, subdialect, sublimated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 63 6F 6D 62 6F 62 75 6C 61 74 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. --- -- -... --- -... ..- .-.. .- - . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100010 01101111 01100010 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s c o m b o b u l a t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0063 006F 006D 0062 006F 0062 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585698179688168877867867170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, tedesco, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italien, italienisch, italiano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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