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Disconcertingly

Definition: Disconcertingly

Disconcertingly

Adverb

1. In a disturbing or embarrassing manner; "he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her".

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

Date "disconcertingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)


Usage Frequency: Disconcertingly

"Disconcertingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disconcertingly" is used about 70 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%7039,981

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

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Modern Translation: Disconcertingly

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

French

  

gênante. (various references)

   

German

  

peinliche (distressingly, embarrassingly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyugtalanítóan (discomposingly, disturbingly), lehangolóan (depressingly, dismally, distressingly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isconcertinglyday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Disconcertingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-y"

-2 letters: disconcerting.

-3 letters: coincidently, discerningly.

-4 letters: cloistering, codirecting, considering, constringed, cylindering, reconciling, tyrocidines.

-5 letters: clingstone, clitorides, clonidines, coincident, conceiting, concerting, concertini, concreting, constringe, creolising, crinolined, crinolines, cryogenics, destroying, dicentrics, directions, discerning, disconcert, disconnect, discretion, encircling, enticingly, ergodicity, glyceridic, glycosidic, grindstone, indirectly, niccolites, relictions, renditions, rescinding, sectioning, soldiering, stenciling, stringency, stringendo, tyrocidine, tyrocidins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Disconcertingly


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

44 69 73 63 6F 6E 63 65 72 74 69 6E 67 6C 79

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)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0063 006F 006E 0063 0065 0072 0074 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

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

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

387585698180697184867580737891

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Disconcertingly"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, francia

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionallemand, német

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításhongrois, Ungar, magyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, angol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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