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Disenchanting

Definition: Disenchanting

Disenchanting

Adjective

1. Freeing from illusion or false belief.

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

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


Synonym: Disenchanting

Synonym: disillusioning (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Disenchanting

Etymologies containing "disenchanting": Disenchant. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Disenchanting

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Books

  • Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (reference)

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

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Image Slideshow: Disenchanting

Illustrations:
Disenchanting

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Expression: Disenchanting

Expression using "disenchanting": disenchanting disillusioning. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Disenchanting

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

Chinese 

  

é†'悟 (Disenchant, Disenchanted). (various references)

   

German

  

desillusionierend (disillusioning). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isenchantingday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Disenchanting

Derivations

Words beginning with "disenchanting": disenchantingly. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Disenchanting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-n-s-t"

-3 letters: chastening, descanting, destaining, discanting, disenchant, distancing, enchaining, enchanting, instancing.

-4 letters: actinides, andesitic, antigenic, ascending, chigetais, decanting, dehiscing, destining, detaching, detaining, encashing, enchasing, enhancing, ethicians, hastening, incanting, incensing, incidents, indenting, indicants, indicates, indigents, indignant, instanced, intending, naethings, nightside, snatching, snitching, stanching, tachinids, teachings.

-5 letters: actinide, adenitis, ancients, antigens, asthenic, canities, canniest, cannings, chaining, chanties.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-n-s-t"
 

+2 letters: disenchantingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Disenchanting


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

44 69 73 65 6E 63 68 61 6E 74 69 6E 67

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 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0065 006E 0063 0068 0061 006E 0074 0069 006E 0067

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

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

38758571806974678086758073

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Disenchanting"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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