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Definition: Disillusioning |
DisillusioningAdjective1. Freeing from illusion or false belief. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disillusioning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Synonym: DisillusioningSynonym: disenchanting (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: disillusion (medicine). |
| "Disillusioning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Disillusioning" is used about 6 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 (-ing form) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disillusioning": disenchanting disillusioning. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "disillusioning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 幻灭 (disillusioned). (various references) | ||||
German | desillusionierend (disenchanting). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | kiábrándulás (balk, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, jolt), kiábrándítás. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isillusioningday | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disillusioning" (pronounced di'suluw"zhuning) |
| 5 | -zh u n i ng | envisioning, provisioning. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, enlightening, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: disillusion. | |
-5 letters: disunions, idolising, illusions, insidious, insouling, linguinis, lionising, soundings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 69 6C 6C 75 73 69 6F 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .. .-.. .-.. ..- ... .. --- -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s i l l u s i o n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0069 006C 006C 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875857578788785758180758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , német |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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