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Definition: Disinterestedly |
DisinterestedlyAdverb1. Without selfish motives; "He decided the case disinterestedly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disinterestedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: DisinterestedlySynonym: without bias (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Disinterestedly |
| English words defined with "disinterestedly": without bias. (references) |
| "Disinterestedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disinterestedly" is used about 9 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "disinterestedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | selbstlose (selflessly, unselfishly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | pártatlanul (evenly, impartially, unbiassedly, without fear or favour), közönyösen (apathetically, detachedly, stolidly, unconcernedly), közömbösen (impassively, indifferently, listlessly, unconcernedly), elfogulatlanul (detachedly, objectively, unbiasedly, unbiassedly, without bias), önzetlenül (magnanimously), érdek nélkül. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | disinteressamente. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 淡淡と語る (talk disinterestedly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | isinterestedlyday незацікавлено. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: disinterested. | |
-3 letters: interestedly. | |
-4 letters: dentistries, disentitled, disentitles, disinterest, dysenteries, enteritides, enteritises. | |
-5 letters: disentitle, entireties, eternities, interested, lienteries, reenlisted, serenities, sideliners, sinisterly, slenderest, stridently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 69 6E 74 65 72 65 73 74 65 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .. -. - . .-. . ... - . -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s i n t e r e s t e d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0069 006E 0074 0065 0072 0065 0073 0074 0065 0064 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585758086718471858671707891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , німкеня, німецький, німець |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, magyar, ungherese, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, olasz, italiano, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japaner, japanisch, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ukrán, ucraino, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol, inglese, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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