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Dispiritedly

Definition: Dispiritedly

Dispiritedly

Adverb

1. In a dispirited manner without hope; "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances".

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

Date "dispiritedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references)


Synonym: Dispiritedly

Synonym: hopelessly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dispiritedly

English words defined with "dispiritedly": hopelessly. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Dispiritedly

"Dispiritedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dispiritedly" is used about 11 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%11106,044

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

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Modern Translation: Dispiritedly

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

German

  

mutlose (despondently, faintheartedly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csüggedten (despondently, pusillanimously). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ispiritedlyday

   

Vietnamese 

  

mất nhuệ khí, mất hăng hái, chán nản (chop, crest-fallen, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, despondingly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, hatchet, heartsick, heavy, long, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenful, spleenish, spleeny). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dispiritedly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-i-l-p-r-s-t-y"

-2 letters: dispirited, spiritedly.

-4 letters: dispirit, lyddites, piddlers, priestly, pyelitis, riptides, spirited, tiddlers, tiderips.

-5 letters: dirtied, dirties, dirtily, ditsier, dreidls, idylist, ileitis, lipides, lyddite, piddler, piddles, pitiers, pyrites, resplit, riddles, ridleys, riptide, siltier, spidery, spirted, striped, tepidly, tiddler, tiderip, tidiers, tipsier, tipsily, tiredly, tripled, triples.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dispiritedly


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

44 69 73 70 69 72 69 74 65 64 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 01110000 01101001 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#112 &#105 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#100 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0070 0069 0072 0069 0074 0065 0064 006C 0079

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

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

387585827584758671707891

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INDEX

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


  

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