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Disunited

Definition: Disunited

Disunited

Adjective

1. Having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group".

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

Date "disunited" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)


Synonyms: Disunited

Synonyms: disconnected (adj), fragmented (adj), split (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Disunited

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discord

Torn, disunited.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Disunited

English words defined with "disunited": disconnectedfragmentedsplit. (references)
Specialty definitions using "disunited": Somebody else's. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Disunited

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Disunited Kingdom?: 1800-1949 (reference)

  • Disunited States (reference)

  • James Joyce's disunited kingdom and the Irish dimension (reference)

  • The Disunited States: The Era of Civil War and Reconstruction (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Disunited

AuthorQuotation

Bhagavad Gita

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disunited

SubjectTopicQuote

Minorities

Czech Republic

Romani leaders themselves have had limited success in organizing their local communities, which often are disunited and where many are reluctant to foster contacts with the majority. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Disunited

"Disunited" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Disunited" is used about 12 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
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%8124,375
Lexical Verb (past participle)16.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (past tense)16.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%12N/A

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

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Expression: Disunited

Expression using "disunited": disunited gait. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Disunited

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

Czech

  

nejednotný (divided, patchy). (various references)

   

French

  

allure défectueuse (disunited gait). (various references)

   

German

  

trennte (disconnected, dissociated, segregated, sundered). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מפור×" (disparate, dispersed, loose, scattered). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megbontott. (various references)

   

Manx

  

scarrit (detached, disconnected, disengaged, distinguished, divorced, parted, separated, spaced, sundry), mee-unnaneyssit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isunitedday

   

Romanian

  

dezbinat (separately). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oeniga (disagreed). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bölünmüş (divided), ayrılmış (booked, disjointed, divided, divorced, estranged, isolated, reserved, segregate, set apart, set aside, split), araları bozulmuş. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

anghytu+n (discordant, not agreeing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Disunited

Misspellings

"Disunited" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disinvited. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Disunited

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: disunite, nudities, untidied, untidies.

-2 letters: distend, dunites, indited, indites, studdie, studied, tineids, unities.

-3 letters: didies, dinted, dunite, dunted, dusted, duties, indies, indite, indued, indues, inside, nudest, nudies, nudist, seniti, sudden, suited, teiids, teinds, tenuis, tidied, tidies, tineid, undies, united, unites, untied, unties.

-4 letters: deist, dents, didie, didst, diets, dined, dines, dints, dites, dudes, duets.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-i-n-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: definitudes.

 

+3 letters: discontinued, individuates.

 

+4 letters: attitudinised, dinucleotides, disquantitied, distinguished, interdiffused, superaddition, undissociated, undistributed.

 

+5 letters: industrialised, industrialized, superadditions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Disunited


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

44 69 73 75 6E 69 74 65 64

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 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#117 &#110 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0075 006E 0069 0074 0065 0064

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

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

387585878075867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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