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Definition: Disunited |
DisunitedAdjective1. 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: DisunitedSynonyms: disconnected (adj), fragmented (adj), split (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discord | Torn, disunited. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disunited |
| English words defined with "disunited": disconnected ♦ fragmented ♦ split. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disunited": Somebody else's. (references) |
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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? |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disunited": disunited gait. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 dezbinat (separately). (various references) oeniga (disagreed). (various references) bölünmüş (divided), ayrılmış (booked, disjointed, divided, divorced, estranged, isolated, reserved, segregate, set apart, set aside, split), araları bozulmuş. (various references) anghytu+n (discordant, not agreeing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Disunited" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disinvited. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 75 6E 69 74 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ..- -. .. - . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s u n i t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0075 006E 0069 0074 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585878075867170 |
| 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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