Down-to-earth

Definition: Down-to-earth

Down-to-earth

Adjective

1. Sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense".

Commercial Usage: Down-to-earth

Domain	Title
Books	Don't Gift-Wrap the Garbage: Down-To-Earth Daily Meditations for Women (reference) Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business (reference) On Your Own Again: The Down-To-Earth Guide to Getting Through a Divorce or Separation and Getting on With Your Life (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Down-to-earth

"Down-to-earth" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Down-to-earth" is used about 143 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)

Modern Translation: Down-to-earth

Language		Translations for "down-to-earth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		asiallinen (businesslike, matter-of fact, matter-of-fact, pertinent). (various references)

Hungarian		reális (down to earth, real), praktikus (practical, sensible), kézzelfogható (concrete, evident, palpable, tactile, tangible). (various references)

Pig Latin		own-to-earthday

Portuguese		realista (cavalier, realist, realistic, royalist), prático (adept, convenient, matter-of-fact, operative, pilot, practical, practitioner, realistic, skilled). (various references)

Russian		практический (appl applied, economic, hands-on, practical). (various references)

Thai		เป็นจริง (hard). (various references)

Vietnamese		thực tế (actual, actuality, business-like, reality), không viển vông. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Down-to-earth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-o-r-t-t-w"
	-2 letters: detonator, handwrote, heartwood, rattooned.
	-3 letters: attorned, danewort, honewort, ratooned, teardown, throated, thwarted, wanderoo.
	-4 letters: another, arnotto, donator, hoedown, honored, notated, odonate, odorant, rattoon, rotated, tandoor, thorned, thrawed, throned, toothed, tornado, towhead, trothed, whatnot, woodhen, worthed, wrathed.
	-5 letters: anther, ardent, atoned, atoner, attend, attorn, dahoon, dearth, dehorn, dehort, dhoora, donate, dotter, downer, enroot, hadron, hanted.
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