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Definition: Downrightness |
DownrightnessNoun1. The quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "downrightness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonym: DownrightnessSynonym: straightforwardness (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "downrightness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynrickys (correctness, directness, faith, faithfulness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, integration, probity, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, truth, truthfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ownrightnessday kesinlik (accuracy, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conclusiveness, decisiveness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, exactitude, exactness, finality, firmness, implicitness, nicety, positiveness, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, roundness, sureness, surety, the absolute), katiyet (certainty, certitude, decisiveness, definiteness, exactitude). (various references) tính thẳng thắn (directness, fairness, frankness, probity, sportiness, sportsmanship, straightforwardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "downrightness": downrightnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: grindstones, growthiness, shortenings. | |
-3 letters: dethroning, grindstone, nightdress, shoestring, shortening, stringendo, thorniness, whinstones, worthiness. | |
-4 letters: dehorning, dehorting, digestors, dishonest, downright, drownings, drowsiest, endorsing, hedonists, histogens, horniness, indentors, ingrowths, inthroned, inthrones, nitrogens, nonwhites, northings, reshowing, rightness, rowdiness, sennights, showering, showrings, stonished, strongish, thindowns, thingness, whinstone, wondering, wordiness, worsening, wrongness. | |
-5 letters: denoting, digestor, dowering, downiest, dressing, drowning. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: downrightnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 77 6E 72 69 67 68 74 6E 65 73 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .--. -. .-. .. --. .... - -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o w n r i g h t n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0077 006E 0072 0069 0067 0068 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38818980847573748680718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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