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Definition: Effrontery |
EffronteryNoun1. Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "effrontery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: EffronterySynonyms: assumption (n), presumption (n), presumptuousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness; Adjective: effrontery, hardened front, face of brass. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Effrontery |
| English words defined with "effrontery": audaciousness, audacity ♦ boldness, brass ♦ cheek, chutzpah ♦ Effronteries ♦ face ♦ hutzpa ♦ nerve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "effrontery": Mustache ♦ Olivia ♦ Spread-eagle Oratory. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Johnson | The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Effrontery is a shame |
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| "Effrontery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Effrontery" is used about 22 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 95.45% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "effrontery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paturpshmëri (imprudence, mouth, neck, shamelessness), paturpësi (backchat, brass, cheek, face, gall, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, indecency, insolence, lewdness, liberty, lubricity, sauce, shamelessness, wantonness), pafytyrësi (backchat, impertinence, insolence, lip, sauce). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наглост (impertinence, impudence, insolence), безочливост (arrogance, assuredness, immodesty, impudence, sauciness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 厚颜 耻 (Effronteries). (various references) | |
Czech | nestydatost (front, impudence), nestoudnost (impertinence, shamelessness), drzost (audacity, brass, cheek, face, front, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, rudeness, sauce). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیرگی (Proficiency), گستاخی (Arrogance, Assurance, Audacity, Bronze, Gall, Impertinence, Impudence, Indecency, Insolence, Presumption), جسارت (Audacity, Insolence, Presumption, Spleen, Temerity, Venture), بیشرمی . (various references) | |
Finnish | julkeus (impudence), hävyttömyys (impudence, insolence, shamelessness), häpeämättömyys (brazenness, impudence, shamelessness). (various references) | |
French | effronterie. (various references) | |
German | frechheit (barefacedness, brashness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, freshness, frivolity, gall, immodesty, impudence, insolence, naughtiness, nerve, ribaldry, sass, sassiness, sauce, sauciness). (various references) | |
Greek | αναίδεια (brass, brazeness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, impudence), αυθάδεια (audacity, forwardness, impertinence, insolence, pertness, precocity, sauce, sauciness), θράσοσ (audacity, cheek, nerve, presuming, recklessness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצח חוש" (brazenness), עזות פ ים (boldness, insolence), חוצפ" (audacity, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, liberty, pertness, presumption). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pimaszság (atrocity, audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brass, cockiness, confidence, hubris, impertinence, impudence, sauciness), arcátlanság (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, cheek, cockiness, cock-sureness, confidence, contumely, impertinence, impudence). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sikap (bearing, demeanor, posture), kelakuan kurang ajar. (various references) | |
Italian | sfrontatezza (brass, cheek, shamelessness). (various references) | |
Manx | daanys (boldness, cheek, cockiness, confidence, daring, resolution, rudeness, self-assurance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | effronteryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | topete (axle pin, cowlick, forelock, panache, topknot, tuft), descaramento (audacity, brass, cheek, hardihood, sauce), desaforo (abusiveness, front). (various references) | |
Romanian | neruşinare (bawdy, brass, cheek, front, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, lack of restraint, neck, obsceneness, rudeness, shamelessness), impertinenţã (boldness, impertinence, insolence, obtrusiveness, pertness, rudeness), cinism (cynicism, shamelessness). (various references) | |
Russian | наглость (assuredness, audaciousness, chutzpah, face, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, sauce, snoutiness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drskost (arrogance, audaciousness, brash, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, lip, nerve, petulance, presumption, temerity). (various references) | |
Spanish | descaro (barefacedness, cheek, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve). (various references) | |
Swedish | oförskämdhet (immodesty, impertinence, impertinency, impudence, insolence). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzsüzlük (boldness, cheek, cheekiness, coolness, crust, front, gall, impudence, nerve, sauciness, shamelessness), küstahlık (arrogance, assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, backchat, boldness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hardiness, impertinence, insolence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity), arsızlık (audacity, cheek, cheekiness, crust, encroaching vigor, flippancy, front, hardihood, hardiness, immodesty, importunity, impudence, insolence, pertness, sauce, shamelessness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, contumely, hardihood, insolence, insolency, neck, nerve, sauce), зухвалість (assuredness, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, forwardness, hardiness, immodesty, impertinence, lip, neck, nerve, outrecuidance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính vô liêm sỉ, tính mặt d y m y dạn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | audacia, audaciae, audaciam, ex-. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Effrontery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affrontery, effontery, effrentery, effronteny, effrontory, effrontry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "effrontery" (pronounced ufru"nterē) |
| 4 | -n t er ē | alimentary, complimentary, documentary, parliamentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, splintery, supplementary, testamentary. |
| 3 | -t er ē | adultery, artery, battery, blustery, buttery, contradictory, coterie, directory, jittery, eatery, factory, flattery, glittery, history, introductory, lottery, mastery, mystery, notary, olfactory, peremptory, perfunctory, pottery, premonitory, protohistory, rectory, refractory, rotary, satisfactory, trajectory, unsatisfactory, upholstery, valedictory, victory, watery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-n-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: feretory. | |
-3 letters: fernery, ferrety, fronter, offerer, oftener, reentry, refront, reoffer, torrefy, troffer. | |
-4 letters: effort, ferret, ornery, renter, retore, retorn, toffee. | |
-5 letters: enter, entry, ferny, ferry, fetor, feyer, forte, forty, foyer, freer, frere, front, frore, fryer, noter, offer, often, ofter, onery, reefy, refer, refry, rente, retro, retry, teeny, tenor, terne, terry, toffy, toner, toney, toyer. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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