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Encouragingly

Definition: Encouragingly

Encouragingly

Adverb

1. In an encouraging manner; "`Go on,' he said encouragingly to his student".

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

Date "encouragingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)



Antonym: discouragingly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Encouragingly

English words defined with "encouragingly": Incentively. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Encouragingly

"Encouragingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Encouragingly" is used about 131 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
Adverb (general)100%13127,855

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

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Modern Translations: Encouragingly

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

Bulgarian 

  

окуражително. (various references)

   

German

  

ermunternd. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bátorítóan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encouraginglyay

   

Spanish

  

en todo alentador. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Encouragingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-u-y"

-2 letters: clangouring, encouraging.

-3 letters: clangoring, congealing.

-4 letters: aureoling, congenial, cornelian, crayoning, enlarging, ignorance, legionary, neuralgic, neuroglia, recoaling, reloaning, uncloying, youngling.

-5 letters: acrolein, aglycone, angeling, angering, cageling, canoeing, caroling, clanging, clangour, cleaning, clearing, cloggier, clouring, colinear, congaing, craggily, crannoge, culinary, cyanogen, encaging, encoring, enlacing, enraging, ganglier, ganglion, gargoyle, geraniol, gingerly, glaceing, glancing, gleaning, glorying, glucagon, glycerin, glycogen, gnarling, grayling, groaning, grueling, gynoecia, lagering, layering, leaguing, learning, longeing, lounging, neuronal, neuronic, nonglare, ragingly, recaning, regaling, regional, regluing, regnancy, relacing, relaying, rogueing, ulcering, unageing, uncaging, uncaring, ungainly, ungenial, unlacing, unlaying, uranylic, urgingly, yeanling, yearling, yearlong, yearning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Encouragingly


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

45 6E 63 6F 75 72 61 67 69 6E 67 6C 79

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0063 006F 0075 0072 0061 0067 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

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

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

39806981878467737580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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