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Exaggeratedly

Definition: Exaggeratedly

Exaggeratedly

Adverb

1. In an exaggerated manner.

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

Date "exaggeratedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Synonym: Exaggeratedly

Synonym: hyperbolically (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Exaggeratedly

English words defined with "exaggeratedly": priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanicalsquare-toed, straightlaced, straitlacedtight-lacedVictorian. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Exaggeratedly

"Exaggeratedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exaggeratedly" is used about 35 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%3558,339

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

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Modern Translations: Exaggeratedly

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

Albanian

  

në mënyrë të zmadhuar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏على نحو مبالغ. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

преувеличено. (various references)

   

Czech

  

přehnanì (unduly). (various references)

   

French

  

exagérément. (various references)

   

German

  

übertrieben (camp, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, fulsome, ham, hyperbolical, inflated, inordinately, overambitious, overdone, overpraise, undue, unduly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θρησκόληπτος (exaggeratedly religious). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlzottan (beyond measure, hyper, hyperbolically, to a fault, to overtax). (various references)

   

Italian

  

eccessivo (excessive, extreme, fulsome, inordinate, lavish, overdone, steep, unconscionable, undue). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exaggeratedlyay

   

Portuguese

  

exagerado (a bit thick, exaggerative, fulsome, gaudy, outre, overdone, scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy, steep). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

преувеличенно. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preuveličano. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exageradamente. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şişirilmiş olarak, abartılı bir şekilde, aşırı şekilde. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thổi ph"ng (exaggerative), quá khổ (exaggerative, outsized), phóng đại (exaggerative, steep), cường điệu quá mức (exaggerative). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Exaggeratedly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-g-g-l-r-t-x-y"

-2 letters: exaggerated.

-3 letters: exaggerate.

-4 letters: gadgeteer, regelated, relegated.

-5 letters: axletree, deaerate, delegate, eglatere, gadgetry, galeated, laagered, layerage, raggedly, regelate, relegate, retagged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Exaggeratedly


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

45 78 61 67 67 65 72 61 74 65 64 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 01111000 01100001 01100111 01100111 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0061 0067 0067 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065 0064 006C 0079

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

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

39906773737184678671707891

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INDEX

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


  

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