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Definition: Ill-bred |
Ill-bredAdjective1. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-bred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-bredSynonyms: bounderish (adj), lowbred (adj), rude (adj), underbred (adj), yokelish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill-bred |
| English words defined with "ill-bred": barbarian, boor ♦ churl ♦ Goth ♦ Ill-nurtured ♦ peasant ♦ tike, tyke ♦ Unbred. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill-bred": Goat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ill-bred": malapert. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Rude; disgusting; vulgar; crude; burp; awkward; backward; barnyard; boorish; cheap; cloddish; clumsy; coarse; crass; dirty; earthy; filthy; foul; grody; gross; ignorant; ill-bred; indecent; indelicate; inelegant; insensible; lewd; loud; loud-mouthed; lout. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Charles Buxton | Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. |
Lord Chesterfield | In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Ill-bred" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-bred" is used about 10 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-bred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | sivistymätön (uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | neveletlenül viselkedő. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kurang ajar (bold, brash, brazen, disrespectful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 柄の悪い . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がらのわるい. (various references) | |
Manx | mee-veaysagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-breday.(various references) | |
Russian | грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), невоспитанный (boorish, discourteous, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-mannered, low-bred, uncultured, unmannerly, unnurtured), дурно воспитанный (cubbish, currish, ill bred, mannerless, underbred). (various references) | |
Swedish | ouppfostrad (artless, ill bred, ill-behaved, low-bred, mannerless, uncouth), obelevad (ill bred, ill mannered, ill-mannered, unmannerly). (various references) | |
Thai | หยาบคาย (caddish, disagreeable, indecency, indecent, mucky, neanderthal, ribald, robustious, rough, rude, swinish). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kakabaю (ill-mannered). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô giáo dục (caddish, underbred), mất dạy (hairy, hairy-heeled, unbred, ungentlemanly, unmannered, unmannerly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Ill-bred" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Illbred. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: billed, biller, birled, bridle, rebill, rilled. | |
-2 letters: bider, bield, birle, bride, brill, drill, idler, iller, libel, liber, rebid, riled, rille. | |
-3 letters: bell, bide, bier, bile, bill, bird, birl, bled, bred, brie, deil, deli, dell, diel, dill, dire, dirl, drib, idle, ired, lied, lier, lire, ride, riel, rile, rill. | |
-4 letters: bed, bel, bid, deb, del, dib, die, eld, ell, ill, ire, led, lei, lib, lid, lie, reb, red, rei, rib, rid. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, de, ed, el, er, id, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: bellbird, brailled, rebilled. | |
+2 letters: bellbirds, bridewell, drillable, prebilled. | |
+3 letters: balladries, banderilla, bridewells, overbilled, radiolabel, timbrelled. | |
+4 letters: adverbially, banderillas, bedrivelled, billboarded, bladderlike, deliverable, fibrillated, liberalised, liberalized, radiolabels, spellbinder. | |
+5 letters: banderillero, bedrivelling, bewilderedly, blunderingly, defibrillate, deliberately, herbicidally, radiolabeled, spellbinders, underbellies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 62 72 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - b r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0062 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4378781568847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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