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Definition: Ill-mannered |
Ill-manneredAdjective1. Socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-mannered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-manneredSynonyms: rude (adj), unmannered (adj), unmannerly (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-mannered |
| English words defined with "ill-mannered": boorish, brattish, bratty ♦ loutish ♦ Neandertal, neanderthal ♦ o.k., oafish ♦ swinish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill-mannered": Hogs-Norton ♦ Prostitute. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Czech Rep | Rushing through lunch because of the press of business is considered ill-mannered, and may be insulting to your Czech guest or host. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ill-mannered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-mannered" is used about 36 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% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-mannered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri i paedukuar (cur, ill-mannered person, know-nothing). (various references) | |
Finnish | pahantapainen (wicked), karkeakäytöksinen (unmannerly), epäkohtelias (discourteous, impolite, rude), epähieno (discourteous, rude, ungentlemanly, unladylike, unpolished). (various references) | |
French | impoli (ill mannered, ill-mannered person). (various references) | |
Greek | ανάγωγος (badly behaved, badly brought up). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rossz modorú (ill bred, mannerless, unmannerly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無作法 (rude), 暴慢 (overbearing), 俚 (excellence, genius, rustic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうま" (inflation, overbearing), ぶさほう (bad manners, discourtesy, rude), り (2.44 miles, advantage, an official, benefit, clever, diarrhea, diarrhoea, interest, profit, reason, ri, rustic). (various references) | |
Manx | neuellynagh (artless, bad taste, impolite, inartistic, rude, vulgar), neuchooyrtoil (unchivalrous), mee-ellynagh, garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-mannereday.(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-bred, 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-bred, low-bred, uncultured, unmannerly, unnurtured). (various references) | |
Spanish | mal educado (cubbish, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bread, impolite, loud, unmannerly). (various references) | |
Swedish | slyngelaktig (loutish, oafish), obelevad (ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, unmannerly). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งไม่มีมารยาท. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kakabaю (ill-bred). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thô lỗ (beastly, indelicate, loutish, plebeian, snippety, snippy, underbred, ungentle), cục cằn; lịch sự. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ill-mannered" (pronounced 'Ill`-man"nered'): Bannered, Imbannered, mannered, Well-mannered. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-n-r" | |
-2 letters: madrilene. | |
-3 letters: aldermen, endemial, inlander, landline, landmine, mandrill, mannered, remailed, remained, remanned, remedial, renailed. | |
-4 letters: adenine, aliened, aliener, amender, annelid, dallier, delaine, dialler, emailed, emerald, enamine, ermined, inarmed, landler, landmen, leadier, leadmen, learned, limeade, lindane, lineman, linemen, mandrel, mandril, manille, manlier, marline, mealier, meander, melanin, mineral, nardine, rallied, ralline, redline, reedman, relined, renamed, rimland. | |
-5 letters: admire, aedile, aedine, aeried, aidmen, airmen, aldrin, alined, aliner, allied, almner, aneled, ariled, daimen, damner, darnel, dealer, dearie, delime, demean, denari, denial, denier, derail, dermal, dialer, dinner, earned, elmier, enamel, endear, endrin, ennead, ermine, inaner, indene, inland, ladler, laired, lander, lanner, larine, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, lender, lieder, lienal, lierne, limned, limner, linden, lineal, linear, maiden, mailed, mailer, maline, malled, mallee, mallei, manned, manner, marine, marled, marlin, mealie, meaner, meanie, mediae, medial, median, medina, medlar, melder, melled, mender, menial, merlin, milden, milder, milled, miller, minder, nailed, nailer, narine, neared, nellie, nereid, nilled, railed, rained, reamed, rediae, redial, reined, relaid, relend, relied, reline, remade, remail, remain, remand, remend, remind, renail, rename, rilled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 6D 61 6E 6E 65 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 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - m a n n e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 006D 0061 006E 006E 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437878157967808071847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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