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Definition: Incautiously |
IncautiouslyAdverb1. Without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incautiously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonym: IncautiouslySynonym: carelessly (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: cautiously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Incautiously |
| English words defined with "incautiously": Uncautiously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incautiously": FRYING ♦ search-and-destroy mode ♦ YHBT. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FRYING-:PAN:, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith. The following lines (said to be from the pen of his Grace Bishop Potter) seem to imply that the usefulness of this utensil is not limited to this world; but as the consequences of its employment in this life reach over into the life to come, so also itself may be found on the other side, rewarding its devotees: Old Nick was summoned to the skies. Said Peter: "Your intentions Are good, but you lack enterprise Concerning new inventions. "Now, broiling in an ancient plan Of torment, but I hear it Reported that the frying-pan Sears best the wicked spirit. "Go get one -- fill it up with fat -- Fry sinners brown and good in't." "I know a trick worth two o' that," Said Nick -- "I'll cook their food in't." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Happy would it be for the indebted States if they were freed from their liabilities, many of which were incautiously contracted. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Incautiously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incautiously" is used about 16 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "incautiously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 不谨慎地. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | unvorsichtig (careless, carelessly, improvident, imprudent, incautious, rash, uncareful, unguarded, unwarily, unwary). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | gondatlanul (carelessly, mindlessly, negligently), elővigyázatlanul (heedlessly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 부주의하 (inadvertently). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | incautiouslyay descuidadamente (carelessly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-o-s-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: cautiously, incautious. | |
-3 letters: sociality, suctional. | |
-4 letters: acyloins, auctions, cautions, cautious, colistin, cousinly, lanosity, linocuts, lunatics, nautilus, osculant, salinity, scantily, sultanic, unsocial. | |
-5 letters: acinous, actions, acyloin, alnicos, anility, anticly, atonics, auction, cations, catlins, caution, citolas, colitis, conatus, consult, incisal, inocula, italics, latinos, layouts, liaison, linocut, locusta, lunatic, nastily, nautili, noisily, oculist, oilcans, outlain, outlays, outsail, saintly, salicin, saucily, scantly, silicon, solicit, stoical, stonily, suction, syconia, talcous, talions, tincals, toucans, tylosin, uncials, uncoils. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 61 75 74 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. .- ..- - .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c a u t i o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 0061 0075 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438069678786758187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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