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Definitions: Inclemency |
InclemencyNoun1. Weather unsuitable for outdoor activities. 2. Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inclemency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: InclemencySynonyms: bad weather (n), hardness (n), harshness (n), inclementness (n), rigor (n), rigour (n), severity (n), stiffness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: good weather (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Noun: cold, coldness. Adjective: frigidity, inclemency, fresco. |
Pitilessness | Noun: pitilessness; Adjective: inclemency; severity; malevolence. |
Severity | Noun: severity; strictness, harshness; Adjective: rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency; (pitilessness) a; arrogance; precisianism. |
Violence | Noun: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; Adjective: effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inclemency |
| English words defined with "inclemency": Inclemencies ♦ Winterkill. (references) |
| "Inclemency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inclemency" is used about 5 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "inclemency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | egërsi (atrocity, bestiality, callousness, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, furiosity, fury, ill-treatment, rabidity, rabies, savagery, truculence, virulence), ashpërsi (acrimony, asperity, austerity, coarseness, dourness, harshness, rigor, rigorism, rigour, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, toughness, tyranny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | суровост (asperity, austerity, hardness, harshness, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevlídnost (spleen, unfriendliness), drsnost (asperity, harshness, roughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inclémence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rauheit (abruptness, asperity, bleakness, channel roughness, harshness, hoarseness, huskiness, rawness, roughness, rudeness, ruggedness, rugosity, severeness, severity, texture, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκληρότησ (cruelty, crustiness, hardness, relentlessness, stoniness, toughness), σκληρότητα (bristliness, cruelty, crustiness, fellness, flintiness, hardness, harshness, relentlessness, stoniness, toughness), ανεπιείκεια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ridegség (brittleness, embrittlement, frigidity, rigidity, rigidness, severity, sternness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inclemenza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sterrymaght, neuerreeish (hard-heartedness, pitilessness), dewilys (barbarity, cruelty, severity), dewilid (barbarity, cruelty, severity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inclemencyay indelicadeza (abruptness, broadness, indelicacy). (various references) lipsã de îndurare. (various references) суровость (asperity, austereness, austerity, dourness, hardness, rigour, severeness, severity, sternness). (various references) surovost (austerity, brutality, rigor, rigour, roughness), klima (climate, clime). (various references) inclemencia. (various references) stränghet (asperity, austerity, hardness, rigidity, rigour, severity, stringency), bisterhet. (various references) soğukluk (apathy, bleakness, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, coolness, distance, frigidity, frost, frostiness, ill blood, inhospitality, phlegm, standoff, stolidity, wintriness), sertlik (asperity, austerity, bitterness, curtness, fierceness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, solidity, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, strictness, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness). (various references) суворість (asperity, astringency, austerity, cruelty, hardness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, rudeness, strictness, stringency), непривітність (coldness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "inclemency" (pronounced 'In*clem"en*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy, Autocracy, Axinomancy, Bankruptcy, Baronetcy, Belomancy, Benignancy, Bibliomancy, Bivalency, Blatancy, Botanomancy, Brevetcy, Brillancy, Buoyancy, Bureaucracy, Cadency, Candidacy, Capnomancy, Captaincy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Cecutiency, Celibacy, Centripetency, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chaplaincy, Chartomancy, Chiromancy, Circumambiency, Clemency, Cleromancy, Cliency, Coadjuvancy, Coagency, Coefficacy, Coefficiency, Cogency, Coincibency, Colluctancy, Colonelcy, Commorancy, Compliancy, Complicacy, Concludency, Concordancy, Concubinacy, Concurrency, Congeneracy, Congruency, Connivency, Conservancy, Conspiracy, Constancy, Constituency, Contingency, Contumacy, Conversancy, Cornetcy, Correspondency, Coscinomancy, Couchancy, Crystallomancy, Curacy, Currency, Dactyliomancy, Dactylomancy, Dancy, Daphnomancy, Decency, Decipiency, Deficiency, Degeneracy, Delegacy, Delicacy, Delinquency, Deliracy, Delirancy, Delitescency, Demency, Democracy, Demonocracy, Dependency, Depopulacy, Despiciency, Despondency, Detergency, Determinacy, Diffidency, Diligency, Diplomacy, Disappendency, Disconsolacy, Discumbency, Disfancy, Disobediency, Displacency, Dissonancy, Distancy, Docimacy, Dormancy, Doulocracy, Dubitancy, Durancy, Effeminacy, Efficacy, Efflorescency, Effluency, Electro-thermancy, Emergency, Eminency, -ency, Enoptomancy, Ensigncy, Episcopacy, Equipendency, Equitancy, Equivalency, Equivocacy, Errancy, Esnecy, Excellency, Excrescency, Exigency, Existency, Exsiliency, Extacy, Extancy, Extravagancy, Extuberancy, Exuberancy, Fallacy, Fallency, Farcy, Feculency, Fermacy, fervency, Flagrancy, fleecy, flippancy, fluency, frequency, Fritinancy, Fugacy, Fulgency, Gastromancy, Geomancy, Gerontocracy, Gramercy, Gunocracy, Gynecocracy, Gyneocracy, Gynocracy, Gyromancy, Habiitancy, Hagiocracy, Haruspicy, hesitancy, Heterocercy, Hierocracy, Hieromancy, Homocercy, hydromancy, Ichthyomancy, icy, Idiocracy, idiocy, Idiotcy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, Imitancy, immediacy, Immoderacy, Immoderancy, Impatiency, Impeccancy, impenitency, Impertinency, Impolicy, Importancy, Importunacy, Impudency, inaccuracy, inadequacy, Incalescency, incessancy, Incidency, Inconsideracy, inconsistency, inconstancy, Inconveniency, incumbency, indecency, Indeficiency, indelicacy, independency, Indifferency, Indigency, Indistancy, Indolency, Indulgency, inefficacy, inefficiency, inerrancy, INFANCY, Inmacy, Innitency, Innocency, Inordinacy, Insignificancy, Insitency, Insolency, insolvency, instancy, insufficiency, Intelligency, Intemperancy, Intendancy, Interagency, interdependency, Interluency, Intermediacy, Interregency, Intestacy, INTIMACY, Intolerancy, intricacy, Inveteracy, Inviolacy, Irregeneracy, Irrelavancy, Itineracy, Itinerancy, Jactancy, Jesuitocracy, Joyancy, juicy, Kakistocracy, Lasciviency, latency, Latitancy, Lecanomancy, legacy, legitimacy, Leucophlegmacy, Liegiancy, lieutenancy, Liquescency, literacy, lithomancy, Lucency, lunacy, Luxuriancy, Macilency, magistracy, Maledicency, -mancy, Manutenency, mediacy, mendicancy, mercy, Meteoromancy, Metopomancy, militancy, Ministracy, Mispolicy, Mobocracy, monocracy, Mordicancy, Mugiency, Myomancy, Nascency, Necromancy, Neocracy, Nomancy, Nomocracy, Nonproficiency, Nonsolvency, normalcy, Obduracy, Obeisancy, Observancy, Obstancy, Obstetricy, Obstinacy, Occupancy, Ochlocracy, Omnipresency, Omnisciency, Omphalomancy, Oneiromancy, onomancy, Onomomancy, Onychomancy, Ophiomancy, Opponency, Oppugnancy, Optimacy, Opulency, Oriency, Ornithomancy, Orphancy, Oscillancy, Oscitancy, pancy, Pantisocracy, Papacy, Parturiency, Patency, Peccancy, Pedantocracy, Pedomancy, Pegomancy, Pendency, Penitency, Pernancy, Perspicacy, Pervicacy, Pharmacy, Piquancy, piracy, Plangency, Plantocracy, Pliancy, Plutocracy, Poignancy, Polycracy, Polypharmacy, Populacy, Potency, Potentacy, Predisponency, Predominancy, Preexistency, Prefulgency, Pregnancy, Prejudicacy, Prelacy, Preoccupancy, Prepotency, Presidency, Prevalency, Prevenancy, Primacy, Privacy, Probacy, Procuracy, Profligacy, Prolificacy, Propendency, Prophecy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-y" | |
-2 letters: clemency, eminency, leniency. | |
-3 letters: licence, linemen, myeline. | |
-4 letters: cicely, cymene, cymlin, icemen, lineny, mycele, myelin, nicely, yeelin. | |
-5 letters: clime, cline, cycle, cynic, elemi, enemy, limen, limey, linen, liney, lycee, meiny, melic, mince, mincy, minny, niece, yince. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 6C 65 6D 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. .-.. . -- . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c l e m e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 006C 0065 006D 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43806978717971806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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