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Inveterately

Definition: Inveterately

Inveterately

Adverb

1. In a habitual and long-standing manner; "smoking chronically".

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

Date "inveterately" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)


Synonym: Inveterately

Synonym: chronically (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Inveterately

"Inveterately" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inveterately" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: Inveterately

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

German

  

unverbesserliche (incorrigibly, irreclaimably). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inveteratelyay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Inveterately"

Words rhyming with "inveterately" (pronounced 'In*vet"er*ate*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Inveterately

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-t-v-y"

-1 letter: retentively.

-2 letters: interleave, inveterate.

-3 letters: elaterite, intervale, retentive, ternately, tervalent, trivalent, ventilate.

-4 letters: antevert, elaterin, enervate, entailer, entirely, entirety, entreaty, eternity, eyeliner, interlay, interval, lateener, laterite, levanter, levirate, levitate, lientery, literate, natively, nettlier, relative, relevant, treenail, venality, venerate, venereal.

-5 letters: alienee, aliener, arenite, ariette, atelier, elative, elevate, enteral, entitle, entreat, eternal, inertly, inlayer, intreat, irately.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-t-v-y"
 

+2 letters: hyperventilate.

 

+3 letters: hyperventilated, hyperventilates.

 

+4 letters: interpretatively, representatively.

 

+5 letters: electronegativity.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Inveterately


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

49 6E 76 65 74 65 72 61 74 65 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)

..    -.    ...-    .    -    .    .-.    .-    -    .    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01110110 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#118 &#101 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0076 0065 0074 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065 006C 0079

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

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

438088718671846786717891

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Inveterately"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch
 


INDEX

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


  

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