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Mild-mannered

Definition: Mild-mannered

Mild-mannered

Adjective

1. Behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner.

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

Date "mild-mannered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)


Crosswords: Mild-mannered

English words defined with "mild-mannered": dearlamb. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Mild-mannered

"Mild-mannered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mild-mannered" is used about 46 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%4650,285

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

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Modern Translations: Mild-mannered

Language Translations for "mild-mannered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

物"らか (gentle, mild). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ものやわらか (gentle, mild). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ild-manneredmay

   

Russian 

  

тихий (halcyon, mild, quiet, silent, soft-spoken, still, stilly, untroubled), кроткий (dove-like, gentle, lamblike, meek, placable), мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, mild, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apacible (even, gentle, mild, placid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Mild-mannered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-m-m-n-n-r"

-3 letters: madrilene, middleman, middlemen.

-4 letters: aldermen, damneder, deadlier, deadline, demander, derailed, endemial, inlander, landmine, mannered, melamine, mildened, redemand, redialed, redlined, remailed, remained, remanded, remanned, remedial, reminded, renailed.

-5 letters: adenine, admired, aliened, aliener, amended, amender, annelid, dandier, dandler, deaired, delaine, delimed, dilemma, drained, drammed, dreamed, dreidel, emailed, emerald, enamine, ermined, inarmed, ladened, landmen, leadier, leadmen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mild-mannered


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

4D 69 6C 64 2D 6D 61 6E 6E 65 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01001101 01101001 01101100 01100100 00101101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#108 &#100 &#45 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 006C 0064 002D 006D 0061 006E 006E 0065 0072 0065 0064

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

47757870157967808071847170

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INDEX

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


  

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