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Definition: Neuralgic |
NeuralgicAdjective1. Of or relating to or suffering from neuralgia; "neuralgic pains". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "neuralgic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Crosswords: Neuralgic |
| Specialty definitions using "neuralgic": Facial Neuralgia, Facial Pain ♦ MACROBIAN. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is abundantly supplied with examples, from Methuselah to Old Parr, but some notable instances of longevity are less well known. A Calabrian peasant named Coloni, born in 1753, lived so long that he had what he considered a glimpse of the dawn of universal peace. Scanavius relates that he knew an archbishop who was so old that he could remember a time when he did not deserve hanging. In 1566 a linen draper of Bristol, England, declared that he had lived five hundred years, and that in all that time he had never told a lie. There are instances of longevity (macrobiosis) in our own country. Senator Chauncey Depew is old enough to know better. The editor of The American, a newspaper in New York City, has a memory that goes back to the time when he was a rascal, but not to the fact. The President of the United States was born so long ago that many of the friends of his youth have risen to high political and military preferment without the assistance of personal merit. The verses following were written by a macrobian: When I was young the world was fair And amiable and sunny. A brightness was in all the air, In all the waters, honey. The jokes were fine and funny, The statesmen honest in their views, And in their lives, as well, And when you heard a bit of news 'Twas true enough to tell. Men were not ranting, shouting, reeking, Nor women "generally speaking." The Summer then was long indeed: It lasted one whole season! The sparkling Winter gave no heed When ordered by Unreason To bring the early peas on. Now, where the dickens is the sense In calling that a year Which does no more than just commence Before the end is near? When I was young the year extended From month to month until it ended. I know not why the world has changed To something dark and dreary, And everything is now arranged To make a fellow weary. The Weather Man -- I fear he Has much to do with it, for, sure, The air is not the same: It chokes you when it is impure, When pure it makes you lame. With windows closed you are asthmatic; Open, neuralgic or sciatic. Well, I suppose this new regime Of dun degeneration Seems eviler than it would seem To a better observation, And has for compensation Some blessings in a deep disguise Which mortal sight has failed To pierce, although to angels' eyes They're visible unveiled. If Age is such a boon, good land! He's costumed by a master hand! Venable Strigg |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Neuralgic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neuralgic" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amyotrophy neuralgic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neuralgic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nevralgjik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عصبي (apprehensive, edgy, fidgety, fretful, jitterbug, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, on edge, pithy, restless, spooky, testy, up the wall, uptight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | невралгичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neuralgický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | neuralgisk, neuralgi-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | neuralgisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | névralgique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | neuralgisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νευραλγικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | idegzsábás, neuralgiás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nevralgico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nearaljagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | euralgicnay nevralgia (neuralgia). (various references) невралгический. (various references) neuralgičan. (various references) neurálgico. (various references) neuralgisk. (various references) เกี่ยวกับอาการปว"ตามเส้นประสาท. (various references) nevraljik. (various references) невралгічний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Neuralgic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euralair, neuralga, neuralogic, neurolgic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "neuralgic" (pronounced 'Neu*ral"gic'): Antalgic, Antiodontalgic, Belgic, Demiurgic, Dramaturgic, Fungic, Moringic, Nostalgic, Odontalgic, Otalgic, Panurgic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: clearing, relacing, ulcering. | |
-2 letters: aligner, anergic, angelic, anglice, auricle, carline, carling, cauline, cingula, clanger, clinger, clueing, cringle, curling, engrail, galenic, glacier, glancer, gracile, granule, linguae, lucarne, nargile, nuclear, realign, reginal, unagile, unclear. | |
-3 letters: aculei, aliner, angler, anuric, arcing, cagier, cangue, caring, carlin, carnie, cering, cluing, cringe, cueing, cuneal, curiae, curial, curing, earing, eclair, gainer, garlic, genial, glaire, glance, glucan, gluier, guinea, incage, inlace, lacier, lacing, lacune, lagune, lancer, langue, langur, larine, launce, leucin, ligure, linage, linear, linger, lingua, lucern, lunger, lunier, luring, nailer, neural, nilgau, nuclei, racing, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, reguli, renail, ruling, uglier, uncage, unciae, uncial, unlace, unreal, uracil, uranic, urinal. | |
-4 letters: acing, agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, anile, areic, argil, argle, argue, ariel, auger, aulic, aurei, auric, cager, cairn, caner, carle, ceria, cigar, clang, clean, clear, cline, cling, clung, crane, cruel, cuing, curia, curie, elain, erica, garni, genic, genua, glace, glair, glare, glean, gluer, gnarl, grace, grail, grain, gruel, guile, gular, ileac, incur, ingle, inure, lacer, lager, lance, large, learn, liane, liang, ligan, liger, linac, liner, linga, lucre, luger, lunar, lunge, lungi, nacre, naric, nicer, rance, range, regal, regna, reign, relic, renal, renig, rugae, rugal, ruing, runic, ulcer, ulnae, ulnar, uncia, uncle, unrig, uraei, ureal, ureic, urial, urine. | |
-5 letters: acne, acre, ager, agin, ague, airn, alec, anil, aril, cage, cain, cane, care, carl, carn, caul, ceil, cine, cire, clag, clan, clue, crag, cure, curl, curn, earl, earn, ecru, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gaun, gaur, gear, genu, gien, girl, girn, glen, glia, glue, gnar, gran, grin, grue, guan, guar, iglu, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lair, lane, lang, lari, lean, lear, liar, lice, lien, lier, lieu, line, ling, lira, lire, luce, luge, luna, lune, lung, lure, nail, narc, near, nice, nurl, race, rage, ragi, rail, rain, rale, rang, rani, real, rein, rial, rice, riel, rile, ring, ruga, ruin, rule, rune, rung, ulan, ulna, unai, unci, urea, urge, uric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: lacquering, ulcerating. | |
+2 letters: centrifugal, relaunching, reluctating. | |
+3 letters: caterwauling, centrifugals, curveballing, edulcorating, elucubrating, neurological, relacquering, reticulating, revictualing, secularising, secularizing. | |
+4 letters: centrifugally, clearinghouse, encouragingly, glucuronidase, neurosurgical, numerological, recalculating, recirculating, recultivating, reduplicating, reinoculating, relubricating, revictualling. | |
+5 letters: clearinghouses, countervailing, denuclearizing, excruciatingly, glucuronidases, grandiloquence, neurogenically, neurologically, rearticulating, recapitulating, reconfigurable, rectangularity, ultraenergetic, unrecognizable, unrecognizably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 75 72 61 6C 67 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- .-. .- .-.. --. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01100111 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u r a l g i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0072 0061 006C 0067 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487187846778737569 |
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