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Noncontroversial

Definition: Noncontroversial

Noncontroversial

Adjective

1. Not likely to arouse controversy.

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

 

Synonym: Noncontroversial

Synonym: uncontroversial (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: controversial (adj). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Noncontroversial

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Honduras

The comparatively little investigative journalism that took place focused on noncontroversial issues. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Noncontroversial

"Noncontroversial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Noncontroversial" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Rhyming with "Noncontroversial"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "noncontroversial" (pronounced nÄnkÄ'ntruver"shul)
12-n k Ä' n t r u v er" sh u luncontroversial.
11-k Ä' n t r u v er" sh u lcontroversial.
4-er" sh u lcommercial, inertial, noncommercial.
3-sh u lantisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, confidential, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, impartial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, interracial, judicial, jurisprudential, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, unofficial.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Noncontroversial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-n-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: noncorrelations.

-2 letters: noncorrelation.

-3 letters: controversial.

-4 letters: conservation, conventional, conversation, conversional, correlations, noncorrosive, overcontrols.

-5 letters: coinventors, colorations, conservator, consolation, conventions, coronations, correlation, covenantors, nonreactors, overactions, overcontrol, relocations, renovations, revocations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Noncontroversial


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

4E 6F 6E 63 6F 6E 74 72 6F 76 65 72 73 69 61 6C

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)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0063 006F 006E 0074 0072 006F 0076 0065 0072 0073 0069 0061 006C

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

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

48818069818086848188718485756778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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