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Definition: Nonplused |
NonplusedAdjective1. Filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nonplused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonyms: NonplusedSynonyms: at a loss(p) (adj), nonplussed (adj), puzzled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nonplused |
| English words defined with "nonplused": To be abroad. (references) |
Expression using "nonplused": be nonplused. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "nonplused"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | متحير (bewildered, confounded, confused, discomfited, distracted, embarrassed, perplexed, puzzled). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verdutzt (baffled, bewildered, blank, blankly, disconcerts, perplexed, puzzled, taken aback), verblüfft (amazes, astounds, bewildered, blank, blankly, dumbfounds, flabbergasts, perplexed, perplexedly, staggered, stupefies). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | onplusednay hayret etmek (be amazed, be astonished, be nonplused, be surprised, blink at, marvel, wonder), şaşıp kalmak (be nonplused, startled), apışıp kalmak (be baffled, be gravelled, be nonplused, straddle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Nonplused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nonplusse, nonpulused. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: nonuples. | |
-2 letters: loudens, nodules, nonplus, nonuple, unposed. | |
-3 letters: ensoul, lodens, louden, louped, loupen, loupes, loused, nelson, nodule, nonuse, pounds, pseudo, pulsed, punned, sendup, sloped, souled, souped, sunned, undoes, undone, unopen, unpens, unsold, upends, upsend. | |
-4 letters: doles, donne, dopes, douse, duels, dulse, dunes, dupes, duple, enols, lends, lenos, leuds, loden, lodes, loped, lopes, loupe, loups. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: nonplussed. | |
+4 letters: pendulousness, plenitudinous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 6E 70 6C 75 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -. .--. .-.. ..- ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01101110 01110000 01101100 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o n p l u s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 006E 0070 006C 0075 0073 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488180827887857170 |
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