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Definition: Notoriously |
NotoriouslyAdverb1. To a notorious degree; "European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "notoriously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Notoriously |
| English words defined with "notoriously": Arrantly ♦ variable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "notoriously": Exit King/Exit Queen ♦ Measurement Uncertainty ♦ Nominal Semidestructor ♦ SCSI voodoo, sporgery. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Lift lines in Europe are notoriously long, and lift fees higher than those in the U.S. destinations in the U.S. seeking to attract more U.K. skiers should capitalize on the elements that currently draw U.K. skiers to U.S. slopes. (references) | |
Children | Ukraine | The problem of growing violence and crime in and outside of schools continued, especially in the notoriously violent vocational schools. (references) |
Economic History | Chad | A Note on Trade Estimates: The most recent detailed trade statistics are from 1996 and these figures are notoriously inaccurate since they are based on customs declarations. (references) |
Ecuador | While an expansion of capacity would be welcome, the most urgent need is for a modernization and rationalization of Ecuador's notoriously corrupt and inefficient customs service. (references) | |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Government payments to foreign non-financial institutions are notoriously slow. (references) |
Travel | Thailand | The common professional workweek in Thailand is 40 hours per week consisting of five, 8-hour days, Monday through Friday . Office hours in Bangkok vary to accommodate flex-time travel through the city's notoriously heavy traffic . Common office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m . Most business offices are closed on Saturdays and Sundays although most commercial establishments remain open . The U.S. Commercial Service Bangkok's hours are 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday . The Commercial Library is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m . The office is closed during lunch from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m . (references) |
Worker Rights | Panama | Construction workers and their employers are notoriously lax about conforming to basic safety measures, usually resulting in several deaths a year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Notoriously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Notoriously" is used about 488 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 488 | 12,253 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "notoriously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 臭名远扬地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | notorisch (habitual, notorious, professional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιβόητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közismerten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | notoriamente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 악명 '게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otoriouslynay de reputação duvidosa. (various references) în mod notoriu. (various references) notoriamente (flagrantly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Notoriously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nortoriously, notoriosly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "notoriously" (pronounced nōtô"rēuslē) |
| 7 | -ô" r ē u s l ē | gloriously, laboriously. |
| 6 | -r ē u s l ē | curiously, furiously, hilariously, mysteriously, precariously, seriously, variously, vicariously. |
| 5 | -ē u s l ē | contemporaneously, enviously, erroneously, harmoniously, hideously, instantaneously, obviously, previously, simultaneously, spontaneously, studiously, tediously, unceremoniously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, generously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, hellaciously, helplessly, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, nervously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precipitously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, strenuously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unconsciously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-o-o-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: notorious, riotously. | |
-3 letters: nitrosyl, snootily, solution, sonority. | |
-4 letters: lotions, nitroso, nitrous, nostril, riotous, rosinol, rosolio, rustily, soliton, sootily, stonily, torsion, troilus, tylosin, unroots. | |
-5 letters: insoul, insult, intros, lotion, lyrist, nitros, nosily, orison, outsin, rosily, rosiny, rutins, snooty, snouty, solion, sourly, stolon, stoury, suitor, sultry, sunlit, tonsil, torous, toyons, triols, unroot. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 74 6F 72 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- - --- .-. .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o t o r i o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0074 006F 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881868184758187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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