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Definitions: Obscurity |
ObscurityNoun1. The quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand. 2. An obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years". 3. The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "obscurity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ObscuritySynonyms: abstruseness (n), obscureness (n), reconditeness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: clarity (n), prominence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street. |
Obscurity | Noun: obscurity; (unintelligibility); involution; hard words; ambiguity; unintelligibleness; vagueness; inexactness; what d'ye call 'em; (neologism); darkness of meaning. |
Uncertainty | Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission. |
Unintelligibility | Noun: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness; Adjective: obscurity; ambiguity; doubtful meaning; uncertainty; perplexity; (confusion); spinosity; obscurum per obscurius; mystification; (concealment); latency; transcendentalism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Obscurity |
| English words defined with "obscurity": Caligo, clarity, clearness ♦ enigmatic, Enubilate ♦ Fuscation ♦ Incelebrity, Inevidence, Infuscation ♦ limpidity, lucidity ♦ opacity, opaqueness, oracular, Out of the woods ♦ pellucidity ♦ Self-made man, struggling ♦ To be wrapped up in ♦ Uncloud. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "obscurity": Bacbuc ♦ Fame ♦ Ghost ♦ Learning ♦ Nominee ♦ Omission, ORPHEUS ♦ Patent Medicine ♦ SAWYER ♦ Turkey. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "obscurity": Incelebrity. (references) |
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Screenplays | In less than 6 years, his small, insignificant tribe has risen from obscurity and given its name to an all-powerful nation organized into a fearsome military machine. (Shaka Zulu; writing credit: Joshua Sinclair) | |
Lyrics | They moved to Colorado where they live in relative obscurity. (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus) | |
Clever | Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Out of Obscurity (2000) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Gibbon | My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. |
Johann L. Von Mosheim | Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness. |
Joseph Addison | Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. |
Marquis De Vauvenargues | Obscurity is the realm of error. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
Ovid | Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. |
Sallust | The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor their bad qualities to remain in obscurity. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He opened his eyes, and looked for a moment into the obscurity about him, then he closed them to go to sleep again. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. |
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| "Obscurity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obscurity" is used about 235 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 235 | 19,568 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "obscurity": in obscurity ♦ lapse into obscurity ♦ security through obscurity. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "obscurity": semi-obscurity. | |
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| 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 |
obscurity | 8 |
from manson marilyn obscurity purgatory | 2 |
complete obscurity | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "obscurity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | terr (dark, darkness, mirk, murk, opaque), paqartësi (fogginess, uncertainty, vagueness), mungesë qartësisë, errësirë (background, blackness, darkness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mirk, mist, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, opacity, opaque, staining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غياب (absence, non attendance), غموض (ambiguity, darkness, equivocation, fuzziness, haziness, mystery, mystification, nebulizer, opacity, secret, vagueness, weirdness), عدم الشهرة, ضلال (aberrance, deception, delusion, error, perversity, wandering, wrong), ضبابية (blurring, cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, vagueness), خمول ذكر, جهالة (ignorance), الغموض (inscrutability), إبهام (transcendentalism, vagueness), ظلمات, ظلام (blackness, dark, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, night, sadness, shade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скромен живот, тъмнина (blackness, dark, darkness, shades, shadows, the opaque), неясност (dimness, haziness, veil), неразбираемост (incomprehensibility, inscrutability), неизвестност (abeyance, mystery), мъглявост (fog, haziness, mistiness, nebulosity), мрак (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, murk, night, opacity, opaqueness, shades, shadows, the opaque). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 隱晦 , 朦胧 (hazy, shadowy), 含糊 (vague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | temnota (blackness, darkness), nezřetelnost, nejasnost (ambiguity, dimness, faintness, hazy, stolidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گمنامی (Anonymity, Oblivion), تیرگی (Blur, Fog, Gloom, Muddle), تاری (Umbrage), ابهام (Ambiguity, Fog, Haze, Mist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pimeys (dark, darkness), himmenys (dimness, dullness), hämäräperäisyys (shadiness), epäselvyys (indistinctness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | obscurité (obscureness), ténèbres. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dunkelheit (blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, fog, gloom, gloominess, murk, obscureness, swarthiness), Unklarheiten (obscurenesses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκότοσ (dark, darkness, dinginess, gloom, mirk, murk), σκοτεινότησ (darkness, shadiness), σκοτεινότητα (darkness, shadiness), σκοτάδι (dark, darkness, night time), αφάνεια (latency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ערפול (clouding, fogginess, misting, nebulization, vagueness), עננה (cloudling, clouds, gloom), אי בהירות (nebulosity), אלמוניות (anonymity, being unknown, namelessness), חושך (dark, darkness, murk), אפלה (blackness, darkness, dusk, gloominess, murk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sötétség (blackness, dark, darkness, depths, dusk, gloom, mirk, murk, murkiness, sombreness, the dark), homály (blur, darkness, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mirk, mist, murk, obscureness, shade, shades, shadow, twilight), ismeretlenség (anonymity), homályosság (ambiguity, blur, dullness, duskiness, haziness, murkiness, nebulosity, opacity, tarnish, turbidity), bizonytalanság (doubtfulness, fickleness, grogginess, hesitancy, insecurity, precariousness, quandary, shakiness, suspense, uncertainty, vagueness, wobbliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketidakjelasan (vagueness), kekelaman (darkness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | oscurità (background, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, murkiness, night, obscureness, opacity, shade, somberness, sombreness), oscurita' (darkness), ombra (darkness, ghost, shade, shadow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不遇 (bad luck, misfortune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びせん (humble station, low or humble rank, low rank), うもれぎ (lignite), ふぐう (bad luck, misfortune), ふめいりょう (dimness, indistinctness), いんび (abstruseness, impurity, mystery, obscenity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불명료. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooignys, dorraghys (blackness, darkness), doorey (eclipse, obscuration, shade, shadiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obscurityay obscuridade (blackness, dimmer, dimness, dusky, gloom, opacity, shade), trevas (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, murk, night after night, opacity), escuridão (cloudiness, dark, darkness, dead, dusk, gloom, mirk, mirror, murk, murky, night, opacity, opaque, shade), escritor desconhecido. (various references) obscuritate (darkness, gloom, gloominess, haze, murk), lipsã de faimã, lipsã de claritate, beznã (dark, gloom, midnight, night), anonimat (anonymity), întuneric (blackness, dark, darkness, murk, night, nigritude, opacity, shadow, twilight). (various references) неясность (ambiguity, haziness, nebulosity, opacity, vagueness). (various references) dorchadas (darkness). (various references) zavučenost, nepoznatost, nejasnost (dimness, nebulosity), mrak (dark, darkness, mirk, murk). (various references) oscuridad (abstruseness, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dinginess, dusk, gloom, gloominess, insignificance, insignificancy, mirk, mirkiness, murk, murkiness, shadow, shadows). (various references) otydlighet, oklarhet (confusion, mix up, unclearness), obestämdhet (indetermination, uncertainty), obemärkthet, oansenlighet, vaghet (generality), mörker (blackness, dark, darkness, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, nigritude), dunkel (abstruse, cloudy, dark, darkness, deep, dim, dusk, dusky, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, murky, mysterious, nebulous, obscure, opaque, recondite, transcendental). (various references) คนหรือสิ่งที่ไม่เป็นที่รู้จัก, ความไม่เป็นที่รู้จัก, ความไม่ชัดแจ้ง. (various references) loşluk (darkness, dimness, gloominess, somberness, sombreness), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), gizlilik (closeness, confidentiality, darkness, furtiveness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, privacy, secrecy, stealth, stealthiness), bilinmezlik (darkness), anlaşılmazlık (incomprehensibility, inscrutability, intangibility, intricacy, opacity, subtility, subtlety, unintelligiblity). (various references) tьmlьk (darkness), tьm (darkness). (various references) темрява (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, murk, night, nigritude, obscure, obscureness, opaque), темнота (dark, darkness, obscureness), неясність (ambiguity, fog, fogginess, fuzziness, nebulosity, obscureness, opacity), невідомість (obscureness, peradventure, shadow, strangeness, uncertainty), незрозумілість (obscureness), непомітність (obscureness), безвісність (obscureness), пітьма (dark, night, obscureness, opaque, sable, womb). (various references) tình trạng ít người biết đến, sự tối tăm (murkiness), sự mờ mịt sự tối nghĩa, sự khó hiểu sự không có tên tuổi. (various references) distadledd (insignificance), dinodedd (insignificance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ignobilitate, ignobilitatem, nebula, nebulae, nebulam, nebulas, silentium, tenebrae, tenebrarum, tenebras, tenebris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 29, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai akousontai en th hmera ekeinh kwfoi logouV bibliou kai oi en tw skotei kai oi en th omiclh ofqalmoi tuflwn bleyontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et audient in die illa surdi verba libri et de tenebris et caligine oculi caecorum videbunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And heren shul in that day deue men the wrdis of the boc, and fro dercnesses and mystynesses the eyen of blynde men shul seen; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 29, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug niadtong adlawa ang bungol makadungog sa mga pulong sa basahon, ug ang mga mata sa buta makakita gikan sa kadulum ug gikan sa kangitngitan. |
| Chinese | 那 時 、 聾 子 必 聽 見 這 書 上 的 話 ． 瞎 子 的 眼 、 必 從 迷 矇 黑 暗 中 得 以 看 見 。 |
| Croatian | I èut æe u onaj dan gluhi rijeèi knjige; osloboðene mraka i tmine, oèi æe slijepih vidjeti. |
| Danish | På hin Dag hører de døve Skriftord, og friet fra Mulm og Mørke kan blindes Øjne se. |
| Dutch | En te dien dage zullen de doven horen de woorden des Boeks; en de ogen der blinden, zijnde uit de donkerheid en uit de duisternis, zullen zien. |
| Finnish | Sinä päivänä kuurot kuulevat kirjan sanat, ja sokeiden silmät näkevät vapaina synkeästä pimeydestä. |
| French | En ce jour-là, les sourds entendront les paroles du livre; Et, délivrés de l`obscurité et des ténèbres, Les yeux des aveugles verront. |
| German | Und zu derselben Zeit werden die Tauben hören die Worte des Buches, und die Augen der Blinden werden aus Dunkel und Finsternis sehen, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada waktu itu orang tuli akan dapat mendengar kata-kata dari sebuah buku yang dibacakan, dan orang buta yang tadinya hidup dalam kegelapan akan dapat melihat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada hari itu juga orang-orang tuli kelak mendengar akan bunyi perkataan Alkitab, dan mata orang-orang butapun akan melihat dengan tiada kabur dan dengan tiada kegelapan. |
| Italian | Udranno in quel giorno i sordi le parole di un libro; liberati dall'oscurità e dalle tenebre, gli occhi dei ciechi vedranno. |
| Maori | I taua ra ka rongo nga turi i nga kupu o te pukapuka, ka kite ano nga kanohi o nga matapo i roto i te kakarauri, i te pouri. |
| Norwegian | Og på den dag skal de døve høre bokens ord, og ut fra mulm og mørke skal de blindes øine se, |
| Portuguese | Naquele dia os surdos ouvirão as palavras do livro, e dentre a escuridão e dentre as trevas os olhos dos cegos a verão. |
| Rumanian | Kn ziua aceea, surzii vor auzi cuvintele cqryii, wi ochii orbilor, izbqviyi de negurq wi kntunerec, vor vedea. |
| Spanish | En aquel tiempo los sordos oirán las palabras del libro, y los ojos de los ciegos verán desde la oscuridad y las tinieblas. |
| Swedish | De döva skola på den tiden höra vad som läses för de, och de blindas ögon skola se och vara fria ifrån dunkel och mörker; |
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"Obscurity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abscurity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "obscurity" (pronounced ubskyuh"rutē) |
| 7 | -k y uh" r u t ē | insecurity, security. |
| 6 | -y uh" r u t ē | impurity, purity. |
| 5 | -uh" r u t ē | immaturity, maturity, surety. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, austerity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, charity, clarity, dexterity, disparity, dissimilarity, familiarity, hilarity, inferiority, insularity, integrity, irregularity, majority, mediocrity, minority, parity, particularity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, posterity, priority, prosperity, rarity, regularity, seniority, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, sorority, superiority, supermajority, temerity, unfamiliarity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: bistoury. | |
-2 letters: butyric, citrous, citrusy, strobic. | |
-3 letters: bistro, bruits, bustic, citrus, coitus, courts, crusty, cubist, cubits, curios, curtsy, orbits, outcry, rictus, robust, rustic, sorbic, stoury, subito, suitor, turbos. | |
-4 letters: bitsy, boric, borts, borty, bousy, bouts, brios, brits, brosy, bruit, buoys, burst, busty, coirs, corby, court, cribs, crust, cubit, curbs, curio, curst, cutis, ictus, obits. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-i-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: obstructively. | |
+5 letters: rambunctiously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 62 73 63 75 72 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -... ... -.-. ..- .-. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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