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Definition: Opposable |
OpposableAdjective1. Capable of being placed opposite to something; "the thumb is opposable to the forefinger". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: OpposableSynonym: apposable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unopposable (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Opposable |
| English words defined with "opposable": apposable ♦ Falconiformes ♦ Opposability, order Falconiformes ♦ Pedimanous ♦ Quadrumana ♦ unopposable ♦ Yapock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "opposable": Eagles. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Opposable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Opposable" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
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 |
opposable thumb | 14 |
opposable primates thumb | 3 |
opposable | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "opposable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخالفت کردنی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bekämpfbar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντικρούσιμοσ (contradictable, refutable, resistible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szembefordítható, szembeállítható. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | opponibile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opposableay opozabil, contrastabil. (various references) противопоставлений. (various references) có thể chống đối, có thể đối lập. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Opposable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: opposeable, oppossable, posable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "opposable" (pronounced 'Op*pos"a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-o-p-p-s" | |
-2 letters: papoose. | |
-3 letters: appels, apples, appose, aslope, bloops, oboles, oppose, peplos, saloop. | |
-4 letters: ables, aloes, appel, apple, bales, blase, bloop, bolas, boles, bolos, lapse, leaps, lobes, lobos, loops, loose, lopes, oboes, obole, obols, oleos, opals, pales, palps, paseo, peals, pepla, pepos, pleas, plebs, plops, poles, polos, pools, poops, popes, psoae, sable, salep, sepal, sloop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-o-o-p-p-s" | |
+2 letters: postponable. | |
+5 letters: opposabilities. | |
| 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 70 70 6F 73 61 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- .--. .--. --- ... .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O p p o s a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0070 0070 006F 0073 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
| 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)498282818567687871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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