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Oscitant

Definition: Oscitant

Oscitant

Adjective

1. Showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation".

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

Etymology: Oscitant \Os"ci*tant\, adjective. [Latin expression oscitans, -antis, present participle of oscitare: compare to the French expression oscitant.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Oscitant

Synonyms: drowsy (adj), yawning(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Oscitant

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Opening

Adjective: open; perforated; Verb: perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Oscitant

English words defined with "oscitant": Oscitantly. (references)
Etymologies containing "oscitant": Oscitancy. (references)

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Modern Translations: Oscitant

Language Translations for "oscitant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukranian 

  

який позіха", сонливий (drowsy, sleepy), тупий (asleep, bat-eyed, blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, doughy, dull, logy, obtuse, opaque, pointless, slow witted, wooden, wooden-headed), в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, sleepy, stagnant), неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, outward, unmindful, vague), недбалий (careless, casual, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, lax, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, overly, slovenly, unguarded), млявий (asleep, atonic, dopey, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, nerveless, remiss). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Oscitant"

Words rhyming with "oscitant" (pronounced 'Os"ci*tant'): Abirritant, Adjutant, Amplectant, Annuitant, Arcboutant, Blatant, Chantant, Circumstant, Combattant, Crepitant, Debilitant, Flotant, Gestant, hesitant, humectant, important, inconstant, Marcantant, militant, Montant, Natant, Nutant, Octant, Palpitant, Pregustant, Pressitant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Resuscitant, Saltant, Sectant, self-important, sextant, Spectant, statant, Substant, Superfluitant, supernatant, Unconstant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Oscitant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tactions.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: actions, atonics, cations, octants, station, taction.

-2 letters: actins, action, antics, atonic, attics, cantos, casino, cation, coatis, cotans, cottas, intact, nastic, octans, octant, scotia, static, stotin, taints, tanist, tincts, titans, tocsin, tonics.

-3 letters: actin, antic, antis, ascot, attic, cains, canso, canst, canto, cants, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, costa, cotan, cotta, icons, iotas, octan.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: citations, taconites, toxicants, tractions.

 

+2 letters: actuations, anecdotist, carnotites, cartoonist, castration, catatonias, catatonics, constative, constipate, constraint, dictations, fantastico, inconstant, lactations, solicitant.

 

+3 letters: abstraction, actinolites, activations, anastomotic, anecdotists, antibiotics, astronautic, attractions, capitations, cartoonists, castigation, castrations, catenations, cavitations, coaptations, coattesting, cogitations, cohabitants, constatives, constipated, constipates, constraints, continuants, contradicts, contrasting, contrastive, corotations, cottontails, creationist, cunctations, detoxicants, detractions, distraction, eructations, excitations, extractions, fianchettos, incitations, intercostal, intoxicants, intoxicates, mastication, miscitation, nonartistic, outdistance, punctations, recitations, retractions, romanticist, rustication, solicitants, stenobathic, stocktaking, subtraction, tobacconist, trajections, transaction, transection, truncations, urtications, vacationist, wainscotted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Oscitant


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

4F 73 63 69 74 61 6E 74

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)

01001111 01110011 01100011 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#115 &#99 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0073 0063 0069 0074 0061 006E 0074

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

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

4985697586678086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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