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Definition: Palsied |
PalsiedAdjective1. Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "hands weak and palsied". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "palsied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose. |
Impotence | Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf. |
Physical Insensibility | Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead. |
Weakness | Broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Palsied |
| English words defined with "palsied": Palsical. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The step was palsied now, that had been foremost in the charge. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Palsied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Palsied" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "palsied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që dridhet (quaking, quaky, quavery, shivery), i paralizuar (game, paralysed). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشلول (disabled, numb, paralysed, paralytic, paralyzed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | парализиран (paralysed). (various references) | |
Danish | patient med cerebral parese (cerebral palsied). (various references) | |
Dutch | hersenverlamd (cerebral palsied). (various references) | |
French | paralysé (paralysed, paralytic). (various references) | |
German | gelähmt (crippled, lame, lamed, paralysed, paralytic, paralyzed). (various references) | |
Greek | παράλυτοσ (numb, paralytic), τρέμων (creepy, shivery, trembly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משותק (paralysed, paralytic, silenced). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szélütött, bénult (paralysed, spastic). (various references) | |
Italian | paralitico (paralytic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alsiedpay.(various references) | |
Romanian | paralizat (dead), neputincios (helpless, impotent, impuissant, incapable, infirm, limp, nerveless, shiftless, silly, slight), decrepit (decrepit, senile), care tremurã (palpitant, shivery). (various references) | |
Russian | трясущийся (niddle-noddle, quaky, tottery), парализованный (paralysed, paralytic), дрожащий (quaking, quaky, quavery, quivery, shaky, shivery, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vibrant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oduzet (paralysed). (various references) | |
Spanish | paralizado (depressed, paralysed, paralyzed), paralítico (paralytic, quadriplegic), tembloroso (flickering, quaky, quavering, quavery, quivering, shaking, shaky, trembling, trembly). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarsak (a dithering idiot, clumsy, Dickey, dicky, doddering, doddery, jerky, rocky, shaky, tottering, tottery), felçli (apoplectic, apoplectical, paralysed, paralytic), aksayan (failing, halting), aksak (game, gammy, halting, hipshot, interrupted, lame, limping, lopsided). (various references) | |
Ukranian | тремтячий (faltering, jittery, quaking, quavery, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vacillating), паралізований (paralysed, paralytic, paralyzed, petrified). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | paralytici, paralytico, paralyticos, paralyticum, paralyticus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Palsied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pahsien, Palfium, palised, palisied, Palshid, Pilisuk, plasia, Polskie, Polskiej, polysided. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alipeds, elapids, lapides, pleiads. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: aisled, aliped, deasil, dispel, elapid, espial, ideals, ladies, lapsed, lipase, lisped, padles, pedals, plaids, pleads, pleiad, sailed, salpid, sliped, spiled. | |
-2 letters: aides, ailed, aisle, aside, dales, deals, deils, delis, dials, ideal, ideas, idles, isled, lades, lapis, lapse, lased, leads, leaps, padis, padle, pails, paise, paled, pales, peals, pedal, pilea, piled, piles, plaid, plead, pleas, plied, plies, salep, sapid, sepal, sepia, sidle, siped, slide, slipe, spade, spaed, spail, spale, speil, spied, spiel, spile. | |
-3 letters: aide, aids, ails, ales, alps, aped, apes, apse, dais, dale, dals, daps, deal, deil, deli, dels, dial, diel, dies, dips, elds, idea, ides, idle, ilea, isle, lade, lads, laid, laps, lase, lead, leap, leas, leis, lids, lied, lies, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, padi, pads, paid, pail, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, peds, pial, pias, pied, pies, pile, plea, pled, plie, sade, sadi, said, sail, sale, salp, seal, sial, side, sild, sipe, slap, sled, slid, slip, spae, sped. | |
-4 letters: ads, aid, ail, ais, ale, alp, als, ape, asp, dal, dap, del, die, dip, dis, eds, eld, els, ids, lad, lap, las, lea, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, lis, pad, pal, pas, pea, ped, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, sad, sae, sal, sap, sea, sei, sel, sip, spa. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, as, de, ed, el, es, id, is, la, li, pa, pe, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: displace, helipads, impleads, misplead, palisade, parslied, piebalds, pleiades, sandpile, sepaloid, spadille, spiraled, talipeds. | |
+2 letters: asclepiad, depilates, deprivals, diplegias, dispersal, displaced, displaces, displayed, displease, inclasped, lapidates, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, palinodes, palisaded, palisades, pedaliers, pedipalps, pedlaries, penalised, pinelands, planished, pleadings, polarised, presidial, redisplay, sandpiles, slipcased, spadilles, spiralled, spoliated, stapedial. | |
+3 letters: amplidynes, amplitudes, aneuploids, apologised, asclepiads, bipedalism, candlepins, capsulized, dealership, despicable, despicably, diaphyseal, diplomates, diplophase, dispersals, displanted, displeased, displeases, disposable, disputable, duplicates, episodical, espadrille, espaliered, haploidies, hexaploids, lapidaries, lapidifies, leadership, misapplied, misplanned, misplanted, mispleaded, overplaids, paddlefish, palletised, pallidness, petalodies, philanders, placidness, plaistered, planetoids, platitudes, playfields, polyamides, psalmodies, redisplays, sailplaned, septicidal, sphenoidal, spheroidal, stipulated. | |
+4 letters: acidophiles, anadiploses, audiophiles, bipedalisms, capitalised, cyclopedias, dealerships, depilations, depolarizes, diadelphous, dilapidates, diplomacies, diplophases, disparately, dispensable, displayable, displeasing, displeasure, disposables, disprovable, drosophilae, ellipsoidal, endoplasmic, espadrilles, feldspathic, interpleads, leaderships, lipreadings, maxillipeds, mispleading, palindromes, paradiddles, peccadillos, pedestaling, pediculates, pedophilias, pentaploids, periodicals, placidities, plagiarised, plasticized, polyandries, popularised, predicables, psychedelia, redisplayed, specialised, specialized, spermicidal, supplicated, tetraploids. | |
+5 letters: accomplished, aneuploidies, bipedalities, cyclopaedias, depilatories, depolarizers, depositional, despairingly, despoliation, despotically, dimercaprols, discrepantly, displaceable, displacement, displeasures, disreputable, disreputably, dissipatedly, episodically, haloperidols, hexaploidies, hospitalised, hospitalized, indisputable, kaleidoscope, nucleocapsid, paddlefishes, pallidnesses, paramedicals, peccadilloes, pedestalling, pentlandites, personalised, personalized, philadelphus, philanderers, placidnesses, plantigrades, postcardlike, postdeadline, postmedieval, presidential, pseudopodial, psychedelias, redisplaying, reduplicates, semipalmated, slipstreamed, speedballing, spheroidally, subepidermal, undisputable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 73 69 65 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. ... .. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01110011 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l s i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 0073 0069 0065 0064 |
| 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)50677885757170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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