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Definition: Parasitical |
ParasiticalAdjective1. Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parasitical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: ParasiticalSynonyms: bloodsucking (adj), leechlike (adj), parasitic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Servility | Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb: |
Subjection | Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Parasitical |
| English words defined with "parasitical": Arrhizous ♦ pawky. (references) |
| "Parasitical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parasitical" is used about 20 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% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "parasitical": parasitic parasitical leechlike bloodsucking ♦ parasitical worm. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "parasitical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | parazit (Cadger, freeloader, hanger-on, parasite, parasitic, sponger). (various references) | |
Arabic | تطفلي (intrusive), طفيلي (loamy, scrounger, snoop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | паразитен (parasitic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 寄" (Parasitic, Parasitism). (various references) | |
Czech | cizopasný (parasitic). (various references) | |
French | parasite (parasite, parasitic, parasitic oscillation), parasitaire (parasitic). (various references) | |
German | parasitisch (parasitic), parasitär (parasetical, parasitic), schmarotzerhaft (parasitic), schmarotzer- (parasitic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טפילי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | parazita (guest, infestant, parasite, parasitic), élõsködõ (parasitic, sponger). (various references) | |
Italian | parassitario (parasitic), parassita (hanger-on, injurious plant, line hit, noxious plant, parasite, parasitic, scrounger). (various references) | |
Korean | 기생하" (infested, Parasitic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arasiticalpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parasitário (parasitic), parasítico (parasitism). (various references) | |
Romanian | parazitar (parasitic), parazit (dead beat, guest, hanger-on, leech, locust, parasite, parasitic, pest, sponge, sponger, sycophant, toady), de parazit (parasitic). (various references) | |
Russian | паразитический (parasitic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | parazitski (parasitic). (various references) | |
Spanish | parasitario (parasitic), parásito (hanger-on, parasite, parasitic, parasitic oscillation, pest, vermin). (various references) | |
Swedish | parasitisk (parasitic), parasit- (parasitic), snyltande (parasitic, parasitism), snylt- (parasitic). (various references) | |
Turkish | parazit (atmospherics, cestode, cestoid, helminth, interference, noise, parasital, parasite, parasitic, statics, strays, vermin, white noise), yayını bozan (parasite, parasitic), asalak (bloodsucker, cadger, endoparasite, free rider, freeloader, hanger-on, parasital, parasite, parasitic, sponge, sponger, sucker, tufthunter). (various references) | |
Ukranian | що виклика"ться паразитом (parasitic), паразитичний (parasitic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ký sinh; do ký sinh (parasitic), ăn bám (parasitic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "parasitical": parasitically. (additional references) | |
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"Parasitical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paracortical, paradisial, paratactical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-i-l-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: parasitic, piratical, racialist, satirical. | |
-3 letters: apiarist, aplastic, aspirata, caltraps, capitals, carpalia, catalpas, iatrical, partials, salariat, tilapias. | |
-4 letters: acrasia, alpacas, apicals, aplasia, aplitic, caltrap, capital, caritas, carpals, catalpa, citrals, italics, lariats, latrias, partial, patacas, picaras, piratic, plastic, satiric, spacial, spatial, talaria, tilapia. | |
-5 letters: aaliis, alpaca, altars, apical, arista, astral, atrial, capias, capita, capris, carats, carpal, casita, citral, claspt, craals, crista, iatric, italic, lariat, lascar, latria, palais, pascal, pastil, pataca, picara, pistil, plaits, racial, racist, rapist, rascal, ratals, riatas, rictal, sacral, satara, satrap, scalar, script, sialic, silica, spiral, spirit, spital, talars, tapirs, tarsal, tarsia, tiaras, ticals, trails, triacs, trials. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-i-l-p-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: parasitically, parasiticidal. | |
+4 letters: pantisocratical, parasitological. | |
+5 letters: paradoxicalities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 61 73 69 74 69 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .- ... .. - .. -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a s i t i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 0073 0069 0074 0069 0063 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067846785758675696778 |
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