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Definition: Poor-spirited |
Poor-spiritedAdjective1. Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "poor-spirited" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: Poor-spiritedSynonyms: pusillanimous (adj), unmanly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "poor-spirited"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhag-vreeagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oor-spiritedpay робкий (bashful, chicken hearted, coward, diffident, faint, gingerly, gutless, milquetoast, mousey, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), трусливый (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, faint-hearted, funky, hen-hearted, knock-kneed, lily livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, sneaky, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered). (various references) nhút nhát (chicken-hearted, diffident, faint-hearted, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, rabbity, shily, shy, shyly, spiritless, timid, timorous, wak-hearted, white-livered), nhát gan (chicken-hearted, chicken-livered, coward, faint-hearted, milk-livered, pusillanimous, white-livered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "poor-spirited" (pronounced 'Poor"-spir`it*ed'): Abatised, Abawed, Abed, Able-bodied, Able-minded, Aborted, Above-cited, Absent-minded, Absinthiated, Abstorted, Acetated, Acorned, Acred, Aculeated, Acute-angled, Addorsed, Adfected, Adfiliated, Adnubilated, Adreamed, Adusted, Affectionated, Affectioned, Affined, Affriended, Aforecited, Aforementioned, Aforenamed, After-mentioned, After-witted, Agazed, Ahungered, Air-slacked, Aisled, Alike-minded, Aliped, Alleyed, All-possessed, Almsdeed, Aluminated, Alveated, Ambuscadoed, Ammoniated, Anhungered, Aniseed, Ankled, Annodated, Ansated, Anserated, Antimoniated. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: depositor, drippiest, droopiest, posterior, propositi, pteropods, stroppier, tripodies. | |
-4 letters: diopters, dioptres, diorites, dippiest, doorstep, drippers, drippier, droopier, droppers, opposite, peridots, pierrots, porpoise, presidio, priories, proposed, proposer, proteids, pteropod, redroots, riposted, riptides, spirited, sportier, stripier, stripped, stripper, stropped, stropper, tiderips, topsider, torpedos, trippers, trippier, troopers. | |
-5 letters: deports, deposit, diopter, dioptre, diorite, dippers, dippier, dirtier. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: disproportioned. | |
+4 letters: disproportionate. | |
+5 letters: disproportionated, disproportionates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6F 72 2D 73 70 69 72 69 74 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101111 01110010 00101101 01110011 01110000 01101001 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o o r - s p i r i t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006F 0072 002D 0073 0070 0069 0072 0069 0074 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818184158582758475867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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