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Definition: Reviled |
ReviledAdjective1. Assailed with contemptuous language. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reviled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: ReviledSynonym: maligned (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm used to wandering the earth - reviled, hunted, hated. (She-Wolf of London; writing credit: Hans Beimler) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Rimbaud | One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Reviled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 55.32% of the time. "Reviled" is used about 47 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 55.32% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25.53% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.02% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "reviled": widely-reviled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reviled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | verunglimpften, verunglimpfte (denigrated, disparaged, vilified), beschimpfte (insulted). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eviledray | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 39 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de paraporeuomenoi eblasfhmoun auton kinounteV taV kefalaV autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Praetereuntes autem blasphemabant eum moventes capita sua |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Witodlice þa weiferende hyne bysmereden.& cwæhton heore heafod. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And men that passiden forth blasfemeden hym, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | They that passed by revyled him waggynge ther heeddes |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they that passed by, reviled him, wagging their heads, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 39 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya gibiaybiay sa mga nanagpangagi nga nanagyangoyango sa ilang mga ulo |
| Chinese | 從 那 裡 經 過 的 人 、 譏 誚 他 、 搖 著 頭 說 、 |
| Croatian | A prolaznici su ga pogrðivali mašuæi glavama: |
| Danish | Og de, som gik forbi, spottede ham, idet de rystede på deres Hoveder og sagde: |
| Dutch | En die voorbijgingen, lasterden Hem, schuddende hun hoofden. |
| Finnish | Ja ne, jotka kulkivat ohitse, herjasivat häntä, nyökyttivät päätänsä |
| French | Les passants l`injuriaient, et secouaient la tête, |
| German | Die aber vorübergingen, lästerten ihn und schüttelten ihre Köpfe |
| Hungarian | Az arramenõk pedig szidalmazzák vala õt, fejüket hajtogatván. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang-orang yang lewat di situ menggeleng-gelengkan kepala, dan menghina Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang yang lalu-lalang di situ mencercai Dia sambil menggeleng-gelengkan kepalanya, |
| Italian | E quelli che passavano di là lo insultavano scuotendo il capo e dicendo: |
| Korean | 지 나 가 는 자 들 은 자 기 머 리 를 흔 들 며 예 수 를 모 욕 하 여 |
| Manx Gaelic | As doltooan y vooinjer va goll shaghey eh, craa nyn ghing. |
| Maori | A ka kohukohu ki a ia te hunga e haere ana ra reira, me te oioi o ratou matenga, |
| Norwegian | Og de som gikk forbi, spottet ham og rystet på hodet og sa: |
| Portuguese | E os que iam passando blasfemavam dele, meneando a cabeça |
| Rumanian | Trecqtorii kwi bqteau joc de El, dqdeau din cap, |
| Russian | рТПИПДСЭЙЕ ЦЕ ЪМПУМПЧЙМЙ еЗП, ЛЙЧБС ЗПМПЧБНЙ УЧПЙНЙ |
| Shuar | Shuar nui nankaamainiak muuke peatar wishikiainiak |
| Spanish | Los que pasaban le insultaban, meneando sus cabezas |
| Swahili | Watu waliokuwa wanapita mahali hapo walimtukana wakitikisa vichwa vyao na kusema, |
| Swedish | Och de som gingo där förbi bespottade honom och skakade huvudet |
| Uma | Tauna to liu hi ree, ngkololi-ra mpopo'ore' -i, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Reviled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Artevelde, Grevilia, ravaled, ravled, refiled, regild, regilded, resiled, revalee, reveeled, reveiled, revelee, reviel, revieled, revil, revilee, Revilla, Reville, Revilo, revoiled, rvealed, Treville, Trevillet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reviled" (pronounced rēvī"ld) |
| 3 | -ī" l d | beguiled, child, compiled, filed, mild, piled, refiled, restyled, riled, smiled, styled, tiled, wild. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deliver, relived. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: delver, derive, drivel, eviler, levied, levier, lieder, liever, reived, relied, relive, revile, veiled, veiler. | |
-2 letters: delve, devel, devil, diver, drive, edile, eider, elder, elide, elver, ervil, idler, lever, lieve, lived, liver, livre, reive, revel, riled, rived, viler. | |
-3 letters: deer, deil, dele, deli, dere, diel, dire, dirl, dive, dree, eide, ever, evil, idle, ired. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: bedrivel, delivers, delivery, desilver, driveled, driveler, evildoer, liveried, overidle, relieved, silvered, slivered. | |
+2 letters: bedrivels, daredevil, delivered, deliverer, derivable, desilvers, devilries, diversely, driveable, drivelers, driveline, drivelled, evildoers, overlived, overplied, prevailed, reavailed, redeliver, replevied, shriveled, velarized. | |
+3 letters: bedriveled, cavaliered, daredevils, decemviral, deliverers, deliveries, delivering, derisively, desilvered, deviltries, drivelines, driverless, outdeliver, overbilled, overboiled, overfilled, overgilded, overkilled, overmilked, overtoiled, privileged, pulverised, pulverized, redelivers, redelivery, redissolve, relievedly, replevined, resilvered, revalidate, shrivelled, silverside, silverweed, surveilled, unrelieved, verbalized, vernalized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 69 6C 65 64 |
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