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Revoltingly

Definition: Revoltingly

Revoltingly

Adverb

1. In a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree; "the beggar was disgustingly filthy".

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

Date "revoltingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)


Synonyms: Revoltingly

Synonyms: disgustingly (adv), distastefully (adv), sickeningly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Revoltingly

English words defined with "revoltingly": coarse, crudeearthygrossvulgar. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Revoltingly

"Revoltingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Revoltingly" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Revoltingly

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

German

  

auflehnende (revolting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visszataszítóan (appallingly, hideously, repulsively), undorítóan (abominably, disgustingly, repulsively), felháborítóan (disgustingly, flagrantly, outrageously). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evoltinglyray

   

Turkish

  

son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), iğrenç şekilde (foully, nastily, odiously), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Revoltingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-t-v-y"

-1 letter: trolleying.

-2 letters: longevity, overlying, revolting, trollying, violently, volleying.

-3 letters: livelong, lovingly, overgilt, revoting, rovingly, trolling.

-4 letters: elytron, genitor, gillnet, inertly, lentigo, levying, loverly, nervily, novelly, novelty, overing, overlit, overtly, relying, retinol, retying, ringlet, rolling, telling, tingler, tolling, trilogy, trolley, vertigo, vetoing, violent, yelling.

-5 letters: eloign, engirt, enroll, entoil, eringo, eryngo, evilly, gentil, gently, gentry, giller.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Revoltingly


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

52 65 76 6F 6C 74 69 6E 67 6C 79

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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