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Self-deprecating

Definition: Self-deprecating

Self-deprecating

Adjective

1. Conscious of your own shortcomings.

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

Usage Frequency: Self-deprecating

"Self-deprecating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Self-deprecating" is used about 34 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
Adjective (general or positive)94.12%3261,292
Noun (singular)5.88%2245,945
                    Total100.00%34N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Self-deprecating

Language Translations for "self-deprecating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

умаляющий собственное достоинство. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Self-deprecating

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-f-g-i-l-n-p-r-s-t"

-3 letters: decelerating, predeceasing, predesignate, preselecting.

-4 letters: afterpieces, centralised, credentials, deferential, deprecating, depreciates, desecrating, deselecting, generalised, interpleads, interspaced, pearlescent, pedestaling, percentages, percentiles, praelecting, preelecting, redefeating, redefecting, reinspected.

-5 letters: afterpiece, carpetings, cartelised, centigrade, centipedes, centralise, clientages, credential, crenelated, decaliters, decenaries, decreasing, defecating, deflecting, delegacies, delineates, denigrates, deprecates, depreciate, discrepant, elegancies, energetics, epicenters, epicentral, espaliered, federacies, federalist.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Self-deprecating


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

53 65 6C 66 2D 64 65 70 72 65 63 61 74 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#100 &#101 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#99 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0064 0065 0070 0072 0065 0063 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53717872157071828471696786758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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