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Shiftlessness

Definition: Shiftlessness

Shiftlessness

Noun

1. A failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition.

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

Date "shiftlessness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references)


Use in Literature: Shiftlessness

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

That is shiftlessness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Shiftlessness

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

German

  

trägheit (idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertial, inertness, languidness, languishment, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, phlegm, sloth, sluggishness, supineness, torpidity, torpor), energielosigkeit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανικανότησ (helplessness, impotence, impotency, inability, incapableness, incapacity, inefficiency), ανικανότητα (disability, disablement, disqualification, helplessness, impotence, impotency, inability, incapability, incapableness, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency), οκνηρία (boredom, laziness, sloth). (various references)

   

Manx

  

drollaneys (helplessness, indolence, laziness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftlessnessshay

   

Russian 

  

беспомощность (helplessness, hopelessness, impotence, impotency). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pereza (laziness, sloth, slothfulness, sluggishness), inutilidad (futility, idleness, loss, needlessness, otiosity, pointlessness, uselessness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự lười nhác (loaf, loaves), sự khờ dại (foolery, insipience, lubberliness, spooniness), sự không biết xoay xở sự vô hiệu quả, sự hèn kém sự vụng về, sự bất lực (debility, impuissance, inability, incapability). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Shiftlessness

Derivations

Words beginning with "shiftlessness": shiftlessnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shiftlessness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-i-l-n-s-s-s-s-s-t"

-2 letters: selfishness.

-3 letters: fleshiness.

-4 letters: fitnesses, fleshiest, heftiness, litheness, shiftless.

-5 letters: esthesis, felsites, fetishes, finesses, fishless, fishnets, hessites, selfness, sestines, setlines, shelties, theelins.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-h-i-l-n-s-s-s-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: faithlessnesses, shiftlessnesses.

 

+3 letters: thriftlessnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Shiftlessness


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

53 68 69 66 74 6C 65 73 73 6E 65 73 73

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)

...    ....    ..    ..-.    -    .-..    .    ...    ...    -.    .    ...    ...

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

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

01010011 01101000 01101001 01100110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0069 0066 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53747572867871858580718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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