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Definition: Stillborn |
StillbornAdjective1. Failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President". 2. (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stillborn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a stillborn infant, denotes that some distressing incident will come before your notice. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Medicine | Dead at birth(of a foetus). Source: European Union. (references) |
| A foetus or baby dead at birth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StillbornSynonyms: abortive (adj), unsuccessful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Stillborn; mortuary; deadly. (killing). |
Failure | Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction). |
Abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual, ineffective, inconsequential, trifling, nugatory; inefficient; (impotent); insufficient; unavailing; (useless); of no effect. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stillborn |
| English words defined with "stillborn": abortive ♦ Deadborn ♦ liveborn ♦ unsuccessful. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Negro woman's home near Beaufort, South Carolina. Her husband is paralyzed. Her two children were stillborn and she is almost blind. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | If the infant is not stillborn, then he or she will usually die within a few hours or days after birth. (references) | |
The prognosis for individuals with anencephaly is extremely poor. If the infant is not stillborn, then he or she will usually die within a few hours or days after birth. (references) | ||
Agrin knockout mice died before birth or were stillborn because of defective NMJs. Interestingly, inactivating the agrin gene not only affected muscle, but also the perturbed axons. (references) | ||
Economic History | Angola | The subsequent renewal of civil war and collapse of the Lusaka Protocol have left much of this process stillborn, but democratic forms exist, notably the National Assembly. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stillborn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stillborn" is used about 59 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stillborn": stillborn baby ♦ stillborn infant. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stillborn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مولود ميت, جهيض (abortion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mrtvì narozený (still-born). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | doedfoedt (stillbirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doodgeborene (stillbirth), doodgeboren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mort-né (stillbirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | totgeboren (stillbirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γέννηση νεκρού (dead birth, stillbirth), γεννημένο νεκρό (stillbirth), θνησιγενές (slink, slunk, stillbirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ול" מת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bebang (asphysia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nato morto (stillbirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 水子 (newborn baby), 死"児 (stillborn baby), 死児 (dead or stillborn child). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しざ"じ (stillborn baby), しじ (apprentice oneself, dead or stillborn child, directions, indication, instruction, looking up, maintenance, personal affairs, study under, support, the four seasons), みず" (newborn baby), みず" (newborn baby). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | marroo-vreyit, marroo-vehrt, marroo-ruggit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illbornstay nascido morto. (various references) мертворожденный (still-born). (various references) mrtvorođen (still-born). (various references) nacido muerto (dead birth, stillbirth). (various references) ilerleme göstermeyen, geleceği olmayan (dead end, futureless), başlamadan biten, ölü doğmuş. (various references) мертвонароджений. (various references) marw-anedig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stillborn": stillborns. (additional references) | |
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"Stillborn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: silberne, silburn, Sillbourne, Tilburn, Tillyorn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stillborn" (pronounced sti"lbô"rn) |
| 5 | -l b ô" r n | wellborn. |
| 4 | -b ô" r n | born, borne, Bourn, Bourne, lowborn, reborn, unborn. |
| 3 | -ô" r n | adorn, corn, forlorn, forsworn, horn, mourn, porn, scorn, shorn, sworn, thorn, torn, warn, worn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: billons, bristol, lintols, nostril, strobil. | |
-3 letters: billon, bionts, bistro, brills, broils, intros, lintol, nitros, orbits, robins, stroll, tonsil, trills, triols, trolls. | |
-4 letters: bills, bints, biont, birls, bison, blots, boils, bolls, bolts, borts, brill, brins, brios, brits, broil, intro, irons, lilts, linos, lints, lions, lirot, loins, loris, nills, nitro, noils, noirs, noris, obits, orbit. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: stillborns. | |
+2 letters: tourbillons. | |
+3 letters: tourbillions. | |
+4 letters: bipropellants, fibrillations. | |
+5 letters: cobelligerents, collaborations, thyroglobulins. | |
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