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Definition: Surliness |
SurlinessNoun1. A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "surliness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
Synonyms: SurlinessSynonyms: biliousness (n), irritability (n), peevishness (n), pettishness (n), snappishness (n), temper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Surliness |
| English words defined with "surliness": Curstness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "surliness": Curstness. (references) |
| "Surliness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Surliness" is used about 8 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "surliness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طبع فظ, إكفهرار (cloudless, grumpiness, lour, lowering, sulkiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevrlost (glumness, grumpiness, petulance, sourness, spleen, sulk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maussaderie (sulk, sulkiness), caractère revêche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verdrießlichkeit (crabbedness, crossness, fretfulness, glumness, grumpiness, irksomeness, moroseness, peevishness, sourness, sullenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκυθρωπότησ (crossness, glumness, sulks, sullenness), σκυθρωπότητα (crossness, glumness, moroseness, sullenness), δυστροπία (biliousness, crabbedness, crustiness, grouchiness, moroseness, orneriness, peevishness, perversity, pettishness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, testiness, waspishness, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חמיצות פ ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsémbesség (testiness), mogorvaság (crossness, gruffness, moroseness, severity, sombreness, sulk, sulkiness, sullenness, sullens, tartness), gorombaság (bluntness, brusqueness, coarseness, grossness, rudeness), barátságtalanság (asperity, bad grace, disobligingness, gauntness, incivility, sulkiness, unkindness), bárdolatlanság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urlinesssay угрюмость (sullenness). (various references) mùig (cloudiness, frown, gloom). (various references) mal humor (bad mood, bad temper, crossness, fretfulness, grouch, grouchiness, grumpiness, ill humor, ill humour, moodiness, peeve, peevishness, petulance, spleen), hosquedad, falta de educación, aspereza (abruptness, acerbity, acridness, asperity, astringence, astringences, harshness, rawness, roughness, scragginess, sharpness, sourness, topmast). (various references) somurtkanlık (grumpiness, grumps, morosity, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, vinegar), huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, pettishness, petulance, sourness, spleen, temper, vice, viciousness), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references) vẻ cáu kỉnh, tính hay gắt gỏng (grumpiness, humoursomeness, shrewishness). (various references) sarugrwydd (gruffness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | offuscatione. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "surliness": surlinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Surliness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sulliness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "surliness" (pronounced 'Sur"li*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-r-s-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sunrises. | |
-2 letters: insures, issuers, risuses, runless, silenus, sinless, sinuses, sunless, sunrise. | |
-3 letters: insure, inures, issuer, issues, liners, lunier, lunies, nurses, resins, rinses, rusine, serins, sieurs, sirens, unless, urines, ursine. | |
-4 letters: ileus, inure, isles, issue, lenis, liens, liers, lieus, liner, lines, lunes, lures, nisus, nurls, nurse, reins, resin, riels, riles, rinse, risen, rises, risus, ruins. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-r-s-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sultriness. | |
+2 letters: burlinesses, curlinesses, luridnesses, surlinesses. | |
+3 letters: blurrinesses, churlishness, gloriousness, illusoriness, perilousness, salutariness, sultrinesses, tristfulness, unrulinesses. | |
+4 letters: courtlinesses, crumblinesses, deliriousness, desultoriness, frivolousness, fruitlessness, hilariousness, laboriousness, leisureliness, ludicrousness, luxuriousness, reclusiveness, religiousness, repulsiveness, spiritualness, supersensible, universalisms, universalists, universalness. | |
+5 letters: chivalrousness, churchlinesses, churlishnesses, circularnesses, counselorships, fruitfulnesses, gloriousnesses, idolatrousness, illusorinesses, industrialises, ingloriousness, insuppressible, irresoluteness, lubberlinesses, lugubriousness, mercifulnesses, miraculousness, mirthfulnesses, nondisclosures, perilousnesses, pridefulnesses, purblindnesses, rebelliousness, ridiculousness, rightfulnesses, salubriousness, salutarinesses, scurrilousness, sprightfulness, tranquilnesses, transsexualism, tristfulnesses, wearifulnesses, worshipfulness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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