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Definition: Surprisal |
SurprisalNoun1. The act of surprising someone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "surprisal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1634. (references) |
Note: Surprisal \Sur*pris"al\, noun. [See Surprise, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SurprisalSynonym: surprise (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Surprisal |
| English words defined with "surprisal": Surprisement. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "surprisal": Surprisement. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "surprisal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Überraschungswert (surprisal value), überraschungswert (surprisal value). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάπληξη (amazement, astonishment, consternation, stupor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urprisalsay удивление (amazement, astonishment, gawd, hey-day, surprise, wonder, wonderment). (various references) sự ngạc nhiên (admiration, astonishment, daze, wonderment), sự là m ngạc nhiên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "surprisal": surprisals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "surprisal" (pronounced 'Sur*pris"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Bestowal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal, Croupal, Crustal. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-p-r-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: spirulas. | |
-2 letters: larrups, pulsars, spirals, spirula. | |
-3 letters: lapsus, larrup, pilaus, pulsar, sirras, sirups, slurps, spails, spiral, surras, uraris, urials. | |
-4 letters: apsis, arils, arris, arsis, aspis, auris, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, liras, lisps, pails, pairs, paris, parrs, pilar, pilau, pilus, praus, priss, pulis, puris, purls, purrs, rails, rasps, rials, risus, rural, sails, salps, saris, sauls. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-p-r-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: surprisals. | |
+3 letters: leprosariums, superrealism. | |
+4 letters: superrealisms. | |
+5 letters: particularises, particularisms, particularists, supercriminals. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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