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Definition: Tralatitious |
TralatitiousAdjective1. Having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Tralatitious \Tral`a*ti"tious\, adjective. [Latin expression tralatitius, translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See Tralation.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: TralatitiousSynonym: handed-down (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Metaphor | Adjective: metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical; ironical; colloquial; tropical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tralatitious |
| English words defined with "tralatitious": handed-down ♦ Tralatitiously, Translatitious. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tralatitious": Tralatition, Translatitious. (references) |
| Words rhyming with "tralatitious" (pronounced 'Tral`a*ti"tious'): Ablatitious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Addititious, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Adventitious, Ambitious, Arreptitious, Ascititious, Ascriptitious, Bumptious, Captious, Cautious, Cementitious, Cineritious, Collatitious, Combustious, Commentitious, Compunctious, Conceptious, Concupiscentious, Connutritious, Conscientious, Contentious, Deceptious, Defectious, Deglutitious, Deletitious, Fictious, flagitious, fractious, incautious, licentious, Negotious, Novitious, Nutritious, Obreptitious, Ostentatious, Overcautious, Pactitious, Pestilentious, Placentious, Precautious, Precipitious, Pretentious, Profectitious, Propitious, Recrementitious. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-o-r-s-t-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: altostrati. | |
-3 letters: ritualist, tutorials. | |
-4 letters: altruist, outstart, rattails, titulars, totalist, tutorial, ultraist. | |
-5 letters: alastor, altoist, arousal, austral, lariats, latrias, oralist, outlast, outsail, rattail, rialtos, rituals, sautoir, solaria, solatia, starlit, stratal, tailors, titlist, titular, torulas, tourist, troilus, turista. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-o-r-s-t-t-t-u" | |
+4 letters: ultrafiltrations, ultranationalist. | |
+5 letters: autotetraploidies, structuralization, ultranationalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6C 61 74 69 74 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- .-.. .- - .. - .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a l a t i t i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006C 0061 0074 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467786786758675818785 |
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