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Definition: Unabridged |
UnabridgedAdjective1. (used of texts) not shortened; "an unabridged novel". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unabridged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Antonym: abridged (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unabridged |
| English words defined with "unabridged": comprehensive ♦ O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary. (references) |
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| "Unabridged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unabridged" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unabridged": unabridged dictionary ♦ unabridged text. 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 "unabridged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashkurtuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цял (cool, entire, full, good, intact, integral, integrate, livelong, overall, perfect, regular, right, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unbroken, undivided, whole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 未 节. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nezkrácený (unabbreviated, uncut), kompletní (complete, exhaustive, full). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uforkortet tekst (unabridged text). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | volledige tekst (unabridged text). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مختصرنشده , مشروح (Elaborative, Punctual), کوتاه نشده , کامل (Absolute, Complete, Culminant, Exact, Intact, Integral, Large, Main, Mature, Perfect, Plenary, Stark, Thorough, Unmitigated, Unqualified, Whole), تلخیص نشده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lyhentämätön. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | intégral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungekürzt (uncut, unexpurgated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλήρησ (absolute, clear, complete, flush, pregnant, pregnant with, replete, stark, straight out, thoro, thorough, thoroughgoing), ασυντόμευτοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teljes terjedelmû. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | non abbreviato, integrale (complete, comprehensive, integral, outright, uncut, undivided, wholemeal), completo (absolute, all, all out, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, utter, whole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuyiarrit (uncensored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abridgedunay não resumido (uncut), integral (integral, integrate, whole), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole). (various references) neprescurtat, complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, utter, utterly, whole), întreg (clear, complete, entire, exclusive, full, integer, integral, round, safe, sound, total, unbroken, unimpaired, unit, whole). (various references) полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, uncut, utter). (various references) neskraćen (full time, unabbreviated, uncut). (various references) sin abreviar. (various references) oförkortad (unabbreviated), oavkortad (entire, full length, unabbreviated, uncut). (various references) kısaltılmamış (unabbreviated, uncurtailed, uncut, unshortened), özetlenmemiş. (various references) không tóm tắt; nguyên vẹn, không cô gọn, đầy đủ (complete, completely, full, fully, handle, plenary, replete, richly, sufficing, teetotal, tuberose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unabridged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anabridged, unabidged, unabraded, unabridegd, unabrideged, unabridge, unabridger, unabrigded, unabriged, unabringed, unabrisged, unbridge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unabridged" (pronounced u'nubri"jd) |
| 6 | -u b r i" j d | abridged. |
| 5 | -b r i" j d | bridged. |
| 4 | -r i" j d | ridged. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-g-i-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: unbraided, unbridged. | |
-2 letters: abridged, bearding, bradding, brandied, breading, brigaded, dreading, readding, underbid, ungirded, ungraded. | |
-3 letters: abridge, bandied, barding, beading, bearing, bedding, braided, brained, branded, bridged, brigade, brigand, brinded, budding, dandier, daubier, daubing, daunder, deraign, drained, dungier, gaudier, gradine, grained, grinded, guarded, radding, reading, redding, unaided, unaired, unbraid, undried, uranide. | |
-4 letters: abided, abider, adding, argued. | |
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