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Definition: Uncalled-for |
Uncalled-forAdjective1. Not required or requested; "uncalled-for suggestions". 2. Unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uncalled-for" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Uncalled-forSynonyms: gratuitous (adj), needless (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: partly paid capital (business, economics), partly paid-up capital, uncalled capital, uncalled subscribed capital (european union, finance), unpaid capital (business, economics). |
Crosswords: Uncalled-for |
| English words defined with "uncalled-for": gratuitously ♦ imposition. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "uncalled-for": Bad Faith. (references) |
| "Uncalled-for" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uncalled-for" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "uncalled-for"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不必要为. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tarpeeton (needless, superfluous, undue, unnecessary, useless), tarpeen (needless, superfluous, undue, unnecessary, useless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 差し出口 (uncalled-for or impertinent remark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さしでぐち (uncalled-for or impertinent remark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alled-foruncay неуместный (ill-placed, impertinent, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inept, injudicious, inopportune, irrelative, irrelevant, mistaken, out of place, uncalled for, unseasonable). (various references) không cần thiết; không đáng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-l-l-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: nucleolar. | |
-3 letters: carolled, cauldron, colander, collared, colluder, conelrad, crunodal, falconer, falderol, flounced, flounder, foreland, frounced, furnaced, nucellar, uncalled, unfolder, unforced, unloader, unrolled. | |
-4 letters: aleuron, allured, caldron, candler, candour, careful, caroled, celadon, cloured, collard, collude, corneal, cornfed, cornual, courlan, crunode, dareful, doleful, durance, flaneur, flounce, floured, fondler, foulard, founder, frenula, frounce, funeral, furnace, ladrone. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 63 61 6C 6C 65 64 2D 66 6F 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 00101101 01100110 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c a l l e d - f o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 0061 006C 006C 0065 0064 002D 0066 006F 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558069677878717015728184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , китайский, китаец |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, финский, tiếng Phần-lan |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, venäläinen, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamilainen, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, английский |
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