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Definition: Uncompassionate |
UncompassionateAdjective1. Lacking compassion or feeling for others; "nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire"- Shakespeare. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uncompassionate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Antonym: compassionate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pitilessness | Adjective: pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate, uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh; unrelenting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Uncompassionate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uncompassionate" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
uncompassionate | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uncompassionate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | neueerreeishagh. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ompassionateuncay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: compassionate, compensations. | |
-3 letters: companionate, compensation, consumptions. | |
-4 letters: consumption, saponaceous, spontaneous. | |
-5 letters: amanuensis, amiantuses, anamnestic, anapestics, anastomose, anatomises, aposematic, apostacies, assumption, autoecisms, autonomies, campesinos, caseations, causations, companions, compassion, components, composites, contusions, cosmonauts, economists, emanations, encomiasts, isooctanes, moonscapes, onomastics, passionate, pneumonias, stonemason. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-s-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: microencapsulations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 63 6F 6D 70 61 73 73 69 6F 6E 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.-. --- -- .--. .- ... ... .. --- -. .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c o m p a s s i o n a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 006F 006D 0070 0061 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E 0061 0074 0065 |
| 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)558069817982678585758180678671 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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