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Definition: Uncontroversial |
UncontroversialAdjective1. Not likely to arouse controversy. 2. Not offensive; "an inoffensive level". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uncontroversial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
Synonyms: UncontroversialSynonyms: inoffensive (adj), noncontroversial (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: controversial (adj). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Bahrain | The software used is unreliable and often inhibits access to uncontroversial sites as well. (references) |
Guatemala | These channels were criticized strongly as being monopolistic, progovernment, and interested in broadcasting only uncontroversial news. (references) | |
Political Economy | Norway | Not having a parliamentary majority, the Labor government has so far followed a fairly uncontroversial middle-of-the-road political course much along the lines of previous Norwegian governments. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Uncontroversial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uncontroversial" is used about 91 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% | 91 | 34,491 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "uncontroversial": uncontroversial-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uncontroversial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | non controversable. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | unverfänglich (harmless, natural). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | vita tárgyát nem képező, kétségbevonhatatlan (incontestable, irrefragable, unquestionable, unquestioned). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontroversialuncay không ai tranh luận, không ai dị nghị. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uncontroversial": uncontroversially. (additional references) | |
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"Uncontroversial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uncontroverted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uncontroversial" (pronounced u'nkÄ'ntruver"shul) |
| 12 | -n k Ä' n t r u v er" sh u l | noncontroversial. |
| 11 | -k Ä' n t r u v er" sh u l | controversial. |
| 4 | -er" sh u l | commercial, inertial, noncommercial. |
| 3 | -sh u l | antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, confidential, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, impartial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, interracial, judicial, jurisprudential, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, unofficial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: controversial. | |
-3 letters: conservation, conversation, conversional, correlations, countervails, crenulations, oncornavirus, overcautions. | |
-4 letters: arenicolous, carnivorous, coinventors, conservator, contrarious, conventuals, correlation, counterions, countervail, covenantors, crenulation, enunciators, inoculators, intravenous, involucrate, nonreactors, novaculites, nucleations, overactions, overcaution, relocations, renovations, revocations, revolutions, terricolous, ulcerations, ventricular, voluntaries. | |
-5 letters: antinovels, carnivores, centurions, coinventor, coinvestor, consultive, containers, continuers, contraries, contrivers, conventual, conversant, conversion, convertors. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: uncontroversially. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c o n t r o v e r s i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 006F 006E 0074 0072 006F 0076 0065 0072 0073 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558069818086848188718485756778 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francia |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, német, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | hongrois, Ungar, magyar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
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 | vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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