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Unembellished

Definition: Unembellished

Unembellished

Adjective

1. Lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style".

2. Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unembellished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Synonyms: Unembellished

Synonyms: literal (adj), plain (adj), unornamented (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unembellished

English words defined with "unembellished": literalplain, Plain speaking. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unembellished

DomainTitle

Books

  • Start Your Own Computer Business: The Unembellished Guide (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unembellished

"Unembellished" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unembellished" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unembellished

Language Translations for "unembellished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

kaunistelematon. (various references)

   

German

  

schmucklos (austere, plain, simple, unadorned, undecorated, ungarnished, unornamental). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

embellishedunay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unembellished

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-h-i-l-l-m-n-s-u"

-2 letters: embellished, unblemished.

-4 letters: bdelliums, blemished, bluelines, bushelled, demilunes, embellish, nebulised, unshelled.

-5 letters: bdellium, bedesmen, beelined, beelines, beslimed, besmiled, blueline, bluesmen, busheled, demilune, enmeshed, ensemble, hemlines, inmeshed, libelees, mulleins, nebulise, nimbused, selenide, selenium, seminude, shlemiel, sublimed, umbelled, unbilled, unedible, unhelmed, unmeshed, unmilled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unembellished


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 65 6D 62 65 6C 6C 69 73 68 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .    --    -...    .    .-..    .-..    ..    ...    ....    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#101 &#109 &#98 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0065 006D 0062 0065 006C 006C 0069 0073 0068 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807179687178787585747170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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