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Definition: Unfastened |
UnfastenedAdjective1. Not closed or secured; "the car door was unfastened"; "unfastened seatbelts". 2. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed; "an open door"; "they left the door open". 3. Not buttoned; "the wind picked up the hem of her unbuttoned coat". 4. Not tied. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unfastened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
Synonyms: UnfastenedSynonyms: open (adj), unbuttoned (adj), untied (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: buttoned (adj), fastened (adj), shut (adj), tied (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unfastened |
| English words defined with "unfastened": detachable ♦ Un-, Unbaned. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At times, her chemise, unfastened and torn, fell almost to her waist. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unfastened" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 49.21% of the time. "Unfastened" is used about 63 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 49.21% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.03% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.76% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unfastened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | مفكوك (freed, loose), منحل (degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, disintegrator, lax, untied). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 解开 (Disengaged, Disengaging, unbuckle, Undid, undo, undoing, undone, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, Unhooked, unleash, Unlink, unravel, untangle, untangled, untangling, untie, untied, Untighten, untying, unwind, unwinding, unwound, unwrap, unwrapped). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | irtonainen (free, limber, loose, separate, slack). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | détaché (untied, untight). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | machte los (unhitched, unloosed, unloosened), losgemacht, gelöst (detached, disengaged, loosed, relaxed, solved, unbound, unfixed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | foshlit (agape, ajar, blatant, downright; free-spoken, exploded; overt, exposed, extrovert; forthcoming; blank, extrovert; forthcoming; blank as credit, liable, open, open-necked, patent). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | astenedunfay gevşemiş (languishing, loose, relaxed, unstuck), açılmış (undone, unsealed), çözülmüş (solved, undone, unfixed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-n-n-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: fastened, unfasten, unseated. | |
-3 letters: deafens, deafest, defeats, duennas, dunnest, enneads, feasted, funnest, neatens, sauteed, snafued, standee, stunned, uneaten, unsated. | |
-4 letters: aeneus, anenst, anteed, daunts, deafen, defats, defeat, defuse, duenna, enates, endues, ennead, ensued, etudes, fanned, fasted, fasten, feased, funest, funned, neaten, nested, nudest, sateen, sauted, seated, sedate, senate, sennet, staned, sundae, sunned, suntan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-n-n-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: fraudulentness, unaffectedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 66 61 73 74 65 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ..-. .- ... - . -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100110 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n f a s t e n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0066 0061 0073 0074 0065 006E 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807267858671807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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