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Unfirm

Definition: Unfirm

Unfirm

Adjective

1. Not firmly or solidly positioned; "climbing carefully up the unsteady ladder"; "an unfirm stance".

2. (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth".

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

Date "unfirm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Note: Unfirm \Un*firm"\, adjective. Infirm.. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Unfirm

Synonyms: shifting (adj), unsteady (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unfirm

English words defined with "unfirm": unsteady. (references)

Modern Translation: Unfirm

Language		Translations for "unfirm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		wackelig (loose, rickety, rocky, shakily, shaky, tipsily, tottering, unsteadily, unsteady, waggly, wobbly). (various references)

Italian		malfermo (delicate, poor, rocky, shaky, tipsily, unsteadily, unsteady, wobbly). (various references)

Pig Latin		irmunfay

Spanish		flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Unfirm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-i-m-n-r-u"
	-2 letters: firm, firn, muni, ruin.
	-3 letters: fin, fir, fun, fur, mir, mun, nim, rif, rim, rin, rum, run, urn.
	-4 letters: if, in, mi, mu, nu, um, un.
	Words containing the letters "f-i-m-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: uniform.
	+2 letters: cuniform, francium, unciform, uniforms.
	+3 letters: cuneiform, cuniforms, franciums, fungiform, perfuming, remindful, unciforms, uniformed, uniformer, uniformly.
	+4 letters: ausforming, cuneiforms, foraminous, frumenties, furmenties, infrahuman, microfauna, microfungi, misfortune, nonuniform, ragamuffin, ruffianism, unfamiliar, uniformest, uniforming, uniformity, uninformed, unmerciful.
	+5 letters: californium, formulating, formulation, formulizing, infrahumans, microfaunae, microfaunal, microfaunas, microfungus, misfortunes, omnifarious, ragamuffins, ruffianisms, somniferous, unconfirmed, uniformness.
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Alternative Orthography: Unfirm

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

55 6E 66 69 72 6D

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 01100110 01101001 01110010 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#102 &#105 &#114 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0066 0069 0072 006D

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

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

558072758479

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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