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Unflagging

Definition: Unflagging

Unflagging

Adjective

1. Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; "an indefatigable advocate of equal rights"; "a tireless worker"; "unflagging pursuit of excellence".

2. Unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy".

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

Date "unflagging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)


Synonyms: Unflagging

Synonyms: indefatigable (adj), tireless (adj), unfailing (adj), unwearying (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unflagging

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Perseverance

Adjective: persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping; steady as time; unrelenting,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unflagging

English words defined with "unflagging": assertiveceaselessly, conscience, continuouslyendlesslyincessantly, indefatigableself-asserting, self-assertivetirelessunceasingly, unendingly, unwearying. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Unflagging

AuthorQuotation

James Whitcomb Riley

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unflagging

"Unflagging" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unflagging" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: Unflagging

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

Albanian

  

i padobësuar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير معلم (unbred), ‏بلا علم. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неуморен (indefatigable, tireless, unresting, untiring, unwearied, unwearing, weariless), неотслабващ (unabated, unimpaired, unmitigated, unremitting), неотклонен (swerveless, undeviating, unswerving), ненамаляващ (unrelenting), непоколебим (determined, firm, immovable, proof, resolute, resolved, set, stanch, unbendable, unconquerable, undaunted, undeviating, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nepolevující (unrelenting, unrelieved, unremitting), neúnavný (indefatigable, inexhaustible, tireless, unwearying), mravenèí svatý. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

uupumaton (indefatigable, tireless, untiring, unwearying), väsymätön (indefatigable, tireless, untiring). (various references)

   

French

  

infatigable (unfatiguing, unremitting, untirable, unweary). (various references)

   

German

  

unverändert stark, unerschöpflich (inexhaustible, inexhaustibly, tireless, tirelessly, unexhaustible, unfailing), unermüdlich (indefatigable, indefatigably, inexhaustible, strenuous, tireless, tirelessly, unceasing, unfailing, unfailingly, unfatiguing, unflaggingly, unremitting, unremittingly, unresting, unrestless, unstintingly, untirable, untiring, untiringly, unweary), unentwegt (constant, continuous, incessant, stalwart, steadfast, undeviating, undeviatingly, unflaggingly, unswerving, untiring). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όρθιοσ (erect, Matin, up, upright, upstanding), αμείωτοσ (irreducible, unabated, undiminished, unfailing, unimpaired). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fáradhatatlan (fatigueless, indefatigable, painstaking, sleepless, strenuous, tireless, unwearying, weariless). (various references)

   

Italian

  

infaticabile (tireless, unweary). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gyn traih (never-failing, unfailing, unfailing of supplies), gyn failleid. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aggingunflay

   

Portuguese

  

inquebrantável, infatigável (indefatigable, tireless, unwearying, weariless), indomável (leopard, tameless, unconquerable), incansável (indefeasible, tireless, unwearying, weariless). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

susţinut (constant, constantly, sustained, unceasing, unfailing, unfailingly, unremitting), neabãtut (firm, steadfast, unfailing, unflinching, unshaken). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неослабевающий (relentless, unabating). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neumoran (indefatigable, inexhaustible, tireless, unresting, untiring, unwearying, weariless). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incansable (indefatigable, tireless, unfatiguing, unsparing, untirable, unweary). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

outtröttlig (indefatigable, inexhaustible, tireless, unfailing, unremitting, untiring, weariless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yorulmaz (indefatigable, inexhaustible, tireless, unfailing, unwearied), bitmez tükenmez (abiding, endless, inexhaustible, interminable, long standing, never ending, never failing, unending, unfailing, without end). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

неослабний (indefatigable, relentless, unrelenting, unremitting). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không rã rời; không nao nung, không mệt mỏi (cast-iron, unresting, untired, unwearied, unwearying, weariless). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

di-lyth (unfailing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unflagging

Derivations

Words beginning with "unflagging": unflaggingly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unflagging"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unflagging" (pronounced unfla"ging)
6-f l a" g i ngflagging.
5-l a" g i nglagging.
4-a" g i ngbagging, bragging, dragging, nagging, sagging, snagging, tagging, wagging.
3-g i ngbegging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, drugging, fatiguing, flogging, gigging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, lugging, mugging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snugging, tugging, zigzagging.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unflagging

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-g-g-i-l-n-n-u"

-2 letters: flagging, flanging, gangling.

-3 letters: angling, fagging, fugging, fugling, gainful, ganging, gauging, gulfing, lagging, lugging, lunging, nagging, unaging.

-4 letters: annuli, fungal, gaging, gingal, gluing, guanin, ingulf, lingua, luging, lungan, nilgau, unnail.

-5 letters: aging, algin, align, annul, fagin, final, fling, flung, fugal, fungi, gulag, liang, ligan, linga, lungi.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-g-g-i-l-n-n-u"
 

+2 letters: unflaggingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unflagging


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

55 6E 66 6C 61 67 67 69 6E 67

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 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#102 &#108 &#97 &#103 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0066 006C 0061 0067 0067 0069 006E 0067

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

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

55807278677373758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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