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Unforgivably

Definition: Unforgivably

Unforgivably

Adverb

1. In an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree; "he was inexcusably cruel to his wife".

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


Synonyms: Unforgivably

Synonyms: inexcusably (adv), unpardonably (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: excusably (adv). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Unforgivably

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I realize that when I met you at the turkey curry buffet, I was unforgivably rude, and wearing a reindeer jumper. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unforgivably

"Unforgivably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unforgivably" is used about 17 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
Adverb (general)100%1785,106

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

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Modern Translation: Unforgivably

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

French

  

impardonnable (unforgivable, unpardonable). (various references)

   

German

  

unverzeihlich (inexcusable, irredeemable, nonexcusable, unforgivable, unpardonable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

inperdonabile (unforgivable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orgivablyunfay

   

Russian 

  

непростительно (unpardonably). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unforgivably

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-g-i-l-n-o-r-u-v-y"

-2 letters: flavouring, forgivably.

-3 letters: favouring, flavoring, labouring, vainglory.

-4 letters: biovular, boringly, bravoing, favoring, flavoury, flouring, foraying, infrugal, laboring, ravingly, rovingly, unfairly.

-5 letters: angrily, bairnly, barfing, blaring, bolivar, braving, braying, buoying, burling, burying, byrling, fabling, fibular, figural, flaring, flavory, flavour, flaying, fluorin, foaling, fouling, fraying, furling, furlong, gainful, garboil, glorify, ignobly, languor, loafing, louring, olivary, ovulary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unforgivably


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

55 6E 66 6F 72 67 69 76 61 62 6C 79

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)

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

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

01010101 01101110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100111 01101001 01110110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#102 &#111 &#114 &#103 &#105 &#118 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0066 006F 0072 0067 0069 0076 0061 0062 006C 0079

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

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

558072818473758867687891

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INDEX

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


  

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