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Definition: Ungentle |
UngentleAdjective1. Not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ungentle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: UngentleSynonyms: ignoble (adj), untitled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier. |
Violence | Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ungentle |
| English words defined with "ungentle": ignoble ♦ untitled. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Ungentle" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungentle" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ungentle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unsanft (rough, rude, unceremonious, ungently), unzart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuveysagh (uncompliant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entleungay sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar). (various references) thô lỗ (beastly, ill-mannered, indelicate, loutish, plebeian, snippety, snippy, underbred), thô bạo khó thương, khó ưa (unpleasant), không hoà nhã (unaffable). (various references) annhirion (cruel), anfwyn (uncivil, unkind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ungentle": ungentlemanly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ungentle" (pronounced 'Un*gen"tle'): Apostle, Attle, Belittle, Berattle, Berstle, Betitle, brittle, Cattle, Chortle, Dartle, Embottle, gristle, gruntle, guttle, Kettle, kirtle, mettle, Mistitle, Mistle, Nurstle, Nustle, Outmantle, Overbattle, Overtitle, Overwrestle, Pintle, Portmantle, Pottle, Ruttle, Satle, skittle, Smartle, Spirtle, Spurtle, Supersubtle, thistle, throstle, tittle, tootle, trestle, Uncastle, Unmantle, Unnestle, Whirtle, Whortle, Wrastle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-n-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: eluent, englut, gentle, gluten, gunnel, lenten, lungee, tunnel. | |
-3 letters: elute, genet, gleet, lunet, lunge, tenge, unlet. | |
-4 letters: gelt, gene, gent, genu, glee, glen, glue, glut, leet, lent, luge, lune, lung, lunt, lute, nene, teel, teen, tele, tule, tune, tung. | |
-5 letters: eel, eng, gee, gel, gen, get, gnu, gul, gun, gut, lee, leg, let, leu. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-l-n-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ungenteel. | |
+2 letters: engulfment, unsteeling. | |
+3 letters: engulfments, enucleating, multiengine, unrelenting, unweetingly. | |
+4 letters: genuflecting, genuflection, multiengines, nonregulated, underletting, unnegotiable, volunteering. | |
+5 letters: genuflections, outgeneraling, overindulgent, supplementing, unbelligerent, unenlightened, ungentlemanly, unintelligent, unrelentingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 67 65 6E 74 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --. . -. - .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n g e n t l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0067 0065 006E 0074 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580737180867871 |
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