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Ungrudging

Definition: Ungrudging

Ungrudging

Adjective

1. Without envy or reluctance; "ungrudging admiration".

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

Date "ungrudging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)


Synonyms within Context: Ungrudging

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

Liberality

Adjective: liberal, free, generous; charitable; (beneficent); hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ungrudging

English words defined with "ungrudging": ungrudgingly. (references)

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Speeches: Ungrudging

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889; 1893-1897At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Ungrudging

"Ungrudging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungrudging" 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2245,945

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

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Expression: Ungrudging

Expression using "ungrudging": be ungrudging in. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Ungrudging

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

Albanian

  

zemërbardhë (bountiful, generous, good hearted, gracious), shpirtgjerë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لا يحقد, ‏لا يحسد, ‏لا يتذمر, ‏لا يبخل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

щедър (benevolent, bountiful, charitable, flush, free, freehanded, generous, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, liberal, lordly, munificent, openhanded, pickwickian, princely, prodigal, profuse, stintless, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted), обилен (abundant, affluent, ample, exuberant, full, generous, hearty, liberal, lusty, plentiful, rich, satisfying), даващ с готовност. (various references)

   

Czech

  

velkorysý (benevolent, big, broad, broadminded, charitable, generous, gracious, high minded, liberal, noble-minded, unsparing), ochotný (accommodating, compliant, forthcoming, helpful, obliging, ready, willing). (various references)

   

French

  

généreux (unselfish, unsparing), donné sans compter. (various references)

   

German

  

neidlos. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγόγγυστοσ (uncomplaining, unmurmured), απλόχεροσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מפר'ן, רחב לב (big hearted). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bõkezû (boon, bounteous, generous, large handed, munificent, open handed, prodigal), õszinte (above board, candid, disarming, downright, guileless, heart-felt, honest, ingenuous, naïve, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, simple-hearted, sincere, straight out, straightforward, transparent, unfeigned, whole-hearted). (various references)

   

Italian

  

senza invidia. (various references)

   

Manx

  

feoiltagh (benevolent, bounteous, bountiful, generous, hospitable, lavish, liberal, munificent, whig). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

udgingungray

   

Portuguese

  

liberal (boon, bounteous, broad minded, enlargement, generous, genesis, lavish, liberal, liberal education, unsparing), generoso (big heart, boon, bounteous, chivalrous, enlarged, flush, generous, large, large handed, large minded, large-hearted, lavish, magnate, open-hearted, selfless, soft-hearted, unselfish, unsparing, warm-hearted, whole-souled), dado de bom grado. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

binevoitor (amiable, benevolent, benignant, bland, charitable, condescending, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, genteel, gentle, good, good natured, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, lithe, nice, propitious, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, yielding). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обильный (abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, exuberant, generous, hearty, heavy, hefty, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, riotous, torrential). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji ne gunđa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

generoso (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, generosity, generous, liberal, munificent, noble-minded, open handed, rich, selfless, unsparing), de buena gana (graciously, like a shot, readily, willingly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oförbehållsam (explicit, plainspoken, unhesitating, unstinted, unstinting), helhjärtad (full-hearted, unreserved, wholehearted), generös (big, big hearted, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, handsome, large, large handed, lavish, liberal, open handed, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

seve seve yapan, memnuniyetle verilen, esirgemeyen (unsparing), cömert (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, flush, freehanded, freehearted, generous, handsome, large handed, liberal, munificent, open handed, openhanded, profuse, unsparing). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

щедрий (boon, bounteous, charitable, flush, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, handsome, munificent, open, open handed, prodigal, profuse, wanton). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vui lòng cho, không hằn học, cho không tiếc không ghen ghét. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

diwarafun (unforbidden). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Ungrudging

Misspellings

"Ungrudging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nuruddin. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Ungrudging

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-g-g-i-n-n-r-u-u"

-2 letters: drugging, grudging.

-3 letters: dunging, durning, gurging, nudging, rugging.

-4 letters: during, ungird, urging.

-5 letters: grind, inurn, ruing, unrig.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ungrudging


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

55 6E 67 72 75 64 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)

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

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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0067 0072 0075 0064 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)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Speeches
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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