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Ungrudgingly

Definition: Ungrudgingly

Ungrudgingly

Adverb

1. In a generous and ungrudging manner; "he ungrudgingly agreed to pay for everybody's dinner when the guests found themselves without cash".

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

Date "ungrudgingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Antonym: grudgingly (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Ungrudgingly

"Ungrudgingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungrudgingly" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translation: Ungrudgingly

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

German

  

von ganzem herzen (dearly, with all my heart), großzügig (ambitious, bounteous, bountiful, bountifully, broad, broad minded, broadminded, charitably, free, freehanded, generous, generously, handsome, handsomely, large, large scale, lavish, lavishly, liberal, liberally, lordly, noble, open handed, spacious, tolerant, ungrudging, unsparing, unsparingly, unstinting, unstintingly, warm-hearted), bereitwillig (eager, kind, obliging, prompt, readily, ungrudging, unhesitant, unhesitating, willing, willingly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

udginglyungray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ungrudgingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: grudgingly, ungrudging.

-4 letters: drugging, grudging, gurgling, ungluing, urgingly.

-5 letters: dunging, durning, gurging, lugging, lunging, nudging, nurling, rugging, undying.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ungrudgingly


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

55 6E 67 72 75 64 67 69 6E 67 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 01100111 01110010 01110101 01100100 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0067 0072 0075 0064 0067 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

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

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

558073848770737580737891

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INDEX

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


  

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