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Unimpaired

Definition: Unimpaired

Unimpaired

Adjective

1. Not damaged or diminished in any respect; "his speech remained unimpaired".

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

Date "unimpaired" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references)


Antonym: impaired (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unimpaired

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

Preservation

Preserved; Verb: unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unimpaired

English words defined with "unimpaired": Fresh wayin force, intactnessOf forceWhole snipe, Word dumbness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unimpaired": virgin coal. (references)

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Speeches: Unimpaired

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829Our relations of friendship with the other nations of the earth, political and commercial, have been preserved unimpaired, and the opportunities to improve them have been cultivated with anxious and unremitting attention.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889; 1893-1897The enjoyment of this right follows the badge of citizenship wherever found, and, unimpaired by race or color, it appeals for recognition to American manliness and fairness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unimpaired

"Unimpaired" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unimpaired" is used about 50 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%5048,117

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

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Expression: Unimpaired

Expression using "unimpaired": be unimpaired. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Unimpaired

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

Albanian

  

i padëmtuar (intact, unbroken, whole). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير فاسد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

невредим (harmless, safe, safe and sound, scatheless, scot free, uncrippled, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscarred, unscathed, whole), неотслабващ (unabated, unflagging, unmitigated, unremitting), ненакърнен (incorrupt, unviolated), ненамален (undamped, unmitigated), изцяло запазен. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezmenšený (unabated), neoslabený (unmitigated), nenarušený (undisturbed). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ubehæftet indbetalt aktiekapital (unimpaired paid-in subscribed capital). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onaangetast volgestort kapitaal (unimpaired paid-in subscribed capital), bruiklener (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

esineen lainaaja (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

   

French

  

non diminué. (various references)

   

German

  

unvermindert (unabated, undiminished, unrelenting, unrelieved, unrelievedly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αβλαβήσ (harmless, hurtless, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unoffending, unscathed), αμείωτοσ (irreducible, unabated, undiminished, unfailing, unflagging). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sértetlen (intact, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, scot-free, sound, unbroken, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed, whole). (various references)

   

Italian

  

comodatario (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired), capitale sottoscritto e versato (unimpaired paid-in subscribed capital). (various references)

   

Manx

  

slane (absolute, absolute of ruler, absolutely, chin-chin, complete, entire, fully, gross, healed, intact, integer, inviolate, perfect, sane, sheer, thorough, total, unbroken, undivided, unexpurgated as edition; good bye, unexpurgated; good bye, unharmed, unhurt, utter, well, whole), neuvillit, neuleodit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

impairedunay

   

Portuguese

  

não enfraquecido, intato (intact, unbroken, uninjured), intacto (intact, unbroken, uninjured), ileso (safe, scatheless, scot-free, sound, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

neatins (intact, untouched, virgin), intact (intact, perfect, sound, unbroken, unsullied, untouched, whole), întreg (clear, complete, entire, exclusive, full, integer, integral, round, safe, sound, total, unabridged, unbroken, unit, whole). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нетронутый (intact, parthenic, unharmed, untapped, untouched, virgin). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nepogoršan, neokrnjen, nenarušen (undisturbed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

capital suscrito en acciones a desembolsar sin incluir las obligaciones (unimpaired paid-in subscribed capital). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oförsvagad, oförminskad (unabated, undiminished, unmitigated, unrelenting), obruten (intact, unbroken). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zarar görmemiş (scatheless, undamaged, unharmed, uninjured, unscathed), bozulmamış (intact, inviolate, pristine, sound, unbroken, unsophisticated, unspoiled, unspoilt, untainted, untouched). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nguyên vẹn (plenary, unharmed, whole), không bị suy suyển, không bị hư hỏng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unimpaired

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incolomem, incolomes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Unimpaired"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unimpaired" (pronounced u'ni'mpe"rd)
6-i' m p e" r dimpaired.
5-m p e" r dcompared.
4-p e" r ddespaired, paired, pared, prepared, repaired, spared, unprepared.
3-e" r daired, bared, blared, cared, chaired, dared, declared, ensnared, erred, fared, flared, glared, haired, laird, scared, shared, snared, squared, stared, undeclared.

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

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Anagrams: Unimpaired

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-n-p-r-u"

-2 letters: impaired, meridian, muraenid, peridium, unpaired, unprimed, unrepaid, uredinia, urinemia.

-3 letters: amidine, denarii, diamine, dumpier, duramen, imperia, inarmed, manured, maunder, pardine, peridia, primine, umpired, unaimed, unaired, unarmed, undrape, unrimed, uranide, uridine.

-4 letters: admire, aidmen, airmen, amidin, daimen, damner, dampen, damper, denari, diamin, diaper, diapir, dumper, durian, euripi, impair, impend, impure, indium, inured, maiden, manure.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unimpaired


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

55 6E 69 6D 70 61 69 72 65 64

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 01101001 01101101 01110000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#109 &#112 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 006D 0070 0061 0069 0072 0065 0064

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

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

55807579826775847170

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INDEX

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


  

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