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Definition: Unimpaired |
UnimpairedAdjective1. 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Unimpaired |
| English words defined with "unimpaired": Fresh way ♦ in force, intactness ♦ Of force ♦ Whole snipe, Word dumbness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unimpaired": virgin coal. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Our 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 | 1861-1865 | His 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; 1893-1897 | The 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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 50 | 48,117 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unimpaired": be unimpaired. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 não enfraquecido, intato (intact, unbroken, uninjured), intacto (intact, unbroken, uninjured), ileso (safe, scatheless, scot-free, sound, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed). (various references) 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) нетронутый (intact, parthenic, unharmed, untapped, untouched, virgin). (various references) nepogoršan, neokrnjen, nenarušen (undisturbed). (various references) capital suscrito en acciones a desembolsar sin incluir las obligaciones (unimpaired paid-in subscribed capital). (various references) oförsvagad, oförminskad (unabated, undiminished, unmitigated, unrelenting), obruten (intact, unbroken). (various references) zarar görmemiş (scatheless, undamaged, unharmed, uninjured, unscathed), bozulmamış (intact, inviolate, pristine, sound, unbroken, unsophisticated, unspoiled, unspoilt, untainted, untouched). (various references) nguyên vẹn (plenary, unharmed, whole), không bị suy suyển, không bị hư hỏng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incolomem, incolomes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unimpaired" (pronounced u'ni'mpe"rd) |
| 6 | -i' m p e" r d | impaired. |
| 5 | -m p e" r d | compared. |
| 4 | -p e" r d | despaired, paired, pared, prepared, repaired, spared, unprepared. |
| 3 | -e" r d | aired, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 69 6D 70 61 69 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. -- .--. .- .. .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01101101 01110000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i m p a i r e d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807579826775847170 |
| 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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