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Unimpassioned

Definition: Unimpassioned

Unimpassioned

Adjective

1. Free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness; "answered with an unimpassioned defense"; "the unimpassioned intellect".

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

Date "unimpassioned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)


Synonym: Unimpassioned

Synonym: Dispassionate. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unimpassioned

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

Excitability

Temperate; (moderate); composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Unimpassioned

"Unimpassioned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unimpassioned" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: Unimpassioned

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

German

  

leidenschaftslos (dispassionate, passionless, unemotional). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szenvedélytelen (immovable), szenvedély nélküli (dispassionate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

feaychooishagh (unemotional). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

impassionedunay

   

Turkish

  

sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, extinguished, faint, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), heyecansız (lowpitched, nonchalant, passionless, unemotional, unexcited, unexciting, unsensational). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unimpassioned

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: impassioned.

-3 letters: dimensions, pneumonias.

-4 letters: admission, demission, dimension, disunions, dopamines, dumpiness, impassion, indamines, indispose, insomnias, mispoised, missioned, misunions, pneumonia, saponines, unionised, unionises, unionisms.

-5 letters: adenosis, adiposes, adiposis, adonises, amidines, amidones, anemosis, animuses, daimones, dampness, dapsones, demonian, diamines, dipnoans, disunion, dominies, dopamine, dopiness, emission, impounds, indamine, indamins, insomnia, mannoses, mansions, maundies, medusans, minuends, mispoise, missound.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unimpassioned


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

55 6E 69 6D 70 61 73 73 69 6F 6E 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 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#109 &#112 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 006D 0070 0061 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E 0065 0064

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

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

55807579826785857581807170

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INDEX

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


  

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