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Definition: Unimportant |
UnimportantAdjective1. Not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant". 2. Not important or noteworthy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unimportant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Synonym: UnimportantSynonym: insignificant (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: important (adj), significant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful; (unimportant); despised;Verb: downtrodden; unenvied. |
Inferiority | Diminished; (decreased); reduced; (contracted); unimportant. |
Littleness | Adjective: little; small; (in quantity); minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short. |
Smallness | Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle. |
Unimportance | Verb: be unimportant; Adjective:; not matter; go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not matter a straw; n. |
Adjective: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unimportant |
| English words defined with "unimportant": Accidental lights ♦ background, blab, blabber ♦ chatter, clack, class Symphyla, Condensation product ♦ gabble, gibber ♦ hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner, humbleness ♦ Immaterially, Immomentous, In idle, Inconcerning, inconsiderable ♦ jackanapes ♦ lightweight ♦ Matterless, maunder ♦ obscureness, obscurity ♦ palaver, Parergy, pettiness, Petty officer, piffle, prate, prattle ♦ slightness, Symphyla ♦ tattle, tittle-tattle, triviality, twaddle ♦ unimportance ♦ whippersnapper, white lie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unimportant": caught up in trivia/to get, contemporaneous erosion, Cross Roads ♦ history ♦ Lettuce ♦ Pot ♦ trace gas ♦ Unmagnetized Plasma. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unimportant": Inconcerning. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What happens to the girl is unimportant What happens to the others is more than important; it is the most vital issue of our time. (Teenage Doll; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith) The murder of Floyd Merkle and five unimportant people. (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon) | |
Lyrics | To this world I'm unimportant just (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) | |
Clever | Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | There are very few persons who still think it is unimportant to balance the federal budget : unfortunately, about 400 of them are members of Congress. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Wisdom and The Chinese | Do not consider any vice as trivial; and therefore practice it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant and therefore neglect it. |
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Health | One problem in determining whether or not a tumor is present is that every child has minor and relatively unimportant symptoms such as restlessness or headaches from time to time. Of course, when more distressing signs or multiple symptoms are seen, parents and doctors search for an explanation and more precise tests are recommended. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown 'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. Salder Bupp |
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Mary Tyler Moore | I'm sure there were one or two scenes like that and I can't think of one right now, but so unimportant as to be not worth discussing. |
Rush Limbaugh | The papers have stories on the explosions in Colombia and a study finding children's aid goes to adults and a dozen other relatively unimportant stories, but nothing on this scandal that affected every single American! |
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| "Unimportant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unimportant" is used about 414 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% | 414 | 13,664 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unimportant": consider unimportant ♦ considering unimportant ♦ unimportant thing. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "unimportant": unimportant-that. | |
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| Language | Translations for "unimportant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, tin, trivial, unessential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير مهم, غير هام (immaterial, inconsequential, lightweight, minor, one horse), تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ثانوي (bye, inferior, insignificant, marginal, minor, petty, secondary, side, sub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неважен, незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, venial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不重要 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nepodstatný (desultory, immaterial, irrelevant, piddling), nedùležitý (desultory, immaterial, minor, small, trivial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | oevrige loebende overfoersler daekker et antal fordelingstransaktioner,som er af en saadan karakter,at de ikke kan klassificeres i en anden kategori i indkomstfordelingskontoen,og som man paa grund af deres ringe betydning,og fordi de kun findes i visse l (are not worth classifying under separate headings, because they are relatively unimportant or occur only in certain countries, miscellaneous current transfers cover a number of distributive transactions of a kind which does not permit them to be classified under any other heading of the distribution of income account and which). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | goedaardig (benign, good-hearted, harmless, kind, minor, of no account, safe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | negrava. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غیرمهم (Casual, Small, Unessential), بی اهمیت (Immaterial, Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Negligible, Piddling, Unmeaning, Weeny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vähäpätöinen (insignificant, of little importance, slight, trifling, trivial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans importance, peu important, négligeable, mineur (under age, underage), insignifiant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unwichtig (dispensable, immaterial, inconsequential, inessential, insignificant, minor, non essential, nonrelevant, of little moment, petty, unimportantly), unbedeutend (fractional, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderably, insignificant, minimal, minor, negligible, nonsignificant, obscure, of no account, petit, pettily, petty, piddling, trifling, trivial, trivially). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, piddling, potty, purportless, slight, trifling, trivial, unessential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא חשוב (immaterial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jelentéktelen (baubling, dinkey, dinky, exiguous, fiddle-faddle, footling, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, jerkwater, light, minor, minor details, negligible, niggling, nugatory, null, obscure, of no great importance, of no moment, paltry, petty, piddling, scrubby, slight, small time, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, venial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak penting (immaterial, nonessential), sepele (insignificant, trivial), cuai (insignificant, trivial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza importanza (insignificantly, unimportntant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 枝葉末節 (branches and leaves, unessentials, unimportant details). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しようまっせつ (branches and leaves, unessentials, unimportant details), そはい (small fry, unimportant people). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 중"하지 않". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuscanshoil (footling, trivial), jeh beggan scansh (trivial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | importantunay sem importância (insignificant, peddling, petty, trifling, unessential, weightless). (various references) neimportant (immaterial, insignificant, minor, naught), lipsit de importanţã (irrelevant, slight), irelevant (immaterial, impertinent, inapt, irrelevant, unrelated), insignifiant, indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unmoved). (various references) неважный (importless, inconsiderable, no great shakes, not much of a, of no consequence, of no great importance, so so). (various references) nevažan (importless, non essential, piddling), beznačajan (fiddling, immaterial, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, pointless, trifling, trivial, twopenny-halfpenny). (various references) sin importancia (minor, trumpery), insignificante (fiddling, inconsiderable, insignificant, small, trifling, trivial, twopenny). (various references) oviktig (immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, light, minor, of no account, of no importance), betydelselös (importless, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, jerkwater, of no importance, straw). (various references) mühim olmayan, önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references) неважливий (importless, omissible). (various references) không quan trọng (here, insignificant, jerkwater, minor, trifling), không đáng kể (inconsiderable, negligible, paltry, puerile, trivial). (various references) dibwys (trivial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | minima, minimae, minime, minimis, minimo, minimum, minimus, minor, minora, minore, minorem, minores, minori, minoribus, minoris, minus, parui, parva, parvae, parvam, parvas, parvi, parvis, parvo, parvos, parvula, parvulam, parvulas, parvuli, parvulis, parvulo, parvulorum, parvulos, parvulum, parvulus, parvum, parvus, pharue. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | leohlic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 39 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eipen de o pauloV egw anqrwpoV men eimi ioudaioV tarseuV thV kilikiaV ouk ashmou polewV polithV deomai de sou epitreyon moi lalhsai proV ton laon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dixit ad eum Paulus ego homo sum quidem iudaeus a Tarso Ciliciae non ignotae civitatis municeps rogo autem te permitte mihi loqui ad populum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Poul seide to hym, For Y am a Jew, of Tharse of Cilicie, a citeseyn, which citee is not vnknowun. And Y preye thee, suffre me to speke to the puple. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But Paul sayde: I am a ma which am a Iewe of Tharsus a cite in Cicill a Citesyn of no vyle cite I beseche ye soffre me to speake vnto ye people. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But Paul said, I am a man who am a Jew of Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee suffer me to speak to the people. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 39 |
| Albanian | Dhe Pali tha: ''Unë jam një Jude nga Tarsi, qytetar i një qyteti të Kilikisë që s'është i padëgjuar; dhe të lutem më lejo t'i flas popullit''. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Pablo mitubag kaniya, "Ako usa ka Judio nga taga-Tarso sa Cilicia, molupyo sa usa ka bantugang siyudad. Hangyoon ko ikaw, tugoti ako sa pagsulti sa mga tawo." |
| Chinese | 保 羅 說 、 我 本 是 猶 太 人 、 " 在 基 利 家 的 大 數 、 並 不 是 無 名 小 城 的 人 、 求 准 我 對 百 " 說 話 。 |
| Croatian | Pavao odvrati: "Ja sam Židov iz Tarza cilicijskoga, graðanin grada znamenitoga. Molim te, dopusti mi progovoriti narodu." |
| Danish | Men Paulus sagde: "Jeg er en jødisk Mand fra Tarsus, Borger i en ikke ubekendt By i Kilikien. Men jeg beder dig, tilsted mig at tale til Folket!" |
| Dutch | Maar Paulus zeide: Ik ben een Joods man van Tarsen, een burger van geen onvermaarde stad in Cilicie, en ik bid u, laat mij toe tot het volk te spreken. |
| Finnish | Niin Paavali sanoi: "Minä olen juutalainen mies, Tarson, tunnetun Kilikian kaupungin, kansalainen; pyydän sinua, salli minun puhua kansalle". |
| French | Je suis Juif, reprit Paul, de Tarse en Cilicie, citoyen d`une ville qui n`est pas sans importance. Permets-moi, je te prie, de parler au peuple. |
| German | Paulus aber sprach: Ich bin ein jüdischer Mann von Tarsus, ein Bürger einer namhaften Stadt in Zilizien. Ich bitte dich, erlaube mir, zu reden zu dem Volk. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Paulus menjawab, "Saya orang Yahudi; saya warga kota Tarsus, kota yang penting di Kilikia. Tolong izinkan saya berbicara kepada orang-orang itu." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi kata Paulus, "Hamba ini orang Yahudi dari Tarsus, anak negeri daripada suatu negeri yang termasyhur di tanah Kilikia, dan hamba mintalah kepada Tuan berilah hamba izin berkata-kata kepada kaum itu." |
| Italian | Rispose Paolo: «Io sono un Giudeo di Tarso di Cilicia, cittadino di una citt non certo senza importanza. Ma ti prego, lascia che rivolga la parola a questa gente». |
| Maori | Ka mea a Paora, he Hurai ahau, no Tarahu o Kirikia, he tangata tupu no taua pa, ehara hoki i te pa ingoakore: na ko taku inoi tenei ki a koe, tukua ahau kia korero ki te iwi. |
| Norwegian | Da sa Paulus: Jeg er en jøde, fra Tarsus, borger av en ikke ukjent by i Kilikia; men jeg ber dig: Gi mig lov å tale til folket! |
| Portuguese | Mas Paulo lhe disse: Eu sou judeu, natural de Tarso, cidade não insignificante da Cilícia; rogo-te que me permitas falar ao povo. |
| Rumanian | ,,Eu sknt Iudeu``, a spus Pavel, ,,din Tarsul din Cilicia, cetqyean al unei cetqyi nu fqrq knsemnqtate. Te rog, dq-mi voie sq vorbesc norodului.`` |
| Shuar | Tutai Papru Tímiayi "Núchaitjai. Antsu wikia Israer aentsuitjai. Sirisia nunkanam uunt pepru Tarsu Náartin ana nui akiiniaitjai. Tura waitneasam ju aents chichastin tsankatrukta" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces dijo Pablo: --A la verdad, yo soy judío, ciudadano de Tarso de Cilicia, una ciudad no insignificante. Y te ruego, permíteme hablar al pueblo. |
| Swahili | Paulo akajibu, "Mimi ni Myahudi, mzaliwa wa Tarso katika Kilikia; mimi ni raia wa mji maarufu. Tafadhali, niruhusu niongee na watu. |
| Swedish | Då svarade Paulus: "Nej, jag är en judisk man från Tarsus, medborgare alltså i en betydande stad i Cilicien. Men jag beder dig, tillstäd mig att tala till folket." |
| Uma | Natompoi' Paulus: "Aku' toi-le to Yahudi, ngkai ngata Tarsus, ngata to bohe hanga' -na hi tana' Kilikia. Palogai-a-kuwo mpololitai ntodea toera lau." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Unimportant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nimportant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unimportant" (pronounced uni'mpô"rtunt) |
| 9 | -i' m p ô" r t u n t | important. |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, adjutant, assistant, blatant, combatant, competent, concomitant, consistent, constant, consultant, contestant, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, exorbitant, expectant, extant, exultant, hesitant, impotent, inadvertent, incompetent, inconsistent, inhabitant, insistent, instant, intermittent, irritant, latent, militant, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, omnipotent, patent, penitent, persistent, pollutant, potent, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, resultant, surfactant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-n-n-o-p-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: antitumor, important. | |
-3 letters: antiporn, mountain, mutation, nontrump, notturni, nutation, outpaint, pointman, printout, protamin, ruminant, trapunto. | |
-4 letters: antipot, atropin, intrant, maintop, manitou, natrium, opuntia, pantoum, patriot, pintano, protium, ptomain, puritan, rainout, rampion, romaunt, tampion, tantrum, timpano, tinamou, tritoma, utopian. | |
-5 letters: amnion, amount, anoint, antrum, armpit, aroint, atrium, attorn, impart, import, inpour, intort, intron, inturn, manito. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-n-n-o-p-r-t-t-u" | |
+4 letters: importunateness. | |
+5 letters: countercomplaint. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 69 6D 70 6F 72 74 61 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. -- .--. --- .-. - .- -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i m p o r t a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0069 006D 0070 006F 0072 0074 0061 006E 0074 |
| 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)5580757982818486678086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Bible Trace 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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