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Uninquiring

Definition: Uninquiring

Uninquiring

Adjective

1. Not inquiring.

2. Deficient in curiosity.

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

Date "uninquiring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)


Synonym: Uninquiring

Synonym: uninquisitive (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: inquiring (adj). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Uninquiring

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-i-n-n-n-q-r-u-u"

-2 letters: inquiring.

-3 letters: inurning.

-4 letters: inuring, quiring, rinning, ruining, running.

-5 letters: inning, quinin.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Uninquiring


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

55 6E 69 6E 71 75 69 72 69 6E 67

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 01101110 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#110 &#113 &#117 &#105 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 006E 0071 0075 0069 0072 0069 006E 0067

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

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

5580758083877584758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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