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Uninvolved

Definition: Uninvolved

Uninvolved

Adjective

1. Not involved; "being uninvolved he remained objective".

2. Showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander".

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


Synonyms: Uninvolved

Synonyms: degage (adj), detached (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: involved (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Uninvolved

English words defined with "uninvolved": degage, detached. (references)
Specialty definitions using "uninvolved": Radiotherapy, Conformal. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Uninvolved

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The surgical margin should be histologically uninvolved by tumor. (references)

The intent of this recommendation is to achieve a surgical margin that is grossly and microscopically uninvolved with tumor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Uninvolved

"Uninvolved" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uninvolved" is used about 26 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%2668,323

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

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Modern Translation: Uninvolved

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

German

  

unbetroffen (unaffected). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμέτοχοσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

involvedunay

   

Vietnamese 

  

không gá»"m (exclusive), không bao hà m. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Uninvolved"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "uninvolved" (pronounced uni'nvô"lvd)
3-l v dabsolved, delved, devolved, dissolved, evolved, involved, resolved, revolved, shelved, solved, unresolved, unsolved.

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

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Anagrams: Uninvolved

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-n-n-o-u-v-v"

-2 letters: involved.

-3 letters: involve, unlined, unlived, unloved, unoiled.

-4 letters: dunlin, indole, linden, louden, nevoid, nodule, online, undine, undone, unlive, unveil.

-5 letters: devil, devon, donne, doven, eloin, ennui, envoi, indol, indue, inned, levin, lined, linen, lived, liven, loden, louie, loved, novel, nudie, oiled, olden, oldie, olein, olive, ovine, ovule, union, unled, venin, video, vined, vodun, voile.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Uninvolved


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

55 6E 69 6E 76 6F 6C 76 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 01101110 01110110 01101111 01101100 01110110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#110 &#118 &#111 &#108 &#118 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 006E 0076 006F 006C 0076 0065 0064

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

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

55807580888178887170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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