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Definition: Unkindly |
UnkindlyAdjective1. Lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly acts". Adverb1. In an unkind manner or with unkindness; "The teacher treats the children unkindly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unkindly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: UnkindlySynonym: unsympathetic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: kindly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unkindly |
| Specialty definitions using "unkindly": Guardian ♦ Latch, Legislature. (references) |
| "Unkindly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unkindly" is used about 96 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 96 | 33,456 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unkindly": take unkindly to smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unkindly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karsaasti (askew), epäystävällisesti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans coeur (ungiving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unfreundlich (cheerless, cold, forbidding, inclement, standoffish, unaffable, uncharitable, uncordial, uncourteous, unfriendly, ungracious, ungraciously, unhelpful, unkind, unneighborly, unpleasant, unpleasantly), herzlos (callous, callously, heartless, heartlessly, uncharitable, unfeeling, unfeelingly, ungiving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rosszindulatúan (contrariously, contrariwise, maliciously, malignly, spitefully, sullenly), barátságtalanul (chilly, coldly, drearily, gruffly, sulkily, sullenly, surlily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insensibile (callous, coldhearted, dead, hard-hearted, heartless, heartlessly, imperceptible, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, loveless, thick skinned, thick-skinned, unfeeling, ungiving, unkind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indlyunkay недобро. (various references) nesaosećajno, neobzirno, neljubazno (disobligingly). (various references) duramente (hardily, hardly, harshly, sternly), desalmado (fiend, heartless, heartlessly, ungiving, unscrupulous). (various references) ovänligt, elakt (cattily, spitefully), avogt (unkind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unkindly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Uncinula. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-k-l-n-n-u-y" | |
-2 letters: dinkly, dunlin, kindly, nudnik, unkind, unlink. | |
-3 letters: dinky, lindy, linky. | |
-4 letters: dink, duly, dunk, idly, idyl, inky, inly, kiln, kind, link, linn, liny, lunk, luny, undy. | |
-5 letters: din, dui, dun, ilk, ink, inn, kid, kin, lid, lin, nil, nun, yid, yin, yuk. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6B 69 6E 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.- .. -. -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n k i n d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006B 0069 006E 0064 006C 0079 |
| 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)5580777580707891 |
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