Unparliamentary

Definition: Unparliamentary

Unparliamentary

Adjective

1. So rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for Parliament.

Date "unparliamentary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discourtesy	Scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.
Malediction	Abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; Verb: profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Unparliamentary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unparliamentary" is used about 10 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%	10	111,207

Expression using "unparliamentary": unparliamentary language. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "unparliamentary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		joparlamentar. (various references)

Arabic		‏غير برلماني. (various references)

Bulgarian		непарламентарен. (various references)

Czech		neparlamentní. (various references)

Farsi		غیرپارلمانی , برخلاف اصول پارلمانی . (various references)

French		injurieux, grossier (uncivil, uncouth, unrefined, unwrought), antiparlementaire. (various references)

German		unparlamentalisch. (various references)

Greek		μη κοινοβουλευτικόσ, αντικοινοβουλευτικόσ (antiparliamentary). (various references)

Hungarian		nem parlamentáris. (various references)

Italian		contrario al sistema parlamentare. (various references)

Pig Latin		arliamentaryunpay

Portuguese		injurioso (contumelious, injurious, invective, libellous, opprobrious, outrageous, vituperative), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), antiparlamentar. (various references)

Russian		непарламентский. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neskupštinski, neparlamentski, neparlamentarni. (various references)

Spanish		antiparlamentario. (various references)

Turkish		parlamentoya uymayan, kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar). (various references)

Ukrainian		непарламентський. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "unparliamentary" (pronounced 'Un*par`lia*men"ta*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-i-l-m-n-n-p-r-r-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: parliamentary.
	-4 letters: interlunary, planetarium, ultramarine, uniparental.
	-5 letters: alimentary, interlunar, intermural, intramural, manipulate, parliament, planetaria, premarital, pruriently, ruminantly, unliterary.
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