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Unperceptive

Definition: Unperceptive

Unperceptive

Adjective

1. Lacking perception; "as unperceptive as a boulder".

2. Lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment.

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


Synonym: Unperceptive

Synonym: unperceiving (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: perceptive (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unperceptive

English words defined with "unperceptive": unperceiving. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unperceptive

"Unperceptive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unperceptive" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: Unperceptive

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

Albanian

  

që nuk kupton. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

невъзприемчив (insensible, insusceptible, irresponsive). (various references)

   

German

  

unaufmerksam (distracted, inattentive, inattentively, inconsiderate, inconsiderately, unalert, unobservant). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

figyelmetlen (distrait, forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, mindless, negligent, perceptive, reckless, regardless, thoughtless, unmindful, unobservant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erceptiveunpay

   

Russian 

  

недогадливый (dense, slow witted). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neopažajni, koji ne opaža (unobservant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unperceptive

Misspellings

"Unperceptive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inperceptive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unperceptive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p-p-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: unreceptive.

-2 letters: perceptive, preceptive.

-3 letters: epicenter, receptive.

-4 letters: ceinture, enuretic, erective, eruptive, eupeptic, perceive, prentice, pretence, preunite, terpenic, tuppence.

-5 letters: cervine, creepie, cuppier, cuprite, enteric, enticer, epicene, epicure, eucrite, eupneic, evictee, incurve, percent, percept, perpent, picture, precent, precept, precipe, prepuce, preteen, prevent, receipt, receive, retinue, reunite, revenue, teenier, terpene, unreeve, uterine, venture, venturi.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unperceptive


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

55 6E 70 65 72 63 65 70 74 69 76 65

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0065 0072 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065

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

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

558082718469718286758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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