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Definition: Unperturbed |
UnperturbedAdjective1. Free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; "the waiters were unflurried and good natured"; "with contented mind and unruffled spirit"- Anthony Trollope. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unperturbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
Synonyms: UnperturbedSynonyms: unflurried (adj), unflustered (adj), unruffled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Temperate; (moderate); composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unperturbed |
| Specialty definitions using "unperturbed": extrapolated Fermi level. (references) |
| "Unperturbed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unperturbed" is used about 122 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% | 122 | 29,069 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unperturbed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i patrazuar (comfortable, comfy, heart-whole, imperturbable, laid back, level, peaceful, placid, smooth, unabashed, unadulterated, unblended, unconcerned, undigested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | невъзмутим (doubtless, immovable, impassible, imperturbable, sedate, unabashed, unblinking, unflappable, unruffled), необезпокоен (undisturbed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 镇定自若. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevzrušený, nerušený (quiet, unbroken, undisturbed), klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, silent, smooth, sober, still, temperate, tranquil, uneventful, unmoved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rauhallinen (calm, peaceful, still, tranquil, undisturbed), levollinen (calm, composed, self-possessed), hämmentymätön (undisturbed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gelassen (calm, calmly, collectedly, composed, composedly, cool, coolly, demure, dispassionate, easily, easy going, evenly, impassive, impassively, laid back, left standing, nerveless, placid, poised, quiet, sedate, self-composed, serene, serenely, tranquil, undisturbed, unhurried, unperturbedly, unruffled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ατάραχοσ (composed, cool, imperturbable, sedate, self possessed, stolid, unabashed, unruffled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | higgadt (collected, composed, cool-headed, demure, even tempered, grave, impassible, imperturbable, level headed, level-headed, moderate, philosophical, placid, quiescent, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, self-possessed, serene, sober, sober-blooded, staid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ひ弱い (be afraid of, be fearful, be nervous, be timid, relentlessly, retaining composure, saturated, sickly, stickily, to be scared, undaunted, weak, wet through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びくともしない (retaining composure, undaunted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erturbedunpay tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, easeful, even-minded, half-light, orderly, pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self-collected, self-possessed, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcerned, unruffled, unstirred), imperturbado, impassível (coldlivered, cool, even, insensitive, irresponsive, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, stolid, unabashed, unconcerned, unmoved, unstirred). (various references) невозмутимый (cold livered, cold-livered, cool, imperturbable, passionless, unflappable, unstirred). (various references) nezabrinut (unconcerned, untroubled), neuznemiren (unconcerned, undisturbed, unruffled). (various references) impávido (Dauntless, intrepid, undaunted). (various references) soğukkanlı (calm, cold blooded, cool, cool-headed, even tempered, imperturbable, nonchalant, unflappable), sakin (airless, calm, citizen, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, imperturbable, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophic, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled), istifini bozmadan (with aplomb). (various references) незворушний (calm, immovable, imperturbable, unflappable). (various references) không xao xuyến, không xáo trộn không xôn xao, không lo sợ (unalarmed), không đảo lộn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unperturbed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unperterbed, unpertubed, unperturbe, unpreturbed, unpurturbed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unperturbed" (pronounced u'nperter"bd) |
| 6 | -p er t er" b d | perturbed. |
| 4 | -t er" b d | disturbed, undisturbed. |
| 3 | -er" b d | curbed, reverbed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-n-p-r-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: perturbed. | |
-3 letters: burdener, nurtured, purebred, returned, ruptured, truebred, upturned. | |
-4 letters: denture, erupted, nurture, perdure, perturb, prebend, pretend, prudent, reputed, retuned, rupture, tenured, untruer, uptrend. | |
-5 letters: bender, brunet, bruted, bunted, bunter, burden, burned, burner, burnet, burped, burred, butene, depute, endure, enured, neuter, perdue, perter, pruned, pruner, punted, punter, pureed, purred, rebred, render, rented, renter, repent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 70 65 72 74 75 72 62 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. . .-. - ..- .-. -... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n p e r t u r b e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0070 0065 0072 0074 0075 0072 0062 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580827184868784687170 |
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