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Unperturbed

Definition: Unperturbed

Unperturbed

Adjective

1. 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: Unperturbed

Synonyms: unflurried (adj), unflustered (adj), unruffled (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unperturbed

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Unperturbed

Specialty definitions using "unperturbed": extrapolated Fermi level. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unperturbed

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12229,069

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

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Modern Translation: Unperturbed

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

невозмутимый (cold livered, cold-livered, cool, imperturbable, passionless, unflappable, unstirred). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nezabrinut (unconcerned, untroubled), neuznemiren (unconcerned, undisturbed, unruffled). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

impávido (Dauntless, intrepid, undaunted). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

незворушний (calm, immovable, imperturbable, unflappable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không xao xuyến, không xáo trộn không xôn xao, không lo sợ (unalarmed), không đảo lộn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unperturbed

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).

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Rhyming with "Unperturbed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unperturbed" (pronounced u'nperter"bd)
6-p er t er" b dperturbed.
4-t er" b ddisturbed, undisturbed.
3-er" b dcurbed, reverbed.

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

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Anagrams: Unperturbed

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unperturbed


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

55 6E 70 65 72 74 75 72 62 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 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#98 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0065 0072 0074 0075 0072 0062 0065 0064

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

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

5580827184868784687170

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INDEX

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


  

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