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Unpicturesque

Definition: Unpicturesque

Unpicturesque

Adjective

1. Without beauty or charm.

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

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


Synonym: Unpicturesque

Synonym: unlovely (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Unpicturesque

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

German

  

unschön (inelegant, plain, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, unbecoming, uneloquent, ungainly, unhandsome, unhandsomely, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icturesqueunpay

   

Vietnamese 

  

không đẹp (charmless, unbeautiful, uncomely). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unpicturesque

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: picturesque.

-3 letters: putrescine, quercetins.

-4 letters: ceintures, centuries, enuretics, prentices, prescient, preunites, punctures, quercetin, quiescent, reinspect, supercute, unquieter.

-5 letters: ceinture, cerusite, crepiest, cuprites, cutesier, cutpurse, enquires, enticers, enuretic, epicures, esurient, eucrites, insecure, pectines, penuries, percents, periques, picquets, pictures, piecrust, precents, prentice, preunite, puncture, quercine, quietens, quieters, quipster, receipts, reequips, requites, resupine, retinues, reunites, secretin, sequitur.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unpicturesque


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

55 6E 70 69 63 74 75 72 65 73 71 75 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)

..-    -.    .--.    ..    -.-.    -    ..-    .-.    .    ...    --.-    ..-    .

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

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

01010101 01101110 01110000 01101001 01100011 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110001 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#105 &#99 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#113 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0069 0063 0074 0075 0072 0065 0073 0071 0075 0065

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

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

55808275698687847185838771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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