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Definition: Unprepossessing |
UnprepossessingAdjective1. Creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unprepossessing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Synonym: UnprepossessingSynonym: unpresentable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ugliness | Misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt; (thin); dumpy; (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked; (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Unprepossessing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.38% of the time. "Unprepossessing" is used about 21 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) | 52.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unprepossessing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | непредразполагащ, непривлекателен (unattractive, uncomely, uninviting, unlikely, unlovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unscheinbar (homely, inconspicuous, mousey, mousy, nondescript, unimpressive), wenig gewinnend, wenig einnehmend, reizlos (charmless, dull, graceless, homely, unattractive, uncomelily, uncomely, uninspiring, unlovely, unmagical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντιπαθητικόσ (antipathetical, detestable, objectionable, unlikeable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epossessingunpray respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, verminous), rebarbativ (crabbed, grim), neatrãgãtor (unattractive, uncomely). (various references) непривлекательный (charmless, forbidding, unappealing, unattractive, uninviting, unlovable, unlovely, unsavory, unsavoury), не располагающий к себе. (various references) inattraktiv, föga tilltalande (unappealing). (various references) sevimsiz (angular, beastly, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, uncongenial, ungracious, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovable, unlovely, unsympathetic), itici (impulsive, projectile, propellent, propelling, propulsive, pusher, pushing, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovely), cazibesiz, çekici olmayan (uninviting). (various references) không dễ thương, không dễ gây cảm tình, không dễ có ý thiên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unprepossessing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unprepossesing, unpropossessing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-o-p-p-r-s-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: prepossessing. | |
-3 letters: repossessing, sponginesses, supersession, suppressions, suspensories. | |
-4 letters: pepsinogens, piousnesses, prosinesses, pursinesses, seriousness, soppinesses, superposing, suppressing, suppression, suspensions. | |
-5 letters: egressions, gorinesses, ironnesses, nosinesses, oppressing, pensioners, pepsinogen, possessing, preopening, prepossess, puninesses, reopenings, ropinesses, rosinesses, snugnesses, sournesses, sponginess, superposes, superspies, supineness, suppresses, suspensers, suspension, suspensors, unripeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 70 72 65 70 6F 73 73 65 73 73 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. .-. . .--. --- ... ... . ... ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n p r e p o s s e s s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0070 0072 0065 0070 006F 0073 0073 0065 0073 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558082847182818585718585758073 |
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