Unregenerate

Definition: Unregenerate

Unregenerate

Adjective

1. Not regenerate or reformed; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism".

2. Hopelessly bad; "an unregenerate criminal".

3. Persisting in a reactionary stand.

Date "unregenerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Synonyms: Unregenerate

Synonyms: depraved (adj), obstinate (adj), stubborn (adj), unreformable (adj), unregenerated (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: regenerate (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unregenerate

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impenitence	Unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented, unreclaimed, unatoned.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unregenerate

English words defined with "unregenerate": cussedly ♦ depraved ♦ In a state of nature, Irregeneration ♦ mulishly ♦ obdurately, obstinately ♦ pig-headedly ♦ stubbornly ♦ unreformable, Unregeneracy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unregenerate

Domain	Title
Books	Adam unregenerate : selected lyrical poems (reference) The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson (Southern Literary Studies) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unregenerate

"Unregenerate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Unregenerate" is used about 13 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)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

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

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Expression: Unregenerate

Expression using "unregenerate": unregenerate vs regenerate unregenerated. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unregenerate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
unregenerate	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unregenerate

Language		Translations for "unregenerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		unbekehrbar, sündig (errant, peccant, sinful, sinfully, unrighteous), reulos (unrepentant), reuelos (impenitent, remorseless, unrepentant), nicht reuig (unrepentant), hartnäckig (adamant, besetting, dogged, dour, importunate, importunately, insistent, intractable, inveterate, obdurate, obstinate, obstinately, persistent, pertinacious, pertinaciously, pugnacious, pugnaciously, refractorily, refractory, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, tenaciously, tough, unrelenting, urgent). (various references)

Greek		αδιόρθωτοσ (confirmed, incorrigible, tough, uncorrected, unreformed). (various references)

Pig Latin		egenerateunray

Turkish		tövbekâr olmamış, düzelmemiş (unimproved, unreformed), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked). (various references)

Vietnamese		không tái sinh không ci tạo, không đổi mới. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unregenerate

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unregenerate": unregenerately. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unregenerate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-g-n-n-r-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: regenerate.
	-4 letters: generate, renature, returnee, teenager.
	-5 letters: eagerer, enterer, etagere, gaunter, grantee, granter, greaten, greater, greener, greeter, grunter, negater, reagent, reargue, reenter, regnant, regrant, regrate, regreen, regreet, reneger, teenage, terrane, terreen, terrene, tunnage, uneager, uneaten.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-e-g-n-n-r-r-t-u"
	+2 letters: unregenerately.
	+5 letters: neurodegenerative.
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