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Unrepeatable

Definition: Unrepeatable

Unrepeatable

Adjective

1. Not able or fit to be repeated or quoted; "what he said was funny but unquotable".

2. Unique; "dogs and mice and flies are as unrepeatable as men are"- Theodosius Dobzhansky.

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


Synonym: Unrepeatable

Synonym: unquotable (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: repeatable (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Unrepeatable

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable (1994)

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

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Commercial Usage: Unrepeatable

DomainTitle

Books

  • Diamonds Can Cut Glass + Unrepeatable Miracle: Two Unforgettable Novels (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unrepeatable

"Unrepeatable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrepeatable" is used about 28 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%2865,706

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unrepeatable

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unrepeatable

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unrepeatable

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

Albanian

  

që s'thuhet, i papërsëritur. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير مكرر (unrefined). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неповтарящ, неиздаващ. (various references)

   

Czech

  

neopakující se, neopakovatelný, jedineèný (golden, incomparable, nonesuch, one and only, peerless, singular, unique, unparalleled, unrivalled). (various references)

   

French

  

exceptionnel (unique, unusual). (various references)

   

German

  

nicht wiederhohlbar, einmalig (amazing, fantastic, nonrecurring, one off, one shot, one-time, single, singular, unheard of, unique, uniquely, unmatched, unparallel, unparalleled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megismételhetetlen. (various references)

   

Italian

  

irripetibile. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epeatableunray

   

Portuguese

  

que não pode repetir-se. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неприличный (fie-fie, graceless, improper, indecent, indecorous, nasty, naughty, obscene, salt, spicy, unbecoming), неповторимый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neponovljiv. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unrepeatable

Misspellings

"Unrepeatable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irrepeatable, unrepairable. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unrepeatable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-e-l-n-p-r-t-u"

-2 letters: penetrable, repeatable.

-3 letters: enterable, reputable, tenurable, uneatable.

-4 letters: arbutean, lateener, laureate, panetela, parental, parlante, paternal, prenatal, prunable, pubertal, rateable, reapable, rentable, tearable, tenebrae, tuneable, turnable.

-5 letters: abluent, antbear, apteral, aureate, beetler, beleapt, bleater, blunter, eatable, enabler, enteral, epaulet, eternal, lupanar, natural, nebulae, nebular, neutral, pabular, parable, petrale, planate, plantar, planter, platane, plateau, pleater, pleurae.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unrepeatable


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

55 6E 72 65 70 65 61 74 61 62 6C 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)

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

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

01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01110000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#114 &#101 &#112 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 0070 0065 0061 0074 0061 0062 006C 0065

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

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

558084718271678667687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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