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Definition: Unresisting |
UnresistingAdjective1. Offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unresisting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
Synonyms: UnresistingSynonyms: resistless (adj), supine (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Temperate; (moderate); composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting. |
Submission | Adjective: surrendering; Verb: submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting; pliant; (soft); undefended. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unresisting |
| English words defined with "unresisting": Passive verb ♦ Unsisting. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unresisting": Unsisting. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | And darkly fell her answer dread Upon his unresisting head, Like half a hundredweight of lead. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unresisting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unresisting" is used about 15 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unresisting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неоказващ съпротива, послушен (amenable, biddable, gentle, good, governable, obedient, submissive, tame, toward, tractable), покорен (governable, humble, meek, obedient, submissive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | widerstandslos (passive, passively, unresistant, unresistingly, without resistance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | άνευ αντιρρήσεωσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | engedékeny (acquiescent, complacent, complaisant, compliant, facile, forgiving, gracious, indulgent, lenient, manageable, permissive, placating, pliant, submissive, tractable, yielding), ellenállást ki nem fejtő, ellen nem álló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esistingunray karşı koymayan, dirençsiz. (various references) không chống lại, không cưỡng lại; thuận theo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-n-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: insurgents. | |
-2 letters: inserting, insurgent, intrigues, reissuing, resisting, reuniting, runtiness, russeting, sintering, sistering, unstrings. | |
-3 letters: ensuring, ginniest, igniters, insister, insuring, intrigue, neuritis, nursings, resining, resiting, retuning, rinsings, runniest, sinister, stingers, stingier, stunners, suitings, sunniest, tininess, tissuing, trigness, trussing, turnings, unstring, untiring. | |
-4 letters: ensigns, ensuing, enuring, estrins, ginners, ginnier, gunites, gunners, gunnies, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, igniter. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-n-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: ungenerosities. | |
+5 letters: misunderstanding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 73 69 73 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . ... .. ... - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e s i s t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0073 0069 0073 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580847185758586758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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