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Unrevealing

Definition: Unrevealing

Unrevealing

Adjective

1. Very reluctant to give out information.

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

Date "unrevealing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)


Synonyms: Unrevealing

Synonyms: guarded (adj), noncommittal (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Unrevealing

"Unrevealing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrevealing" is used about 12 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%12101,599

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unrevealing

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

unrevealing

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

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Anagrams: Unrevealing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-r-u-v"

-1 letter: unraveling.

-2 letters: laveering, leavening, revaluing, revealing, unreeling, unreeving.

-3 letters: algerine, learning, levering, raveling, ravening, reguline, reveling, revenual, ungenial, veluring.

-4 letters: aginner, aliener, aligner, aneling, aneurin, anguine, avenger, eanling, earning, engrail, engrain, engrave, enlarge, enliven, enuring, eugenia, euglena, evangel, evening, general, genuine, gleaner, grannie, granule, guanine, ingenue, innerve, leaguer, leaning, leavier, leaving, leering, lineage, linguae.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unrevealing


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

55 6E 72 65 76 65 61 6C 69 6E 67

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 01110010 01100101 01110110 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#114 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 0076 0065 0061 006C 0069 006E 0067

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

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

5580847188716778758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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