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Unromantically

Definition: Unromantically

Unromantically

Adverb

1. In an unromantic manner; "we got married, rather unromatically, in a dingy office in the town hall".

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

Date "unromantically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)


Antonym: romantically (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Unromantically

"Unromantically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unromantically" is used about 4 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
Adverb (general)100%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: Unromantically

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

German

  

unromantischen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omanticallyunray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unromantically

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-m-n-n-o-r-t-u-y"

-2 letters: connaturally, romantically.

-3 letters: calumniator, continually, nocturnally, nonracially.

-4 letters: atomically, cautionary, connatural, countryman, maculation, monaurally, nationally, nautically, nonmarital, notarially, rationally, ruminantly, tyrannical, unmorality, unromantic.

-5 letters: acylation, allantoic, allantoin, amaurotic, amorality, ancillary, antically, antonymic, auctorial, cantorial, carnality, carnation, clamantly, collyrium, continual, cranially, culminant, inoculant, laminator, manically, maritally, martially, mountainy, naturally, nocturnal, nominally, nonracial, normality, ontically, tamarillo.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unromantically


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

55 6E 72 6F 6D 61 6E 74 69 63 61 6C 6C 79

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 01101111 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 006F 006D 0061 006E 0074 0069 0063 0061 006C 006C 0079

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

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

5580848179678086756967787891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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