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Unsensational

Definition: Unsensational

Unsensational

Adjective

1. Not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction.

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


Antonym: sensational (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Unsensational

"Unsensational" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsensational" is used about 8 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%8124,375

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

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Modern Translation: Unsensational

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

Turkish

  

sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), heyecansız (lowpitched, nonchalant, passionless, unemotional, unexcited, unexciting, unimpassioned), duygusal olmayan. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không là m náo động dư luận, không gây xúc động mạnh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unsensational

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-n-n-o-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: annulations, sensational.

-3 letters: annulation, nanoteslas, santolinas.

-4 letters: annalists, insolates, insolents, insulants, insulates, lunations, nanotesla, nationals, nauseants, nonsaline, santolina, santonins, sensation, solanines, sonatinas, tensional.

-5 letters: alanines, alations, alunites, anisoles, annalist, annulate, annulets, annulose, antennal, antennas, antlions, assonant, astonies, elastins, elations, elusions, elutions, enations, entasias, insanest, insolate, insolent, insulant, insulate, inulases, isolates, lousiest, lunation, nailsets, nasalise.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-n-n-o-s-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: instantaneously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unsensational


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

55 6E 73 65 6E 73 61 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C

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 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0065 006E 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C

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

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

55808571808567867581806778

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INDEX

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


  

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