Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Unshaven |
UnshavenAdjective1. Not shaved. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unshaven" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Synonym: UnshavenSynonym: unshaved (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: shaven (adj). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Under the dome of his tiny hat his unshaven face began to smile with pleasure and he was heard to murmur |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unshaven" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Unshaven" is used about 48 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 91.67% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "unshaven"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i parruar (unrazored). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير محلوق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | небръснат (scrubby), брадат (bearded, hirsute). (various references) | |
Czech | neoholený. (various references) | |
French | non rasé. (various references) | |
German | unrasiert (unshaved, unshavenly). (various references) | |
Greek | αξύριστοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | borotválatlan (bristly, scrubby, unrazored). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 髭面 (bearded or unshaven face), 無精髭 (stubble, unshaven face), 無精ひ' (stubble, unshaven face). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ'づら (bearded or unshaven face), ぶしょうひ' (a beard one has because they're too lazy to shave, stubble, unshaven face). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avenunshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | não barbeado. (various references) | |
Russian | небритый (unrazored, unshaved). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neobrijan (unrazored). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin afeitar. (various references) | |
Swedish | orakad (unshaved). (various references) | |
Turkish | tıraşsız (unshaved), tıraş olmamış (unshaved). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | intonsa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unshaven" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nyhavn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unshaven" (pronounced unshā"vun) |
| 5 | -sh ā" v u n | shaven. |
| 4 | -ā" v u n | Craven, graven, haven, maven, Raven. |
| 3 | -v u n | breakeven, coven, Devon, disproven, driven, eleven, enliven, even, forgiven, given, handwoven, heaven, interwoven, Kelvin, leaven, liven, nonwoven, oven, proven, Riven, seven, striven, sylvan, uneven, unforgiven, unproven, woven. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-n-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: hausen, havens, hennas, naevus, shaven, sunnah. | |
-3 letters: ashen, avens, hanse, haven, haves, henna, naves, nevus, senna, shave, suave, sunna, usnea, uveas, vanes. | |
-4 letters: anes, anus, aves, haen, haes, have, hens, hues, huns, nans, nave, nuns, sane, save, shea, shun, sunn, uvea, vane, vans, vase, vaus, vena. | |
-5 letters: ane, ash, ave, eau, ens, hae, has. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-n-n-s-u-v" | |
+3 letters: unvarnished. | |
+4 letters: unvanquished. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
