Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Unshockable

Definition: Unshockable

Unshockable

Adjective

1. Incapable of being shocked; "he was warmhearted, sensible and unshockable".

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


Synonym: Unshockable

Synonym: broad-minded (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: shockable (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Usage Frequency: Unshockable

"Unshockable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Unshockable" is used about 10 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)90%9117,287
Noun (proper)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

Top     

Modern Translation: Unshockable

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

German

  

durch nichts zu schockieren. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockableunshay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Unshockable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-k-l-n-o-s-u"

-2 letters: backhouse, eulachons, shockable, shoeblack, unshackle.

-3 letters: backhoes, bechalks, becloaks, blackens, blanches, chabouks, chalones, chasuble, eulachon, lacunose, launches, sunblock, sunchoke, unblocks, unchokes, uncloaks.

-4 letters: backhoe, bascule, beacons, bechalk, beckons, becloak, blacken, bohunks, boucles, bounces, buckles, buckoes, bunches, buncoes, bunkoes, censual, chabouk, chabuks, chalone, cohunes, counsel, enhalos, hackles, huckles, keblahs, kolache, lacunes, launces, leukons, loaches.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Unshockable


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

55 6E 73 68 6F 63 6B 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01101000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#104 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0068 006F 0063 006B 0061 0062 006C 0065

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

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

5580857481697767687871

Top     



INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.