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Unsightliness

Definition: Unsightliness

Unsightliness

Noun

1. Ugliness that is unpleasant to look at.

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

Date "unsightliness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Usage Frequency: Unsightliness

"Unsightliness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsightliness" is used about 3 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
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: Unsightliness

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

German

  

unansehnlichkeit (plainness), hässlichkeit (meanness, nastiness, ugliness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ightlinessunsay

   

Romanian

  

urâciune (fright), urâţenie (fright, ugliness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính xấu xí, tính khó coi (unseemliness), tính không đẹp mắt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unsightliness

Derivations

Words beginning with "unsightliness": unsightlinesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unsightliness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-s-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: sightliness.

-3 letters: guiltiness, slightness, stinginess.

-4 letters: enlisting, enthusing, gushiness, gustiness, gutsiness, insulting, lightness, linguines, linguists, listening, lustiness, nestlings, nightless, sennights, shielings, shininess, sightless, sleuthing, slushiest, stingless, sunlights, sunshines, thingness, tinseling.

-5 letters: enisling, ensiling, ginniest, glistens, gushiest, gustless, heisting, hissings, huntings, hustings, hustling, insights, insulins, lightens, lignites, lingiest, linguine, linguist, listings, lushness, nestling, nighness, nighties.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-s-s-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: unsightlinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unsightliness


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

55 6E 73 69 67 68 74 6C 69 6E 65 73 73

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 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0069 0067 0068 0074 006C 0069 006E 0065 0073 0073

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

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

55808575737486787580718585

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INDEX

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


  

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