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Definition: Unsmilingly |
UnsmilinglyAdverb1. Without smiling; in an unsmiling manner; "unsmilingly, he greeted his in-laws". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsmilingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
| Antonym: smilingly (adv). (additional references) |
| "Unsmilingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsmilingly" is used about 11 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unsmilingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | ernste (earnestly, gravely). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilinglyunsmay seria (gravely). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Unsmilingly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unamazingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: smilingly, unsmiling. | |
-3 letters: illuming, millings, mislying, musingly, sullying. | |
-4 letters: insulin, inulins, lignins, limning, linings, lungyis, milling, minings, mulling, nilling, nulling, slimily, sliming, smiling, sunnily, unsling. | |
-5 letters: gluily, glumly, inulin, isling, lignin, liming, limuli, lining, linins, linums, lungis, lungyi, lyings, lysing, mining, muling, musing, muslin, simlin, singly, slimly, sluing, smugly, snugly, uglily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 6D 69 6C 69 6E 67 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... -- .. .-.. .. -. --. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s m i l i n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 006D 0069 006C 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580857975787580737891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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