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Definition: Unsocial |
UnsocialAdjective1. Not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions; "the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsocial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Antonym: social (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Seclusion Exclusion | Unsociable; unsocial, dissocial; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unsocial |
| English words defined with "unsocial": Dissocialize ♦ Inconversable ♦ recluse, reclusive ♦ withdrawn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unsocial": CROSS PATCH. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Unsocial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsocial" is used about 45 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) | 100% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unsocial": at this unsocial hour ♦ unsocial hours ♦ work unsocial hours. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unsocial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | antisosiaal (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i mbyllur (barred, cagey, cagy, close, closed, confined, enclosed, finished, glued, laid up, landlocked, locked, made, pent up, reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, withdrawn), antishoqëror (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إنطوائي (introvert). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, coy, distant, modest, offish, remote, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable), необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, dry, incommunicable, incommunicative, morose, reserved, reticent, segregative, self contained, taciturn, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsociable, withdrawn), антисоциален (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nespoleèenský (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, unsociable, withdrawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | asocial (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onmaatschappelijk, onmaatschappelýk (antisocial), asociaal (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kontraŭsocia (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مردم گریز (Misanthrope, Unsociable), غیراجتماعی (Asocial, Unsociable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | antisocial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | maatsskiplik net oanpast (antisocial), ûnmaatskiplik (antisocial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unsozial (antisocial, unsocially). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακοινώνητοσ (shy, unsociable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | antiszociális (sociopathic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocialunsay insocial (asocial), insociável (asocial, intractable, morose, sullen, unsociable). (various references) необщительный (dissociable, dissocial, incommunicative, inconversable, offish, segregative, standoffish, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable). (various references) nesocijalan (dissociable, dissocial, unsociable). (various references) insocial. (various references) sokulgan olmayan (uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsociable), asosyal (asocial), çekingen (backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, withdrawn). (various references) відлюдний (ascetic, close, coy, lonely, morose, obscure, offish, recluse, remote, retired, shut in, unsociable), антигромадський (antisocial). (various references) phi x hội, không thuộc về x hội. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "unsocial": unsocialized, unsocially. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: acinous, alnicos, inocula, oilcans, uncials, uncoils. | |
-2 letters: acinus, alnico, aloins, casino, caulis, clonus, colins, consul, coulis, cousin, insoul, linacs, nicols, oilcan, oscula, social, uncial, uncoil. | |
-3 letters: aloin, anils, aulic, cains, calos, canso, cauls, cions, clans, clons, coals, coils, coins, colas, colin, conus, icons, incus, laics, linac, linos, lions, loans, locus, loins, louis, lunas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: suctional, univocals. | |
+2 letters: binoculars, caliginous, callousing, calumnious, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, nonmusical, osculating, osculation, ultrasonic, unsociable, unsociably, unsocially. | |
+3 letters: allocutions, arenicolous, calmodulins, communalism, communalist, confusional, copulations, cumulations, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, inculcators, inoculators, inosculated, inosculates, maculations, nonsurgical, novaculites, nucleations, osculations, outclassing, peculations, sacculation, speculation, spiculation, tenaciously, ulcerations, ultrasonics, unmalicious. | |
+4 letters: acidulations, antinucleons, auscultation, calculations, californiums, calumniators, calumniously, circulations, coagulations, communalisms, communalists, communalizes, connubialism, consultation, consultative, contagiously, countervails, crenulations, culminations, cultivations, cupellations, discountable, duplications, ejaculations, elucidations, emasculation, enucleations, equinoctials, exclusionary, exculpations, fluctuations, gallinaceous, glucokinases, glucosamines, hallucinoses, hallucinosis, incautiously, inconsumable, inconsumably, inculcations, inculpations, inoculations, inosculating, inosculation, insouciantly, journalistic, lubrications, lucubrations, malfunctions, malocclusion, mendaciously, mucilaginous, noctambulist, noncustodial, nucleocapsid, nucleotidase, occultations, postulancies, publications, pugnaciously, reinoculates, reluctations, ribonuclease, sacculations, sansculottic, speculations, spiculations, subsonically, successional, supplication, unchivalrous, uncoalescing, ungraciously, unhistorical, unsocialized, vacuolations, vesiculation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 6F 63 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... --- -.-. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s o c i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580858169756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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