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Definition: Unsounded |
UnsoundedAdjective1. Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns". 2. Not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsounded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonyms: UnsoundedSynonyms: profound (adj), silent (adj), unfathomed (adj), unplumbed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unsounded |
| English words defined with "unsounded": profound ♦ unfathomed, unplumbed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unsounded": Still Waters Run Deep. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "unsounded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pamatur (imprudent, inadvisable, indiscreet, rash, reckless, spanless, unguarded, unmeasured, unwary, unwise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неразгадан (unresolved), неизмерен (undiscovered, unmeasured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | postiche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | falsch (bogus, cattish, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, fake, false, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, insincere, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, pseudo, put on, sham, spurious, untrue, wrong, wrongly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | néma (as still as death, dumb, dummy, mum, mute, quiescent, speechless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fasullo (counterfeit, false, incorrect, phoney, spoof, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oundedunsay não pronunciado (undelivered), mudo (aphonic, dumb, mute, soundless, speechless, toneless, unvoiced, voiceless, wordless), insondado. (various references) неизмеренный (unmeasured). (various references) neizmeren, neispitan (unexplored, untested). (various references) falso (ambidexter, apostate, bad, bastard, blank, blind, bogus, brummagem, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, double-minded, dud, dummy, fake, false, hollow, incorrect, lost, lying, mendacious, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pseudo, quack, sham, shifty, spurious, treacherous, two faced, two-tongued, untrue, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unsounded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unassumed, unmoulded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-n-n-o-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: sounded, unsound. | |
-3 letters: donned, doused, dunned, nonuse, sodden, sudden, sunned, undoes, undone, unused. | |
-4 letters: donne, dosed, douse, dudes, dunes, neons, nodes, nodus, nones, nosed, nouns, nudes, sonde, sound, undue. | |
-5 letters: dens, does, done, dons, dose, dude, duds, dues, dune, duns, duos, eddo, ends, eons, neon, node, nods, noes, none, nose, noun, nous, nude, nuns. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-n-n-o-s-u-u" | |
+3 letters: undergrounds. | |
+4 letters: unboundedness. | |
+5 letters: undergrounders, undernourished. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 6F 75 6E 64 65 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... --- ..- -. -.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s o u n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
| 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)558085818780707170 |
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