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Unspectacular

Definition: Unspectacular

Unspectacular

Adjective

1. Not spectacular; "an unspectacular but necessary task".

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


Non-Fiction Usage: Unspectacular

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

Romania

Romania has consolidated its democratic political system and has made steady if unspectacular progress toward the establishment of a free market economy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unspectacular

"Unspectacular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unspectacular" is used about 42 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)100%4252,864

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unspectacular

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unspectacular

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unspectacular

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

German

  

nicht sensationell. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ectacularunspay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Unspectacular"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unspectacular" (pronounced u'nspekta"kyuler)
11-s p e k t a" k y u l erspectacular.
6-a" k y u l ervernacular.
5-k y u l eravuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, circular, curricular, extracurricular, gastrovascular, intermolecular, jocular, molecular, muscular, particular, perpendicular, secular, semicircular, testicular, vascular, vehicular.
4-y u l erangular, annular, cellular, equiangular, globular, granular, intercellular, irregular, jugular, popular, rectangular, regular, singular, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular.
3-u l erabler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unspectacular

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-n-p-r-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: spectacular.

-3 letters: crustacean.

-4 letters: accentual, acutances, ancestral, aspectual, calcaneus, canulates, carcanets, caruncles, catnapers, crustacea, parlances, placaters, placentas, punctures, pursuance, sacculate, sculpture, succulent.

-5 letters: accruals, accurate, accusant, acutance, analects, asternal, caesural, calcspar, caltraps, cantraps, canulate, capelans, capsular, captures, caraculs, carcanet, caruncle, caterans, catnaper, centaurs, centrals, claustra, cleanups, cultures, cupulate, cutpurse, lacunars, lacunate, lucarnes, lupanars, naturals.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unspectacular


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

55 6E 73 70 65 63 74 61 63 75 6C 61 72

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 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#112 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#97 &#99 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0070 0065 0063 0074 0061 0063 0075 006C 0061 0072

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

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

55808582716986676987786784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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