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Unstrained

Definition: Unstrained

Unstrained

Adjective

1. Not placed under psychological stress; "the campaign would not leave party loyalties unstrained".

2. Not processed by putting through a strainer; "unstrained home-style orange juice".

3. Not resulting from undue effort; not forced; "a voice with a pleasingly unforced quality"; "his playing is facile and unstrained".

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

Note: Unstrained \Un*strained"\, adjective. [Prefix un- not strain.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Unstrained

Synonym: unforced (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unstrained

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imagination

General meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true; (exact) meaning, honest; meaning, prima facie; (manifest) meaning; letter of the law.

Repose

Adjective: reposing; Verb: relaxed; Verb: unstrained.

Uncleanness

Unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unstrained

Specialty definitions using "unstrained": neoformationResidual Neoplasmultimate strength. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unstrained

"Unstrained" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unstrained" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translation: Unstrained

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

Albanian

  

i vetvetishëm (automatic, automatical, instinctive, reflex, spontaneous, unstudied), i pashtrënguar, i padetyruar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير عنيد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

непрецеден, непринуден (affable, artless, childlike, easy, familiar, free, go-as-you-please, informal, rustic, simple, spontaneous, unconstrained, unlabored, unlaboured, unpretending, unpretentious, unstarched, unstudied, unstuffy), естествен (artless, honorary, ingenuous, innate, living, matter of course, native, natural, simple, spontaneous, unceremonious, uncoined, unpretending, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstarched, untaught, untutored). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nenapnutý. (various references)

   

French

  

sage, docile. (various references)

   

German

  

unzensiert (uncensored, unstrainedly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αβίαστοσ (leisurely, unconstrained). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fesztelen (airy, breezy, colloquial, easy, free, free and easy, informal, off-hand, relaxed, shirt-sleeve, shirttail, unreserved, unselfconscious). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainedunstray

   

Portuguese

  

sem tensão (dead), natural (apparent, artless, breathing, flowing, genuine, glib, inartificial, inbred, innate, lifelike, matter-of-course, native, natural, normal, outage, physical, plain, shirt-sleeve, spontaneous, unaffected, unconstrained, unlaboured, unsophisticated, unstudied, untaught, unvarnished), não forçado (unconstrained), não filtrado, não esticado, não coado, espontâneo (cavalier, free, matter-of-course, natural, offhand, offhanded, self-sown, spontaneous, unasked, unbidden, unconstrained, unlaboured, unpremeditated, unprompted, unsought, unstudied, untaught, willing). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ненапряженный (lax, unstressed), непринужденный (easy, informal, relaxed, unaffected, unbuttoned, unconstrained, unstarched, unstudied), недеформированный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nenapregnut. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yapmacıksız (unaffected, undisguised, unfeigned, unstudied), süzülmemiş, gerilmemiş (unstressed, unstretched), filtre edilmemiş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unstrained

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incolatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Unstrained

Misspellings

"Unstrained" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unstriped. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Unstrained

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: indurates, inundates, saturnine, unstained, untrained.

-2 letters: aneurins, audients, daunters, denarius, detrains, dunnites, entrains, indurate, insnared, insurant, intrudes, inturned, inundate, randiest, ruinated, ruinates, runniest, sinuated, strained, taurines, transude, unitards, unraised, unrinsed, untreads, uranides, uranites, urinated, urinates.

-3 letters: anestri, aneurin, antired, antsier, aridest, astride, asunder, audient, aunties, danseur, daunter, dauties, dentins, destain, detains, detrain, diaster.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: untarnished.

 

+2 letters: understating, undertakings, unrestrained.

 

+3 letters: denaturations, insubordinate, misunderstand, refoundations, unconstrained, undercoatings, understaffing, understanding.

 

+4 letters: consuetudinary, countershading, counterstained, degranulations, documentarians, insubordinates, misunderstands, underpaintings, understaffings, understandings, unrestrainedly, unstandardized.

 

+5 letters: countershadings, insubordinately, rudimentariness, subordinateness, undemonstrative, underestimating, underestimation, underinflations, understandingly, undervaluations, valetudinarians.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unstrained


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

55 6E 73 74 72 61 69 6E 65 64

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)

..-    -.    ...    -    .-.    .-    ..    -.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0074 0072 0061 0069 006E 0065 0064

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

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

55808586846775807170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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