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Definition: Unstrung |
UnstrungAdjective1. Emotionally upset; "the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unstrung" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Weakness | Adjective: weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved; Verb: sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unstrung |
| Specialty definitions using "unstrung": Guitar. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Unstrung Heroes (1995) | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unstrung hero | 9 |
unstrung | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unstrung"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i ligështuar (down-hearted, flabby, sapless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منزوع الأوتار, متوتر الأعصاب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разхлабен (loose, slack, unstuck), разтроен (disappointed), разнебитен (beaten up, broken down, crank, cranky, crazy, decrepit, dilapidated, raddle, ramshackle, rickety, shaky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uvolnìný (disengaged, laid back, lax, loose, relaxed, released, unbuttoned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | détendu, démoralisé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | saitenlos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκνευρισμένοσ (nervous, nervy), ακούρδιστοσ (unwound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | húrozatlan hangszer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 上"る (to be high-pitched and unstrung, to be or get excited, to ring false, to sound hollow, to sound shallow, to sound shrill and nervous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うわずる (to be high-pitched and unstrung, to be or get excited, to ring false, to sound hollow, to sound shallow, to sound shrill and nervous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ungunstray расшатанный (cranky, haywire, rattletrap, rickety). (various references) oneraspoložen. (various references) ur balans, nervös (agitated, fidgety, high strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervous, nervy, tense, uptight), med lossade strängar. (various references) telleri gevşemiş, telleri çıkarılmış, sinirleri bozuk (nervy, overwrought), ipsiz. (various references) chùng dây. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unstrung" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Untung. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-n-n-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: unstung. | |
-2 letters: grunts, strung, unsung. | |
-3 letters: grunt, gurus, rungs, runts, stung, trugs, tungs, turns. | |
-4 letters: gnus, guns, guru, gust, guts, nuns, nuts, rugs, rung, runs, runt, rust, ruts, snug, stun, sung, sunn, trug, tugs, tung, tuns, turn, urns, urus. | |
-5 letters: gnu, gun, gut, nun, nus, nut, rug, run, rut, sun, tug, tun, uns, urn, uts. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-n-n-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: groundnuts, untrussing, untrusting. | |
+3 letters: surmounting. | |
+4 letters: countersuing. | |
+5 letters: inaugurations, understudying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 74 72 75 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... - .-. ..- -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s t r u n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0074 0072 0075 006E 0067 |
| 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)5580858684878073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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