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Unsullied

Definition: Unsullied

Unsullied

Adjective

1. Spotlessly clean and fresh; "the unsullied snow of mountains"; "the unsullied splender of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde.

2. Of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation".

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

Date "unsullied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Synonyms: Unsullied

Synonyms: stainless (adj), unstained (adj), untainted (adj), untarnished (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unsullied

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

Cleanness

Adjective: clean, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut.

Probity

Innocent; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved, undebauched; integer vitae scelerisque purus; justus et tenax propositi.

Purity

Virgin, unsullied; cherry.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unsullied

English words defined with "unsullied": stainlessunstained, untainted, untarnishedwhite. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unsullied

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

An Unsullied Shield (1913)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unsullied

"Unsullied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsullied" is used about 27 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%2766,962

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

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Modern Translation: Unsullied

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

Albanian

  

i panjollë (clean, immaculate, lily white, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بلا شائبة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неопетнен (immaculate, pure, soilless, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neposkvrnìný (immaculate, spotless, taintless, unstained), nepošpinìný. (various references)

   

French

  

sans tache (unblemished, unstained), sans souillure. (various references)

   

German

  

unbefleckt (spotless, stainless, undefiled, unpolluted, unpollutedly, unstained, untarnished). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללא רבב (immaculate, perfect, spotless, stainless). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

makulátlan (clear, immaculate, soilless, spotless, unspotted, unstained, untouched). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulliedunsay

   

Portuguese

  

sem mancha (pure, soilless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unstained), sem mácula (soilless, spotless, taintless, unblemished, unstained), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), limpo (clean, clean-handed, cleanly, cleanly cut, neat, net, orderly, precise, sanitary, spotless, spruce, straight, tidy, trim, unspotted, unstained, well-done). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

intact (intact, perfect, sound, unbroken, unimpaired, untouched, whole). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

незапятнанный (clean, soilless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unstained, untarnished). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neukaljan (unsoiled). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin mancha (stainless), inmaculado (immaculate, spotless, stainless). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ren (already, bare, blank, border, brim, brink, by now, chaste, classic, clean, clear, ditch-bank, edge, edging, fine, fringe, headland, immaculate, mere, outright, Plumb, pristine, pure, rand, reindeer, riendeer, rim, sanitary, sheer, simple, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed, undiluted, unpolluted, verge, very, white, yet), obefläckad (immaculate, undefiled, virgin), fläckfri (clean, fair, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tertemiz (idyllic, immaculate, neatly, spick and span, spotlessly clean, stainless, taintless, unworn, very clean), lekesiz (clean, flawless, immaculate, pure, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, untainted, untarnished). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

незабруднений (soilless, undefiled, unpolluted). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không vết nh, không vết bẩn, không hoen. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dilychwin (spotless). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unsullied

Misspellings

"Unsullied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: usullied. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Unsullied"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unsullied" (pronounced unsu"lēd)
5-s u" l ē dsullied.
3-l ē dbellied, bullied, dallied, jellied, rallied, tallied.

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

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Anagrams: Unsullied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-l-n-s-u-u"

-2 letters: lunules, sullied.

-3 letters: duelli, indues, lunies, lunule, nilled, nudies, nulled, sullen, undies, unsell, unused.

-4 letters: deils, delis, dells, dills, dines, duels, dulls, dulse, dunes, idles, ileus, indue, isled, lends, lenis, leuds, liens, lieus, lined, lines, lisle, ludes, lulus, lunes, nides, nidus, nills, nudes, nudie, nulls, sidle, slide, slued, snell, snide, undue, unled.

-5 letters: deil.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-l-n-s-u-u"
 

+3 letters: unillusioned.

 

+4 letters: incredulously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unsullied


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

55 6E 73 75 6C 6C 69 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)

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

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

01010101 01101110 01110011 01110101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#117 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0075 006C 006C 0069 0065 0064

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

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

558085877878757170

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INDEX

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


  

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