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Definition: Unsweet |
UnsweetAdjective1. (of champagne) moderately dry. 2. Distasteful; "he found life unsweet". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsweet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: UnsweetSynonym: sec (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unsavoriness | Adjective: unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Unsweet" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Unsweet" is used about 4 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unsweet": unsweetened. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-s-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: newest, tenues. | |
-2 letters: ensue, newts, sente, sweet, teens, tense, tunes, tween, unset, unsew, weens, weest, weets. | |
-3 letters: ewes, nest, nets, news, newt, nuts, seen, sene, sent, sewn, stew, stun, suet, teen, tees, tens, tews, tune, tuns, twee, ween, wees, weet, wens, went, west, wets. | |
-4 letters: ens, ewe, nee, net, new, nus, nut, see, sen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-s-t-u-w" | |
+3 letters: unwreathes, wulfenites. | |
+4 letters: underwrites, unsweetened, unwieldiest, unwitnessed, wienerwurst. | |
+5 letters: counterviews, southwestern, underweights, underwriters, unwontedness, wastefulness, wienerwursts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 77 65 65 74 |
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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)..- -. ... .--. . . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110111 01100101 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s w e e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0077 0065 0065 0074 |
| 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)55808589717186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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