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Unthought-of

Definition: Unthought-of

Unthought-of

Adjective

1. So unexpected as to have not been imagined; "an unhoped-for piece of luck"; "an unthought advantage"; "an unthought-of place to find the key".

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

Date "unthought-of" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1741. (references)


Synonyms: Unthought-of

Synonyms: unhoped (adj), unhoped-for (adj), unthought (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unthought-of

English words defined with "unthought-of": unhoped, unhoped-for, unthought. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unthought-of

"Unthought-of" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unthought-of" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: Unthought-of

Language Translations for "unthought-of"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

không ngờ (uncontemplated, undreamed-of, undreamt-of, unexpected, unlooked-for, unsuspected), không dè (undesigned, unlooked-for), không ai nghĩ tới. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unthought-of

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-h-h-n-o-o-t-t-u-u"

-2 letters: outfought, unthought.

-3 letters: unfought.

-4 letters: outhunt, thought.

-5 letters: fought, hognut, nought, outgun, though.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unthought-of


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

55 6E 74 68 6F 75 67 68 74 2D 6F 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01010101 01101110 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101101 01101111 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#45 &#111 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0074 0068 006F 0075 0067 0068 0074 002D 006F 0066

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

558086748187737486158172

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INDEX

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


  

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