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Unthought

Definition: Unthought

Unthought

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" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Synonyms: Unthought

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

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Synonyms within Context: Unthought

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

Incogitancy

Unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered; off one's mind; incogitable, not to be thought of.

Neglect

Neglected; Verb: unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed; shunted, shelved.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unthought

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

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Commercial Usage: Unthought

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Unthought

AuthorQuotation

W. Stanley Jevons

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Unthought

Expression using "unthought": unthought of. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "unthought": unthought-of, unthought-out, unthought-up.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unthought

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unthought

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unthought

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

Albanian

  

i papeshuar (hasty, ill-considered, rash, unconsidered). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съвсем неочакван (unthought of), непредвиден (casual, contingent, fortuitous, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unthought of), изненадващ (rude, surprise, surprising, unlooked for, unthought of). (various references)

   

French

  

inconsidéré (unadvised, unmindful). (various references)

   

German

  

unbedacht (heady, ill-considered, rash, thoughtless, unconsidered, unmindful, unmindfully, unrefracting, unthinking, unthinkingly, unthoughtly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απροσδόκητοσ (abrupt, unexecuted, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unthought of). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem várt (snag, snap, unhoped-for), nem sejtett, nem gondolt. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sconsiderato (hasty, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, inconsiderate, light minded, madcap, rash, thoughtless, unmindful). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oughtunthay

   

Spanish

  

desaconsejado (unmindful). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

otänkbar (unimaginable, unthinkable, unthought of), ofattbar (fathomless, inapprehensible, intangible, unimaginable, unthought of), oanad (undreamed of, undreamt of, unsuspected, unthought of). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

düşünülmemiş (indigested, out of mind). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unthought

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: outhunt, thought.

-3 letters: hognut, nought, outgun, though.

-4 letters: ought, thong, tough, ungot.

-5 letters: gout, hong, hung, hunh, hunt, thou, thug, tong, tout, tung, tutu, unto.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-h-n-o-t-t-u-u"
 

+5 letters: thoughtfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unthought


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

55 6E 74 68 6F 75 67 68 74

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 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0074 0068 006F 0075 0067 0068 0074

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

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

558086748187737486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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