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Definition: Unthreatening |
UnthreateningAdjective1. Not unfriendly or threatening; "her well-meaning words were received in silence"; "the exasperation of a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: UnthreateningSynonym: well-meaning (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Safety | Unthreatening, harmless; friendly (cooperative). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Unthreatening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Unthreatening" is used about 9 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-n-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: threatening, untethering. | |
-3 letters: antihunter, entreating, heartening, unearthing. | |
-4 letters: argentine, argentite, entertain, eutherian, integrate, nattering, naughtier, neatening, neutering, rattening, reheating, retighten, tangerine, tautening, tenanting, tentering, tethering, threating, tightener, truanting, unhatting. | |
-5 letters: aigrette, antigene, attuning, earthing, earthnut, entering, geniture, gnathite, gnattier, gratinee, haunting, hearting, hennaing, heritage, herniate, ingather, inherent, interage, intranet, naething, nutating, nutrient, renitent, retaught. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 74 68 72 65 61 74 65 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. - .... .-. . .- - . -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n t h r e a t e n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0074 0068 0072 0065 0061 0074 0065 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808674847167867180758073 |
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