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Unwomanly

Definition: Unwomanly

Unwomanly

Adjective

1. Not womanly; "the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly".

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

Date "unwomanly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Antonym: womanly (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unwomanly

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

Man

Adjective: male, he-, masculine; manly, virile; unwomanly, unfeminine.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Unwomanly

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Unwomanly Woman in Bernard Shaw's Drama and Her Social and Political Background (Studia Anglistica Upsalensia, 15) (reference)

  • Unwomanly Conduct: The Challenges of Intentional Childlessness (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unwomanly

"Unwomanly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unwomanly" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translation: Unwomanly

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

Bulgarian 

  

неженствен (unladylike), неподхождащ на жена (unfeminine), неподобаващ на жена (unfeminine). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

epänaisellinen (unfeminine). (various references)

   

German

  

unweiblich (mannishly, unfeminine). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μη θυληπρεπήσ. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

女 てらに (unlike a woman, woman that she is). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

お"な てらに (unlike a woman, woman that she is). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omanlyunway

   

Romanian

  

nedemn pentru o femeie. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kadınca olmayan, kadına yakışmayan. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không xứng đáng l một người đ n b ; không hợp với đ n b . (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unwomanly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-m-n-n-o-u-w-y"

-2 letters: unmanly, womanly.

-3 letters: anonym, nounal, unmown.

-4 letters: annoy, annul, anomy, lawny, loamy, manly, nonyl, noway, nylon, unlay, unman, unwon, wanly, woman, yamun, yulan.

-5 letters: alow, alum, amyl, anon, awny, awol, lawn, loam, loan, lown, luna, luny, mano, many, maul, maun, mawn, mayo, moan, mola, moly, mony, mown, muon, myna, noma, nona, noun, only, ulan.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unwomanly


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

55 6E 77 6F 6D 61 6E 6C 79

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 01110111 01101111 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#119 &#111 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0077 006F 006D 0061 006E 006C 0079

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

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

558089817967807891

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INDEX

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


  

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