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Vapidly

Definition: Vapidly

Vapidly

Adverb

1. In a vapid manner; "a vapidly smiling salesman".

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

Date "vapidly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Usage Frequency: Vapidly

"Vapidly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vapidly" 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
Adverb (general)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Vapidly

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

German

  

flach (concave, even, flat, flat-bottomed, gentle, insipid, level, low, planar, platy, shallow, shallows, smooth, superficial, tabular, vapid), fad (flabby, flat, insipid, smooth, stalely, undistinctive, undynamic, vapid). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apidlyvay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

вяло;скучно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vapidly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-p-v-y"

-1 letter: avidly.

-2 letters: daily, pavid, plaid, valid, vapid.

-3 letters: avid, davy, dial, diva, idly, idyl, lady, laid, lipa, padi, paid, pail, paly, pial, pily, play, vail, vial, yald.

-4 letters: aid, ail, alp, dal, dap, day, dip, ivy, lad, lap, lav, lay, lid, lip, pad, pal, pay, pia, ply, pya, via, yap, yid, yip.

-5 letters: ad, ai, al, ay, id, la, li, pa, pi, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-p-v-y"
 

+3 letters: adaptively, adoptively.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vapidly


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

56 61 70 69 64 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)

01010110 01100001 01110000 01101001 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#100 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0070 0069 0064 006C 0079

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

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

56678275707891

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INDEX

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


  

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