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Uncalled-for

Definition: Uncalled-for

Uncalled-for

Adjective

1. Not required or requested; "uncalled-for suggestions".

2. Unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life".

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

Date "uncalled-for" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonyms: Uncalled-for

Synonyms: gratuitous (adj), needless (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: partly paid capital (business, economics), partly paid-up capital, uncalled capital, uncalled subscribed capital (european union, finance), unpaid capital (business, economics).

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Crosswords: Uncalled-for

English words defined with "uncalled-for": gratuitouslyimposition. (references)
Specialty definitions using "uncalled-for": Bad Faith. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Uncalled-for

"Uncalled-for" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uncalled-for" is used about 13 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%1397,576

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

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Modern Translation: Uncalled-for

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

Chinese 

  

不必要为. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tarpeeton (needless, superfluous, undue, unnecessary, useless), tarpeen (needless, superfluous, undue, unnecessary, useless). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

差し出口 (uncalled-for or impertinent remark). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さしでぐち (uncalled-for or impertinent remark). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alled-foruncay

   

Russian 

  

неуместный (ill-placed, impertinent, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inept, injudicious, inopportune, irrelative, irrelevant, mistaken, out of place, uncalled for, unseasonable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không cần thiết; không đáng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Uncalled-for

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-l-l-n-o-r-u"

-2 letters: nucleolar.

-3 letters: carolled, cauldron, colander, collared, colluder, conelrad, crunodal, falconer, falderol, flounced, flounder, foreland, frounced, furnaced, nucellar, uncalled, unfolder, unforced, unloader, unrolled.

-4 letters: aleuron, allured, caldron, candler, candour, careful, caroled, celadon, cloured, collard, collude, corneal, cornfed, cornual, courlan, crunode, dareful, doleful, durance, flaneur, flounce, floured, fondler, foulard, founder, frenula, frounce, funeral, furnace, ladrone.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Uncalled-for


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

55 6E 63 61 6C 6C 65 64 2D 66 6F 72

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

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

01010101 01101110 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 00101101 01100110 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#100 &#45 &#102 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0063 0061 006C 006C 0065 0064 002D 0066 006F 0072

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

558069677878717015728184

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Uncalled-for"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , китайский, китаец

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, финский, tiếng Phần-lan

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, venäläinen, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, người Nga tiếng Nga

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamilainen, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, английский
 


INDEX

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


  

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