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Definitions: Amnesiac |
AmnesiacAdjective1. Suffering from a partial loss of memory. Noun1. A person suffering from amnesia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AmnesiacSynonym: amnesic (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amnesiac."
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| "Amnesiac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Amnesiac" is used about 8 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "amnesiac": crypto-amnesiac. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
radiohead amnesiac | 29 |
amnesiac | 27 |
amnesiac lyrics radiohead | 15 |
amnesiac lyrics | 7 |
amnesiac picture radiohead | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "amnesiac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاقد الذاكرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | amnésique (amnesic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμνησιακός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | amnéziás (amnesic), emlékezetét vesztett (amnesic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amnesiacay страдающий потерей памяти. (various references) unutkan (forgetful, oblivious, unmindful), hafızasını kaybetmiş. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "amnesiac": amnesiacs. (additional references) | |
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"Amnesiac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abnesia, amensia, amnestia, amnestic, amnetic, amnosia, Camensac, ramonesian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amnesiac" (pronounced amnē"zēa'k) |
| 3 | -ē a' k | cardiac, insomniac, maniac, megalomaniac, nymphomaniac, zodiac. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: amnesia, amnesic, anaemic, anemias, caimans, cinemas, maniacs. | |
-2 letters: amices, amines, anemia, anemic, animas, animes, caiman, camisa, camise, casein, cinema, iceman, incase, inseam, maniac, manias, manics, mesian, minces, seaman, semina. | |
-3 letters: acmes, acnes, aecia, amain, amens, amias, amice, amies, amine, amins, amnia, amnic, anima, anime, anise, ansae, cains, camas, cames, canes, cines, maces, mains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ambiances, amnesiacs, analcimes, calamines. | |
+2 letters: adamancies, anamnestic, campaniles, cyanamides, egomaniacs, imbalances, macaronies, machinates, misbalance, naumachies, rampancies, semantical. | |
+3 letters: accompanies, admittances, affirmances, animalcules, calumniates, campaigners, damascening, emaciations, emancipates, macerations, malignances, mechanicals, mesalliance, misalliance, misbalanced, misbalances, miscellanea, misfeasance, oceanariums, pacemakings. | |
+4 letters: academicians, aerodynamics, ambivalences, amicableness, amphisbaenic, anecdotalism, anticlimaxes, caramelising, carminatives, chamberlains, complaisance, contaminates, declamations, demarcations, emancipators, emasculating, emasculation, exclamations, gynecomastia, maintenances, malefactions, malignancies, meatpackings, mechanicians, melancholias, mesalliances, micromanages, misalliances, misfeasances, niacinamides, nonacademics, peacemakings, reclamations, sectarianism, semantically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6E 65 73 69 61 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -. . ... .. .- -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m n e s i a c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006E 0065 0073 0069 0061 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579807185756769 |
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