ASSAI

Definition: ASSAI

ASSAI

1. A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ASSAI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pity	Phrase: one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco; " a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind " onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: ASSAI

Etymologies containing "ASSAI": Assets. (references)

Non-English Usage: "ASSAI" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (a lot of, enough, extremely, far, far away, heartily, heavily, highly, many, much, quite, very, very much).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Le Donne ci tengono assai (1959)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Ahmad Jamal with The Assai Quartet (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"ASSAI" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ASSAI" is used about 3 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 (plural)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Expression using "ASSAI": pianissimo assai. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "ASSAI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kålpalme (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe). (various references)

French		palmiste franc (assai euterpe, assai palm), euterpe légume (assai euterpe, assai palm). (various references)

German		gemeine Kohlpalme (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe). (various references)

Greek		ευτέρπη η λαχανώδης (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe). (various references)

Italian		euterpe oleracea (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe). (various references)

Pig Latin		assaiay

Portuguese		pati (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe), palmeira-jiçara (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe), jiçara (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe). (various references)

Spanish		euterpe (assai euterpe, assai palm, cabbage euterpe). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Euterpe oleracea. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ASSAI": assail, assailable, assailant, assailants, assailed, assailer, assailers, assailing, assails, assais. (additional references)
	Words containing "ASSAI": reassail, reassailed, reassailing, reassails, unassailabilities, unassailability, unassailable, unassailableness, unassailablenesses, unassailably, unassailed, wassail, wassailed, wassailer, wassailers, wassailing, wassails. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"ASSAI" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acssi, Amsiwi, ansae, Aqsa, Asaf, asagi, asah, asai, asaid, asal, asar, Asas, asasin, ascain, Ascanio, Ashai, asia, asisakid, asoi, Asosa, assa, Assaad, assad, Assadi, Assaf, assain, assais, Assal, assan, assap, assas, Assaye, assem, assey, assi, assini, assuie, astia, azia, Azmai, azza, Bassai, Bassani, bassia, dasai, essai, Hassawi, Isosaki, Issaf, kansaii, kansasii, Massacio, Massai, Massia, osai, Ossaia, Ossebi, Sahai, sarsia, Sassanid, Sassoi, wasabi, yassou. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-s-s"
	-2 letters: aas, ais, ass, sis.
	-3 letters: aa, ai, as, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-s-s"
	+1 letter: assail, assais, cassia, paisas, saigas.
	+2 letters: abasias, ahimsas, aliases, amusias, aristas, ascaris, assagai, assails, assegai, astasia, camisas, casitas, cassias, dalasis, fascias, miasmas, paisans, quassia, safaris, salamis, salinas, salivas, salvias, sifakas, stadias, stasima, tarsias, wasabis, wassail.
	+3 letters: abatises, abrosias, abscissa, abstains, acrasias, acrasins, agnosias, amassing, amidases, amnesias, anabasis, analysis, anopsias, anosmias, aphasias, aphasics, aplasias, apoapsis, artisans, ascarids, assagais, assailed, assailer, assassin, assaying, assegais, assignat, astasias, asterias, atavisms, atavists, atresias, baalisms, babesias, banksias, basmatis, bioassay, bisnagas, brassica, camisias, capiases, chiasmas, dadaisms, dadaists, diabases, diastase, entasias, gainsays, galliass, malaises, mantissa, misassay, nasalise, paisanas, paisanos, pastinas, piasabas, piasavas, piassaba, piassava, quassias, reassail, sahiwals, salaries, salpians, salsilla, samurais, sangrias, sannyasi, satanism, satanist, satiates, saurians, savagism, savarins, scabiosa, scandias, shaitans, siamangs, spiraeas, staminas, staysail, swastica, swastika, tsarinas, wassails.
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