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Definition: Amnestic |
AmnesticAdjective1. Of or relating to or caused by amnesia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Nominal aphasia; a difficulty in finding the right name for an object. (references) |
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Synonym: AmnesticSynonym: amnesic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amnestic |
| English words defined with "amnestic": alcohol amnestic disorder, amnestic aphasia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amnestic": Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders ♦ Fluvoxamine. (references) |
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| "Amnestic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amnestic" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amnestic": Alcohol Amnestic Disorder ♦ amnestic aphasia. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "amnestic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amnestisk syndrom (amnestic syndrome), erindringsø (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | amnestisch syndroom (amnestic syndrome), ziekte van Korsakow (amnestic syndrome), psychose van Korsakow (amnestic syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | apraxie amnésique (amnestic apraxia), aphasie amnésique de Pitres (amnestic aphasia), syndrome amnestique (amnestic syndrome), souvenirs lacunaires (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | amnestisches Syndrom (amnestic syndrome), amnestische Apraxie (amnestic apraxia), Erinnerungsinsel (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμνησιακό σύνδρομο (amnestic syndrome), οργανικό ψυχοσύνδρομο (amnestic syndrome, organic mental syndrome, psycho-organic syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ASP (Amnestic Shellfish Poison, Audio selector panel), Acido Domoico (Amnestic Shellfish Poison), sindrome di Korsakoff (amnestic syndrome), sindrome amnestica (amnestic syndrome), psicosi polinevritica (amnestic syndrome), psicopolinevrite (amnestic syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amnesticay síndrome amnéstica (amnestic syndrome), memória lacunar (amnestic vague remebrance). (various references) относящийся к амнезии (amnesic). (various references) síndrome de amnesia (amnestic syndrome), síndrome amnésico (amnestic syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "amnestic": anamnestic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "amnestic" (pronounced 'Am*nes"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic, Aplastic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: semantic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acetins, amnesic, cineast, cinemas, etamins, inmates, nematic, sematic, tameins. | |
-2 letters: acetin, actins, aments, amices, amines, anemic, animes, antics, ascent, camise, casein, centai, centas, cinema, enacts, enatic, etamin, iceman, incase, incest, inmate, inseam, insect, manics, mantes, mantic, mantis, mastic, matins, mesian, minces, misact, misate, miseat, nastic, nicest, samite, secant, semina, stamen, stance, tamein. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: coinmates, encomiast, magnetics, mechanist, miscreant, semantics. | |
+2 letters: anamnestic, centesimal, centigrams, centralism, cremations, criminates, culminates, cysteamine, emittances, encomiasts, hematinics, intimacies, kinematics, lemniscate, machinates, manticores, mechanists, melanistic, mendicants, militances, minacities, mincemeats, miscreants, myasthenic, semantical. | |
+3 letters: actinomyces, admittances, antiemetics, calumniates, centralisms, charmingest, cinematizes, colemanites, contumacies, cosmetician, creationism, cysteamines, decimations, emaciations, emancipates, encomiastic, gentamicins, immittances, impatiences, importances, intercampus, lemniscates, macerations, macintoshes, manneristic, martensitic, mechanistic, medicaments, medications, mendacities, mentalistic, militancies, miscreating, miscreation, misteaching, myasthenics, nematicides, nematocides, remittances, romanticise, semanticist, semiotician. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6E 65 73 74 69 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 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m n e s t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006E 0065 0073 0074 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579807185867569 |
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