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Definition: Unstirred |
UnstirredAdjective1. Not agitated by stirring; "the ingredients sat in the bowl unstirred while she buttered the pan". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unstirred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Temperate; (moderate); composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting. |
Insensibility | Unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck; unblushing; (shameless); unanimated; vegetative. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unstirred |
| Specialty definitions using "unstirred": IMPROBABILITY. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMPROBABILITY, n. His tale he told with a solemn face And a tender, melancholy grace. Improbable 'twas, no doubt, When you came to think it out, But the fascinated crowd Their deep surprise avowed And all with a single voice averred 'Twas the most amazing thing they'd heard -- All save one who spake never a word, But sat as mum As if deaf and dumb, Serene, indifferent and unstirred. Then all the others turned to him And scrutinized him limb from limb -- Scanned him alive; But he seemed to thrive And tranquiler grow each minute, As if there were nothing in it. "What! what!" cried one, "are you not amazed At what our friend has told?" He raised Soberly then his eyes and gazed In a natural way And proceeded to say, As he crossed his feet on the mantel-shelf: "O no -- not at all; I'm a liar myself." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unstirred" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unstirred" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bath unstirred water | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unstirred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashqetësuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nehybný (immobile, immovable, inert, motionless, stationary, still). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyugodt (calm, calm-glassy, comfortable, composed, good tempered, good-tempered, imperturbable, in all conscience, leisurely, level-headed, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reassured, relaxed, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, staid, still, stilly, to be at ease, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irredunstay tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, easeful, even-minded, half-light, orderly, pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self-collected, self-possessed, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcerned, unperturbed, unruffled), que não saiu do lugar, imperturbável (even-minded, stolid, unabashed, unflappable, unruffled, unshakeable), impassÃvel (coldlivered, cool, even, insensitive, irresponsive, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, stolid, unabashed, unconcerned, unmoved, unperturbed), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, imperturbable, irresponsive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, philosophic, philosophical, phlegmatic, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unprovoked, unruffled, untroubled). (various references) невозмутимый (cold livered, cold-livered, cool, imperturbable, passionless, unflappable, unperturbed). (various references) neuskomeÅ¡an. (various references) không bị là m lay Ä‘á»™ng, không bị là m chuyển Ä‘á»™ng không bị kÃch thÃch, không bị khÃch Ä‘á»™ng, không bị khêu gợi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unstirred" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unstarted, unstriped, untired. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: intruders. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intruder, intrudes, sturdier. | |
-2 letters: dunites, durries, dustier, insured, insurer, intrude, nutsier, returns, ruiners, runtier, rustier, stirred, strider, studier, tinders, triunes, turdine, turners, undrest, uniters, untired, untried. | |
-3 letters: derris, diners, direst, driers, driest, dunite, durrie, duster, duties, estrin, indues, inerts, insert, insure, inters, inured, inures, niters, nitres, nudest, nudies, nudist, nursed, nurser, reruns, return. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: surprinted, undershirt, underskirt. | |
+2 letters: introducers, undershirts, underskirts, undertricks, underwrites. | |
+3 letters: counterraids, hindquarters, jurisprudent, reintroduces, thunderbirds, transfigured, undershirted, understories, underwriters, unregistered, unrestrained, unrestricted. | |
+4 letters: interindustry, jurisprudents, preindustrial, reproductions, superordinate, thunderstrike, understeering. | |
+5 letters: preproductions, redistributing, redistribution, thunderstrikes, ultramodernist, underthrusting, unrestrainedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 74 69 72 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... - .. .-. .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01101001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s t i r r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0074 0069 0072 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558085867584847170 |
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