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BELOW PAR

Definition: BELOW PAR

BELOW PAR

1. At a discount.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: BELOW PAR

DomainDefinition

Finance

A share with a market price lower than its par value. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: BELOW PAR

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Commonalty

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Discount

Adverb: at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business.

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Inexpedience

Vile, base, villainous; mean; (paltry); injured; deteriorated; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par; (imperfect); illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful; (painful).

Lowness

Adverb: under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb; below par.

Smallness

Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BELOW PAR

English words defined with "BELOW PAR": At a discount. (references)

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Use in Literature: BELOW PAR

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Their fidelity and sagacity are below par now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: BELOW PAR

Expressions using "BELOW PAR": be below par fall below par feel below par i feel below par. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: BELOW PAR

Language Translations for "BELOW PAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏سقيم (ill, poor, puny, rickety, sick, sickly, unwell, wan), ‏عليل (bland, ill, queer, sick), ‏أقل من السعر الأصلي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

под номиналната стойност. (various references)

   

Danish

  

under pari (at a discount). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

beneden pari (at a discount). (various references)

   

French

  

au-dessous du pair. (various references)

   

German

  

unter Pari (at a discount), unter dem Nennwert (at a discount). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάτω από το άρτιο (at a discount). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא בקו "בריאות (indisposed, off color, under the weather, unwell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

névérték alatt, parin alul, nívótlan (third rate, to be below par), nívón alul, átlagon aluli (to be below par). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sotto la pari (at a discount). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

額面割れ (drop below par). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がくめ"われ (drop below par). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elowbay arpay

   

Romanian

  

nu-i fi boii acasã (be out of sorts, fall below par, have the pip, not to feel quite up to the mark), mã simt prost (I feel below par). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ниже номинального. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

malucho (poorly), debajo de la par (at a discount), de calidad inferior (bad quality, crummy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inte särskilt bra. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нижче номиналу. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BELOW PAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-p-r-w"

-1 letter: ropable, rowable.

-2 letters: barlow, bawler, bewrap, blower, boreal, bowler, parole, plower, prelaw, warble.

-3 letters: abler, baler, below, blare, blear, bolar, boral, bowel, bower, brawl, elbow, labor, lobar, loper, lower, opera, paler, pareo, parle, parol, pawer, pearl, polar, poler, power, probe, prole, prowl, rebop, roble, rowel, waler.

-4 letters: able, aero, aloe, alow, aper, awol, bale.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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