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Definition: PRECISIAN |
PRECISIANNoun1. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. 2. One who limits, or restrains. |
Date "PRECISIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impiety | Bigot; saint; Pharisee; sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado. |
Severity | Tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture; accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors. |
Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PRECISIAN |
| English words defined with "PRECISIAN": Precisianism, Precisianist. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "PRECISIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pedant (donnish, dryasdust, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, meticulous, pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, verbalist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المتزمت, الشديد التمسك بالقواعد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | формалист (formalist, prig), пуритан (puritan), педант (formalist, pedagogue, pedant, pettifogger, prig, scholastic, square toes, verbalist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pointilleux (precise, prissy), formaliste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακριβολόγοσ (nice, precisionist, punctilious, purist, scrupulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecisianpray puritano (puritan, puritanic, puritanical, square-toes, strait, straitlaced), rigorista (square-toes), formalista (formal, formalist, prim, punctilious, sententious, square-toes, starchy). (various references) puritan (hot gospeller, prude, puritan, puritanic), pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, prig, priggish, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious, scholastic). (various references) формалист (formalist, prig, square toes, square-toes). (various references) precizna osoba. (various references) rigorista (martinet, stickler). (various references) pedant (pedant, scholastic, stickler), formalist (formalist, pedant). (various references) пуританин (puritan), педант (disciplinarian, martinet, nit-picker, pedagog, pedagogue, pedant, prig, splitter). (various references) người kỹ tính. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRECISIAN": precisians. (additional references) | |
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"PRECISIAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peijian, prosimian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PRECISIAN" (pronounced 'Pre*ci"sian'): Albigensian, Artesian, Asian, Athanasian, Australasian, Castrensian, Circassian, Cluniacensian, Complutensian, Lithosian, Magnesian, Malthusian, Manganesian, Marcosian, Megalesian, Melanesian, Paraphrasian, Peloponnesian, Premonstratensian, Prussian, Russian, Waldensian. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: piracies, piscinae. | |
-2 letters: arcsine, arsenic, aspirin, caprine, carnies, crispen, episcia, inscape, inspire, irenics, paniers, pincers, piscina, piscine, prances, princes, rapines, rapinis, scrapie, senarii, sericin, spacier, spicier, spinier. | |
-3 letters: anisic, apices, apneic, arisen, arpens, arsine, aspire, cairns, caners, capers, capris, caries, carnie, casein, casern, casini, cerias, cranes, crapes, cripes, ericas, escarp, incase, incise, irenic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: precisians. | |
+3 letters: accipitrines, antipiracies, antipyretics, conspiracies, crepitations, epicureanism, importancies, imprecations, interspacing, intraspecies, necrophilias, pancreatitis, pertinacious, pilocarpines, planispheric, precipitants, predications, replications. | |
+4 letters: anisometropic, antiparticles, appreciations, containership, coplanarities, depreciations, discrepancies, endoparasitic, epicureanisms, iconographies, infraspecific, intraspecific, necrophiliacs, paternalistic, pediatricians, personalistic, pertinacities, petrifactions, pictorialness, porcelainizes, practitioners, precipitances, presanctified, republicanism, saprogenicity, schizophrenia, semiporcelain, supercriminal, transpiercing. | |
+5 letters: actinomorphies, anticensorship, apprenticeship, capriciousness, cephaloridines, containerships, contrapositive, cooperationist, decrepitations, impermanencies, isentropically, paediatricians, pancreatitides, pantisocracies, pertinaciously, petrifications, picornaviruses, precipitancies, precipitations, predischarging, predominancies, prevarications, principalities, provincializes, reapplications, reciprocations, recompilations, reduplications, republicanisms, republicanizes, republications, schizophrenias, scintigraphies, semiporcelains, spinthariscope, supercriminals, ultraprecision. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 43 49 53 49 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.-. .. ... .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001001 01010011 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E C I S I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0043 0049 0053 0049 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)505239374353433548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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