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Definition: Dantesque |
DantesqueAdjective1. Of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Dantesque \Dan*tesque"\, adjective. [Compare to Italian Dantesco.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Dantesque (2 syl.). Dante-like - that is, a minute life-like representation of the infernal horrors, whether by words, as in the poet, or in visible form, as in Doré's illustrations of the Inferno. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DantesqueSynonym: Dantean (adj). (additional references) |
| "Dantesque" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dantesque" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "Dantesque": virgilian-dantesque. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Dantesque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | dantesco (dantean). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antesqueday.(various references) | |
Romanian | dantesc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-q-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: unseated. | |
-2 letters: equated, equates, quanted, quested, sauteed, sequent, standee, unsated. | |
-3 letters: aeneus, anteed, daunts, enates, endues, ensued, equate, etudes, nested, nudest, quants, queans, queens, sateen, sauted, seated, sedate, senate, staned, sundae, teased, tensed, tenues, unease, unseat, usneae. | |
-4 letters: adust, aedes, anted, antes, aunts, dates, daunt, dauts, deans, deets, denes, dense, dents, duets, dunes, dunts, eased, eaten, enate, endue, ensue, etnas, etude, nates, neats, needs, nudes, quads, quant, quate, quean, queen, quest, saned, sated, saute, sedan, sente, setae, squad, squat, stade, stand, stane, stead, steed, suede, tease, teens, tends, tense, tsade, tunas, tuned, tunes, undee, unset, usnea. | |
-5 letters: ands, anes, ante, ants, anus, ates, aunt, date, daut, dean, dees, deet, dene, dens, dent, dues, duet, dune, duns, dunt, dust, ease, east, eats, ends, etas, etna, neat, need, nest, nets, nude, nuts, qats, quad, sade, sand, sane, sate, seat, seed, seen, send, sene, sent, seta, sned, stud, stun, sued, suet, tads, tans, taus, teas, teds, teed, teen, tees, tend, tens, tuna, tune, tuns, unde, used, utas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-q-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: adequateness. | |
+5 letters: adequatenesses, inadequateness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6E 74 65 73 71 75 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -. - . ... --.- ..- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110011 01110001 01110101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a n t e s q u e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006E 0074 0065 0073 0071 0075 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)386780867185838771 |
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