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Definition: Nighted |
NightedAdjective1. Overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nighted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonym: NightedSynonym: benighted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nighted |
| English words defined with "nighted": benighted. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Nighted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nighted" 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.
Derivations | |
Words ending with "nighted": beknighted, benighted, knighted, overnighted. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nighted": benightedly, benightedness, benightednesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "nighted" (pronounced 'Night"ed'): Able-minded, Aborted, Absent-minded, Abstorted, Adfected, Adusted, Affriended, Apiked, Arcaded, Aspected, Barded, Becomed, Bifronted, Bivaulted, Bladed, Bloody-minded, Bracted, Breaded, Brocaded, Brouded, Cisted, Clifted, Coadapted, Cockaded, Complected, Conceited, Confated, Congested, Contented, Contorted, Cysted, Debted, demented, Disappointed, Disenshrouded, Distraughted, Double-handed, Double-headed, Doublehearted, Doubleminded, Dunted, Ear-minded, Encysted, Fated, Feather-pated, Feeble-minded, flighted, Forerecited, Forfered, Forted, Fronded, frosted, Fusted, Gaited, gated, Grinded, hearted, Heavy-haded, Heavy-headed, Heved, high-minded, Hilted, Imploded, Improvided, Inabstracted, Inaffected, Incocted, Inconcocted, Inconnected, Incontested, Incontracted, Inconverted, Incorrupted, Incysted, Indigested, Indirected, Indisputed, Individed, Inexhausted, Inexpected, Inextended, Inshaded, Interfolded, interrelated, Irrupted, Lated, Lered, Longheaded, long-winded, Maked, malcontented, Meated, misaffected, Miscreated, Moted, Nowed, Occulted, One-sided, Outdated, Overdelighted, Overscented, Overwasted, Pated, Plaided, Redented, Redoubted, Reeded, Relicted, Self-affrighted, self-conceited, Self-convicted, Self-created, Self-devoted, Self-suspended, Shafted, Sharded, short-handed, single-handed, Single-hearted, single-minded, Sinister-handed, Sited, Snooded, Soyned, Stout-hearted, Subcontracted, Subdented, Subdilated, Sworded, Teated, Tided, unacquainted, unaffected, Unarted, Unassented, Unavoided, Unbaned, unbounded, Unconfounded, unconverted, Uncreated, undaunted, Undeeded, undirected, undivided, undoubted, unexpected, unfounded, unfrequented, Unfriended, Ungifted, unjointed, unlearned, unlisted, Unlorded, unowned, Unpleaded, Unprevented, Unresisted, unsighted, unsorted, Untraded, unwonted, Voluted, Warted, White-fronted, Wilded, Woaded, Wretched, Ymaked. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: hinged, hinted, nidget, nighed, tinged. | |
-2 letters: deign, dight, dinge, eight, hinge, neigh, night, teind, thegn, thein, thine, thing, tined, tinge. | |
-3 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, ding, dint, dite, edit, gent, gied, gien, hent, hide, hied, hind, hint, nide, nigh, nite, tend, then, thin, tide, tied, tine, ting. | |
-4 letters: den, die, dig, din, dit, edh, end, eng, eth, ged, gen, get, ghi, gid, gie, gin, git, hen, het, hid, hie, hin, hit, net, nit, nth, ted, teg, ten, the, tie, tin. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, eh, en, et, he, hi, id, in, it, ne, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: knighted. | |
+2 letters: benighted, dehorting, detaching, dithering, lightened, nightside, threading, tightened, unsighted. | |
+3 letters: bedighting, beknighted, brightened, delighting, dethroning, frightened, gesundheit, heightened, ingathered, nightdress, nightshade, nightsides, thundering, unweighted. | |
+4 letters: benightedly, candlelight, dehydrating, despatching, disheriting, doughtiness, enlightened, headhunting, lightninged, longsighted, mastheading, methodising, methodizing, moonlighted, nearsighted, nightshades, overnighted, redshirting, rehydrating, rethreading, retightened, underweight, unthreading. | |
+5 letters: anthologized, candlelights, diphthongize, doughnutlike, droughtiness, extinguished, godfathering, guanethidine, heartrending, heterodyning, homesteading, interchanged, nightclubbed, nightdresses, straightened, stringhalted, thunderingly, underweights. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 67 68 74 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. --. .... - . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i g h t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0067 0068 0074 0065 0064 |
| 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)48757374867170 |
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