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Definition: BLACKBALLED

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Of Blackball.[Websters]
2. To have rejected, excluded or refuted. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have proscribed, expelled or kicked.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb blackball.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(blackball)		 1. Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent.[Wordnet].
2. Expel from a community or group.[Wordnet].
3. To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.[Websters].
4. To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.[Websters].
5. Base verb from the following inflections: blackballing, blackballed, blackballs, blackballer, blackballers, blackballingly and blackballedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Blackballed" is a common misspelling or typo for: blackballer.

Date "Blackballed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)


Topics by Level of Interest: BLACKBALLED

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Blackballed (film) 7     Blackballed (film) 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"blackballed" is a common misspelling or typo for: blackballer.

Synonyms: blackballed
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 banned, vetoed, ostracized, rejected, banished, barred, censored, disallowed, discarded, disposed, eschewed, interdicted, negatived, ostracised, prohibited, relegated, shunned, tossed.
Consider also: expelled, proscribed, protested, boycotted, piped, contradicted, controverted, excommunicated, opposed, blacklisted, defeated, excluded, killed, negated, repelled, repudiated, voted, conned.

Adjective

 unwelcome.
Consider also: exiled.

Other

 expatriated.
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Computed Synonyms: blackballed

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   6.2090   blackballed     rejected     abstained, excluded, scraped, tossed, defended   
 2   5.2090   blackballed     proscribed     exiled, inhibited, expelled, forbidden, outlaw   
 3   5.2090   blackballed     piped     channeled, lined, barreled, barrelled, seeded   
 4   4.4092   blackballed     repelled     spurned, abstained, renounced, waived, kicked   
 5   4.2192   blackballed     banned     cursed, vetoed, forbidden, damned, prohibited   
 6   4.2091   blackballed     excepted     butted, eliminated, objected, except, excepting   
 7   4.2091   blackballed     nayed     noed, negatived, evened, repulsed, rebuffed   
 8   4.2091   blackballed     excluded     prevented, rejected, defended, averted, swerved   
 9   4.2090   blackballed     negatived     noed, minused, repulsed, repudiated, refused   
 10   4.2090   blackballed     ostracized     banished, ejected, outcast, ousted, transported   
 11   3.4092   blackballed     expelled     prevented, deterred, postponed, chucked, kicked   
 12   3.2091   blackballed     conned     gyped, frauded, humbugged, gammoned, fooled   
 13   3.2090   blackballed     vetoed     banned, interdicted, negatived, tabooed, embargoed   
 14   3.2090   blackballed     noed     nayed, negatived, ined, zeroed, nulled   
 15   3.2090   blackballed     refused     rubbished, garbaged, renounced, scraped, quashed   
--------------------     90 synonyms ranked from 16 to 105 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: BLACKBALLED

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Deutsch boykottierte (blackballed, boycotted). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, blackballed. (volunteer & more translations)
German boykottierte (blackballed, boycotted). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, blackballed. (volunteer & more translations)
High German boykottierte (blackballed, boycotted). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, blackballed. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch boykottierte (blackballed, boycotted). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, blackballed. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: BLACKBALLED

Language Translations for “blackballed” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin ackballedblay (blackballed). Additional references: Pig Latin, blackballed. (volunteer)
Terran B boykottierte (blackballed). Additional references: Terran B, blackballed. (volunteer)
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