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Definition: Unappetizing |
UnappetizingAdjective1. Not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unappetizing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonym: UnappetizingSynonym: unappetising (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: appetizing (adj). (additional references) |
| "Unappetizing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unappetizing" is used about 10 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unappetizing | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unappetizing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jondjellës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير مشه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неапетитен (unpalatable), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), блудкав (insipid, mawkish, milk and water, namby-pamby, sapless, washy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevábný (unattractive, uninviting), nelákavý (unattractive, uninviting), nechutný (disgusting, distasteful, mawkish, odious, pasty, repulsive, revolting, unpalatable, unsavory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | peu appétissant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unappetitlich (nasty, sordid, uninviting, unsavoury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem étvágygerjesztõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuvlaystal (insipid, tasteless), meevlasstal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | appetizingunay pouco apetitoso (uninviting). (various references) невкусный (unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) neukusan (distasteful, flashy, insipid, tasteless, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury), neprivlačan (plain, unattractive, uninviting, unlovely), nepoželjan (undesirable), koji ne izaziva apetit. (various references) oaptitlig (unpalatable). (various references) iştah kapatan, iştah kaçırıcı. (various references) không l m cho ăn ngon miệng kém ngon l nh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unappetizing": unappetizingly. (additional references) | |
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"Unappetizing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unappatizing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unappetizing" (pronounced u'na"putī'zing) |
| 8 | -a" p u t ī' z i ng | appetizing. |
| 6 | -u t ī' z i ng | democratizing, desensitizing, digitizing, dramatizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, sanitizing, securitizing, stigmatizing. |
| 5 | -t ī' z i ng | advertising, amortizing. |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | aggrandizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, authorizing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, categorizing, centralizing, characterizing, colorizing, commercializing, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, destabilizing, downsizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, generalizing, harmonizing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, organizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, penalizing, personalizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unionizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing, womanizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-p-t-u-z" | |
-2 letters: appetizing. | |
-3 letters: peptizing, unzipping. | |
-4 letters: painting, patining, patinize, pupating. | |
-5 letters: anguine, anteing, antigen, antigun, genipap, gentian, guanine, napping, nipping, paining, panting, peining, penguin, petunia, pinnate, pungent, punting, putzing, tapping, tipping, tunnage, tupping, tzigane, unitage, uniting, unitize, zapping, zingani, zipping. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-p-t-u-z" | |
+2 letters: unappetizingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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