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Unhesitatingly

Definition: Unhesitatingly

Unhesitatingly

Adverb

1. Without hesitation; "she said yes unhesitatingly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unhesitatingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonym: Unhesitatingly

Synonym: frankly. (additional references)
Antonym: hesitantly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unhesitatingly

Specialty definitions using "unhesitatingly": Ambush. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unhesitatingly

"Unhesitatingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhesitatingly" is used about 45 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%4550,900

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unhesitatingly

Language Translations for "unhesitatingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pa lëkundje, pa dyshim (admittedly, by all means, certainly, decidedly, definitely, distinctly, doubtless, ex cathedra, far and away, implicitly, out and out, quite so, sure enough, sure thing, surely, undoubtedly, without a doubt, without fail). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏على نحو متردد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

решително (courageously, decidedly, decisively, firmly, flatly, plump, point blank, pronouncedly, strongly, thundering), без колебание (outright, straight off). (various references)

   

Czech

  

promptnì, bez váhání (like a shot, without hesitation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

siekailematta, epäröimättä (without hesitation). (various references)

   

French

  

sans hésiter, sans hésitation. (various references)

   

German

  

unverzügliche (positive). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδιστακτώσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elszántan (dauntlessly, decidedly, decisively, hell-bent, intently). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

一も二も無く . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いちもにもなく. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esitatinglyunhay

   

Portuguese

  

sem vacilar, sem hesitação (glibly, trippingly), resolutamente (decidedly, gamely, questionless), firmemente (fast, firmly, tight, tightly), decididamente (decidedly, questionless). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firm, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, pertinacious, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, sticky, strong-minded, sturdy, sure, surely, trenchant, unfaltering, unflinching, unflinchingly, vigorous), fãrã a ezita. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

без колебания. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bez oklevanja. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unhesitatingly

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incunctanter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Unhesitatingly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unhesitatingly" (pronounced unhe"zutā'tinglē)
7-t ā' t i ng l ēdevastatingly.
6-ā' t i ng l ēexcruciatingly, frustratingly.
5-t i ng l ēdisappointingly, fittingly, fleetingly, haltingly, hauntingly, interestingly, sportingly, unwittingly, wittingly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, frighteningly, frowningly, glowingly, grudgingly, increasingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, warningly, willingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unhesitatingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-s-t-t-u-y"

-2 letters: hesitatingly, unhesitating.

-3 letters: ungainliest.

-4 letters: ethylating, hauntingly, hesitantly, hesitating, insulating, intestinal, naughtiest, sanguinely, sanguinity, tauntingly, tetanising, uintahites, unleashing, unsettling.

-5 letters: anilingus, annuities, anythings, asininely, athelings, auntliest, enlisting, entailing, enthusing, entitling, gainliest, gantlines, gauntlets, geniality, gentility, gnathites, guiltiest, hanseling, hastening, hygienist, ingenuity, inletting, insetting, insinuate, instantly, instating, instigate, insulting, intensity, intitules, linguines, listening, litigants, litigates.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-s-t-t-u-y"
 

+5 letters: phytohemagglutinins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unhesitatingly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 68 65 73 69 74 61 74 69 6E 67 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ....    .    ...    ..    -    .-    -    ..    -.    --.    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101000 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#104 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 0065 0073 0069 0074 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580747185758667867580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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