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Unhurried

Definition: Unhurried

Unhurried

Adjective

1. Relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice".

2. Capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children".

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

Date "unhurried" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)


Antonym: hurried (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unhurried

English words defined with "unhurried": at leisuredeliberately, drifteasygoinglaid-back, leisurelymeasuredly, mellow. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unhurried

"Unhurried" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhurried" is used about 100 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%10032,668

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

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Modern Translation: Unhurried

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

Albanian

  

i panxituar. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

從容 (go easy), (follow, from, lax, obey, observe, second cousin, yielding), 不慌不忙. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pozvolný (gradual), neuspìchaný (leisurely), beze spìchu. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

بی عجله , بی شتاب . (various references)

   

German

  

gemütlich (approachable, calm, close, comfortable, comfy, cosy, cozy, easy going, friendly, good natured, homelike, homely, homey, homy, informal, intimate, jovial, jovially, leisurely, lived-in, peaceful, pleasant, relaxed, snug, snugly, tranquil). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem sürgetett. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urriedunhay

   

Romanian

  

fãrã grabã (deliberately, easy), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, genial, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, phlegmatic, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, silence, smooth, sober, sobriety, still, temper, tranquil, tranquillity, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

медленный (creeping, dilatory, long, slow, slow-acting, sluggish, tardy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spor (bovine, contest, controversy, dilatory, laggard, lazy, litigation, logy, poky, quarrel, slow, sluggish, tardy), lagan (leisurely, slow). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

maklig (easy going, easy-going, leisurely, sedate), lugn (calm, comfortable, comfy, composed, composure, cool, cool-headed, coolness, countenance, dispassionate, ease, easiness, easy, equability, equable, impassive, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbable, leisurely, low pressure, orderly, peace, peaceful, philosophical, phlegm, placid, quiescence, quiescency, quiescent, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, restful, sedate, self controlled, self possessed, sequestered, serene, serenity, sheltered, sobriety, tranquil, tranquility, tranquillity, undisturbed, unruffled). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

telaşsız, acelesiz (leisurely). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

неквапливий (canny, deliberate, dilatory, easy, leisured, plodding, slow). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thong thả, không vội v ng (deliberate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unhurried

Derivations

Words beginning with "unhurried": unhurriedly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unhurried"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unhurried" (pronounced unher"ēd)
4-h er" ē dhurried.
3-er" ē dcurried, flurried, scurried, unworried, worried.

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

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Anagrams: Unhurried

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-n-r-r-u-u"

-2 letters: dhurrie, hurried, unhired.

-3 letters: durrie, hinder, inured, ruined, ruiner.

-4 letters: diner, direr, drier, hider, hired, hirer, indue, inure, nuder, nudie, rerun, rider, ruder, under, undue, urine.

-5 letters: deni, dine, dire, dune, dure, durn, durr, heir, herd, hern, hide, hied, hind, hire, hued, ired, nerd, nide, nude, nurd, rein, rend, ride, rind, rude, rued, ruer.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-n-r-r-u-u"
 

+2 letters: unhurriedly.

 

+5 letters: undernourished, underthrusting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unhurried


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

55 6E 68 75 72 72 69 65 64

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 01110101 01110010 01110010 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#104 &#117 &#114 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 0075 0072 0072 0069 0065 0064

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

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

558074878484757170

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INDEX

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


  

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