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Unreservedly

Definition: Unreservedly

Unreservedly

Adverb

1. Without reservation; "I can unreservedly recommend this restaurant!".

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

Date "unreservedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonym: Unreservedly

Synonym: frankly. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unreservedly

English words defined with "unreservedly": To speak out. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unreservedly

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm really really sorry, I apologize unreservedly. (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Unreservedly

AuthorQuotation

James Allen

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Mignon Mclaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unreservedly

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

Ukraine

The United States unreservedly supports Ukraine's independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity and is providing substantial technical assistance to help Ukraine make the changes necessary to solidify a democratic society based on rule-of-law, to reform the economy, and to integrate with the world economic system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unreservedly

"Unreservedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unreservedly" is used about 75 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%7538,535

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

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Expression: Unreservedly

Expression using "unreservedly": swear unreservedly. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Unreservedly

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

Albanian

  

hapur (extrovert, openly, plainly, publicly), çiltërsisht (heartily, sincerely, truly). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بغير تحفظ, ‏بصراحة (barely, blankly, downright, flat, freely, honestly, on the level, outright, overtly, plain, plainly, plump, point blank). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

откровено (candidly, forthright, frankly, openly, sincerely), открито (above board, baldly, barely, manifestly, openly, outright, overtly, professedly, publicly, straight out), безусловно (absolutely, implicitly, sure, to the letter, without qualification), безрезервно (unquestioningly, without qualification, without reserve). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

豪"地. (various references)

   

Czech

  

upřímnì (genuinely, openly, sincerely, truly), otevřenì (directly, openly, outright), bezvýhradnì. (various references)

   

Danish

  

alle de principper er af grundlaeggende betydning,og de vil foelgelig blive anvendt paa lige fod og uden forbehold,idet ethvert af dem fortolkes under hensyntagen til de oevrige (accordingly, all the principles are of primary significance and, each of them being interpreted taking into account the others, they will be equally and unreservedly applied). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

alle beginselen zijn van het hoogste belang en zullen, dienovereenkomstig, gelijkelijk en zonder voorbehoud worden toegepast, waarbij ieder van deze beginselen wordt uitgelegd met inachtneming van de andere (accordingly, all the principles are of primary significance and, each of them being interpreted taking into account the others, they will be equally and unreservedly applied). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tinkimättömästi (unconditionally), peittelemättä (in plain words, straight out). (various references)

   

French

  

sans réserve (unconditional, unqualified), franchement. (various references)

   

German

  

freimütig (Frank, heart-to-heart, honest, open, outspoken, outspokenly), uneingeschränkt (absolute, free, fulsome, plenary, total, unconditional, unconfined, unlimited, unqualified, unresented, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrainedly, unrestricted, unrestrictedly, unstinted, unstinting, without restrictions). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyíltan (aboveboard, avowedly, baldly, bluntly, candidly, confessedly, fair and square, flat, frankly, genuinely, honestly, in the face of day, openly, outright, overtly, plump, professedly, sincerely, to speak out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tutti i principi sono di importanza fondamentale e, di conseguenza, saranno applicati in modo eguale e senza riserva, ciascuno di essi essendo interpretato tenendo conto degli altri (accordingly, all the principles are of primary significance and, each of them being interpreted taking into account the others, they will be equally and unreservedly applied). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ずばずば言う (decidedly, decisively, frankly, once and for all, to speak one's mind, to speak very frankly). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ずばり (decidedly, decisively, frankly, once and for all). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"직하게 (frankly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eservedlyunray

   

Portuguese

  

totalmente (all, consummately, entirely, full, fully, overall, quite, right, through, wholly), sem restrições (unrestricted), sem reservas (open-faced, outspoken, unconditional), incondicionalmente, ilimitadamente, com franqueza (openly, point-blank), abertamente (barely, frankly, openly, outright, over-the-counter, professedly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

открыто (avowedly, baldly, barely, in the face, openly, outright, overtly, patently, professedly, publicly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

potpuno (absolutely, all over, broadly, completely, consummately, dead, entirely, full scale, fully, outright, purely, roundly, sheer, solely, span-new, stark, thoroughly, throughly, totally, utterly, whole), otvoreno (above board, blankly, bluntly, openly, overtly, plainly, point blank, roundly), nerezervisano, bez rezerve. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin reserva (unreserved, without reserve). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ağzına geleni söylemek (call names, give a piece of one's mind, let fly, let fly at smb., rail, swear like a trooper, swear unreservedly, talk without thinking, tell smb. one's mind). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відверто (above board, avowedly, baldly, barely, broadly, confessedly, explicitly, frankly, freely, in public, open-heartedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plain, plainly, professedly, without reserve), без застережень. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không dè dặt, cởi mở (open-hearted). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unreservedly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-n-r-r-s-u-v-y"

-2 letters: reservedly, resurveyed, unreserved.

-3 letters: revenuers, reverends, reversely, slenderer, unreelers, unreserve.

-4 letters: deserver, needlers, nervules, nervures, reserved, resurvey, revelers, revenued, revenuer, revenues, reverend, reversed, revulsed, serenely, severely, sunderer, surveyed, unreeled, unreeler, unreeved, unreeves, unserved, unversed, vendeuse, verdures.

-5 letters: delvers, densely, deserve, duelers, elevens, eluders, endures, ensured, ensurer, eveners, lenders, levered, needers, needler, needles, nervule, nervure.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unreservedly


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

55 6E 72 65 73 65 72 76 65 64 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 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 0073 0065 0072 0076 0065 0064 006C 0079

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

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

558084718571848871707891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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