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Definition: Uncaring |
UncaringAdjective1. Lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person". 2. Without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uncaring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1853. (references) |
Synonyms: UncaringSynonyms: thoughtless (adj), unaffectionate (adj), unthinking (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indifference | Aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Uncaring |
| English words defined with "uncaring": delinquency, dereliction ♦ unaffectionate ♦ willful neglect. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Uncaring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.12% of the time. "Uncaring" is used about 67 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) | 76.12% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20.9% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.99% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | 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 |
uncaring | 8 |
beeing housewife masturbates seen uncaring | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uncaring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | gefühlslos (benumbingly, marbly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 歯牙 (heedless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しが (heedless, tooth germ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aringuncay känslolös (cold, impassible, impassive, insensate, insentient, unfeeling), hjärtlös (heartless, unfeeling). (various references) dцzmek (be uncaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Uncaring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duncraig, uncharming, uncoating, untaxing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uncaring" (pronounced unke"ring) |
| 5 | -k e" r i ng | caring, scaring. |
| 4 | -e" r i ng | airing, baring, bearing, blaring, chairing, comparing, daring, declaring, despairing, flaring, glaring, haring, herring, impairing, overbearing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing, sharing, snaring, sparing, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, unsparing, Waring, wearing. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, barring, bioengineering, boring, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, conspiring, curing, deploring, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flooring, gearing, Goring, hearing, hiring, ignoring, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overhearing, overpowering, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, restoring, retiring, roaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, shearing, shoring, smearing, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparring, Spearing, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, tarring, tiring, touring, underscoring, uninspiring, veering, volunteering, warring, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: craning. | |
-2 letters: anuric, arcing, caning, caring, curing, guanin, racing, uranic. | |
-3 letters: acing, auric, cairn, cigar, cuing, curia, garni, grain, incur, inurn, naric, ruing, runic, uncia, unrig. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, cain, carn, crag, curn, gain, gaun, gaur, girn, gnar, gran, grin, guan, guar, narc, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, ruga, ruin, rung, unai, unci, uric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: furnacing, unbracing, uncrating. | |
+2 letters: craunching, curtaining, manicuring, truncating, uncharging, uncharming, uncreating. | |
+3 letters: clangouring, encouraging, incurvating, nonsurgical, relaunching, transducing, unanchoring, underacting. | |
+4 letters: buccaneering, repugnancies, undercoating, unscrambling. | |
+5 letters: backgrounding, configuration, cotransducing, counteracting, encouragingly, manufacturing, preannouncing, precautioning, reacquainting, reinoculating, undercharging, undercoatings, underreacting, unencouraging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 63 61 72 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.-. .- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c a r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 0061 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580696784758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , tysk |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japansk |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | schwedisch, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", svensk |
Turkmen | Turkmenin, Turkmene, turkmenistanier | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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