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Meaning of "deterrently" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DETERRENTLY

deterrently  [dɪˈtɛrəntlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETERRENTLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deterrently is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DETERRENTLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of deterrently in the English dictionary

The definition of deterrently in the dictionary is in a deterrent manner, in a way that deters.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETERRENTLY


aberrantly
æˈbɛrəntlɪ
apparently
əˈpærəntlɪ
belligerently
bɪˈlɪdʒərəntlɪ
coherently
kəʊˈhɪərəntlɪ
concurrently
kənˈkʌrəntlɪ
currently
ˈkʌrəntlɪ
differently
ˈdɪfrəntlɪ
exuberantly
ɪɡˈzjuːbərəntlɪ
flagrantly
ˈfleɪɡrəntlɪ
ignorantly
ˈɪɡnərəntlɪ
incoherently
ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərəntlɪ
indifferently
ɪnˈdɪfrəntlɪ
inherently
ɪnˈhɛrəntlɪ
irreverently
ɪˈrevərəntlɪ
preponderantly
prɪˈpɒndərəntlɪ
recurrently
rɪˈkʌrəntlɪ
reverently
ˈrɛvərəntlɪ
tolerantly
ˈtɒlərəntlɪ
transparently
trænsˈpærəntlɪ
vibrantly
ˈvaɪbrəntlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETERRENTLY

determinativeness
determinator
determine
determined
determinedly
determinedness
determiner
determining
determinism
determinist
deterministic
deterrability
deterrable
deterred
deterrence
deterrent
deterrer
deterring
detersion
detersive

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETERRENTLY

confidently
consequently
consistently
conveniently
diligently
efficiently
evidently
frequently
gently
inadvertently
independently
patiently
permanently
presently
recently
significantly
silently
subsequently
sufficiently
urgently
violently

Synonyms and antonyms of deterrently in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deterrently» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DETERRENTLY

Find out the translation of deterrently to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deterrently from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deterrently» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

deterrently
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

deterrently
570 millions of speakers

English

deterrently
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

deterrently
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

deterrently
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

deterrently
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

deterrently
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

deterrently
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

deterrently
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Deterrently
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

deterrently
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

deterrently
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

deterrently
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Deterrently
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

deterrently
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

deterrently
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अडथळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

deterrently
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

deterrently
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

deterrently
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

deterrently
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deterrently
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

deterrently
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deterrently
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deterrently
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deterrently
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deterrently

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERRENTLY»

The term «deterrently» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.802 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERRENTLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «deterrently» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «deterrently» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deterrently

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETERRENTLY»

Discover the use of deterrently in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deterrently and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Great Presidents of Nigerian 4th Republic: Democratic ...
How many of these vandals have been deterrently dealt with? If not, why not? The leadership of the country cannot escape culpability for those avoidable and stoppable dreadful violations of innocent Nigerians especially the young female ...
Jubril Olabode Aka, 2012
2
Castles in Medieval Society: Fortresses in England, France, ...
She bound herself and (deterrently) her heirs in a penalty of £3,000 in case of non-performance. 3' Pieces Charles VI, 32-4. 32 Rot Lih, 36, 56; an incorrectly labelled close roll; on the 'resumption', Brown, 'List of Castles', 250, 267. The final  ...
Charles Coulson, 2004
3
Love of the Land
So long as all labor continues to be performed exclusively or usually by slaves, the baseness of all productive effort is too constantly and deterrently present in the mind of men to allow the instinct of workmanship seriously to take effect in the  ...
Zachary Michael Jack
4
Sita's Kitchen: A Testimony of Faith and Inquiry
Human memory of man's brutal inhumanity to man is too long, and the ksatriya's pledge to prevent and deterrently avenge such inhumanity too strong, for him to be persuaded by doctrinaire pacifism to lay down arms and belittle the entire past  ...
Ramchandra Gandhi, 1994
5
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
Nuclear revenge might, of course, act deterrently. It could teach people that nuclear bombs should never again be dropped, because retaliation could be expected. But let's concentrate on whether nuclear revenge could be appropriate even ...
John Leslie, 2002
6
Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox ...
The epistemological problem remains deterrently large. Controls are so hard to come by, and no one who openmindedly applies himself to the 18 Gr. Rom. Bl Byz. Stud. 16 (1975) 149-74. text of the tragedians will underestimate the frailty of  ...
Glen W. Bowersock, Walter Burkert, Michael Putnam, 1979
7
The Theory Of The Leisure Class-french
... deterrently présent dans l'esprit des hommes pour permettreàl'instinctde fabricationsérieusement à prendreeffet dans le sens de l'utilité industrielle, mais lorsquelestade quasipacifique(de l'esclavage et del'état)passe dansla scène paisible ...
Owner
8
Role of Police in a Changing Society
Violations of any connected rules by the licensed fire-arm holders or explosives shop owners, must also be deterrently dealt with. ELECTION EXPENDITURE Elections entail considerable expenditure by the police on increased movement of ...
Aparna Srivastava, 1999
9
Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative ...
The problem, Carlyle found, was that his own gradualist advice, delivered in the far from meliorist-sounding Latter-day Pamphlets, was actually rather mild and deterrently abstract. Benthamism had already produced Edwin Chadwick: 'the hero ...
Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald, Niall O'Gallagher, 2011
10
Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity: The Fundamental ...
A serious problem of ambiguity arises with respect to the classification of weapons systems, not between those that are "deterrently defensive" and those that are "conventionally defensive," but between those that are "defensive" and those that ...
Avner Cohen, Steven Lee, 1986

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Deterrently [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/deterrently>. Apr 2024 ».
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