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Meaning of "dunnest" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DUNNEST

ˈdʌnɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUNNEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dunnest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUNNEST

agonist · antagonist · cartoonist · communist · dishonest · earnest · exhibitionist · expressionist · feminist · finest · honest · humanist · internist · machinist · modernist · nutritionist · pianist · protagonist · receptionist · violinist

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUNNEST

dunlin · Dunlop · dunnage · dunnakin · dunnart · dunned · dunner · dunness · dunnies · dunniewassal · dunning · dunning letter · dunnish · dunnite · dunno · dunnock · dunny · dunny budgie

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUNNEST

bird´s nest · bird´s-nest · crow´s nest · crow´s-nest · disnest · feather one´s nest · funest · hornet´s nest · in earnest · love nest · mare´s-nest · nest · renest · soonest · tannest · thinnest · trapnest · underhonest · unnest · wannest

Synonyms and antonyms of dunnest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DUNNEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dunnest» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «dunnest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUNNEST

Find out the translation of dunnest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of dunnest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dunnest» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

dunnest
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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dunnest
570 millions of speakers
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English

dunnest
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

dunnest
380 millions of speakers
ar

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dunnest
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

dunnest
278 millions of speakers
pt

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dunnest
270 millions of speakers
bn

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dunnest
260 millions of speakers
fr

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dunnest
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Dunnest
190 millions of speakers
de

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dunnest
180 millions of speakers
ja

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dunnest
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

dunnest
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Dunnest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dunnest
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

dunnest
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Dunnest
75 millions of speakers
tr

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dunnest
70 millions of speakers
it

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dunnest
65 millions of speakers
pl

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dunnest
50 millions of speakers
uk

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dunnest
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

cenusiu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dunnest
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dunnest
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dunnest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dunnest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dunnest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUNNEST»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNNEST»

Discover the use of dunnest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dunnest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Poetry
'dunnest'. (an. adjective. 'now. seldom. heard. but. in. the. stable'). and. 'knife', occurring in Macbeth I. v. 51—2, as particularly disconcerting examples. Yet if for Johnson these curt Saxon monosyllables represent a stylistic aberration, then a ...
John Strachan, Richard Terry, 2011
2
The tragedy of Macbeth
Come to my woman's breasts, 45 And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see ...
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, Andrew Jackson George, 1908
3
Macbeth
Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold.' Enter macbeth Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, Greater than ...
William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller, 2008
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Shakspeare's Himself Again: Or, The Language of the Poet ...
Come, thick night, - And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not tlie wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold!- Come thick night, &c] A similar invocation is found in A ...
Andrew Becket, 1815
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Macbeth: A Tragedy
5 Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, 9 you murdering ministers— WVherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief l' Come, thick night, And pall ' thee in the dunnest smoke of hell! to give place in my ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1807
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth. 1873
Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, 45. effect and it] effecting it Becket. 45. if\ hit fff effect] essect Fa. purpose.
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1873
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The Complete Macbeth: An Annotated Edition of the ...
... 1,364) 54 You wait on nature's mischief! Wait on: “attend, assist” Come, thick night, (Bevington, 19); nature's mischief: “evil done to, or within, nature” ( Riverside, 1,364) 55 And pall thee in the dunnest Pall thee: “wrap yourself”; smoke of hell, ...
Donald J Richardson, 2013
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A Review of Hamlet
George Henry Miles. And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold ! " She is even happy in the completeness of her fierce intent, ...
George Henry Miles, 1907
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The Fortnightly Review
You wait on Nature's mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, Hold, hold 1 ” These words are more frightful ...
10
The complete works of Shakspere, with a memoir, and essay, ...
To say nothing of the difficulty of peeping through blankness, what obtuseness must that be which, after night has been invoked to assume a "pall" of the " dunnest smoke of hell," cannot sco the eminent fitness of the phrase, " the blanket of the ...
William Shakespeare, Bryan Waller Procter, Richard Grant White, 1870

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUNNEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dunnest is used in the context of the following news items.
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Billy Keane: Freckled finger of fate decrees our boys can eclipse …
Macbeth, who is up to no good, asks the stars to "hide your fires" and Lady Macbeth prays for "the dunnest smoke of hell". Dunnest means ... «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
2
When The Haze Takes Over
... and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry 'Hold, hold!'”. «Outlook, Mar 15»
3
What Does President Obama 'Know' About Ethiopia's "Election"?
Meles' ghost will be hanging over the 2015 "election" like "pall in the dunnest (dark) smoke of hell", to paraphrase Shakespeare. «AllAfrica.com, Oct 14»
4
iPhones can apparently be hacked with malicious charger
over the years i read some pretty off the wall crap. but this has to be one of the dunnest yet. If this is apple, windows etc. this shows how low ... «CNET, Jun 13»
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Auckland's lamest street names
And the guy who said that was the Dunnest cumb of all of them. And the upshot of all this is that when I tell people my address I'm going to have ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 13»
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The Weekend's TV: Macbeth, Sun, BBC4Take Me Out, Sat, ITV1
At one moment Lady Macbeth (played with a pressure-cooker intensity by Kate Fleetwood) was invoking the night to "pall thee in the dunnest ... «Independent, Dec 10»
REFERENCE
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