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Meaning of "gingerliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GINGERLINESS

gingerliness  [ˈdʒɪndʒəlɪˌnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GINGERLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gingerliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GINGERLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gingerliness in the English dictionary

The definition of gingerliness in the dictionary is caution, reluctance, or timidity of manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GINGERLINESS


Amazonas
ˌæməˈzəʊnəs
anus
ˈeɪnəs
bonus
ˈbəʊnəs
Campinas
kæmˈpiːnəs
cavernous
ˈkævənəs
cleanliness
ˈklɛnlɪnəs
consciousness
ˈkɒnʃəsnəs
genus
ˈdʒiːnəs
givenness
ˈɡɪvənˌnəs
indigenous
ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs
instantness
ˈɪnstəntˌnəs
Jonas
ˈdʒəʊnəs
minus
ˈmaɪnəs
moderateness
ˈmɒdərətˌnəs
reposedness
rɪˈpəʊzɪdˌnəs
sinus
ˈsaɪnəs
sweetness
ˈswiːtnəs
truthiness
ˈtruːθɪˌnəs
Venus
ˈviːnəs
wellness
ˈwɛlnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GINGERLINESS

ginger beer
ginger cake
ginger group
ginger nut
ginger pop
ginger snap
ginger up
ginger wine
ginger-haired
gingerade
gingerbread
gingerbread man
gingerbread plum
gingerbread tree
gingerbready
gingerly
gingerous
gingerroot
gingersnap
gingery

WORDS THAT END LIKE GINGERLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
show business
timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of gingerliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gingerliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GINGERLINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

gingerliness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gingerliness
570 millions of speakers

English

gingerliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gingerliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

gingerliness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

gingerliness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gingerliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gingerliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gingerliness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gingerliness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gingerliness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

gingerliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

gingerliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gingerliness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gingerliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gingerliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिश्रण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gingerliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gingerliness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gingerliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

gingerliness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gingerliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

gingerliness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gingerliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gingerliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gingerliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gingerliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GINGERLINESS»

The term «gingerliness» is used very little and occupies the 151.391 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GINGERLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gingerliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gingerliness» 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 gingerliness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GINGERLINESS»

Discover the use of gingerliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gingerliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sketches (personal and political) in the House of commons, ...
Every writer who has touched upon this topic and every speaker, except himself, who has approached it in Parliament, has done so with a gingerliness and tenderness which do credit to their prudence but injustice to their judgment. Our social ...
James Shaw, 1870
2
The Atlantic
... troubles without danger of a disheartening rebuff; this with a grieved look upon his dark pleasant face, and a great many bows and much gingerliness. Royal asked him, of course, or it would n't have been Royal, what was the trouble now.
‎1871
3
The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthorne's Fiction
Black suggests evil and concealment, the use of a glove suggests concealment and perhaps gingerliness and caution. The sexton, unable to ignore these sinister indications, alludes to them in some characteristic Puritan wordplay. Satan, he ...
Darrel Abel, 1988
4
Why Conservative Churches are Growing: A Study in Sociology ...
It is precisely because of the inherent fierceness of religious conflict that governments have learned, by sad and bitter experience, to handle it with utmost gingerliness. The Elizabethan Settlement introduced a novel though qualified toleration ...
Dean M. Kelley, 1977
5
Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New ...
Such memory does not signify a return of the repressed so much as a logic of identification with the syntactically informed and forbidden — what repression theorists from Nietzsche to Freud with a certain gingerliness termed the "uncanny " ...
Clayton Crockett, 2006
6
Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor, Or, what Good's the ...
But there is sometimes a certain gingerliness in recognizing that denying rights to , or imposing legal burdens on, the homeless is not a class-neutral policy. In one of the most interesting recent homelessness cases, the restrictive ordinance at ...
R. George Wright, 1996
7
From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays, ...
Equally noteworthy is the record of semantic lacunae; one looks in vain for Italian counterparts of, say, 'delicacy, gingerliness, tidiness, tenderness, sweetness', or, at the opposite end of the line, 'bitterness, moroseness, garrulousness, avarice, ...
Yakov Malkiel, 1983
8
The Glorious Revolution in America
To support his gingerliness he dug up an old Order in Council of twenty years before which expressly commanded no cessation and assumed it was still in force.20 He would be a great loser by it, he told Blathwayt, but, of course, would yield if ...
David S. Lovejoy, 1987
9
The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the ...
... this occurred during the Great Depression, when advertisers and advertising agencies gradually abandoned the gingerliness with which they treated audiences at the beginning of the radio era: “Hard times meant a hard sell,” writes Stephen ...
Timothy D. Taylor, 2012
10
Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles ...
51 Orson Welles's film The Stranger (1946) is a surprising exception to this gingerliness about the Holocaust in its fictional portrayal of a fiendish SS officer called Franz Kindler who escapes to Connecticut and, posing as Charles Rankin,  ...
John Trumpbour, 2007

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GINGERLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gingerliness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Over the top: Redemption of a classic
Sure, it's no Autobahn, and there is still a surfeit of determined speed bumps that need to be surmounted with utmost gingerliness. «Financial Express, Jun 15»
2
Ronald Reagan Day
Such gingerliness is mistaken. True, riding cultural waves feels craven, like taking credit for good weather. But good leaders are good surfers, ... «OUPblog, Feb 14»
3
The Laughs Drown Out the Creaks
... been properly refrigerated—an early and comparably small catastrophe—Saunders recovers himself with the gingerliness of a man handling ... «New York Magazine, Apr 10»
4
“All will be done again as it was in far-off times”
... if they are honest, will contemplate the Mexica pantheon displayed at the British Museum exhibition with a slight gingerliness: Huitzilopochtli, ... «New Statesman, Oct 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Gingerliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gingerliness>. May 2024 ».
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