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Meaning of "untowardliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNTOWARDLINESS

untowardliness  [ˌʌntəˈwɔːdlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNTOWARDLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Untowardliness 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 UNTOWARDLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of untowardliness in the English dictionary

The first definition of untowardliness in the dictionary is impropriety, uncouthness, unseemliness. Other definition of untowardliness is clumsiness, awkwardness, ungainliness. Untowardliness is also unfavourableness, adverseness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNTOWARDLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
dastardliness
ˈdæstədlɪnɪs
deadliness
ˈdedlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
godliness
ˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
kindliness
ˈkaɪndlɪnɪs
lordliness
ˈlɔːdlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
niggardliness
ˈnɪɡədlɪnɪs
otherworldliness
ˌʌðəˈwɜːldlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
sluggardliness
ˈslʌɡədlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
unfriendliness
ʌnˈfrendlɪnɪs
ungodliness
ʌnˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
unwieldliness
ʌnˈwiːldlɪnɪs
user-friendliness
ˌjuːzəˈfrendlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNTOWARDLINESS

unto
untochered
untogether
untoiling
untold
untomb
untoned
untormented
untorn
untortured
untouchability
untouchable
untouched
untoward
untowardly
untowardness
untrace
untraceable
untraced
untrack

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNTOWARDLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of untowardliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «untowardliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNTOWARDLINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

untowardliness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

untowardliness
570 millions of speakers

English

untowardliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

untowardliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

untowardliness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

untowardliness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

untowardliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

untowardliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

untowardliness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keburukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

untowardliness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

untowardliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

untowardliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Untowardliness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

untowardliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

untowardliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्य वागणूक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

untowardliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

untowardliness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

untowardliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

untowardliness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

untowardliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

untowardliness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

untowardliness
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

untowardliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

untowardliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of untowardliness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTOWARDLINESS»

The term «untowardliness» is used very little and occupies the 176.972 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTOWARDLINESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTOWARDLINESS»

Discover the use of untowardliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to untowardliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
English Etymology: Or, a Derivative Dictionary of the ...
Fear; de lintea plano in latum expanso: junf-which Skinn. would derive a Exm-w, tego; but there is a little untowardliness in that deriv. because we generally have an under, as well as an upper sheet. SHELL, ZKEAALC, nuclei allii, segmina ...
George William Lemon, 1783
2
Correspondence Between William Penn and James Logan, ...
I like the Governor's Commissioners for accounts and Courts of Justice at the present, since the more privileges the more presumption and untowardliness. The insolence of Lloyd is such, that, had he 234 PENN AND LOGAN [1707.
William Penn, James Logan, Deborah Norris Logan, 1872
3
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, with a Life and Defence ...
In the mean season, I would I had never known either of you both ; for so should I have been without this inward sorrow of my heart, to see such untowardliness of you both to godliness, for I cannot be but heavy hearted, to see such men so ...
John Foxe, George Townsend, Josiah Pratt, 1870
4
The Decalogue Explain'd: In Thirty-two Discourses on the Ten ...
Secondly, when Anger is caused by Impatience, as,when upon a little Miscarriage, an unlucky Accident, Untowardliness of People, of Cattle, or the like, a Peison flies into a Paffion, and from Passi in into Cursing and Swearing, or some other ...
John Joseph Hornyold, J. Howardine, 1750
5
The European Magazine, and London Review
What right has he to murmur at the untowardliness of his fate ? What, in the name of consistency, has Mark Antony to do with the pavement of St. Giles's, or the pension of Lady V ? How could the amorous and ambitious Homan descend so low ...
‎1815
6
Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
... we are fallen through these long times of peace and rest, whereby we are generally grown to the untowardliness in martial actions, as, in my □ simple judgment, if we stiould encounter and join with simple on Defence against Invasion. 173.
‎1807
7
An historical account of the several English translations of ...
Mr. 'Thomas Law- ney Chaplain to the old Duke of Norfolk standing by, and hearing the Archbishop speak of Stokejly's Untowardliness, said, / can tell your Grace, why my Lord of London will not bestow any Labour or Pains this Way ', your ...
Anthony Johnson, 1730
8
Prose of the English Renaissance
And well did it fall out for my purpose, that I had to deal with a very discreet master, who out of his judgment could with such dexterity wink at and second my untowardliness, and such other faults that were in me. For by that means I read over ...
J. William Hebel, 1952
9
A Letter to W. Wilberforce, Esq. on the subject of his late ...
... irregularities are too frequent, alas! and too fiagrantwith/ the most circumspect among us in the present flagitious constitution of society, and amidst/the enormous depravitics. of civil goverurnents: under an untowardliness of Circumstances, ...
Gilbert WAKEFIELD (Unitarian.), William Wilberforce, 1797
10
A Collection of Theological Tracts
Mr. Thomas Lawney, Chaplain to the Old Duke of Norfolk, standing by, and hearing the Archbishop speak of Stokeflys Untowardliness, said, / can tell ysur Craa, why my Lord of London will not bcjloxv any Labour or Pains ihts Way ; your Grace ...
Richard Watson, 1791

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