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verecund

Meaning of "verecund" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VERECUND

From Latin verēcundus diffident, from verērī to fear.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF VERECUND

ˈvɛrɪˌkʌnd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERECUND

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

WHAT DOES VERECUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of verecund in the English dictionary

The definition of verecund in the dictionary is shy or modest.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VERECUND

bandh · bund · Bundelkhand · cummerbund · defund · fund · gunned · iracund · Jharkhand · moribund · refund · rotund · secund · shunned · stunned · sunned · superfund · tund · tunned · unsunned

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERECUND

verdigris toadstool · verdin · verdite · verditer · verdoy · Verdun · verdure · verdured · verdureless · verdurous · Vereeniging · verge · vergeboard · vergence · vergency · verger · vergership · Vergil · Vergilian · verglas

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERECUND

all-around · around · background · bound · compound · Dortmund · fall to the ground · fecund · found · ground · hound · infecund · into the ground · jocund · pound · round · rubicund · sound · to the ground · underground

Synonyms and antonyms of verecund in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «verecund» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VERECUND

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

Translator English - Chinese

verecund
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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verecund
570 millions of speakers
en

English

verecund
510 millions of speakers
hi

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verecund
380 millions of speakers
ar

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verecund
280 millions of speakers
ru

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verecund
278 millions of speakers
pt

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verecund
270 millions of speakers
bn

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verecund
260 millions of speakers
fr

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verecund
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Verecund
190 millions of speakers
de

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verecund
180 millions of speakers
ja

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verecund
130 millions of speakers
ko

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verecund
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

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verecund
80 millions of speakers
ta

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பணிவுடைய
75 millions of speakers
mr

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वक्रोकंड
75 millions of speakers
tr

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verecund
70 millions of speakers
it

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verecund
65 millions of speakers
pl

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verecund
50 millions of speakers
uk

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verecund
40 millions of speakers
ro

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verecund
30 millions of speakers
el

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verecund
15 millions of speakers
af

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verecund
14 millions of speakers
sv

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verecund
10 millions of speakers
no

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verecund
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERECUND»

Discover the use of verecund in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to verecund and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
verecund [vare-i-kund] an adjective meaning 'shy, coy, bashful.' Other words that end in -cund are the familiar fecund, 'fruitful,' irecund, 'passionate, angry,' and namecund, 'famous.' However, these words are not closely related etymologically .
Erin McKean, 2006
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the ...
The faintest and palest greeu. Verdure, veV-jurc, ». 461. 376. Green, green colour. Verdurous, vir'-ju-rus, a. 114. Green, covered with green. Verecund, vir'-e- kuDd, a. Modest, bashful. See Facund. Verge, vt'rjc, s. A rod, or something In form of ...
John Walker, 1826
3
Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Intellectuals: Synonyms, ...
Unless you just want to be a pencil-pusher all your life, you've got to stop being such a MILQUETOAST, Arthur! verecund (VER-ih-kuhnd). Bashful; modest. Paul's VERECUND manner makes it difficult to carry on a conversation with him.
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, 2011
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An English and Chinese standard dictionary: M-Z
Covered with green, fi * #r ^ 8S » £ 6«| 1 clothed with th« fresh colour of vegeta- Wes,jlj.m.3Mc:£.3g&a(j > as, the verdurous hill, #m, Sill- Verecund, (ver'-e-kundl a . Modest, fS21 tt,miw>tfi,&mtii bashful, mmMMm fft; as, the verecund maid, □kj-, ...
顏惠慶, 1908
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Latin word-building
95 When the stem ends in d or t, it does not appear whether ia or tia be the true suffix : as in modest-ia or modes(t)tia, verecund-ia or verecund(t)ia. Apart from these, the suffix tia is confined, with few exceptions, to stems ending in o, which then ...
Thomas Kerchever Arnold, 1855
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students: Helpful, ...
Unless you just want to be a pencil-pusher all your life, you've got to stop being such a MILQUETOAST, Arthur! verecund (VER-ih-kuhnd). Bashful; modest. Paul's VERECUND manner makes it difficult to carry on a conversation with him.
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, Justin Cord Hayes, 2014
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
II Reverential, proceeding from reference, or expressing it IT Verecund, bashful, modest. ** Converge, to tend to one point ; to incline and approach nearer together, as two lines which continually approach each other. — opposed to diverge.
John Oswald, John Miller Keagy, 1840
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Dictionary of Etymology of the English Language: And of ...
Verecund, bashful, modest. * Converge, to tend to one point ; to incline and approach nearer together, as two lines which continually approach each other, — opposed to diverge. Lines which converge in one direction, diverge in the other.
Rev. John Oswald, 1861
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers: Over 2,300 Emotive, ...
The Binghamtons just bought a lovely, UNASSUMING starter home in the town where their families live. verecund (VER-ih-kuhnd). Bashful; modest. Paul's VERECUND manner makes it difficult to carry on a conversation with him. ANtoNyms ...
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilaqua, Justin Cord Hayes, 2014
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The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... ventose television weatherman ventripotent (ven-TRIP-o-tent) having a large belly not a properly ventripotent Santa Glaus verecund (VER-ee-kund) shy or bashful a surprisingly verecund policeman veridical (ve-RID-i-kal) truthful the burden ...
David Grambs, 1997
REFERENCE
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