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Meaning of "wryness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WRYNESS

wryness  [ˈraɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WRYNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wryness 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 WRYNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wryness in the English dictionary

The definition of wryness in the dictionary is dry humour. Other definition of wryness is contortion of the features, usually indicating dislike.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WRYNESS


bulkiness
ˈbʌlkɪnɪs
comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
craziness
ˈkreɪzɪnɪs
dizziness
ˈdɪzɪnɪs
drowsiness
ˈdraʊzɪnɪs
dryness
ˈdraɪnɪs
finis
ˈfɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
Guinness
ˈɡɪnɪs
hairiness
ˈhɛərɪnɪs
happiness
ˈhæpɪnɪs
highness
ˈhaɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
laziness
ˈleɪzɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
readiness
ˈrɛdɪnɪs
shyness
ˈʃaɪnɪs
slyness
ˈslaɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
trustworthiness
ˈtrʌstˌwɜːðɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WRYNESS

wrongfulness
wrongly
wrongness
wrongous
wrongously
wrote
wroth
wrought
wrought iron
wrought ironwork
wrought-up
wrung
WRVS
wry
wrybill
wryer
wryest
wryly
wryneck
wrythen

WORDS THAT END LIKE WRYNESS

awayness
business
busyness
cageyness
coyness
dailyness
dopeyness
everydayness
farawayness
feyness
gayness
glueyness
gooeyness
greyness
hokeyness
homeyness
mateyness
sameyness
spryness
uppityness
vaginal dryness

Synonyms and antonyms of wryness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wryness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WRYNESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

wryness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wryness
570 millions of speakers

English

wryness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

wryness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الالتواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

wryness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wryness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

wryness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

amok
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wryness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schiefheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wryness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

wryness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wryness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wryness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோணல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दयनीयपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çarpıklık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wryness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wryness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

wryness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wryness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wryness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

scheef
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wryness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wryness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wryness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WRYNESS»

The term «wryness» is used very little and occupies the 164.106 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WRYNESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WRYNESS»

Discover the use of wryness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wryness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Microcontinuum Field Theories: II. Fluent Media
14.9. Disclinations2. Liquid crystals possess torsional elasticities characterized by the wryness tensor 7. When the wryness tensor satisfies the compatibility conditions (12.13.6), then it is integrable leading to a single- valued microrotation field.
A. Cemal Eringen, 2001
2
Mechanics of Generalized Continua: One Hundred Years After ...
The results summarized in Table 9.1 show that the stretch and wryness tensors introduced in many papers do not agree with each other and with our Lagrangian Table 9.3 Definitions of the stretch and wryness tensors strain 9 Natural Lag ...
Gérard A. Maugin, Andrei V. Metrikine, 2010
3
Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell
Reading. Wryness. Immodesty now has cachet in the sports arena, in personal ads, and in contemporary trash-talk and ... hope but expressed it modestly and wryly: an Old Norse ode is “a. The Incomparable Wryness of Old English Poetry 71.
John Walmsley, 2008
4
Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories
They still understood that the essential characteristic of East Hampton was " wryness." It is my turn to look puzzled. "Wryness?" "Sure," Trevor continues. "That is what one needs in this town, a canny quality. " Wryness sounds much like Carleton ...
‎1996
5
A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English
Gvryrgamder, s. минутам) Ап oblique crookednesa; wryness. Gwyrgamdra, s. в. ( yrgam) Wryneas. rpmedd, s. n. gvvyrgam) Distortedneas. Gwyrganiad,e. al. ( джута-т) А turning awry. Gwyrgamu, o. u. (gwyrgam) To turn awry. Gwyrgeml, Las.
William Owen Pughe
6
CONTINUUM PHYSICS
... 38 relative Cosserat deformation, 10 relative wryness, 10 two-point, 35 unimodular, 49 wryness, 8, 36 Terminal data, inhomogeneous, 115 Test function, 40 Thermodynamic fluxes, 155 nonlocal constitutive relations for, 161 Thermodynamic ...
A. Cemal Eringen, 1976
7
A new pocket dictionary of the Welsh and English languages: ...
... s.m. a greenish hlne Gwyrddias, a. of a greenish hlne Gwyrlasaidd, n. of a greenish hlne Gwyrddon,.v.in. a verdant plat Gwyrddu, v. to make graen [hias Gwyredd, s.m. ohliqnity ; wryness ; Gwyreiniad, s.m. suhlimation Gwyreinig, a. luxuriant, ...
Ellis Jones, 1840
8
Foundations of Micropolar Mechanics
... þ b4NÁKTÁKÁN; ðD:19Þ where Ek,EÁA; Kk,KÁA: In Eq. (D.19) there is no term that is bilinear in E and K; it is a consequence of the fact that the surface wryness tensor K is a axial tensor that changes the sign on a space mirror reflection.
Victor A. Eremeyev, Leonid P. Lebedev, Holm Altenbach, 2012
9
Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
2. Gwyrgamder, ». m.(gwyrgaiu) An oblique crookedness; wryness. Gwyrgamdra, ». m. (gwyrgam) Wryness. Gwyrgameild, ». m. (gwyrgam) Distorted ncss, Gwyrgamiad, ». in. (gwyraain) V turning awry. Gwyrgarmi, v. a. (gwyrgam) To turn awry.
William Owen Pughe, 1832
10
Flexible Multibody Dynamics
(16.13) The srst threecomponentsof this arrayform the stretchvector,denotedε , andthelast three the wryness vector, denoted κ. Both quantities are assumed to form srst-order tensors. Because the deformation measures uniquely desne the ...
Olivier Andre Bauchau, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WRYNESS»

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'Forbidden Planet' goes into giddy comic orbit
As the Bosun, Brian Butler has the wryness dialed in; Morgan Carberry is a marvel of the amusingly animatronic as the Navigation Officer (is she alien or A.I.?) ... «The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jul 15»
2
New mysteries: 'Eeny Meeny,' 'Badlands'
Unfortunately, C.J. Box squanders that promise in this disappointingly dull tale, which never finds the suspense or wryness the author has built in his well-loved ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
3
Country Legend Steve Earle Talks Breakups, The Blues And Baseball
In any of his performances—songs, monologues—Earle conveys raspy country melancholy levied by warmth and wryness that deftly circumvents mawkishness. «WBUR, Jul 15»
4
TV Review: '7 Days in Hell'
Simply put, the mockumentary's wryness and faux earnestness — including direct-to-camera interviews — begin to fray as the situations become more and more ... «Variety, Jul 15»
5
Story collections by Thomas McGuane, Luis Alberto Urrea and …
Mexican American writer Luis Alberto Urrea also writes about the West with a mixture of wryness and humor. He could be McGuane's younger, soulful cousin. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door
It's part of a celebrated series of photo-based works that address, with wryness, precision, and visual panache, the implications of stereotypes pushed by ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
7
You'll want to make this trip 'Around the World in 80 Days'
Andrew Carter has a freewheeling field day as servant Passepartout, pratfalls and tea service inclusive. Eva Abramian brings a tickling wryness to Indian widow ... «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
8
Pam Geller Shamefully Instigated Attack
Perhaps this is because the driving force behind such drawings lacks the wryness required of the dispassionate disposal of one's target. Sometimes an arched ... «Newsmax, May 15»
9
'The Book of Aron' tells of a complex heroism in a Warsaw ghetto …
Aron's wryness is always entirely unknowing. He relays his world to us just as he experiences it: He fails at school. His mom complains about everything. «Concord Monitor, May 15»
10
Stopover: The Prettiots bring tongue-in-cheek wryness to pop
Stopover: The Prettiots bring tongue-in-cheek wryness to pop. Ukulele-driven pop played with one eye squinted. By Anna Chandler ... «Connect Savannah.com, Mar 15»

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