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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. n. Denoting excitement, surprise, or shock.
  2. n. chess Indicates a good move.
  3. n. botany Placed after a herbarium abbreviation to indicate that the mentioned material held there has been examined directly by the author.
  4. n. computing A Boolean negation, the not operator, serving to invert the truth value of what follows.
  5. n. computing Formerly used as a separator between hostnames in an e-mail address for the purpose of routing a message (called bang path notation).
  6. n. computing, IRC Used as a separator between a user's nickname and ident.
  7. n. mathematics factorial

Etymologies

  1. May derive from a Latin Io, with the I written over the o, placed at the end of an exclamation to mark it as such. The Io may either be an abbreviation for interiectiō ("interjection"), or else the interjection Iō ("hey!"). (Wiktionary)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. invalid
  2. void
  1. nugatory
  2. useless
  1. empty
  2. cipher
  1. zero
  2. annul
  1. trifling
  2. nonexistent

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘!’

  1. invalid

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. valid
  2. optional
  3. static
  1. numeric
  2. 32-bit
  3. &&
  1. invalid
  2. negligible
  3. multiple
  1. erroneous
  2. integer
  3. Boolean
  1. discrete
  2. binary
  3. unauthorized

rhymes (19)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Hull
  2. Mull
  3. Shull
  1. crull
  2. cul
  3. cull
  1. dull
  2. gul
  3. gull
  1. hull
  2. kuhl
  3. lull
  1. mull
  2. scull
  3. skull
  1. stull
  2. trull
  3. tull
  1. ul

tags (4)

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  1. phallic
  1. exclamation mark
  1. exclamation
  1. factorial

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tagging (2)

Words tagged ‘!’

  1. admirative
  1. exclamation

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  • Dan337 Good point. (Sorry—couldn’t resist.) When exclaiming not admiration but disgust (or just clearing one’s throat), one might therefore prefer to employ a probang. Sep 23, 2011

  • hernesheir Century Dictionary informs us that the character "!" is called an admirative. Sep 23, 2011

  • fbharjo I proclaim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (alter(altar)-ego(egadsjjjjjjjj(there's the hook and the catch???(Is it called a weir?( Where's the wattle?))) Sep 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu ¡ Sep 22, 2011

  • chained_bear ... "phallic"?? May 29, 2009

  • yarb I do think they're a sign of bad writing, but there are exceptions. Ford Madox Ford uses them about 10 times a page to punctuate interior monologue. Takes some getting used to but in the end it works. Jan 5, 2009

  • taciturnyetprolix I've always had a visceral disdain for exclamation marks. Jan 5, 2009

  • kewpid “Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.�?
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald Jan 5, 2009

  • reesetee . Dec 12, 2008

  • vanishedone ! Dec 11, 2008

  • bilby ?
    Dec 11, 2008

  • vanishedone If wordie.org/words/? didn't produce a 500 Application Error, we could recreate the famous correspondence attributed to Victor Hugo (and reportedly also to Oscar Wilde, 'and thereby perhaps apocryphal'). Sep 24, 2008

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‘!’ has been looked up 1280 times, loved by 3 people, added to 6 lists, commented on 12 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word. It's also a palindrome.