ninety

Speech parts

1. ninety - Noun

2. ninety - Adjective

3. ninety - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.

A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

xc 90 dicker five eight score nine eleven dozen fifty seventy nineties septuagenarian sexagenarian forty
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Antonyms

young new kid on the block new blood

Hypernyms

large integer

Phrases with the word

ninety-oneth atomic number ninety ninety and three ninety plus three being six more than ninety atomic number ninety-seven

Derivatives

nineties

Anagrams

Tinney

Examples

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin

Ninety percent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration. American Proverb

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. English Proverb

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

nineties ninetieth ninetiethly ninety and three ninety days ninety divided by one point two