cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
definite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfənɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfənət/
Forms: form: more definite
form: most definite
Etymology: From Latin dēfīnītus, past participle of dēfīniō, whence also English define.
Senses: examples: text: definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval
text: […] elements combine in definite proportions […]
ref: 1837, William Whewell, chapter 8, in History of the Inductive Sciences, volume 3, book 14, London: John W. Parker, page 145:
glosses: Having distinct limits.
examples: text: definite knowledge
synonyms: unquestionable
glosses: Free from any doubt.
examples: text: […] idiots in this case of favour would
Be wisely definite
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
glosses: Determined; resolved; decided.
examples: text: the definite article
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing, or group of persons or things
Synonyms: word: finite
word: definite
word: limited
Derived terms: definite article
definite clause
definite integral
definitely
definite maybe
definiteness
definitize
definitude
nondefinite
positive-definite
quasidefinite
semidefinite
undefinite
Related terms: word: define
word: definitive
word: indefinite
word: certain
word: distinct
definite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfənɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛfənət/
Forms: form: definites
Etymology: From Latin dēfīnītus, past participle of dēfīniō, whence also English define.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity.
glosses: Anything that is defined or determined.
tripod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/
rhymes: -aɪpɑd
rhymes: -aɪpɒd
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: tripods
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus and teapoy.
Senses: examples: text: Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs.
glosses: A three-legged stand or mount.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: fighting-machine
Thing
glosses: A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
glosses: A man with macrophallism.
Derived terms: tripod grasp
tripod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/
rhymes: -aɪpɑd
rhymes: -aɪpɒd
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: tripods
form: tripoding
form: tripoded
form: tripoded
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus and teapoy.
Senses: examples: text: I tripodded after my 6-mile run.
glosses: To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.
Related terms: bipod
monopod
trivet
incense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn'sĕns
ipa: /ˈɪnsɛns/
Forms: form: incenses
Etymology: From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incendō (“I set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Doublet of incienso.
Senses: glosses: Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
examples: text: When the folding-doors were on such solemn occasions thrown open, and the new Abbot appeared on the threshold in full-blown dignity, with ring and mitre, and dalmatique and crosier, his hoary standard-bearers and his juvenile dispensers of incense preceding him, and the venerable train of monks behind him, with all besides which could announce the supreme authority to which he was now raised, his appearance was a signal for the magnificent jubilate to rise from the organ and music-loft, and to be joined by the corresponding bursts of Alleluiah from the whole assembled congregation.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: The fragrant smoke released by burning incense (sense 1).
glosses: Homage; adulation.
Derived terms: incensation
incense boat
incense burner
incense cedar
incenseless
incensement
incenser
incense stick
incense tree
incensive
incensole
incensy
Related terms: frankincense
playwright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌɹaɪt/
rhymes: -eɪɹaɪt
Forms: form: playwrights
Etymology: From play + wright (“builder, craftsman”).
Senses: synonyms: dramatist
stagewright
glosses: A writer and creator of theatrical plays.
Derived terms: photoplaywright
playwrightess
playwrighting
radioplaywright
teleplaywright
Related terms: screenwriter
scenarist
screenplay
do what
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "The throbulator is connected via the tertiary wiring loom."' — "Do what??"
glosses: An intensified version of what? or huh?, expressing surprise or lack of comprehension
Related terms: you what?
say what?
Napoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑpəli/
ipa: /ˈnæpəli/
ipa: /ˈnapəlɪ/
Forms: form: Napolis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Napoli, from Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”). Doublet of Nabeul, Nablus, Naples, Neapoli, and Neapolis.
Senses: examples: text: When you walk in a dream
but you know you're not dreaming,
Signore,
scuzza me
but you see,
back in old Napoli,
that's amore!
ref: 1953, Jack Brooks, That's Amore:
glosses: Alternative form of Naples
glosses: Alternative form of Naples:
A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Naples and the region of Campania, Italy.
glosses: Alternative form of Naples:
A metropolitan city of Campania, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Naples.
examples: text: Napoli said he has never seen a US president promote a network like OAN while launching a sustained assault on credible news organizations.
ref: 2020 May 8, Oliver Darcy, “Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting”, in CNN:
glosses: A habitational surname from Italian.
heterosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
ipa: /ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈsɛkʃuəl/
ipa: /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
ipa: /ˌhɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
Forms: form: heterosexuals
Etymology: From hetero- + -sexual. Earliest citation from 1892, in C.G. Craddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
Senses: examples: text: The laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation apply to all people, gay and straight alike. If an antistraight boss starts firing heterosexuals, they're protected.
ref: 2001, John K. Wilson, How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People:
glosses: A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.
Synonyms: sense: heterosexual person
word: straight
sense: heterosexual person
word: hetero
topics: LGBT
sense: heterosexual person
word: hetty
sense: heterosexual person
word: breeder
grandchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandchild
neve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: neves
Etymology: From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”).
Senses: examples: text: Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve, and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.
ref: 1920, Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe:
glosses: Nephew.
examples: text: Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve" ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.
ref: 1988, Michael Tepper, New World immigrants:
glosses: A male cousin.
glosses: A grandson.
glosses: A spendthrift.
Related terms: nift
nevvy
neffy
nonna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒnə/
ipa: /ˈnɔːnə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊnə/
rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːnə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nonnas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.
Senses: examples: text: An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas, or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy.
ref: 2009 July 29, Alex Witchel, “Borscht: What Would Nana Say?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.
Coordinate terms: english: grandfather
translation: grandfather
word: nonno
nonno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɒnoʊ/
/ˈnɔːnoʊ/
/ˈnoʊnoʊ/
Forms: form: nonnos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian nonno.
Senses: glosses: A grandfather, especially one with Italian ancestry.
Coordinate terms: english: grandmother
translation: grandmother
word: nonna
Related terms: nun
cinquecento
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian cinquecento.
Senses: examples: a cinquecento painting
topics: art
arts
glosses: Sixteenth-century (1500s).
cinquecento
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the cinquecento
Etymology: From Italian cinquecento.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The sixteenth century (1500s).
quattrocento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkwɑtɹəʊˈtʃɛntəʊ/
Etymology: From Italian quattrocento (“four hundred”).
Senses: glosses: The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period.
Derived terms: quattrocentist
trecento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian trecento.
Senses: examples: text: This seems simplistic, as […] his oeuvre is as obsessed with death as a museum full of trecento paintings.
ref: 2007 February 6, Martha Schwendener, “Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times:
glosses: The fourteenth century AD; particularly, the style of Italian art associated with the 1300s
halve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: häv
ipa: /hɑːv/
rhymes: -ɑːv
enpr: hăv
ipa: /hæv/
homophone: have stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æv
note: Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəv/
ipa: /hav/
homophone: have stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æf
rhymes: -ɑːv
Forms: form: halves
form: halving
form: halved
form: halved
Etymology: From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).
Senses: examples: text: These show that since 1946 the fatality rate in train and movement accidents combined has been halved, [...].
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:
text: The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.
ref: 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:
glosses: To reduce to half the original amount.
glosses: To divide into two halves.
examples: text: So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
ref: 1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves:
glosses: To make up half of.
topics: architecture
glosses: To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
examples: text: I, of course, had no difficulty in doing likewise, and we halved the hole; but the awkward fact remained that I must now gain every hole to win the match, for my opponent's score was "nine up," and there only remained ten holes to play.
ref: 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
text: All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match.
ref: 2005, Bill Elliott, The Golf Bag Buddy: The Essential On-Course Reference, page 67:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
Synonyms: sense: to divide into two halves
word: dichotomize
word: dimidiate
word: bisect
Derived terms: a problem shared is a problem halved
a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved
a trouble shared is a trouble halved
cross-halving joint
halvable
halve it
adopt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɒpt/
ipa: /əˈdɑpt/
rhymes: -ɑpt
rhymes: -ɒpt
Forms: form: adopts
Etymology: From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Clipping of adoptable.
adorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔɹn/
ipa: /əˈdɔː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: adorns
form: adorning
form: adorned
form: adorned
Etymology: From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
text: a character adorned with every Christian grace
text: A gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters.
text: as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 61:10:
text: At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place; / Truth from his lips prevailed with double ſway, / And fools, who came to ſcoff, remained to pray.
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: Durable, water-resistant and easy to clean, tiles have adorned Persian mosques, Moorish palaces and the parlors of Dutch burgers.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38:
synonyms: word: beautify
word: bedeck
word: decorate
word: deck
word: grace
word: ornament
word: prettify
word: adorn
word: apparel
word: array
word: detail
word: beautify
word: bedeck
word: betrim
word: decorate
word: decore
word: deck
word: deck out
word: do up
word: dress up
word: dub
word: embellish
word: garnish
word: grace
word: ornament
word: prettify
word: pretty up
glosses: To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
Derived terms: adornable
adornation
adorner
adorningly
adorn oneself with borrowed plumes
disadorn
misadorn
overadorn
readorn
unadorn
adorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔɹn/
ipa: /əˈdɔː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: Her brest all naked, as nett yvory
Without adorne of gold or silver bright
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: adornment
adorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔɹn/
ipa: /əˈdɔː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: And to realities yield all her shows:
Made so adorn for thy delight the more
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: adorned; ornate
Related terms: ornament
ornamentation
ornate
suborn
adrift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-drĭft'
ipa: /əˈdɹɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: more adrift
form: most adrift
Etymology: From a- + drift.
Senses: examples: text: So on the sea she shall be set adrift.
ref: 1673, John Dryden, Marriage à la mode:
glosses: Floating at random.
glosses: Absent from his watch.
raw_tags: of a seaman
examples: text: The team were six points adrift of their rivals.
text: The Czech Republic in 1994-95, with a pegged nominal exchange rate and nominal deposit rates of 7 percent, was several percentage points adrift of the interest parity condition.
ref: 1996, David H. Begg, Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons After Half a Decade, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN:
text: He did well, coming second, but Toyota and Mitsubishi were now neck-and-neck, with the Subaru team 38 points adrift of the leaders.
ref: 2006, Brian Long, Subaru Impreza: The Road Car & WRC Story, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Boro were left needing snookers after a toothless goalless draw with Dead Men Walking Doncaster left them well adrift and fading in the chase for a Championship play-off place.
ref: 2012 April 18, Anthony Vickers, “Boro 0 Doncaster Rovers 0”, in The Evening Gazette (Teesside):
text: Brendan Rodgers's team moved into the top 10 in the Premier League table, but they are nine points adrift of West Ham in fourth place, while Arsenal are sixth.
ref: 2014 December 21, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
text: Treasury could also ask why High Speed 2's finances are so adrift from what was promised. The answers will make for difficult DfT reading, because it can't escape the fact that it has been the government department overseeing rail spending for the past 20 years.
ref: 2024 September 4, Philip Haigh, “Can public-private partnerships be made to deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 53:
glosses: Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
adrift
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-drĭft'
ipa: /əˈdɹɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: more adrift
form: most adrift
Etymology: From a- + drift.
Senses: examples: text: things wore on till eight or nine o'clock, every thing getting adrift and being smashed, and every one on board jamming themselves up in corners or holding on to beams to prevent their going adrift likewise
ref: 1858, John Mullaly, The Laying of the Cable, Or the Ocean Telegraph, page 231:
glosses: In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
Derived terms: cast adrift
run adrift
set adrift
advance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːns/
ipa: /ədˈvæns/
ipa: [ədˈvɛəns]
ipa: [ədˈvɛənts]
ipa: /ədˈvɐːns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: more advance
form: most advance
form: advaunce
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin ab
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Latin ante
Late Latin ab ante
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Vulgar Latin *abanteāre
Old French avancierbor.
Middle English avauncen
English advance
From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.
Senses: examples: text: He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
glosses: Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
examples: text: The advance man came a month before the candidate.
glosses: Preceding.
examples: text: The scouts found a site for an advance base.
glosses: Forward.
Derived terms: advance angle
advance copy
advance directive
advance fee fraud
advance fee scam
advance-guard
advance guard
advance man
advance payment
advance person
advance woman
advanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːnst/
rhymes: -ɑːnst
ipa: /ədˈvænst/
rhymes: -ænst
Etymology: From advance + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advance
advanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːnst/
rhymes: -ɑːnst
ipa: /ədˈvænst/
rhymes: -ænst
Forms: form: more advanced
form: further advanced
form: farther advanced
form: most advanced
form: furthest advanced
form: farthest advanced
Etymology: From advance + -ed.
Senses: glosses: At or close to the state of the art.
examples: text: The option can be found under advanced settings.
text: I'm taking a course in advanced knitting techniques.
glosses: Involving greater complexity; more difficult, elaborate or specialized.
examples: text: a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 3, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
ref: 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
glosses: Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
examples: text: This is an advanced prototype, it already has most of the features the final product will have.
text: This book is suitable for advanced learners of English.
glosses: In a late stage of development or education; having greatly progressed beyond an initial stage.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: fronted
antonyms: retracted
backed
glosses: Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
synonyms: fast
gain
ahead
glosses: Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.
raw_tags: of a clock or watch
Synonyms: progressive
professional
sophisticated
Derived terms: advanced age
advanced cryptic
advanced degree
advanced green
advanced higher
advancedly
advanced meat recovery
advancedness
advanced pawn
advanced refreshment
advanced time
advanced tongue root
advanced traffic management
advanced train control system
nonadvanced
superadvanced
unadvanced
Related terms: cutting edge
groundbreaking
advancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːnsɪŋ/
ipa: /ədˈvænsɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: […] and although my invitation extended to both runs, advancing years dictated that 3 hr. 20 min. on the footplate was more than adequate, so that I chose the northbound run only; […]
ref: 1951 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 832:
text: For Louis XIV's advancing age, a drink consisting of sugar, distilled spirits, and orange water was recommended as a restorative of vigor.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 211:
glosses: present participle and gerund of advance
advancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːnsɪŋ/
ipa: /ədˈvænsɪŋ/
Forms: form: advancings
Senses: examples: text: […] who feels, not as even the kindest and the holiest friend on earth can feel towards our patient endurance, our shortcomings, or our slow advancings […]
ref: 1839, Henry Blunt, A practical exposition of the epistles to the Seven Churches, page 52:
glosses: The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
advancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɑːns.mənt/
ipa: /ədˈvɑːns.mənt/
ipa: /ædˈvæns.mənt/
ipa: [ædˈvɛəns.mənt]
ipa: /ədˈvæns.mənt/
ipa: [ədˈvɛəns.mənt]
Forms: form: advancements
form: advancemente
form: advauncement
form: advauncemente
Etymology: From Middle English avancement, Old French avancement. See advance. Morphologically advance + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the advancement of learning
text: Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
synonyms: progression
improvement
furtherance
glosses: The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
glosses: The state of being advanced
glosses: How advanced something is
glosses: An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
topics: law
glosses: Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
Derived terms: advancement campout
institutional advancement
nonadvancement
readvancement
self-advancement
unadvancement
advent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.vɛnt/
ipa: /ˈæd.vənt/
Forms: form: advents
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
Senses: examples: text: Death's dreadful advent
ref: 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:
text: At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
ref: 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, page 3
text: The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side...
ref: 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
text: Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51-52:
glosses: Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
advent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.vɛnt/
ipa: /ˈæd.vənt/
Forms: form: advents
form: adventing
form: advented
form: advented
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
Senses: examples: text: 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?
text: The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
ref: 1873, Francis Bret Harte, An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches:
text: 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.
text: 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.
In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.
glosses: To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
Synonyms: sense: coming
word: arrival
sense: coming
word: approach
sense: coming
word: oncome
sense: coming
word: onset
Derived terms: sense: Terms related to advent (noun)
word: advene
sense: Terms related to advent (noun)
word: Advent
sense: Terms related to advent (noun)
word: Adventist
sense: Terms related to advent (noun)
word: Advent Sunday
sense: Terms related to advent (noun)
word: adventual
sense: Terms related to advent (noun)
word: Advent wreath
Related terms: advene
adventure
beginning
commencement
start
advantage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ədˈvæn.(t)ɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖˈvɑɳˌʈedʒ/
Forms: form: advantages
form: advantaging
form: advantaged
form: advantaged
form: advauntage
Etymology: From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Late Latin ab ante. The spelling with d originates in a latinizing hypercorrection, the a- being falsely supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.
Senses: examples: text: I had almoſt forgotten to acquaint your honor, that one major Alford (who was in mr. Love's conſpiracy) was of the graund inqueſt at Saliſbury, and was very zealous in his highneſſe ſervice here, and his good affection and wiſe carriage here, did much advantage the buſſineſe.
ref: 1655 April 21, “Mr. Ja. Nutley to ſecreary Thurloe.”, in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Eſq; […], volume III, London: […] the Executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles; Thomas Woodward, […] Charles Davis, […], published 1742, page 399:
glosses: to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
examples: text: No man of courage vouchsafeth to advantage himselfe [translating s'avantager] of that which is common unto many.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
Synonyms: favor
favorise
benefit
Derived terms: advantageable
adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: adventures
form: adventuring
form: adventured
form: adventured
Etymology: From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
Senses: examples: text: So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death.
ref: 1557, Anthony of Gueuara [i.e., Antonio de Guevara], “Where the Auctoure Speaketh of the Byrthe, and Lynage, of the Wyse Philosopher and Emperoure, Marcus Aurelius. […]”, in Thomas North, transl., The Diall of Princes. […], London: […] [Thomas Marsh for] Iohn Waylande, →OCLC, 1st booke, folio 1, verso:
text: And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 19:31:
text: In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
glosses: To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
examples: text: Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times..
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: Discriminations might be adventured.
ref: c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:
glosses: To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
examples: text: The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this.
ref: 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Gutch, →OCLC, page 661:
glosses: To try the chance; to take the risk.
Derived terms: adventurer
adventuresome
adventuress
adventurous
adventurously
adventurousness
adventurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.ɚ/
Forms: form: adventurers
Etymology: From adventure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
glosses: One who enjoys adventures.
glosses: A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
glosses: A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
glosses: A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
examples: text: Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.
ref: 1983 July, PC Mag, volume 2, number 2, page 351:
text: It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.
ref: 1992, Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness (game review in Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)
topics: video-games
glosses: A player of adventure games or text adventures.
Synonyms: sense: one who enjoys adventures
word: man of action
sense: soldier of fortune
word: mercenary
Derived terms: adventureress
adventurership
coadventurer
Related terms: adventuress
adventuress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɛntʃəɹɪs/
Forms: form: adventuresses
form: adventureress
Etymology: From adventure + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
examples: text: The ingenious adventuress, who may have become Rohan's mistress, formed a plan to make her fortune out of the cardinal's passion for power and the queen's passion for gems.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 337:
glosses: A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
examples: text: And even an iconic movie star like Amitabh Bachchan is not embarrassed to state he approves of actress Aishwarya because she is "homely and domesticated" (read: not a sexual adventuress).
ref: 2008, Shobba De, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable, pages 90–01:
glosses: A female varietist.
adventurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/
Forms: form: more adventurous
form: most adventurous
Etymology: From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). By surface analysis, adventure + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: take an adventurous viewpoint
glosses: Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
raw_tags: of an act or product
Synonyms: sense: inclined to adventure
word: adventuresome
sense: inclined to adventure
word: enterprising
sense: inclined to adventure
word: daring
sense: inclined to adventure
word: dareful
sense: inclined to adventure
word: venturesome
sense: inclined to adventure
word: on the go
sense: inclined to adventure
word: restless
sense: full of hazard
word: rash
sense: full of hazard
word: foolhardy
sense: full of hazard
word: presumptuous
sense: full of hazard
word: hazardous
sense: full of hazard
word: venturesome
Derived terms: adventurously
adventurousness
adventurous sport
inadventurous
nonadventurous
overadventurous
Related terms: adventure
adventurer
adventuresome
adventurism
advertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advertise
advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈædvəˌtaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: form: advertisings
Etymology: From advertise + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
ref: 1899, Walter Besant, The Pen and the Book:
text: [...] the women were presumably going shopping at the department stores growing up along Oxford Street, and the Central's nearness to these stores would make the advertising space in its stations the most expensive on the Underground.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 117:
text: But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
text: This, in many ways, was the crux of the Generation X conundrum—how (for example) was it possible for a person to reject the illusion of advertising if their only concept of authenticity had been constructed by advertising?
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
glosses: The industry or profession made up of such communications.
Derived terms: advertecture
advertising agency
advertisingese
advertising mail
antiadvertising
bait advertising
catvertising
counteradvertising
dark advertising
deceptive advertising
experiential advertising
false advertising
femvertising
hunkvertising
hyperadvertising
institutional advertising
malvertising
mapvertising
native advertising
nonadvertising
oddvertising
online advertising
shockvertising
sky advertising
spamvertising
subvertising
surreptitious advertising
surrogate advertising
two-price advertising
unadvertising
webvertising
Related terms: ad
advert
advertise
advertisement
advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈædvəˌtaɪzɪŋ/
Etymology: From advertise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advertise
advisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˌvaɪz.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
Forms: form: advisabilities
Etymology: From advisable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Viggo assumed a cheery offhand manner, but I could see that he was worried, doubtful as to the advisability of leaving me here alone.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 36f:
synonyms: advisableness
glosses: The quality of being advisable or prudent.
glosses: An instance of advisability; a consideration in determining overall advisability.
Related terms: english: considered plesionymic by some users
translation: considered plesionymic by some users
word: advisedness
advise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: advize
form: avise
form: avize
Etymology: From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Late Latin advisō, from ad + visō, from Latin videō (“to see”), visum (“past participle of videō”). See also advice.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of advice.
advised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvaɪzd/
other: /-ədli/
rhymes: -aɪzd
Forms: form: more advised
form: most advised
Senses: glosses: Considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation.
glosses: Informed, appraised or made aware.
Derived terms: advisedly
advisedness
inadvised
misadvised
preadvised
unadvised
advised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvaɪzd/
other: /-ədli/
rhymes: -aɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advise
advising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advise
advising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advisings
Senses: examples: text: […] fasten your ear on my advisings:
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Chloe had a particular fancy for calling poultry poetry,—an application of language in which she always persisted, notwithstanding frequent corrections and advisings from the young members of the family.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 21, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: Advice.
admittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmɪt.n̩s/
Forms: form: admittances
form: admittaunce
Etymology: From admit + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The act of admitting.
glosses: Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
glosses: Actual entrance, reception.
topics: law
glosses: The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The reciprocal of impedance
Synonyms: admission
access
entrance
initiation
Derived terms: acoustic admittance
air admittance vent
coadmittance
immittance
preadmittance
readmittance
transadmittance
adviser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ædˈvaɪ.zɚ/
Forms: form: advisers
form: advisor
Etymology: From advise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “An adviser can provide you with clarity on where you are today, where you want to be in the future and how to bridge the space between,” said Andy Mardock, a certified financial planner, and founder and president of VivFi Planning.
ref: 2021 April 19, Jazmin Goodwin, “4 things to ask before you hire a financial adviser”, in CNN:
text: The call, which is the first known conversation between the presidents since Trump assumed office last month, came as as^([sic]) Trump makes clear to his advisers he wants to bring the Ukraine conflict to a swift end.
ref: 2025 February 12, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, “After Putin call, Trump says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start ‘immediately’”, in CNN:
glosses: One who advises.
topics: education
glosses: Ellipsis of class adviser.
Derived terms: adviseress
advisership
class adviser
robo-adviser
subadviser
advocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advocate
advocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been argued in favor of.
Derived terms: unadvocated
advocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advocate
Afar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːfɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Qafar
Etymology: From Afar qafár.
Senses: glosses: A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
glosses: A region of Ethiopia.
Derived terms: Afar Depression
Afar Triangle
Afaria
Afar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːfɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Afars
form: Afar
form: Qafar
Etymology: From Afar qafár.
Senses: examples: text: [...] ethnic groups, the Afars. The majority of the Somali-speaking Issas, the other main group, do support President Hassan Gouled and his RPP, though the Prime Minister, Barkat Gourad is an Afar himself.
ref: 1982, Africa:
text: Shortly thereafter he broke with Aref and supported independence. Aref was an Afar, and Gouled came from the Issa ethnic group, which for years had been at odds with the Afars.
ref: 1995, Neil A. Hamilton, Founders of Modern Nations: A Biographical Dictionary:
glosses: A member of the people who speak this language and reside in these regions.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Afar terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/aar
word: aa
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/aar
word: aar
word: aar ⁠
afeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English aferd.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of afear
afeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English aferd.
Senses: examples: text: I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
ref: 1886, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
glosses: Afraid.
Derived terms: unafeared
affable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.ə.bəl/
rhymes: -æfəbəl
Forms: form: more affable
form: most affable
Etymology: Borrowed from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from affor (“I address”), from ad + for (“speak, talk”). See fable.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.
ref: 1912, James Burrill Angell, “chapter ix Mission To The Ottoman Empire”, in The Reminiscences Of James Burrill Angell:
text: […] He stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backsof the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing trivia in the sky to the two men, who were too busy to be interested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Chief White Halfoat”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 45:
synonyms: accessible
civil
complaisant
courteous
friendly
gracious
personable
glosses: Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
examples: text: During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree[…]
ref: 1998, Alexia Maria Kosmider, Tricky Tribal Discourse, page 84:
synonyms: benign
mild
warm
glosses: Mild; benign.
Derived terms: affability
affableness
affably
Related terms: fable
fabulous
fame
fandango
fatal
fate
fatuous
fay
ineffable
infamous
infamy
infant
infantile
infantry
nefarious
preface
affably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæfəbli/
Forms: form: more affably
form: most affably
Etymology: From affable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an affable manner