cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
despatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspætʃ/
ipa: /dəˈspætʃ/
ipa: /dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: despatches
form: despatching
form: despatched
form: despatched
Senses: examples: text: 1833, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 8-9, page 31,
She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.
text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: The countryside through which the line passes grows some beet, too. Ten wagonloads a day are despatched from Fethard and smaller quantities from Farranaleen, Laffan's Bridge and Horse & Jockey.
ref: 1957 May 24, Walter McGrath, “The Thurles-Clonmel Line, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:
text: The machines can automatically take account of late running of trains and, if it exceeds a pre-determined amount, can despatch a train out of turn.
ref: 1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:
text: The amount of coal despatched in the Western Region is about 24,000,000 tons a year, nearly all from South Wales, though the Region includes the Forest of Dean, N. Somerset, and part of the N. Wales coalfields.
ref: 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
text: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of dispatch.
Derived terms: despatcher
despatchful
redespatch
bryozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɹɑɪ.əˈzəʊˌɒn/
Forms: form: bryozoa
Etymology: From bryo- + zoon.
Senses: glosses: A polyzoon; a tiny animal that forms compound colonies.
Related terms: bryozoa
bryozoan
unopened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + opened.
Senses: glosses: not yet opened; still closed
unplait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æt
Forms: form: unplaits
form: unplaiting
form: unplaited
form: unplaited
Etymology: From un- + plait.
Senses: glosses: to undo or untwist plaited hair; to unbraid
unplanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more unplanned
form: most unplanned
Etymology: From un- + planned.
Senses: examples: text: Juno MacGuff is the kind of teenager we all wish we could have been: quick-witted, frighteningly intelligent beyond her years and comfortable enough in her own skin to resist those incessant high-school pressures to conform, even as her body expands with an unplanned pregnancy.
ref: 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News:
glosses: unintentional; not intended
examples: text: All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued.
ref: 2023 May 3, David Bradley, “Driver Only Operation should depend on passenger density”, in RAIL, number 982, page 62:
glosses: spontaneous and not thought through in advance
glosses: not having any structure or organization
Synonyms: sense: not intended
word: unintentional
word: accidental
sense: not thought through in advance
word: impromptu
Derived terms: rapid unplanned disassembly
Related terms: unexpected
contingent
incidental
unrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrelated
form: most unrelated
Etymology: From un- + related.
Senses: examples: text: The holiday started with two unrelated mishaps.
text: I was having lunch with Jim the other day, who's just had his first kid. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, there's a new cinema opened up in town.
synonyms: irrelate
irrelated
nonrelated
antonyms: related
glosses: Not connected or associated.
examples: text: He had the same surname as me, but we were unrelated.
antonyms: related
glosses: Not related by kinship.
Derived terms: unrelatedly
unsatisfactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnsætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: more unsatisfactory
form: most unsatisfactory
Etymology: From un- + satisfactory.
Senses: glosses: Inadequate, substandard or not satisfactory.
Derived terms: unsatisfactoriness
unsent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Etymology: From Middle English unsent, equivalent to un- + sent.
Senses: examples: text: I had several unsent e-mails in my pending file.
glosses: Not yet sent or transmitted.
unskilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪld
Forms: form: more unskilled
form: most unskilled
Etymology: From un- + skilled.
Senses: examples: text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
glosses: Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
examples: text: The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.
ref: 2024 November 4, Terese Eriksen Eldholm, “Norway increases minimum wage rates across key industries”, in Magnus Legal:
glosses: Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
glosses: Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
Synonyms: word: amateurish
word: backwards
word: bad
word: bungling
word: clumsy
word: ham-fisted
word: ham-handed
word: inapt
word: incapable
word: incompetent
word: inept
word: inexpert
word: maladroit
word: miserable
word: unable
word: unprofessional
word: unqualified
word: unskillful
Hypernyms: word: lacking
Related terms: word: unskilful
word: unskillful
word: skill
word: inexperienced
word: unskilled person
unstrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈstɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: unstraps
form: unstrapping
form: unstrapped
form: unstrapped
Etymology: From un- + strap.
Senses: glosses: To loosen or remove the straps from (something).
fire brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪə(ɹ)bɹɪˌɡeɪd/
Forms: form: fire brigades
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of extinguishing fires, usually in addition to their normal job.
topics: firefighting
government
synonyms: fire company
fire department
fire service
glosses: An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.
examples: text: General Westmoreland used some incoming troops as a fire brigade to squelch major threats and keep the Communists off balance.
ref: 1976, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 28, page 112:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A trained unit that can be rapidly deployed to deal with any difficult situation.
Related terms: bucket brigade
fire engine
fire house
fire station
meng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛŋ
Forms: form: mengs
form: menging
form: menged
form: menged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ming
A3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A3s
Etymology: See the Wikipedia article ISO 216, the international standard on paper sizes.
Senses: topics: management
glosses: A one-page document, often tabular or graphical, on such paper.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A3 class, a class of steam locomotive used on the London and North Eastern Railway.
peaceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsfl̩/
Forms: form: more peaceful
form: peacefuller
form: peacefuler
form: most peaceful
form: peacefullest
form: peacefulest
form: peacefull
Etymology: From Middle English peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull. By surface analysis, peace + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: peaceful protest
text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
antonyms: warring
at war
glosses: Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.
synonyms: word: dovish
word: irenic
word: pacate
word: peaceable
word: pacific
word: pacifistic
word: roolie
word: anti-bellicist
word: dovelike
word: dovish
word: irenic
word: irenical
word: non-violent
word: pacific
word: pacifist
word: pacifistic
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: unaggressive
antonyms: word: belligerent
word: violent
word: calm
word: mediational
word: nonargumentative
word: peaceable
word: unargumentative
word: unquarrelsome
glosses: Inclined to peace.
examples: text: Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 220, about Hanmer, Wales:
synonyms: word: tranquil
word: placid
word: still
word: quiet
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Motionless and calm.
Derived terms: nonpeaceful
peaceful coexistence
peaceful dove
peacefully
peacefulness
peaceful pill
unpeaceful
Related terms: sense: inclined to peace
word: irenic
sense: calm, tranquil
word: idyllic
peaceful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsfl̩/
Forms: form: peacefuls
form: peacefull
Etymology: Derived from the derogatory term religion of peace, which is used against Islam itself for its association with violent attacks by Islamic extremists, and alleged support and lack of condemnation against them by certain Muslim communities.
Senses: examples: text: They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing.
ref: 2021, Raghu Karnad, The Wire:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a Muslim; especially a violent member of a radical Islamist group.
Related terms: word: namazi
word: peace-loving community
word: pissful
word: minority
word: M
commingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: commingles
form: commingling
form: commingled
form: commingled
form: co-mingle
form: comingle
Etymology: From com- + mingle.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Armstrong, founder of Princeton Economics International, admitted to deceiving corporate investors and improperly commingling client funds in a case that prosecutors said resulted in commodities losses of more than $700 million.
ref: 2006 August 18, Gretchen Morgenson, “Adviser Jailed Since 2000 Pleads Guilty in Securities Fraud Case”, in The New York Times:
text: This vibrant stir-fry from Christian Reynoso is Chifa cooking — the cuisine that commingles Chinese and Peruvian elements — and it’s utterly delicious.
ref: 2024 April 6, Emily Weinstein, “Linguine With Zucchini, Corn and Shrimp is Superbly Summery”, in The New York Times:
text: To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.
ref: 2025, Sonia Sotomayor (writing for a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States), Opinion of the Court in Republic of Hungary et al. v. Simon et al., № 23—867, 2025-02-21
glosses: To mix, to blend.
examples: text: In the midst of a general strike and a power blackout Eric M. Gairy talked freely about what he saw as the commingled destiny of himself and the tiny emerging independent nation of Grenada.
ref: 1974 July 2, “Grenada's ‘Destined’ Leader”, in The New York Times:
text: It was once considered taboo to even suggest that new motherhood was not all sunshine onesies and rainbow mobiles, and “Baby Ruby” arrives on a welcome wave of contemporary movies exploring how the joys of child rearing can commingle with misery.
ref: 2023 February 2, Natalia Winkelman, “‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To become mixed or blended.
Derived terms: comminglement
commingler
comminglingly
uncommingled
primero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish primera, feminine form of primero (“first”), from Latin prīmārius. See premier.
Senses: examples: text: [Thomas] Lou[ell]. Came you from the King, my Lord? / [Stephen] Gar[diner]. I did Sir Thomas; and left him at Primero / With the Duke of Suffolke.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 227, column 1:
glosses: A card game resembling poker, dating back at least to the 16th century.
cuarto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuartos
Etymology: (unit of measure): From Spanish cuarto (“quarter-sack”), from Latin quartus (“fourth, quarter”). Doublet of quart, quarter, and cuarta, etc.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 27.8 L.
glosses: A former Spanish coin (until 1866), worth one eighth of a real.
Synonyms: sense: unit of measure
word: quarter-sack
sense: unit of measure
word: half-fanega
sense: unit of measure
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: half-bushel
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of measure
word: cuartillo (1⁄24 cuarto)
sense: unit of measure
word: medio (1⁄12 cuarto)
sense: unit of measure
word: celemin (1⁄6 cuarto)
sense: unit of measure
word: cuartilla (1⁄2 cuarto)
sense: unit of measure
word: fanega (2 cuartos)
sense: unit of measure
word: saco (4 cuartos)
sense: unit of measure
word: carga (8 cuartos)
sense: unit of measure
word: cahiz (24 cuartos)
sexto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextos
Etymology: From Latin sextus (“sixth”).
Senses: glosses: A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
contrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnˌtɹaɪt/
ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌtɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: more contrite
form: most contrite
Etymology: From Middle English contrit, from Old French contrit, from Latin contrītus (literally “ground to pieces”), perfect passive participle of conterō (“grind, bruise”), from con- + terō (“rub, wear away”).
Senses: examples: text: The Lord will happineſs divine / On contrite hearts beſtow : / Then tell me, gracious God, is mine / A contrite heart, or no ?
ref: 1779, John Newton, William Cowper, Olney Hymns, London: W. Oliver, page 81:
text: He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
ref: 1955, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, chapter 13, page 133:
synonyms: word: apologetic
word: remorseful
word: penitent
word: repentant
word: apologetic
word: contrite
word: guilt-ridden
antonyms: attrite
glosses: Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.
glosses: Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Coordinate terms: contrition
Derived terms: contritely
contriteness
uncontrite
contrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnˌtɹaɪt/
ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌtɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: contrites
Etymology: From Middle English contrit, from Old French contrit, from Latin contrītus (literally “ground to pieces”), perfect passive participle of conterō (“grind, bruise”), from con- + terō (“rub, wear away”).
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, that even where contrition or inward repentance doth cleanſe without abſolution ; the reaſon why it cometh ſo to paſs, is, becauſe ſuch contrites intend and deſire Abſolution, though they have it not.
ref: a. 1600, Richard Hooker [uncertain], “Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie”, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: J. Best, published 1662, book VI, page 178:
glosses: A contrite person; a penitent.
appellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
homophone: Appalachian
Forms: form: appellations
Etymology: From late Middle English appellacion, from Old French apellatiun, from Latin appellātiō (“a naming”).
Senses: examples: text: "I'll not," retorted "Teeter" Nelson, whose first name was Harry, but who had gained his appellation because of a habit he had of "teetering" on his tiptoes when reciting in class. "I've got Peaches all right," and there was a struggle between the two lads, one trying to throw a snowball, and the other trying to prevent him.
ref: 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
text: Russian River flows through a country of hill ridges, which in many places are dignifiable with the appellation of mountains.
ref: 1925, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California, page 225:
text: Gentlemen of the jury, what is a father, a real father, what does this great word mean, what terribly great idea is contained in this appellation?
ref: 1990, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Brothers Karamazov, North Point Press, →ISBN, page 742:
text: The first, and (spoiler alert) last, voyage of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron is about as close a candidate to the appellation "voyage of the damned" as you're ever likely to get. But quite how did this floating disaster, which literally drove some of the men involved insane, and would ultimately find its end at the Battle of Tsushima, actually come about?
ref: 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 1:11 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2022:
glosses: A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.
glosses: A geographical indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.
Derived terms: appellational
subappellation
utile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.taɪl/
rhymes: -uːtaɪl
Forms: form: more utile
form: most utile
Etymology: From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.
Senses: examples: text: technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:
antonyms: inutile
see more at unuseful
glosses: Useful.
utile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.taɪl/
rhymes: -uːtaɪl
Forms: form: utiles
Etymology: From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.
Senses: examples: text: Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.
ref: 2002, Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality, →ISBN, page 29:
text: [T]he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.
ref: 2006, "Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013)
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
Synonyms: sense: unit of satisfaction
word: hedon
sense: unit of satisfaction
word: util
Related terms: utility
unobtrusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌnəbˈtɹuːsɪv/
ipa: /ˌʌnəbˈtɹusɪv/
Forms: form: more unobtrusive
form: most unobtrusive
Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + obtrusive.
Senses: examples: text: Ye Quietiſts, in Homage to the Skies! / Serene! of ſoft Addreſs! vvho mildly make / An unobtruſive Tender of your Hearts, / Abhorring Violence!
ref: 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fourth. The Christian Triumph.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 27:
text: [T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.
ref: 1820, William Hazlitt, “Lecture I. Introductory.”, in Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. […], London: Stodart and Steuart, […]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Affidavit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 226:
text: Behind an unobtrusive iron door in Dalston decorated with an ever-changing graffiti skin, lies a staircase leading down to a concrete bunker dating from the second world war.
ref: 2014 March 11, Jen Wong, “Exploring the mind in a bunker”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2022:
text: This unobtrusive device helps millions of Americans sleep and concentrate by hushing the world around them.
ref: 2019 June 23, Mack Hagood, “How a Bad Night’s Sleep Birthed the Sound Conditioner”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023:
text: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists whose work harnessed the power of molecular interaction and introduced new, unobtrusive ways of studying the natural world.
ref: 2022 October 5, Cora Engelbrecht, Euan Ward, Oliver Whang, “Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to 3 scientists for work ‘snapping molecules together’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023:
synonyms: inobtrusive
sedate
antonyms: conspicuous
indiscreet
obtrusive
prominent
glosses: Not obtrusive; not blatant or noticeable; discreet, inconspicuous.
Derived terms: unobtrusively
unobtrusiveness
unobtrusive research
Related terms: extrude
inobtrusive
intrude
obtrude
obtrusive
obtrusively
obtrusiveness
protrude
profane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: profaner
form: more profane
form: profanest
form: most profane
form: prophane
Etymology: From Middle French prophane, from Latin profānus (“not religious, unclean”), from pro- (“before”) + fānum (“temple”).
Senses: examples: text: Nothing is profane that serveth to the use of holy things.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
examples: text: profane authors
text: A sonnet in praise of Rome was accepted as the effusion of genius and gratitude; and after the whole procession had visited the Vatican, the profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
text: The sacred is the emotional force which connects the part to the whole; the profane or the secular is that which has been broken off from, or has fallen off, its emotional bond to the universe.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:
glosses: Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
glosses: Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
examples: text: a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
text: the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:9:
text: When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:
glosses: Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
Synonyms: sense: obscene
word: vulgar
sense: obscene
word: inappropriate
sense: obscene
word: obscene
sense: obscene
word: debased
sense: obscene
word: uncouth
sense: obscene
word: offensive
sense: obscene
word: ignoble
sense: obscene
word: mean
sense: obscene
word: lewd
sense: obscene
word: wicked
sense: not sacred
word: secular
sense: not sacred
word: unsanctified
sense: not sacred
word: unhallowed
sense: not sacred
word: unholy
sense: not sacred
word: irreligious
sense: not sacred
word: temporal
sense: not sacred
word: worldly
sense: not sacred
word: ungodly
sense: not sacred
word: impious
sense: not sacred
word: godless
sense: taking God's name in vain
word: irreverent
profane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: profanes
form: prophane
Etymology: From Middle French prophane, from Latin profānus (“not religious, unclean”), from pro- (“before”) + fānum (“temple”).
Senses: examples: text: The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 244:
glosses: A person or thing that is profane.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: A person not a Mason.
profane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: profanes
form: profaning
form: profaned
form: profaned
form: prophane
Etymology: From Middle French prophane, from Latin profānus (“not religious, unclean”), from pro- (“before”) + fānum (“temple”).
Senses: examples: text: One should not profane the name of God.
text: to profane the Scriptures
text: VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
ref: 1600, [Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, Robert Wilson], The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. […], London: […] [V[alentine] S[immes]] for Thomas Pauier, […], →OCLC:
text: With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife, as he carved the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXXIV, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
glosses: To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Synonyms: sense: violate something sacred
word: defile
word: unhallow
word: desecrate
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: abase
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: adulterate
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: degrade
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: demean
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: misapply
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: misuse
sense: put to a wrong or unworthy use
word: pervert
Related terms: fan
fanatic
fane
profanation
profanatory
profanity
pietism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɪətɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: pietisms
Etymology: From piety + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 739:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
Derived terms: church pietism
radical pietism
Related terms: pietist
ego trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ego trips
Etymology: Originally US drug subcultures, late 1960s.
Senses: glosses: An act of self-aggrandizement, undertaken to increase one's own power and influence or to draw attention to one's own importance.
Derived terms: word: ego-trip
word: ego-tripper
word: egotripping
Related terms: guilt trip
italic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭtălʹĭk
ipa: /ɪˈtælɪk/
enpr: ĭtălʹĭk
enpr: ītălʹĭk
ipa: /ɪˈtælɪk/
ipa: /aɪˈtælɪk/
Forms: form: italick
Etymology: Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
raw_tags: of a typeface or font
examples: text: The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
raw_tags: of a typeface or font
Synonyms: cursive
oblique
Derived terms: italicise
italicism
italicization
italicize
italics
nonitalic
Related terms: roman
boldface
italic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭtălʹĭk
ipa: /ɪˈtælɪk/
enpr: ĭtălʹĭk
enpr: ītălʹĭk
ipa: /ɪˈtælɪk/
ipa: /aɪˈtælɪk/
Forms: form: italics
form: italick
Etymology: Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic.
ref: 1902, Theodore Low DeVinne, The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition, page 104:
text: […] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created an italic which matched Garamond Roman.
ref: 1983, Ida M. Kimber, The Art of Lettering, translation of original by Albert Kapr, page 329:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
examples: text: Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and an italic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts […]
ref: 1990, Albert Charles Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 345:
glosses: An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
Related terms: Italian
Italic
italical
soupspoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soupspoons
form: soup spoon
Etymology: From soup + spoon.
Senses: glosses: A spoon for eating soup, typically smaller than a tablespoon and larger than a dessert spoon, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A soupspoonful.
Related terms: cutlery
dessertspoon
ladle
lovespoon
tablespoon
teaspoon
marginal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
ipa: /ˈmɐː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
Forms: form: marginals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis, equivalent to margin + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
ref: 1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110:
text: “We need a saint or some other symbol that will serve to anchor our faith into the foreseeable future. I have watched and waited for a saint but none showed up—not even a marginal saint. Mary is the first one, and we must not allow her ...
ref: 2013 August 29, Clifford D. Simak, Project Pope, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Something or somebody that is marginal.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A constituency won with a small margin.
parliamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌpaːləˈment(ə)ɹi/
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
Forms: form: Parliamentary
Etymology: From parliament + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
glosses: Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
examples: text: The UK is a parliamentary democracy.
glosses: Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
examples: text: The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
topics: railways
transport
glosses: Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.
Derived terms: antiparliamentary
extraparliamentary
interparliamentary
parliamentarily
parliamentariness
parliamentarism
parliamentary agent
parliamentary burgh
parliamentary heel
parliamentary monarchy
parliamentary procedure
parliamentary republic
parliamentary train
preparliamentary
semiparliamentary
Westminster parliamentary system
parliamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌpaːləˈment(ə)ɹi/
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
Forms: form: parliamentaries
form: Parliamentary
Etymology: From parliament + -ary.
Senses: glosses: A parliamentary train.
constituency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɪt͡ʃu.ənsi/
ipa: /kənˈstɪtju.ənsi/
Forms: form: constituencies
Etymology: From constituent + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency.
text: The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian:
text: This follows the confirmation that Gilruth personally ordered the cancellation of engineering works in Fife last year, which is thought to have been the final straw for Gibb […]. Because her Fife constituency was materially affected by the cancellation, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who raised Gibb's departure at First Minister's Questions on May 18, described the incident as a "clear-cut sackable offence".
ref: 2023 May 31, “Network News: Micro-management prompted Gibb to quit ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 984, page 25:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: division
word: electoral district
word: electorate
word: precinct
word: riding
glosses: A district represented by one or more elected officials.
synonyms: electorate
glosses: The voters within such a district.
glosses: The residents of such a district.
glosses: The voters of a candidate.
glosses: An interest group or fan base.
Hyponyms: word: functional constituency
word: group representation constituency
Derived terms: core constituency
nonconstituency
subconstituency
Related terms: constituent
constitute
constitution
constitutional
constitutive
ambiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒm.bi.ɒns/
ipa: /ˈæm.bi.əns/
ipa: /ˈɑm.bi.ɑns/
ipa: /ˈæm.bi.əns/
Forms: form: ambiances
form: ambience
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ambiance.
Senses: examples: text: The pressures […] on a post-pubescent youngster, still half-child-half-man/woman, are difficult enough for someone whose sexuality fits into the accepted ambiance, i.e., heterosexuality.
ref: 1979 April 14, Roger L. Winters, “Gay Politics”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a three-dimensional model, a secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
Related terms: ambient
atmosphere
mood
ambience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bi.əns/
Forms: form: ambiences
Etymology: From ambient + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: An unexpected downside was a new generation of trains where the principal aim was to 'pack them in', leading to a sharp slump in ambience and passenger comfort.
ref: 2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ambiance.
Derived terms: circumambience
unsubscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪb
Forms: form: unsubscribes
form: unsubscribing
form: unsubscribed
form: unsubscribed
Etymology: From un- + subscribe.
Senses: examples: text: How do I unsubscribe from your mailing list?
glosses: To cancel a subscription, especially to an online service.
unsubscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪb
Forms: form: unsubscribes
Etymology: From un- + subscribe.
Senses: examples: text: Given how easy it is to filter messages or simply delete them, unsubscribes are significant events. Taken together, these metrics can tell you a lot about the quality of the email you're sending and provide the basis for testing your customer lists […]
ref: 2005, Eric T. Peterson, Web Site Measurement Hacks:
glosses: An unsubscription.
Related terms: unfollow
unfriend
unsure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: unsurer
form: unsurest
Etymology: From Middle English unsure, equivalent to un- + sure. Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsecure.
Senses: examples: text: I'm still unsure whether to attend the wedding.
glosses: uncertain, ambivalent.
examples: unsure footing
glosses: unstable or precarious
Synonyms: english: unsure of facts, having no decided opinion on a matter
translation: unsure of facts, having no decided opinion on a matter
word: agnostic
untouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtʌt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ʌtʃt
Forms: form: untoucht
Etymology: From un- + touched.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untouch
unvarying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvarying
form: most unvarying
Etymology: From un- + varying.
Senses: examples: text: You can be sure of our unvarying attention.
synonyms: word: constant
word: nonchanging
word: unchanging
word: constant
word: changeless
word: equal
word: nonchanging
word: static
word: stationary
word: unaltering
word: unchanging
word: unvarying
glosses: persistent, constant, changeless
examples: text: The prizewinning carrots were of an unvarying size.
synonyms: word: stable
word: consistent
word: equable
word: equal
word: even
word: even-keeled
word: monotonous
word: regular
word: samely
word: stable
word: steady
word: uncheckered
word: uniform
word: unvaried
word: unvarying
glosses: lacking variety; having a uniform character
unwieldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈwɪəl.di/
Forms: form: more unwieldy
form: unwieldier
form: most unwieldy
form: unwieldiest
form: unwieldly
Etymology: From Middle English unweldy, equivalent to un- + wieldy. Cognate with Old Frisian unweldich, unweldech (“having no power, involuntary”), Middle Dutch onweldich (“having no control or mastery over”), Middle Low German unweldich (“unwieldy”). Compare also Old High German unwaltīg (“powerless”), whence Middle High German unwaltic, German ungewaltig (“powerless, unmighty”).
Senses: glosses: Lacking strength; weak.
glosses: Ungraceful in movement.
examples: text: She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels.
ref: 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
text: However, the constellation of Argo Navis was so huge and unwieldy that in the 1932 revision, the International Astronomical Union committee chopped it up into a keel (Carina), a poop (Puppis) and sails (Vela).
ref: 1985, Patrick Moore, Stargazing: Astronomy without a telescope, Aurum Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: The railways that would be fused to create the unwieldy Northern Line were the City & South London and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, known as the 'Hampstead Tube'.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 175:
text: Recorded music came in unwieldy packages and odd shapes.
ref: 2017 February 9, Rob Long, “Why I won’t invest in anything that involves effort”, in The National (UAE):
synonyms: unmanageable
unwieldsome
antonyms: wieldy
glosses: Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.
glosses: Badly managed or operated.
Derived terms: unwieldiness
upheaval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈhi.vəl/
Forms: form: upheavals
Etymology: From upheave + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Scotland's bottleneck junction between the West and East Coast main lines at Carstairs will be the site of major upheaval until the end of May, while £164 million worth of improvements are carried out.
ref: 2023 March 8, “Network News: Carstairs shut for main line upgrade”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11:
glosses: Disruptive change, from one state to another.
glosses: The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
examples: text: Since that upheaval Wales have won just once in seven games, beating Northern Ireland in the Nations Cup last May.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
glosses: A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.
Synonyms: seismic shift
Derived terms: axis of upheaval
upstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsteɪt/
ipa: /ʌpˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: upstates
Etymology: From up + state.
Senses: antonyms: downstate
glosses: The northern section of a state.
antonyms: downstate
glosses: A period during sleep when somebody is primed and ready to learn.
upstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsteɪt/
ipa: /ʌpˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: more upstate
form: most upstate
Etymology: From up + state.
Senses: examples: text: They went hunting in upstate New York.
text: Superintendent Chalmers: You call hamburgers "steamed hams"?
 Principal Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect.
 Superintendent Chalmers: Uh-huh? What region?
 Principal Skinner: Uh, upstate New York.
 Superintendent Chalmers: Really? Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase "steamed hams".
 Principal Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
 Superintendent Chalmers: I see.
ref: 1996, “22 Short Films About Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21:
glosses: Of the northern section of a state.
upstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsteɪt/
ipa: /ʌpˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: more upstate
form: most upstate
Etymology: From up + state.
Senses: examples: text: He drove upstate to visit his mother.
glosses: To the northern section of a state.
Derived terms: farm upstate
undefeated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + defeated.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unvanquished, unbeaten, unconquered
text: He was the undefeated tiddlywinks champion of the school.
text: Six weeks into the season, there are still two undefeated teams in the N.F.L.
ref: 2019 October 15, Victor Mather, “The 49ers Are Undefeated. Yes, Those 49ers.”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: winless
glosses: Never defeated; always victorious.
undefiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌən.dəˈfaɪld/
Forms: form: more undefiled
form: most undefiled
Etymology: From un- + defiled.
Senses: synonyms: immaculate
spotless
unsullied
glosses: Free from stain, blemish, evil or corruption; immaculate; uncorrupted.
undelivered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + delivered.
Senses: examples: text: Most undelivered mail has the wrong address.
text: [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]
ref: 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC:
text: It has lost its hold on the Middle Eastern market to American planes as well as to changing politics, represented by the seven Iraqi-ordered Mirage F-1s that sit undelivered in a Dassault factory.
ref: 1991 August 9, Katherine Burton, “Budget Ax Hangs Overa Diminished Dassault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 May 2025:
glosses: Not delivered.
Related terms: undeliverable
undeliverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deliverable.
Senses: examples: text: The dead letter office keeps undeliverable mail.
text: The ambitious project to build 500 new hospitals was later deemed to be undeliverable.
glosses: Not able to be delivered.
undeliverable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undeliverables
Etymology: From un- + deliverable.
Senses: glosses: A message, parcel, etc. that cannot be delivered.