cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
answerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈɑːnsɹəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/
Forms: form: more answerable
form: most answerable
form: aunswerable
Etymology: From answer + -able.
Senses: examples: 1731, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with respect to Religion and Government” in Miscellanies, London: Benjamin Motte and Charles Bathurst, Volume I, Section 2, p. 91,
Should any Man argue, that […] he cannot be justly punished, but is answerable only to God […]
glosses: Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
examples: text: Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?
ref: 2013, Marc Moeller, Victor Moeller, Middle School English Teacher's Guide to Active Learning, page 67:
glosses: Able to be answered.
raw_tags: of a question
examples: text: What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XI.] chapter 5 “Of Bees,”.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 312:
text: To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).
examples: text: […] at my farm / I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, / Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, / And all things answerable to this portion.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: By my other wife I had a daughter, so hard favoured, so foule and ill faced, that I thinke a grove full of golden trees; and the leaves of Rubies and Dyamonds, would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie.
ref: c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC:
glosses: Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
examples: text: [T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable.
ref: 1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “A′nswerable”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:
glosses: Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Derived terms: answerability
answerableness
answerably
nonanswerable
antagonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ænˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk/
ipa: [ɛənˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk]
ipa: /ænˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more antagonistic
form: most antagonistic
Etymology: From antagonist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
text: Though the tephrosia is a powerful agent, and, if carried too far beyond the antagonistic action of the poison, is, I presume, not entirely without danger, I have never known any bad symptoms to arise from its use.
ref: 1866, American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health:
text: And deputies from opposing parties, inherently more antagonistic than deputies from the same party, can be bought at a lower price.
ref: 2002, Barry Ames, The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil, page 171:
text: The tone of congressional hearings involving tech industry executives in recent years can best be described as antagonistic.
ref: 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: aggressive
word: antagonistic
word: assaultive
word: bellicose
word: belligerent
word: combative
word: martial
word: militaristic
word: philopolemic
word: philopolemical
word: pugnacious
word: quarrelsome
word: truculent
word: warlike
glosses: Contending or acting against.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an antagonist.
Derived terms: antagonistically
heteroantagonistic
homoantagonistic
isoantagonistic
nonantagonistic
transantagonistic
unantagonistic
ante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænti/
ipa: /ˈænti/
ipa: [ˈɛənti]
ipa: /ˈænti/
ipa: /ˈɛnti/
rhymes: -ænti
homophone: anti
homophone: anty
homophone: auntie stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: antes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”). Doublet of and.
Senses: examples: text: “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. … his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became famous. …”
ref: 1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters:
text: When it came to the more successful contestants, meanwhile, edits of the shows also began to fall heavily on sad backstories – the "sob story", if you will – instilling the idea that singers had to mine trauma from their lives to up the emotional ante, making them seem to be more "worthy" winners.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: A price or cost, as in up the ante.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.
Derived terms: ante in
ante up
penny ante
penny-ante
raise the ante
up the ante
Related terms: ante litteram
status quo ante
ante
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænti/
ipa: /ˈænti/
ipa: [ˈɛənti]
ipa: /ˈænti/
ipa: /ˈɛnti/
rhymes: -ænti
homophone: anti
homophone: anty
homophone: auntie stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: antes
form: anteing
form: anted
form: anted
form: anteed
form: anteed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”). Doublet of and.
Senses: glosses: To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
glosses: To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
Related terms: status quo ante bellum
anteroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ti.ɹʊm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: anterooms
form: ante-room
form: anti-room
form: antiroom
Etymology: From ante- + room.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his was one of the anterooms off the main throneroom in which the king was accustomed to hold court with his entire retinue.
ref: 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 19, in Tarzan the Untamed:
text: Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.
ref: 1997, Michael McKenzie, Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs:
glosses: A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Synonyms: antechamber
foreroom
anthropologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.θɹoʊ.poʊˈlɑd͡ʒ.ɪk/
ipa: /æn.θɹə.pə.lɑd͡ʒik/
Forms: form: more anthropologic
form: most anthropologic
Etymology: From anthropology + -ic.
Senses: examples: Anthropologic wisdom. — Kingsley.
glosses: anthropological; pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.
Derived terms: anthropologically
anthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: anthropologists
Etymology: From anthropology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In actual fact, it is hard to see how anyone could defend the prescriptive approach. In any other field of enquiry, it would be seen as patently absurd. What would we say of the social anthropologist who, instead of describing the way a given society is, sets about prescribing the way he thinks it ought to be? (We'd probably suggest he ought to give up Anthropology and take up Politics!) [...]
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 8:
text: In traditional anthropology, somebody goes to another country, says: “How fascinating these people are! How interesting their tools and their culture are,” and then they write a paper, and maybe a few other anthropologists read it, and we think these cultures are very exotic.
ref: 2012 December 5, Amber Case, “Cyborg anthropologist: We can all be superhuman”, in CNN:
text: But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.
ref: 2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN:
glosses: An expert in anthropology.
Derived terms: anthropologian
bioanthropologist
cultural anthropologist
nonanthropologist
palæoanthropologist
paleoanthropologist
social anthropologist
socioanthropologist
structural anthropologist
anticipate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
ipa: /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
ipa: [ɛənˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt]
ipa: /ænˈtɪs.ə.peɪt/
ipa: [ɛənˈtɪs.ə.peɪt]
ipa: /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.pæɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈæɳʈɪsɪˌpeʈ/
Forms: form: anticipates
form: anticipating
form: anticipated
form: anticipated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anticipātus, perfect passive participle of anticipō (“to anticipate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ante- (“before”), + capiō (“to take”, cip- when prefixed) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See capable.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1824 (written, published in 1891) Robert Hall, Fragment on Popery
When two parties, each formidable for their numbers, and the weight of their influence and property, are animated by an equal degree of zeal, it is natural to anticipate the final success of that which possesses the most inherent strength.
text: He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
synonyms: preclude
provide
preempt
discount
glosses: To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
examples: text: The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument.
glosses: To take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
examples: text: to anticipate the pleasures of a visit
text: to anticipate the evils of life
text: Please anticipate a journey of an hour from your house to the airport.
text: The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 31, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: But surely they did not anticipate the ease with which their team raced into an almost impregnable half-time lead.
ref: 2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: expect
foretaste
foresee
glosses: To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
examples: text: Little Johnny started to anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus a week before Christmas.
synonyms: look forward to
glosses: To eagerly wait for (something)
Derived terms: anticipable
anticipatable
anticipately
anticipatingly
anticipative
anticipator
unanticipating
Related terms: anticipation
anticipatory
antic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn'tĭk
ipa: /ˈæn.tɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: antics
form: anticking
form: anticked
form: anticked
form: antick
Etymology: Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.
Senses: examples: text: Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking above him. He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it.
ref: 1917 April, Jack London, chapter IV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: To perform antics, to caper.
examples: text: Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: Whether one's surroundings were anticked up or not, one often felt one was living in another century at Roque.
ref: 1964, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts:
text: Surtees became a friend of Walter Scott and played a very "anticking" joke upon the author.
ref: 1982, The Picturesque Tour, page 25:
glosses: To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
examples: text: She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 70:
glosses: To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
Derived terms: antically
anticize
anticker
anticky
anticly
anticness
antic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn'tĭk
ipa: /ˈæn.tɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: antics
form: antick
Etymology: From anticipation.
Senses: qualifier: animation
glosses: A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
antidote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.tɪ.doʊt/
Forms: form: antidotes
form: antidot
Etymology: From Latin antidotum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίδοτος (antídotos, “antidote, remedy”), from ἀντιδίδωμι (antidídōmi, “I give in return, repay”), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”). Compare French antidote.
Senses: examples: text: She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom.
text: Can'ſt thou not Miniſter to a minde diſeas'd, / Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, / And with ſome ſweet Obliuious Antidote / Cleanſe the ſtufft boſome, of that perillous ſtuffe / Which weighes vpon the heart?
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 149, column 2:
text: The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
ref: 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: mithridatic
alexipharmic
alexipharmac
alexipharmacum
alexiteric
alexitery
treacle
theriac
glosses: A remedy to counteract the effects of poison.
examples: text: We need an antidote for this misinformation.
synonyms: remedy
glosses: Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful.
Hyponyms: sense: poison remedy
word: antivenom
sense: poison remedy
word: antivenin
sense: poison remedy
word: antivenene
sense: poison remedy
word: universal antidote
sense: poison remedy
word: mithridate
sense: poison remedy
word: mithridatium
sense: poison remedy
word: mithridaticon
sense: poison remedy
word: theriac
sense: poison remedy
word: Venice treacle
sense: poison remedy
word: treacle
sense: antidotes made from animal fluids
word: serum
sense: antidotes made from animal fluids
word: antiserum
Derived terms: antiantidote
antidotary
antidotical
Related terms: antidotal
antidotic
antidotically
antidote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.tɪ.doʊt/
Forms: form: antidotes
form: antidoting
form: antidoted
form: antidoted
form: antidot
Etymology: From Latin antidotum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίδοτος (antídotos, “antidote, remedy”), from ἀντιδίδωμι (antidídōmi, “I give in return, repay”), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”). Compare French antidote.
Senses: examples: text: For his part, the patient must avoid some commonplace substances in order to avoid antidoting or stopping the action of the homeopathic remedy[…]
ref: 2007, Suzanne C. Lawton, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Asperger syndrome: natural steps toward a better life, page 143:
glosses: To counteract as an antidote.
Related terms: theriac
antimacassar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə/
ipa: /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ɚ/
rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: antimacassars
Etymology: From anti- + macassar.
Senses: examples: text: She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an after-dinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: […] how could anyone on a three-legged stool under the high top of the sofa sleep? Especially if the fringe of an antimacassar lolled over the top and tickled your neck?
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small:
text: The upholstery is of Irish tweed, with antimacassars in Irish linen, and the rugs are hand-woven in Celtic design.
ref: 1951 May, “Notes and News: New Coaches for C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 348:
glosses: A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.
Derived terms: antimacassared
antiquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.tɪˈkwɛɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: more antiquarian
form: most antiquarian
form: antiquitarian
Etymology: From antiquary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: antiquarian literature
glosses: Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity.
antiquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.tɪˈkwɛɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: antiquarians
form: antiquitarian
Etymology: From antiquary + -an.
Senses: synonyms: antiquarist
antiquary
glosses: A collector or student of, or expert in, antiquities or antiques.
Derived terms: antiquarianism
antiquarianist
antiquarianize
antiquarianly
Related terms: ancient
antic
antiquary
antiquated
antique
antiquity
antiquity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪk.wɪ.ti/
ipa: /ænˈtɪk.wə.ti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈaɳʈɪkwɪʈi/
rhymes: -ɪkwɪti
Forms: form: antiquities
form: antiquitie
Etymology: From Middle English antiquyte, antiquite, antiquytee, a borrowing from Old French antiquité, antiquitet, from Latin antiquitas, from antiquus. Equivalent to antique + -ity. See antique, antic. Compare with French antiquité.
Senses: examples: text: Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
glosses: Ancient times; faraway history; former ages.
examples: text: That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has avowed.
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: The people of ancient times.
examples: text: You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench.
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: An old gentleman.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The historical period preceding the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500), primarily relating to European history.
qualifier: often constructed as an uncountable plural
glosses: A relic or monument of ancient times, such as a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution.
examples: text: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being ancient or of ancient lineage.
Derived terms: antiquitarian
antiquitarianism
antiquitary
antiquitech
antiquitist
antiquitization
antiquitize
antiquitous
Antiquity
classical antiquity
Late Antiquity
preantiquity
Related terms: ancient
antic
antiquarian
antiquary
antiquated
antique
anxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ(ɡ)ˈzaɪ.ə.ti/
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Forms: form: anxieties
form: anxietie
Etymology: From Latin anxietās, from anxius (“anxious, solicitous, distressed, troubled”), from angō (“to distress, trouble”), akin to Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō, “to choke”). Equivalent to anxious + -ety. See anger; angst.
Senses: examples: text: generalized anxiety disorder
text: feel anxiety
text: cause anxiety
text: She felt a wave of anxiety before the interview.
text: He suffers from social anxiety.
text: The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 4, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: But the other, because he's been immersed in arguments, gives the appearance of harbouring considerable anxiety and suspicion that he's ignorant of those matters he presents himself to others as an expert on.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 268a:
glosses: An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
glosses: An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
examples: text: My anxiety is a part of me, one that I’ve had to learn to deal with.
ref: 2022 May 25, Mara Wilson, “‘Anxiety is part of me’: Mara Wilson and other anxious minds on how they cope”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any anxiety disorder, especially generalized anxiety disorder.
Synonyms: care
solicitude
foreboding
uneasiness
perplexity
disquietude
disquiet
trouble
apprehension
restlessness
distress
Derived terms: antianxiety
anxietist
anxietize
anxietous
anxiety disorder
anxiety neurosis
approach anxiety
castration anxiety
climate anxiety
ecoanxiety
eco-anxiety
generalized anxiety disorder
hangxiety
hyperanxiety
nonanxiety
overanxiety
performance anxiety
range anxiety
ringxiety
scanxiety
separation anxiety
separation anxiety disorder
social anxiety
social anxiety disorder
anxiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ(k).ʃəs.li/
Forms: form: more anxiously
form: most anxiously
Etymology: From anxious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.
text: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
text: 'Even in summer, Grannie?' Heidi persisted anxiously.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 46:
glosses: In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
anybody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.i.bɒd.i/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.bə.di/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.bʌ.di/
note: stressed form, US
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.bɑd.i/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.bə.di/
Forms: form: any body
Etymology: From Middle English ani-bodi, anybodi, eny body, equivalent to any + body.
Senses: examples: text: Anybody will do.
text: Is there anybody inside?
glosses: Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
examples: text: Everybody who wants to be anybody will come to Jake's party.
text: Here one isn't anybody, if one doesn't dance like Travolta.
glosses: A person of some consideration or standing.
Synonyms: anyone
Derived terms: anybody else
anybody's
anybody's guess
anybody who is anybody
everybody who is anybody
Related terms: anyhow
anything
anywhere
everybody
nobody
somebody
anyhow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.i.haʊ/
ipa: /ˈæn.i.haʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: From any + how.
Senses: topics: manner
glosses: In any way or manner whatever.
examples: text: Anyhow, he is dead now.
text: I think they’re asleep; anyhow, they’re quiet.
glosses: In any case. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.
examples: text: It was a woman’s clothing, beyond a doubt, all thrown in anyhow, — as if the person who had placed it there had been in a desperate hurry.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: Without care or tidiness; recklessly, negligently or randomly.
glosses: Thoughtlessly, randomly, without careful consideration.
anyhow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.i.haʊ/
ipa: /ˈæn.i.haʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: From any + how.
Senses: examples: text: Rabak, to refer to something messed up: Eh bro, your hairdresser anyhow sia, your hair damn rabak.
ref: 2022 January 25, Jean Wong, Cassandra Nerva, Jerald Ang, “34 Singlish Phrases to Know Before Visiting Singapore”, in tripzilla.com, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2024:
text: Even the newspaper recommendation oso anyhow one.
ref: 2024 December 13, gwbasic, “Is it all the food influencers cannot make it?”, in HardwareZone Forums:
synonyms: word: half-fuck
glosses: Random, careless, offhand, disorderly; done without thought or consideration.
Synonyms: sense: in any way or manner, carelessly
word: any old how
sense: in any case
word: anyway
word: anyhoo
word: anywho
word: regardless
Derived terms: word: anyhow whack
anyone
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.niˌwʌn/
ipa: /ˈæ.niˌwʌn/
ipa: /ˈɛ.ni.wʌn/
Forms: form: any one
Etymology: From Middle English eny on, ony one, equivalent to any + one.
Senses: examples: text: Almost anyone can change a light bulb.
text: The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
ref: 1891, George Bernard Shaw, Quintessence of Ibsenism:
text: “[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 8, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Any person; anybody.
Synonyms: anybody
Related terms: anything
anywhere
everybody
everyone
nobody
no one
somebody
someone
anything
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈæn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
Forms: form: any thing
Etymology: From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
Senses: examples: text: I would not do it for anything.
text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
synonyms: aught
glosses: Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
examples: text: Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.
ref: 1916, Edward S. Moffat, Go Forth and Find, pages 81–82:
glosses: Expressing an indefinite comparison.
raw_tags: with “as” or “like”
Derived terms: anythingarian
anything but
anything else
anything goes
anythingism
anything is possible
anything that moves
are you doing anything tomorrow
as anything
ask me anything
don't do anything I wouldn't do
if anything
like anything
not much of anything
or anything
up to anything
anything
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈæn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
Forms: form: anythings
form: any thing
Etymology: From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
Senses: examples: text: How long does it take to turn you actors into good anythings?
ref: 1986, David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly:
text: So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi.
ref: 2007 May 6, Cindy Chupack, “An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone or something of importance.
Related terms: anybody
anyone
anywhere
everything
nothing
something
thing
anything
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈæn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
Forms: form: anythings
form: anythinging
form: anythinged
form: anythinged
form: any thing
Etymology: From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
Senses: examples: text: He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!
text: –I don't want to accompany him! –You never want to anything him!
text: " No, no," said he, quickly, " I repudiate half compliments of all kinds. I will neither be half-uncled, half-respected, nor, in short, half-anythinged, by you. ' Out upon such half-faced fellowship !' I will either be something, or altogether nothing."
ref: 1849, Fanny Hervey Stirling, “Uncle George Declares Himself” (chapter IX), in Fanny Hervey; or, The Mother's Choice, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, page 112:
text: Papa and mamma beg to be very kindly remembered to you" — I'm sure the two old savages wouldn't beg to be kindly anythinged, but it looks well that she should say so, doesn't it? But the end is the best.
ref: 1868, Legh Knight, chapter V, in Tonic Bitter, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, page 80:
text: “She isn't dating him.”
“Oh. What would you call it? I don’t know what you'd call it.”
“She isn’t anythinging him. She just likes him, and he likes her back. I—I lied earlier.”
ref: 2007, Ann Packer, Songs Without Words, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 236:
text: I came inclined to be pleased and quite free from racial prejudices, but in 10 months I’ve acquired an instinctive dislike to the Arab voice, the Arab figure, the Arab way of looking or walking or pump shitting or eating or laughing or anythinging.
ref: 2009, Richard Canning, Brif Lives: E..M. Forster, Hesperus Press, page 59:
text: “Are you threatening me?” he asked, clearly amused. Any normal man would have backed down, but this guy was a piece of work.
“We're not anythinging you,” Laura snapped.
ref: 2014, Julia Kent, chapter 4, in Complete We, page 90:
glosses: Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.
Related terms: word: something
word: everything
anything
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈæn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/
Forms: form: any thing
Etymology: From Middle English anything, enything, onything, onythynge, from Old English ǣniġe þinga, ǣnġi þinga (literally “by any of things”), from ǣniġe, instrumental form of ǣniġ (“any”) + þinga, genitive plural of þing (“thing”).
Senses: examples: text: That isn't anything like a car.
text: She's not anything like as strong as me.
glosses: In any way, any extent or any degree.
anyway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛniweɪ/
Forms: form: anyways
Etymology: From any + way.
Senses: examples: text: He didn't enjoy washing his car, but it was so dirty that he did it anyway.
text: Raymond Carver had only moments late at night to write after grueling day jobs, tense relationships, putting kids to bed, and dealing with his own alcoholism. And he wrote anyway.
ref: 2016, JoAnneh Nagler, How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Regardless; anyhow.
examples: text: I don't think that's true. I haven't found any evidence, anyway.
text: But I wish there were somethin’ you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin’ anyway
Don’t think twice, it’s all right.
ref: 1962, Bob Dylan, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, in The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Columbia Records:
glosses: Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. See anyhow and at least.
examples: text: "I'll be ninety my next birthday, but Louella doesn't tell her age. Anyway, we're going to have you and Cynthia up for supper."
ref: 2005, Jan Karon, These High, Green Hills:
glosses: Used to indicate a change of subject.
examples: text: “But I say, Kid, isn't that going it a little too strong? Whisky and alcohol's bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and pepper-sauce and—” ¶ “Dump it in. Who's making this punch, anyway?”
ref: 1899, Jack London, “To the Man on the Trail”, in The Overland Monthly, page 36:
text: The name, Barry Frank, the name of the game when it comes to money these days, in every sport, is television revenue. How do they get enough money- let me back up a minute. How did the United States get the World Cup anyway? Of all the countries in the world, you'd think we'd be the last one to get it.
ref: 1990, Nightline, Ted Koppel (actor):
text: “We should probably wait until Luke gets here to talk about it,” Leia suggested quietly before Han could answer. Lando glanced past Han, as if only just noticing Luke's absence. “Where is he, anyway?”
ref: 1992, Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire, Spectra, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Used at the end of a question for emphasis, or to direct the conversation to something of more broad importance (compare with more to the point).
examples: text: He that sleeps in the day-time, or is in suspense, fear, anyway troubled in mind, or goes to bed upon a full stomach, may never hope for quiet rest in the night […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 5:
glosses: In any way.
Synonyms: anywise
anyroad
any road up
any old way
regardless
Derived terms: the grapes are sour anyway
anywhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnɪwɛə/
ipa: /ˈɛn.iː.(h)wɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.(h)wɛɹ/
Forms: form: any where
Etymology: From any + where.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know where I left my keys. They could be anywhere.
text: I'd rather be anywhere else.
text: For many 'home' is an affectation when used anywhere that 'house' would be appropriate, as in 'Home for Sale'.
glosses: In or at any location.
examples: text: Anywhere you go in France, there will be bread and wine with dinner.
text: I'm staying home today. I'm not going anywhere.
text: Are you going anywhere special this weekend?
glosses: To (in the direction of) any location.
Derived terms: anywhere else
anywhere near
anywhereness
not going anywhere
Related terms: anybody
anyone
anything
everywhere
nowhere
somewhere
anywhere
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnɪwɛə/
ipa: /ˈɛn.iː.(h)wɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.(h)wɛɹ/
Forms: form: any where
Etymology: From any + where.
Senses: examples: text: Anywhere is better than here!
glosses: Any location or an unknown location.
anywhere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnɪwɛə/
ipa: /ˈɛn.iː.(h)wɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɛn.i.(h)wɛɹ/
Forms: form: anywheres
form: any where
Etymology: From any + where.
Senses: synonyms: cosmopolite
antonyms: somewhere
glosses: A person without strong cultural or social ties to a specific place; a cosmopolite.
aortic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈɔɹ.tɪk/
Etymology: From aorta + -ic. By surface analysis, aort- + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: aortal
glosses: Of or pertaining to the aorta or the aortic valve.
Derived terms: acute aortic syndrome
anaortic
annuloaortic
aortically
aortic arch
aortic arch syndrome
aortic regurg
aortic regurgitation
aortic stenosis
aortic valve
cardioaortic
circumaortic
epiaortic
intraaortic
paraaortic
periaortic
postaortic
preaortic
retroaortic
sinoaortic
subaortic
supraaortic
transaortic
ventriculoaortic
anthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænθɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: anthropologies
Etymology: From New Latin anthropologia, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human, mankind”) + -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.
text: As another man has an ardour for art or music, or natural science, Mr. Pen said that anthropology was his favourite pursuit; and had his eyes always eagerly open to its infinite varieties and beauties: contemplating with an unfailing delight all specimens of it in all places to which he resorted […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Whilst History endeavours to represent the various phases of civilized life to the fullest extent, the interest of Anthropology rests chiefly upon the general features and the greatest differences in the various forms of human life; for as regards the latter science, these diversities form the most important and characteristic part, and we should have but a one-sided conception of man, if our notions of him were only derived from the history of civilization without taking into consieration the resquisite supplement arising from the study of uncivilized nations, and of man in a primative state.
ref: 1863, J. Frederick Collingwood (ed), Introduction to Anthropology (from Theodor Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, vol I (1959)) pp 8-9
text: What I really liked about cyborg anthropology is that it crossed multiple fields of study.
ref: 2012 December 5, Amber Case, “Cyborg anthropologist: We can all be superhuman”, in CNN:
glosses: The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in Christian anthropology.
Synonyms: word: anthropology
Meronyms: word: biological anthropology
word: cultural anthropology
word: ethnography
word: linguistic anthropology
word: medical anthropology
word: paleoanthropology
word: physical anthropology
word: social anthropology
Derived terms: anthropologic
anthropological
anthropologist
anthroposociology
astroanthropology
autoanthropology
bioanthropology
biological anthropology
cultural anthropology
cyberanthropology
entropology
ethnoanthropology
geoanthropology
linguistic anthropology
medical anthropology
neuroanthropology
palaeanthropology
palaeoanthropology
paleoanthropologist
paleoanthropology
physical anthropology
planthropology
social anthropology
socioanthropology
socio-cultural anthropology
structural anthropology
xenoanthropology
Related terms: archaeology
paleontology
sociology
Apache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-păch'ē
ipa: /əˈpæ.t͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ætʃi
Etymology: From American Spanish apache, most likely from Zuni ˀa˙paču (“Navajos”), or possibly from the Yavapai word ʔpačə, meaning "people". The web server software was named to honor the Apache people, although much has been made of the fact that its design was "patchy" (constructed by assembling software patches). See Apache HTTP Server § Name.
The Parisian gangsters were named after the American tribe because of their aggressive reputation.
Senses: synonyms: Apachean
Southern Athabaskan
glosses: The group of languages used by any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma, United States. See Apache, Oklahoma.
examples: text: This list is necessary so Apache can set the right HTTP headers when a certain file is requested.
ref: 2002, Daniel López Ridruejo, Daniel Lopez, Ian Kallen, Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, page 62:
text: This section discusses the process of configuring Apache to participate in WebLogic clusters. Apache is a Web server, the most popular one, actually.
ref: 2003, Scott Hawkins, BEA WebLogic Server Administration Kit, page 59:
text: IBM made an early commitment to support and use Apache as the basis for its web offerings and has dedicated substantial resources to the project because it makes more sense to use an established, proven web server.
ref: 2014, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, Sams Publishing, page 496:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Apache HTTP Server, a widely used open source web server software suite.
Derived terms: Western Apache
Apache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-păch'ē
ipa: /əˈpæ.t͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ætʃi
Forms: form: Apaches
form: Apache
Etymology: From American Spanish apache, most likely from Zuni ˀa˙paču (“Navajos”), or possibly from the Yavapai word ʔpačə, meaning "people". The web server software was named to honor the Apache people, although much has been made of the fact that its design was "patchy" (constructed by assembling software patches). See Apache HTTP Server § Name.
The Parisian gangsters were named after the American tribe because of their aggressive reputation.
Senses: examples: text: Away up at the sources of the Gila, where the pines and cedars stand and where creeks and valleys are found, is a part of the Apache land.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e., Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.
glosses: A person belonging to an Apache people.
examples: text: But the brain, and the agility, and the muscles that had coped with the mighty strength and cruel craftiness of Terkoz and Numa in the fastness of their savage jungle were not to be so easily subdued as these apaches of Paris had believed.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 35:
text: “He had the big paper knife in his hand, and ‘Mind, Dorcas,’ he says, ‘you’ll have to be very respectful. This is my specially sharpened scimitar, and it’s off with your head if I’m at all displeased with you!’ Miss Cynthia, she was what they call an Apache, or some such name—a Frenchified sort of cut-throat, I take it to be. A real sight she looked. You’d never have believed a pretty young lady like that could have made herself into such a ruffian.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 115:
related: word: apache
glosses: A Parisian gangster of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: plural only "Apaches"
glosses: AH-64 Apache, a U.S. military helicopter.
Derived terms: Apache County
Apache fiddle
apacheism
Apache Junction
Apacheness
Apacheria
apart
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɑːt/
ipa: /əˈpɑɹt/
enpr: ə-pärt′
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more apart
form: further apart
form: farther apart
form: most apart
form: furthest apart
form: farthest apart
Etymology: From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).
Senses: examples: text: We had a large bus and I had two of them at the front and two at the back, and I had to sit in the middle and keep them apart.
ref: 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life:
text: Others apart sat on a hill retired.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 4:3:
glosses: Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
examples: text: Consider the two propositions apart.
synonyms: word: independently
word: separately
word: absolutely
word: abstractedly
word: abstractly
word: apart
word: discretely
word: independently
word: individually
word: separately
word: serely
word: severally
word: singly
word: sunderling
word: sunderly
word: together
word: uniquely
glosses: Separately, exclusively, not together.
examples: text: We took the computer apart and put it back together.
text: Love, love will tear us apart, again.
ref: 1980, Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”:
synonyms: word: asunder
word: in twain
word: apart
word: asunder
word: half and half
word: in sunder
word: piecemeal
glosses: In or into two or more parts.
examples: text: Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 1:21:
text: Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.
ref: 1827, John Keble, “The Snow-Drop”, in The Christian Year:
glosses: To the side; aside.