cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overfret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfrets
form: overfretting
form: overfretted
form: overfret
form: overfrate
form: overfretted
form: overfret
form: overfrate
form: overfretten
Etymology: From over- + fret. Compare Middle English overfreten, ovirfretyn (past participle).
Senses: examples: text: "I believe it was," replied Lord Norbourne, kindly taking his companion's hand. "I have learnt to think of my loss with a sadness that soothes me. I turn to her image when overfretted with worldly cares. I hope almost as she hoped for our re-union."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Asking for an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 23:
text: But now come down from your pedestal, and do not overfret yourself, because your hand, or your mind, or your soul, will not fulfil all that you would have it.
ref: 1851, Arthur Helps, Companions of my solitude, page 201:
glosses: To fret excessively.
fermentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fermentive
form: most fermentive
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to fermentation.
jeanettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeanette
jouncier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jouncy: more jouncy
jounciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jouncy: most jouncy
idiotly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more idiotly
form: most idiotly
Etymology: From idiot + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […], and in order to win the support of those who could not think for themselves, you deliberately and falsely represented yourself as the holder of several Doctor's degrees and idiotly claimed to be the Coming Master.
ref: 1931, tNicolas C. Dizon, The "Master" vs. Juan de la Cruz, page 99:
text: He remembered their faces, red and idiotly merry with excited ridicule, so fiercely eager to lay indignity on someone else.
ref: 1958, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, page 193:
text: Whimsic fantasy, grub fact, pure senseless music—none in itself would do; to embody all and rise above each, in a work neither longfaced nor idiotly grinning, but adventuresome, passionately humored, merry with the pain of insight, wise and smiling in the terror of life—that was my calm ambition.
ref: 1972, James Thomas Gresham, John Barth as Menippean Satirist, page 146:
glosses: In the manner of an idiot; idiotically.
femerall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femeralls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of femerell.
femeralls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femerall
fluoridize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluoridizes
form: fluoridizing
form: fluoridized
form: fluoridized
Etymology: From fluoride + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To fluoridate.
Related terms: fluoridization
fluorinate
fluorination
fluoridized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: synonyms: fluoridated
glosses: simple past and past participle of fluoridize
fluoridized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: fluoridated
glosses: Treated with fluoride.
fluoridizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fluoridize
fluoridizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fluoridize
femininism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feminine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: How do we deal with sadism and masculinism, masochism and femininism, the strut and the swagger, the cringe and the death wish?
ref: 1966, Peter H. Odegard, American Government: readings and documents, page 603:
glosses: feminine behaviour
federalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more federalistic
form: most federalistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of federalism.
franseria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: franserias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Franseria (now Ambrosia, ragweeds).
franserias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of franseria
leading lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading ladies
Senses: glosses: A woman who does or can play the lead role in a movie, play or other production; a woman who frequently plays such roles.
glosses: The type of conventionally beautiful and approachable woman who is perceived as being capable of playing female lead roles in movies or other productions.
Related terms: leading man
leading woman
furcately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From furcate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a furcate manner.
fusibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fusible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fusible.
equatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Exchange rests on equatability of things, goods, services exchanged. But how does an exchange of a pot made of clay and a pouch made of leather take place between their respective owners?
ref: 1979, Lawrence Krader, A Treatise of Social Labor, page 127:
glosses: The quality of being equatable.
entrainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrainer
electroluminescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroluminescence
eklogite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eklogites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eclogite.
eklogites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eklogite
dasheki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dashekis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dashiki.
dashekis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dasheki
two-eyed jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-eyed jacks
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Either the jack of diamonds or jack of clubs, on which the jack is commonly depicted from the front, with both eyes visible.
Hyponyms: jack of diamonds
jack of clubs
Related terms: one-eyed jack
man with the ax
suicide king
wild card
datival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: dative
Derived terms: nondatival
hamburgher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamburghers
Senses: examples: text: Needless to say, when I left there and went on to Hallam Joan and I started in to have a time and, just as I foresaw, she has made a swell job of bashing the red car to hamburgher meat […]
ref: 1941, Irene Baird, He Rides the Sky, page 77:
text: For variety, wrap each hamburgher in a slice of bacon, fasten with a toothpick, and grill.
ref: 1947, Maura Laverty, Maura Laverty's cookbook: with a section on diet by Sybil Le Brocquy:
text: There is a tenderloin near the tail, two large pieces of meat on each side of the backbone of 500 to 600 pounds of red meat of a coarse grain which is sweet and good. It can be ground into hamburghers then mixed with salt pork, seasoned, […]
ref: 1950, Frances Diane Robotti, Whaling and Old Salem:
glosses: Dated spelling of hamburger.
hamburghers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamburgher
harmoniphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmoniphons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harmoniphone.
harmoniphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmoniphon
haruspical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a haruspex.
hastately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hastate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hastate manner.
healthcares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of healthcare
hennishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hennish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hennish.
hennishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hennishly
form: most hennishly
Etymology: From hennish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hennish manner.
hennish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hennish
form: most hennish
Etymology: From hen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Henlike.
Derived terms: hennishly
hennishness
heterosexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterosexuality
heterothally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: heterothallism
homothally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: homothallism
hetmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetmanships
Etymology: From hetman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of hetman.
hetmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetmanship
headmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headmanships
Etymology: From headman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of headman.
headmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headmanship
hexadactylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hexadactylous
hierocratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hierocratical
form: most hierocratical
Senses: glosses: hierocratic
hierocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hierocratically
form: most hierocratically
Senses: glosses: In a hierocratic manner.
hierophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hierophobic
form: most hierophobic
Etymology: From hiero- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Averse to what is religious or sacred.
highermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From higher + -most.
Senses: glosses: Uppermost; in the highest position.
highermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From higher + -most.
Senses: glosses: Uppermost; in the highest position.
hippiehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippie + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a hippie.
hippopotamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippopotamian
form: most hippopotamian
Etymology: From hippopotamus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hippopotamus.
hobbledehoydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hobbledehoy + -dom.
Senses: glosses: hobbledehoyhood
hogwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogwash
holocaustal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more holocaustal
form: most holocaustal
Etymology: From holocaust + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a holocaust.
holohedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holohedron
holophytism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holophyte + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of being a holophyte.
overproportionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overproportionately
form: most overproportionately
Etymology: From overproportionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overproportionate manner.
illegitimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illegitimate
illegitimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illegitimate
homoblasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being homoblastic.
interassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interassociations
Etymology: From inter- + association.
Senses: glosses: Mutual association between multiple entities
Related terms: interassociate
interassociations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interassociation
hypsophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypso- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Though I had more instructions, I was overcome by a huge dizzying wave of hypsophobia as I stared at him, his boots balanced on the narrow sill, his rear end dangling in outer space.
ref: 1967, Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife, page 94:
glosses: Fear of heights.
hypnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypnology.
hypnologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypnology.
hyperaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + action.
Senses: glosses: excessive action, as of a biological system
Related terms: hyperactive
hymnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hymnology.
Derived terms: hymnologically
hymnologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hymnology.
housecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housecrafts
Etymology: From house + craft.
Senses: examples: text: […] we should hear less of teaching subjects for the sake of faculty, a point in which he was supported by Miss M. Frodsham, who held further that all science teaching in girls' schools should lead up to hygiene and housecraft.
ref: 1916, The School World, volume 18, page 378:
synonyms: homecraft
glosses: The art of homemaking.
housecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housecraft
hydroponist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroponists
Senses: glosses: A person who cultivates plants using hydroponics.
hydroponicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroponicists
Etymology: From hydroponic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who cultivates plants using hydroponics.
hydroponists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroponist
hydroponicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroponicist
hydrotropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydrotropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hydrotropic manner.
hydropathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydropathic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was treated hydropathically.
glosses: By means of hydropathy.
hubristical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hubristical
form: most hubristical
Etymology: From hubristic + -al.
Senses: glosses: hubristic
hubristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hubristically
form: most hubristically
Etymology: From hubristic + -ally or hubristical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hubristic manner; with hubris.
bicyclical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: bicyclic
aggregatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aggregative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aggregative manner.
aquatones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquatone
irretentiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irretentive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irretentive.
redeemables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redeemable
irredeemables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irredeemable
superforecaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superforecasters
Etymology: From super + forecaster.
Senses: examples: text: On average, when a forecaster did well enough in year 1 to become a superforecaster, and was put on a superforecaster team in year 2, that person became 50% more accurate.
ref: 2015, Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, →ISBN, page 205:
text: An important lesson taught by the gaming approach to warfare is that the superforecaster must be always open to 'unknown unknowns', to use the decision-theoretic jargon popularized by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the Iraq war.
ref: 2018, Steve Fuller, Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game, →ISBN:
text: The superforecasters turned out to outperform the other contestants by a substantial margin in the second and third years of the tournament, that is, they were not just lucky.
ref: 2018, Torleif Halkjelsvik, Magne Jørgensen, Time Predictions: Understanding and Avoiding Unrealism in Project Planning and Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: One who consistently makes predictions at significantly better than chance accuracy.
involutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From involute + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an involute manner.
superforecasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superforecaster
invigoratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more invigoratively
form: most invigoratively
Etymology: From invigorative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an invigorative manner.
invigoratingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From invigorating + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being invigorating.
intrapreneurially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intrapreneurially
form: most intrapreneurially
Etymology: From intrapreneurial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intrapreneurial manner.
interpretableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From interpretable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interpretable.
intercomprehensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + comprehensibility.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intercomprehensible.
superforecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super + forecasting.
Senses: glosses: The skill of making highly accurate predictions.
avant-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of avant-garde + pop
Senses: glosses: Pop music with experimental or avant-garde elements.
intercommunicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercommunicators
Etymology: From inter- + communicator.
Senses: glosses: An intercom.
intercommunicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercommunicator
interavailability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + availability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being interavailable.
interavailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + available.
Senses: qualifier: public transport
glosses: Such that tickets purchased for one route or service can be used on another.
Related terms: interavailability
overmultiplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + multiplication.
Senses: glosses: excessive multiplication (of breeding organisms etc.)
debiasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debias
debiassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debias
macerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macerative
form: most macerative
Etymology: From macerate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Causing or relating to maceration.
debiassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debias
micell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micells
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of micelle.
micells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micell
microclimatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to microclimatology.
Derived terms: microclimatologically
microclimatologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to microclimatology.
microclimatologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From microclimatological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of microclimatology.
microdetection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + detection.
Senses: glosses: The detection of very small amounts of a material.
Related terms: microdetector
micromethods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromethod
macromethods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macromethod
microprisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microprism
randomista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randomistas
Etymology: From random + -ista.
Senses: examples: text: He is against “one-size-fits-all” policy rules and favors experimentation, but he is skeptical of the experimental claims by the “randomistas.”
ref: 2010, Jessica Cohen, William Easterly, What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small, →ISBN:
text: 'If we don't know whether we are doing any good, then we are not any better than the medieval doctors and their leeches,' says Esther Duflo, a leading randomista.
ref: 2011, Tim Harford, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, →ISBN:
text: But Charles Peirce, the brilliant randomista who helped kickstart the field, would spend his final two decades unable to afford to heat his house, subsisting on bread donated by the local baker, and writing on the back of old manuscripts because he was too poor to buy paper.
ref: 2018, Andrew Leigh, Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World, →ISBN:
glosses: A proponent of randomized trials as the optimal form of research.
randomistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of randomista
misalters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misalter
misaltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misalter
misaltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misalter
misentreats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misentreat
misseat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misseats
form: misseating
form: misseated
form: misseated
Etymology: From mis- + seat.
Senses: glosses: To seat badly or wrongly.
misseated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misseat
misseats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misseat
misseating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misseat
monophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monophobia
monopitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopitches
Etymology: From mono- + pitch.
Senses: examples: text: Under the circumstances it was not difficult to draw the tentative inference that the subject's vocal monopitch was causally connected with his auditory deficiency; all a priori considerations pointed strongly in that direction.
ref: 1923, Andrew Thomas Weaver, Experimental Studies in Vocal Expression, page 23:
glosses: The use of a single pitch (sound frequency); lack of pitch variation.
monopitch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: monopitched
Etymology: From mono- + pitch.
Senses: examples: text: Monopitch roofs are often found over single-storey ancillary rooms and spaces such as utility rooms at the side or back of the main building on traditional houses.
ref: 2013, Julian Owen, Complete Loft Conversion Book, →ISBN:
topics: architecture
glosses: Sloping in one direction only.
monopitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopitch
stupidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stupid + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: This type of education for domestication, which borders on stupidification, provides no pedagogical spaces for students, as Chomsky insightfully argues in this book, "not to be seen merely as an audience but as part of a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively."
ref: 2004, Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo, Chomsky on Miseducation, →ISBN, page 5:
text: I attribute it to successive campaigns of stupidification, not unrelated to actual machinations of the ruling class, shaped in a particular, post-60s way, but also not unrelated to Neil Postman's notion of “amusing ourselves to death” and Mark Crispin Miller's notion of "big brother is you, watching" (on the former, see the book of that tile; on the latter, see Boxed In: The Culture of TV).
ref: 2013, Bill Martin, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, →ISBN, page 347:
text: Resisting this systematic stupidification is a noble purpose, which can only be pursued in ordinary life.
ref: 2016, Michel Puech, The Ethics of Ordinary Technology, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: The act or process of making stupider.
monticolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Living on a mountain.
multikiloton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kiloton.
Senses: glosses: Of several kilotons.
stupidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stupidifies
form: stupidifying
form: stupidified
form: stupidified
Etymology: From stupid + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Donaldo Macedo's work suggests traditional education intends to stupidify in an effort to conceal humanity's ability to transform the world and create history.
ref: 2004, Stanley S. Steiner, H. Mark Krank, Robert E. Bahruth, Freireian Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities, →ISBN:
text: The Fallen Angels (Watchers, Annunakim) can imitate and create counterfeits also, on a limited basis however, just enough to fool, entertain or further stupidify us in our own self-inflicted sins and deceptions.
ref: 2007, Shalomim Y. Halahawi, The Way! the Prophetic Messianic Voice to the Path of the Edenic Kingdom Redemption, →ISBN:
text: Epistemology is a central dimension of that alteration as it lays a foundation for the human carnage, environmental destruction, ethical insensitivity to those harmed by macro-political economic policies, educational institutions that stupidify more than edify, and ethnocentric world views that undermine the growth of our consciousness.
ref: 2008, Joe L. Kincheloe, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: To make stupider or promote stupidity.
multimegatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + megatons.
Senses: glosses: An amount of several megatons.
stupidifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stupidify
stupidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stupidify
stupidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stupidify
mysteried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mysteried
form: most mysteried
Etymology: From mystery + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Full of mystery; mysterious.
paraformaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraformaldehyde
parajournalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parajournalistic
form: most parajournalistic
Etymology: From para- + journalistic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or engaging in, parajournalism.
parajournalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parajournalists
Etymology: From para- + journalist.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in parajournalism.
parajournalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parajournalist
paperworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperworks
Etymology: From paper + works.
Senses: examples: text: […] the former claiming damage from the pollution of the water by the paperworks at Withnell; a private arrangement was made between the parties […]
ref: 1870, Reports from Commissioners, volume 40, page 276:
glosses: A factory that produces paper.
paperworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paperwork + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of paperwork
pantaletted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dressed in pantalettes.
common mullein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: torchwort
hag-taper
great mullein
Adam's flannel
Jacob's staff
Aaron's rod
Jupiter's staff
cow's lungwort
glosses: Verbascum thapsus; great mullein
pamphletary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pamphlet + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pamphlets.
peptizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peptize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be peptized.
peregrinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peregrinatory
form: most peregrinatory
Etymology: From peregrinate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to peregrination, to travelling or wandering.
perfervidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perfervid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being perfervid.
photoduplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photoduplicate
photodisintegrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photodisintegrate
knownothingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After six weeks' intermission it would reopen in July for four weeks more, and then another long gap would occur, during which the children would fall back into the common pit of knownothingness, from which they were dragged during the brief interval when learning was supposed to be flourishing among them.
ref: 1899, Caroline H. Pemberton, Stephen the Black, page 96:
text: There will be doubting Thomases in any event ; but the writer, with seventy-five years of life behind him, cannot help feeling that he will soon be in a position to know the truth of the matter — or else to be lost in the depths of utter knownothingness.
ref: 1907, Paul Carus, The Open Court - Volume 21, page 43:
text: Lady Wren was so impressed with her husband's knowledge and her own knownothingness and the prettiness of the name, that she exclaimed : "We'll call our baby Spunglass."
ref: 1917, The Story Tellers' Magazine - Volume 5, page 347:
glosses: Alternative form of know-nothingness.
phantomish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantomish
form: most phantomish
Etymology: From phantom + -ish.
Senses: glosses: ghostly
phantomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantomies
Etymology: From phantom + -y.
Senses: glosses: Illusion, fantasy; the practice of illusion, deception (15th-16th century, now obsolete)
phantomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantomy
form: most phantomy
Etymology: From phantom + -y.
Senses: glosses: ghostly
pharyngals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngal
picqueted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of picquet
picqueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of picquet
pigboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigboat
pigmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigmoid
form: most pigmoid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pygmoid.
pigmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigmoids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pygmoid.
pigmoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigmoid
pigsticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pigstick
pilgrimager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilgrimagers
Etymology: From pilgrimage + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who goes on a pilgrimage; a pilgrim.
pilgrimagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilgrimager
know-nothingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knownothingness
Etymology: From know-nothing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Anxious, as if I knew even then in my infant know-nothingness that my life would be torn apart by people who I'm sure meant nothing by it but were instead pursuing their own lives and their own hearts and dreams and beliefs and aspirations and horizons, much like I would and am, yet somehow I am tossed from this family of mine because I chose to do what my heart suggested and yearned for, for which a reason there is no better.
ref: 2003, Courtney X, Lasting Visions of X--The Haunted Artist, →ISBN, page 172:
text: More particularly agnosticism is an attitude of “know-nothingness”.
ref: 2008, Mathew Chandrankunnel, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, →ISBN, page 822:
text: Anxiety is a state of emotional know-nothingness in which the individual succumbs to helplessness.
ref: 2012, Peter R. Breggin, Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal:
glosses: The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.
examples: text: There was a growing spirit of "Know-nothingness" and avoidance of foreign things in the town and the German community was, at the same time, growing stronger in its determination to protect its own rights.
ref: 1989, Missouri Folklore Society Journal - Volumes 11-12, page 66:
text: Know-nothingness is this time's prime feature: a new know-nothingness, a greater know-nothingness, even a new order, even neo-fascism.
ref: 1991, Josef Albers, Josef Albers: La Fundación Chinati/The Chinati Foundation:
text: The new know-nothingness presents itself as a perverse reversal of Bacon's notorious declaration, “knowledge is power.”
ref: 2002, Robert C. Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Furthermore, sociologists Paul DiMaggio, Richard A. Peterson, and Jack Esco Jr. contended that, while such an interpretation of country music required a dismissal of more socially progressive songs by some of the same artists, songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” wreaked untold havoc on country music by leading “popular commentators to see all country music as rightwing know-nothingness."
ref: 2011, Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D., Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks, →ISBN:
glosses: A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.
pollenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pollenates
form: pollenating
form: pollenated
form: pollenated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pollinate.
pollenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pollenate
pollenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pollenate
pollenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pollenate
pokeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokefuls
Etymology: From poke + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a poke; a bagful or sackful.
pokefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pokeful
poeticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poeticalities
Etymology: From poetical + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: poeticalness
poeticity
poeticness
antonyms: unpoeticality
unpoeticalness
unpoeticity
unpoeticness
glosses: The quality of being poetical.
glosses: A poetical turn of phrase.
poeticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poeticality
plasteriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plastery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being plastery.
planetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plane table.
planetables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetable
planetalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetality
plainhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plainhearted
form: most plainhearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plain-hearted.
pitchperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchpersons
form: pitchpeople
Etymology: From pitch + person.
Senses: glosses: A pitchman or pitchwoman.
pitchpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchperson
pitchpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchperson
Pumpkinhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pumpkinheads
Etymology: From The Smashing Pumpkins + -head.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
wikipedia: The Smashing Pumpkins
dataphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dataphobic
form: most dataphobic
Senses: examples: text: It is both practical and "doable" and will guide even the most "dataphobic" in selecting and acquiring statistical measures.
ref: 1995, Journal of Youth Services in Libraries - Volume 9, page 17:
text: Because, as outlined in Chapter 3, they suffer from the most crippling weaknesses: They are uniquely cellular, goal-averse, and dataphobic—more so than perhaps any other kind of organization (Lortie 1975, Rosenholtz 1989).
ref: 1999, Mike Schmoker, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement, →ISBN, page 61:
text: The dataphobic mindset (“It's not like that in Burkina Faso”) can lead to real tragedy.
ref: 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of data phobic.
piscatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From piscatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In relation to fishing.
pinmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinmakers
Etymology: From pin + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of pins.
pinmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinmaker
Pumpkinheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pumpkinhead
monoplatform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monoplatform
form: most monoplatform
Etymology: From mono- + platform.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: single-platform
polyneuritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to polyneuritis.
Derived terms: antipolyneuritic
data-phobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more data-phobic
form: most data-phobic
Etymology: From data + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: A light-hearted diagnosis can take place by asking staff members to give themselves a 1-10 rating, with the low of 1 described as "data-phobic" and the high of 10 describing your own school's "Data Dude" or "Data Diva.
ref: 2004, Edie L. Holcomb, Getting excited about data: combining people, passion, and proof to maximize student achievement, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Ingram et al. (2004) found that teachers are not “data-phobic” but rather lack the experience of working with data.
ref: 2010, Theodore Kowalski, Thomas J. Lasley, Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of data phobic.
postimpressionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postimpressionistic
form: most postimpressionistic
Senses: glosses: postimpressionist
postliminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Occurring afterward.
data phobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more data phobic
form: most data phobic
form: data-phobic
form: dataphobic
Senses: examples: text: That may not be a welcome suggestion; many proponents of data-driven instruction will swear that teachers are historically "data phobic."
ref: 2006, Eric Jensen, Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential, →ISBN:
text: I think people in our field are a bit data phobic. They are not trained to work with it. They are not trained to use it and interpret it.
ref: 2008, Bonita Stanton, Jennifer Galbraith, Linda Kaljee, The Uncharted Path from Clinic-based to Community-based Research:
text: Many people are data phobic and unwilling to engage with data to make decisions.
ref: 2014, Zach Gemignani, Chris Gemignani, Richard Galentino, Data Fluency, →ISBN:
glosses: Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.
postmillenarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: postmillennialism
potlatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potlatch
potlatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potlatchings
form: potlaching
Etymology: From potlatch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of potlatch
An act of giving; especially, the giving of a gift during a potlatch ceremony.
glosses: gerund of potlatch
The carrying out of a potlatch ceremony.
potlatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potlaching
Etymology: From potlatch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potlatch
pragmaticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pragmaticism
Stinglys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stingly
Blytonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blytonish
form: most Blytonish
Etymology: From Blyton + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Blytonesque
preventably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preventably
form: most preventably
Etymology: From preventable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it could be prevented.
prefigurativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prefigurative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being prefigurative.
prepossessingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prepossessing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being prepossessing.
pretelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretell
pretells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pretell
presswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presswomen
Etymology: From press + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female pressman.
presswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presswoman
procural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: procurals
Senses: glosses: The act of procuring something.
promiseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promiseful
form: most promiseful
Etymology: From promise + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of promise for the future; promising.
dataphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dataphobes
Senses: examples: text: Fear not, dataphobe. Now Reality Technologies' software development consulting service will tweak the program for you.
ref: 1987, Training and Development Journal - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, page 112:
text: The fact that teachers most often view data publicly, as a team, doesn't help dataphobes' feelings of numerical inadequacy.
ref: 2014, Daniel R. Venables, How Teachers Can Turn Data into Action, →ISBN, page 23:
text: There are results to engage even the most zealous dataphobe.
ref: 2017, Mark Seidenberg, Language at the Speed of Sight, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of data-phobe.
dataphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dataphobe
pronouncedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pronounced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pronounced.
putrefiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putrefier
puschkinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puschkinias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Puschkinia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Puschkinia of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae.
puschkinias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puschkinia
data-phobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data-phobes
Etymology: From data + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: At this point, the hard-core "data-phobes" are probably muttering, "These guys can't fool me. There's math involved in statistics."
ref: 1984, John Waite Bowers, John A. Courtright, Communication research methods, page 133:
text: Authors may even ignore these features because they did not notice them, may have run out of time, may be data-phobes themselves, or may not be very good analysts (that's possible!).
ref: 1992, Erickson, Understanding Data, →ISBN, pages 1–2:
text: As a data scientist, you still need to be mindful to what is going on around you – like when the CEO who loves data is replaced with a data-phobe.
ref: 2018, Daniel A. McGrath, Quantitative Analysis for System Applications, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is data phobic.
data-phobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data-phobe
purposelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purposelike
form: most purposelike
Etymology: From purpose + -like.
Senses: glosses: purposeful
pushcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushcards
Etymology: From push + card.
Senses: glosses: A punchboard.
pushcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushcard
purdahed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəːdəd/
ipa: /-dɑːd/
ipa: /ˈpɚdɚd/
Etymology: From purdah + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a purdah (“concealing curtain”).
examples: text: a purdahed woman
glosses: In a state of purdah (“system of seclusion of women in some Muslim and Hindu traditions”).
protractility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being protractile.
propanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propane
racerunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racerunner
railwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railwomen
Etymology: From rail + woman.
Senses: synonyms: railwaywoman
coordinate_terms: railman
railworker
glosses: A woman who works on a railway.
railwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railwoman
raiyatwari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ryotwari.
rajpramukh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rajpramukhs
Senses: glosses: An appointed governor in certain provinces and states of India, from independence in 1947 until 1956.
rajpramukhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rajpramukh
rakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rakeable.
ramosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ramose.
rancorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rancorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being rancorous.
tyrannophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tyranno- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Like many another novellist, Giraldi expresses admiration for kings and even spends most of his ninth deca indulging in a kind of tyrannophilia, making heroes of Ercole d'Este, Alfonso d'Este, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Francois I. Maria de Pacheco.
ref: 1977, Robert John Clements, Joseph Gibaldi, Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio Chaucer to Cervantes, page 94:
text: Rather than attempt to domesticate Nietzsche's tyrannophilia, Staten instead investigates the possibility of a "communication of energy" within the economy of Nietzsche's texts between his tyrrannophilia on the one hand and the most profound and sublime elements of his teaching on the other.
ref: 2002, Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Although tyrannophilia (D. Pikes) had not yet set in, the traditional tyrannophobia (Thomas Hobbes) had been partially set out of joint.
ref: 2007, Hans Maier, Totalitarianism and Political Religions:
glosses: A preference for autocratic forms of leadership.