cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biographers
Etymology: From biography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."
ref: 1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in The New York Times:
text: In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.'
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
Derived terms: autobiographer
psychobiographer
customize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/
ipa: /ˈkas.tə.mɑɪ̯z/
ipa: /ˈkas.tə.maɪ̯z/
Forms: form: customizes
form: customizing
form: customized
form: customized
form: customise
Etymology: From custom + -ize. First attested in 1934 in American English.
Senses: examples: text: High-priced lattes and customized drinks helped lift the coffee chain’s US sales in the quarter ending on October 1, the company said Thursday.
ref: 2023 November 2, Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Starbucks is leaning into its sugary concoctions to boost the business”, in CNN Business:
glosses: To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.
Derived terms: customizability
customizable
customizer
recustomize
semicustomized
uncustomized
Related terms: word: consuetude
word: costumal
word: costume
word: custom
word: customary
word: customer
word: customization
word: bespoke
word: characterize
word: differentiate
word: individualize
word: personalize
word: tailor
demotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/
Etymology: First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).
Senses: examples: text: demotic writing style
text: Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
ref: 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:
text: An enthusiastic literary critical response ranged from Graham Greene, who admired Byron’s demotic, conversational brilliance, to the rivalrous Evelyn Waugh, who had to concede the book’s high spirits, via the Sunday Times, which linked Byron to his namesake (no relation) and declared him “the last and finest fruit of the insolent humanism of the 18th century”.
ref: 2016 October 31, Robert McCrum, “The 100 best nonfiction books: No 40 – The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (1937)”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: colloquial
informal
popular
vernacular#Adjective
antonyms: formal#Adjective
coordinate_terms: democratic#Adjective
glosses: Of or for the common people.
synonyms: enchorial
coordinate_terms: abnormal hieratic
glosses: Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.
examples: text: demotic Greek
glosses: Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
Derived terms: demotically
demoticist
Related terms: Demotic Greek
demotist
demotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/
Forms: form: demotics
Etymology: First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: vernacular
2010, John C. Wells, accents map
Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Language as spoken or written by the common people.
gray collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray-collar.
Arvid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Arvid, Swedish Arvid or Norwegian Arvid.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
netsplit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netsplits
Etymology: From net + split.
Senses: glosses: A technical glitch encountered when two or more IRC servers lose their connection to each other, dividing the network into a number of isolated groups of users.
Synonyms: sense: disconnection
word: netburp
netsplit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: netsplits
form: netsplitting
form: netsplitted
form: netsplitted
Etymology: From net + split.
Senses: glosses: To leave an IRC server as a result of a netsplit.
SHTF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Some people, however, combine TEOTWAWKI with the immediacy of SHTF—“shit hits the fan,” the ideas of which were initially a response to the civil rights activities in the 1960s.
ref: 2019, Thomas Milan Konda, Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 323:
glosses: Initialism of (when the) shit hits the fan: used among survivalists to refer to an apocalyptic event.
Derived terms: SHTFer
Related terms: TEOTWAWKI
metrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtˈɹɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
ipa: /mɛˈtɹɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: metrologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science of weights and measures or of measurement.
glosses: A system of weights and measures.
Derived terms: biometrology
nanometrology
Related terms: metric
metrological
metrologically
metrologist
R.S.V.P.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R.S.V.P.'s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of RSVP.
wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒləbi/
ipa: /ˈwɑləbi/
Forms: form: wallabies
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug wollabi (“rock-wallaby”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of macropod; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.
Derived terms: agile wallaby
antilopine wallaby
banded hare-wallaby
Bennett's wallaby
black-footed rock wallaby
black-striped wallaby
black wallaby
dama wallaby
hare-wallaby
nail-tail wallaby
nailtail wallaby
on the wallaby
on the wallaby track
parma wallaby
Parma wallaby
pretty-faced wallaby
red-necked wallaby
rock-wallaby
scrub wallaby
swamp wallaby
tammar wallaby
toolache wallaby
wallaby grass
western brush wallaby
Related terms: joey
kangaroo
marsupial
boomer
Wallabies
paludal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəˈluːdəl/
/ˈpæljədəl/
Forms: form: more paludal
form: most paludal
Etymology: From Latin palus (“marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Omega-Froid running out through the Gulf Stream into the paludal bed of the Sargasso Sea, running through the marsupials and the foraminifera, […]
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Jabberwhorl Cronstadt”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Pertaining to marshes, marshy, palustral, (especially designating a plant's habitat).
Synonyms: marish
palustral
swampy
marshy
Derived terms: paludal fever
postpaludal
paludal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈluːdəl/
/ˈpæljədəl/
Forms: form: paludals
Etymology: From Latin palus (“marsh”).
Senses: glosses: A plant found in marshy habitats.
palustral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlʌstɹəl/
Forms: form: more palustral
form: most palustral
Etymology: From Latin palustris, from palūs (“swamp”), -al.
Senses: examples: text: The insects are scant, skinny. / In these palustral homes we only / Croak and wither.
ref: 1958, Sylvia Plath, Frog Autumn’:
text: Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the palustral involution of the vagina folded out and distended, cave become tower, as elegant a morphology as the spreading of the conifer leaf into oak and elm.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Pertaining to or located in marshes; marshy.
examples: text: Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.
ref: 1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, page 145:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That requires a marshy habitat.
raw_tags: of a plant
Synonyms: palustrine
boggy
paludal
swampy
marshy
alfabeto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”). Doublet of alphabet.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: alphabet soup
text: Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.
ref: 2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media:
glosses: Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.
examples: text: The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, "centonized" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the alfabeto books, and so forth.
ref: 1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volumes 17-18, page 127:
text: Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.
ref: 1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30:
text: In the Italian system, each letter of the alfabeto represents a chord formation on the guitar (the letter A, for example, represents a G-major chord).
ref: 1993, Stanley Yates, The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords.
Related terms: alphabet soup
auctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auctors
Senses: examples: text: And the ſumme, and meaninge of the wordes, which he now ſetteh forth is this, that the lorde Ieſus, though he ioigned vnto him mãnes nature in time, yet is æterne before al time, without beginning, & the verie auctor, maker, & prince of al men, high and low, and the true fountaine of al goodnes, righteouſnes, and holines, and of al the benefites, and graces, that at anie time haue ben giuen to mẽ, ſithens the begĩninge of the world, or ſhable giuen hereafter to the ende of the world.
ref: 1558, Bartho[lomew] Traheron, An Exposition of a Parte of S. Iohannes Gospel Made in Sondrie Readinges in the English Congregation […]:
text: Yow ſee that he is a plaine makebate, and to mende his cauſe by ſetting the doctours at variance betwene them ſelues, how he heweth, mangleth, and cutteth awaie from the auctors that he alleageth, wordes, yea ſentences to ſerue his purpoſe.
ref: 1565, Thomas Dorman, A Disproufe of M. Novvelles Reproufe, Antwerp: […] Iohn Laet, page 206:
text: But if wee would bring any booke out of credite by denying the auctor whoſe title it hath borne: wee would rather intitle it to ſome other writer of leſſe credite, or later tyme, or by ſome other argumentes proue it vnworthie of credite, not by onely denying it to be the auctors, vnder whoſe name it hath bene receyued.
ref: 1583, William Fulke, A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, Against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of Gregorie Martin, One of the Readers of Popish Diuinitie in the Trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes, London: […] Henrie Bynneman, for George Bishop, pages 30–31:
text: If any thinke I had great helpes of Alunno, or of Venuti, let him confer, and knovve I haue in tvvo, yea almost in one of my letters of the Alphabet more vvordes, then they haue in all their tvventie; and they are but for a fevv auctors in the Italian toong, mine for moſt that vvrite well, as may appeere by the Catalog of bookes that I haue read through of purpoſe for the accompliſhing of this Dictionarie.
ref: 1598, Iohn Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount:
glosses: Obsolete form of author.
noes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊz/
ipa: /noʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: knows
homophone: nose
Forms: form: nos
Senses: glosses: plural of no
noes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊz/
ipa: /noʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: knows
homophone: nose
Forms: form: nos
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of no
trombe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trombes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tromp (“blowing apparatus in a forge”).
actrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin āctrīx (“female plaintiff”). By surface analysis, actor + -trix. Doublet of actrice.
Senses: examples: text: Wife Elizabeth, whole estate, including gold, silver, jewels, etc., and to be executrix and “universal actrix,” to bring up the children until they will be fit for trades.
ref: 1918, Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, volume 30, page 469:
text: Thirdly, the actrix in her own testimony did not so much allege ignorance but rather showed that she abhorred the notion of sexual relations and had a positive will opposed to its fulfillment.
ref: 1935, John Joseph Manning, Presumptions of Law in Marriage Cases, page 75:
text: Compare Marrays c. Rowcliff where the annotator has written the age of the actrix in the margin every time a witness answered the question about her age, […]
ref: 2000, Frederik Pedersen, Marriage disputes in medieval England, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: law
glosses: A female plaintiff.
Related terms: actress
actio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin āctiō.
Senses: glosses: The use of voice and gestures in oratory; the style of delivery of a speech.
Related terms: actio popularis
lawsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lôʹs(j)o͞ot'
ipa: /ˈlɔːˌs(j)uːt/
enpr: lôʹs(j)o͞ot'
ipa: /ˈlɔˌs(j)ut/
enpr: läʹs(j)o͞ot'
ipa: /ˈlɑˌs(j)ut/
Forms: form: lawsuits
Etymology: From law + suit.
Senses: examples: text: The lawyer advised his client against filing a lawsuit as it would take a lot of time and money to resolve.
text: My ex-fiancé filed a lawsuit against me for a false restraining order and defamation.
text: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
topics: law
glosses: In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
Synonyms: litigation
Derived terms: class action lawsuit
counterlawsuit
lawsuitable
LOLsuit
prelawsuit
lawsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lôʹs(j)o͞ot'
ipa: /ˈlɔːˌs(j)uːt/
enpr: lôʹs(j)o͞ot'
ipa: /ˈlɔˌs(j)ut/
enpr: läʹs(j)o͞ot'
ipa: /ˈlɑˌs(j)ut/
Forms: form: lawsuits
form: lawsuiting
form: lawsuited
form: lawsuited
Etymology: From law + suit.
Senses: examples: text: The master, said Thady, lawsuited against the tenants […]
ref: 1970, Charles Lucey, Ireland and the Irish: Cathleen Ni Houlihan is Alive and Well, page 112:
glosses: To bring a lawsuit.
caws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːz/
ipa: /kɔz/
ipa: /kɑz/
homophone: cause
homophone: cores (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: plural of caw
caws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːz/
ipa: /kɔz/
ipa: /kɑz/
homophone: cause
homophone: cores (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caw
kilometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilometer
debole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deboles
Etymology: From Italian debole, meaning "weak", equivalent to the French foible.
Senses: examples: text: There are two parts to the sword: the forte and the debole. The forte begins from the hilt, extending as far as the middle of the blade; and the remainder is called the debole. The forte is for parrying, and the debole for striking. This is really important because: if you always keep your forte in the way of the opponent's debole, you will never be hit.
ref: 2021, Guy Windsor, The Complete Rapier:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The flexible part of the blade near the tip of light swords such as rapiers.
jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēnz
ipa: /d͡ʒiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
homophone: genes
Etymology: From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
text: As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun “jeans,” blue or yellow—there were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two—yarn ones knitted at home,—some wore vests, but few wore coats.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēnz
ipa: /d͡ʒiːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
homophone: genes
Etymology: From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Senses: glosses: plural of jean
Derived terms: bikini jeans
blue jeans
boyfriend jeans
cream in one's jeans
cream one's jeans
destroyed jeans
jeanlike
jeans jacket
jeanswear
jeggings
jorts
mom jeans
skinny jeans
Related terms: Genoese
Genovese
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breeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːks/
rhymes: -iːks
Etymology: From Middle English breke, Northern variant of brechis (“trousers”), from Old English brēċ (“breeches”), plural of brōc (“covering for the leg; trouser”). More at breeches.
Senses: examples: text: — Ah, poor dogsbody, he said in a kind voice. I must give you a shirt and a few noserags. How are the secondhand breeks?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 6:
text: He was a loutish fellow, much bent in the shoulders, with leggings, which lacked most of the buttons, over his disreputable breeks.
ref: 1930 July, John Buchan, “The First Day of the Hegira—The Inn at Watermeeting”, in Castle Gay, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 140:
text: Tane unfolded and rose to his full height. Naked, his tanned flesh glistening with sweat, he held out his arms and stretched out the kinks in his body. […] "Loan me some breeks."
ref: 2002, Mickee Madden, Midnight Sun, page 144:
glosses: Pants, breeches.
deathmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: deathmatches
Etymology: From death + match.
Senses: examples: text: There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.
ref: 2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide:
text: The player continued to describe their own experience with deathmatch, explaining sometimes it takes several minutes for the deathmatch to load — meaning by the time they spawn, the game is almost over.
ref: 2023 August 5, Shay Robson, “Valorant players plead with Riot for overdue Deathmatch rework”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
synonyms: free-for-all
glosses: A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.
Derived terms: deathmatcher
team deathmatch
Texas deathmatch
Related terms: cage match
battle royale
deathmarch
deathmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: deathmatches
form: deathmatching
form: deathmatched
form: deathmatched
Etymology: From death + match.
Senses: examples: Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!
topics: video-games
glosses: To compete against in a deathmatch.
topics: video-games
glosses: To take part in deathmatch gaming.
bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdɹuːm/
ipa: /ˈbɛdɹʊm/
ipa: /ˈbɛdˌɹum/
ipa: /ˈbɛdɹʊm/
Forms: form: bedrooms
form: bed room
form: bed-room
Etymology: From bed + room.
Senses: examples: text: Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.
text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Elopers”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 33:
text: I am in the bedroom.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
examples: text: "How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.
text: If you’re single, you might be going through a dry spell, or if you’re taken, life in the bedroom has become more routine and less of a spontaneous, fun activity.
ref: 2023 August 11, Jake Register, “Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: The location of sexual activity.
Synonyms: word: bedchamber
word: sleeping quarters
Hypernyms: room
Hyponyms: master bedroom
Derived terms: word: bedrobe
word: bedroomed
word: bedroomful
word: bedroomish
word: bedroomless
word: bedroomlike
word: bedroom nation
word: bedroomy
word: bedsit
word: multibedroom
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom deal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom-eyed
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom nation
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom pop
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom set
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom suburb
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bedroom town
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: dead bedroom
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: master bedroom
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: primary bedroom
Related terms: bedroom community
bedroom eyes
bedroom state
bedroom tax
in the bedroom
sushi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞osh'i
ipa: /ˈsuːʃi/
ipa: /ˈsuʃi/
rhymes: -uːʃi
homophone: souchy
Forms: form: sushis
form: sushiing
form: sushied
form: sushied
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寿司(すし) (sushi, “sushi (sour rice)”), ultimately from archaic conjugation 酸(す)し (sushi, “sour, vinegared”) of modern adjective 酸(す)い (sui, “sour, vinegared”).
Senses: examples: text: Our finned friends come in all varieties: sushi-ed, fresh, smoked and otherwise packaged for your consumption.
ref: 2017, Korina Miller, Kate Armstrong, Lonely Planet Canada:
glosses: To prepare (a food) as sushi.
shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛltə/
ipa: /ˈʃɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
homophone: Shelta (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: shelters
form: sheltering
form: sheltered
form: sheltered
Etymology: From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English sċildtruma, sċyldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from sċyld, sċield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.
Doublet of sheltron (a kind of military formation), which is the more conservative of the two.
Senses: examples: text: Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
ref: 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton:
text: You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:
glosses: To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
examples: text: During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
glosses: To take cover.
rifugio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rifugios
form: rifugi
Etymology: From Italian rifugio. Doublet of refuge and refugium.
Senses: examples: text: And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.
ref: 2015 August 13, Robert Draper, “In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times:
glosses: A hut in the Italian mountains.
variant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: vâr'ē-ənt
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈvæɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹi.ənt/
Forms: form: more variant
form: most variant
form: variaunt
Etymology: Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).
Senses: glosses: Showing variety, diverse.
glosses: Showing deviation or disagreement.
glosses: Variable.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Covariant and/or contravariant.
Derived terms: time-variant
variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vâr'ē-ənt
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈvæɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹi.ənt/
Forms: form: variants
form: variaunt
Etymology: Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).
Senses: examples: text: All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.
glosses: Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
examples: text: Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A different sequence of a gene (locus).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
examples: text: The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
text: The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:
text: Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing.
ref: 2014, Kimberly Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long, Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition, page 27:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
Derived terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
biovariant
bivariant
copy-number variant
delta variant
Delta variant
epivariant
Epsilon variant
equivariant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
genovariant
glycovariant
heterovariant
immunovariant
invariant
Iota variant
isovariant
Kappa variant
Kraken variant
Lambda variant
metavariant
microvariant
monovariant
multivariant
Mu variant
neurovariant
nonvariant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
pathovariant
pharmacovariant
polyvariant
scariant
serovariant
splice variant
subvariant
Theta variant
univariant
unvariant
variant reading
Zeta variant
z-variant
Related terms: variance
variation
vary
alternate
alternative
putsch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʊtʃ
Forms: form: putsches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
text: 2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.
"They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."
synonyms: coup
coup d'état
glosses: A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Derived terms: putscher
putschist
broody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːdi/
rhymes: -uːdi
Forms: form: broodies
Etymology: From Middle English *brody, *brodi, from Old English brōdiġ (“broody”), equivalent to brood + -y. Cognate with German brütig (“broody”).
Senses: examples: text: There are six broodies in that coop.
glosses: A female bird in the condition to incubate eggs; a broody hen, duck, etc.
speculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speculators
Etymology: From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.
Senses: examples: text: a bold and paradoxical speculator
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
examples: text: […] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.
ref: 1666, Joseph Glanvill, Philosophical Considerations concerning Witches and Witchcraft:
text: For, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, a speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by its nature mortal, and does, in the great majority of cases, actually die with the body, would have been burned alive in Smithfield.
ref: 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
glosses: One who forms theories; a theorist.
topics: business
finance
glosses: One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Synonym of field goal.
synonyms: word: field goal
Related terms: speculate
speculation
speculative
speculatrix
entrepreneur
gambler
punter
dolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊləs/
ipa: /ˈdoʊləs/
rhymes: -əʊləs
Forms: form: doli
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dolus (“deceit, trickery”); akin to Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “bait, ruse”). Compare dolose, dolosity.
Senses: examples: text: Every actual delict presupposes a dolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense
ref: 1849, James G. Butler, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:
topics: law
glosses: Evil intent: malice or fraud.
Related terms: dolose
dolosity
dolus specialis
ante meridiem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: am
form: AM
form: a.m.
form: antemeridiem
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin ante merīdiem, from Latin ante (“before”) + merīdiem, accusative singular of merīdiēs (“noon, midday”).
Senses: examples: text: And 'tis earnestly recommended to the Synod to continue their Kindness to Mr Leask, according as his Circumstances do require, May 12. Sess. 6. ante meridiem.
ref: 1725, Church of Scotland. General Assembly, “Index of the ACTS of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland held in the Year 1725, which are not here printed.”, in Compilation of Scans of The Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1721–1730, digitised for George Mosman in 2008, (mistitled by Google Books as if relating to 1721 only), Edinburgh, Scotland: James Davidson & Robert Fleming, 5th Section: The Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Conveened [sic] at Edinburgh, the 6th of May, 1725, page 29 of 1725 Section (5th page of Index):
glosses: before noon, in the morning.
QWAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the work of Christopher Alexander.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Acronym of quality without a name, referring to a more metaphysical attribute that expresses elegancy of code.
wikipedia: Christopher Alexander
midday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪdˈdeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: middays
form: mid-day
Etymology: From Middle English midday, from Old English middæġ (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- + day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).
Senses: examples: text: One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
text: The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
ref: 2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever:
text: But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
ref: 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.
Synonyms: word: nones
word: noontide
word: 12 o'clock
word: 12 noon
word: 12 p.m.
word: high noon
word: meridian
word: meridiem
word: midday
word: noon
word: noonday
word: noontime
word: noon-time
word: sext
word: twelve
word: undern
word: undermeal
word: undertide
Hypernyms: word: daytime
Meronyms: word: lunch
word: nooning
Related terms: word: early morning
word: dawn
word: first light
word: postdawn
word: morning
word: afternoon
word: evening
word: dusk
word: night
flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fläsk
ipa: /ˈflɑːsk/
ipa: /flask/
enpr: flăsk
ipa: /ˈflæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
Forms: form: flasks
Etymology: From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon.
The sense “laboratory glassware” is from Italian fiasco, and the sense “container for holding a casting mold” is from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.
Senses: glosses: A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
glosses: A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
topics: sciences
glosses: Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
glosses: A bed in a gun carriage.
examples: text: Over the years, the railway has been the safest way to move hazardous chemicals, radioactive waste, fuel for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and imported fuel for reprocessing, as well as flasks containing fuel rods to and from British power stations.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 21:
glosses: A nuclear flask, a large, secure lead-lined container for the transport of nuclear material.
glosses: A small bottle of liquor.
Derived terms: Bologna flask
Büchner flask
Claisen flask
conical flask
Dewar flask
Erlenmeyer flask
flasker
flaskette
flaskful
flaskless
flasklet
flasklike
flask wagon
fleaker
Florence flask
hipflask
hip-flask
hip flask
hip-pocket flask
hydroflask
Kitasato flask
Kitassato flask
Kitazato flask
Kjeldahl flask
Kohlrausch flask
moon flask
moon-flask
moonflask
New Year's flask
pocket-flask
powder flask
powderflask
round-bottomed flask
Schlenk flask
slideflask
snap flask
vacuum flask
volumetric flask
flask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fläsk
ipa: /ˈflɑːsk/
ipa: /flask/
enpr: flăsk
ipa: /ˈflæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
Forms: form: flasks
form: flasking
form: flasked
form: flasked
Etymology: From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon.
The sense “laboratory glassware” is from Italian fiasco, and the sense “container for holding a casting mold” is from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
fower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowers
Etymology: From Middle English fowere, foware, fowar; equivalent to fow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.
fower
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.ɚ/
Etymology: From Middle English four, fower, from Old English fēower.
Senses: glosses: four
fower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.ɚ/
Etymology: From Middle English four, fower, from Old English fēower.
Senses: glosses: The digit 4 in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
plunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌndə/
note: r
enpr: plŭn'də
ipa: /ˈplʌndɚ/
ipa: /ˈplən-/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plunders
form: plundering
form: plundered
form: plundered
Etymology: Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin. This is first attested in medieval records, and according to Gijsseling, is therefore attested too late to be considered a substrate word. Due to the lack of obvious cognates in other languages from which it would have been loaned, it could have developed as some slang word in Lower Saxony/the Low Countries.
Cognate with Dutch plunderen, West Frisian plonderje, Saterland Frisian plunnerje. Probably denominal from a word for “household goods, clothes, bedding”; compare Middle Dutch plunder, German Plunder (“stuff”), Dutch and West Frisian plunje (“clothes”).
Senses: examples: text: The mercenaries plundered the small town.
text: The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
text: Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.
ref: 1937, Josephus, Ralph Marcus, transl., chapter VIII, in Josephus: With an English Translation (Loeb Classical Library), volume VI (Jewish Antiquities), London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1958, →OCLC, book IX, paragraph 1, page 87:
glosses: To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
examples: text: The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
glosses: To take (goods) by pillage.
examples: text: “Now to plunder, mateys!” screamed a buccaneer, to cries of “Arrgh!” and “Aye!” all around.
glosses: To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
examples: text: The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
glosses: To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
examples: text: The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To take unexpectedly.
Derived terms: plunderable
plunderage
plunderer
plunderess
plunderfish
plunderingly
plunderous
plunderphonics
plundersome
replunder
unplundered
plunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌndə/
note: r
enpr: plŭn'də
ipa: /ˈplʌndɚ/
ipa: /ˈplən-/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Etymology: Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin. This is first attested in medieval records, and according to Gijsseling, is therefore attested too late to be considered a substrate word. Due to the lack of obvious cognates in other languages from which it would have been loaned, it could have developed as some slang word in Lower Saxony/the Low Countries.
Cognate with Dutch plunderen, West Frisian plonderje, Saterland Frisian plunnerje. Probably denominal from a word for “household goods, clothes, bedding”; compare Middle Dutch plunder, German Plunder (“stuff”), Dutch and West Frisian plunje (“clothes”).
Senses: glosses: An instance of plundering.
examples: text: The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
synonyms: word: boodle
word: booty
word: fang
word: gizzit
word: haul
word: hot property
word: loot
word: pelf
word: pickings
word: pillage
word: plunder
word: prigging
word: sack
word: spoil
word: spoils
word: swag
glosses: The loot attained by plundering.
examples: text: […] till a long-legged boy brought him out of his revery, by an offer to carry his “plunder,” in whatsoever direction he might desire to direct his steps.
ref: 1880, The Peterson Magazine, volumes 77-78, page 215:
glosses: Baggage; luggage.
qualifier: crime
glosses: The crime of amassing ill-gotten wealth by public officials through a combination or series of overt criminal acts.
Derived terms: economic plunder
house plunder
plunderless
Related terms: manubial
great-grandparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandparents
form: great grandparent
Etymology: From great- + grandparent.
Senses: glosses: A parent of a grandparent; a grandparent of a parent.
Derived terms: great-grandparenthood
Related terms: great-grandchild
second cousin
grandnephew
grandniece
granduncle
grandaunt
first cousin once removed
atopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈtɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more atopic
form: most atopic
Etymology: From atopy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or suffering from atopy.
Derived terms: atopical
atopic dermatitis
atopic eczema
nonatopic
Related terms: atopy
humdrum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmdɹʌm/
Forms: form: more humdrum
form: most humdrum
Etymology: Possible reduplication of hum, 1550s.
Senses: examples: text: In the valley there would have been feasting and celebration, and then dancing at the wedding, and afterwards the turmoil of a brief romance turning to humdrum married life, the cares of her house, the cares of children, anxiety, fret, illness, trouble, the day-by-day routine of growing old.
ref: 1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
text: He suggested cusk, because he knew they would have it. She had never heard of cusk. “Doesn't it sound exotic!” she said. “Exotic indeed!” he laughed, and almost told her what a humdrum fish it really was, but stopped himself.
ref: 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: With that kind of line-up it was probably inevitable that there would be a few spells when England looked what they were: a team that was trying to find some rhythm, unbeaten for eight years in humdrum qualifying groups but still not entirely sure about whether that makes them any good.
ref: 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
glosses: Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
Derived terms: humdrumly
humdrummery
humdrumness