cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
breakfast in bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfasts in bed
Senses: examples: text: The children made their mother breakfast in bed on her birthday.
text: You may choose to provide the option of breakfast in bed to guests celebrating special occasions. (Consider that accidents will occur and permanent food stains may result to comforters, blankets, or carpets.)
ref: 1990, Thomas D. Potts, Carole Jones Amos, Beginning a Bed and Breakfast in South Carolina: Guidelines for Development:
text: Today is Father's Day! Alice Bee totally surprised me by making breakfast in bed! Pancakes, maple syrup, even a fresh pot of coffee […]
ref: 2014, Dave Engledow, Confessions of the World's Best Father, Penguin, →ISBN, page 698:
text: The next morning, Patrick surprised Debbie and made her breakfast in bed with her favorite breakfast of pancakes and orange juice. “Aren't you going to have breakfast?” she asked him. “I ate while I was cooking[…]”
ref: 2018, Michelle Palomo, Promises of Wanting You, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Breakfast served to one in bed upon waking, commonly to show appreciation for the receiver.
examples: text: I ate breakfast in bed this morning.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breakfast, in, bed.
breakfast in bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breakfasts in bed
form: breakfasting in bed
form: breakfasted in bed
form: breakfasted in bed
Senses: examples: text: Not that I "go in" for breakfasting in bed. It is a lazy, ignoble habit. A man ought to divide his life fairly between bed and board.
ref: 1876, Charles James Dunphie, The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman, page 67:
glosses: To eat one's breakfast while in bed.
domain name server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domain name servers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer that provides domain name information to a network; a computer that is part of the Domain Name System.
Synonyms: DNS server
Related terms: server
DNS server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNS servers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of domain name server.
synonyms: word: domain name server
projective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more projective
form: most projective
Etymology: Formed by the suffixation of prōiect- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Classical Latin prōiciō, whence the English verb project) with the English -ive, forming project + -ive; however, compare the post-Classical Latin prōiectīvus (“relating to purging”).
Senses: glosses: projecting outward
glosses: of, relating to, or caused by a projection
examples: text: Hence the non-Euclidean angle is measured by one-half the logarithm of the cross-ratio of four rays. Although the Euclidean point of view has been adopted for simplicity, the final result, depending as it does only on the cross-ratio, is projective; it is therefore independent of the particular assumptions that the rays α and β are perpendicular and that the initial line bisects the angle between them.
ref: 1912 November 24, Edwin B. Wilson, Gillbert B. Lewis, “The Space-Time Manifold of Relativity. The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Mechanics and Electromagnetics”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 45, number 11, page 503:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or related to projective geometry:
Invariant under projective transformations.
qualifier: now usually in set phrases; figure; now usually in set phrases; figure
raw_tags: of a property of a geometric object
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or related to projective geometry:
Defined in or inhabiting a projective space.
qualifier: figure
raw_tags: of a geometric object
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
Such that there is another (left) R-module N with M⊕N a free R-module. Equivalently, projective in the category of modules (see below).
qualifier: module theory
raw_tags: of a (left) module M over a ring R
topics: algebra
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
Such that, given an epimorphism e:E→X and morphism f:P→X, f factors through e; that is, there exists a morphism ̃f:P→E with e∘̃f=f.
qualifier: most generally
raw_tags: of an object P in a category
topics: algebra
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
Such that every epimorphism from a profinite group onto G has a right inverse which is a homomorphism.
raw_tags: of a profinite group G
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
Such that every object in the resolution is projective.
qualifier: homological algebra
raw_tags: of a resolution
Derived terms: complex projective line
projective basis
projective frame
projective resolution
projective variety
quasi-projective
real projective plane
protandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition in which an organism begins life as a male and then changes into a female.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of flowers whose male parts mature before the female ones.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The emergence of males before females from dormancy, or more rapid development of male brood leading to their appearance earlier in a season.
qualifier: ethology
glosses: The arrival of males before females at a mating site.
Hypernyms: dichogamy
Coordinate terms: protogyny
Related terms: protandrous
pre-eminent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was in high spirits, doing every thing with happy ease, and pre-eminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: Alternative spelling of preeminent.
protogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + -gyny.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition in which an organism begins life as a female and then changes into a male.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of flowers whose female parts mature before the male ones.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The emergence of females before males from dormancy, or more rapid development of female brood leading to their appearance earlier in a season.
qualifier: ethology
glosses: The arrival of females before males at a mating site.
Hypernyms: dichogamy
Coordinate terms: protandry
Related terms: protogynous
metagyny
background process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: background processes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process that is not currently able to receive input from its controlling terminal.
Related terms: daemon
proustite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proustites
Etymology: Named after French chemist Joseph L. Proust (1754-1826) in 1832, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, Ag₃AsS₃, often found with pyrargyrite in silver veins.
isometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more isometrically
form: most isometrically
Etymology: From isometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isometric manner.
isolationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isolationist
form: most isolationist
Etymology: From isolation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: You’re basically seeing with Netanyahu what Trump wished he could have done. America has an isolationist bent right now, we don’t want to get involved in boots on the ground warfare.
ref: 2024 June 19, Vaush, 02:51 from the start, in IDF GENERALS APPROVE PLAN TO INVADE LEBANON, spoken by Vaush (Ian Kochinski):
glosses: Relating to, or supporting, isolationism.
isolationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolationists
Etymology: From isolation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who advocates or supports isolationism.
Related terms: protectionism
non-intervention
irritatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irritatingly
form: most irritatingly
Etymology: From irritating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irritating way; in a manner causing irritation, or that irritates.
irritably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irritably
form: most irritably
Etymology: From irritable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irritable manner.
irritability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: irritabilities
Etymology: From Latin irritabilitās, equivalent to irritable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: irritability of temper
text: Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.
ref: 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN:
glosses: The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability.
examples: text: We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
ref: 1800, Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia, Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening:
text: There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
ref: 1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 111:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.
Synonyms: sense: state of being irritable
word: petulance
sense: state of being irritable
word: fretfulness
Derived terms: hyperirritability
superirritability
irrigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From irrigate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be irrigated.
Derived terms: nonirrigable
Related terms: irrigably
kathenotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined 19th century by Max Müller from the phrase Ancient Greek καθ’ ἕνα (kath’ héna, “one by one”) and the word θεός (theós, “god”), following theism, extending the prior coinage henotheism by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling which he had himself popularised.
Senses: glosses: Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
wikipedia: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Max Müller
Hypernyms: henotheism
Coordinate terms: monotheism
monolatrism
Related terms: theism
monolatrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The concept of monotheism sees a gradual development out of notions of henotheism and monolatrism.
ref: 2010, Dr. Preeti Tripathy, Indian religions: tradition, history and culture, page 143:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The worship of a single deity (while possibly believing in others).
Related terms: monolater
monolatrous
monolatry
agnosticism
atheism
deism
ditheism
gnosticism
henotheism
kathenotheism
monotheism
polytheism
theism
tritheism
don't shoot the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: The bearer of bad news should not be held accountable for it.
Related terms: shoot the messenger
don't hate the player, hate the game
because of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Because of being tired, she left earlier than the rest.
synonyms: for sake of
by dint of
by reason of
due to
owing to
glosses: On account of; due to, for the purpose of.
Synonyms: word: on account of
word: along of
word: because
word: because of
word: as a consequence of
word: out of consideration for
word: by dint of
word: due to
word: on the force of
word: on the grounds of
word: in the interest of
word: on
word: owing to
word: for the purpose of
word: by reason of
word: in respect of
word: as a result of
word: for sake of
word: for the sake of
word: thanks to
word: by virtue of
word: in virtue of
Hyponyms: word: par excellence
Related terms: word: by means of
word: cause
maltheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Macaronic nonce coinage from mal-, from Latin malus (“bad”), + theism (compare misotheism and dystheism). Attested in Usenet discussions from 1985http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=maltheism&safe=off&qt_s=Search&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=4&as_maxm=10&as_maxy=1986
Senses: examples: text: Eve's decision is enough to make me consider choosing agnosticism as my preferred faith, or at least maltheism.
ref: 2006, Charles Phipps, The Undying Machine, page 104:
glosses: Synonym of dystheism.
synonyms: word: dystheism
Derived terms: maltheist
maltheistic
eutheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coinage from eu- + theism (as antonym of dystheism)
Attestation in a 1998 theology lecture https://web.archive.org/web/20071203180444/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/356/lec19.html.
Humorous attestation on Usenet in 2002http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.everquest/browse_thread/thread/8f0df5dadf848aee/cb60e1f231543a29?lnk=st&q=eutheist&rnum=1#cb60e1f231543a29.
Senses: examples: text: […] many of them still believe god exists, but that he has let them down and so they keep their belief in his existence, but no longer worship him (and even hate him). ie rather than switching to atheism, they switch from eutheism to dystheism (although they may incorrectly call themselves atheist).
ref: 2007 May 21, Jeckyl, “Ignorance and Delusion”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet), message-ID <46522860$0$4607$61c65585@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au>:
text: Protest theology rejects the often axiomatic assumption that God is always good or just (eutheism). More to the point, it holds that the eutheistic outlook not only stunts our ability to have a true, meaningful relationship with God, but that the theological contortions it demands also cause us to miss several important themes and lessons latent in the Hebrew Bible.
ref: 2013, David H. Schraub, "Our Divine Constitution", 44 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1201 (2013)
text: Dystheism revolves around “the belief that a god, goddess, or singular God is not wholly good (eutheism) as is commonly believed (such as in the monotheistic religions of Christianity and Judaism), and is possibly evil.”
ref: 2019, Cometan, The Duodoxy: The Principles of The Logical Cosmos, page 254:
antonyms: dystheism
maltheism
hypernyms: theism
coordinate_terms: atheism
antitheism
igtheism
misotheism
pantheism
transtheism
glosses: The belief that there is a god, and that this god is benevolent.
fooling about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fool about
hoh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"
ref: 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:
glosses: Alternative form of ho.
eld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: elder
form: eldest
form: elth
form: eild
form: eeld
form: ild
form: yeeld
Etymology: From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.
Senses: glosses: Old.
Synonyms: sense: old
word: aged
word: venerable
word: old
Related terms: eldfather
eldmother
eldren
eldship
eld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: elds
form: elding
form: elded
form: elded
form: elth
form: eild
form: eeld
form: ild
form: yeeld
Etymology: From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.
Senses: glosses: To age, become or grow old.
glosses: To delay; linger.
glosses: To make old, age.
Synonyms: sense: to age
word: elden
word: to age
sense: to linger
word: abide
word: tarry
word: procrastinate
sense: to make old
word: mature
word: make older
alr
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Clipping of already.
alr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Clipping of alright.
Erbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erbes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Erbe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
collins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑlɪnz/
ipa: /ˈkɒlɪnz/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑlɪnz
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒlɪnz
Forms: form: collinses
Etymology: See Tom Collins.
Senses: glosses: Any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water.
Synonyms: Collins
Tom Collins
fool about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːl əˈbaʊt/
Forms: form: fools about
form: fooling about
form: fooled about
form: fooled about
Senses: glosses: to fool around
impugned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impugn
belladonna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛləˈdɑnə/
ipa: /ˌbɛləˈdɒnə/
rhymes: -ɒnə
Forms: form: belladonnas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian belladonna (altered by folk etymology: bella donna (“beautiful lady”)) from Medieval Latin blādōna (“nightshade”), of Gaulish origin. The folk etymology was motivated by the cosmetic use of nightshade for dilating the eyes.
Senses: examples: text: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
glosses: A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries.
examples: text: The elderly women who practiced herbalism and administered belladonna (a pain killer) to pregnant women were apt to be accused of witchcraft. The Medieval church was against the administration of belladonna because they believed women were meant to suffer pain in childbirth as a result of Eve's sin.
ref: 1976 December 11, Tommi Avicolli, “The Middle Ages: Lest We Forget...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 11:
text: Cathy teetered downstairs on very high heels, her hair swept up in a disintegrating “brioche”, her eyes glistening with belladonna drops.
ref: 2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women: Learning how to love them.”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An alkaloid extracted from this plant, sometimes used medicinally, containing atropine.
Synonyms: sense: Atropa belladonna
word: deadly nightshade
Derived terms: belladonna lily
belladonnized
belladonized
Belladonna mottle virus
port forwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The forwarding of a network port from one device to another; especially, such forwarding when done to provide an external user with access to a port on a private IP address.
irreversibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreversibly
form: most irreversibly
Etymology: From irreversible + -ly or ir- + reversibly.
Senses: examples: text: But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 112:
text: We also perform IR-VIS absorbance measurements and find that the results suggest that during irradiation some of the dye molecules form dimers and trimers and that the polymer host is irreversibly damaged by photooxidation and Norrish type I photocleavage.
ref: 2015, Benjamin R. Anderson, Ray Gunawidjaja, Hergen Eilers, “Photodegradation and self-healing in a Rhodamine 6G dye and Y₂O₃ nanoparticle-doped polyurethane random laser”, in App. Phys. B, volumes 1-12, pages 1–12:
glosses: In an irreversible manner.
irreverently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreverently
form: most irreverently
Etymology: From irreverent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.
ref: 1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “Prelude. Of the Fens.”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:
text: Elisha […] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently […]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:
glosses: In an irreverent manner.
irreverence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreverences
Etymology: From Middle English irreverence, from Latin irreverentia, from irreverēns (“irreverent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). By surface analysis, ir- + reverence.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.
Related terms: irreverent
irreverential
reverence
irretrievably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irretrievably
form: most irretrievably
Etymology: From irretrievable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Old English seems, and remains, irretrievably distant[.]
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 17:
text: Such comments needlessly and irretrievably polarize the collective and its neighbors.
ref: 1986 February 15, John Cronin, “More To It Than Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5:
glosses: In an irretrievable manner; irrecoverably.
irrecoverably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrecoverably
form: most irrecoverably
Etymology: From irrecoverable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irrecoverable manner; beyond recovery.
irrecoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrecoverable
form: most irrecoverable
Etymology: From Middle English irrecoverable, from Middle French irrecovrable. Attested earlier than recoverable. By surface analysis, ir- + recoverable.
Senses: examples: text: en, irrecoverable data
text: an irrecoverable debt
glosses: Not recoverable; incapable of being recovered.
examples: text: an irrecoverable disease; irrecoverable danger
glosses: That cannot be recovered from or made good; irremediable.
Synonyms: unrecoverable
gone
Derived terms: irrecoverableness
irrecoverably
recoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹə-/
ipa: [ɹɪˈkʌvɚəbl̩]
ipa: [ɹə-]
Etymology: From Middle English recoverabille, recoverable, recovererabyll (error), equivalent to recover + -able.
Senses: examples: text: recoverable data
glosses: Capable of being regained or recovered.
glosses: Restorable from sickness, faintness, danger, etc.
examples: text: a recoverable error
glosses: Capable of being brought back to a former condition, or recovered from.
examples: text: recoverable debt
glosses: Obtainable from a debtor or possessor.
recoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹə-/
ipa: [ɹɪˈkʌvɚəbl̩]
ipa: [ɹə-]
Forms: form: recoverables
Etymology: From Middle English recoverabille, recoverable, recovererabyll (error), equivalent to recover + -able.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Amounts of reinsurance coverage that are due from a reinsurer.
restorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From restore + -able.
Senses: examples: text: restorable memory
text: 18 March 2013, Max Davidson writing in the Daily Telegraph, Need a four-poster bed? Dormy House hotel auctions off contents
Don’t dismiss builders’ skips. You may not find a Chippendale desk, but you might collar a restorable sofa. Always ask the builder or house owner for permission first.
text: I may add that absurd practice of cutting turf without any regularity; whereby great quantities of restorable land are made utterly desperate, many thousands of cattle destroyed, the turf more difficult to come at and carry home, and less fit for burning; the air made unwholesome by stagnating pools and marshes; and the very sight of such places offensive to those who ride by.
ref: 1724, The Drapier’s Letters, Jonathan Swift, section 7:
text: The carriage was surveyed and re-sheeted just over a decade ago, when it was deemed restorable. However, exposure has since led to a rapid deterioration. including the detachment of side panels.
ref: 2023 March 8, “Network News: Unique LNWR survivor offered for restoration”, in RAIL, number 978, page 27:
glosses: Capable of being restored or reclaimed
Derived terms: restorably
irretrievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irretrievable
form: most irretrievable
Etymology: From ir- + retrievable.
Senses: examples: text: an irretrievable loss
text: But, having hung him, you cannot unhang him. With all your liability to err, you dare to take a step, which, if wrong at all, is infinitely so, because irretrievable.
ref: 1844, The Western Law Journal, volume 2, page 272:
glosses: Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable
Derived terms: irretrievableness
irretrievably
retrievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrievable
form: most retrievable
Etymology: From retrieve + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being retrieved or recovered.
Related terms: retrievability
retrievableness
retrievably
irresponsibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪ.ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bli/
ipa: /ˌɪ.ɹɪˈspɑːn.sə.bli/
Forms: form: more irresponsibly
form: most irresponsibly
Etymology: From irresponsible + -ly or ir- + responsibly.
Senses: examples: text: He had frequent fits of melancholy in which he declared that he was neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. His was neither an irresponsibly contemplative nature nor a sturdily practical one, and he was for ever looking in vain for the uses of the things that please and the charm of the things that sustain.
ref: 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: J. R. Osgood:
glosses: In an irresponsible manner; so as to be irresponsible.
irresponsibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irresponsibilities
Etymology: From ir- + responsibility or irresponsible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: How important can the greenhouse effect, biodiversity or future worldwide timber shortages seem to a third-worlder, for example? It would be wrong to think of this third-worlder as irresponsible or as a squanderer of resources before serious steps are taken towards solving the well-known and much worse problem of resource squandering and environmental irresponsibility in the developed nations.
ref: 1990 July 19, Ricardo Radulovich, “A view on tropical deforestation”, in Nature, volume 346, page 214:
glosses: The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.
irretentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + retentive.
Senses: glosses: Not retentive; not apt to retain.
Derived terms: irretentiveness
irretraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + retraceable.
Senses: glosses: Not retraceable; unable to be retraced.
retraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retrace + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being retraced.
irretention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + retention.
Senses: synonyms: forgetfulness
glosses: Absence of retention; the state or quality of being irretentive; lack of power to retain information
irresuscitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From irresuscitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as not to be resuscitated; in an irresuscitable manner.
irresuscitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + resuscitable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being resuscitated or revived.
Derived terms: irresuscitably
irresolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɹɛzəˈluːʃən/
Forms: form: irresolutions
Etymology: From French irrésolution, from ir- + résolution (“resolution”).
Senses: examples: text: Again he paced the chamber; but an involuntary movement of awe and inquietude constantly led his eye towards the alcove. He drew near it with irresolution.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 238:
glosses: Lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
irresoluteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irresolute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being irresolute.
irresolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irresolutely
form: most irresolutely
Etymology: From irresolute + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: In an irresolute or wavering manner.
farmland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːmlænd/
ipa: /ˈfɑːɹmlænd/
Forms: form: farmlands
form: farm land
Etymology: From farm + land.
Senses: examples: text: From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:
text: Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
text: The CCC would restore the soil health of farmlands in the Heartland and power the Colorado River by constructing the Hoover Dam. Their work transformed the very landscape of America.
ref: 2023 September 24, Michael D. Smith, “Opinion: Biden’s American Climate Corps could be the lasting legacy of this generation”, in CNN:
glosses: Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
Synonyms: word: cropland
Hypernyms: word: land
word: arable land
word: country
Hyponyms: word: farmfields
word: farmyards
word: croft
word: fallow land
word: farmhouse
word: field
word: orchard
word: pasture
word: plowland
word: ploughland
word: ranchland
word: tillage
word: tilth
word: vineyard
word: vinyard
Related terms: farmscape
landscape
acreage
wavering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wavering
form: most wavering
Etymology: From waver + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Fluctuating, uncertain, undetermined, unsteady.
antonyms: unwavering
glosses: Being in doubt; indecisive.
wavering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waverings
Etymology: From waver + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the waverings of politicians, trying to please everybody
text: The Bill for the Carlisle & Hawick Railway, an independent line, but intended to be worked and maintained by the Caledonian, failed, and the people of Hawick, after considerable wavering, decided to give their support to the North British Border Union line, which the Carlisle & Hawick scheme was, of course, intended to block.
ref: 1957 January 24, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1857”, in Railway Magazine, page 51:
glosses: gerund of waver: a state of fluctuation or indecision.
wavering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From waver + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waver
undetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + determined.
Senses: glosses: Not determined; not settled; not decided.
glosses: Not limited; not defined; indeterminate.
undetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undetermine
irresistibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irresistibly
form: most irresistibly
Etymology: From irresistible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irresistible manner.
irreproachably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreproachably
form: most irreproachably
Etymology: From irreproachable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
blamelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪm.lɛs.li/
Forms: form: more blamelessly
form: most blamelessly
Etymology: From blameless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a blameless manner.
blameless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blameless
form: most blameless
Etymology: From Middle English blameles, equivalent to blame + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And while American Jews do not hold the left blameless, in the age of Trump, we’re a lot more concerned about right-wing anti-Semitism.
ref: 2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:
synonyms: guiltless
glosses: Free from blame; without fault; innocent
examples: text: He shall be as now nameles,
But he shall not be blameles,
Nor he shall not be shameles;
For sure he wrought amys, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 38–41:
glosses: Not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof.
Synonyms: sackless
Derived terms: blamelessly
blamelessness
nonblameless
irreproachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in 1630. Borrowed from French irréprochable, from Middle French inreprochable. See also ir- + reproachable.
Senses: glosses: Free from blame, not open to reproach or criticism; blameless.
Synonyms: flawless
Derived terms: irreproachableness
irreproachably
guiltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪltləs/
Forms: form: more guiltless
form: most guiltless
Etymology: From Middle English giltles, gultles, gyltles, from Old English *gyltlēas, equivalent to guilt + -less. Compare Old English sċyldlēas (“guiltless”).
Senses: glosses: Free from guilt; innocent.
glosses: Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
examples: text: Their spears, wommeras, and boomerangs are guiltless of ornamentation, and save in a very few instances no idea of art seems to belong to the race.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 301:
glosses: Not encumbered with; free from.
Related terms: guiltlessly
guiltlessness
guiltlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guiltless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being guiltless; innocence.
Synonyms: unguilt
guiltlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more guiltlessly
form: most guiltlessly
Etymology: From guiltless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a guiltless manner; innocently.
innocently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnəsəntli/
Forms: form: more innocently
form: most innocently
Etymology: From innocent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
ref: 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:
glosses: In an innocent manner.
Synonyms: word: blamelessly
word: cleanly
word: guiltlessly
word: innocently
word: irreprehensibly
word: purely
word: sinlessly
word: unblameably
word: unblamefully
Derived terms: innocently divorced
pseudo-innocently
unacquainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacquainted
form: most unacquainted
Etymology: From un- + acquainted.
Senses: examples: text: The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege.
ref: 1563, Arthur Golding, transl., The Historie of Leonard Aretine concerning the Warres betwene the Imperialles and the Gothes for the Possession of Italy, London: George Bucke, Book 1, Chapter 10, p. 38:
text: 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26,
[…] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]
text: “[…] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness. In Poland, France, England, students, young gentlemen of his time, had been unacquainted with kitchens. Now he did things that cooks and maids had once done.
ref: 1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 11:
glosses: Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
examples: text: Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,
Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare,
She greatly grew amazed at the sight,
And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 66:
text: […] [we] fill up
Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep
Upon the spot of this enforced cause,—
To grace the gentry of a land remote,
And follow unacquainted colours here?
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.
reproachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reproachable
form: most reproachable
Etymology: From reproach + -able.
Senses: glosses: Deserving reproach.
glosses: Opprobrious; scurrilous; reproachful; abusive.
reproachful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reproachful
form: most reproachful
Etymology: From reproach + -ful.
Senses: synonyms: upbraiding
opprobrious
abusive
glosses: Expressing or containing reproach
examples: text: He lived a reproachful life.
glosses: Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base
Derived terms: word: reproachfully
word: unreproachful
monomaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒnəməˈnaɪəkəl/
Forms: form: more monomaniacal
form: most monomaniacal
Etymology: From mono- + maniacal.
Senses: examples: text: ‘The typical Zweig story,’ the critic William Deresiewicz notes, cooling to his subject in an afterword, ‘is a tale of monomaniacal passion set loose amid the veiled, upholstered civility of the Austrian bourgeoisie, the class into which Zweig was born.’
ref: 2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, quoting William Deresiewicz, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books, volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:
hypernyms: singleminded
obsessive
fixated
glosses: Of or relating to a monomaniac.
Derived terms: monomaniacally
Related terms: monothematic
upbraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbraid
upbraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upbraiding
form: most upbraiding
Senses: glosses: Reproachful; chiding; censorious.
Derived terms: upbraidingly
upbraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbraidings
Senses: examples: text: I wish to bring comfort and avoid upbraidings: for your own conscience will reproach you more than the voice of a preacher.
ref: 1798, Elizabeth Inchbald, Lovers' Vows, Act IV, Scene I:
glosses: An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.
examples: text: The seed wasteth and consumeth winde, and is good against belchings and upbraidings of the stomach, alaieth gripings of the belly, provoketh urine gently, maketh abundance of milke, and stirreth up bodily lust: it staieth the laske, and also the white flux in women
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Anise”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 880:
glosses: An instance of vomiting
irrepressibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrepressibly
form: most irrepressibly
Etymology: From irrepressible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed; in an irrepressible way.
itemized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of itemize
irremovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unremovable
Etymology: From ir- + removable.
Senses: glosses: Not removable; immovable; inflexible.
Derived terms: irremovability
irremovableness
irremovably
irremediably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irremediably
form: most irremediably
Etymology: From irremediable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction; in an irremediable way.
irrelevantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrelevantly
form: most irrelevantly
Etymology: From irrelevant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Not yet,” replied Jane, and then, quite irrelevantly, “I wish England were a million miles from here.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111:
text: 'Our population would be the same, and our world would still have been dying of its own waste heat!' Irrelevantly, Teela said, 'I wish we could see out.'
ref: 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 61:
glosses: In an irrelevant manner.
irrelevancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrelevancies
Etymology: From ir- + relevancy or irrelevant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
examples: text: To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.
ref: 1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences:
glosses: A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.
Synonyms: irrelevance
inapplicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inapplicable
form: most inapplicable
Etymology: From in- + applicable.
Senses: examples: text: The argument is inapplicable to the case.
text: In this case, y(#92;cdot) is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices.
ref: 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 141:
glosses: Not applicable; that does not apply or cannot be applied; unsuitable or irrelevant.
Synonyms: unapplicable
Derived terms: inapplicableness
inapplicably
irregularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛɡjʊləli/
Forms: form: more irregularly
form: most irregularly
Etymology: From irregular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.
ref: 1884, The Medical Age, volume 2, page 358:
text: Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised […]
ref: 2018, B Özüdoğru, “Phylogenetic position, taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status of the rare and poorly-known Noccaea rosularis, the generic type of Masmenia …”, in Phytotaxa:
glosses: In an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.
irrefutably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrefutably
form: most irrefutably
Etymology: From irrefutable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irrefutable manner; beyond the possibility of refutation.
irredeemably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From irredeemable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irredeemable manner; beyond redemption.