cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
XNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: nucleic acid analogue (nucleic acid analog) ; Initialism of xeno nucleic acid (backformation) ; X nucleic acid, where "X" is a stand-in for multitude of various nucleic acid acronyms, which are not DNA or RNA.
Hyponyms: PNA
GNA
TNA
HNA
XNA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of X-No-Archive.
Related terms: english: X-No-Archive: Yes
translation: X-No-Archive: Yes
word: XNAY
pauperise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pauperises
form: pauperising
form: pauperised
form: pauperised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pauperize.
pauperising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pauperise
pauperises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pauperise
pauperised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pauperise
multicreedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + creedal.
Senses: examples: text: December is a time of multicreedal spirituality and festivities, and alcohol has been a fixture of celebration and religious ritual since humans first learned to play and pray.
ref: 2007 December 11, Natalie Angier, “An Ancient Medicine (Enjoy in Moderation)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Comprising or pertaining to more than one creed.
Synonyms: multicreed
planarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /pləˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: planaria
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planarian.
planaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The flatworms known as planaria have long amazed scientists with their capacity for regeneration.
ref: 2007 December 11, Henry Fountain, “The Gene That Tells Planaria Worms Which End Is Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of planarium
underanesthetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underanesthetized
form: most underanesthetized
Etymology: From under- + anesthetized.
Senses: examples: text: Called anesthesia awareness, it occurs when patients wake up during surgery because they are underanesthetized.
ref: 2007 December 11, Melissa Lafsky, “Onscreen Villain Makes Doctors Wince”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inadequately anesthetized.
accountantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accountantlike
form: most accountantlike
Etymology: From accountant + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A dutiful, almost accountantlike rendering by Lois Martin, violist; Chris Finckel, cellist; and Aleck Karis, pianist, did not make things any clearer.
ref: 2007 December 12, Bernard Holland, “Sounds of the New, Arrayed to Enliven a Nordic Night”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an accountant.
daurade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːˈɹɑːd/
Forms: form: daurades
Etymology: Borrowed from French daurade, itself borrowed, through the intermediate of an Italian text, from Spanish dorada, partially from Latin aurāta, and influenced by the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”). Doublet of dorado.
Senses: examples: text: The chef, Csar Ramirez, and his partners, Kiwon Standen and Didier Palange, all Bouley alumni, have an eclectic menu, with dishes like slow-roasted rabbit and sweetbread salad, oxtail consommé, ginger-steamed daurade, slow-cooked Cornish hen and Japanese rice risotto with shrimp; 142 West 10th Street, (212) 255-2330 .
ref: 2007 December 12, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: sea bream
perfectest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: perfect + -est
Senses: examples: text: For as Fire, the perfectest of Elements, and Heaven, the perfectest of Bodies; so the Soule of Man, the perfectest of formes, hath the most vehement motion.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
glosses: superlative form of perfect: most perfect
perfectest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: perfect + -est
Senses: examples: text: Thou perfectest its body, it breaks the shell from inside, it comes out of the egg, it chirps with all its might, having come forth it walks on its two feet. O how many are the things which thou hast made!
ref: 1885, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, The Dwellers on the Nile:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of perfect
graywacke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graywackes
Senses: examples: text: Hundreds of projectile points and ceramic pieces from the island are stored in the State Museum in Albany, and archaeologists found human bones at a burial site from the early Woodland period at the back of the rock shelter, a 45-foot-long overhang of graywacke, a local sandstone.
ref: 2007 December 12, Anthony Depalma, “An Island in the Hudson, Plundered in Search of Indian Artifacts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of greywacke.
Derived terms: subgraywacke
graywackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graywacke
greywacke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.wak.ə/
note: GS
ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.wæk/
Forms: form: greywackes
form: graywacke
Etymology: Anglicised form of grauwacke.
Senses: examples: text: Endless bleak, rounded hills composed of shales and ribs of tough ‘greywackes’ make up the Southern Uplands – all of such rocks were originally deposited under marine conditions.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 177:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
Derived terms: metagreywacke
metagraywacke
subgreywacke
greywackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greywacke
grauwacke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grauwackes
Etymology: From German Grauwacke, from grau (“grey”) + wacke (“boulder”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Greywacke.
grauwackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grauwacke
pothunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pothunter
pothunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pot + hunting.
Senses: glosses: The hunting of animals to be cooked as food.
glosses: Careless, profiteering archeology.
Related terms: pothunt
pothunter
pothunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pothunt
refought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refight
semiwild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-wild
Etymology: From semi- + wild.
Senses: examples: text: In the last 25 years, with the introduction of superior varieties and growing practices, production surged to some 865,000 acres, although much fruit is still gathered from semiwild stands.
ref: 2007 December 12, David Karp, “From China, Only in a Bottle, a Berry With an Alluring Name”, in New York Times:
qualifier: animals
glosses: Partly wild.
raw_tags: of crops
Synonyms: half-wild
periscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From periscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using a periscope.
glosses: With a similar movement to that of a periscope.
periselectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periselectivity
servable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From serve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: At many such occasions, meat and poultry dishes would be eaten, and your recipes as printed would not be servable.
ref: 2007 December 12, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable (as a meal, lawsuit, etc.) of being served.
prepharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + pharmacy.
Senses: glosses: A course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for working in the field of pharmacy.
nonserotonin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serotonin.
Senses: examples: nonserotonin receptors
glosses: Not of or pertaining to serotonin.
pigeoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pigeon
pigeoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pigeon
hypersocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersocial
form: most hypersocial
Etymology: From hyper- + social.
Senses: examples: text: Some rats in these overcrowded communities appeared to develop hypersocial tendencies, seemingly obtaining accentuated satisfaction from close social contacts, refusing to eat except in the company of their companions.
ref: 1974, Roger Pearson, Introduction to anthropology:
text: "I'm a hypersocial person," she said.
ref: 2007 December 13, Brent Bowers, “An Enthusiast Entrepreneur Kicks Off a T-Shirt Business”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely social.
glosses: Going out of their way to please their owner, as compared to a merely tame animal.
raw_tags: of a domesticated species
midsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midsoles
Etymology: From mid- + sole.
Senses: examples: text: But that is not stopping Brooks Sports from introducing its BioMoGo midsole, made with an additive that the company says will promote the break down of the polymers within 20 years.
ref: 2007 December 13, Sarah Bowen Shea, “Racing to Be in Step With the Green Movement”, in New York Times:
synonyms: middlesole
glosses: The layer of a shoe in between the outsole and insole, typically there for shock absorption.
midsoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midsole
nonsustainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sustainable.
Senses: examples: text: The surge was a nonsustainable military incursion of Shiite Baghdad, which had the effect of curbing street-level violence.
ref: 2007 December 13, “Will 2008 Be a Postwar Election?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sustainable.
plumerias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumeria
pointwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From point + work.
Senses: examples: text: Before long, this box will be installed nearer Grosmont (NYM) level crossing to permit control of the crossing gates (presently hand-worked) and to replace the eight-lever ground frame which currently operates the pointwork.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
text: And for maintenance of pointwork, a six-platform service can be operated whichever throat is under possession.
ref: 2020 March 25, William Barter, “HS2: Euston or Old Oak Common?”, in Rail, page 58:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The engineering of sets of points on a railway, tramway, etc.
examples: text: Though Mr. Lacotte makes certain nods to the early 19th-century ballet style of the first act of Giselle and August Bournonvilles ballets, he asks all his female dancers to do the sustained pointwork known to be late-19th-century in style.
ref: 2007 December 13, Alastair Macaulay, “A Beloved Spanish Gypsy Returns to Frances Arms”, in New York Times:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: Alternative form of pointework.
subempire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subempires
Etymology: From sub- + empire.
Senses: examples: text: But, no, it's not about building a subempire.
ref: 2007 December 13, Richard Sandomir, “ESPN Will Take on Army With Its Own High School Game”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lesser or secondary empire.
Related terms: subimperialism
subcolony
subempires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subempire
supersite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersites
Etymology: From super- + site.
Senses: examples: text: It is a wonder some overcaffeinated hacker hasn't cobbled together the code to scrape all of the above into one gadget shopping supersite.
ref: 2007 December 13, Paul Boutin, “A Universe of Gadget Advice”, in New York Times:
glosses: A major website.
supersites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersite
underproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underproductive
form: most underproductive
Etymology: From under- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: Doubt clouds the family itself: 70 percent of Italians between 20 and 30 still live at home, condemning the young to an extended and underproductive adolescence.
ref: 2007 December 13, Ian Fisher, “In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment”, in New York Times:
glosses: Insufficiently productive.
Related terms: underproductiveness
underproductivity
antisteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisteroid
form: most antisteroid
Etymology: From anti- + steroid.
Senses: examples: text: But after 1973, most strength coaches working with team sports in America took an antisteroid position.
ref: 2004, Boyd Epley, The path to athletic power, page 17:
text: The Drug Enforcement Administration, the federal agency in charge of drug control, has responsibility for enforcement of antisteroid laws.
ref: 2007, Fred C. Pampel, Drugs and sports, page 189:
glosses: Opposing the use of steroids.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Blocking or counteracting steroids.
what was someone smoking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Suggesting the smoking of mind-altering drugs.
Senses: examples: text: The SGZ is primarily a signal that Alfa Romeo is back in business as serious maker of serious cars although the Zagato body puts one in mind of the FI team owner whose response to a new car was to ask his designer 'What were you smoking when you designed that?'
ref: 1996, Mark Lawrence, A to Z of sports cars, 1945-1990, page 1943:
text: “...We don't want to live there. It's dark, creepy and it stank. What were you smoking when you bought this place? Hope you bought it real cheap, where is your change at?”
“Shut the hell up”, James snapped back. “I'm your daddy and you going to live where I move you”.
ref: 2005, Gemäse Simmons, Worth Fighting For!: The Tragedies & Triumphs of Professor Renee ..., page 25:
text: Bush and company had a fantasy that we could bring democracy to Iraq and it would cause a domino effect in the Middle East. Suddenly every Arab nation would embrace democracy. What were they smoking?
ref: 2007, Lee A. Iacocca, Catherine Whitney, Where have all the leaders gone?, page 82:
glosses: Used to express surprise about someone's uncharacteristic or wacky, offbeat past actions.
Related terms: what was someone thinking
biothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + thermal.
Senses: examples: text: But some environmentalists said they were unhappy that the bill would not provide large incentives for expansion of renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biothermal.
ref: 2007 December 14, John M. Broder, “Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to heat generated by biological processes.
Related terms: bithermal
nonapology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonapologies
Etymology: From non- + apology.
Senses: examples: text: "These are nonapology apologies," said Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist.
ref: 2007 December 14, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Apologies From the Heart (of Darkness?)”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of non-apology.
Derived terms: nonapology apology
nonapologetic
nonapologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonapology
supermodeldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supermodel + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Now, in what seems like a mere handful of seconds after her official supermodeldom was announced, the Internet is abloom with rumors that Ms. Deyn, 26, may abandon the modeling business for greener pastures.
ref: 2009 July 9, Cintra Wilson, “Of the Moment, and Thinking Ahead”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm of supermodels.
pyrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + -sphere.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The zone of igneous activity and lava formation, situated between the lithosphere and barysphere.
modeldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From model + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or world of fashion models; models collectively.
glosses: The state of being a fashion model.
examples: text: But if modelmaking is not art, why is it that, in the upper reaches of modeldom, where the best do their work, there is an identifiable difference in "feel" between the work of one modelmaker and another?
ref: 1990, The Woodenboat - Issues 92-97, page 60:
glosses: The industry and community of modelmaking.
examples: text: Might the mouse be the Holy Grail of genetic and neuroscientific modeldom?
ref: 2001, Peter K. Machamer, Rick Grush, Peter McLaughlin, Theory and Method in the Neurosciences, →ISBN, page 217:
text: But as the village emerged into the full glare of modeldom in the early 1990s, Yu's tolerance for any form a dissent wore thin.
ref: 2001, Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village, →ISBN, page 73:
text: They are premodels, short of modeldom because they are not well-defined.
ref: 2012, Arnold Perlmutter, Field Theory in Elementary Particles, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: The quality or state of being a model (any sense) or exemplar.
Synonyms: sense: state of being a model
word: modelhood
nonprofane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + profane.
Senses: examples: text: Tolbert said profanity was considered a violation of league policy but also that nonprofane comments could be deemed offensive if they prevented players from hearing their coach during a timeout.
ref: 2007 December 14, Joe Lapointe, “Does Free Speech Give a Fan the Right to Heckle?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not profane.
gurudom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurudoms
Etymology: From guru + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm of gurus.
glosses: The state of being a guru.
unprofaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + profaned.
Senses: glosses: Not having been profaned; unsullied.
premortal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + mortal.
Senses: examples: text: "Latter-day Saints believe that all of us, Christ included, existed in a premortal existence, as spirits," Mr. Millet said.
ref: 2007 December 14, Laurie Goodstein, “Huckabee Is Not Alone in Ignorance on Mormonism”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the start of life.
unmodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmodernist
form: most unmodernist
Etymology: From un- + modernist.
Senses: examples: text: The creaky plywood floor he has laid down — a replica of the one in his studio — reinforces a sense of impurity and instability, unmodernist if not necessarily antimodernist, like late Ad Reinhardt.
ref: 2007 December 14, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not modernist.
unmockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkəbəl
Forms: form: more unmockable
form: most unmockable
Etymology: From un- + mockable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be mocked.
pubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌbd/
rhymes: -ʌbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pub
supermod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermods
Etymology: From super- + mod.
Senses: glosses: supermoderator
supermods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermod
pucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puck
sludged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sludge
sludgecore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sludge + -core.
Senses: glosses: A genre of music, sludge metal.
sludge metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An abrasive, distorted subgenre of heavy metal music influenced by hardcore punk and doom metal, typically with a slightly higher tempo than doom metal but still slower than average.
Synonyms: sludgecore
sludge
stoner rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As with psychedelia, the literary links of stoner rock are not its dominant features, especially insofar as many bands distance themselves from the broadly understood mainstream, which connotes forms of elitism and canonization.
ref: 2022, Ryan Hibbett, editor, Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 130:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: stoner metal
glosses: A subgenre of heavy metal which combines it with elements of psychedelic rock and acid rock.
Hypernyms: rock
Derived terms: stoner rocker
röck döts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒk ˌdɒts/
ipa: /ˈɹøːk ˌdøːts/
Forms: form: rock dots
Etymology: The words rock (“musical style”) + dots (“umlaut”), with umlauts.
Senses: examples: text: In the world of heavy metal, the umlaut - otherwise known as röck döts - is the ultimate illustration of Spinal Tap's dictum that there's a fine line between clever and stupid.
ref: 2005 December 2, Michael Dwyer, “The full Mötley”, in The Age:
text: I imagine I'd be seeing a lot of metal tonight, so why not go for an obscure eighties punk song? Plus, Hüsker Dü = dual röck döts!
ref: 2006, Björn Türoque, To Air Is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist, Riverhead Books:
glosses: Synonym of heavy metal umlaut.
synonyms: word: heavy metal umlaut
stoner rocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoner rockers
Senses: examples: text: Some excellent bands played at the festival too, including Sonic Youth themselves, stoner rockers the Melvins, classic punks Flipper (featuring Nirvana's Krist Noveselic on bass)...
ref: 2010, Brett Callwood, MC5: Sonically Speaking: A Tale of Revolution and Rock 'n' Roll, page 210:
glosses: Someone who plays, or is a fan of, stoner rock.
forcedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.sɪd.li/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪd.li/
Forms: form: more forcedly
form: most forcedly
Etymology: From forced + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the last 75 years, the two main resident choreographers who have reshaped the Paris Opera Ballet are Serge Lifar and Rudolf Nureyev, intelligent stars whose choreography was generally empty, pompously (Lifar) or forcedly (Nureyev) academicist, astoundingly anti-musical in emphasis, strong on surface and almost entirely devoid of dance tone.
ref: 2007 December 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Class Acts: Paris Ballet Student Exhibitions”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that is, or seems, forced.
death grunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death grunts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of death growl.
synonyms: word: death growl
lodgepoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodgepole
Rockstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Upper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana.
lodgest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lodge + -est
Senses: examples: text: And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:16:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lodge
death grunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death grunt
complexifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexifiers
Etymology: From complexify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the complexifiers emphasize tolerance of ambiguity, contradiction, and change as critical ingredients for good judgment, the fundamentalists take a starkly different approach.
ref: 1992 September, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, in Political Psychology, volume 13, number 3, page 527:
text: The complexifiers seek to acknowledge and express the contradiction and to articulate reasons for resolving it one way or the other without reference to a single overarching theory or formula.
ref: 2000, Joseph William Singer, Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property, Yale University Press, page 213:
text: Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.
ref: 2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14:
text: Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction.
ref: 2011, Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, BookBaby, pt. 26
text: The Complexifier is well-meaning but annoying. The first words out of the Complexifier’s mouth are, “Yes but . . .”
ref: 2012, Michael Dalton Johnson, Rules of the Hunt, McGraw Hill, page 24:
glosses: Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)
underrotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underrotates
form: underrotating
form: underrotated
form: underrotated
Etymology: From under- + rotate.
Senses: examples: text: Kim's hands down on her triple flip cost her the combination jump, but other mistakes in the women's competition were more costly: the world silver medalist Mao Asada of Japan skipped a jump and finished in last place, just behind the United States champion Kimmie Meissner, who was fifth, after she underrotated her triple-triple combination.
ref: 2007 December 15, The Associated Press, “South Korean Tops Skaters Despite Miss”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
glosses: To rotate insufficiently.
underrotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underrotate
underrotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underrotate
underrotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underrotate
archfoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃˌfoʊ/
Forms: form: archfoes
Etymology: From arch- + foe.
Senses: examples: text: This contrast was noted even by one archfoe, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the billionaire who was arrested after publicly challenging the Kremlin.
ref: 2007 December 16, Clifford J. Levy, “Russia's Knockoff Democracy”, in New York Times:
glosses: archenemy
Synonyms: archenemy
archfoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archfoe
coachbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coach + building.
Senses: examples: text: Some 70 or so cars are captured in photographs, and the book includes essays on such subjects as coachbuilding and engine evolution as well as biographies of auto-world figures, beginning with Karl Benz and ending with Ugo Zagato, the coachbuilder.
ref: 2007 December 16, Charles Mcewen, “Glory of Cars, Even Parking”, in New York Times:
glosses: The construction of coaches.
Related terms: coachbuilder
coach-built
coachbuilt
pasote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pasote
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epazote.
flagstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flagstone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most unusual things about the house is the flagstoned courtyard in the back, reachable by a set of French doors.
ref: 2007 December 16, David Masello, “In the Courtyard of Miracles and Wonders”, in New York Times:
glosses: Paved with flagstones.
hypermaterialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermaterialistic
form: most hypermaterialistic
Etymology: From hyper- + materialistic.
Senses: examples: text: For the hypermaterialistic and chronically adolescent Nancy, what was nonnegotiable was control, the power to sculpture her world to gratify her ever-sharpening appetites and desires.
ref: 2007 December 16, Bob Shacochis, “Here Comes the Bride”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely materialistic.
Related terms: hypermaterialism
pawless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paw + -less.
Senses: examples: text: My unpleasant vision of a pawless bear cramped in his cage gave way to a vision of whole families of bears roaming free in the hills, on sore feet.
ref: 1998, Clifford N. Matthews, Oswald Cheung, Dispersal and renewal: Hong Kong University during the war years, page 362:
glosses: Without paws.
jeeplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jeeplike
form: most jeeplike
Etymology: From jeep + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The offerings included a slab-sided sports car called the Hotshot, which some enthusiasts cite as the first American sports car, and a jeeplike vehicle known as the FarmOroad.
ref: 2007 December 16, Rob Sass, “Frugal, Before Americans Cared”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a jeep.
megapopular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megapopular
form: most megapopular
Etymology: From mega- + popular.
Senses: examples: text: With the megapopular "Dancing With the Stars" as its lead-in until recently, it ranked just behind CBS's "Two and a Half Men" as the most watched half-hour comedy.
ref: 2007 December 16, Margy Rochlin, “They're Not Asking, 'Christina Who?'”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely popular.
minijeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minijeeps
Etymology: From mini- + jeep.
Senses: glosses: A small, compact jeep.
minihelices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minihelix
minihelixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minihelix
merengues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merengue
minicasino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicasinos
Etymology: From mini- + casino.
Senses: examples: text: Cal Nathan, owner of the New York Fun Factory, an event planner in Hicksville, N.Y. (nyfunfactory.com), said that he, too, has witnessed an uptick in the number of couples using out-of-the-box gimmicks like stilt walkers, celebrity look-alikes, photo booths and minicasinos to make their weddings stand out.
ref: 2007 December 16, Marcelle S. Fischler, “First the Wedding, Then the Real Show and Razzle-Dazzle Begins”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2018:
glosses: A small casino.
minispectacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minispectacles
Etymology: From mini- + spectacle.
Senses: examples: text: But by bombarding users with distorted and deracinated images, the Internet instead just forces us to confront increasingly bizarre minispectacles, often right when were most vulnerable — alone, anxious, looking for answers.
ref: 2007 December 16, Virginia Heffernan, “Haunted Mouses”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minor, small-scale spectacle (impressive event).
minicasinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicasino
minispectacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minispectacle
notewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From note + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of musical notes.
recollective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recollective
form: most recollective
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to recollection.
stoopless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stoop + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not requiring the worker to stoop from a standing position.
raw_tags: of techniques to milk cows etc.
milkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milking
superregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superregions
Etymology: From super- + region.
Senses: examples: text: The council has been the most vigorous proponent of creating a semiautonomous southern superregion similar to the Iraqi region of Kurdistan, even though its political ally, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, has been trying to head off the diffusion of Baghdad's power.
ref: 2007 December 16, Alissa J. Rubin, “Iraqi City Poised to Become Hub of Shiite Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: A region that comprises several other regions.
superregions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superregion
ultrachic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrachic
form: most ultrachic
Etymology: From ultra- + chic.
Senses: examples: text: Lord & Taylor's bags threaten to upstage those of its glossier rivals, like the ultrachic Bergdorf Goodman, whose traditional lavender bags, emblazoned with the image of well-dressed Park Avenue ladies, are thin and frail by comparison.
ref: 2007 December 16, Michael Barbaro, “Never Mind What's in Them, Bags Are the Fashion”, in New York Times:
text: Besides e-mails, accessing his favorite comic strips via the Internet, and occasionally writing a letter, Frank primarily used his multiple-thousand dollar, ultrafast, ultrathin, ultrachic Macintosh computer to play a simple card game.
ref: 2009, Terri Kraus, The Renewal, page 163:
glosses: Very stylish or elegant.
undispelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dispelled.
Senses: examples: text: Observe, however, that the great preceding illusion is undispelled.
ref: 2007 December 16, James Grant, “Nobody Knows”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been dispelled.
medleyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medley
medleying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medley
wiphala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiphalas
Etymology: (South?) Bolivian Quechua.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Morales spoke before thousands of supporters in downtown La Paz on Saturday, some of whom were waving the wiphala, a multicolored flag representing indigenous people in Bolivia.
ref: 2007 December 16, Simon Romero, “Protesters in Bolivia Seek More Autonomy”, in New York Times:
glosses: A square emblem, commonly used as a flag, representing the native peoples of the central Andes of Bolivia.
wiphalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiphala
stoopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stooper
overchoreograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overchoreographs
form: overchoreographing
form: overchoreographed
form: overchoreographed
Etymology: From over- + choreograph.
Senses: examples: text: Nureyev was always inclined to overchoreograph, cramming steps onto every beat, a tendency only increased when he restaged ballets.
ref: 2007 December 17, Alastair Macaulay, “A Tale of Two Nutcrackers, With More Than a Chunnel Between Them”, in New York Times:
glosses: To choreograph with too much or too elaborate dancing.
overchoreographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overchoreograph
overchoreographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overchoreograph
recock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recocks
form: recocking
form: recocked
form: recocked
Etymology: From re- + cock.
Senses: examples: text: He recocked, fired again, and hit his adversary's abdomen. Mr. Dickinson bled to death over many hours, in terrible agony, according to accounts.
ref: 2007 December 17, Theo Emery, “Killed in a Duel, Then Lost in the Earth”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cock (a firearm) again.
recocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recock
recocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recock
recocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recock
roboticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robot + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: The spot was re-edited, returning with the scene of imagined roboticide removed.
ref: 2007 December 17, Stuart Elliott, “A Year for Quick Hits and Fast Flops as Campaigns Broke New Ground”, in New York Times:
synonyms: robocide
glosses: The killing of a robot.
unwrittenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwritten + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Soap opera is so readily incorporated into everyday life because its formal structures represent the liveness, the nowness, the unwrittenness of oral culture.
ref: 2010, John Fiske, Reading the Popular, page 159:
glosses: The quality of being unwritten.
Related terms: unwritten
blank
antispeculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + speculative.
Senses: qualifier: economy
glosses: Opposing speculation.
grupero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish grupero.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Mexican pop music.
gruppettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gruppetto
neoprimitivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoprimitivisms
form: neo-primitivism
Etymology: From neo- + primitivism, taking its name from Aleksandr Shevchenko's book Neo-primitivizm (1913).
Senses: qualifier: fine arts
glosses: A Russian art movement fusing elements of Cézanne, cubism and futurism with traditional Russian folk art.
qualifier: cultural anthropology
glosses: The loss of cultural complexity due to environmental factors and forms of social interaction.
Related terms: neoprimitivist
neoprimitivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoprimitivists
Etymology: From neo- + primitive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist working in the style of neoprimitivism.
neoprimitivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoprimitivist
neorealisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neorealism
neoplasticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoplasticists
Senses: glosses: An artist working in the style of neoplasticism.
neoplasticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoplasticist
socioethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + ethical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both society and ethics.
thingal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thingal
form: most thingal
Etymology: From thing + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [...] we apply thingal subjective conceptions. Our perceptions have a negation in them, they have not Being enough; to know the fact we must study by appropriate means, we must lay aside all these thingal idols of the mind; [...]
ref: 1856, James Hinton, Selections from manuscripts: Volume 2:
text: Indeed he possessed no true aesthetic feeling at all; there is probably not a single word in all that he wrote which indicates any sense of what he would probably call "thingal beauty".
ref: 1884, George Croom Robertson, Mind Association, George Frederick Stout, Mind: Volume 9:
glosses: Belonging or pertaining to a thing or things; real.
Related terms: thing
thingly
preadmission
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + admission.
Senses: examples: text: In September, the Board of Regents said that commercial schools could no longer use the preadmission test that Interboro was using to determine whether students without high school diplomas had the ability to benefit from higher education, and thus be eligible for financial aid.
ref: 2007 December 18, “Troubled Manhattan Commercial College to Close”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before admission (to a hospital, university, etc.).
preadmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + admission.
Senses: glosses: A preadmission process; a process that precedes admission.
glosses: A preadmission process; a process that precedes admission.
A preliminary process that precedes hospital admission for some interventional or surgical procedures.
qualifier: health care
glosses: Admission, as of steam, to an engine cylinder before the backstroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.
reichsmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reichsmarks
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Reichsmark.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The monetary unit in Germany between 1924 and 1948.
reichsmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reichsmark
final solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final solutions
Etymology: Calque of German Endlösung, which is short for Endlösung der Judenfrage (“Final Solution to the Jewish Question”)
Senses: examples: text: Criticizing China’s actions alone is not enough. The United States, which at first called the Nazis' Final Solution a "war rumor," according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, must not make the same mistake again. The United States cannot stand idly by and let its economic relationship with Beijing cloud its judgment.
ref: 2019, Grace Funk, “Opinion: The U.S. should do more to stop China's reeducation camps”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
glosses: Any similar attempted or successful genocide.
examples: text: Each mol of nitric acid gives three mol of nitrous acid which is therefore present in the final solution to the amount of 0.048 mol per liter.
ref: 1911, Gilbert N. Lewis, Arthur Edgar, “The Equilibrium between nitric acid, nitrous acid and nitric oxide”, in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 33, page 297:
text: Thus to argue that there is no final solution to this problem would be a disguised form of pretentious finality, [...]
ref: 1975, Bernard D. den Ouden, Language and Creativity: an interdisciplinary essay in Chomskyan humanism, →ISBN, page 8:
ref: 2004, J. Stevens, A. Blackstone, The Final Solution to Property Tax:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.
Related terms: Jewish Question
whalefall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalefalls
Etymology: From whale + fall, possibly modelled after snowfall. Compare also marine snow.
Senses: examples: text: But the ocean floor is not exactly wall-to-wall whalefalls.
ref: 2007 December 18, Henry Fountain, “Whales Are Tasty, but Bone-Eating Worms Might Not Discriminate”, in New York Times:
glosses: A whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor.
whalefalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whalefall
asetate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asetate
form: most asetate
Etymology: From a- + setate.
Senses: glosses: Not setate; that is, not having setae.
aglaonema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aglaonemas
Etymology: From the genus name translingual Aglaonema, of Ancient Greek origin, from ἀγλαός (aglaós, “shining”) + νῆμα (nêma, “thread”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Aglaonema of tropical foliage plants.
aglaonemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aglaonema
thinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingers
Etymology: From thing + -er.
Senses: glosses: A realist; one who considers only things or objects.
glosses: A practical or matter-of-fact person.
Derived terms: multi-thinger
Related terms: thing
baroquey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baroquey
form: most baroquey
Etymology: From baroque + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's the watered-down versions you cant look at: the lacquered baroquey mirror, the dining room table with the zebra rug under it, those Chippendale chairs, the dark-painted walls.
ref: 2007 December 20, Penelope Green, “Flash in the Can: Designs Soon Forgotten”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suggesting a baroque style.
thingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thinger
brushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brusher
discretions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discretion
hydroculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + culture.
Senses: synonyms: semi-hydroponics
glosses: A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
overborrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overborrows
form: overborrowing
form: overborrowed
form: overborrowed
Etymology: From over- + borrow.
Senses: examples: text: I feel that Americans overborrow and overconsume.
ref: 2007 December 20, “The Fed's Empty Gun”, in New York Times:
glosses: To borrow too much money.
overborrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overborrow
overborrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overborrow
overborrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overborrow
nonburrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + burrowing.
Senses: glosses: That does not burrow.
raw_tags: of an animal etc.
overconsume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overconsumes
form: overconsuming
form: overconsumed
form: overconsumed
Etymology: From over- + consume.
Senses: examples: text: I feel that Americans overborrow and overconsume.
ref: 2007 December 20, “The Fed's Empty Gun”, in New York Times:
glosses: To consume too much.
Derived terms: overconsumer
Related terms: overconsumption
overconsumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overconsume
overconsuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overconsume
overconsumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overconsume
sealings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealing
subflooring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfloorings
Etymology: From sub- + flooring.
Senses: glosses: A level of flooring below the main floor.
subinvestment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + investment.
Senses: examples: text: The biggest impact of the S.& P. announcement was felt by investors who had bought protection from the ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation, whose rating was cut to CCC, a subinvestment grade, from an A rating.
ref: 2007 December 20, Vikas Bajaj, “Bond Insurer Cut to Junk; Negative Outlook for 4 More”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not at a level where investment is considered wise or profitable.
tartiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tarty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Too often Tango Fire tries to suggest that the tango will be rendered more enjoyable by shows of flashy temperament, obvious sexiness or sheer tartiness.
ref: 2007 December 20, Alastair Macaulay, “Man and Woman, Hot and Acting Hotter”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being tarty.
toothbrusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothbrushers
Etymology: From tooth + brusher.
Senses: examples: text: Patience is also no virtue among toothbrushers.
ref: 2007 December 20, Martha Schindler Connors, “Is This a Toothbrush or a Drill Sergeant?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who brushes the teeth.
toothbrushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothbrusher
placelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From placeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being placeless.
Synonyms: unplace
rodentologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodentologists
Etymology: From rodentology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies rodentology.
rodentologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodentologist