cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonsparkling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sparkling.
Senses: glosses: Not sparkling; uncarbonated.
Synonyms: still
unfizzy
noneffervescent
nonbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbirds
Etymology: From non- + bird.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a bird.
nonbird
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bird.
Senses: examples: text: They don't belong here and can create rampant havoc when let loose upon local ecosystems, the Cane Toad and the Prickly Pear being two infamous non-bird examples.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 43:
glosses: Not a bird; non-avian.
nonbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonbird
nonrapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrapists
Etymology: From non- + rapist.
Senses: examples: text: All outsiders and abused children do not become rapists; but many rapists grew up under circumstances which deprived them of the civilizing influences and the rewards that mold the lives of nonrapists.
ref: 1979, Edward M. Brecher, “Foreword”, in A. Nicholas Groth, H. Jean Birnbaum, Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page viii:
text: Rapists in general were significantly less accurate in reading women’s negative cues than a control group of nonrapists; among rapists, the ability to read negative cues was less accurate among the more violent rapists than the less violent.
ref: 2012, John Randolph Fuller, “Criminal Offenses Against People”, in Think Criminology (CRJU; 202), Special Edition for Community College of Baltimore County, Boston, Mass.: McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions, →ISBN, part 3 (Typologies of Crime), page 226, column 2:
text: Because crime is not a specialized activity, a potential criminal (in other words, a person with low self-control) will tend to commit a crime if the opportunity presents itself. Thus, a rapist is more likely than a nonrapist to (mis)use drugs and to commit robberies and burglaries.
ref: 2015, Piers Beirne, James W. Messerschmidt, “Social Learning Theory and Social Control Theory”, in Criminology: A Sociological Approach, 6th edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Criminological Theory), page 154, column 1:
glosses: One who is not a rapist.
nonrape
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rape.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to rape (the sex crime).
nonrapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrapist
riddlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riddlelike
form: most riddlelike
form: riddle-like
Etymology: From riddle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a riddle.
Synonyms: enigmatical
paradoxical
rebuslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rebuslike
form: most rebuslike
Etymology: From rebus + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His distinctive, frenetic minimalism, condensed lettering and rebuslike signature (“H. Kurtz,” with a little figure of a “man” at the end) were developed during the course of this strip.
ref: 2009 August 9, Steven Heller, “The Art of Rebellion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rebus.
nonozone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ozone.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to ozone.
nontransit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transit.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to transit.
nonserial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serial.
Senses: glosses: Not serial.
Derived terms: nonserially
nonserial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonserials
Etymology: From non- + serial.
Senses: glosses: A publication that is not a serial.
nonbeach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + beach.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a beach.
nonceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ceramic.
Senses: glosses: Not ceramic.
nonceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonceramics
Etymology: From non- + ceramic.
Senses: glosses: A material that is not a ceramic.
nonceramics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonceramic
nonimperial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + imperial.
Senses: glosses: Not imperial.
peninsulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: obsolete plural of peninsula
nonsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsequences
Etymology: From non- + sequence.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a sequence.
nonsequenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sequenced.
Senses: glosses: Not sequenced.
nonsequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsequence
nonunderground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + underground.
Senses: glosses: Not underground (hidden or secretive); overt, public, mainstream.
nonfraud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fraud.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to fraud.
nonfraudulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fraudulent.
Senses: glosses: Not fraudulent.
nonborrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonborrowers
Etymology: From non- + borrower.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a borrower, who does not borrow money.
nonborrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonborrower
unharvestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + harvestable.
Senses: glosses: Not harvestable.
nonharvestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + harvestable.
Senses: glosses: Not harvestable.
ploughable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ploughable
form: most ploughable
Etymology: From plough + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plowable.
Derived terms: unploughable
unploughable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unploughable
form: most unploughable
Etymology: From un- + ploughable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unplowable.
plowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plowable
form: most plowable
form: ploughable
Etymology: From plow + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be plowed.
Synonyms: arable
Derived terms: unplowable
unplowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplowable
form: most unplowable
form: unploughable
Etymology: From un- + plowable.
Senses: glosses: Not plowable; that cannot be plowed.
ploverlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ploverlike
form: most ploverlike
Etymology: From plover + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
loverlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loverlike
form: most loverlike
Etymology: From lover + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I am very uneaſy to think how I have been drawn on one hand, and driven on the other, into a clandeſtine, in ſhort, into a mere Lover-like correſpondence, which my heart condemns.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 148:
text: “So, Miſs Stanhope (said he) you see I am come a courting in a true Lover like Manner.”
ref: [c. 1792], [Jane Austen], “The Three Sisters: a novel”, in Volume the First, page 171:
glosses: Befitting or characteristic of a lover.
Derived terms: unloverlike
cloverlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloverlike
form: most cloverlike
Etymology: From clover + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The margins of the heart-shaped, cloverlike leaflets are edged with purple on this 1' to 2' plant.
ref: 1997, Randy Seymour, Wildflowers of Mammoth Cave National Park, page 40:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the plant clover.
nonprostitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonprostitutes
Etymology: From non- + prostitute.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a prostitute.
nonprostitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonprostitute
nongardener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongardeners
Etymology: From non- + gardener.
Senses: examples: text: I needed someone to create a garden for a nongardener: someone to maximize its strengths, while minimizing the hands-on effort that would be needed to maintain it.
ref: 2009 June 4, Stuart Emmrich, “A Garden Reborn”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a gardener.
nonplumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonplumbers
Etymology: From non- + plumber.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a plumber.
nongardeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongardener
nonplumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonplumber
ersatzism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ersatz + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: One of Lewis’s challenges to linguistic ersatzism focuses on the inelimanibility^([sic]) of modality in connecting different levels of ontological description.
ref: 2025 April 25, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract.
Related terms: ersatzer
ersatzist
nonletter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonletters
Etymology: From non- + letter.
Senses: examples: text: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.
ref: 1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times:
text: The grading policy now specifies that all students enrolled before the spring 1982 semester in classes of less than 40 students will receive written evaluations, with either a nonletter grade (honors, pass or no credit) or a letter grade on their transcripts. Under the old system, the no-credit notation did not appear on the transcript.
ref: 1982 April 11, Timothy McDarrah, “THE LETTER-GRADE CONTROVERSY”, in The New York Times:
text: While economists generally say that a W remains entirely possible, they aren’t willing to make it their most-likely forecast because it hinges on two total unknowns: whether there is another spike in infections, and whether states will shut down again if that happens. Analysts who venture a guess increasingly favor a nonletter shape as their base-case: the checkmark.
ref: 2020 May 29, Jeanna Smialek, “Forget Swooshes and V’s. The Economy’s Future Is a Question Mark.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That which is not a letter (alphabetic symbol).
glosses: That which is not a letter (written message to be delivered).
nonletters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonletter
ersatzist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ersatzist
form: most ersatzist
Etymology: From ersatz + -ist.
Senses: qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism
ersatzist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ersatzists
Etymology: From ersatz + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Linguistic ersatzists hold that even if Lewis happened to be right about which hunks of stuff there are, he would still be wrong about modality.
ref: 2008 April 25, Mark Heller, “The Donkey Problem”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: An adherent of ersatzism
nondentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondentists
Etymology: From non- + dentist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a dentist.
nondentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondentist
ersatzists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ersatzist
sextoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextonesses
Etymology: From sexton + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female sexton.
sextonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextoness
toffeelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toffeelike
form: most toffeelike
Etymology: From toffee + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling toffee or some aspect of it.
nonincidental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + incidental.
Senses: glosses: Not incidental.
bikinilike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bikinilike
form: most bikinilike
Etymology: From bikini + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bikini.
uncircumscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + circumscribed.
Senses: examples: text: And now, with the tyranny of wrongful power, "The loathsome mark has fallen, the mall remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise."
ref: 1913, Sydney Waterlow, Shelley:
glosses: Not circumscribed.
uncircumnavigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + circumnavigated.
Senses: glosses: Not circumnavigated.
sandless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sand + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without sand.
unjudicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more unjudicious
form: most unjudicious
Etymology: From un- + judicious.
Senses: glosses: Injudicious.
uninscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inscribed.
Senses: glosses: Not inscribed.
nonisolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonisolates
Etymology: From non- + isolate.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, is not an isolate.
nonisolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonisolate
charismaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From charisma + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of charisma; uncharismatic.
nonfactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + factory.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a factory.
nonfactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + factorial.
Senses: glosses: Not factorial.
Kordofanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kordofan + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a geographic grouping of three to five language families spoken in the Nuba hills of Kordofan Province, Sudan.
intrasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: Within a syllable.
synharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synharmony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to synharmony.
scribally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From scribal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The medial consonant u is scribally equivalent to v in this passage.
glosses: In a scribal manner; in terms of the way something is written.
noncoinciding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coinciding.
Senses: glosses: Not coinciding.
noncoincident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coincident.
Senses: glosses: Not coincident.
Derived terms: noncoincidently
noncollision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncollisions
Etymology: From non- + collision.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a collision.
noncollisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncollision
gissa
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: gizza
Etymology: give us a
Senses: examples: text: This bloke comes up to his mate, and says "Ere," 'e says, 'gissa fag, tosh,' 'e says.
ref: 1952, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman, Punch:
text: (Pacing up and down in front of the protesting ICKLES, threateningly.) C'mon, Emma, gissa hand here.
ref: 2002, Anabel Donald, Be nice:
text: "An' you're gorgeous, here, gissa kiss."
ref: 2007, Carolyn McCrae, Walking Alone:
glosses: Give us a; give me a.
raw_tags: in imperative utterances
noncoincidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noncoincident + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a noncoincident manner.
pedaloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedalo
pédalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pédalos
Senses: examples: text: When we got back to the shore I suggested we should take a pédalo.
ref: 1950, Winston Graham, Night without Stars, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., book 2, page 206:
text: Massilia’s Greek origins disappeared with the Vieux Port, once Lacydon, blown up by the Nazis in the last war, just as the Nicean barks of yore down the coast in the Baie des Anges beyond the Promenade des Anglais have long since been replaced by pédalos and windsurfers.
ref: 1979 August 25, Alistair Forbes, “Books: Prince of the Canebière”, in The Spectator, volume 243, number 7885, London, →ISSN, page 17, column 2:
text: It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.
ref: 2001, Stephen Brown, “Replacing Marketing: Reading Retroscapes”, in Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, part III (Fixing the Mix), page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of pedalo.
pedalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedalo
pédalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pédalo
snuggums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps snookums influenced by snug or snuggle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snookums.
unhoneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + honeyed.
Senses: glosses: Not honeyed.
unchewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chewed.
Senses: glosses: That has not been chewed.
unbitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bitten.
Senses: glosses: That has not been bitten.
unbitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of unbite
uneulogized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uneulogised
Etymology: From un- + eulogized.
Senses: glosses: That has not been eulogized.
unyellowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + yellowed.
Senses: glosses: Not yellowed.
bottomlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bottomless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political, London: A. Seile, 9th impression, 1670, XIX. Of the Evil in Man from himself, and occasions, p. 33,https://archive.org/details/resolvesdivine00fell
Who is it, that is so bottomlesly ill, as to love vice, because it is vice? Yet we find, there are some so good, as to love goodness purely for goodness sake.
text: Once Daisy, yielding to the furtive cat-cruelty below her mild placidity, took him with her through the insane horrors of the scenic railway; they plunged bottomlessly from light into roaring blackness, and as his first yell ceased with a slackening of the car, rolled gently into a monstrous lighted gloom peopled with huge painted grotesques, the red maws of fiendish heads, the cunning appearances of death, nightmare, and madness.
ref: 1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 5, in Look Homeward, Angel:
text: He laughed; he watched me; the look in his eyes was so bottomlessly bitter it was almost benevolent.
ref: 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:
glosses: In a bottomless manner.
Synonyms: depthlessly
raplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raplike
form: most raplike
form: rap-like
Etymology: From rap + -like.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling hip-hop or the act of rapping.
complementarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more complementarily
form: most complementarily
Etymology: From complementary + -ly. Piecewise doublet of complimentarily.
Senses: glosses: In a complementary manner.
verbenalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verbenalike
form: most verbenalike
Etymology: From verbena + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling verbena or some aspect of it.
rousingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rousingly
form: most rousingly
Etymology: From rousing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It’s to the credit of this remarkable writer that those absences seem unimportant beside what is so rousingly present.
ref: 2009 July 12, David Orr, “Too Close to Touch”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a rousing manner.
destem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛm
Forms: form: destems
form: destemming
form: destemmed
form: destemmed
Etymology: From de- + stem.
Senses: glosses: To remove the stem from (grapes, tobacco, etc.).
destems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destem
destemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destem
destemming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destem
destemming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal of stems
cocoonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cocoonlike
form: most cocoonlike
Etymology: From cocoon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: One of two centerpieces commissioned as a centennial homage to the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham, Ms. Hadid’s cocoonlike structure was the last guest at the party: the pavilion by the Amsterdam-based UN Studio opened  on time  in June.
ref: 2009 September 3, Barbara Graustark, “Pitching a Tent, Spectacularly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cocoon; comfortably isolating.
chlorhexidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chlor- + hex- + -idine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular chemical antiseptic and bacteriostatic.
Derived terms: chlorhexidine gluconate
hipsterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hipsterish
form: most hipsterish
Etymology: From hipster + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She’s the creation of Princess Hijab, an anonymous Parisian street artist, who adorns women in advertisements with impromptu black-marker “veils” and papers public spaces with her own hipsterish “Hijab Ads.”
ref: 2009 August 14, Karen Rosenberg, “Multilayered and Multicultural, Creative Views of the Muslim Head Scarf”, in New York Times:
text: And while Eli's vibe is hipsterish and cheerful, his friends are clearly "travelers" — also known as crusties, also known as crust punks, also known as gutter punks, also known as oogles, also known as homeless, transient young people.
ref: 2019, Emily Guendelsberger, On the Clock:
glosses: Like a hipster; (often pretentiously) trendy.
Synonyms: hipstery
Derived terms: hipsterishly
garretlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garretlike
form: most garretlike
Etymology: From garret + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a garret.
laserdisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laserdiscs
form: laser disc
form: Laserdisc
Senses: examples: text: Extras include a commentary track with Mr. Polanski and Ms. Deneuve carried over from Criterion’s 1994 laserdisc release, and a fascinating French documentary from 1964 shot on the London set, illustrating Mr. Polanski’s millimeter-precise direction of actors.
ref: 2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times:
glosses: A home videodisc in the Laserdisc format.
laserdiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laserdisc
nonprison
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prison.
Senses: examples: text: The state could, however, divert offenders into drug-treatment programs and other nonprison environments, which are less expensive than incarceration and better at rehabilitation.
ref: 2009 August 11, “The Chino Prison Riot”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to prison.
Synonyms: nonjail
peppily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peppily
form: most peppily
Etymology: From peppy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t want to vote for any of you, to be honest!” scolded a 61-year-old retired accountant when Mr. Herbert appeared peppily at her front door, holding a Tory leaflet and wearing a jaunty turquoise Tory ribbon.
ref: 2009 June 4, Sarah Lyall, “British Minister Quits, Dealing New Blow to Brown”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a peppy manner.
washday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washdays
Etymology: From wash + day.
The Philippine sense may be traced back to a 1908 travel guide.
Senses: glosses: A day when laundry is washed.
glosses: Synonym of mufti day, a day when school uniforms are not mandatory.
synonyms: word: mufti day
extra: a day when school uniforms are not mandatory
Synonyms: sense: day for cleaning clothes
word: laundry day
sense: day for cleaning clothes
word: washing day
washdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washday
unpriestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpriestly
form: most unpriestly
Etymology: From un- + priestly.
Senses: examples: text: In order to ask oneself whether effective priestly service is at hand, one must look to see whether an unpriestly or antipriestly service is being performed, even among many conventional priestly activities.
ref: 2015, Jon Sobrino, Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross:
glosses: Not priestly.
unsaintly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + saintly.
Senses: glosses: Not saintly.
uncousinly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncousinly
form: most uncousinly
Etymology: From un- + cousinly.
Senses: glosses: Not cousinly.
undancerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undancerly
form: most undancerly
Etymology: From un- + dancerly.
Senses: examples: text: The whole mood, frankly, is pretentious and undancerly — not infuriatingly so but disappointingly.
ref: 2009 June 26, Alastair Macaulay, “Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not dancerly.
unreadily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreadily
form: most unreadily
Etymology: From Middle English unredily; equivalent to unready + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Other patrons seized all the predial tithes, and gave an example of impropriations to the religious corporations in their vicinity that was not unreadily followed.
ref: 1824, John Mirehouse, A Practical Treatise on the Law of Advowsons, page 83:
glosses: In an unready manner.
unpreparedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpreparedly
form: most unpreparedly
Etymology: From unprepared + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprepared manner.
preparedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preparedly
form: most preparedly
Etymology: From prepared + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prepared manner.
grillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grilling
audiotaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of audiotape
audiotaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of audiotape
nonminor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Etymology: From non- + minor.
Senses: glosses: Not minor; significant.
nonminor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nonminors
Etymology: From non- + minor.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a minor, who has reached the age of majority.
nonmurder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + murder.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to murder.
nonminors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonminor
seasonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From season + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without seasons.
examples: text: His designs were so ephemeral that some models appeared as if they had been preserved under an organdy version of Saran Wrap, and his pants were see-through — intriguing, if not exactly seasonless.
ref: 2009 June 11, Eric Wilson, “Resort Wear Never Rests”, in New York Times:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Not restricted to a particular season, but suitable for any.
glosses: Without relish or seasoning; insipid.
lusterlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lusterlessly
form: most lusterlessly
form: lustrelessly
Etymology: From lusterless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lusterless manner.
nonlustrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lustrous.
Senses: glosses: Not lustrous.
noncylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Not cylindrical.
lustrelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lustrelessly
form: most lustrelessly
Etymology: From lustreless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lusterlessly.
paddlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paddlelike
form: most paddlelike
Etymology: From paddle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But on Tuesday morning it was crowded with players, some toting paddlelike bats, and filled with the sound of leather balls struck by wood.
ref: 2009 June 29, Simon Akam, “With Every Whack of the Cricket Bat, a Bond”, in New York Times:
text: Thriving banana palms sculled the air with their large paddlelike fronds, as if to row the building backward in time to a more serene era.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 34:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a paddle.
Synonyms: oarlike
militarylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more militarylike
form: most militarylike
Etymology: From military + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The inmates and two accomplices executed the breakout with militarylike precision, witnesses said.
ref: 2009 August 9, Nicola Clark, “In Some Prison Breaks Across Europe, Helicopters Replace the File in the Cake”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a military.
badassery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bædˈæsəɹi/
Etymology: From badass + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Think The Dying Earth with added barbarian badassery — this is some very superior genre-blending.
ref: 2010, Richard K. Morgan, The Steel Remains, link:
text: ...he could always remember the badassery it took to survive the labyrinth.
ref: 2010, Daniel Nayeri, Another Pan, page 179:
text: ...the crowning moment of badassery
ref: 2012, Danny Vittore, Back the Fuck Up!: Wild Animals That Don't Give a Shit!, page 77:
qualifier: sometimes considered vulgar
glosses: The behaviour or quality of a badass; belligerence, audaciousness, etc.
Synonyms: badassness
noncynical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cynical.
Senses: glosses: Not cynical.
Synonyms: unjaded
nonsupporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsupporters
Etymology: From non- + supporter.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a supporter.
nonsupporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsupporter
nonlegalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + legalistic.
Senses: glosses: Not legalistic.
panlingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From pan- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, however, Linguas scholarly audience could have responded to this ostentatious parade of panlingual' skill as a confirmation of their own erudition.
ref: 1998, Jonathan Gil Harris, Foreign bodies and the body politic, page 112:
text: […] it is not interlingual translation that betrays the stutterer; it is, rather, panlingual stuttering.
ref: 2005, Marc Shell, Stutter, page 51:
text: We spoke in a private panlingual gibberish. We were not German or European or English or Canadian; we were flesh detached from time and place.
ref: 2007, Stephen Henigan, A Grave in the Air, page 32:
coordinate_terms: translingual
glosses: Involving or encompassing all languages.
Related terms: omnilingual
panlinguistic
antifat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æt
Etymology: From anti- + fat.
Senses: examples: text: However, in the prolonged antifat treatment, even if slowly performed, one never succeeds entirely...
ref: 1911, Alois Pick, Clinical symptomatology:
synonyms: antiobesity
glosses: Counteracting fat; having a slimming effect.
examples: text: From their study, Latner and Stunkard concluded that antifat attitudes are getting worse.
ref: 2007, Lesli J Favor, Weighing in: Nutrition and Weight Management:
synonyms: fatphobic
antiobesity
glosses: Opposed to obese people; fattist.
nonmotorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonmotorised
Etymology: From non- + motorized.
Senses: examples: text: And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.
ref: 1968, Edward Abbey, “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: It would continue to allow certain traditional, nonmotorized uses, like hunting, fishing and rafting.
ref: 2009 July 7, “For a Wilder Rockies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not motorized.
choralelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choralelike
form: most choralelike
Etymology: From chorale + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a chorale (hymn tune).
secrette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more secrette
form: most secrette
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of secret.
panlinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + linguistic.
Senses: examples: text: This is a panlinguistic phenomenon that applies to Chinese no less than to any other developed writing systems.
ref: 1997, William C. Hannas, Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: Occurring in all languages
examples: text: However, since this article is meant for a panlinguistic audience, an English translation of the communicative exercises that accompany the text is also provided for colleagues who do not possess a reading knowledge of Italian.
ref: 1987, Barbara A. Lafford, “Providing Comprehensible Input for Advanced Conversation Classes in University Settings”, in Italica, volume 64, number 2, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 278:
glosses: Including all languages
Derived terms: panlinguistically
Related terms: omnilingual
panlingual
panglot
supercommentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpə(ɹ)ˈkɒməntɹi/
ipa: /suːpə(ɹ)ˈkɒməntəɹi/
ipa: /supɚˈkɑmənˌtɛɹi/
Forms: form: supercommentaries
form: super-commentary
Etymology: From super- + commentary.
Senses: examples: text: Gersonides's supercommentary on Averroes's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Categories
glosses: A commentary (series of comments or annotations) on another commentary; a subcommentary.
Synonyms: subcommentary
metacommentary
supercommentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercommentary
linearities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linearity
racewalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racewalkers
Etymology: From race + walker.
Senses: glosses: One who participates in the sport of racewalking.
racewalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racewalker
water turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water turbine
fratboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fratboy
basketcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketcases
Senses: examples: text: The financial crisis turned my husband into a modern-day migrant labourer – and me into a needy, horny, stay-at-home basketcase.
ref: 2009 March 5, Rachel Shukert, “Help! The economy stole my spouse”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative spelling of basket case.
basketcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketcase
backpass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpasses
Senses: examples: text: Despite ceding the majority of possession to Van Gaal’s clearly superior side, a defeat facilitated by Mehdi Abeid’s backpass was arguably a little harsh on a Newcastle team who might have had an early penalty before seeing Emmanuel Rivière and Cissé spurn fine counter-attacking chances.
ref: 2015 March 4, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of back pass.
bellbottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bell-bottoms.
overparameterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overparameterize
polyphloisbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyphloisbic
form: most polyphloisbic
form: polyphloesboean
form: polyphloisboian
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”).
Senses: examples: 1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518.
Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?
glosses: Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering.
Sakamoto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sakamotos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 坂本 (Sakamoto).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
coup de maitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coups de maitre
Etymology: Borrowed from French coup de maître.
Senses: glosses: A masterstroke.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The introduction of a catheter into the bladder via the urethra.
CART
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)
CART
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CARTs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of classification and regression tree
backpasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back passes
Senses: glosses: plural of backpass
back passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpasses
Senses: glosses: plural of back pass
tsk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪsk/
ipa: /ˈtəsk/
ipa: /k͡ǀ/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: tisk
form: tch
form: tck
form: tst
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of disapproval, disappointment or discontent.
Synonyms: tut tut
tsk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪsk/
ipa: /ˈtəsk/
ipa: /k͡ǀ/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: tsks
form: tsking
form: tsked
form: tsked
form: tisk
form: tch
form: tck
form: tst
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To make a tsk sound of disapproval.
lingulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingula
graduses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gradus
special move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special moves
Senses: examples: text: The fighters move around nicely but when they carry out their special moves it occasionally gets rather confusing. You have the usual kick, thump, jump and duck moves plus others depending on whether you're playing Haggar, Guy or Cody.
ref: 1991, James Leach, Final Fight (game review in Your Sinclair issue 70)
topics: video-games
glosses: An exceptionally powerful fighting move.
Synonyms: special
Hyponyms: limit break
special defense
special defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special defenses
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A special move used to defend against damage.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: The capacity of a character of defending against damage through special defenses.
Related terms: special move
special attack
Khariboli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kaɹiːboʊɫiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کھڑی بولی (khṛī bolī) / खड़ी बोली (khaṛī bolī), literally "standing speech", likely in the sense of "standard speech".
Senses: glosses: The Delhi dialect of Hindustani upon which Standard Hindi and Urdu are based.
alendronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛn.dɹəˌneɪt/
Forms: form: alendronates
Etymology: From alendronic acid + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: The main treatments now for osteoporosis are drugs called bisphosphonates, like Actonel, Boniva and alendronate, the generic version of Merck’s Fosamax.
ref: 2009 August 14, Andrew Pollack, “A Partial Approval for Amgen’s Osteoporosis Drug”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The conjugate base, or any salt or ester, of alendronic acid.
Hypernyms: bisphosphonate
aminobisphosphonate
diphosphonate
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: alendronic acid
biomechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + mechanic.
Senses: examples: text: The former Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson, who for 20 years has pioneered biomechanic analysis of pitching motions, said that he shielded athletes from the physics behind what they do.
ref: 2009 June 28, Alan Schwarz, “While Recovering, Rockies’ Francis Revels in Physics of Pitching”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of biomechanical.
Brutalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brutalist
form: most Brutalist
Etymology: From brutal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
topics: architecture
glosses: Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
Brutalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brutalists
Etymology: From brutal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An architect who used this style
kikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kiˈkɔi/
Forms: form: kikois
form: kikoy
Etymology: From Swahili kikoi.
Senses: glosses: A piece of colored cloth used as clothing in Africa, wrapped around the waist and legs or shoulders.
Related terms: sarong
galactico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galacticos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish galáctico. Doublet of galactic.
Senses: examples: text: The danger about each of Mr Brown's weekend initiatives - his appearance as a galactico in Team Europe and his robust hostility to excessive lending - is that each may be more tactical than strategic, more appearance than reality.
ref: 2009 February 23, “Editorial: Brown in Berlin, image and reality”, in The Guardian:
text: Perez has promised a return of the "galactico" era at Madrid after initiating the original one from 2000-06 with the blockbuster signings of Zinedine Zidane, Beckham, Luis Figo and Brazil's Ronaldo.
ref: 2009 July 7, “Ronaldo rocks 80,000 fans at Bernabeu”, in Toronto Star:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A football superstar.
kikois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kikoi
special defenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special defense
special moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special move
Brutalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brutalist
afterbay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterbays
Etymology: From after- + bay.
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: a stream, conduit, pond or reservoir, of a hydroelectric power plant at the outlet of the turbines.
Hyogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hyōgo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 兵(ひょう)庫(ご) (Hyōgo).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Kōbe.
co-routine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-routines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coroutine.
Hyōgo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hyogo.
co-routines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-routine
Naha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 那覇 (なは, Naha).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Okinawa, Japan.
hyperpluralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + pluralism.
Senses: glosses: A state in which many groups or factions are so strong that a government is unable to function.
maiden flights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maiden flight
maiden voyages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maiden voyage
asectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asectarian
form: most asectarian
Etymology: * a- + sectarian
Senses: examples: text: The asectarian comradeship of the very early thirties yielded to unofficial manipulation of religious differences as the decade advanced.
ref: 1999, Seán McMahon, Sam Hanna Bell: a biography, Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Muir came from a religious home where doctrine and theology were somewhat ambiguous as a result of the asectarian Disciples doctrine.
ref: 2002, Dennis C. Williams, God's Wilds: John Muir's Vision of Nature^([199]), Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: In respect of the asectarian label applied to this event, we would point out that the sizeable Protestant/non-Catholic membership of our community has, throughout all of the sectarian unrest in Antrim over recent years, remained welcome in Rathenraw and will continue to receive the support of the community.
ref: 2003 September 24, Rathenraw Community Association, “Points of view: Community not a no-go area despite recent arson attack.”, in Europe Intelligence Wire:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Not sectarian; lacking sectarianism.
KSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KSIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of key set identifier.