cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dipterocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipterocarps
Etymology: From di- + ptero- + -carp.
Senses: glosses: any member of the family Dipterocarpaceae of tropical rainforest trees having two-winged fruits
noms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nom + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of nom
noms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From nom + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nom (nominate)
noms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nom (eat with noisy enjoyment)
noms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: examples: text: Forget overpriced noms
ref: 2008, Kaiser Kuo, The Insider's Guide to Beijing 2005-2006:
text: She's quite the foodie herself, frequently posting some tasty looking noms to her Instagram, as well as some adorable family photos.
ref: 2019 September 20, Glenn Garner, “Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are joined by 16-month-old son Miles as they have family outing for launch of Impossible Foods Grocery in LA”, in Daily Mail:
text: This elegantly designed (highly Instagrammable), community-forward venue, opened by Mary and Josh Foss in April of 2018, has an impressive array of coffee drinks and brewing methods to complement their fresh-baked bready noms, a rotation of seven local craft beers on tap, and – yes! – a selection of ciders and meads.
ref: 2019 November 1, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Five Good Places to Eat in Pflugerville? Easily.”, in Austin Chronicle:
text: For November is all about the noms, the elaborate eats, the sort of feasting that is layered with deep flavor and ingredients that are so un-run-of-the-mill, from fascinating fungi to spices you have to research ahead of purchasing.
ref: 2019 November 7, Alysia Gray Painter, “Eataly's Deal-Delish Restaurant Fest Is Now Cooking”, in NBC Southern California:
text: With these culinary heavy hitters, you can be sure the winning dishes will truly represent the highest quality of airport noms!
ref: 2019 November 8, “Enjoy These Delicious Cooking Classes Led By Top Chefs & More At KULinary 2019”, in SAYS:
glosses: Food, especially tasty food.
Dionysiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪəˈnɪziæk/
/daɪəˈniːziæk/
/diːə-/
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: dionysiac, dionysian; Bacchic; Bacchanalian
synonyms: Dionysian
glosses: Of, or relating to Dionysus or to the Dionysia.
Damon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪmən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δάμων (Dámōn), a name famous for the story of Damon and Pythias; derivative of δαμάζω (damázō, “to tame, subdue”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A male given name from Albanian.
examples: text: During the boom times, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon all gushed about or invested in crypto projects, bringing a mainstream audience to the wonky world of digital currencies.
ref: 2023 July 6, Erin Griffith, David Yaffe-Bellany, “How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023:
glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
dionysiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈnɪziæk/
Forms: form: more dionysiac
form: most dionysiac
Senses: glosses: wild and ecstatic
Synonyms: dionysian
Related terms: bacchic
disafforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: disafforestations
Etymology: From post-classical Latin disafforestātiō (13th cent.), from the participial stem of Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, disafforest + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Disafforestation and enclosure could thus be regarded as a national duty, a kindness in disguise to the idle poor, as well as of more immediate benefit to the rich encloser.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 37:
topics: law
glosses: The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws.
glosses: Deforestation.
Related terms: disafforestment
disclamatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈklæmətɹi/
Forms: form: more disclamatory
form: most disclamatory
Senses: glosses: being in the nature of a disclamation
disclamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪskləˈmeɪʃən/
Forms: form: disclamations
Senses: glosses: The act of disclaiming or something disclaimed.
glosses: A renunciation.
disgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dysgenic.
dysgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-jĕnʹĭk
ipa: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more dysgenic
form: most dysgenic
Etymology: From dys- + -genic, produced from New Latin dys- from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and γένος (génos, “offspring”).
Senses: examples: text: The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
ref: 2018 June 13, Rory Smith, “IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds”, in CNN:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to, or causing degeneration or deterioration in offspring.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: cacogenic
antonyms: eugenic
glosses: Of or relating to dysgenics.
Derived terms: dysgenically
dysgenicity
dysgenics
nondysgenic
Related terms: dysgenesic
dysgenesis
dysgenetic
dysgenetically
dysgenetics
imputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From impute + -able.
Senses: examples: text: No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
synonyms: chargeable
ascribable
attributable
referable
glosses: That may be imputed
topics: law
glosses: Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.
Derived terms: unimputable
Related terms: imputability
imputableness
imputably
imputation
impute
imputability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imputabilities
Etymology: From impute + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The character of being imputable.
Related terms: imputable
imputableness
imputably
imputation
impute
imputably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imputably
form: most imputably
Etymology: From imputable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imputable manner; by imputation.
Related terms: imputability
imputable
imputableness
imputation
impute
imputableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imputable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imputable; imputability.
Related terms: imputability
imputable
imputably
imputation
impute
zam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Then suddenly — Zam! Zowie! Smash! The Post sends back an article which I was positive it would buy, and which, in fact, it had ordered. One manuscript after another is flung back into my face […]
ref: 1945, The Author and Journalist, volumes 30-31, page 9:
text: You never know when some enemy of the Free World might worm his or her way into your confidence and then — ZAM! Wipe you out.
ref: 2007, J. W. Brodie-Innes, The Devil's Mistress, page 21:
glosses: shortened form of kazaam
journeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of journey
Derived terms: unjourneyed
teld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛld
Forms: form: telds
form: tield
form: tild
Etymology: From Middle English teld, tield, telte, from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”), from Proto-Indo-European *delt- (“board”). Cognate with Middle Dutch telde, telt (“tent”), German Zelt (“tent”), Swedish tält (“tent”), Icelandic tjald (“tent”). Doublet of tilt and geteld.
Senses: glosses: A tent.
Related terms: tilt
teld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛld
Forms: form: telds
form: telding
form: telded
form: telded
Etymology: From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.
Senses: glosses: To lodge in a tent.
glosses: To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
Related terms: tilt
teld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛld
Senses: examples: text: I teld you what happened.
glosses: simple past and past participle of tell
impurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impurely
form: most impurely
Etymology: From impure + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impure manner.
impureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊə(ɹ)nəs
Etymology: From impure + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
Related terms: impuration
impure
impurely
impurity
impuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impurations
Etymology: From impure + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of making impure; defilement; obscuration.
Related terms: impure
impurely
impureness
impurity
impulsiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulsivenesses
Etymology: From impulsive + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: impulsivity
glosses: The quality of being impulsive.
Related terms: impulse
impulsion
impulsive
impulsively
impulsor
pulse
impulsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulsors
Etymology: From Latin impulsor.
Senses: examples: text: Which consisting of two Vectes or armes, converted towards each other, the innitency and stresse being made upon the hypomochlion or fulciment in the decussation, the greater compression is made by the union of two impulsors.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: One who or that which impels; an inciter, an instigator.
Related terms: impulse
impulsion
impulsive
impulsively
impulsiveness
impulsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpʌlsɪvli/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɐlsɪvli/
Forms: form: more impulsively
form: most impulsively
Etymology: From impulsive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Of course, this wasn't part of some master plan. I impulsively used my vast power to do something nice without thinking it through. And then something I didn't expect happened. Even though I should have expected it."
ref: 2014 July 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jul 22, 2014:
glosses: In an impulsive manner; with force; by impulse.
Related terms: impulse
impulsion
impulsive
impulsiveness
impulsor
impulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulsions
Etymology: From Middle English impulsioun, from Old French impulsion, from Latin impulsio, impulsionem.
Senses: examples: text: I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern. At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
examples: text: Farther, Chrisostome upon this place saith, that Paule when he thus writeth, doth in no wise denie the nature of the flesh, but exalteth it to a more higher dignitie, namelie, that it should rather obaie the impulsion of the spirite, than lust.
ref: 1581, Peter Martyr, edited by John Marbeck, A Booke of Notes and Common places, with their expostitions, collected and gathered out of the workes of divers singular Writers and brought Alphabetically into order, Thomas East, page 410:
text: Once they sit to talk, the Pilgrims lose the impulsion that has brought them so far, their confidence in their own crude strength.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 369:
glosses: Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.
Related terms: impulse
impulsive
impulsor
inaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈækʃən/
Forms: form: inactions
Etymology: From French inaction.
Morphologically in- + action.
Senses: examples: text: Hmm, yes, 'negotiations' is an interesting choice of words given that ministers have steadfastly refused to meet the unions for the past year; a clear case of industrial inaction.
ref: 2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 35:
synonyms: idleness
rest
inertness
inertia
antonyms: action
glosses: Lack of action or activity or labor
Related terms: inactive
inactively
inactivity
ineffectiveness
pseudo-activity
inertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inertnesses
Etymology: From inert + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: sluggishness
apathy
insensibility
glosses: Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion
glosses: Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
Derived terms: bioinertness
inaccurately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inaccurately
form: most inaccurately
Etymology: From inaccurate + -ly or in- + accurately.
Senses: examples: text: In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh.
ref: 2009 February 22, Walter Kirn, “Insult as Injury”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
inexactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inexactly
form: most inexactly
Etymology: From inexact + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
inaccessibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle French inaccessibilité, from Latin inaccessibilitas.
Senses: antonyms: accessibility
glosses: The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.
antonyms: accessibility
accessibility
glosses: The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.
Such a state in the built environment, commerce, or civics that represents a shortcoming in what society has yet achieved to accommodate the impairments that some of its members have.
coordinate_terms: disability
;
impairment
qualifier: social model of disability
Derived terms: North Pole of inaccessibility
inaccessibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inaccessible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being inaccessible or unreachable.
unreachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reach + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] read-only attribute that lists the unreachable but uncollectable objects.
ref: 2006, Alex Martelli, Python in a Nutshell:
glosses: Unable to be reached; impossible to attain.
Derived terms: unreachable code
unreachable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unreachables
Etymology: From un- + reach + -able.
Senses: examples: text: “Brands want to be in front of this audience,” Ms. Bamford said. “Reaching these unreachables, these cord-cutters who don’t want to be fed an ad, is a huge concern.”
ref: 2019 December 16, Tiffany Hsu, quoting Ellie Bamford, “Netflix Is Ad Free, but It Isn’t Brand Free”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person or thing that cannot be reached.
impugner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impugners
Etymology: From impugn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
impudently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impudently
form: most impudently
Etymology: From impudent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
text: 'Oh certainly,' retorted Tinette impudently, as she flounced out of the room.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 67:
glosses: In an impudent manner; with unblushing effrontery; insolently.
shamelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shamelessly
form: most shamelessly
Etymology: From shameless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68:
text: Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
ref: 2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:
text: But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians. With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.
ref: 2014 July 10, Stephen Glover, “Sorry, but Gandhi statue in Westminster is a cheap stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history greasing up to India”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: In a shameless manner; without shame; impudently.
imprudently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imprudently
form: most imprudently
Etymology: From imprudent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He imprudently invested all his savings into a shady scheme and lost.
text: She spoke imprudently during the meeting, criticizing her boss without evidence.
text: The thinker imprudently dismissed the ontological premises of the argument without engaging in dialectical scrutiny, thereby undermining the epistemic integrity of the discourse.
text: The minister imprudently disclosed classified information, thereby compromising national security.
text: The executive imprudently authorized the capital reallocation without conducting a due diligence audit, thereby exposing the firm to significant fiduciary risk.
glosses: Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
yellow press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow presses
Etymology: From the comic feature "The Yellow Kid" in the Journal newspaper, first published in 1895.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: tabloids, gutter press
text: The Olivette incident has often been cited as emblematic of the distortions published by Hearst and the rest of the yellow press during the Cuban revolution, but it seems to have been founded in an honest mistake.
ref: 1986, G. J. A. O'Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic, page 82:
antonyms: broadsheet
newspaper of record
glosses: Newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.
Related terms: yellow journalism
muckraking
tabloidism
imprudence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹuːdn̩s/
Forms: form: imprudences
Etymology: From im- + prudence. From Middle French imprudence, from Latin imprudentia.
Senses: examples: text: [Hamilton were to have said:] nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
ref: 1861, Jonathan Elliot, Debates of State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. I, page 422:
glosses: The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.
examples: text: Ah: my dear—Madam there is the great mistake—'tis this very conscious Innocence that is of the greatest Prejudice to you—what is it makes you negligent of Forms and careless of the world's opinion—why the consciousness of your Innocence—what makes you thoughtless in your Conduct and apt to run into a thousand little imprudences—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
text: At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.
ref: 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753):
text: Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences.
ref: 1891, Francois Coppee, Ten Tales:
text: This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences.
ref: 1903, S.C. Hill, Three Frenchmen in Bengal:
text: He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.
ref: 1906 – 1921, John Galsworthy, “Encounter”, in The Forsyte Saga, volume 1:
glosses: An imprudent act.
heedlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heedlessnesses
Etymology: From heedless + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: inattention
carelessness
thoughtlessness
glosses: The state or character of being heedless
Synonyms: word: unheed
inattention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inattentions
Etymology: From French inattention.
Senses: synonyms: disregard
heedlessness
neglect
glosses: Lack of attention, or failure to pay attention
glosses: An act of neglect; failure of courtesy.
Derived terms: hemi-inattention
rashness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rashnesses
Etymology: From rash + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: temerity
glosses: The quality of state of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste
unwarranted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwarranted
form: most unwarranted
Etymology: From un- + warranted.
Senses: glosses: Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
examples: text: The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:
text: The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312:
text: This strike action by the RMT is completely unwarranted and unjustified.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: Union threatens to escalate Class 360s dispute with EMR”, in RAIL, number 940, page 23:
glosses: Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.
Related terms: unwarrantability
unwarrantable
unwarrantableness
unwarrantably
unwarrantedly
warrantless
guaranty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæɹənti/
Forms: form: guaranties
Etymology: From Old French guarantie, from Old French guarantie (“protection, defense”), from Old French garantir, guarantir (“to warrant, vouch for something”), from Old French garant, guarant, warant (“a warrant; warranter, supporter, defender, protector”), from Frankish *warand, *warjand (“a warrant”), from Frankish *warjan (“to fend for, designate something as true, vouch for”), from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Cognate with Middle Low German warent, warend (“a warrant”), German gewähren (“to grant”). More at warrant. Doublet of guarantee and warranty.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a warranty; a security.
examples: text: No doubt the city of New York and the State of California contain capital enough for the completion of the entire road,--would subscribe to it, too, upon sufficient guaranties.
ref: 1864, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864:
glosses: Something serving as a security for such an undertaking.
examples: text: ...He had contemplated the match as the fittest for the heir to England's throne, and one that offered the best guaranty for mutual happiness and a vigorous progeniture.
ref: 1886, James Parton, “King and Queen of Denmark”, in Some Noted Princes, Authors, and Statesmen of Our Time:
text: America has sent us guaranties She will demand that Maximilian Be held but as a prisoner of war.
ref: 1904, Olive Tilford Dargan, Semiramis and Other Plays:
text: The concept of God and immortality is for him a guaranty of this eternal difference between right and wrong.
ref: 1945, René Wellek, “The Philosophical Basis of Masaryk’s Political Ideals” in Ethics LV, № 4 (July 1945), page 299, right column
glosses: An assurance or guarantee.
Related terms: guarantor
guaranty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæɹənti/
Forms: form: guaranties
form: guarantying
form: guarantied
form: guarantied
Etymology: From Old French guarantie, from Old French guarantie (“protection, defense”), from Old French garantir, guarantir (“to warrant, vouch for something”), from Old French garant, guarant, warant (“a warrant; warranter, supporter, defender, protector”), from Frankish *warand, *warjand (“a warrant”), from Frankish *warjan (“to fend for, designate something as true, vouch for”), from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Cognate with Middle Low German warent, warend (“a warrant”), German gewähren (“to grant”). More at warrant. Doublet of guarantee and warranty.
Senses: examples: text: His imperial majesty likewise guaranties to the king of Prussia the perpetual possession of upper Silesia; and the king guaranties to the emperour the perpetual possession of upper Austria, as soon as he shall have occupied it by conquest."
ref: 1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6:
text: They are classified as “loans” because they involve traditional market-rate loans, but with one important additional feature: Their payments are guarantied by a financially powerful third party.
ref: 2014, Michael Curley, Finance Policy for Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Environment, →ISBN:
text: Real-time systems require a predictable behaviour in terms of guarantied deadlines.
ref: 2017, J.A. De La Puente, L. Boullart, Real-Time Programming 1992, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of guarantee.
unwarrantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwarrantable
form: most unwarrantable
Etymology: From un- + warrantable.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen men doe not iſhue out of a danger by a doore of Gods opening unto them, but breake through the vvall, (as Jerome by perjury) by violent and unvvarrantable vvayes, their minds are daily haunted vvith ſcruples and perplexities, even ſometimes to dolefull diſtraction; beſides, ſuch eſcapes never grovv proſperous, rather eaſing than curing, and the comfort got by them unraueleth againe, as it hapned in Jerome of Prague.
ref: 1651, Thomas Fuller, “The Life and Death of Jerom of Prague”, in Abel Redevivus: Or, The Dead Yet Speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Brudenell for John Stafford, […], →OCLC, page 27:
text: Another thing, that engageth our affections to unwarrantable conclusions, and is therefore fatal to Science; is our doting on Antiquity, and the opinions of our Fathers.
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XV, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, pages 136–137:
text: [T]he taking up arms, merely to enforce the repeal of a pecuniary law, seems as unwarrantable by the divine law, and as repugnant to human feelings, as the taking up arms to enforce the obedience thereto.
ref: 1775–1776 (date written), [Thomas Paine], “Of the Present Ability of America, with Some Miscellaneous Reflections”, in Common Sense; […], Philadelphia, Pa.: […] R[obert] Bell, […], published 10 January 1776, →OCLC, page 70:
text: Don't persist, sir! or else I shall be obliged to inform my master of your designs; and he'll take measures to secure his house and its inmates from any such unwarrantable intrusions!
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XIV, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: After this unwarrantable invasion, which not only filled every passage, but even intruded upon the space set apart for the Press, it is estimated that nearly five thousand people awaited the arrival of the travelers.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
synonyms: illegal
unjust
improper
glosses: Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable
Related terms: unwarrantability
unwarrantableness
unwarrantably
unwarranted
unwarrantedly
unwarrantedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwarrantedly
form: most unwarrantedly
Etymology: From unwarranted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unwarranted manner; without warrant; unjustifiably.
Related terms: unwarrantability
unwarrantableness
unwarrantably
unwarranted
unwarrantably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwarrantably
form: most unwarrantably
Etymology: From unwarrantable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1662, Richard Baxter, A Saint or a Brute, London: Francis Tyton & Nevil Simmons, Chapter 4, p. ,
Holiness maketh men meek and patient, and teacheth subjects not to make too great a matter of any injury that is done them; nor to censure unwarrantably the actions of their superiours […]
text: Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 104”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: 1937, H. G. Wells, Star Begotten, Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006, Chapter 8, 5, p. 118,
There is this secondary world which has worked its way into language everywhere, a sort of fold in the membrane that has established itself in a thousand metaphors, got itself most unwarrantably taken for granted by nearly everybody.
text: In the following year, however, a contract for the remainder of the line was concluded, and the directors issued a most unwarrantably optimistic report on the prospects of their undertaking.
ref: 1953 June, B. D. J. Walsh, “Branch Lines to Thetford”, in Railway Magazine, page 375:
glosses: In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.
Related terms: unwarrantability
unwarrantableness
unwarranted
unwarrantedly
unwarrantableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwarrantable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unwarrantable.
Related terms: unwarrantability
unwarrantably
unwarranted
unwarrantedly
unwarrantability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The character of being unwarrantable; unwarrantableness.
Related terms: unwarrantableness
unwarrantably
unwarranted
unwarrantedly
indiscretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndɪsˈkɹɛʃən/
Forms: form: indiscretions
Etymology: From Old French, from Late Latin indiscrētiō.
Senses: examples: text: political indiscretion
text: minor indiscretion
text: He apologized for his youthful indiscretion.
text: The scandal was caused by a single indiscretion.
synonyms: imprudence
rashness
glosses: The quality or state of being indiscreet; lack of discretion
examples: text: forgive an indiscretion
glosses: An indiscreet or imprudent act; indiscreet behavior.
glosses: A brief sexual liaison.
Derived terms: dietary indiscretion
indiscretional
youthful indiscretion
Related terms: indiscreet
discretion
circumspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜːkəmˈspɛkʃən/
ipa: /ˌsɚkəmˈspɛkʃən/
Forms: form: circumspections
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English circumspeccioun, from Middle French circonspection or its etymon Latin circumspectio. By surface analysis, circum- + Latin spect + -ion, "looking [all] around" (as compared with the opposite concept, embodied as tunnel vision or blinders).
Senses: glosses: Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
examples: text: As if this were not enough, CAW has failed to utilize even his limited sources with diligence and circumspection; to demonstrate this point, I will briefly note inadequacies in the data adduced by CAW.
ref: 1989 January 24, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 128:
glosses: Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness.
improviser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improvisers
Etymology: From improvise + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who improvises.
improvidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improvidences
Etymology: From im- + providence.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
improvidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more improvidently
form: most improvidently
Etymology: From improvident + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an improvident manner.
improvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improvable
form: most improvable
form: improveable
Etymology: From improve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, Humanitarians alone devote their present lives to create heavens within themselves and others, and a real paradise upon earth, because they do not waste their time with Pagan delusions, Sceptical doubts, and Atheistical selfishness, but live happily in the present by preparing for themselves and others happier future human lives upon our improveable globe.
ref: 1876, Joachim Kaspary, Natural Laws; or The Infallible Criterion, London: J. A. Brook & Co., […], →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: Capable of being improved.
synonyms: serviceable
advantageous
glosses: Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.
Derived terms: improvableness
improvably
unimprovable
improvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + provable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to prove.
Derived terms: improvably
Related terms: improbable
improbably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more improbably
form: most improbably
Etymology: From improbable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
ref: 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
glosses: In an improbable manner; without probability.
improbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˌpɹɒb.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ɪmˌpɹɑb.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ɪmˌpɹɑb.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ɪmˌpɹɑb.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ɪmˌpɹɑb.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: improbabilities
Etymology: From im- + probability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood.
examples: text: "I really," returned the other with a sneer, "cannot agree about probabilities or improbabilities, but I know what the generality will think when they see a gentleman constantly with five very pretty girls, and I also know what they will say."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: That which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
unlikelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlikelihoods
Senses: glosses: Absence of likelihood; the state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability.
impressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impressive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being impressive.
Synonyms: word: impressivity
impressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impressively
form: most impressively
Etymology: From impressive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The words written on the animal were next repeated impressively, and if the dog began to bark, it was a sign that the lover would gain his objective.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 58:
glosses: In an impressive manner; forcibly.
impressionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impressionistic
form: most impressionistic
Etymology: From impressionist + -ic or impression + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or characterized by impressionism.
examples: text: Also, it must be remembered that claims made by Kindersley and Goffin were impressionistic, as opposed to being based on modern linguistic data collection and analysis methods.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124:
glosses: Based on subjective reactions or feelings; not systematically researched or arrived at.
glosses: Based on impression rather than reason or fact; based on trying to impress somebody rather than trying for accuracy.
glosses: Impressible.
Derived terms: impressionistically
neoimpressionistic
impressionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impressionable
form: most impressionable
Etymology: From French impressionnable, equivalent to impression + -able. See also impressible.
Senses: examples: text: I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.
ref: 1908, Elizabeth Strong Worthington, How to Cook Husbands, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
text: "Panbek is impressionable and full of emotion, with the temperament of the poet and all those little weaknesses, if we may call them so, which the poet pays as a ransom for his gifts."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:
text: As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.
ref: 2003, Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 240:
text: Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable. It is supposed that the environment that one inhabits plays a large role in a child's behavioral and moral development.
ref: 2011, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp, What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
Derived terms: impressionableness
impressionably
unimpressionable
Related terms: impressionability
impressionable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impressionables
Etymology: From French impressionnable, equivalent to impression + -able. See also impressible.
Senses: examples: text: They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.
ref: 1942, Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces:
glosses: An impressionable person.
impressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impressionists
Etymology: From French impressionniste.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism.
examples: text: When impressionists (and especially lazy impressionists) delivered their comedic interpretation of [Bill] Clinton, the phrase they always used was “I feel your pain,” expressed with a sympathetic Southern drawl.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A performer who does impressions; a mimic.
Derived terms: impressionistic
neoimpressionist
nonimpressionist
postimpressionist
preimpressionist
impregnably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impregnably
form: most impregnably
Etymology: From impregnable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impregnable manner; so as to defy attack.
impregnability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being impregnable; invincibility.
invincibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌvɪn.səˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ɪnˌvɪn.səˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: invincibilities
Etymology: From Middle French invincibilité, from Latin invincibilitas.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
Derived terms: invincibility frame
noninvincibility
invincibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From invincible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being invincible; unconquerableness; insuperableness.
Related terms: undefeatedness
insuperableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insuperable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
insuperability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insuperabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
unconquerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unconquerable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: VVhen all the Perſians ſoothed the King in the vnconquerableneſſe of his forces, Artabanus told him, that he feared no enemies but the Sea and the Earth; the one yeelding no ſafe harbour for ſuch a Navie; the other not yeelding ſufficient ſuſtenance for ſo multitudinous an Armie.
ref: 1625, Peter Heylyn, “Of the World: And First of Europe. The Grecian Iles.”, in Μικρόκοσμος [Mikrókosmos]. A Little Description of the Great World. […], revised edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Litchfield and William Turner, and are to be sold by W. Turner and T. Huggins, →OCLC, page 424:
glosses: The quality or state of being unconquerable.
unconquerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkɒŋkəɹəbəl/
Etymology: From un- + conquerable.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, pages 282–283:
synonyms: inconquerable
glosses: Not conquerable; indomitable.
Related terms: unconquerability
unconquerable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkɒŋkəɹəbəl/
Forms: form: unconquerables
Etymology: From un- + conquerable.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that cannot be conquered.
conquerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conquerable
form: most conquerable
Etymology: From conquer + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being conquered or subdued.
Derived terms: conquerableness
inconquerable
unconquerable
imprecision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
ipa: [ˌɪm.pɹɪˈsɪʒ.n̩]
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: imprecisions
Etymology: From im- + precision.
Senses: examples: text: The imprecision with which Classical authors grouped various peoples of North-Africa together under terms like Afri or Punici.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 459:
glosses: A lack of precision or exactness; poor accuracy.
impreciseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprecisenesses
Etymology: From imprecise + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imprecise, or lacking precision.
imprecisely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imprecisely
form: most imprecisely
Etymology: From imprecise + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imprecise manner.
Synonyms: sense: imprecise manner
word: inexactly
sense: imprecise manner
word: roughly
impotently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impotently
form: most impotently
Etymology: From impotent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impotent manner.
impotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impotencies
Senses: examples: text: Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
text: Byron hasn't been the same since the impotency set in ten years ago, poor bludger.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 188:
glosses: impotence
powerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerlessnesses
Etymology: From powerless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: helplessness
text: In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:
synonyms: impotence
antonyms: power#Noun
powerfulness
coordinate_terms: weakness
glosses: The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.
Related terms: helplessness
imposture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɒstjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɒst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: impostures
Etymology: From Middle French imposture, from Late Latin impostura, Latin impostus.
Senses: examples: text: Among an unenlightened people every impoſture is likely to take place, for ignorance is the parent of credulity.
ref: 1774, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Of the Earliest State of Greece”, in The Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great, volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and F[rancis] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: There is something very horrible in the laugh of a dying man: Hovering on the verge of both worlds, he seems to give the lie to both, and proclaim the enjoyments of one, and the hopes of another, alike an imposture.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 292:
synonyms: cheating
glosses: The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition
Derived terms: imposturage
impostured