cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
distantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distant + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Back then, her distantness seemed dreamy. Romantic, even.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 190:
glosses: The state or quality of being distant or remote.
Related terms: remoteness
aloofness
reservedness
distastefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distasteful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
Synonyms: repugnantness
offensiveness
objectionability
distractedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distracted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distracted; distraction.
Related terms: diversion
distraction
deviation
distraughtness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distraught + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
Synonyms: distressedness
insaneness
distressedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distressed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distressed; anxiety.
Related terms: anxiety
anxiousness
strain
worry
kiaugh
distressfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distressful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
distressful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distressful
form: most distressful
form: distressfull
Etymology: From distress + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.
ref: 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, “On the Death of John Adams”, in Poems […] , Boston: S.G. Goodrich, →OCLC, pages 191–192:
text: If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.
ref: 1905, “I Don't Care”, Jean Lenox (lyrics), Harry O. Sutton (music), performed by Eva Tanguay:
glosses: Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
Derived terms: distressfully
distressfulness
undistressful
distributiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distributive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distributive or allotting.
distrustfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distrustful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
diverseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diversenesses
Etymology: From diverse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being diverse or unlike and varied; diversity.
Synonyms: diversity
variousness
unlikeness
miscellanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscellany
bedjacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedjackets
form: bed-jacket
Etymology: From bed + jacket.
Senses: examples: text: She hauled the bed from her room out into the middle of the Studio before the open fire and lay there in state, done up in fancy bed-jackets, smoking innumerable cigarettes and entertaining anybody whom she could persuade to visit.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Sham”, in The House of All Sorts, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., published 1971, page 77:
text: Oh dear, dear!—you know you’re sick when someone sends you a bedjacket instead of bath powder or a nice travel book. A bedjacket is almost as antiquated as a bustle or a dress shield. A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo.
ref: 1993, Carol Shields, chapter 9, in The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, page 331:
glosses: A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
Derived terms: bed-jacketed
besmocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + smocked.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a smock.
periphrasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɪfɹəsɪs/
Forms: form: periphrases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίφρασις (períphrasis).
Senses: glosses: The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".
examples: text: Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went".
text: Native speakers use periphrases like "did not go" where a language learner might use "went not".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
examples: text: Periphrasis a single thought expands,
And uses many words for what but few demands.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Periphrasis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 37:
text: The "glen," or the "brake of the lion," is Pindar's favourite periphrasis for Nemea.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 63:
glosses: The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of circumlocution).
glosses: The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.
Synonyms: beating around the bush
circumlocution
Related terms: periphrase
periphrastic
periphrastic conjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periphrastic conjugations
Senses: examples: text: The active periphrastic conjugation in Latin is formed by using the future active participle and the appropriate form of "esse".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
perjurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəɹdʒəɹəɹ/
Forms: form: perjurers
Etymology: From perjure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Here are none exempted or excluded, be they never so prophane or wretched, no Atheist, adulterer, thief, or murderer, no lyer, perjurer, Witch or conjurer, &c· al are one fellowship, one body, one Church.
ref: 1607, Henry Ainsworth, The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes:
text: Come in, you false witness, you perjurer, you suborner of evidence, come in!
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
glosses: someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath
Synonyms: false witness
knight of the post
Derived terms: perjuress
unilaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unilaterally
form: most unilaterally
Etymology: From unilateral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When it was the defense’s turn to try to rebut the prosecution’s case, lawyers for Mr. James called just two witnesses [—] two former councilwomen who tried to bolster the assertion of Mr. James that he could not approve property sales unilaterally.
ref: 2008 April 17, Jonathan Miller and Richard G. Jones, “Ex-Newark Mayor Convicted of Fraud”, in The New York Times:
text: One can trace the first blunder to December 1949 when India kept quiet after Beijing unilaterally closed down the Indian Consulate in Kashgar, Sinkiang (today Xinjiang).
ref: 2020 September 19, Claude Arpi, “The Tibet factor in India-China relations”, in The Sunday Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2020:
glosses: In a unilateral or one-sided way.
pestiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛsˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more pestiferous
form: most pestiferous
Etymology: Mid 15th century, in sense “mischievous, pernicious”, from Latin pestiferus (“bearing plague”), from pestifer, from pestis (“plague”) + ferre (“carry”) (see infer).
By surface analysis, pest + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: because he hath vouchsafed to preserue our nation from such fountains, from serpents and venemous wormes, & from al other pestiferous & contagious creatures.
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
text: In these solemn moments man discovers the germ of those vices, which like the Java tree shed a pestiferous vapour around--death is in the shade!
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: and bears the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed...
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: Wherever there is a vacant space the authorities have allowed refugees to put up pestiferous shacks, which now flank in unbroken lines the country roads leading into Rangoon, the railway tracks, and the shores of the Royal Lake.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
glosses: containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
examples: text: No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness, / Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks, / As very infants prattle of thy pride.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: and if any could have hanged his hindering and pestiferous council and set him free, he would have answered Joan's prayer and set her in the field.
ref: 1896, Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:
text: Lois rescues Clark from the pestiferous curly...
ref: 1938, Jerome Siegel, Joe Shuster, “Superman”, in Action Comics, 7, page 2:
glosses: annoying, vexatious
Synonyms: sense: harboring disease, annoying
word: pestilent
Derived terms: pestiferously
pestiferousness
Related terms: pest
pestilent
Jew down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Jews down
form: Jewing down
form: Jewed down
form: Jewed down
Senses: examples: text: " […] who should come along this mornin' but one of those same holy people, and Jewed me down on pay that the Lord knows is hard enough to live on."
ref: 1877, John Habberton, Some folks, K. Grädener, page 104
text: Incidentally they ask a price much higher than it is worth; they expect to be Jewed down.
ref: 1906, Thomas Beyer, The American Battleship in Commission as Seen by an Enlisted Man: Also Many Man-o'-war Yarns, Army and Navy Register, page 202
text: " […] I don't want to get Jewed down, you know. I'm sure you'll take care of me?"
ref: 2005, Michael Boloker, A Journey West, iUniverse, page 204
glosses: Alternative spelling of jew down.
amaurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.mɔˈɹoʊ.səs/
Forms: form: amauroses
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀμαύρωσις (amaúrōsis, “dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”), from ᾰ̓μαυρόω (ămauróō, “to grow dim”), from ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dim”).
Senses: examples: text: Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a group of inherited blinding diseases with onset during childhood.
ref: 2008 May 22, Albert M. Maguire, “Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 358, page 2240:
glosses: Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.
Synonyms: drop serene
gutta serena
Related terms: amaurotic
strategize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹætəd͡ʒaɪz/
Forms: form: strategizes
form: strategizing
form: strategized
form: strategized
form: strategise
Senses: glosses: To formulate a strategy.
appanage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appanages
Senses: examples: text: A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
glosses: Alternative form of apanage.
appanage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appanages
form: appanaging
form: appanaged
form: appanaged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apanage.
autarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɑːkɪk/
Forms: form: more autarchic
form: most autarchic
Etymology: From autarch(y) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Steinhoff’s work focused on "autarchic" – that is, self-sufficient – bases on Mars and Phobos.
ref: 2012, David S. F. Portree, A Forgotten Pioneer of Mars Resource Utilization (1962-1963), Wired 2012, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/a-forgotten-pioneer-of-space-resource-utilization-1962-1963/
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or marked by autarchy; autocratic.
glosses: self-sufficient
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not inhibited by neighbouring genetic material
raw_tags: of a gene
bandoneon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandoneons
form: bandoleon
form: bandonion
Etymology: From Spanish bandoneón, from German Bandoneon, named after Heinrich Band.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1989, Paul Honigsheim, “Governmental Control of Music in Hitler Germany”, in Paul Honigsheim (auth.), K. Peter Etzkorn (ed.), Sociologists and Music: An Introduction to the Study of Music and Society, Second Edition, Transaction Publishers (1989), →ISBN, page 203,
Another indication of these changes in musical practice was the emphasis given to instruments that had either been eliminated from symphonic orchestras or had never been so used, such as mandolins of all classes (including mandolas and mandacellos with had lower ranges) and the bandoneon in all of its ranges. These instruments had always been popular with the German people, and with Hitler’s rise to power were included in various public bands.
text: Piazzolla studied piano in New York with Rachmaninoff and went to France to study with Nadia Boulanger, but his first and favorite instrument was the bandoneon, an accordion-like instrument invented in 1854 by Heinrich Band that has a series of buttons instead of piano keys.
ref: 2002, Alexander J. Morin, editor, Classical Music, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 700:
text: Created as an aggressive dance, expressing the dancers’ sexual instincts more than their feelings, and with the addition of the bandoneon as a predominant musical instrument, the tango acquired its characteristic, definitive rhythm and sound.
ref: 2004, Carlos G. Groppa, The Tango in the United States, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A small Latin American accordion played with buttons which is frequently used in tango ensembles.
Derived terms: bandoneonist
Related terms: accordion
concertina
bird pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird peppers
form: bird's pepper
Senses: glosses: A tropical American plant, Capsicum baccatum.
glosses: The very hot, red fruit of this plant.
blackout lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackout lamps
Senses: glosses: A hand-held lamp that has sliding or rotating doors to adjust the amount of light emitted.
Related terms: dark lantern
borshch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borshches
form: borshchs
Etymology: From Russian борщ (boršč) and Ukrainian борщ (boršč).
Senses: examples: text: Of all the Russian soups borshch is the most internationally famed, and it varies as much as a recipe possibly can vary. There are thick and thin borshchs as well as hot and cold. One borshch is so clear and light in colour it is almost a consommé of chicken broth with beetroot colouring. All borshchs must be served with a sour cream dressing.
ref: 1964, Robin Howe, “Soups”, in Russian Cooking (Andre Deutsch Cookery Books), London: Andre Deutsch, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Several kinds of soup made with cabbage and sauerkraut are related to the borshchs of Russia.
ref: 1973, Kay Shaw Nelson, “Romanian Cookery”, in The Eastern European Cookbook, Chicago, Ill.: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, page 143:
text: The bouillon which is the base for all borshchs and shchis is called yellow if the vegetables are fried prior to being added to the broth, red if both meat and vegetables are fried (since this imparts a red color to the soup), and white if the raw vegetables are put directly into the soup. […] During Lent, the so-called Lenten borshchs combining different kinds of vegetables, and soups of dried mushrooms and barley, squash, potatoes, cauliflower and spinach are particularly popular.
ref: 1982, Lynn Visson, “Soups”, in The Complete Russian Cookbook, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, →ISBN, pages 71–73:
text: The description of the banquet for the regimental colonel provides a course-by-course presentation of the menu, which includes various borshchs, then soups, followed by “sweets,” such as roast duck in cherry sauce, with a final offering consisting of roast fowl, suckling pig, roast rabbit, each course washed down with various vodkas, beers, and meads.
ref: 1983, John Mersereau, Jr., “A Russian George Sand—Countess Rostopchina. Other Women Fictionists: “The Cavalryman-Maiden,” Durova, Zhukova, Gan. Picaresque Satire—Kvitka-Osnovianenko and Sollogub. Dal’s Fiction.”, in Russian Romantic Fiction, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: Alternative spelling of borscht.
quatrefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kætɹəˌfɔɪl/
ipa: /kædə(ɹ)ˌfɔɪl/
Forms: form: quatrefoils
form: quadrefoil
form: quarterfoil
form: quaterfoil
Etymology: From Old French quatrefoil, from quatre (“four”) + foil (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a narrow, gravelled island we had to lie on, guarded by glazed brick chimneys and, running along the sides, a prickly little gothic fence of iron finials and terracotta quatrefoils.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: architecture
glosses: A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes.
Coordinate terms: word: trefoil
word: cinquefoil
word: hexafoil
word: sexfoil
word: octofoil
english: several
translation: several
word: multifoil
english: many
translation: many
word: polyfoil
Related terms: quadrifoil
quadrifoliate
quadrifoliolate
quadrofoil
quatrefoliated
mandorla
quincunx
rosette
positron emission tomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positron emission tomographies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: positron-emission tomography
synonyms: PET
hypernyms: tomography#Noun
<
imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: SPECT
XRCT
glosses: A medical imaging technique which detects the gamma rays produced by positrons emitted from injected radionuclides.
unchilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchilled
form: most unchilled
Senses: glosses: Not chilled
unchilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unchill
unfired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more unfired
form: most unfired
Etymology: From un- + fired.
Senses: glosses: Not fired
not dismissed
qualifier: employment
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not fired
not baked in a kiln
unobjective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobjective
form: most unobjective
Etymology: From un- + objective.
Senses: synonyms: nonobjective
subjective
glosses: Not objective
unexploded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exploded.
Senses: glosses: Not exploded.
uninviting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninviting
form: most uninviting
Etymology: From un- + inviting.
Senses: examples: text: It's a world away from the dank and uninviting St Pancras that British Rail wanted to tear down in the 1960s.
ref: 2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69:
glosses: Not welcoming; not attractive.
unlabeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unlabelled
Etymology: From un- + labeled.
Senses: glosses: Not labeled; having no label.
untanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more untanned
form: most untanned
Etymology: From un- + tanned.
Senses: examples: text: by nature, his manner was not unrefined, his frame slender, and appeared the more so from the broad, untanned frontlet of his brow, tangled over with a disheveled mass of raven curls, throwing a still deeper tinge upon a complexion like that of a shriveled berry.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
glosses: Not tanned
unsustainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsustainable
form: most unsustainable
Etymology: From un- + sustainable.
Senses: examples: text: You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
text: RTDs cover a multitude of sips, including: “hard” or “spiked” teas, coffees, kombuchas and seltzers; […]. And although the sector was birthed in the ’30s by drinks like Campari Soda, and boomed in the ’90s with Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice, RTDs are now at a point of seemingly unsustainable saturation.
ref: 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Not sustainable.
unsustainable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsustainables
Etymology: From un- + sustainable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be sustained.
unsweetened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsweetened
form: most unsweetened
Etymology: From un- + sweetened.
Senses: examples: text: “People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages,” said Francesco Branca, the W.H.O. director for nutrition and food safety.
ref: 2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times:
hypernyms: unsweet
glosses: Not sweetened.
unsweetened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + sweetened.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsweeten
unsurrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsurrounded
form: most unsurrounded
Etymology: From un- + surrounded.
Senses: glosses: Not surrounded
unsymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsymmetrical
form: most unsymmetrical
Etymology: From un- + symmetrical.
Senses: examples: text: Nature is full of unsymmetrical things; even the human body, with its semblance of symmetry, has the heart on the left...
ref: 1959, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume XV, number 3:
glosses: Not symmetrical.
Synonyms: asymmetrical
asymmetric
lopsided
unsystematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˌsɪstəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more unsystematic
form: most unsystematic
Etymology: From un- + systematic.
Senses: examples: text: None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.
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 131:
glosses: Not systematic; random, disorganised, or unthorough.
Derived terms: unsystematic risk
untactful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untactful
form: most untactful
Etymology: From un- + tactful.
Senses: glosses: Not tactful
Synonyms: tactless
untalented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untalented
form: most untalented
Etymology: From un- + talented.
Senses: examples: text: England is the only modern country among civilized nations where the untalented, unnobled, ungentle, and the vilest possessor of wealth is an envy and marvel with no small portion of its society.
ref: 1825, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume 9, page 87:
synonyms: talentless
hypernyms: incompetent
;
incapable
inable
unable
coordinate_terms: unskilled
unskillful
;
unequipped
;
unconscientious
;
unknowledgeable
ignorant
;
unschooled
uneducated
undereducated
;
inexperienced
nonexperienced
unexperienced
underexperienced
glosses: Not talented; lacking in talent.
Related terms: hack
impostor
poser
poseur
untapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: untapt
Etymology: From un- + tapped.
Senses: examples: text: The author kindly welcomes notification of any terms overlooked, any antedatings of earliest attestations, and any untapped sources that may prove to be productive.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 18:
text: If 90% (often quoted) of the UK public don't use trains regularly, there is a huge untapped potential market for securing extra passengers.
ref: 2022 April 6, “Open Access: Fewer, longer trains”, in RAIL, number 954, page 64:
glosses: Not tapped; not drawn on in terms of resources.
untended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untended
form: most untended
Etymology: From un- + tended.
Senses: glosses: Not tended
untarnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untarnished
form: most untarnished
form: untarnisht
Etymology: From un- + tarnished.
Senses: examples: text: Because White had been working for a different Govia franchise, rather than for either Southeastern or the parent group, he was untarnished by any of the financial accusations made by the Government.
ref: 2021 October 20, “Network News: Leadership changes at Govia Thameslink Railway and Southeastern”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8:
glosses: Not tarnished
untasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tasted.
Senses: examples: text: […] yet all his virtues,
Not virtuously on his own part beheld,
Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,
Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
Are like to rot untasted.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: It was not three months ago since, wild with joyful expectation, she had there run backwards and forwards some ten times a day, with an heart light, gay, and independent; looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed, and free from the apprehension of evil as from the knowledge of it.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XXIX, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: Sleep forsook her eyes, meals stood untasted, day and night were all too short to enjoy the happiness which blessed her only at such times, and made these hours worth living, even if they bore no other fruit.
ref: 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
glosses: Not tasted.
untaught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untaught
form: most untaught
Etymology: From Middle English untauȝt; equivalent to un- + taught.
Senses: examples: text: My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
text: The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.
ref: 2005, Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, page 58:
glosses: Not taught; uneducated.
examples: text: What they used to teach here
Now goes untaught.
ref: 1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable:
glosses: Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
untranslated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + translated.
Senses: examples: text: The forms can be bizarrely funny when blown up to fill a canvas, as in "Supergastrico Compensado" (the artist prefers that his often punning titles remain untranslated), whose eroticized digestive systems have an appealing decorative flair.
ref: 1993 January 1, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:
text: They talked through complicated idioms, untranslated figures of speech and, most difficult, the difference between pronouns, a nonissue in English: When should characters who are close but still colleagues address each another as the informal “tu” or the formal “vous”?
ref: 2023 December 20, Joshua Barone, “When Translating a Play Is About More Than Language”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not translated; still in the original language.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not converted from a processed mRNA sequence into a protein.
knobheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knobhead
page-turners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of page-turner
output device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: output devices
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any device that formats and presents data for display to a user; examples include printers and video monitors
Related terms: input device
storage device
radium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The strong base Ra(OH)₂ obtained when radium reacts with water; it has no commercial use
agamogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “marriage”) + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: He was as touching and as confidential as ever, and I felt we must look like an old couple that by some dazzling agamogenesis had produced this golden-haired offspring.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Asexual reproduction.
in the altogether
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood.
ref: 1930 August 4, “Prix de Rome”, in Time:
text: Last week, a Cleveland news anchor, Sharon Reed, was caught on camera stripping nude and joining a gaggle of other people in the altogether.
ref: 2004 November 25, David Carr, “When a TV Talking Head Becomes a Talking Body”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Sep 2008:
glosses: Naked.
undistinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistinguished
form: most undistinguished
form: undistinguisht
Etymology: From un- + distinguished.
Senses: examples: text: While most are familiar with the history of the Third Reich from 1933 onward, this essay offers insight into the undistinguished, prefamous Hitler.
ref: 2015, J. Ward Regan, Great Books Written in Prison, page 167:
text: All the messages in and around Wembley before and during this FA Cup final pointed to this Wembley showpiece marking the end of Van Gaal's largely undistinguished two-year spell in charge.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
glosses: Not distinguished: not marked by conspicuous qualities.
glosses: Not distinguished: not having an air of distinction.
undismayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undismayed
form: most undismayed
Etymology: From un- + dismayed.
Senses: examples: text: But was not that the cobweb which she had wrecked? Had she without knowing turned back, or was it another web? Calmly, and again undismayed, the spider was industriously respinning in repair.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:
text: Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.]
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 46:
text: So the noble prince proceeded undismayed
up fells and screes, along narrow footpaths
and ways where they were forced into single file,
ledges on cliffs above lairs of water-monsters.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 46:
glosses: Not dismayed; calm and undaunted.
undimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undimmed
form: most undimmed
Etymology: From un- + dimmed.
Senses: examples: text: But the importance of the railways as main arteries of the national economy remains undimmed, just as their fascination for the railway enthusiast is surely undiminished.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 232:
text: As I studied the songs that Kaczerginsky had compiled, I was struck not only by the pathos, sadness, and helpless feelings of authors both known and unknown, but also by the often undimmed spirit, hopefulness, and visions of a brighter future.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 187:
synonyms: word: undarkened
english: literal
translation: literal
word: ;
word: undiminished
word: undulled
word: unimpeded
glosses: Not dimmed.
Related terms: word: undimmable
word: undeterred
undimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undim
undiminished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiminished
form: most undiminished
Etymology: From un- + diminished.
Senses: examples: text: But the importance of the railways as main arteries of the national economy remains undimmed, just as their fascination for the railway enthusiast is surely undiminished.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 232:
text: Amid the uncertainty over when (or if) demand for rail travel will return to pre-pandemic levels, Greenwood anticipates that additional government commitments both to reform the rail industry and to decarbonise the network will remain undiminished.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Greenwood: Rail projects vital to economic recovery”, in Rail, page 13:
glosses: Not diminished.
red blood cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red blood cell
unedifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unedifying
form: most unedifying
Etymology: From un- + edifying.
Senses: glosses: Not edifying.
examples: text: Sunday’s scenes were the kind of unedifying thing some of those aggressive members prefer to think only happens in all the sports on which they look down, or during prime minister’s questions.
ref: 2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Ungraceful, usually due to a clash of expectations or disparity of knowledge.
unearthliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unearthlinesses
Etymology: From unearthly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being unearthly; ethereal; otherworldly.
unearthlinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] not some cold dream-land; where all sensation is attenuated into a spiritual meagreness totally destitute of attractions for mortals; not a mere state, made up of certain unearthlinesses, of which no one can conceive and with which no one can sympathize; but a literal and material world, firm and ponderable as now, girthed and clothed with similar heavens, adorned with sunshine and showers, birds, trees, streams, melody, and flowers
ref: 1861, Joseph Augustus Seiss, The Day of the Lord: A Lecture Delivered in St. John's (Lutheran) Church, Philadelphia, page 41:
text: The cult of art-as-art centers around art as a magic, art as a second, or double, or super nature, around art's immolations and unearthlinesses, around art's timelessness, uselessness, and meaninglessness.
ref: 1991, Ad Reinhardt, Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt, page 187:
text: After the Martians are defeated, twentieth-century scientists dissect and classify the unearthlinesses of "the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive.
ref: 2004, Fred Botting, Dale Townshend, Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, page 144:
glosses: plural of unearthliness
uncurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncurls
form: uncurling
form: uncurled
form: uncurled
Etymology: From un- + curl.
Senses: examples: text: The hedgehog uncurled when its predators had left.
text: But when his foe lyes prostrate on the plain,
He sheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;
And, pleas'd with bloudless honours of the day,
Walks over, and disdains th' inglorious Prey.
ref: 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther:
text: Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels.
ref: 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “The Elephant's Child”, in Just So Stories:
glosses: To straighten out from being curled up.
daddy-long-legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daddy-long-legs
form: daddy-long-legses
Senses: examples: text: A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 6
glosses: Alternative form of daddy longlegs.
man-whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-whores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of manwhore.
man-whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-whore (alternative spelling of manwhores).
man-eating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: maneating
Senses: examples: text: [T]he den of a man-eating tiger, or a mad dog, could not be more dreaded.
ref: 1852 May 12, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 2:
text: The Lumbardar scouted the idea; the only man-eating leopard in those parts has been killed by the valorous sahib-thanks be to Allah!
ref: 1879 July 5, The Mercury and Weekly Courier, page 3, column 8:
text: "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147:
glosses: Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food.
Estonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Estonian
Livonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Livonian
Võros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Võro
Finns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
homophone: fins
Senses: glosses: plural of Finn
Finns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
homophone: fins
Senses: glosses: plural of Finn
address of record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addresses of record
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where the user might be available, frequently thought of as the "public address" of the user.
Synonyms: AOR
blidget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒɪt
Forms: form: blidgets
Etymology: Blend of blog + widget.
Senses: examples: text: Widgetbox also gives you the tools to create your own widgets— either by turning your blog into a "blidget" that others can subscribe to or by coding something unique and adding it to the Widgetbox collection.
ref: 2007 October, Robert Strohmeyer, “The 15 Best Web Apps You've Never Heard Of”, in Maximum PC:
text: In particular, a "blidget" allows users to display a section of their blog on other web sites.
ref: 2008 April 30, Diana Ransom, “Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak”, in The Wall Street Journal:
text: Figure 9.22 on Page 235 shows the finished blidget for Social Media Power. Widgetbox blidgets like the one we just created are free, but they also offer a pro version for around $30 a year that allows you to design custom themes for you blidget, among other features.
ref: 2009, Deltina Hay, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, Dalton Publishing, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: In the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.
closely held
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: privately held (often hypernymous)
text: To reach Africa’s largest oil refinery, you must drive along a new six-lane highway that snakes its way through the swampland of Nigeria’s Atlantic shoreline. […] The refinery operates as a kind of city-state. It has its own jetty and breakwater to ensure the safe delivery of high-tech equipment, as well as a dedicated quarry, dam, water treatment center and power plant. Almost half the size of Manhattan, it sits on 100 million tons of sand—dredged during ­construction—17 times the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Dangote Petroleum Refinery demonstrates the determination of a single man, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person. His closely held conglomerate, Dangote Industries Ltd., has long been the continent’s biggest cement producer and has lucrative interests in sugar and fertilizer, as is evident in the corrugated-­roof stalls selling his products along the road to the plant.
ref: 2025 August 20, Peter Martin, Nduka Orjinmo, Paul Burkhardt, “Africa’s Richest Person Wants to Dominate Oil Refining, Too. Will Aliko Dangote help enrich impoverished Nigeria, or just himself?”, in Bloomberg Markets, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025:
antonyms: publicly held
glosses: Of a corporation or other business, owned by a small number of people, and not having shares of ownership sold via a stock exchange or other public market.
Related terms: close to the vest
family business
S corporation
Kibor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Traditionally a Kenyan name, specifically from the Kalenjin tribe in western Kenya, with a rough Kalenjin translation of "born at a time of good fortune."
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mriganka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mriganko
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali মৃগাঙ্ক (mrigaṅkô).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Mudathir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mudather
form: Modathir
Etymology: From Arabic مُدَّثِّر (muddaṯṯir).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: The Islamic prophet Muhammad.
quasistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasistatic
form: most quasistatic
Etymology: From quasi- + static.
Senses: glosses: Happening so slowly as to appear to be static
raw_tags: of a physical process
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In a state of dynamic equilibrium
Derived terms: electroquasistatic
magnetoquasistatic
.com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒt.kɒm/
ipa: /dɑt.kɑm/
Forms: form: .coms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dotcom.
dot-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot-coms
Senses: examples: text: Dot-com companies are different from the traditional 'brick and mortar' in many ways ...
ref: 2001, Banking & Finance, Academic Foundation, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of dotcom.
Derived terms: dot-com bubble
dot-commer
dot-com
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dot-coms
form: dot-comming
form: dot-commed
form: dot-commed
Senses: examples: text: Check to see if your name—or any Web site name you pick—has been dot-commed yet at any of several Web sites that oversee domain-name registration, such as ...
ref: 2001, Samantha Miller, E-Mail Etiquette, →ISBN:
text: In July 1999, while I was dot-comming in Virginia, Governor Bush went to Indianapolis, home of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's “Front Porch Alliance.”
ref: 2006, David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, →ISBN:
text: When I landed in New York, I went straight to work—finding the refi boom accelerating at an exponential rate. In 2000, Americans had dot-commed themselves to death; in 2001, they were mortgaging themselves to death.
ref: 2010, Jordan Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of dotcom.
Derived terms: dot-bomb
dot-carnage
dot-coma
dot-commiserate
Related terms: .com
queerious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more queerious
form: most queerious
Etymology: Blend of queer + curious
Senses: examples: text: Some said it was Aquarius,so queerious he'd get;
But he declar'd no soda-hack should ever share his whet;
His burnish'd sun was sol-o, soul-heart'ning was his cheer,
 And quaffing of good porter long kept him from his bier,
 As draughtsman he'd no equal,[…]
ref: 1825, Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The Spirit of the Public Journals ...: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits ... that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications. With Explanatory Notes and Anecdotes of Many of the Persons Alluded to, page 44:
text: ... queerious but very cozy corners , we assure you , and really it is a delightful place to be in , and it is growing bigger every day. ' "But the King does not want us to come back. We hear that he has become quite as grave as the[…]
ref: 1882, Jessie Margaret E. Saxby, Snow Dreams, Or, Funny Fancies for Little Folks, Edinburgh : Johnstone, Hunter, page 37:
glosses: Queer, curious: weird, odd, strange, bizarre.