cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
conformableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conformable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conformable.
confoundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From confounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being confounded.
congenialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From congenial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being congenial.
congruousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From congruous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being congruous.
conicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conical.
polyurea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyureas
Etymology: From poly- + urea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polymeric elastomers whose repeat unit is a substituted urea
conjointness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conjoint + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conjoint.
conjunctiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conjunctive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conjunctivity.
synonyms: word: conjunctivity
connaturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From connatural + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being connatural.
connectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connectednesses
Etymology: From connected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being connected.
Derived terms: simple connectedness
conscionableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conscionable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conscionable.
consecutiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consecutive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being consecutive.
consentaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consentaneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being consentaneous.
consentingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consenting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being consenting.
consequentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consequent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being consequent.
conservativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conservative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conservative.
Related terms: conservatism
considerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From considerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: considerability
consolatoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consolatory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being consolatory.
consonantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consonant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being consonant.
constantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From constant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being constant.
constitutiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From constitutive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being constitutive.
constrainedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From constrained + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being constrained.
contactiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contactive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contactive.
contemplativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contemplative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contemplative.
contemporariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contemporary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contemporary.
contemptibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contemptible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contemptible.
conterminousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conterminous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conterminous.
contiguousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contiguous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contiguous.
continentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From continent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being continent.
contingentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contingent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contingent.
continualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From continual + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The state or quality of being continual.
continuedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From continued + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being continued.
continuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From continuous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.
ref: 1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse:
text: Statives, however, are characterized by internal homogeneity and continuousness; they are unbounded in time, just as mass nouns are unbounded in space.
ref: 1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics:
glosses: The state or quality of being continuous.
Related terms: continuity
contradictedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contradicted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contradicted.
contradictiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contradictious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contradictious.
contradictoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contradictory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contradictory.
contrariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contrarious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contrarious.
controversialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From controversial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being controversial.
Synonyms: controversiality
controversy
Derived terms: uncontroversialness
contumeliousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contumelious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being contumelious.
convenientness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convenient + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being convenient.
conversableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conversable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being conversable.
convexedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convexed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being convexed.
convexness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convex + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being convex.
convincingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convincing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The substance of the note was wholly insane, yet the manner of expression—in view of all that had gone before—had a grimly potent quality of convincingness.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 4, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
synonyms: persuasiveness
glosses: The state or quality of being convincing.
convulsiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convulsive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being convulsive.
coquettishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coquettish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being coquettish.
cordialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cordial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cordial.
Synonyms: english: far more common
translation: far more common
word: cordiality
corporalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corporal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being corporal.
corporealness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corporeal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being corporeal.
corpulentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corpulent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being corpulent.
Synonyms: corpulence
corpulency
correlativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From correlative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being correlative.
corruptibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corruptible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being corruptible.
costiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒstɪvnəs/
Etymology: From costive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The new cases prove that in habitual costiveness or inactivity of the bowels, galvanism is a more valuable remedy, and that its effects are permanent .
ref: January 1822, Richard Reece [editor] "Letters of a Royal Physician, on Indigestion &c. &c.", in The Monthly Gazette of Health Volume 7
glosses: The state or quality of being costive; constipation.
examples: text: a reverend disputant of the same coftiveness in public elocution with myself
ref: 1792, Gilbert Wakefield, Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield:
glosses: Inability to express oneself; stiffness.
couchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From couched + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being couched.
counterfeitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counterfeit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being counterfeit.
covenableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From covenable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being covenable.
Synonyms: covenability
covetiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From covetive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being covetive.
crabbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabbednesses
Etymology: From Middle English crabbednes; equivalent to crabbed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crabbed.
crackedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cracked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cracked.
craftedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crafted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crafted.
craggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cragged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cragged.
crampedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cramped + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136:
glosses: The state or quality of being cramped.
crapulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crapulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crapulous.
crashworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crashworthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They noted: "The crashworthiness of the early carriage was of a low standard. By the end of the 19th century, the continuous automatic brake and the absolute block system had greatly reduced the accident rate, but the accidents that did occur often reduced the wood vehicles to matchwood."
ref: 2020 October 7, Philip Haigh, “From Southall to Carmont... how to keep passengers safe”, in RAIL, page 46:
text: But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.
ref: 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53:
glosses: The state or quality of being crashworthy.
cravingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From craving + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of craving, begging, yearning or demanding.
crazedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crazed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crazed.
creatureliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creaturely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being creaturely.
credibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From credible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being credible.
creditableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creditable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being creditable.
credulitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From credulitive, (a nonce for credulous that satirizes the naming conventions of phrenology), + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A certain quantity of belief is a want of the human mind. Perhaps there is an Organ of Credulity, or Credulitivenes , which requires food.
ref: 1824, John Macculloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, page 64:
text: In the popular discussion of it, there is something highly amusing, and it often applies to the character of individuals with peculiar fitness: but then it is sneered at by the witty, and confuted by the wise; and seriously to declare in its favor, is equivalent to a display of the full development of the organ of credulitiveness.
ref: 1826, J.C. Tomlinson, “Phrenology”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 26, number 52:
glosses: Credulity.
criminalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From criminal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The criminalness, rebellion, transgression, the disobedience that is in sin, …
ref: 1655, John Owen, Vindiciae Evangelicae, published in The Works of John Owen, (William H. Goold, editor), page 515
text: There is a great deal of difference as to the criminalness of false persuasions upon this account: the same error which one person may hold very pardonably, (as being, without much fault of his own, either through weakness of parts, or prejudice from education, or want or opportunity of knowing better, unavoidably, in a manner, led into it; I say, that very same error,) may be extremely dangerous in other persons, that have better parts, [...]
ref: 1754, John Sharp, The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Sharp, volume III, fifth edition:
text: The Constitution of the United States permits the suffrage of women. . . . Under it legally constituted women—as to age, freedom from criminalness, etc.—may vote for all officers from president to township supervisor.
ref: 1896, W. S. Harwood, “Constitutional Suffrage for Women”, in North American Review, volume 162, number 474, retrieved 05 Dec 2010, page 632:
glosses: The state or quality of being criminal.
Synonyms: criminality
criminousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From criminous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being criminous.
crimpness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crimp + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crimp.
cringingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cringing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cringing.
crinkliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crinkly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crinkly.
criticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From critical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Acquiescence may be roughly described as a "yea-saying" tendency, criticalness as a "nay-saying" tendency.
ref: 1965, Michael A. Wallach, Nathan Kogan, Modes of Thinking in Young Children, page 98:
glosses: The state or quality of being critical.
Related terms: critic
critical
criticality
crotchetiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotchetinesses
Etymology: From crotchety + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crotchety.
croupiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From croupy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being croupy.
crumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crumpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crumpy.
crumpledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crumpled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crumpled.
cubicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cubical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cubical.
culpableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From culpable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being culpable.
cumbrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumbrousnesses
Etymology: From cumbrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cumbrous.
cumulativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cumulative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cumulative.
cunningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunningnesses
Etymology: From cunning + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cunning
glosses: A cunning act
cuppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cuppy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cuppy.
curdiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From curdy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being curdy.
curelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cureless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cureless.
currentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From current + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Other vertues have had little or no currantnesse at all in this age: But valour is become popular by reason of our civill warres[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being current.
examples: text: When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language[…]sound other than most full of sweetness?
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
Synonyms: currency
currishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From currish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being currish.
cursedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːsɪdnɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɝsɪdnɪs/
Forms: form: cursednesses
Etymology: From Middle English cursednesse, curstnesse, equivalent to cursed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cursed.
cursiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cursive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cursive.
cussedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cussednesses
Etymology: From cussed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Well, if ever a man was born bad in his temper, 'twas Captain Bligh. . . . They made an Admiral of him in the end, but they never cured his cussedness.
ref: c. 1905, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Frenchman's Creek:
text: Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness, but without malice. Just as soon kill you as not, but in a playful sort of way, you understand, without meaning to at all.
ref: 1910, Jack London, chapter 11, in Burning Daylight:
text: He made camp there that night, pitching his little tent in the trail for pure cussedness, and defying aloud a traveling world to make him move until he got good and ready.
ref: 1922, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in The Trail of the White Mule:
glosses: The state or quality of being cussed.
Synonyms: cantankerousness
nastiness
obstinacy
orneriness
perversity
customariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From customary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being customary.
cynicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cynical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cynical.
blithesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: blīth'səm
ipa: /ˈblaɪθsəm/
ipa: /ˈblaɪðsəm/
rhymes: -aɪθsəm
rhymes: -aɪðsəm
Forms: form: more blithesome
form: most blithesome
Etymology: From blithe + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Fare not the birds well, as from spray to spray / Blithsome they bound—yet find their simple food / Scattered abundantly?
ref: 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act I, page 9:
text: She made herself as blithesome as a lark, and at last she offered him two hundred dollars if he would sell her the whistle, and tell her how she should manage to get it safe home with her.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 175:
text: [']Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!' 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “Wayfarers All”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: Happy or spriteful; carefree.
Derived terms: blithesomely
blithesomeness
phenethylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenethylamines
form: phenylethylamine
Etymology: From phen- + ethylamine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatically substituted aliphatic amine, C₆H₅C₂H₄NH₂, which is a neurotransmitter in the brain; it has pharmacological properties similar to amphetamine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of compounds derived from that amine.
Derived terms: betaphenethylamine
deprenyl
hydroxyphenethylamine
methylenedioxyphenethylamine
methylphenethylamine
Related terms: fenethylline
phenethylamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenethylamine
adrenaline rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenaline rushes
Senses: glosses: A surge of strength and energy brought on by a dangerous situation, by, or as if by, adrenaline.
examples: text: Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenaline rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.
ref: 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:
glosses: An event or activity which causes such a state.
neuromodulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromodulators
Etymology: From neuro- + modulator.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: neurostabilizer
neurotransmitter
glosses: A substance other than a neurotransmitter, released by a neuron at a synapse and conveying information to adjacent or distant neurons, either enhancing or dampening their activities.
Derived terms: interneuromodulator
Related terms: neuromodulate
neuromodulation
neuromodulatory
neuromodulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuromodulator
adrenalin rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenalin rushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adrenaline rush.
hypertense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + tense.
Senses: glosses: Extremely tense.
death-watch beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death-watch beetles
Senses: examples: text: Of course they had death-watch beetle at Noseley Abbey.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of deathwatch beetle.
Lipschitz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Named after Rudolf Lipschitz.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (Of a real-valued real function f) Such that there exists a constant K such that whenever x_1 and x_2 are in the domain of f, |f(x_1)-f(x_2)|≤K|x_1-x_2|.
Derived terms: Lipschitz condition
Lipschitz constant
Lipschitz continuity
Lipschitz continuous
Lipschitzian
intrepidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intrepid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intrepid; bravery.
Synonyms: boldness
braveness
bravery
fearlessness
fortitude
intrepidity
undauntedness
valour
Related terms: intrepid
intrepidity
trepidation
family restaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family restaurants
Senses: glosses: An eating establishment that serves relatively simple food at reasonable prices, and welcomes children as well as adults.
aspirinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspirinate
paracetamols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracetamol
anodynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anodyne
fluorinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fluorinate
fluorinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fluorinate
family restaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family restaurant
fluoridates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fluoridate
fluoridating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fluoridate
fluoridated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: synonyms: fluoridized
glosses: simple past and past participle of fluoridate
fluoridated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Utah in 2022 ranked 44th in the nation for the percentage of residents that receive fluoridated water, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ref: 2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press:
synonyms: fluoridized
glosses: Treated with fluoride.
polychlorinated naphthalenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychlorinated naphthalene
chlorinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chlorinate
chlorinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chlorinate
brominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brominates
form: brominating
form: brominated
form: brominated
Etymology: From bromine + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To treat or react with bromine or hydrobromic acid, to introduce bromine into a compound.
Derived terms: debrominate
monobrominate
rebrominate
Related terms: bromination
brominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brominate
brominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brominate
businessperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: businesspersons
form: businesspeople
Etymology: From business + person.
Senses: glosses: A person in business, or one who works at a commercial institution.
Related terms: businessman
businesswoman
chairwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairwoman
Eurasian badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian badgers
Senses: synonyms: European badger
hog badger
glosses: A badger species indigenous to Eurasia, Meles meles.
bragger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɹæɡə/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: braggers
Etymology: From Middle English braggere, equivalent to brag + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who brags.
Synonyms: boaster
braggard
braggart
bragger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɹæɡə/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of brag: more brag
dalmatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalmatians
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dalmatian.
knock the living daylights out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks the living daylights out of
form: knocking the living daylights out of
form: knocked the living daylights out of
form: knocked the living daylights out of
form: beat the daylights out of
form: knock the daylights out of
Senses: examples: text: Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground.
ref: 1939, Ruth McKenney, Industrial Valley, →ISBN, page 255:
glosses: To beat or strike someone.
examples: text: He won the English championship from the six-foot-three-inch, seventeen-stone Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, knocking the living daylights out of this champion
ref: 1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing, →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone in a physical fight, especially by knocking out that person.
examples: text: ...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures...
ref: 1963, “10 second summary”, in Business Management, volume 25, page 38:
glosses: To greatly excel against (someone or something).
Synonyms: clobber
momist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊmɪst/
Forms: form: momists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos, “the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, poets”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] if any Momist, who neuer doth any thing himselfe, but curiously behold the doings of others, carpe at these my paines, […]
ref: 1819, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Edward Davies, The life of Bartolomé E. Murillo:
text: […] the detracting speeches of barking Momists […]
ref: 1871, Samuel Egerton Brydges, The times' whistle:
text: Bernice resembles the man-hating mothers excoriated by Strecker and Lathbury in their momist diatribe about the nation's moral decline, Their Mothers' Daughters.
ref: 2011, Robert J. Corber, Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema, page 84:
glosses: A persistent critic
concious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conscious.
pine marten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine martens
form: pine-marten
Senses: glosses: A species of marten native to Northern Europe, Martes martes.
Eastern Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The translation of Khrushchev's letter reached me later that day, and I read it with care and with growing disappointment. It seemed designed for propaganda purposes rather than serious diplomacy. Khrushchev roundly denounced "colonizers" and "imperialism" as the major causes of past wars. Of course, he did not mention the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, the obliteration of the Baltic states, or the "colonization" of Eastern Europe by Moscow after World War II.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Thawing the Cold War”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 464–465:
text: The Slavic peoples' ancestors entered Eastern Europe between the 5th and 7th centuries from their original common homeland.
ref: 1996 — Dennis P. Hupchick & Harold E. Cox, A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe, map 3
glosses: A socio-political geographical area of eastern Europe usually including the European countries to the east of Germany, Austria and Italy, and to the west of the Urals.
glosses: The communist and Soviet-aligned countries of Europe during the Cold War; the Warsaw Pact, sometimes also including Yugoslavia and Albania.
Derived terms: Eastern European
Related terms: East-Central Europe
Balkans
Central Europe
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Eastern Bloc
European otter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European otters
Senses: glosses: An otter species, Lutra lutra.
Synonyms: sense: Lutra lutra
word: Eurasian otter
sense: Lutra lutra
word: Eurasian river otter
sense: Lutra lutra
word: river otter
sense: Lutra lutra
word: common otter
sense: Lutra lutra
word: Old World otter
Gestapo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/
note: hyper-foreign
ipa: /ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/
ipa: /ɡɛˈstɑpoʊ/
note: hyper-foreign
ipa: /ɡəˈʃtɑpoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːpəʊ
Forms: form: the Gestapo
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:
glosses: The secret police of Nazi Germany.
examples: text: Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.
ref: 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230:
text: One of those injured by the immigration Gestapo spoke to WSWS reporter Kimie Saito, his head wrapped in white bandages stained with blood.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jacob Crosse, “Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration raids”, in World Socialist Web Site, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025:
glosses: Any militant oppressive force or group.
Derived terms: Gaystapo
European badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European badgers
Senses: glosses: The Eurasian badger (Meles meles).
aquae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aqua
reredos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiə.dɒs/
ipa: /ˈɹiɹɪdɒs/
Forms: form: reredoses
form: raredos
form: reredosse
Etymology: From Middle English reredos, from Anglo-Norman reredos, areredos; equivalent to rere (“rear”) + French dos (“back”).
Senses: examples: text: A bad reredos will ruin the best church ever designed; and, although a good reredos cannot convert a bad church into a good one, it may do much to lessen the offensiveness of its badness.
ref: 1871, The Sacristy: A Quarterly Review of Ecclesiastical Art and Literature, volume 1, London: John Hodges, page 246:
text: Confusion has reigned in scholarly interpretation, however, because the dark-colored leaves have shown through the succeeding coats of paint across the reredos, interfering with the later scenes.
ref: 1998, Paul V. M. Flesher, “Rereading the Reredos: David, Orpheus, and Messianism in the Dura Europa Syngogue”, in Dān Ûrman, Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, editors, Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery, page 363:
text: There seem to be no remains of wooden reredoses of the fourteenth century, though there are a number of examples in stone.
ref: 2007, F. E. Howard, English Church Woodwork, page 137:
topics: Christianity
Western-Christianity
synonyms: retable
coordinate_terms: iconostasis
glosses: A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images, akin to the iconostasis of the Eastern Churches.
glosses: The back of an open fire-hearth, in medieval halls.
unrecognizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
ipa: /ʌnɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/
Forms: form: more unrecognizable
form: most unrecognizable
form: unrecognisable
Etymology: From un- + recognize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: irrecognizable
antonyms: recognizable
glosses: That cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.
unrecognisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecognisable
form: most unrecognisable
Etymology: From un- + recognisable.
Senses: examples: text: To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.
ref: 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
text: The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
text: Standing on the platforms at Derby today, the station is virtually unrecognisable from how it was during the mid-to-late 2000s, when it seemed as if it was in terminal decline.
ref: 2019 December 4, Andy Coward, “Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail, page 57:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unrecognizable.
Nahuatlato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nahuatlatos
Senses: glosses: A person who is proficient in the Nahuatl language
glosses: the Nahuatl language
DHMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.
ref: 1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dihydrogen monoxide.
repeatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpiːtəbəl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpitəbəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈpiɾəbɫ̩]
ipa: /ɹɪˈpiːtəbəl/
ipa: /ɹəˈpiːtəbəl/
Forms: form: more repeatable
form: most repeatable
Etymology: From repeat + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be repeated
topics: sciences
glosses: That gives the same results when repeated
raw_tags: of an experiment or procedure
Related terms: reproducible
unlace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlaces
form: unlacing
form: unlaced
form: unlaced
Etymology: From un- + lace.
Senses: examples: text: Unlace your shoes before taking them off.
text: Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces.
glosses: To loosen the clothing of (a person).
glosses: To remove (film) from a projector.
unrepeatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepeatable
form: most unrepeatable
Etymology: From un- + repeatable.
Senses: examples: text: He told us to get off his property in unrepeatable terms.
glosses: Unable to be repeated
topics: sciences
glosses: (of an experiment or procedure) That gives different results when repeated
inlay card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inlay cards
Senses: glosses: A pamphlet accompanying a CD, film etc., summarising the contents and production.
unidiomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unidiomatic
form: most unidiomatic
Etymology: From un- + idiomatic.
Senses: examples: text: It is not difficult to collect examples of unidiomatic English used by foreigners.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 169:
synonyms: nonidiomatic
antonyms: idiomatic
glosses: Not idiomatic; not conforming to an idiom.
road warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road warriors
form: roadwarrior
Senses: examples: text: I love the perks of international business travel as much as the next corporate road warrior. But the thought of taking in one more four-hour $400 meal in another international city has me searching for my nearest escape route.
ref: 2007 October 16, Brice J. Bay, “Thanks, but I’ll Have the Bat on a Stick Instead”, in New York Times:
glosses: A frequent business traveller.
topics: business
coordinate_terms: corridor warrior
glosses: A salesperson who spends a lot of time traveling and outside the office.
glosses: A person who carries a mobile device such as a laptop or PDA and uses wireless internet connections to work.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A recreational cyclist who rides a racing bicycle and wears lycra.
self-confident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-confident
form: most self-confident
Etymology: From self- + confident.
Senses: examples: text: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Confident in one's own abilities.
Synonyms: selfsecure
smart-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart-asses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smartass.
essentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essentialists
Etymology: From essential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of essentialism.
essentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more essentialist
form: most essentialist
Etymology: From essential + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Christian men in the 1990’s made their own essentialist retreat, responding to a devaluation of masculinity in the institutions of work and the family (Heath 2003; Messner, 1997).
ref: 2020, Annie Jones, “Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online”, in University of Central Florida, page 13:
glosses: Of or pertaining to essentialism.
Derived terms: antiessentialist
bioessentialist
nonessentialist
shitlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitlists
Etymology: From shit + list, by analogy with hit list.
Senses: examples: text: “Gerald,” he said, trying to keep his voice steady, “if you countermand these recommendations I’ll have to go to everybody and tell them about Bullock’s shit-list that you did nothing about.”
ref: 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life:
text: [J]unkies generally showed up to tell her which other junkies were doing the ripping off and the boasting. Sherri put their names down on her shit list.
ref: 1981, Philip K. Dick, VALIS:
text: This afternoon, as Paul Ryan arrived at the White House to tell Donald Trump that he did not have the votes to pass the American Health Care Act, there were reports that the President’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, had advised his boss to keep a “shit list” of all the Republicans who opposed the bill.
ref: 2017 March 24, “The G.O.P.’s Health-Care Failure: First Thoughts”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A group of people held in contempt or targeted for revenge, etc.
shitlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shitlists
form: shitlisting
form: shitlisted
form: shitlisted
Etymology: From shit + list, by analogy with hit list.
Senses: examples: text: He refused to pay the protection money, so he's been shitlisted.
glosses: To place on a shitlist.
black-and-blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black and blue.
blackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækli/
Forms: form: more blackly
form: most blackly
Etymology: From black + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here and there, sun glanced off water, and slick surfaces shone blackly orange in the morning light.
ref: 2011, T. J. Forrester, Miracles, Inc., page 37:
synonyms: word: ebonly
glosses: With a black appearance.
examples: text: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: One of the most interesting — and confusing — vampire stories to deal with questions of morality in the postmodern context is the blackly comic film Vampire's Kiss (dir. Robert Bierman, 1988), which tells of a despicable yuppie named Peter Low — played in completely over-the-top fashion by Nicholas Cage — and his encounter at a singles bar with the vampire Rachel.
ref: 1997, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture:
glosses: Darkly or gloomily.
examples: text: He knew himself for a lost soul, and all that he loved in the world was out in the tides. There, at any rate, he could go, too, and give back that gift of life he had so blackly misused.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Wickedly.
examples: text: Maya Angelou's ecomium^([sic])/tribute set the tone for all that followed because she spoke so passionately, personally, and Blackly about her love for Baldwin. She said that it's easy for a woman to find a lover, that she could stand on any street corner or even sit in any church pew and do that, but that brothers were much harder to come by.
ref: 1987 December 20, Barbara Smith, “We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 10:
glosses: In accordance with black cultural sensibility.
bumper-to-bumper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bumper-to-bumper
form: most bumper-to-bumper
Senses: examples: text: I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge / On another gorgeous sunny Saturday / And I'm seeing that bumper to bumper traffic
ref: 1985, “We Built This City”, in Knee Deep in the Hoopla, performed by Starship:
glosses: Very crowded and slow-moving, particularly with regard to motor vehicle traffic.
glosses: Comprehensive; covering all components.
raw_tags: of a vehicle warranty
bumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bumpy: more bumpy
anything goes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, Heaven knows,
Anything goes.
ref: 1934, Cole Porter, Anything Goes:
text: My way, your way, anything goes tonight!
ref: 1987, Guns N' Roses, Anything Goes:
text: […] fucking and sucking by providing an anything-goes atmosphere reminiscent of the wildest days of the baths.
ref: 2004, Charles Silverstein, Felice Picano, The Joy of Gay Sex: Fully Revised and Expanded Third Edition, page 228:
glosses: There are no rules or restrictions.
Related terms: unrestricted
free
wild
fast and loose
debauched
promiscuous
unregulated
no-holds-barred
unlimited
bumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bumpy: most bumpy
ask for the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asks for the moon
form: asking for the moon
form: asked for the moon
form: asked for the moon
Senses: examples: text: Major publishers think they are taking enough risk by simply publishing gay material. To want them to publish challenging, original gay books is asking them for the moon when they think they're already giving us the stars.
ref: 1987 February 1, T. R. Witomski, “Zeitgeist or Poltergeist? Why Gay Books Are So Bad”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 8:
glosses: To claim or desire something that one cannot have.
Related terms: moon on a stick
promise the moon
reach for the moon
shoot for the moon
ask the impossible
cat got someone's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Why won't you tell me that secret? (Has the) cat got your tongue?
text: You used to be alright / What happened? / Did the cat get your tongue? / Did your string come undone?
ref: 2007, “15 Step”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
glosses: Why is someone not saying anything?