cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fatuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæt.ju.əs.li/
ipa: /ˈfæt͡ʃ.u.əs.li/
Forms: form: more fatuously
form: most fatuously
Etymology: From fatuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of destruction?
ref: 1835, “Reform in the College of Physicians”, in Michael Ryan, editor, London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. VII, page 153:
glosses: With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
Synonyms: sense: with smug stupidity
word: foolishly
sense: with smug stupidity
word: idiotically
sense: with smug stupidity
word: stupidly
Related terms: fatuity
fatuous
fatuousness
faultlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːlt.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈfɒlt.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈfɔlt.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈfɑlt.ləs.li/
Forms: form: more faultlessly
form: most faultlessly
Etymology: From faultless + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: unfailingly
immaculately
impeccably
glosses: In a faultless manner.
fatalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatalistic
form: most fatalistic
Etymology: From fatalist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: To forego life for a fantasy: What could be more fatalistic than that?
ref: 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025:
glosses: Of or pertaining to fatalism.
glosses: Submissive to fate.
Derived terms: fatalistically
nonfatalistic
semifatalistic
toxicologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxicologist
enslaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enslave
enslaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enslavings
Senses: examples: text: And the manifold evils which have filled the world for these thousands of years — the murders, enslavings, and robberies — the tyrannies of rulers, the oppressions of class, the persecutions of sect and party […]
ref: 1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness:
glosses: An enslavement.
antigravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ævɪti
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-gravity.
Derived terms: antigravitic
promiscuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.mɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌpɹɑm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.mɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: promiscuities
Etymology: From French promiscuité.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being promiscuous.
examples: text: Experimental variety or what Rey Anthony has called selective promiscuity - is the cornerstone of sane sexual choice.
ref: 1963, Albert Ellis, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting, page 129:
text: I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage
ref: 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, “Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty”, in The Lebanon Daily News:
text: Seeing these happy pairings, I thought of the cheerful promiscuity to come. I felt a growing sexual need, not only for the young women brushing against me in the crowded street...
ref: 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24:
text: As she becomes more conscious of her flirtatious power, she is sometimes urged toward promiscuity.
ref: 1998 May 14, James Dobson, “Self-worth based on beauty can wither as women age”, in The Woodfield County Journal:
glosses: Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
examples: text: While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 34”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
fabricator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabricators
Etymology: From fabricate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who fabricates or manufactures something; a manufacturer
synonyms: word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
glosses: A person who makes a fabrication of something; a counterfeiter or falsifier
Coordinate terms: builder
maker
face-saving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more face-saving
form: most face-saving
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facesaving.
facesaving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facesaving
form: most facesaving
form: face-saving
Etymology: From face + saving.
Senses: examples: text: And it tends toward the conclusion that the best outcome is one in which Putin finds some face-saving exit: additional Ukrainian territory, a Ukrainian pledge of neutrality, a lifting of some of the sanctions.
ref: 2022 March 29, Bret Stephens, “What if Putin Didn’t Miscalculate?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: That prevents loss of face and maintains one's dignity or prestige.
facesaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face-saving
Etymology: From face + saving.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of saving face.
facetiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facetiousnesses
Etymology: From facetious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being facetious
glosses: The product or result of being facetious.
fact-finding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The determination of factual information.
fact-finding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In July, South Western Railway and Network Rail ran a one-off Class 159 to Fawley, to demonstrate the line's viability. [...] A second 'fact-finding' trial passenger train for DfT officials is now proposed.
ref: 2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch line reopening”, in Rail, page 14:
glosses: Designed to determine factual information; investigative.
Related terms: fault-finding
factional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more factional
form: most factional
Etymology: From faction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: If successful, Claypoole's election would elevate Pollack even further above the city's other bosslets and aggravate the factional tensions that had divided the city council since Thomas D'Alesandro, Pollack's candidate, had become mayor.
ref: 2017, Matthew A. Crenson, Baltimore: A Political History, page 419:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of factions.
Derived terms: factionalise
factionalism
factionalist
factionalization
factionalize
factionally
interfactional
intrafactional
multifactional
unfactional
faddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfædɪʃ/
rhymes: -ædɪʃ
Forms: form: more faddish
form: most faddish
Etymology: From fad + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The layman could have been forgiven for wondering if it was not just a faddish change from old-fashioned steam to cleaner, vaguely faster and more fashionable electric traction.
ref: 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
glosses: Being or relating to a fad; trendy.
Derived terms: faddishly
faddishness
unfaddish
faddist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faddists
Etymology: From fad + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He is such a fashion faddist.
text: The faddist magazines have been hyping that lately.
text: In speaking thus somewhat emphatically I would not wish to be classed as a faddist on the question of sanatorial treatment because personally I am of the opinion that sanatorial institutes are not the permanencies that many would have them be in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis […]
ref: 1904, J. O. Todd, “A Provincial Sanatorium for Manitoba”, in Canada Lancet, volume 37, page 262:
synonyms: word: hipster
word: trendite
word: Corinthian
word: faddist
word: fashionable
word: fashionist
word: fashionista
word: hepcat
word: hepster
word: hipster
word: sophisto
word: snappy dresser
word: trendite
word: trendy
word: voguie
word: swell
glosses: A person or entity given to following fads.
Derived terms: nonfaddist
fagoting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagotings
form: faggoting
Senses: glosses: A decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches.
glosses: The joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads.
fagoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faggoting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fagot
fair-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fair-haired
form: fairer-haired
form: most fair-haired
form: fairest-haired
form: fairhaired
Senses: examples: text: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!
ref: 1783, William Blake, “To the Evening Star”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 6:
text: Tom the woodcutter was even taller, broader and fairer-haired than John the woodcutter, though there wasn’t all that much between them in the gormlessness stakes.
ref: 2014, Tom Holt, The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Overlords, Underlings and Inhuman Resources, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 27:
synonyms: blond
glosses: Having fair hair.
examples: text: Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.
ref: 1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531:
synonyms: blue-eyed
glosses: Given special treatment as a favorite.
Derived terms: fair-haired boy
fair-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛːˈmaɪndɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɛːˌmaɪndɪd/
ipa: /ˌfɛ(ə)ɹˈmaɪndɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɛ(ə)ɹˌmaɪndɪd/
Forms: form: more fair-minded
form: most fair-minded
form: fairminded
Etymology: From fair (“equitable, just”) + minded (“having a mind (inclination) for something or a certain way of thinking about things”).
Senses: examples: text: "You pretend to be a fair-minded man." / "How absurd. How could a man of my position be fair-minded toward you? You might as well speak of a Spaniard being fair-minded toward a piece of steak."
ref: 1922 June, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, in Tales of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1922, →OCLC, part VI, page 167:
text: I am not a fair-minded woman. It is simply that I dislike being indebted to a—to a pig.
ref: 1943, Walter R[ollin] Brooks, Freddy and the Bean Home News, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC:
text: In these circumstances any fair-minded observer must regard the mishap as a stroke of sheer ill-luck.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of Trains: That Royal Train failure”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135:
synonyms: word: fair
word: fairhanded
word: just
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Impartial and unbiased.
Derived terms: fair-mindedly
fairmindedly
fair-mindedness
fairmindedness
fair-weather
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fair weather
form: fairweather
Senses: glosses: Suitable for use only during fair weather.
coordinate_terms: all-weather
glosses: Dependable only in the absence of trouble.
raw_tags: of friends
Derived terms: fair-weather fan
fair-weather friend
warmed-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warmed-up
form: most warmed-up
Senses: glosses: warmed-over
faithlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faithlessnesses
Etymology: From faithless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being faithless.
fallibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fallible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fallible
fancifulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancifulnesses
Etymology: From fanciful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fanciful.
fastidiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fastidious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I told him of the night I had seen her standing with bare feet in the garden, on the frosted lawn.Yes, he said, that was the sort of thing she did. But she had a fastidiousness, a certain personal reticence, that he respected. He never intruded upon it.
ref: 1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
text: A sense of fastidiousness made the doctor choose the left side, near the door, when he slept in it himself with Clara.
ref: 1974, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul, New York: Pocket Books, page 30:
glosses: The quality of being fastidious.
fatefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fateful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fateful
fattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fatty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fatty.
fatuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatuousnesses
Etymology: From fatuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being fatuous.
glosses: Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
faultiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faultinesses
Etymology: From faulty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being faulty.
faultlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faultless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
Synonyms: infallibility
impeccability
perfection
fearfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fearfulnesses
Etymology: From fearful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fearful.
fearlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪəlɪsnɪs/
Forms: form: fearlessnesses
Etymology: From fearless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Anne was indignant with that straight-out and generous indignation which belongs to women, who are ready to follow their principles to any result with more inconsiderate fearlessness than men.
ref: 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp:
text: The only thing to fear is fearlessness / The bigger the weapon, the greater the fear / Hyena is ambassador to here
ref: 1986, R.E.M., “Hyena”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
glosses: The quality of being fearless.
Synonyms: ballsiness
Related terms: courage
feeble-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeble-mindednesses
Etymology: From feeble-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being feeble-minded
ferociousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferocious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: ferocity#Noun
glosses: The quality of being ferocious.
festiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From festive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being festive; festivity
fetidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fetid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fetid
feverishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfivəɹəʃnəs/
Etymology: From feverish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: One of the party was suffering severely from ophthalmia - he had been seized with it some days before; the pain was so great that he could get no sleep, and when my father met him he was delirious from want of rest and feverishness.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:
glosses: The quality of being feverish.
fieriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English firinesse, fyrynesse, equivalent to fiery + -ness. Compare Middle English firyhede (“inflammation”, literally “fierihood”).
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fiery.
filminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From filmy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being filmy
filmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪlmi/
Forms: form: filmier
form: filmiest
Etymology: From film + -y. Doublet of filmic.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
examples: text: The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 279:
text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
On the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station.
glosses: Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy
glosses: film-like; similar to a motion picture
Derived terms: filmily
filminess
filmy fern
Wilson's filmy fern
finickiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finickinesses
Etymology: From finicky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being finicky.
fishiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishinesses
Etymology: From fishy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fishy.
fitfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fitfulnesses
Etymology: From fitful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
glosses: The quality of being fitful.
flashiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashinesses
Etymology: From flashy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flashy.
flawlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flawless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flawless
Synonyms: faultlessness
impeccability
perfection
fleeciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fleecy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fleecy
fleetingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleetingnesses
Etymology: From fleeting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But the perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight render them incapable of being managed after the manner of geometrical figures […]
ref: 1709, George Berkeley, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, §156:
glosses: The quality of being fleeting.
Synonyms: sense: transience
word: ephemerality
word: briefness
word: transiency
word: transience
fleetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleetnesses
Etymology: From fleet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fleet or swift; rapidity.
flightiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flightinesses
Etymology: From flighty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flighty.
flimsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flimsinesses
Etymology: From flimsy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flimsy.
flirtatiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flirtatious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flirtatious
floridness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floridnesses
Etymology: From florid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being florid.
floweriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerinesses
Etymology: From flowery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flowery.
folksiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From folksy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being folksy.
Being of the common people.
glosses: The quality of being folksy.
Being chummy.
synonyms: chumminess
Related terms: folkiness
foolhardiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfulˌhɑɹ.di.nəs/
Forms: form: foolhardinesses
Etymology: From Middle English foolhardynesse; equivalent to foolhardy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being foolhardy.
formlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formlessnesses
Etymology: From formless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being formless.
fortuitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fortuitous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was a creation of artifice and mind. Such perfection of form, such hollowness that it certainly possessed, could not be the result of mere fortuitousness.
ref: 1919 [1918], Jack London, “The Red One”, in The Red One, London: Mills and Boon:
synonyms: word: fortuity
word: hap
word: luck
word: felicity
word: fortune
word: fortuitousness
word: fortuity
word: good fortune
word: good luck
word: happiness
word: luck
word: luck of the Irish
word: adventure
word: accident
word: casualty
word: chance
word: chance-medley
word: fortune
word: hap
word: hazard
word: joss
word: luck
word: serendipity
word: weird
glosses: The quality of being fortuitous.
forwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forwardnesses
Etymology: From forward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being forward.
fretfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretfulnesses
Etymology: From fretful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fretful.
frightfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frightfulnesses
Etymology: From frightful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being frightful.
frivolousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frivolousnesses
Etymology: From frivolous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I felt, as usual, my own smallness next to her, the scale of what she had achieved, the frivolousness of my own occupation in comparison, despite all she’d tried to direct me towards.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: The quality of being frivolous.
glosses: The result of being frivolous.
Synonyms: frivolity
frivolosity
frostiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frosty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being frosty
frothiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frothinesse
Etymology: From frothy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Not all opera is melodramatic or tragic. Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and others have written in a light, comic, or satiric vein. The frothiness of these and the Opera Buffa and Operetta […] are the reverse of the more serious bel canto style.
ref: 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6:
glosses: The quality of being frothy
frowardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frowardnesses
Etymology: From Middle English frowardnesse; equivalent to froward + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome turne agayne by grace frõ their deadly hereſies into yͤ life of faith, ⁊ ſome be ſo ſore nowſeled in the falſe hereſies, ⁊ in their obſtinate frowardneſſe take ſuch a deueliſhe delight, yͭ finally thei die therin as did Baifield, Bainã, ⁊ Tewkeſbury.
ref: 1532, Thomas More, “The Confutacion of [William] Tyndale’s Aunswere […]. The Maner and Order of Our Eleccion.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 587, columns 1–2:
text: [W]hereas Christian theology has always considered frowardness to be the essential vice of this part of human nature, the mind-curers say that the mark of the beast in it is fear; and this is what gives such an entirely new religious turn to their persuasion.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 97–98:
glosses: The quality of being froward.
frowziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frowzy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being frowzy.
fruitiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fruity + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being fruity.
fruitlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fruitless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fruitless.
funniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funninesses
Etymology: From funny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being funny.
examples: text: He, Cardew, had sat at home, accepting readymade conclusions, the shallow funninesses of imbeciles and clowns...
ref: 1907, Albert Kinross, The Land of Every Man:
text: Gone were the human funninesses and kindnesses of the London gutter child...
ref: 1971, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Joanna Godden Married, and Other Stories:
glosses: Something funny; a quirky or amusing statement, mannerism, etc.
furtiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furtivenesses
Etymology: From furtive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being furtive.
Synonyms: sneakiness
stealthiness
fustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fustinesses
Etymology: From fusty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] I was running away from drabness, fustiness, snobbery, the claustrophobia of close horizons, and from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race.
ref: 1980 [1962], Ian Fleming, chapter 1, in The Spy Who Loved Me, →ISBN, page 3:
text: [T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.
ref: 2014 March 2, Jan Morris, “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, review: A skilful account of T. E. Lawrence and his role in the painful birth of an emerging Middle East [print version: A rock in Arabia's shifting sands, 1 March 2014, p. R26]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: The quality of being fusty.
Related terms: fustily
falling-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallings-out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of falling out.
fallings-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falling-out
falloff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falloffs
form: fall-off
Etymology: Deverbal from fall off.
Senses: examples: text: In those portions of District 2 outside of South Boston the falloff in voter participation was dramatic.
ref: 1983 December 31, Robert P. Wasson Jr., “"Whither BL/GPA?"—A Response”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 5:
synonyms: drop-off#English:_decrease or reduction
glosses: A reduction or decline.
examples: text: Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
ref: 1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note immediately followed by a rapidly descending group of notes.
glosses: The noticeable retraction and falling movement of a buck from a doe, usually indicating successful insemination.
Derived terms: falloff analysis
falloff test
pressure falloff
Related terms: word: falldown
familiarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: familiarizations
form: familiarisation
Etymology: From familiar + -ization or familiarize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act, process or result of familiarizing.
Synonyms: fam
Derived terms: defamiliarization
fam
refamiliarization
familiarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈmɪliəɹaɪ̯z/
ipa: /fəˈmɪljəɹaɪ̯z/
Forms: form: familiarizes
form: familiarizing
form: familiarized
form: familiarized
form: familiarise
Etymology: From familiar + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become familiar with something or someone.
Derived terms: defamiliarize
familiarizer
unfamiliarized
Related terms: familiarization
fancy-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fancy-free
form: most fancy-free
Etymology: From fancy + -free.
Senses: glosses: Free of commitments or obligations
glosses: Having no spouse or other partner
Derived terms: footloose and fancy-free
fancywork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancyworks
Etymology: From fancy + work.
Senses: glosses: Decorative embroidery.
Related terms: lacework
needlework
fantail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌteɪl/
Forms: form: fantails
Etymology: From fan + tail. The sense of Rhipidura-genus birds is a calque of translingual Rhipidura.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
glosses: Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
glosses: Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
examples: text: The Paranoids cast off, backed the Godzilla II out from the pier, turned and with a concerted whoop took off like a bat out of hell, nearly sending Di Presso over the fantail.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
glosses: A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
glosses: A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.
Derived terms: Arafura fantail
rufous-backed fantail
streaked fantail warbler
teasle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teasles
Senses: examples: text: A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 48
glosses: Alternative spelling of teasel.
teasle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teasles
form: teasling
form: teasled
form: teasled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of teasel.
pah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæ/
Etymology: Imitative of spitting out something disgusting.
Senses: examples: text: Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: She was rarely suffered out of their sight; never went beyond the domains of the castle, unless well attended, or, rather, well watched; had continual lectures read to her about strict decorum and implicit obedience; and, as to the men—pah! she was taught to hold them at such distance and distrust that, unless properly authorized, she would not have cast a glance upon the handsomest cavalier in the world—no, not if he were even dying at her feet.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom:
glosses: Used to express distaste, disgust or outrage.
Synonyms: yuck
pah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæ/
ipa: /pɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: pa
homophone: par (non-rhotic)
homophone: paw (cot–caught merger)
ipa: /pæ/
Forms: form: pahs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pa (“Maori fort”).
Related terms: oom-pah
oompah
escallonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escallonias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Escallonia.
Senses: examples: text: Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
doting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doating
Etymology: From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dote
doting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doting
form: most doting
form: doating
Etymology: From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: doting parents
synonyms: fond
glosses: Characterized by giving love and affection.
glosses: Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
Derived terms: dotingly
dotingness
undoting
doting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotings
form: doating
Etymology: From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Excessive fondness; reverence.
bandying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandyings
Etymology: From bandy + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [B]y ambitious prenſations, by Simoniacal corruptions, by political bandyings, by popular factions, by all kinds of ſiniſter vvays, men crept into the place, doth appear by thoſe many diſmal Schiſms, […]
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 149:
text: Never uſe a ſlighting expreſſion to her, even in jeſt; for ſlights in jeſt, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earneſt.
ref: 1768 August 9, Benjamin Franklin, “Original Letter from Dr. Franklin to John Alleyne, Eſq.”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume LIX, number 5, published 1789, page 385, column 1:
glosses: gerund of bandy (“the act of one who bandies”)
bandying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bandy + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bandy
cruise ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruise ships
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience.
sazan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈzɑn/
Forms: form: sazans
Etymology: From Russian саза́н (sazán), from Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *siāŕgan (“carp; snake, dragon”).
Senses: glosses: A fish (Cyprinus carpio) in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to Sea of Azov, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Balkhash lake, Amour river.
Anglosaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglosaxons
Senses: glosses: Rare form of Anglo-Saxon.
Anglosaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglosaxon
form: most Anglosaxon
Senses: examples: text: The Anglosaxon belief in the Shieldmaidens comes to us indeed in a darkened form, yet we can hardly doubt that it survived.
ref: 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England:
text: on EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, with especial reference to SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in england, from the anglosaxon period to the present day, […]
ref: 1869, Alexander J[ohn] Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, […], London: […] [F]or the Philological Society, by Asher & Co., London & Berlin, and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., […], title page:
text: Working from the later, twelfth-century forms Kachestone, Cakeston, the great etymologist Skeat suggested an original Cahestun, meaning the farm of an Anglosaxon settler named Cah; […]
ref: 1976, George D. Painter, William Caxton: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1977:
glosses: Rare form of Anglo-Saxon.
saiga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saigas
Etymology: From Russian сайга́ (sajgá), alternative form of сайга́к (sajgák), from Chagatai سایغاق (saiɣak, “chamois”).
Senses: examples: text: Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:
synonyms: saiga antelope
glosses: Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.
Synonyms: sense: Saiga tatarica
word: steppe saiga
Coordinate terms: sense: Saiga tatarica
word: Mongolian saiga
sense: Saiga tatarica
word: possibly a subspecies Saiga tatarica mongolica
sense: Saiga tatarica
word: Saiga borealis
sense: Saiga tatarica
word: possibly extinct
sense: Saiga tatarica
word: possibly including the Mongolian saiga
scudetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scudetti
Etymology: From the Italian.
Senses: examples: text: The race to the scudetto is on in Italy at the halfway point of the Serie A season.
ref: 2009 January 21, Jack Bell, “Juventus Putting Pressure on Inter”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Italian Serie A Championship title.
degrees of freedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degree of freedom
heterodoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterodoxic
form: most heterodoxic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heterodox.
synonyms: word: heterodox
far-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more far-off
form: most far-off
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild - and perhaps with as respectable a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
glosses: Remote, either in time or space.
Synonyms: sense: remote in space
word: distant
word: far
word: distant
Derived terms: Faroffistan
Jersey Legal French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of French used historically by the parliament of Jersey.
Related terms: Jèrriais
far-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more far-out
form: most far-out
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, out.
glosses: Very unusual, eccentric or unconventional
Related terms: far out
far-reaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more far-reaching
form: most far-reaching
Senses: examples: text: Electrification, on the other hand, involved several departments. Moreover, it was spread over about 150 miles of railway on, under, or adjacent to the busy running lines traversed by fast trains, with consequent far-reaching repercussions on train services that extended over wide areas beyond these lines being electrified.
ref: 1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719:
text: The Citadel is an ancient deep-space station, presumably constructed by the Protheans. Since the Prothean extinction, numerous species have come to call the Citadel home. It serves as the political, cultural, and financial capital of the galactic community. To represent their interests, most species maintain embassies on the Presidium, the Citadel's inner ring.
The Citadel Tower, in the center of the Presidium, holds the Citadel Council chambers. Council affairs often have far-reaching effects on the rest of the galactic community.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Codex entry:
text: The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom.
ref: 2017 August 25, “Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict”, in Al Jazeera:
text: He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
text: The potential trade war could be the most far-reaching exercise in Fafo of Trump’s second term.
ref: 2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2025:
glosses: Having a broad range, scope, or influence.
Related terms: wide-reaching
farseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farseeing
form: most farseeing
form: far-seeing
Etymology: Partly from far + seeing; partly from farsee + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Having good eyesight; eagle-eyed
examples: text: Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
glosses: Characterized by prudence and foresight
Derived terms: farseeingness
Related terms: farsee
farthermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A variant of furthermost; equivalent to farther + -most.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of far: most far; most remote or distant; furthermost.
fascistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fascistic
form: most fascistic
Etymology: From fascist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Given the uncanny ability of too many of GCN's readers to perceive mere criticism as a fascistic device, I recognize that by siding with Sporters in the recent hoop-lah when ten or so drag queens invaded the bar last Saturday, I will probably be subjecting myself to unending attack.
ref: 1976 August 28, David Brill, “From the Editor's Desk”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 4:
text: Much antifa work today involves exposing white supremacists online and taking action to shut down spaces where fascistic desires get fostered, fueled, and legitimized.
ref: 2019 May 15, Ari M. Brostoff, “What Is Anti-Fascism?”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2021:
glosses: Rare form of fascist.
Derived terms: antifascistic
crypto-fascistic
ecofascistic
fascistically
fascisticize
neofascistic
nonfascistic
ferny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fernier
form: ferniest
Etymology: From Middle English ferny, from Old English fearniġ, equivalent to fern + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ferns.
examples: text: All kinds of mosses grew by the stream—tufty, flat, ferny, and curly, green, yellow and a whitish kind that was tipped with scarlet sealing wax.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Time”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.
ref: 1954, William Golding, “Chapter One”, in Lord of the Flies:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc.
examples: text: And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves […]
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay”, in The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, Penguin, published 2007:
text: He skirted all stables, kennels, breweries, carpenters' shops, washhouses, places where they make tallow candles, kill oxen, forge horse-shoes, stitch jerkins—for the house was a town ringing with men at work at their various crafts—and gained the ferny path leading uphill through the park unseen.
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
text: We'll walk over the spring fields and through those ferny old woods.
ref: 1939, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 1, in Anne of Ingleside:
glosses: Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns.
Derived terms: fernily
fastback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastbacks
Senses: glosses: A motor car having a continuous slope from the roof to the rear.
Coordinate terms: hatchback
notchback
fluky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flukier
form: more fluky
form: flukiest
form: most fluky
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flukey.
Derived terms: flukily
flukiness
Related terms: fluke
fast-food
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or serving fast food.
Derived terms: fast-foodie
fast-food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fast-foods
Senses: examples: text: Estimate the number of calories in a fast-food that has 14g of fat.
ref: 2004, Allan E. Bellman; Sadie Chavis Bragg; Randall I. Charles; William G. Handlin, Sr.; Dan Kennedy, “Scatter Plots and Equations of Lines”, in Algebra 1 (Prentice Hall Mathematics), North Carolina adopted edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Linear Equations and Their Graphs), page 319:
text: Somewhat similar to the American version of a pizza but much less salty, zapiekanka (singular form) literally means baked, and is a popular Polish fast-food composed of a long baguette, sprinkled with chopped mushrooms, covered with cheese, and poured on top with ketchup, and additionally other toppings.
ref: 2008 September 5, Anna Spiewak, “Zapiekanka, a true taste of Poland: Clifton eatery offers favorite Polish food”, in Clifton Journal, Clifton, N.J.: North Jersey Media Group Inc., →OCLC, page 3:
text: Doubles is a popular fast-food in Trinidad of two bara (fried flat bread) filled with channa (chickpea curry) and pepper sauce, kuchela (shredded mango chutney), and other sauces or salads.
ref: 2016, Movindri Reddy, “Doubles”, in Social Movements and the Indian Diaspora (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Culture and diaspora):
glosses: Rare form of fast food.
fat-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fat free
Etymology: From fat + -free.
Senses: glosses: Not containing fat.
fast-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fast-talks
form: fast-talking
form: fast-talked
form: fast-talked
Senses: glosses: To use clever speech in order to persuade, mislead, or manipulate someone.
raw_tags: with "into" or "out of"
Derived terms: fast-talker