cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
passenger train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passenger trains
Senses: examples: text: The "Scotian" is hardly a passenger train at all: typically, it consists of two 1,750 h.p. diesel units, four fish cars, five parcel cars, two mail cars, a baggage car, two passenger coaches and a sleeper which only goes part of the way.
ref: 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
text: The programme would increase capacity and create space for 736 more passenger trains on the network each day.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, “Midlands Connect's £3.5bn plan”, in Modern Railways, page 16:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train whose primary function is to carry passengers.
Coordinate terms: freight train
passenger dedicated line
passenger ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passenger ships
Senses: hypernyms: merchant ship
merchantman
<
ship
<
watercraft
vessel
<
vessel
coordinate_terms: cargo ship
freighter
cargoman
;
warship
glosses: A ship whose primary function is to carry passengers.
cargo ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo ships
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: cargo vessel
synonyms: freighter
cargoman
hypernyms: merchant ship
merchantman
<
ship
<
watercraft
vessel
<
vessel
coordinate_terms: passenger ship
;
warship
glosses: A ship that carries cargo.
campanella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campanellas
form: campanellae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin campānella, from campāna (“steeple bell”) + -ella (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.
biphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌfəʊbiːə/
ipa: /ˈbaɪˌfoʊbi.ə/
Etymology: From bi- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Antipathy towards bisexuals.
Coordinate terms: homophobia
heterophobia
transphobia
cisphobia
interphobia
Derived terms: biphobe
biphobic
hawt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1896, George Wharton Edwards, Break O’ Day, Ayer Publishing (1969), →ISBN, page 46,
“[…] Oh, ’t is, eh? Well, I waant to know — kind o’ hawt in here, ain’t it? Phew!” Again the orange silk handkerchief waved clouds of suffocating musk.
2005, Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber, Graphia Books, →ISBN, pages 86–87,
“Mistah,” I drawled, switching on the Texan twang I perfected not in Houston but as a child in New York watching Dallas reruns with my dad. “Ah’m tahrubly sawhruh, but won’t ya tell us what on er-yuhth we’re a-doin’ wrong?” ¶ […] “We were just having a nice cool refray-yush-munt, Officer—isn’t it so hawt?”
glosses: Pronunciation or leetspeak spelling of hot (any sense).
examples: 2006, Robert Eversz, Zero to the Bone: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24,
A few of the comments were marginally pervy, but most were touchingly supportive messages. Ur soooo Hawt!!! One comment read. I can’t believe ur not gonna be a ***.
glosses: Hot (sexually attractive)
hawt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: c'''1560, "Proude Wyues Pater noster", in William Carew Hazlitt (ed.), Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, J.R. Smith (1866), pages 157–158,
Amen—sayd the other, I pray god it be so, / For ye haue good ynoughe, this I do knowe well, / Of good marchaundise, so mote I the, / As any is here in this countre to sell, / For his degre; but he is a frayde / That he sholde passe his state or loke to hawt, / Than behynde your backes it shulde be sayde, / Yf he fare amyss, that it were all your fawt.
a'''1900, Finley Peter Dunne, "High Finance", in Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, R. H. Russell (1902), page 160,
[…] ‘Well,’ says I, ‘Cassidy,’ I says, ‘ye’ve been up again th’ pa-apers call hawt finance,’ I says. ‘What th’ divvle’s that?’ says he. ‘Well,’ says I, ‘it ain’t burglary, an’ it ain’t obtaining money be false pretinses, an’ it ain’t manslaughter,’ I says. ‘It’s what ye might call a judicious seliction fr’m th’ best features iv thim ar-rts,’ I says. […]
2002, Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 60,
On it was written, in shaky handwriting: ¶ After thys perfromans, Why Notte Visit / Harga’s Hous of Ribs, / For the Best inne Hawt Cuisyne ¶ “What's hawt cuisyne?” said Victor.
glosses: High; in later use, eye dialect spelling of haut or haute.
hawt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawts
Senses: examples: 1880, George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes, quoted in William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction, Harper and Brothers (1903), page 242,
She looked up suddenly and took a quick breath, as if to resume, but her eyes fell before his, and she said, in a tone of half-soliloquy: ‘I ’ave so much troub’ wit dad hawt.’ She lifted one little hand feebly to the cardiac region, and sighed softly, with a dying languor.
1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "When Malindy Sings", in Joan R. Sherman, African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773–1927, Courier Dover Publications (1997), →ISBN, pages 64–65,
[…] / But fu’ real melojous music, / Dat jes’ strikes yo’ hawt and clings, / Jes’ you stan’ an’ listen wif me, / When Malindy sings.
2004, Oliver T. Beard, Bristling with Thorns, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 163,
“Deah mistus, cry way down in you hawt, but you’ll git inter mistrouble sho’ if dey sees teahs for de po’ Yanks. Dat yo’ will, honey.”
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of heart.
hawt
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: c'''1500, anonymous, "Robin Hood and the Potter", in Francis James Child, English and Scottish Ballads, Sampson Low (1861), page 29,
“Her het ys merey to be,” seyde Roben, / “For a man that had hawt to spende; / Be mey horne we schall awet / Yeff Roben Hode be ner hande.”
glosses: Alternative form of aught (“anything”).
daughterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughterlings
Etymology: From daughter + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...]
ref: 2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New:
text: Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?
ref: 2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India:
glosses: A daughter, especially a young or precious one.
Related terms: sonling
spital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitals
form: spittle
Etymology: From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.
Senses: examples: text: Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:
glosses: A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
Related terms: hospital
felt-tip pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felt-tip pen
smocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smock
mythconceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythconception
crystal ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal balls
Senses: examples: text: The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.
text: "Well, Victor agreed and Madame Rosita sat down with her crystal ball on a black cloth in front of her."
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 31:
glosses: A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.
examples: text: If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a kind, hard-working person.
glosses: A way of seeing into the future.
glosses: One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes
Synonyms: crystal sphere
orbuculum
shew stone
showstone
seeing stone
scrying stone
Related terms: scry
catfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catfish
catfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catfish
electronystagmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From electro- + nystagmography.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic test to record involuntary movements of the eye caused by a condition known as nystagmus. It can also be used to diagnose the cause of vertigo, dizziness or balance dysfunction by testing the vestibular system.
Related terms: electronystagmogram
electronystagmographic
electroretinography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: electroretinographies
Etymology: From electro- + retino- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A diagnostic test to used to measure the electrical responses of various cell types in the retina.
Related terms: electroretinograph
electroretinographic
electroretinogram
rubberneckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbernecker
birotunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birotundas
Etymology: From bi- + rotunda.
Senses: glosses: A structure made of two adjoined rotundas.
ethnopedology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + pedology.
Senses: glosses: The study of local (indigenous) knowledge of soils
Related terms: ethnopedological
indentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: indentors
form: indentour
Senses: glosses: A person who is a representative for a foreign company, product or a person, and who gets commission or royalty on any transaction which takes place in his home country irrespective of whether the transaction has taken place out of his effort or consent.
Related terms: indentee
indenter
teasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teasy
form: most teasy
Etymology: From tease + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] Wallie, who was going on eleven, and such a teasy boy, […]
ref: 1926, Christian Advocate, volume 87, page 16:
glosses: Inclined to tease; teasing.
teasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teasy
form: most teasy
Etymology: From Cornish tesek (“irritable, hot”).
Senses: glosses: Irritable or angry.
TLDNR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tl;dr (“too long, did not read”).
blow a backsight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows a backsight
form: blowing a backsight
form: blew a backsight
form: blown a backsight
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: To occupy a point, then enter the wrong point for the backsight, or forget to enter the backsight.
collabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: collabos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A collaboration with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
examples: text: "Look, our doctor's been arrested. And the veterinarian, well, he's a collabo. It's too dangerous for him to stay here. We could all be killed."
ref: 2020, Cara Black, Three Hours in Paris, page 194:
glosses: A collaborator; a traitor.
collabo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: collabos
form: collaboing
form: collaboed
form: collaboed
Senses: examples: text: The Yohimbe Brothers are DJ Logic (the jazz-influenced turntable wizard who had collaboed with Medeski Martin And Wood and Body Count) and guitarist Vernon Reid (the dreaded fret-monster behind Living Colour and various solo excursions) […]
ref: 2004, CMJ New Music Report, number 891, page 6:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To collaborate with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
q-tof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: q-tofs
form: Q-TOF
form: Q-ToF
form: Q-Tof
Senses: glosses: A quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer.
black metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæk ˌmɛtəl/
Senses: glosses: Iron, or similar metals worked by a blacksmith
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of heavy metal music employing fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars, double-kick drumming, raw recording and unconventional song structure, often emphasizing antireligious and misanthropic themes.
examples: text: While the motive is still under investigation, authorities said that Matthews’ interest in black metal music may have influenced his behavior.
ref: 2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: 1980s and early 1990s
glosses: Any form of extreme metal having a Satanic or anti-Christian theme.
Derived terms: word: ambient black metal
word: atmospheric black metal
word: blackgaze
word: black metaller
word: depressive black metal
word: depressive suicidal black metal
word: folk black metal
word: holy unblack metal
alt: NSBM
word: national socialist black metal
word: symphonic black metal
word: unblack metal
doom metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from the 1986 album title Epicus Doomicus Metallicus or maybe from the 1970 Black Sabbath song "Hand of Doom".
Senses: examples: text: Devotees of doom metal often cite as early instances of the sub-genre mid-1980s albums by Saint Vitus and Candlemass, the title of Candlemass' 1986 Epicus Doomicus Metallicus perhaps inspiring the sub-genre's eventual designation.
ref: 2016, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze's Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of heavy metal characterised by a slow tempo and low-tuned guitars, often emphasizing despairing lyrics.
wikipedia: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Related terms: doom rock
pole positions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pole position
ill-advisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ill-advisedly
form: most ill-advisedly
Etymology: From ill-advised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ill-advised manner.
Synonyms: inadvisedly
unadvisedly
unwisely
illegitimately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illegitimately
form: most illegitimately
Etymology: From illegitimate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an illegitimate manner.
illiberally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illiberally
form: most illiberally
Etymology: From illiberal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He took an active part, as chairman, in the meetings which, at the beginning of the contest with France, were assembled to petition for peace, and was illiberally expelled from the Surrey troop of light-horse, on account of his patriotism.
ref: 1823, Public Characters of All Nations, Sir Richard Phillips & Company:
glosses: In an illiberal manner.
illiterately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illiterately
form: most illiterately
Etymology: From illiterate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an illiterate manner.
ill-naturedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ill-naturedly
form: most ill-naturedly
Etymology: From ill-natured + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "I've seen it before," he said ill-naturedly.
ref: 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 12:
glosses: In an ill-natured manner.
illuminatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illuminatingly
form: most illuminatingly
Etymology: From illuminating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an illuminating manner.
illustratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illustratively
form: most illustratively
Etymology: From illustrative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an illustrative manner.
illustriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illustriously
form: most illustriously
Etymology: From illustrious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an illustrious manner.
imaginably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imaginably
form: most imaginably
Etymology: From imaginable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Faced with the opportunities of a new, more open-ended international landscape, Israel now may, imaginably, be able to pursue a different foreign policy and, as part of that, a different relationship with the United States.
ref: 1991 August 18, David Schoenbaum, “A Special Relationship”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an imaginable manner.
imitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imitatively
form: most imitatively
Etymology: From imitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imitative manner.
immaculately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immaculately
form: most immaculately
Etymology: From immaculate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immaculate manner; in a manner free of stain or blemish; without being defiled.
examples: text: He spoke immaculately, his enunciation terribly precise.
ref: 1979, Ian Whitcomb, Lotus Land: A story of Southern California, page 141:
text: But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.
ref: 2003 February 17, Elissa Gootman, “A Chill Most Bitter: Learning to Accept Hat Hair”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
glosses: In a manner free of error; in a perfect or flawless manner.
Synonyms: sense: free of stain
word: cleanly
sense: free of stain
word: perfectly
sense: free of stain
word: purely
sense: free of error
word: flawlessly
sense: free of error
word: impeccably
sense: free of error
word: perfectly
immanently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immanently
form: most immanently
Etymology: From immanent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immanent manner.
immaterially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immaterially
form: most immaterially
Etymology: From Middle English inmaterialliche, inmaterially; equivalent to immaterial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immaterial manner.
immaturely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: more immaturely
form: most immaturely
Etymology: From immature + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They may be approaching 40, but after three beers they are behaving as immaturely as any teenager.
glosses: Giving an appearance of immaturity; childishly.
examples: text: […] birds which are hatched immaturely and fly immediately after leaving the nest.
ref: 1972, Frank B. McMahon, Psychology: Perspectives on the Hybrid Science, page 165:
glosses: Without having attained maturity.
immemorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immemorially
form: most immemorially
Etymology: From immemorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 58”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Yet, O reader, the brave woman accepted the lot, and took up the cry which had been its sign immemorially, and which thenceforward was to be her salutation without change—“Unclean, unclean!”
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Book Six, Chapter 2:
text: […] as for barbers, he had never liked those who cut his own hair; he thought too how it would disgust Pundit Jairam to learn that his former pupil had taken up barbering, a profession immemorially low.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2:
glosses: In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
imminently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imminently
form: most imminently
Etymology: From imminent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Work to electrify the East Kilbride line in Scotland will begin imminently, with foundations to be installed for the overhead line equipment.
ref: 2021 March 10, “Network News: Work to start on East Kilbride wires”, in RAIL, number 926, page 27:
glosses: In an imminent manner; liable to happen immediately or very soon.
immoderately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immoderately
form: most immoderately
Etymology: From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; equivalent to immoderate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immoderate manner.
immodestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immodestly
form: most immodestly
Etymology: From immodest + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immodest manner.
immortally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immortally
form: most immortally
Etymology: From immortal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: amortally
mortally
glosses: In an immortal manner.
immovably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immovably
form: most immovably
Etymology: From Middle English in-moueabily; equivalent to immovable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immovable manner.
immutably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjuːtəblɪ/
Forms: form: more immutably
form: most immutably
Etymology: From immutable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved - as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property....they yielded at length.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 33, in Jane Eyre:
glosses: In an immutable manner. In a way that cannot be varied, or changed.
Synonyms: unalterably
unchangeably
impalpably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impalpably
form: most impalpably
Etymology: From impalpable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
ref: 1892, Walt Whitman, “Notes Left Over: Emerson's Books”, in Complete Prose Works:
glosses: In an impalpable manner.
impassably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impassably
form: most impassably
Etymology: From impassable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impassable manner.
impassibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impassibly
form: most impassibly
Etymology: From impassible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impassible manner.
impassively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impassively
form: most impassively
Etymology: From impassive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impassive manner.
impeccably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛk.ə.bli/
Forms: form: more impeccably
form: most impeccably
Etymology: From impeccable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Arley's ferry boat has been replaced by a single-span pedestrian bridge. This leads to the old Harbour Inn and the impeccably restored railway station, now part of the privately run steam-operated Severn Valley Railway.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 389, about Upper Arley:
text: The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano.
ref: 1995, David Dubal, Art of the Piano: Its performers, literature, and recordings, page 433:
text: It is difficult to distinguish one bourgeois from another: the grande bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed at all times and don't speak to anyone outside their own class; the bonne bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak to everyone; the petite bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak only to complain[…]
ref: 1999, The Xenophobe's Guide to the French, page 17:
text: In fact, even when I did make some small mistakes with grammar, people still said I spoke impeccably.
ref: 2009, Susanna Zaraysky, Language Is Music, page 19:
glosses: In a perfect or flawless manner.
Synonyms: sense: in a perfect manner
word: flawlessly
sense: in a perfect manner
word: immaculately
sense: in a perfect manner
word: perfectly
Related terms: impeccability
impeccable
impecuniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impecuniously
form: most impecuniously
Etymology: From impecunious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impecunious manner.
impishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impishly
form: most impishly
Etymology: From impish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was one of those elfin, rather precocious little girls, quick coloured, with dark hair, naturally curling dusky hair that was sometimes astray over her eyes, and eyes that were sometimes impishly dark, and sometimes a clear brown yellow.
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 1st book (The Days before Tono-Bungay was Invented), page 32:
text: Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
text: In my favorite Meta A.I. ad, a woman tells her boyfriend that she’s excited to have him meet her parents — before impishly mentioning that her father is a thermodynamicist at NASA. […]
ref: 2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025:
glosses: In an impish manner; mischievously.
Synonyms: puckishly
inadequately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inadequately
form: most inadequately
Etymology: From inadequate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inadequate manner.
inalienably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inalienably
form: most inalienably
Etymology: From inalienable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This was his intention to persuade their aged grandfather to transfer his own heirship to Arthur, which he considered it a fortunate circumstance was in his power, with the exception of a very small estate, tied inalienably to the heir of that ancient and distinguished family.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: In an inalienable manner.
inanimately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inanimately
form: most inanimately
Etymology: From inanimate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inanimate manner.
inanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inanely
form: most inanely
Etymology: From inane + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inane manner.
inappreciably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inappreciably
form: most inappreciably
Etymology: From inappreciable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inappreciable manner.
inarticulately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inarticulately
form: most inarticulately
Etymology: From inarticulate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inarticulate manner.
inattentively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inattentively
form: most inattentively
Etymology: From inattentive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inattentive or careless manner: Of or pertaining to a lack of attention; not paying attention.
incalculably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incalculably
form: most incalculably
Etymology: From incalculable + -ly.
Senses: examples: incalculably small
glosses: In an incalculable manner.
incapably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incapably
form: most incapably
Etymology: From incapable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incapable manner.
incipiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incipiently
form: most incipiently
Etymology: From incipient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incipient manner.
incommensurately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incommensurately
form: most incommensurately
Etymology: From incommensurate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incommensurate manner; in a manner not in proportion with something else.
incomparably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incomparably
form: most incomparably
Etymology: From incomparable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incomparable manner.
incompetently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incompetently
form: most incompetently
Etymology: From incompetent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
ref: 2019 May 1, Nathan Rabin, “My World of Flops Get a Load of This Maroon Case File #121/My Year of Flops # 18 Jacob Wohl”, in Nathan Rabin's Happy Place:
glosses: In an incompetent manner.
incompletely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incompletely
form: most incompletely
Etymology: From incomplete + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incomplete manner.
synonyms: word: feckly
word: in part
word: imperfectly
word: incompletely
word: partly
word: partially
word: partwise
word: somedeal
word: somewhat
word: to an extent
word: to some extent
word: unfully
glosses: To an incomplete degree.
incomprehensibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incomprehensibly
form: most incomprehensibly
Etymology: From incomprehensible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incomprehensible manner.
inconceivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconceivably
form: most inconceivably
Etymology: From inconceivable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inconceivable manner, not believable or understandable.
inconclusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconclusively
form: most inconclusively
Etymology: From inconclusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inconclusive manner.
incongruously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incongruously
form: most incongruously
Etymology: From incongruous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was a long, long list[of problems], but Mr. Stink listened to everything she said as jolly Christmas songs played incongruously in the background.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: In an incongruous manner.
inconsiderately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconsiderately
form: most inconsiderately
Etymology: From inconsiderate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He inconsiderately let the twig snap back at her.
text: Inconsiderately, he pressed on when she paused.
glosses: In an inconsiderate manner; without consideration for others.
inconsistently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconsistently
form: most inconsistently
Etymology: From inconsistent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inconsistent manner.
inconsolably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconsolably
form: most inconsolably
Etymology: From inconsolable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inconsolable manner.
inconstantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconstantly
form: most inconstantly
Etymology: From inconstant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inconstant manner.
incontestably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incontestably
form: most incontestably
Etymology: From incontestable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incontestable manner.
incontrovertibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː(ɹ).tɪ.bli/
ipa: /ˌɪnˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.tə.bli/
Forms: form: more incontrovertibly
form: most incontrovertibly
Etymology: From incontrovertible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is, incontrovertibly, our duty, if divine and civil laws have given us a rule whereby to regulate our conduct, and which may both promote the benefit of society and the good of the individual, we are obliged to act agreeably to that rule, let the conduct of others be what it may.
ref: 1810, Thomas Comber, Adultery Analyzed: an inquiry into the causes of the prevalence of that vice, page 19:
text: In such a case and under such proof the intent to kill and the deliberate and premeditated malice are incontrovertibly implied.
ref: 1917, State v. Morris, “The Pacific Reporter”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 163, page 584:
text: And if word did spread that he had withdrawn his money from the bank in cash, every man and his cousin in the county would be his threat and enemy until every one of them was incontrovertibly convinced that the actual money actually was somewhere else, and exactly where that somewhere else was.
ref: 1957, William Faulkner, The Town:
glosses: In an incontrovertible manner; in a manner not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed.
Synonyms: indisputably
irrefutably
undeniably
unquestionably
Related terms: incontrovertibility
incontrovertible
inconveniently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconveniently
form: most inconveniently
Etymology: From inconvenient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are several reasons why the line's future is now dubious. With the exception of Horsmonden, the stations are most inconveniently sited. This is largely because the Wealden villages were built on ridges, and in fact most Wealden stations are badly placed.
ref: 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 173:
glosses: In an inconvenient manner.
incorrigibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incorrigibly
form: most incorrigibly
Etymology: From incorrigible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incorrigible manner.
straw hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw hats
form: straw-hat
form: strawhat
Etymology: From Middle English strawe hatt, strawehatte, stree hatte.
Senses: examples: text: She felt uncomfortable and ridiculous in her heavy straw hat and dark, tight-fitting linen dress with the padded shoulders.
ref: 2008, Michael Cantwell, Chasing Mayan Dreams: Adventures in the Mexican Rain Forest, →ISBN:
text: Mr. Dodgson removed his hat as he and Dr. Doyle settled themselves into their carriage, across from a stout man in a striped jacket and straw hat, and two ladies of middle years dressed in severely cut ecru linen summer traveling dresses.
ref: 2014, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Missing Miss, →ISBN:
text: Although the day was lightly overcast, Gulliver wore a torn large-brimmed straw hat.
ref: 2015, Maureen Earl, Gulliver Quick: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A stiff hat, made from woven straw.
Irredentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɹɪˈdɛntɪst/
Forms: form: Irredentists
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian irredentista, from (Italia) irredenta (“unredeemed Italy”).
Senses: glosses: A member or supporter of the Italian party after 1878 which called for the recovery of all Italian-speaking territories subject to other countries.
Derived terms: irredentist
incorruptibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incorruptibly
form: most incorruptibly
Etymology: From incorruptible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: During her trial, Dugdale declared herself “proudly and incorruptibly guilty” of offences against the state and described Britain as “the filthy enemy”.
ref: 2024 March 18, Shane Harrison, “Rose Dugdale, English debutante turned IRA bomb maker, dies aged 83”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In an incorruptible manner.
incurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incurably
form: most incurably
Etymology: From incurable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incurable manner.
indecently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indecently
form: most indecently
Etymology: From indecent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indecent manner.
examples: text: Chloryl fluoride, ClO₂F, was first reported by Schmitz and Schumacher in 1942. It is indecently reactive, and the hardest to keep of all the Cl-O-F compounds, since it apparently dissolves the protective metal fluoride coatings that make the storage of ClF₃ comparatively simple.
ref: 1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: To an extreme degree.
indecisively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indecisively
form: most indecisively
Etymology: From indecisive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indecisive manner.
indefeasibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indefeasibly
form: most indefeasibly
Etymology: From indefeasible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indefeasible manner.
indefensibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indefensibly
form: most indefensibly
Etymology: From indefensible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indefensible manner.
in a flash
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It happened so fast that it was all over in a flash.
text: Therefore its completeness, though instantaneous, was total. His realisation was in a flash, but it did not vanish like a flash.
ref: 1987, “Sri Ramanasramam Charities”, in Mountain Path, volume 24, page 152:
text: “I bet you want to come and live here in this big house in the lap of luxury with me and Biggie, don’t you?”
“NO,” replied the boy in a flash.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: fulgurant
fast as lightning
lightning fast
lightning-quick
quick as a flash
quick as a flash
lightning fast
glosses: Instantaneously; very quickly; in almost no time.
indelibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indelibly
form: most indelibly
Etymology: From indelible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indelible manner.
indelicately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indelicately
form: most indelicately
Etymology: From indelicate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indelicate manner.
indescribably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indescribably
form: most indescribably
Etymology: From indescribable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.
ref: 1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
text: There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: “I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to lie anymore, and that I could start taking responsibility even though I felt indescribably bad.”
ref: 2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Caroline Ellison, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In an indescribable manner.
indestructibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indestructibly
form: most indestructibly
Etymology: From indestructible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That is a fact; it cannot be changed — it is written indestructibly on the record of events.
ref: 1918, Ferdinand Schureman Schenck, The Apostles' Creed in the Twentieth Century, page 183:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that is indestructible
Related terms: indestructibility
indeterminably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indeterminably
form: most indeterminably
Etymology: From in- + determine + -ably.
Senses: glosses: in an indeterminable manner
indeterminately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indeterminately
form: most indeterminately
Etymology: From indeterminate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indeterminate manner.
indicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indicatively
form: most indicatively
Etymology: From indicative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indicative manner.
indigently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indigently
form: most indigently
Etymology: From indigent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indigent manner.
indiscreetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indiscreetly
form: most indiscreetly
Etymology: From indiscreet + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indiscreet manner.
indispensably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indispensably
form: most indispensably
Etymology: From indispensable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indispensable manner; such that one cannot do without it.
indivisibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indivisibly
form: most indivisibly
Etymology: From indivisible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indivisible manner.
indolently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indolently
form: most indolently
Etymology: From indolent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indolent manner.
indomitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indomitably
form: most indomitably
Etymology: From indomitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She rejoiced that it was not the fashion of her day, and had probably rendered her daughters on the whole good service, by making them sensible from their babyhood, that to be poorly was to be naughty; and, on the present occasion, it must be said, she either resisted indomitably, or yielded reluctantly, to the demands of sickness.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 106–107:
glosses: In an indomitable manner.
sottisier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sottisiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French sottisier.
Senses: examples: text: I had intended to provide the book derisively with an appendix, vermiform. Papa Flaubert compiled a sottisier, I also compiled a sottisier. I do not yield a jot in my belief that such compilations are useful, I concede that there may be no need of reprinting mine at this moment. At any rate the snippets are there on file.
ref: 1934, Ezra Pound, “Date Line”, in Make It New, London: Faber & Faber, page 16:
text: Frequently he brought his points home with topical allusions: timely newspaper clippings or public utterances, constituting a sort of sottisier or scrapbook of contemporary fatuities.
ref: 1961, Harry Levin, Irving Babbitt and the Teaching of Literature, Harvard University Press, page 10:
text: Suppose a serious literary critic were to write about Hollywood autobiographies: “Niven experiences life as an imprisoning reality of personal experience, plus mythopoeic elements, a vast sottisier in the tradition of Jessel's This way, Miss.[…]
ref: 1985 December 23, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Book of The Times”, in The New York Times:
text: The sottisier, which is a rich one, is drawn almost entirely from books and articles by French left-wing intellectuals about the Third World, mostly written during the sixties and seventies, but with some examples from the present decade.
ref: 1986, Conor Cruise O’Brien, “The Cant of Pity”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: In the Israeli press, a constant feature is a sottisier of what the official Arab publications, including school textbooks, say about the eternal iniquity of the Jewish race and the holy necessity to eradicate it from the face of the Earth.
ref: 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, page 631:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A compilation of banal, hackneyed, or otherwise objectionable snippets of text from various authors.
indulgently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indulgently
form: most indulgently
Etymology: From indulgent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indulgent manner.
Related terms: self-indulgently
industrially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəli/
Forms: form: more industrially
form: most industrially
Etymology: From industrial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an industrial manner.
glosses: Concerning industry.
industriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more industriously
form: most industriously
Etymology: From industrious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Robert had a friend at the Melbourne University, with whom he corresponded industriously.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: In an industrious manner.
ineffably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ineffably
form: most ineffably
Etymology: From ineffable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His songs are ineffably sweet and touching.
text: "And," said Crabbe, "I know exactly how much brandy's in that cupboard. And whisky." The Chinese smiled ineffably.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 501:
glosses: indescribably; to a very great degree or extent.
examples: text: This is the Name which is most ineffably holy.
glosses: unmentionably; unspeakably
ineffectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ineffectively
form: most ineffectively
Etymology: From ineffective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ineffective manner; not producing any significant or desired effect.
ineffectually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ineffectually
form: most ineffectually
Etymology: From ineffectual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
glosses: In an ineffectual manner.
inefficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inefficiently
form: most inefficiently
Etymology: From inefficient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What labour there was, particularly maintenance personnel, worked inefficiently and staff were prone to down tools at the whim of the local shop steward.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
glosses: In an inefficient manner.
inelegantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inelegantly
form: most inelegantly
Etymology: From inelegant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Seianus lay inelegantly on his couch because of his bulk.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 84:
glosses: In an inelegant manner.
ineligibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ineligibly
form: most ineligibly
Etymology: From ineligible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ineligible manner.