cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
efficaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more efficaciously
form: most efficaciously
Etymology: From efficacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an efficacious manner
elastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elastically
form: most elastically
Etymology: From elastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an elastic manner
Derived terms: viscoelastically
elatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elatedly
form: most elatedly
Etymology: From elated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an elated manner
elusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elusively
form: most elusively
Etymology: From elusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an elusive manner
embarrassingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋli/
ipa: /ɛm-/
ipa: /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/
ipa: /ɛm-/
Forms: form: more embarrassingly
form: most embarrassingly
Etymology: From embarrassing (adjective) + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
glosses: In an embarrassing manner.
examples: text: He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.
text: He was presented with an embarrassingly long list of options.
glosses: To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
examples: text: Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.
glosses: Causing embarrassment.
Derived terms: embarrassingly parallel
enchantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɪŋli/
ipa: /ɪnˈtʃɑːntɪŋliː/
Forms: form: more enchantingly
form: most enchantingly
Etymology: From enchanting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enchanting manner
encouragingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more encouragingly
form: most encouragingly
Etymology: From encouraging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an encouraging manner.
endearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endearingly
form: most endearingly
Etymology: From endearing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an endearing manner
endemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endemically
form: most endemically
Etymology: From endemic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Malaria occurs endemically, epidemically, pandemically, or sporadically.
ref: 1886, Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst, Handbook of Practical Medicine, page 168:
glosses: In an endemic manner.
endogenously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endogenously
form: most endogenously
Etymology: From endogenous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an endogenous manner.
energetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more energetically
form: most energetically
Etymology: From energetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: With a stride, the doctor reached the bed, and seizing her arms worked them energetically, applying what I knew to be artificial respiration.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 29:
glosses: In an energetic manner; with great energy.
examples: text: Reiki attempts to heal the body energetically.
glosses: By means of energy.
Derived terms: isoenergetically
unenergetically
engagingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more engagingly
form: most engagingly
Etymology: From engaging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an engaging manner.
Related terms: engagedly
enjoyably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enjoyably
form: most enjoyably
Etymology: From enjoyable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enjoyable manner
enterprisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enterprisingly
form: most enterprisingly
Etymology: From enterprising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enterprising manner
entertainingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more entertainingly
form: most entertainingly
Etymology: From entertaining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an entertaining manner
enticingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enticingly
form: most enticingly
Etymology: From enticing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enticing manner
entrancingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹɑːnsɪŋli/
Forms: form: more entrancingly
form: most entrancingly
Etymology: From entrancing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Maisie, quitting Sir Claude, went over to them and, clasped in a still tenderer embrace, felt entrancingly the extension of the field of happiness.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: In an entrancing manner.
entreatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more entreatingly
form: most entreatingly
form: intreatingly
Etymology: From entreating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Master," she said, in a low voice, with her eyes attentively and entreatingly fixed upon him. "Don't!"
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 113:
synonyms: beseechingly
imploringly
glosses: In an entreating manner.
enviably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enviably
form: most enviably
Etymology: From enviable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enviable manner or to an enviable degree
enviously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enviously
form: most enviously
Etymology: From envious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an envious manner or to an envious degree
envyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more envyingly
form: most envyingly
Etymology: From envying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an envying manner
equably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more equably
form: most equably
Etymology: From equable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an equable manner
equidistantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From equidistant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree
equitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.wɪ.tə.bli/
Forms: form: more equitably
form: most equitably
Etymology: From equitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an equitable manner
equivocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more equivocally
form: most equivocally
Etymology: From equivocal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Wits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching
ref: 2006, Mary Rorich, “Knowledge is Power, And You'd Better Believe it”, in Margaret Orr, Mary Rorich, Finuala Dowling, editors, The Wits Wonderwoman Book: Buttons and Breakfasts:
glosses: With ambiguity; with uncertainty.
Related terms: equivocal
equivocate
erectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more erectly
form: most erectly
Etymology: From erect + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an erect manner
excitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excitably
form: most excitably
Etymology: From excitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an excitable manner.
excitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excitingly
form: most excitingly
Etymology: From exciting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exciting manner
excruciatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈskɹuːʃiːeɪtɪŋli/
/ɪkˈskɹuːsiːeɪtɪŋli/
Forms: form: more excruciatingly
form: most excruciatingly
Etymology: From excruciating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The gunshot wound was excruciatingly painful.
text: My hunger was now tormenting me excruciatingly, and gave me no rest.
ref: 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great anguish or pain.
glosses: In a very intense or extreme manner.
Related terms: cruciate
excruciate
excruciating
excusably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excusably
form: most excusably
Etymology: From excusable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree
exhaustively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɔː.stɪv.li/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɑ.stɪv.li/
Forms: form: more exhaustively
form: most exhaustively
Etymology: * exhaustive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While dictionaries might aspire to be exhaustively comprehensive, or even completist, it is doubtful whether any dictionary ever truly attempts to cover the entirety of the flora and fauna of a living language due to the overwhelming number of entries this would necessitate.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
glosses: In an exhaustive manner.
existentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more existentially
form: most existentially
Etymology: From existential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values.
ref: 2012, A. Green, V. Viaene, Religious Internationals in the Modern World, →ISBN:
text: Although I might have experienced being existentially out of place, the systems at work in my life have never sought to unhome me.
ref: 2023, Helene Grøn, Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting, page x:
glosses: In an existential manner.
exotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exotically
form: most exotically
Etymology: From exotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an exotic manner.
expansively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expansively
form: most expansively
Etymology: From expansive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an expansive manner
expectantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expectantly
form: most expectantly
Etymology: From expectant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The cat looked expectantly at the mouse.
text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.[…]She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid[…]Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Professor Challenger was on his feet. His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: So he went, uneconomically but expectantly, to the emergency room.
ref: 2008 January 8, Elissa Ely, M.D., “Homeless, With a New Loss: Identity”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2015:
text: Larissa felt “pulled” to Rachel, who was standing expectantly on Larissa’s doorstep.
ref: 2023 August 18, Francesca Street, “Her flight was canceled. Then she ended up on the doorstep of her future wife”, in CNN:
glosses: In an expectant manner.
expediently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expediently
form: most expediently
Etymology: From expedient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Call it expediently located irony, or convenient rationalization, but I was keeping the money.
ref: 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 289:
glosses: In an expedient manner.
expeditiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛks.pəˈdɪʃ.əs.li/
Forms: form: more expeditiously
form: most expeditiously
Etymology: From expeditious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XLII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: apace
word: expeditiously
word: fast
word: hastily
word: hurriedly
word: posthaste
word: quicksome
word: rapidly
word: speedily
word: soon
word: swiftly
word: with dispatch
word: at the high port
word: balls-out
word: balls to the wall
word: cranking
word: flat out
word: full throttle
word: hauling
word: hauling ass
word: hell-for-leather
word: hell-bent for leather
word: lickety-split
word: like a bat out of hell
word: like a blue-arsed fly
word: like a dose of salts
word: like a rat up a drainpipe
word: like gangbusters
word: like shit through a goose
word: like the clappers
word: like there is no tomorrow
word: like the wind
word: screaming
word: before you can say Jack Robinson
word: in a flash
word: in a jiffy
word: in no time
word: in the twinkling of an eye
word: in two shakes
word: on the double
word: PDQ
word: pronto
word: quick as a flash
word: quick as a wink
word: on the pdq
word: toot sweet
glosses: In an expeditious manner, quickly.
expensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/
Forms: form: more expensively
form: most expensively
Etymology: From expensive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:
text: The room was expensively furnished.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 77:
glosses: In an expensive manner.
explosively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more explosively
form: most explosively
Etymology: From explosive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: An unaspected planet bides its time and then emerges, often explosively and seemingly out of character. These potent loners are a hidden influence within the chart.
ref: 2018, Judy Hall, The Astrology Bible:
glosses: In an explosive manner.
Derived terms: explosively formed penetrator
expressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɹɛ.sɪv.li/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɹɛ.sɪv.li/
Forms: form: more expressively
form: most expressively
Etymology: From expressive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an expressive manner.
extortionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extortionately
form: most extortionately
Etymology: From extortionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
extrinsically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extrinsically
form: most extrinsically
Etymology: From extrinsic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an extrinsic manner
exuberantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exuberantly
form: most exuberantly
Etymology: From exuberant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exuberant manner
lienee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lienees
Senses: examples: text: 1910, Georgia Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, North Carolina Supreme Court, South Carolina Supreme Court, West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, The Southeastern Reporter, Volume 65, page 443,
The warrant failed to allege that the cotton was sold “without the written consent of the lienee.”
text: But the position is that lienees are still protected and will be under this Bill which will not apply until the harvest of 1941.
ref: 1940, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 4, page 2602:
text: 2004, Peter Gillies, Business Law, 12th Edition, The Federation Press, Australia, page 722,
The lienee has no right of sale in relation to the goods (in the absence of a provision in an express contractual lien conferring a power of sale).
text: The right can only be exercised where the lienee has:
(i) given notice to the bailor of his intention to sell goods; or
(ii) taken reasonable steps to trace or communicate with the bailor but failed.
ref: 2007, Robert Bradgate, Fidelma White, Commercial Law, page 329:
topics: law
glosses: One who has right of possession of goods but not right of property; the registered owner.
Synonyms: word: lienor
Coordinate terms: lienholder
lienor
entablature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtæ.blə.t͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: entablatures
Etymology: From Italian intavolatura, from in + tavola (“table”).
Senses: examples: text: In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:
text: Such a distinctive and pleasing feature did this become that it was widely adapted to brick construction, the outward projection of pilasters and engaged columns, often both, supporting pediments and entablatures which had the effect of increasing the depth of brick walls.
ref: 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
topics: architecture
glosses: All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
Synonyms: entablement
Derived terms: entablatured
Related terms: trabeated
Ivo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪvəʊ/
Etymology: Latinate form of a medieval name of Old French origin, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern French Yves.
Senses: examples: text: It was so farcically alien to be called 'Roger' and 'Furnivall' in a place where everybody had names like Ivo and Gito and Madog.
ref: 1970, John Wain, A Winter in the Hills, Viking Press, page 45:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Related terms: Ives
Ivor
Yvette
Yvonne
jodel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jodels
form: jodeling
form: jodelling
form: jodeled
form: jodeled
form: jodelled
form: jodelled
Senses: examples: text: They spun wildly on their heels, jodelling after the accepted manner of a 'gloat,' which is not unremotely allied to the primitive man's song of triumph […]
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co, page 13:
text: It was only "My Dear" that she said, but her voice went jodelling between Alpine passes.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 105:
glosses: Alternative spelling of yodel
Derived terms: jodeler
jodeller
jubé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jubés
form: jube
Senses: glosses: A rood screen, which in continental Europe featured a balcony from which the Gospel and sermons could be read.
Jugoslavia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The recent Osimo settlement calls for the building of an industrial area on two-thirds of the Trieste Carso, in which the majority of labor should come from various parts of Jugoslavia, especially Macedonians.
ref: 1982, Alfred Connor Bowman, Zones of Strain: A Memoir of the Early Cold War, page 157:
glosses: Dated spelling of Yugoslavia: (historical) A former country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
plimsolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plimsoll
undemocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undemocratically
form: most undemocratically
Etymology: From undemocratic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Amnesty's International Executive Committee (IEC), an undemocratically elected half-a dozen individuals who have the power to make major decisions within the organisation.
ref: 1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 15:
glosses: In an undemocratic manner; not democratically.
matzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matzot
form: matzahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of matzo.
uri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urus
edginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edginesses
Etymology: From edgy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being edgy.
edibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edibilities
Etymology: From edible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: suitability for use as food
Synonyms: eatability
edibleness
edibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: edibility
edifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edifiers
Etymology: From edify + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who edifies.
glosses: A builder.
educability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educabilities
Senses: glosses: The state of being educable
glosses: The degree to which someone is educable
educable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more educable
form: most educable
Etymology: From New Latin educabilis, from Latin ēducō (“to educate”) + -ābilis; see educate.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being educated.
Synonyms: educatable
Derived terms: educably
ineducable
noneducable
uneducable
Related terms: educate
educability
educable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educables
Etymology: From New Latin educabilis, from Latin ēducō (“to educate”) + -ābilis; see educate.
Senses: glosses: A person capable of being educated.
deflagrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfləɡɹənt/
Forms: form: more deflagrant
form: most deflagrant
Senses: examples: text: Gunpowder is a deflagrant (ie rapidly-burning) mixture of a solid fuel such as charcoal with a solid oxidising agent - the only one available up to the late 18th century was saltpetre.
ref: 2003, Allan M. Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace:
glosses: That burns with intense light and heat.
Related terms: deflagrate
deflagration
deflagrating spoon
effacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effacements
Etymology: Borrowed from French effacement.
Senses: glosses: The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
examples: text: Native Americans seem to have always placed great value on silence and direct experience, and in indigenous cultures in general, silence denotes respect and self-effacement.
ref: 2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3:
glosses: Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
Derived terms: self-effacement
effortlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛf.ət.ləs.nəs/
ipa: /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.nəs/
Etymology: From effortless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being effortless; facility.
effusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effusivenesses
Etymology: From effusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being effusive.
go pear shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes pear shaped
form: going pear shaped
form: went pear shaped
form: gone pear shaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go pear-shaped.
go pearshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes pearshaped
form: going pearshaped
form: went pearshaped
form: gone pearshaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go pear-shaped.
elaborateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaboratenesses
Etymology: From elaborate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There has always been an affinity between musical comedy and the gay male sensibility. Maybe it is the elaborateness of the ambiance and the settings, a sort of triumph of form over content to express emotions which gay men have learned to keep quiet.
ref: 1984 February 4, Michael Bronski, “Cats: Straight and Boring”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 17:
glosses: The state of being elaborate
glosses: Something elaborate
elbowroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elbow + room.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elbow room.
electable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electable
form: most electable
Etymology: From elect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Since he entered the race more than a week ago, Joe Biden has been citing his connection with middle-class, Rust Belt voters to cast himself as the most electable Democrat in the field — a theory that seems to have gotten some traction with voters.
ref: 2019 June 5, Lisa Lerer, “What Does ‘Electability’ Mean in the 2020 Race? Here Are 5 Theories”, in The New York Times:
text: So where are you supposed to find a comfortably electable, qualified candidate who won’t turn 80 while in office?
ref: 2020 May 1, David Leonhardt, “A Democrat Who Can Beat Trump”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Able to be elected to office.
Derived terms: re-electable
unelectable
Related terms: electability
electable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electables
Etymology: From elect + -able.
Senses: glosses: A person who is able or fit to be elected to office.
elfish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛlfɪʃ/
Forms: form: more elfish
form: most elfish
form: elvish
Etymology: From elf + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: GWM, elfish, thin fem wants bad white street boy, black-haired, thick together eye brows, long chin, long boned, wide/long nose, hight ^([sic]) skin.
ref: 1992 May 8, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Characteristic of an elf; elfin, elven.
glosses: Mischievous.
Synonyms: list in elven
Derived terms: elfishly
elfishness
elocutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elocutionary
form: most elocutionary
Etymology: From elocution + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical
Derived terms: elocutionarily
elocutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elocutionists
Etymology: From elocution + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Melville Bell's father, Alexander Bell, had been a famous elocutionist and stage reciter.
ref: 1998, Beverly Collins, Inger M. Mees, The Real Professor Higgins, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 465:
text: Her ability as a recitalist or elocutionist, as she was sometimes called, indicated a possible career on the stage.
ref: 2013, Michael Gnarowski, Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose, Dundurn, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: recitalist
glosses: Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
elopement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈloʊpmənt/
Forms: form: elopements
Etymology: From elope + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: You may not have heard of the last blow—Julia's elopement; she is gone to Scotland with Yates.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter LXVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 287:
text: […] Jo […] was already deep in the concoction of her story, being unable to decide whether the duel should come before the elopement or after the murder.
ref: 1869, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women:
glosses: The act of running away from home with a paramour.
glosses: The act of running away secretly for the purpose of getting married.
glosses: The act of running away from home (for any reason).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The act of a person with dementia or other mental illness wandering away from the area where they are safe.
elusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elusivenesses
Etymology: From elusive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur:
glosses: The state of being elusive.
capacitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capacitations
Etymology: From capacitate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Enablement; giving the capacity to do something.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The process of altering sperm to allow them to fertilize eggs.
Derived terms: decapacitation
liming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: limin'
form: lyming
Etymology: The word is associated with sitting under a lime tree, or having nothing more demanding to do than squeezing limes. It is also thought to originate from "limey", a slang term meaning a British serviceman in Trinidad and Tobago during World War II (noted for hanging around bars and drinking). The term has since been adopted by other countries in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Senses: examples: text: We're going to party, liming, Fiesta, forever
Come on and sing along.
ref: Lionel Richie. All Night Long (pop song, verse 2)
glosses: present participle and gerund of lime
liming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limings
form: limin'
form: lyming
Etymology: The word is associated with sitting under a lime tree, or having nothing more demanding to do than squeezing limes. It is also thought to originate from "limey", a slang term meaning a British serviceman in Trinidad and Tobago during World War II (noted for hanging around bars and drinking). The term has since been adopted by other countries in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Senses: examples: text: The land required frequent limings.
glosses: An application of lime (calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide).
examples: "No Liming or Loitering - No Shouting or Loud Noise" (written on a sign in Port of Spain shopping mall).
glosses: Hanging around, usually in a public place with friends, enjoying the scene.
pittance payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pittance payments
Senses: glosses: A meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration; a very small payment.
unexperienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexperienced
form: most unexperienced
Etymology: From un- + experienced.
Senses: examples: text: [A]s my coachman was but an unexperienced driver, I was obliged to make use of my own skill in that exercise, and direct his endeavours the whole way […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: These are not always essential on a CV but in the case of an unexperienced candidate, they can help to give recruiters more insight into your capabilities.
ref: 2016 February 22, Andrew Fennell, The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of inexperienced.
synonyms: word: inexperienced
examples: text: Near-synonyms: unencountered, unprecedented, unrealized
text: The team performed well even in previously unexperienced situations.
text: All the wonders that are unimaginable and unspeakable; all these wonders are translated in the mysterious melodiousness of the guitar. […] Sometimes it brings to me the bird-twitterings in the air; and sometimes it strikes up in me rapturous pulsations of legendary delights eternally unexperienced and unknown to me.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way.
ref: 2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:
glosses: Not known through experience.
unexperimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexperimented
form: most unexperimented
Etymology: From un- + experimented.
Senses: glosses: Not experimented
unexploited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexploited
form: most unexploited
Etymology: From un- + exploited.
Senses: examples: text: We've entered orbit around an unexploited gas giant and are using it as a shield. All feasible orbital solutions for leaving this system are blockaded.…
ref: 2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 19, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Not exploited.
Related terms: unexploitable
unexplorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexplorable
form: most unexplorable
Etymology: From un- + explorable.
Senses: glosses: Not explorable
unexplosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexplosive
form: most unexplosive
Etymology: From un- + explosive.
Senses: glosses: Not explosive
unexpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexpressed
form: most unexpressed
Etymology: From un- + expressed.
Senses: glosses: Not expressed.
unexpressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more unexpressive
form: most unexpressive
Etymology: From un- + expressive.
Senses: glosses: Not expressive
unextinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unextinguished
form: most unextinguished
Etymology: From un- + extinguished.
Senses: glosses: Not extinguished
unextended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extended.
Senses: glosses: Not extended.
unextracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extracted.
Senses: glosses: Not extracted
unfaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfaded
form: most unfaded
Etymology: From un- + faded.
Senses: glosses: Not faded.
Related terms: nonfading
unfadeable
unfallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfallowed
form: most unfallowed
Etymology: From un- + fallowed.
Senses: glosses: Not fallowed
unfanatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfanatical
form: most unfanatical
Etymology: From un- + fanatical.
Senses: glosses: Not fanatical.
queep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: In flight they often made a close flock calling, queep, queep, queep, queep, queep, . . .
ref: 1918, Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California:
text: They followed her at a rapid tiny waddle, crying queep-queep-queep.
ref: 1929, Henry Williamson, The Pathway, Volume 4:
glosses: The sound a bird may make, similar to peep, chirp, cheep.
glosses: The sound a machine may make, similar to beep. See pocketa-queep.
queep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: queeps
form: queeping
form: queeped
form: queeped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: She started to speak, but the peek queeped, and she studded it on.
ref: 1969 August, Harlan Ellison, “Along the Scenic Route”, in Adam:
text: The computer queeped softly and then said, “Ship's systems ....”
ref: 2000, Diane Duane, Intellivore, Simon and Schuster, page 183:
text: “This used to be where the contractors kept their heavy equipment,” Lester rumbled, aiming a car door remote at the door, which queeped and opened.
ref: 2009, Cory Doctorow, Makers, Macmillan, page 22:
glosses: To emit a "queep" sound.
queep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Senses: examples: text: Why in the hell isn’t there someone else to do all this queep?!
text: It isn't how well you fly, it's who you know and how well you perform your queep ground job.
ref: 1997 July 28, Kurt Bjorn, “Re: USAF Low Morale Confirmed!!!”, in alt.aviation.safety,rec.aviation.military,alt.disasters.aviation (Usenet), message-ID <01bc9b7f$570616e0$0100000a@pyroware.flash.net>:
text: Still, the above is a true reflection of statistical promotion rates in the context of our current queep-biased system.
ref: 2001 September 6, Zaprass, “Re: Tiny U.S. planes spy as GIs avoid danger”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet), message-ID <3B9765DD.MD-1.4.4.Zaprass@nospam.com>:
text: What fighter pilots do is fly, and that they love, they have little love or tolerance for queep, a term for all paperwork and related jobs that keep a pilot out of the cockpit.
ref: 2007, Jonathan Dowty, Christian Fighter Pilot Is Not an Oxymoron, page 20:
text: Besides, if you're not flying, your whole world is going to consist of nothing but office queep.
ref: 2010, David Goldstein, Sharing Orion, AuthorHouse, page 87:
text: The stigma that surrounds a safety office and its staff is often that of naysayers or un-cool nerds. We’re the crushers of fun or sultans of queep in many squadrons, but there's no place for that kind of culture in the safety world.
ref: 2012 January 1, anonymous author, “Safety Culture”, in Wingman, page 32:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Non-flying duties, typically paperwork, that are undesirable to pilots.
queep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: Short for "quad-sweep", a rowing boat/event.
Senses: glosses: A rowing event, with two scullers and two sweepers per shell.
Quinne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from Doric Scots, quinne (young woman); though the name may also be a modern feminine version of Quinn.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
unfanciful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfanciful
form: most unfanciful
Etymology: From un- + fanciful.
Senses: glosses: Not fanciful
unfancied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfancied
form: most unfancied
Etymology: From un- + fancied.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most memorable World Cup runs of the more recent television era was that by the unfancied North Koreans in 1966, well before Havelange's ascendancy.
ref: 1994, John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson, Hosts and champions, page 24:
text: Scotland were lucky to be level at half-time after their unfancied hosts missed a series of good chances.
ref: 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Not fancied.
unfastenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fastenable.
Senses: glosses: Not fastenable.
unfastenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unfasten + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be unfastened.
unfastened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fastened.
Senses: glosses: Not fastened.
Synonyms: free
loose
unfastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unfasten + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unfasten
f--k
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: f--ks
form: f--king
form: f--ked
form: f--ked
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fuck.
unfavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfavoured
form: most unfavoured
Etymology: From un- + favoured.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unfavored.
ranger vest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranger vests
Senses: glosses: Any military or outdoor-themed vest commonly used by civilians.
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sooks
form: sooking
form: sooked
form: sooked
Etymology: English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck.
Senses: examples: text: Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.
ref: 1832, Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson, page 32:
text: Tibbie an' Andro bein' at that moment in the act o' whirlin' roond us were sooked into the vortex an' upset likewise, so that here were haill four o's sprawlin' i' the floor at ance.
ref: 1864, William Duncan Latto: Tammas Bodkin: Or, the Humours of a Scottish Tailor, page 378:
text: You pursed your mooth in shape like O,
And sook'd the air in, might and main
ref: 1903, John Stevenson, Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting, page 182:
glosses: Alternative spelling of suck.
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: sooks
form: suck
form: suke
Etymology: Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
Senses: glosses: Familiar name for a calf.
glosses: Familiar name for a cow.
glosses: A poddy calf.
Synonyms: sense: poddy calf
word: sookie
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: suck
form: suke
Etymology: Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
Senses: examples: text: Mother actually turned her back on that sheep and began dabbling her hand in the milk, saying, “Sook, calfy, sook, calfy!” seductively while the calf gave her the evil eue and walked backward.
ref: 1919, Strickland Gillilan, A Sample Case of Humor, page 47:
text: Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie,
Sook calf, sook calf! […]
ref: 1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 265, “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this
glosses: A call for calves.
glosses: A call for cattle.
glosses: A call for cattle or sheep.
Synonyms: sense: call
word: sook cow
sense: call
word: sooky
sense: call
word: sookie
sense: call
word: sookow
sense: call
word: sukow
sense: call
word: suck
sense: call
word: sucky
sense: call
word: suck cow
sense: call
word: sukey
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: sooks
Etymology: Probably from dialectal suck as is Etymology 1 above. Compare 19th century British slang sock (“overgrown baby”), British dialect suckerel (“suckling foal, unweaned child”), Canadian suck (“crybaby”), Canadian suck (“sycophant”). From 1933.
Senses: examples: text: Don't be such a sook.
text: You must think I'm a sook, hey? Here I am complaining about my dad's job and my curfew and your dad cheated on your mum. You put things into perspective for me.
ref: 2006, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Ten Things I Hate About Me, unnumbered page:
text: ‘What a sook! Look at her cry!’
‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’
ref: 2007, Jan Teagle Kapetas, “Lubra Lips, Lubra Lips: Reflections on my Face”, in Maureen Perkins, editor, Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia, page 31:
text: Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.
ref: 2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring: Mountain climbing is no cure for middle age, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 233:
glosses: A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
examples: text: I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
text: ‘Have a sook! Have a sook!’, they'd all yell. But that time I didn't go outside to cry.
ref: 2002, June Duncan Owen, Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, page 87:
glosses: A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
Synonyms: sense: timid person
word: scaredy-cat
sense: timid person
word: sissy
Derived terms: word: sookey
word: sooky
word: sooky la-la
Related terms: word: sookie
word: sookies
word: sooky baby
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /suk/
rhymes: -uːk
ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: sooks
Etymology: From Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”). From 1926. See souq.
Senses: examples: 1964, Qantas Airways, Qantas Airways Australia, Volumes 30-31, page 11,
Against these riches you may buy a cup of the bitter, herbed black final coffee from a street vendor for ten piasters — about 1½d. — and step through an arch into the next sook devoted to cheap shoes and vegetables and as full of the turbaned poor as an Arabian Nights reality.
glosses: Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /suk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /suk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: sooks
Etymology: Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.
Senses: examples: text: The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).
ref: 1948, John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page 4:
qualifier: eastern shore of Maryland
glosses: A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
sook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːk/
ipa: /sʊk/
ipa: /sʉk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /suk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of seek
unaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaesthetic
form: most unaesthetic
form: unæsthetic
form: unesthetic
Etymology: From un- + aesthetic.
Senses: glosses: Not aesthetic.
unalienable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈeɪljənəbəl/
Forms: form: more unalienable
form: most unalienable
Etymology: From un- + alienable.
Senses: examples: 1776, July 4th, United States Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
synonyms: inalienable
glosses: Not alienable.
unfeasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfiː.zə.bəl/
ipa: [ʌnˈfiː.zə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ʌnˈfi.zə.bəl/
ipa: [ʌnˈfi.zə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /anˈfiː.zə.bəl/
ipa: [anˈfɪi.zə.bɫ̩]
ipa: [anˈfiː.zə.bɫ̩]
rhymes: -iːzəbəl
Forms: form: more unfeasible
form: most unfeasible
Etymology: From un- + feasible.
Senses: glosses: Infeasible: not feasible.
wikipedia: The Economist
Derived terms: unfeasibility
unfeasibly
unrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrated
form: most unrated
Senses: glosses: Not rated; having no rating
unrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrate
unready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unready
form: most unready
Etymology: From Middle English unredy, equivalent to un- + ready. Compare Dutch ongereed and onbereid, German unbereit, Swedish oberedd.
Senses: synonyms: immature
unprepared
unripe
glosses: Not ready.
Derived terms: unreadily
unreadiness
Sunyavadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunyavadis
form: Sunyavadi
Etymology: From Sanskrit [Term?] (“void”).
Senses: glosses: A "worshipper of the void"; a name used for various religious groups.
qualifier: Hindu
glosses: A Buddhist, Taoist, or other impersonal worshipper.
unrecorded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recorded.
Senses: examples: text: During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.
ref: 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
glosses: Not recorded.