cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decorums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She had outraged every rule of the court, mocked their proprieties, and infringed their decorums; yet they talked of her genius, and called her la Reine philosophique.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 222-223:
glosses: plural of decorum
superegos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superego
ids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of id
cummin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cumin.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cumming.
cummin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cumming.
beanery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaneries
Etymology: From bean + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Do not make the excuse that you cannot get the right foods at the beaneries. The beaneries are going to serve just what the customers demand and when enough of you fellows get to demanding vitalized foods you are going to get them.
ref: 1924 July, Locomotive Engineers Journal, volume 58, page 541:
text: I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.
ref: 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: An inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.
skulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
ref: 1965, Sex Jungle (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
glosses: present participle and gerund of skull
skulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skullings
Senses: glosses: The act of determining the age of a young bird by measuring the degree of ossification of its skull.
overstress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstresses
form: overstressing
form: overstressed
form: overstressed
Etymology: From over- + stress.
Senses: glosses: To place excessive emphasis on something.
examples: text: [...] the complete frame will withstand a standing and buffing load of 200 tons without overstressing.
ref: 1960 July, “The first G.E.C. 25 kV. a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 421:
glosses: To place excessive physical stress on something, especially to such an extent that it deforms or breaks.
dodecarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecarchies
Etymology: From dodeca- + -archy, after the pattern of heptarchy, etc.
Senses: examples: text: And this dodecarchy may have lasted much longer than is stated by Herodotus; the immense labyrinth on Lake Moeris, the building of which is ascribed to it, is a proof of this, or else we must deny that it was erected during the dodecarchy.
ref: 1852, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Marcus von Niebuhr, Lectures on Ancient History, page 105:
glosses: A government of twelve people.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Related terms: dodecarch
prescript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈskɹɪpt/
Forms: form: prescripts
Etymology: Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.
Senses: examples: text: By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
Of cedar
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
examples: text: Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.
ref: 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
glosses: A medical prescription.
prescript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈskɹɪpt/
Etymology: Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.
Senses: examples: text: A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section I”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 7, page 4:
glosses: Directed; prescribed.
plaster cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaster casts
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A cast made of a stiff material (often plaster of Paris and gauze) in order to immobilize a broken bone for the period of healing.
examples: text: The police got a plaster cast of the suspect's footprint.
glosses: A copy of a piece of art or other object cast in plaster.
Synonyms: word: cast
word: plaster
word: pot
walkthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːk.θɹuː/
Forms: form: walkthru
form: walk-through
Etymology: Deverbal from walk through.
Senses: examples: text: But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
ref: 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:
glosses: Alternative form of walk-through.
walkthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːk.θɹuː/
Forms: form: walkthroughs
form: walkthru
form: walk-through
Etymology: Deverbal from walk through.
Senses: glosses: A tour of a space, such as a property for sale or rent.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through the algorithms or code as determined by input conditions and choices made along the way.
topics: video-games
glosses: A thorough demonstration that explains or illustrates the steps involved in winning the game.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A financial audit that traces a sample transaction through the system to ensure that it is processed and reported correctly.
examples: Near-synonym: run-through
hypernyms: rehearsal#Noun
coordinate_terms: dress rehearsal#Noun
dry run#Noun
glosses: A theatrical or film rehearsal in which the actors move around the stage or set but are not in costume.
Related terms: word: pass-through
word: passthrough
word: step-through
word: walk-through
word: walk through
lection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛkʃən/
Forms: form: lections
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lesson.
Senses: glosses: The act of reading.
examples: text: This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.
ref: 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
Synonyms: sense: a religious reading
word: lesson
Derived terms: lectional
Related terms: lectern
lecture
lector
lesson
uncomprehendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncomprehendingly
form: most uncomprehendingly
Etymology: From uncomprehending + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: uncomprehendedly
glosses: In an uncomprehending manner.
uncompromisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncompromisingly
form: most uncompromisingly
Etymology: From uncompromising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in 'The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: In an uncompromising manner.
unconcernedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconcernedly
form: most unconcernedly
Etymology: From unconcerned + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, pages 41–42:
text: Willie flits up, catches another insect, drops unconcernedly to his perch again, runs along the bullock's back in his bounding-jockey act, swallows his meal and announces he's a 'sweet-pretty-little-creature'.
ref: 1934, Henry G[eorge] Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson Limited, →OCLC, page 16:
text: There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
glosses: In an unconcerned manner.
unconscionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconscionably
form: most unconscionably
Etymology: From unconscionable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Unconscionably, they and their outliers in the hard Brexit media have attempted to stifle debate and question those who demand proper scrutiny of the most significant political and economic challenge to Britain in decades.
ref: 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:
text: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In an unconscionable manner.
unconstitutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconstitutionally
form: most unconstitutionally
Etymology: From unconstitutional + -ly or un- + constitutionally.
Senses: examples: text: “Most of [the law] acts as a hammer instead of a scalpel,” Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez wrote, calling it “a blunt tool hinders humorous expression and unconstitutionally stifles the free and unfettered exchange of ideas.”
ref: 2024 February 10, Tyler Katzenberger, “Judge blocks California deepfakes law that sparked Musk-Newsom row”, in POLITICO:
glosses: In a manner or to an extent that is unconstitutional.
Related terms: anticonstitutionally
unconventionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconventionally
form: most unconventionally
Etymology: From unconventional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unconventional manner.
undauntedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undauntedly
form: most undauntedly
Etymology: From undaunted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undaunted manner.
undemonstratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undemonstratively
form: most undemonstratively
Etymology: From undemonstrative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undemonstrative manner.
uncouthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncouthly
form: most uncouthly
Etymology: From uncouth + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncouth manner.
knapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: napper
Forms: form: knappers
Etymology: From knap + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who knaps.
Derived terms: flintknapper
stone knapper
stone-knapper
stoneknapper
underhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underhandedly
form: most underhandedly
form: under-handedly
form: underhanded
form: under-handed
Etymology: From underhanded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Because that democratic process did not initially support one of Hutchinson's choices of candidates, he points the finger at "leadership" and implies that things were underhandedly rigged from the start.
ref: 1983 December 24, Eric E. Rofes, “On Growing Pains”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 5:
glosses: In an underhanded manner.
knappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knapper
undeservedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undeservedly
form: most undeservedly
Etymology: From undeserved + -ly or un- + deservedly.
Senses: examples: text: In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh.
ref: 2009 February 22, Walter Kirn, “Insult as Injury”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: undeservingly
glosses: In an undeserved manner.
mithqal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪθˈkɑːl/
Forms: form: mithqals
form: metical
form: metikal
form: miscal
form: miskal
form: mithkal
form: mithqaal
form: mitkal
form: mitqal
Etymology: From Persian or Urdu مثقال (mesqâl), and their source, Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight, unit of weight”), from ثَقَلَ (ṯaqala, “to weigh”). Doublet of metical
Senses: examples: text: The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
glosses: A coin originally having such a weight.
undesirably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undesirably
form: most undesirably
Etymology: From undesirable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undesirable manner.
unethically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unethically
form: most unethically
Etymology: From unethical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unethical manner.
uneventfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uneventfully
form: most uneventfully
Etymology: From uneventful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uneventful manner.
unexceptionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexceptionably
form: most unexceptionably
Etymology: From unexceptionable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I told him my dislike of all men—of him—of matrimony—still he persisted. I used him with tyranny—led, indeed, partly by my temper, partly by design; hoping thereby to get rid of him; till the poor man (his character unexceptionably uniform) still persisting, made himself a merit with me by his patience.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: The sentiments, as expressive of manners, or appropriated to characters, are, for the greater part, unexceptionably just.
ref: 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Milton:
text: Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably. She had given them neither men, nor names, nor places, that could raise a blush.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 6, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: His things were all severely, unexceptionably masculine and patrician—his cologne from Panhelicon, his shoes from Church’s, his suits, shirts, and ties from Brooks, his black lisle stockings knee-high and held up by garters, his hat from Lock’s in London: exactly the wardrobe lots of money and no confidence would have selected in London or New York […]
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
glosses: In an unexceptionable manner.
miskal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miskals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mithqal.
unexceptionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexceptionally
form: most unexceptionally
Etymology: From unexceptional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unexceptional manner.
Synonyms: customarily
ordinarily
routinely
normally
unfailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfailingly
form: most unfailingly
Etymology: From unfailing + -ly or un- + failingly.
Senses: examples: text: While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'.
ref: 2014, Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe:
glosses: Without fail; reliably; always.
unfaithfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfaithfully
form: most unfaithfully
Etymology: From unfaithful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfaithful manner.
unfashionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfashionably
form: most unfashionably
Etymology: From unfashionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfashionable manner.
unflaggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unflaggingly
form: most unflaggingly
Etymology: From unflagging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unflagging manner; without becoming tired.
unflappably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unflappably
form: most unflappably
Etymology: From unflappable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unflappable manner.
unforgivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unforgivably
form: most unforgivably
Etymology: From unforgivable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Dukakis charged that when it came to advising President Reagan on Iran, Mr. Bush was "disastrously and completely and unforgivably wrong."
ref: 1988 September 13, Andrew Rosenthal, “Dukakis Stresses Defense, Ridicules Bush and Quayle”, in The New York Times:
text: The astonished Ken Wharfe came by just in time to witness this bizarre spectacle and in an appropriately policemanly manner rebuked the butler for his 'unforgivably disloyal' and 'deeply unprofessional' behaviour.
ref: 2013, Andrew Morton, Diana: In Pursuit of Love:
text: Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.
ref: 2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35:
glosses: In an unforgivable manner.
ungracefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungracefully
form: most ungracefully
Etymology: From ungraceful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ungraceful manner.
ungraciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungraciously
form: most ungraciously
Etymology: From ungracious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 66:
glosses: In an ungracious manner.
ungrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungrammatically
form: most ungrammatically
Etymology: From ungrammatical + -ly.
Senses: hyponyms: unsyntactically
glosses: In an ungrammatical manner.
unhelpfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhelpfully
form: most unhelpfully
Etymology: From un- + helpful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated aspects of patristic theology, such as the Emerging Church and paleoorthodoxy.
ref: 2016, TF Torrance, The Trinitarian faith: The evangelical theology of the ancient Catholic Church:
antonyms: helpfully
glosses: In an unhelpful manner.
unhesitatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unhesitating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I am city-bred myself, and though at my age I prefer the quiet of the country, yet for a young girl I well know the charm of a city life. Of course, we would all regret the loss of our Patty, who has grown to be a part of our daily life, but, nevertheless, were I to vote on this matter, I should unhesitatingly cast my ballot in favour of New York.
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 16–17:
glosses: In an unhesitating manner.
knaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: naps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knap
knapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: napping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knap
knapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: napping
Forms: form: knappings
Senses: glosses: The process or result of a stone being knapped.
Derived terms: flintknapping
unhurriedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhurriedly
form: most unhurriedly
Etymology: From unhurried + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unhurried manner.
knapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: napped
Forms: form: more knapped
form: most knapped
Derived terms: unknapped
knapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: napped
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knap
uninhibitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uninhibitedly
form: most uninhibitedly
Etymology: From uninhibited + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uninhibited manner.
unintelligibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unintelligibly
form: most unintelligibly
Etymology: From unintelligible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unintelligible manner.
unitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unitedly
form: most unitedly
Etymology: From united + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The chickens burst unitedly into a hungry clamour, as Mrs. Stein, with the full dish in her hands, leant over the yard to count them.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 238:
glosses: In a united manner; together; in unison.
unjustifiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unjustifiably
form: most unjustifiably
Etymology: From unjustifiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unjustifiable manner.
unmercifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmercifully
form: most unmercifully
Etymology: From unmerciful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
ref: 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
text: These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
glosses: In an unmerciful manner.
unpardonably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpardonably
form: most unpardonably
Etymology: From unpardonable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The assertion that homosexuality threatens the lives and well-being of the public because it leads to AIDS is unpardonably remote from the facts. Indeed, the far more devastating AIDS epidemic in East and Central Africa is being spread almost exclusively through "normal" heterosexual intercourse.
ref: 1986 December 21, F. Jay Deacon, “Emotionally-Laden Prejudice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 4:
glosses: In an unpardonable manner.
unpleasantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpleasantly
form: most unpleasantly
Etymology: From unpleasant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 17:
glosses: In an unpleasant manner.
unprecedentedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprecedentedly
form: most unprecedentedly
Etymology: From unprecedented + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprecedented manner.
Related terms: unprecedently
unproductively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unproductively
form: most unproductively
Etymology: From unproductive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He did not come however. Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came. The anxious interval wore away unproductively.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XX, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
glosses: In an unproductive manner.
unprofessionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprofessionally
form: most unprofessionally
Etymology: From unprofessional + -ly or un- + professionally.
Senses: examples: text: Bouteillan, the old bald butler who unprofessionally now wore a mustache (dyed a rich gravy brown), met him with gested delight [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 27:
glosses: In an unprofessional manner.
unprofitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprofitably
form: most unprofitably
Etymology: From unprofitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprofitable manner.
unreliably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreliably
form: most unreliably
Etymology: From unreliable + -ly, blending to + -ably.
Senses: glosses: In an unreliable manner.
Synonyms: flakily
intermittently
sporadically
unremittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unremittingly
form: most unremittingly
Etymology: From unremitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unremitting manner.
Synonyms: ceaselessly
incessantly
nonstop
continuously
unreservedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreservedly
form: most unreservedly
Etymology: From unreserved + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unreserved manner; showing emotion or lack of restraint.
unreservedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreservedly
form: most unreservedly
Etymology: From un- + reservedly.
Senses: examples: text: I apologize unreservedly.
text: Monsieur Tarzan would be delighted to place his interests unreservedly in the hands of his friend, Lieutenant D’Arnot.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 49:
glosses: Without reservation or shyness; readily.
unresponsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unresponsively
form: most unresponsively
Etymology: From unresponsive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unresponsive manner.
unsatisfactorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsatisfactorily
form: most unsatisfactorily
Etymology: From unsatisfactory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsatisfactory manner.
unscientifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unscientifically
form: most unscientifically
Etymology: From unscientific + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
ref: 1904 July 9 and 16, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady”, in The Club of Queer Trades, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, published April 1905, →OCLC, page 241:
glosses: In an unscientific manner.
unscrupulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unscrupulously
form: most unscrupulously
Etymology: From unscrupulous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His acquaintances were passed without greeting; while, as for his confidential friends, them he pointedly, unscrupulously, and with a kind of fierceness, cut dead.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXIV, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
glosses: In an unscrupulous manner.
unseeingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unseeingly
form: most unseeingly
Etymology: From unseeing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without seeing.
unselfishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unselfishly
form: most unselfishly
Etymology: From un- + selfish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The brutal insouciance of her fellow immortals — whether her sharp-tongued mother, Perse; or chilly Hermes; or righteous Athena enraged — proves increasingly alien to this thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.
ref: 2018 May 28, Claire Messud, “Turning Circe Into a Good Witch”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: selfishly
glosses: In an unselfish manner.
unshakably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unshakably
form: most unshakably
form: unshakeably
Etymology: From unshakable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unshakable manner.
unsoundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsoundly
form: most unsoundly
Etymology: From unsound + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsound manner.
unsparingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsparingly
form: most unsparingly
Etymology: From unsparing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But when Boshy's ill-spelt, hopeful letters came, her heart charged her unsparingly, though her carefully school-dictated replies to him were destined to contain no hint of failure.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 205:
glosses: In an unsparing manner.
unspeakably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unspeakably
form: most unspeakably
Etymology: From unspeakable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My point is that we shouldn't be too hard on the Star, the unspeakably vile supermarket tabloid that has been trying to dirty up Governor Bill Clinton.
ref: 2001, Mike Royko, For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko, →ISBN, page 232:
text: "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
ref: 2010 August 22, “North Korea demands apology, reparations from Japan over colonization”, in CNN:
text: Last July, a federal appeals court said that Tsarnaev will remain in prison for the rest of his life for “unspeakably brutal acts,” but that he should be given a new penalty-phase trial, citing jury selection issues and a failure to properly screen jurors for bias.
ref: 2021 March 22, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court agrees to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case”, in CNN:
glosses: In an unspeakable manner.
unstintingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈstɪntɪŋli/
Forms: form: more unstintingly
form: most unstintingly
Etymology: From unstinting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unstinting manner.
unsuspectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuspectingly
form: most unsuspectingly
Etymology: From unsuspecting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsuspecting manner.
unsympathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsympathetically
form: most unsympathetically
Etymology: From unsympathetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unsympathetic manner.
unthinkably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unthinkably
form: most unthinkably
Etymology: From unthinkable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unthinkable manner.
unthinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unthinkingly
form: most unthinkingly
Etymology: From unthinking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unthinking manner.
untiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untiringly
form: most untiringly
Etymology: From untiring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an untiring manner.
untruly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untruly
form: most untruly
form: untruely
Etymology: From Middle English untrewly; equivalent to un- + truly or untrue + -ly; compare Old English untrēowlīce.
Senses: glosses: In an untrue manner.
unutterably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unutterably
form: most unutterably
Etymology: From unutterable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We both of us went on our knees, and, feeling unutterably sad, a whispered prayer went up from our lips as the poor fellow's soul flitted away to a happier and brighter world, and all was over.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 167:
text: I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:
text: The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan is, above all, unutterably tragic.
ref: 2021 August 15, “The Tragedy of Afghanistan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.
unwarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwarily
form: most unwarily
Etymology: From unwary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One day as I vnvvarily did gaze / on thoſe fayre eyes my loues immortall light: / the vvhiles my ſtoniſht hart ſtood in amaze, / through ſvveet illuſion of her lookes delight.
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso:
text: For in a night the best part of my power, / As I upon advantage did remove, / Were in the Washes all unwarily / Devoured by the unexpected flood.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
text: Not that licence and levity and unconsented breach of faith should herein be countnanc’t, but that some conscionable, and tender pitty might be had of those who have unwarily in a thing they never practiz’d before, made themselves the bondmen of a luckles and helples matrimony.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: Th’ Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame, / Too full of Angels Metal in his Frame, / Unwarily was led from Vertues ways, / Made Drunk with Honour, and debauch’d with Praise.
ref: 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC:
text: […] the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In an unwary manner.
unworthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unworthily
form: most unworthily
Etymology: From unworthy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are deadly sins from which God's people may recover. A man may even communicate unworthily, and yet, so be it he sin not against the Holy Ghost, he may find forgiveness.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: In an unworthy manner.
laton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bright spot upon its summit is a dome of yellow laton from Andalusia, vaulted upon ten columns.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 14:
glosses: Alternative form of latten.
Anitta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anittas
Etymology: From Hittite [script needed] (Anitta). The etymology of the name is unknown; neither demonstrably Indo-European nor clearly of non-Indo-European origin.
Senses: glosses: name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).
charact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹækt/
Forms: form: characts
Etymology: From Old French characte, from Latin *characta, from Ancient Greek χαρακτός (kharaktós).
Senses: glosses: A letter or character.
examples: text: Even so may Angelo / In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms, / Be an arch-villain.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A character or personality.
examples: text: O son of Khazib! when thou wakest from thy sleep dig under thy feet and thou shalt find a bow of brass and three leaden arrows, inscribed with talismans and characts.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15:
glosses: A magical symbol.
clomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Senses: examples: text: From the sails the dew did drip— / Till clomb above the eastern bar / The hornèd Moon, with one bright star / Within the nether tip.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
glosses: simple past and past participle of climb
Derived terms: unclomb
Anny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Annie.
Annemarie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I said no, and Celia said, "Yeah right. Who's gonna go out with her?" But she smiled when she said it, so I wasn't mad. And then Margaret winked at me and she said, "Cel's just jealous, Annemarie, 'cause you're way prettier than she was when she was your age."
ref: 2012, Jenny Han, Shug (page 116)
glosses: A female given name.
sporto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportos
Etymology: From sport + -o.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sport (term of endearment)
synonyms: word: sport
extra: term of endearment
sporge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sporges
form: sporging
form: sporged
form: sporged
Etymology: Back-formation from sporgery.
Senses: examples: text: On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups.
ref: 1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.
unprotect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unprotects
form: unprotecting
form: unprotected
form: unprotected
Etymology: From un- + protect.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.
text: Caution: When you successfully open a protected file, you’ve just unprotected it. After working with that document and closing it again, you must re-protect it if you still consider it confidential.
ref: 2000, David Pogue, “Icon Management”, in Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: Pogue Press/O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., published 2002, →ISBN, page 50:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove protection from.
mononumerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + numero- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: The oversimplification of a metric by using a single numerical value to characterize a complex phenomenon or system.
teppanyaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛpənˈjɑːki/
Forms: form: teppanyakis
form: tepanyaki
form: teppan-yaki
Etymology: From Japanese, 鉄板焼き (teppan'yaki), from 鉄板 (teppan, “iron plate”) + 焼き (yaki, “frying; roasting; broiling”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese style of cooking in which thin slices of meat, or fish, seafood, vegetables and noodles are quickly fried on a hotplate.
Synonyms: hibachi
Japanese steakhouse
half-caste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + caste.
Senses: examples: text: It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: Of mixed racial descent.
half-caste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-castes
Etymology: From half- + caste.
Senses: examples: text: AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: A person of mixed racial descent.
Related terms: mixed-race
half-breed
henpeck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛnpɛk/
ipa: /ˈhɛnˌpɛk/
Forms: form: henpecks
form: henpecking
form: henpecked
form: henpecked
form: hen-peck
form: hen peck
Etymology: From hen + peck.
Senses: examples: text: But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
text: He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LIV, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: I don't want to hen-peck you ! Hen-pecking is shocking bad taste. But I won't be a slighted, neglected wife; I have a spirit of my own, and I won't meekly submit to be ignored.
ref: 1876, Emma Jane Worboise, “The Countess at Home”, in Lady Clarissa, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 192:
text: Well, one never hears a woman boast that she henpecks her husband, even though there are many, for the reason that she realizes it is wrong.
ref: 1945, Pierre Paul Ebeyer, Gems of the Vieux Carre, page 77:
text: We have friends who thought it was cute when their daughter "hen-pecked" her husband. But, when their son married a spicy little gal who tried to hen-peck their son, they were very angry.
ref: 1995, Betty Malz, Women in Tune, page 88:
text: Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp.
ref: 2014, Jaqueline Girdner, A Sensitive Kind of Murder:
qualifier: chiefly by a wife
glosses: To nag persistently.
examples: text: Mrs Allsop and her bar-blue brother travelled well together in good times, but after they ducketed she would chase him from niche to niche, henpecking him while Monte tried to collar them and collect their rings.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 104:
qualifier: Of a hen
glosses: to peck or peck at another bird.
Derived terms: henpecked
henpecker
henpeckery
henpeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛnpɛk/
ipa: /ˈhɛnˌpɛk/
Forms: form: henpecks
Etymology: From hen + peck.
Senses: examples: text: One can't swear that Dewan Bahadur Yama Dharma Rao was a henpeck ; nor could be said that the practical Lady was a cockpeck.
ref: 1953, B. V. P., Chronicles of Dewan Bahadur, Yama Dharma Rao, page 44:
text: The moment he allows the emphasis to swing the other way he becomes a sit-by-the-fire, a cockerel, a drone, a henpeck. A woman steps into this man's sphere at her peril.
ref: 1985, James Mallahan Cain, Roy Hoopes, Michael Hinden, 60 Years of Journalism, page 40:
glosses: A man who is meekly subservient to his wife.
honeycombed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honeycombed
form: most honeycombed
Senses: examples: text: Even in her Moloko days, she preferred outre get-ups – the sort of thing now thought to be the preserve of Lady Gaga. Tonight, Murphy has also brought along a hat that suggests both The Handmaid’s Tale and beekeeping, and, for a disco cut called Narcissus, a black honeycombed cowl that makes her look like a microphone on legs.
ref: 2021 September 25, Kitty Empire, “Róisín Murphy review – a triumphant dancefloor workout”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
honeycombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honeycomb
honeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌnid/
Forms: form: more honeyed
form: most honeyed
form: honied
Etymology: From Middle English honyed; equivalent to honey + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There were no honeyed words from Dr. Beeching to mollify Scottish feeling on rail service closures during his one-day visit in May.
ref: 1964 July, “News and Comment: Dr. B. beards Scots in their lair”, in Modern Railways, page 15:
glosses: Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey.
glosses: Sugary, syrupy.
glosses: Dulcet or mellifluous.
Derived terms: honeyedly
honeyedness
unhoneyed