cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
freeball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freeballs
form: freeballing
form: freeballed
form: freeballed
form: free ball
form: free-ball
Etymology: From free + ball. See ball (“testicle”).
Senses: examples: text: And when you freeball in fatigues you're a walking hard-on anyway […]
ref: 1995, Steven Zeeland, in some book or something
text: I had run out of clean underwear on a road trip, and I had heard rumors about the pleasures associated with freeballing, and so I made the decision and […]
ref: 2003, Christian Fletcher, in another book
text: […] has thrown away dozens of pairs of underwear throughout his life, having to freeball the rest of the day.
ref: 2004, Michael Ryan, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To not wear underpants beneath one's outer clothing.
Hypernyms: go commando
Coordinate terms: freeboob
freebox
bottomless
Derived terms: freeballer
freeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeballs
form: free ball
form: free-ball
Senses: examples: text: Just about every play in the game, service reception, general play and freeball, involves the use of the front A and/or back A, although they are not always set.
ref: 1981, National Volleyball Coaches Association Technical Journal:
text: Areas of emphasis can be: team blocking, serve reception, attack combinations, freeball execution, and spiker coverage.
ref: 1985, Bob Bertucci Tina Kogut Bertucci, Ralph Hippolyte, Championship Volleyball Drills: Combination and complex training, page 99:
text: By serving tough, using effective downball placement, not giving easy freeballs and simply attacking smartly and in a tough manner.
ref: 1998, The American Volleyball Coaches Association, Coaching Volleyball, page 34:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: A ball that has been hit from below the top of the net.
examples: text: But the freeballs it has done on its own, Farmer's Daughter, Hazel, Bewitched, have proven the gambit.
ref: 1965, Television - Volume 22, page 74:
text: Then there was no dearth of venture capital to provide freeball pilots for the market.
ref: 1970, Federal Communications Commission Reports:
text: At this time virtually no active producers go so far as to commission a "freeball" script without prior consultation with the network.
ref: 1984, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, page 138:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A show that is developed by the station without participation by the network.
freeball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freeballs
form: freeballing
form: freeballed
form: freeballed
form: free ball
form: free-ball
Senses: examples: text: "Strap in," he said, sternly. "My bird, my rules. No one freeballs it when I'm doing the flying."
ref: 2003, JJ Christopher, The Wolf Boys' Club:
text: 'For the designs, I just freeball it. I have a strategy where I try to keep the same gaze, but I like those that are flipped, such as when I put my head sideways'.
ref: 2016 January 11, Kiri Blakeley, “Give him props! Talented props designer creates astonishing new masks every day - with nothing but items like tacks, elastic bands and panty hose”, in Daily Mail:
text: I’m still going to change it when I say it and I’ll often kind of freeball, as we say, how it transitions from moment to moment, because we don’t have to write it conversationally.
ref: 2017 September 13, Brian Steinberg, “Stephen Colbert Q&A: Despite Politics, 'Late Show' Host Just Wants to Make Audiences Laugh”, in Variety:
text: When Capital XTRA tried to find out what his next designs would be, Malone confessed, "I don't know. I just kind of freeball it."
ref: 2019 November 27, Barbara Pavone, “Every Post Malone face tattoo explained”, in Nicki Swift:
glosses: To improvise; to act without a set plan.
examples: text: But we can't just freeball it to them because they will kill it right back at you.
ref: 2017 September 6, Josh Seguin, “Hodsdon nets 500th career kill as STA sweeps Hilltoppers”, in Seacoastonline:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: To make a freeball shot.
deskward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From desk + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a desk
multifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + focal.
Senses: glosses: Arising from or occurring in more than one focus or location.
glosses: having several focusing areas that correct for both nearsightedness and farsightedness.
raw_tags: of an eyeglass lens
Derived terms: multifocally
progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
wallward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From wall + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Their difference was observed in the sequence of ejections and interactions wallward.
ref: 1999, AIAA Journal:
glosses: toward a wall
wallward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wall + -ward.
Senses: glosses: facing, located at, or taking place at or near a wall (e.g. a cell wall or the wall of a stream of fluid)
shreward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrewards
Etymology: Derived from shrew, the animal.
Senses: examples: text: Good principles and fair manners, Them to teach to many a shreward— For such was ever his wont.
ref: 1882, Edwin Guest, A history of English rhythms, page 613:
glosses: A rascal; a scoundrel.
axiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axiologists
Etymology: From axiology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The moral philosophies are even more important to the moral scientist—the axiologist.
ref: 1962, Robert S. Hartman, “Axiology as a science,”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 29, number 4, page 421:
text: It led willy-nilly to technological determinism, a philosophy that Mumford, the axiologist, generally repudiated. Even in the later pages of Technics and Civilization, he stresses the role of values in shaping technology.
ref: 1990, Thomas Hughes, “Review of Lewis Mumford: A Life by Donald Miller,”, in Technology and Culture, volume 31, number 4, page 914:
glosses: A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of value.
Related terms: axiology
axiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axiologist
goalward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goalward
form: most goalward
Etymology: From goal + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a goal; toward the goal.
goalward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goalward
form: most goalward
Etymology: From goal + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Moving toward a goal, or which affects movement theretoward.
glosses: Somehow abstractly associated with a goal.
obdurateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obdurate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
theretoward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Toward there (toward the destination under discussion)
theretoward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: leading there (leading toward the destination under discussion)
hosana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hosanna.
wheretoward
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From where- + toward.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou shall see in front of you the Golden Age for a goal, wheretoward you shall labor and struggle.
ref: 2003, Katherine Tingley (ed.)
text: But for this statement one would have believed that the choice of style could only have been one of those audacious whims wheretoward youthfulness, prone to paradox, will sometimes be drawn.
ref: 1897, Aymer Vallance, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Ye work / Athwart your kings, forecasting overthrows / Wheretoward ye toil, armed with the potent spell / Of that mysterious union which ye claim […]
ref: 1872, George Savage-Armstrong, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Toward which.
false dichotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːls daɪˈkɒtəmi/
ipa: /fɒls-/
ipa: /dɪ-/
ipa: /ˌfɔls daɪˈkɑtəmi/
ipa: /fɑls-/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
rhymes: -ɒtəmi
Forms: form: false dichotomies
Etymology: From false + dichotomy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A branching in which the main axis appears to divide dichotomously at the apex but is in reality suppressed, the growth being continued by lateral branches (as in the dichasium).
synonyms: fallacy of the excluded middle
false dilemma
glosses: A situation in which two alternative points of view are presented as the only options, when others are available.
Related terms: false equivalence
pseudodichotomous
talk trash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks trash
form: talking trash
form: talked trash
form: talked trash
Etymology: Phrasal verb from talk (“to speak of, to discuss”) + trash (“a worthless assertion for being untrue”).
Senses: synonyms: slander
glosses: To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
examples: text: "If there's one Celtic that tries to talk smack to me, it will be Paul (Pierce)," Kobe reported. "We're similar in age, have been through some of the same things, so he feels like he can try. But he's not as good at it as I am. I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular." … "(Today's younger players) don't seem to want to talk any trash," Kobe shrugged. "I say everything to LeBron. He says nothing back. He just laughs. There's no banter back and forth. I guess it's a generational thing. When I first came into the league, the trash talk was downright cutthroat."
ref: February 6, 2013, Jackie MacMullan, article: Kobe Bryant Dishes on Celtics, ESPN online
synonyms: talk smack
glosses: To speak boastfully or tauntingly about oneself in contrast with another person or other people.
Synonyms: word: talk shit
word: trash-talk
Derived terms: trash talk
trash talking
dirty joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty jokes
Senses: examples: text: The old woman left the concert because she was disgusted with the comedian's dirty jokes.
glosses: A joke with a morally objectionable or obscene punchline.
axis of symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axes of symmetry
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of one or more lines about which a geometric figure is symmetric
querida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queridas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish querida.
Senses: examples: text: She's my querida.
glosses: darling
raw_tags: in Latin-American contexts
humid heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humid heats
Senses: glosses: the heat capacity (specific heat) of humid air, expressed per unit mass of dry air in the mixture. The engineering symbol is cₛ.
wikipedia: United States customary units
dime bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dime bags
form: dimebag
form: dime-bag
Senses: glosses: A small bag containing ten dollars worth (usually one gram) of marijuana. This may refer to the unit of measurement or the bag itself.
anthropomorphization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænθɹɒpəˌmɔːɹfəˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /-faɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: anthropomorphizations
Senses: glosses: endowing with human qualities.
glosses: attributing human characteristics to something that is nonhuman.
Related terms: anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
anthropomorphism
anthropomorphize
briefness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briefnesses
Etymology: From Middle English breffnes, brevenesse, equivalent to brief + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being brief.
Synonyms: sense: of short duration
word: brevity
word: fleetingness
word: transiency
word: transience
sense: of few words
word: brevity
word: conciseness
word: terseness
word: succinctness
satanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satanisms
Senses: examples: text: We don't burn our witches anymore, but sex and satanism still make for a good political bonfire.
ref: 1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Vinegar Tom”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Satanism.
Quakerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quakerisms
Etymology: From Quaker + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Rorem befuddled Robert J. by proclaiming himself a devout Quaker who "does not believe in God," explaining that his Quakerism lies in his devotion to humanity and that he "envies" those who are able to believe in God.
ref: 1984 April 21, Richard Knisely, “Ned Rorem on His Art”, in Gay Community News, page 17:
glosses: The belief system of the members of the Religious Society of Friends, an ostensibly Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century.
glosses: A behaviour, belief, etc. that is characteristic of Quakers.
Pipel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pipels
Senses: examples: text: He had a Polish Schreiber, a homosexual who was attended to by a Pipel, a German Gypsy who was the Schreiber's valet, his cook, his shoe shine boy, his lover, and his alternate, in which capacity he proved to be as much of a trouble to us as his boss.
[…]
None of Kapo Rudi's three Pipels was German, but, knowing what was good for them, they learned all the songs by rote.
ref: 2001, Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor 2, pages 240 and 266:
text: A remedy for sexual distress that was customary in other concentration camps, in which no women were interned next to men, was frequently used in Auschwitz as well. Kapos kept Pipel, young fellows who in return for personal services were exempted from hard labor and enjoyed other privileges. Quite a number of capos abused their boys sexually.
ref: 2004, Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz, page 405:
text: The young boy was a “pipel”—camp slang for the young servant of a Kapo (and someone with whom the Kapo often had a homosexual relationship).
ref: 2005, Laurence Rees, Auschwitz: a new history, page 98:
text: 1956, Also see Pg. 63 of Night by Elie Wiesel.
glosses: Among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who receives special favor or privileges by maintaining a relationship with another detainee who has been granted some authority over other detainees.
barium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The barium salt of hydrochloric acid, BaCl₂; it is toxic, and has been used as a rat poison.
ovarian cyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovarian cysts
Senses: glosses: Any collection of fluid, surrounded by a very thin wall, within an ovary; any ovarian follicle that is larger than about two centimeters is termed an ovarian cyst.
Related terms: oophorocystectomy
ovarian cysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovarian cyst
renascent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈnæsənt/
/ɹɪˈneɪsənt/
Forms: form: more renascent
form: most renascent
Etymology: From re- + nascent.
Senses: glosses: Experiencing renewed vigor; being reborn.
examples: text: Mr. Evan's results are not obtained from mere stylistic comparisons; there is no danger that he has confused the renascent or derived with the original, the archaistic with the archaic.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 106:
glosses: Revived, brought back.
raw_tags: of a cultural practice
USB token
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USB tokens
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password.
businessmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of businessman
beggarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beggarlier
form: beggarliest
Etymology: From beggar + -ly; adverb via Middle English beggarly, beggerly.
Senses: examples: beggarly fellow
glosses: In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
examples: text: beggarly rags
text: Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
glosses: inadequate or meagre.
Derived terms: beggarliness
unbeggarly
beggarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beggarly
form: most beggarly
Etymology: From beggar + -ly; adverb via Middle English beggarly, beggerly.
Senses: glosses: In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
despotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more despotically
form: most despotically
Etymology: From despotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a despotic manner.
despondently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more despondently
form: most despondently
Etymology: From despondent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
glosses: In a despondent manner.
despairingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɛəɹ.ɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more despairingly
form: most despairingly
Etymology: From despairing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was raining. She was over there, crouched despairingly beneath the awning of that shop. She wanted to be elsewhere, but the moisture lay in wait to damage her hat.
ref: 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Leave It to Psmith:
glosses: In a despairing manner.
deservedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɜːvɪdli/
Forms: form: more deservedly
form: most deservedly
Etymology: From deserved + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 2008, Digireads.com Publishing, page 437,
Emmy, he remembered, was at one time cruelly and deservedly jealous of Rebecca, […] .
text: THE Jesuits have been condemned, and deservedly condemned, by the unanimous consent of the whole of Christendom.
ref: 1859, James Maden Holt, The Jesuits: A Lecture Delivered in St. Saviour's School, near Bacup, May 16th 1859, page 1:
text: 1986, Facts on File, Editorials on File, Volume 17, Part 2, Infobase Publishing, page 949,
The vote for Scalia was unanimous, and deservedly so.
text: Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
topics: manner
qualifier: degree
glosses: In a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.
descriptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/
Forms: form: more descriptively
form: most descriptively
Etymology: From descriptive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He snapped his fingers descriptively.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 5:
text: Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.
ref: 2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 427:
glosses: In a descriptive manner.
derogatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more derogatorily
form: most derogatorily
Etymology: From derogatory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: White differentiates her personal experiences as a trans woman from what she sees as the “victim mentality” of the groups she derogatorily calls “SJWs.” In contrast, she positions her own coming out and transitioning experiences in terms of the conservative ideals of individualism and personal betterment. She even says that before her transition, she was herself an SJW and adopted the victim mentality, but that through her personal experiences, she was able to take control of her life and eschew that “toxic” approach: […]
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society, page 26:
glosses: In a derogatory manner.
Synonyms: derogatively
depressingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more depressingly
form: most depressingly
Etymology: From depressing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: In a depressing manner.
dependently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dependently
form: most dependently
Etymology: From dependent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dependent manner.
dependably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dependably
form: most dependably
Etymology: From dependable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dependable manner.
demurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more demurely
form: most demurely
Etymology: From Middle English demurely; equivalent to demure + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: they spy'd a Cat upon a Shelf; that lay and look'd so Demurely, as if there had been neither Life nor Soul in her.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302:
text: `I am a hairdresser, but I was advertising as a model,' said Miss A demurely.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 102:
glosses: In a demure manner.
demographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛməˈɡɹæfɪkli/
Forms: form: more demographically
form: most demographically
Etymology: From demographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Driving back to the city, through the assaultively scenic and demographically uniform little towns, they were silent.
ref: 2006, Deborah Eisenberg, “Some Other, Better Otto”, in Twilight of the Superheroes, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 53:
glosses: In a demographic manner; in accordance with demographics.
Derived terms: sociodemographically
dementedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dementedly
form: most dementedly
Etymology: From demented + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She snatched up a stick and hit Cora across the rump with it. The stick was rotten and broke, without having caused Cora to budge an inch. Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it, screeching dementedly, "Be off out of it and do as you're bid, ye witch."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 132:
glosses: In a demented manner.
deliriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deliriously
form: most deliriously
Etymology: From delirious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We were deliriously happy.
text: Excitedly their madness grind, aroused by vile ambition / At the sickly sweet promise of decomposition / Deliriously ingesting. Liquefied ruin absorbed / Innocence devoured by the elated horde
ref: 2012, Meshuggah, “Swarm”:
glosses: In a delirious manner, or to the point of delirium.
delinquently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪŋkwəntli/
Forms: form: more delinquently
form: most delinquently
Etymology: From delinquent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a delinquent manner.
delightedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more delightedly
form: most delightedly
Etymology: From delighted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans,
And spirits; and delightedly believes
Divinities, being himself divine.
ref: 1800, Friedrich Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act II, Scene IV, p. 82, For fable is Love’s world, his home, his birth-place
text: Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.
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 126:
text: […] cards were exchanged, and social visits that were never going to happen were delightedly agreed on.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 15, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: In a delighted manner.
deliciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈlɪ.ʃəs.li/
ipa: /diˈlɪ.ʃəs.li/
Forms: form: more deliciously
form: most deliciously
Etymology: From delicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a delicious manner.
delectably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɛktəbli/
Forms: form: more delectably
form: most delectably
Etymology: From delectable + -ly (suffix forming an adverb).
Senses: examples: text: Podson had dug out an Edgar Wallace from those sixpenny novels thrown aside by Bradly and was now spread out on the verandah on the bed pillows, very delectably at ease.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:delectably.
glosses: In a delectable manner; delightfully.
deferentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛfəˈɹənʃəli/
Forms: form: more deferentially
form: most deferentially
Etymology: From deferential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deferential manner.
defensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsɪvli/
Forms: form: more defensively
form: most defensively
form: defencively
Etymology: From defensive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This is a particularly disruptive tactic if the opponent also prefers an offensive style and has difficulty fighting defensively or counteroffensively.
ref: 1993, Black Belt, volume 31, number 1, page 48:
text: England, defensively, were not good enough - nowhere near the standard that would be acceptable at the highest international level.
ref: 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport:
text: It's fine. I think I could be ... semitarian, maybe? Half vegetarian? It's a thing,' he adds, a little defensively
ref: 2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Random House:
glosses: In a defensive manner.
Derived terms: nondefensively
defensibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsɪbli/
Forms: form: more defensibly
form: most defensibly
Etymology: From defensible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a defensible manner.
glosses: Defendably
defenselessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsləsli/
Forms: form: more defenselessly
form: most defenselessly
Etymology: From defenseless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a defenseless manner.
defenseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsləs/
Forms: form: more defenseless
form: most defenseless
form: defenceless
Etymology: From defense + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Her look, her attitude, her words were eloquent of the age-old appeal of defenseless woman to her natural protector—man.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 44:
text: On the port tack layline , you're defenseless against starboard tackers — you have to dip them , no matter how much you may lose doing it — and the wind shadow of boats spinnakering away from the mark can cost you plenty.
ref: 1995, Tom Linskey, Race Winning Strategies:
glosses: Lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack.
Derived terms: defenselessly
defenselessness
defectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛktɪvli/
Forms: form: more defectively
form: most defectively
Etymology: From defective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a defective manner.
decisively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪsɪvli/
Forms: form: more decisively
form: most decisively
Etymology: From decisive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'In short,' concluded the parson, decisively smacking his leg with his switch, 'there's hardly such another family in England.'
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 6:
text: The visitors rallied again though and struck decisively 16 minutes from time when Yaya Toure headed in the winner.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a decisive manner.
deceivingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsiːvɪŋli/
Forms: form: more deceivingly
form: most deceivingly
Etymology: From deceiving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deceiving manner.
debonairly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more debonairly
form: most debonairly
Etymology: From debonair + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a debonair manner.
deathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθli/
rhymes: -ɛθli
Forms: form: deathlier
form: more deathly
form: deathliest
form: most deathly
Etymology: From Middle English dethlich, from Old English dēaþlīċ, equivalent to death + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He has a deathly pallor.
text: I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.
glosses: Deadly, fatal, causing death.
examples: text: He has a deathly fear of crocodiles.
glosses: Extreme.
Derived terms: deathlily
deathliness
deathly pale
deathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθli/
rhymes: -ɛθli
Forms: form: more deathly
form: most deathly
Etymology: From Middle English dethlich, from Old English dēaþlīċ, equivalent to death + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was deathly pale.
glosses: In a way that resembles death.
examples: text: The water was deathly cold.
text: He was deathly afraid of crocodiles.
glosses: Extremely, dreadfully.
deathlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deathlessly
form: most deathlessly
Etymology: From deathless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deathless manner.
deafeningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)li/
Forms: form: more deafeningly
form: most deafeningly
Etymology: From deafening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deafening manner.
dazedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪzədli/
Forms: form: more dazedly
form: most dazedly
Etymology: From dazed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Digging her hands excitedly down into the pockets of her dress Ardita stared at him, speechless with astonishment. […] “Well, I’ll be a son of a gun!” she said dazedly.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 11:
glosses: In a dazed manner.
dauntlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dauntlessly
form: most dauntlessly
Etymology: From dauntless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dauntless manner.
dauntingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dauntingly
form: most dauntingly
Etymology: From daunting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The 1920s and 1930s had established a convention of showing bathing beauties, many in dauntingly athletic poses, often depicted with male companions.
ref: 2025 July 9, Richard Foster, “Summer specials and holiday hotspots”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 60:
glosses: In a daunting manner.
daughterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daughterly
form: most daughterly
Etymology: From daughter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She had lost so much weight her magnificent head looked vulnerable on its swan-like neck, and this new delicacy, this suggestion of mortal time working on her just as it works on everybody, spoke to me more loudly than any of the old accusations of daughterly neglect ever had.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 391:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of a daughter.
Derived terms: daughterliness
undaughterly
Related terms: grand-daughterly
dashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dashingly
form: most dashingly
Etymology: From dashing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] Sir Benjamin was compelled to put her into the possession of the solid sum of twenty thousand pounds; with one part of which her debts were paid to liberate Block from prison, and with the remainder he dashingly resolved to cut his employers, who had refused his drafts, and set up in trade for himself […]
ref: 1807, Francis Lathom, chapter 16, in Human Beings, volume 3, London: B. Crosby, pages 281–282:
text: […] what could be more dashingly brilliant in naval warfare than Drake’s raids on San Domingo, Carthagena, Cadiz, and other ports and cities of old and new Spain […]
ref: 1919, Walter Runciman, chapter 1, in Drake, Nelson and Napoleon, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 32:
text: Life must be lived dashingly, daringly, with perpetual display, even if the display was extremely expensive […]
ref: 1933, Virginia Woolf, “Dr. Burney’s Evening Party”, in W. Somerset Maugham, editor, Traveller’s Library, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, page 525:
text: […] Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone, dashingly disobeying the King’s Regulations, rescue the colonel’s son from his Pathan torturers […]
ref: 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 17, in Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, page 367:
glosses: In a dashing manner.
In a bold, spirited manner.
examples: text: 1816, Henry Koster, Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Chapter 10, p. 188,
The sedan chairs, in which the ladies go to church, and pay visits to their friends, had now put on a much smarter appearance, and the men who carried them were dressed more dashingly.
text: Now, at twenty, she was to be married to Harry McKee, […] a man of thirty-four who wore his clothes and his slang dashingly.
ref: 1929, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Dodsworth, New York: Harcourt, Brace:
text: He dressed by preference in checked overcoats and curly brimmed bowler hats that were at once dashingly smart and four decades out of date.
ref: 1935, George Orwell, chapter 4, in A Clergyman’s Daughter, New York: Avon, published 1970, page 144:
text: When a dashingly-clad officer addresses such a frumpishly dressed bum, he scolds him, as an officer in any army must.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 166:
glosses: In a dashing manner.
In a boldly chic, fashionable manner.
dankly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dankly
form: most dankly
Etymology: From dank + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dank manner.
damply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmpli/
rhymes: -æmpli
Forms: form: more damply
form: most damply
Etymology: From damp + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a damp manner.
damnably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmnəbli/
Forms: form: more damnably
form: most damnably
Etymology: From Middle English dampnablely; equivalent to damnable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I haue miſ-vs'd the Kings Preſſe damnably.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 67:
text: The people were in hopes he had killed the lawyers, and were damnably disappointed when they found he had only broke the leg o' the one, and the back of the other.
ref: 1759, Charles Macklin, Love a la Mode, act II:
text: But I am blabbing damnably; come, tell me one little bit of the story, and I shall tell you the rest.
ref: 1826, Allan Cunningham, chapter V, in Paul Jones, volume II, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, page 145:
text: By the way: my dressing-gown smells most damnably of benzine.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 132:
text: The young man was so damnably full of his experiences, so eager to compare one thing with another, so insistent upon foreign places and changes in England and what we'd all got to do about it.
ref: 1918, Hugh Walpole, The Green Mirror, New York: George H. Doran, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 109:
text: And in his male spirit he felt himself hating her: hating her deeply, damnably.
ref: 1918–1921 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Aaron’s Rod, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published April 1922, →OCLC:
text: They had just got me on to the stretcher when my paralysed right arm came to life and began hurting damnably.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: In a damnable manner.
daftly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more daftly
form: most daftly
Etymology: From daft + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a daft manner.
disingenuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs.li/
Forms: form: more disingenuously
form: most disingenuously
Etymology: From disingenuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of inquiring why the facts oppose the theory, and where the explanation is to be found for this remarkable discrepancy, he disingenuously endeavours to give reasons for "the causes which operated, and do commonly operate, to prevent these extraordinary drafts on the productive resources of the country from being so much felt as it might seem reasonable to expect."
ref: 1874, Governor Musgrave, “Capital: Mr. Mill's Fundamental Propositions”, in The Contemporary Review, 24: 745:
glosses: In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
examples: text: The letter's false intent trumps any truths within, which one would expect of a woman who disingenuously calls herself Fidessa.
ref: 2009, Michael L. Stapleton, Spenser's Ovidian Poetics, page 98:
glosses: In an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily.
examples: text: Churchill, a month later, would memorably if disingenuously describe Lend-Lease as a matter of "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." Roosevelt, a few days earlier, had described it a bit more prosaically, but no less disingenuously, as the equivalent of lending a neighbor whose house was on fire a garden hose, expecting to get it back when the fire was out.
ref: 2005, John Steele Gordon, An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, page 352:
glosses: In a manner that adopts a pose of naïveté, possibly to make a point or to deceive.
Synonyms: sense: in a manner that is not frank or open
word: deceitfully
sense: in a manner that is not frank or open
word: deceptively
sense: in an unnoble manner
word: ignobly
sense: in an unnoble manner
word: unworthily
Related terms: disingenuous
disingenuousness
dishonorably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dishonorably
form: most dishonorably
form: dishonourably
Etymology: From dishonorable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dishonorable manner.
Derived terms: dishonorably discharged
dishonestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dishonestly
form: most dishonestly
Etymology: From Middle English dishonestly (“disgracefully”); equivalent to dishonest + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dishonest manner.
dishearteningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dishearteningly
form: most dishearteningly
Etymology: From disheartening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disheartening manner.
disgustingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disgustingly
form: most disgustingly
Etymology: From disgusting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She ate disgustingly, dropping bits of food from her open mouth.
glosses: In a disgusting manner.
examples: text: Top-ranking footballers are disgustingly rich.
glosses: To a disgusting extent or degree.
Related terms: disgustedly
disgustedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disgustedly
form: most disgustedly
Etymology: From disgusted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disgusted manner.
Derived terms: self-disgustedly
Related terms: disgustingly
disputatiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disputatiously
form: most disputatiously
Etymology: From disputatious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disputatious manner.
disputably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disputably
form: most disputably
Etymology: From disputable + -ly, equivalent to dispute + -ably.
Senses: synonyms: questionably
antonyms: indisputably
undisputably
unquestionably
undeniably
glosses: In a disputable manner.
disputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspjuː.tə.bəɫ/
ipa: /dɪˈspju.tə.bəɫ/
Forms: form: more disputable
form: most disputable
Etymology: From dispute + -able.
Senses: glosses: Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled.
Synonyms: controvertible
Derived terms: disputableness
disputably
indisputable
undisputable
Related terms: disputant
disputation
disputatious
dispute
drably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drably
form: most drably
Etymology: From drab + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the compartments and buffet car interior, which are drably institutional in their effect on the eye; [...].
ref: 1959 June, “Southern Newsreel: Four-car express units for the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, page 305:
glosses: In a drab manner.
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
seed change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed changes
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of sea change.
fourth cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth cousins
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of people who have a common great-great-great-grandparent.
subjectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subjective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being subjective.
Synonyms: word: subjectivity
furlongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furlong
ajog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Etymology: From a- + jog.
Senses: glosses: Whilst jogging; with a jogging motion; with agitation.
ajog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: more ajog
form: most ajog
Etymology: From a- + jog.
Senses: examples: 9th June, 1810, Charles Bell, letter to George Bell
I shall not forget to write to you of the paintings I occasionally see, but at this moment my mind is all ajog about my nervous system.
glosses: agitated; jogging; moving about
bellweather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They moved in, the rest trailing behind like sheep after a bellweather
ref: 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!:
text: There is no doubt that this is a bellweather - what happens in textiles and apparel, as the Senators who testified made very clear, is a bellweather for what is going to happen in other industries.
ref: 1985, Senator Danforth, Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: hearings before Subcommittee on International Trade, United States. Ninety-ninth Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, page 85:
text: Once the joke of the movie industry, the Golden Globes are now a bellweather for the Oscars - and a bit more adventurous too.
ref: 2006 December 14, “Hollywood Babel-on: the Golden Globes go leftfield”, in The Guardian, retrieved 07 Dec 2020:
text: Natural disturbances to forests around the world are on the rise, constituting a bellweather of global change associated with a warming climate
ref: 2015, John A. Stanturf, Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests, page 495:
text: As the Arctic has been called a bellweather for climate change, where amplitudes are higher and impacts greater […].
ref: 2015, Birgitta Evengård, Joan Nymand Larsen, Øyvind Paasche, The New Arctic, page 298:
glosses: Misspelling of bellwether.
bellweathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bellwethers.
hewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past of hew
glosses: past participle of hew (alternative to hewn)
tribunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribune
transgressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transgression
tribulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribulation
transgressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transgressor
uncharacteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncharacteristic
form: most uncharacteristic
Etymology: From un- + characteristic.
Senses: glosses: Not characteristic.
examples: text: The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company.
ref: 2004 November 29, John Markoff, “The Disco Ball of Failed Hopes and Other Tales From Inside Intel”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Out of character; behavior that is unusual for a given person or thing.
Synonyms: foreign
uncharacteristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˌkɛɹəktəˈɹɪstɪk(ə)li/
Forms: form: more uncharacteristically
form: most uncharacteristically
Etymology: From uncharacteristic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: This newfound infatuation renders Bart uncharacteristically vulnerable. He suddenly has something to care about beyond causing trouble and makes a dramatic transformation from hell-raiser to gentleman about town.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: In an uncharacteristic manner.
gesticulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gesticulate