cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sorely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sôrʹlē
ipa: /ˈsɔɹli/
ipa: /ˈsɔːli/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: sōrʹlē
ipa: /ˈso(ː)ɹli/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈsoəli/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: more sorely
form: most sorely
Etymology: From Middle English sorely, from Old English sārlīċ (adjective), sārlīċe (adverb); equivalent to sore + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sore or desperate manner.
examples: text: He said he wanted it [the picture] for his study. I would not let him have it, and he went away sorely puzzled.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
text: If Chelsea hoped this blow would have a detrimental effect on Arsenal, they were to be sorely mistaken as the Gunners surged forward after the restart.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Very, extremely.
lastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: lästʹlē
ipa: /ˈlɑːstli/
enpr: lăstʹlē
ipa: /ˈlæstli/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːstli
rhymes: (General American) -æstli
Etymology: From last + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, that's illegal; secondly, it has serious disadvantages; thirdly, it's not necessary; and lastly, did I mention that it's illegal?
glosses: Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions.
qualifier: discourse marker
glosses: Used to signal that the speaker is about to yield control of the conversation.
Synonyms: sense: last in order
word: finally
word: last
word: last of all
sense: discourse marker
word: finally
sense: discourse marker
word: to conclude
sense: discourse marker
word: to sum up
sense: discourse marker
word: in conclusion
sense: discourse marker
word: ultimately
sense: discourse marker
word: in the end
sense: discourse marker
word: all in all
sense: discourse marker
word: at last
sense: discourse marker
word: last but not least
word: at length
word: endly
word: lastly
Related terms: word: :Category:English sequence adverbs
intently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛntli/
Forms: form: more intently
form: most intently
Etymology: From intent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her back was toward the jungle, and so she did not see the grasses part, or the savage face that peered from between. Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193:
glosses: In an intent or focused manner.
coolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːl.li/
ipa: [ˈkuʷɫ.li]
ipa: /ˈkuːli/
ipa: [ˈkʉː.li]
rhymes: -uːli
homophone: coolie
homophone: coulee
homophone: coulis stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more coolly
form: most coolly
Etymology: From cool + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The wind blew coolly.
glosses: At a moderately low temperature.
examples: text: "He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
ref: 2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales:
glosses: In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
examples: text: They walked in, not even wearing masks, and coolly robbed the bank of twelve thousand pounds.
glosses: With calm impudence.
coolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːl.li/
ipa: [ˈkuʷɫ.li]
ipa: /ˈkuːli/
ipa: [ˈkʉː.li]
rhymes: -uːli
homophone: coolie
homophone: coulee
homophone: coulis stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more coolly
form: most coolly
Etymology: From cool + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Keeping my sheep amongst the coolly shade of the green alders.
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: coolish; somewhat cool in temperature
sternly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: stûrnʹlē
ipa: /ˈstɝnli/
ipa: /ˈstɜːnli/
Forms: form: more sternly
form: sternlier
form: most sternly
form: sternliest
Etymology: From Middle English sternly, sternely, sterneliche, sturnely, sturneliche, from Old English stirnlīċe, styrnlīċe, stiernlīċe (“harshly; severely; sternly”), equivalent to stern + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was a historic night at Wembley Stadium that saw the European champions sternly tested by Copa America winners Brazil, but ended with the familiar sight of captain Leah Williamson lifting a trophy.
ref: 2023 April 6, Emma Sanders, “Women's Finalissima:England beat Brazil in dramatic shhotout”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a stern manner.
eminently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪnəntli/
Forms: form: more eminently
form: most eminently
Etymology: From eminent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an eminent or prominent manner.
examples: text: Everyone supported the nominee because she was eminently qualified.
text: Here Mr. Bandparts at once proceeded to put the position as between master and pupil on an eminently sound footing, clearly exulting in this opportunity of exercising some baritone oratory that had suffered a period of disuse.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, chapter 4, in Every Mother’s Son [Redheap], New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, →OCLC, section III, page 82:
english: Redheap
translation: Redheap
text: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): "I Love Lisa"”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2023:
text: There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
ref: 2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023:
glosses: To a great degree; notably; highly.
Related terms: preeminently
reluctantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/
Forms: form: more reluctantly
form: most reluctantly
Etymology: From reluctant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
involuntarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɒləntɹɪli/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ɪnˌvɑlənˈtɛɹɪli/
note: of the US
ipa: /ɪnˈvɒlənˌtɛɹɪli/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɔləntɹɪli/
Forms: form: more involuntarily
form: most involuntarily
Etymology: From involuntary + -ly or in- + voluntarily.
Senses: examples: text: Her leg twitched involuntarily.
text: He involuntarily overheard the conversation.
text: His eyes filled with tears, as he took up the glittering lengths. Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Letter”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 283:
text: Kennedy’s vocal rasp is not caused by an infection or respiratory condition. Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.
ref: 2025 January 29, Sandee LaMotte, “A rare brain disorder robbed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of his strong speaking voice”, in CNN:
glosses: In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
Related terms: unwillingly
mechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkænɪkli/
Forms: form: more mechanically
form: most mechanically
Etymology: From mechanical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: mechanically speaking
glosses: From a mechanical point of view.
examples: text: My fears, however, made me mechanically close my thighs; but the very touch of his hand insinuated between them, disclosed them and opened a way for the main attack.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: "Of what avail," and her eyes wandered mechanically round, "is all the luxury by which I am surrounded, if it serve only as a barrier to all kindly feelings?"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 183–184:
text: Provided they stick to their legal priors, rather than voting mechanically as Republican appointees, the justices seem likely to split on some of these cases — with real consequences for Trump’s agenda.
ref: 2025 February 26, Aziz Huq, “Conservatives on the Supreme Court May Not Fully Align With Trump”, in Politico:
glosses: In a mechanical manner, mindlessly, thoughtlessly, automatically, without thinking.
Derived terms: chemomechanically
cytomechanically
magnetomechanically
mechanically separated meat
nanomechanically
quantum-mechanically
confidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnfɪdəntli/
ipa: /ˈkɒnfɪdəntli/
Forms: form: more confidently
form: most confidently
Etymology: From confident + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Alice confidently stepped up on the platform to give her maiden speech as CEO.
glosses: In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.
Derived terms: self-confidently
Related terms: confidantly
incessantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/
Etymology: From incessant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.
text: We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Confession”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
ref: 1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau; William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:
text: "You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, [poem “You Are Old, Father William”], page 63:
text: But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:
synonyms: word: ceaselessly
word: continuously
word: unremittingly
word: ceaselessly
word: consecutively
word: constantly
word: continually
word: continuously
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: everlastingly
word: extendedly
word: incessantly
word: infinitely
word: neverendingly
word: nonstop
word: ongoingly
word: perpetually
word: persistently
word: relentlessly
word: steadily
word: successively
word: unbrokenly
word: unceasingly
word: unendingly
word: unintermittedly
word: uninterruptedly
word: unrelentingly
word: unrelievedly
word: unremittingly
word: unstoppingly
glosses: In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
glosses: Immediately.
Related terms: incessant
vividly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪvɪdli/
Forms: form: more vividly
form: most vividly
Etymology: From vivid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
ref: 1960 October 24, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:
text: The Campbell family’s fascination with white supremacy was vividly expressed in the names of Adolf’s two siblings, “Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell,” an homage to Heinrich Himmler, and “JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell.”² In selecting their children’s peculiar names, the Campbells had exercised a right specifically recognized in New Jersey statutory law, which states, “The designation of a child’s name including the surname is the right of the child’s parent(s).”³
ref: 2011 November 24, Carlton F.W. Larson, “Naming Baby: The Constitutional Dimensions of Parental Naming Rights”, in George Washington Law Review, volume 80, number 1, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2025, pages 160-161:
glosses: In a vivid manner.
mightily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪtɪli/
homophone: Maithili
Forms: form: more mightily
form: most mightily
Etymology: From mighty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mighty manner; with strength or force.
examples: text: The Billingham fertiliser traffic has grown mightily in the past few seasons.
ref: 1960 September 24, G. Freeman Allen, “I.C.I. fertiliser goes by rail from Tees-side”, in Trains Illustrated, page 533:
text: The Supreme Court tried mightily to come together.
ref: 2014 July 1, Bill Mears, “Supreme Court: Old habits die hard”, in CNN:
text: While casual-dining chains like Applebee’s and Olive Garden are struggling mightily, many breastaurant chains reported 30% or more growth in the last few years.
ref: 2015 August 31, Dawn Szymanski & Chandra Feltman, “The psychological toll of being a Hooters waitress”, in Business Insider:
glosses: Enormously, to a great extent.
examples: text: He sounded mightily proud of himself.
glosses: Thoroughly; entirely.
intimately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɪmətli/
Forms: form: more intimately
form: most intimately
Etymology: From intimate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.
ref: 1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: In an intimate manner.
resolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛz.əˌlutli/
ipa: /ˌɹɛz.əˈlutli/
ipa: /ˈɹɛz.əˌl(j)uːtli/
ipa: /ˌɹɛz.əˈl(j)uːtli/
Forms: form: more resolutely
form: most resolutely
Etymology: From resolute + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We must resolutely fight against the increasing radical leftist threat targeting our society!
text: Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 154:
text: It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
ref: 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 13:
text: Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
text: It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.
ref: 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a determined, unyielding manner.
Synonyms: determinedly
willfully
with a will
nicely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌɪsli/
Forms: form: nicelier
form: more nicely
form: niceliest
form: most nicely
Etymology: From Middle English nycely; equivalent to nice + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Fastidiously; carefully.
examples: text: All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
text: An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
ref: 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 580:
text: Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 59:
glosses: Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.
examples: 1986-1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He was a sweet boy, but became the kind of man I can do nicely without.
glosses: Pleasantly; satisfactorily.
delicately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛlɪkətli/
Forms: form: more delicately
form: most delicately
Etymology: From delicate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.
text: The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers.
ref: 1978, Oliver E. Allen, Pruning and Grafting, page 93:
glosses: In a delicate manner; exquisitely.
examples: text: He approached the main subject delicately.
glosses: Tactfully.
princely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪnsli/
Forms: form: princelier
form: princeliest
Etymology: From prince + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: princely birth or character
text: And when the princely Perſean Diadem,
Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head,
And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death,
In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain
Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
hypernyms: regal
royal
glosses: Relating to a prince.
synonyms: princelike
glosses: Similar or comparable to a prince.
examples: text: a princely sum
text: No expense was spared in making it a princely residence.
hypernyms: regal
royal
;
grand
lavish
opulent
luxurious
costly
expensive
;
decadent
baroque
overdone
overwrought
glosses: Befitting a prince.
Derived terms: princelihood
princelily
princeliness
princely state
princely sum
unprinceliness
unprincely
doubly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌb.li/
ipa: /ˈdʌ.bəl.li/
Etymology: From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
text: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
ref: 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
qualifier: quantity or measure
glosses: In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
raw_tags: of degree
of relative importance
examples: text: Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
glosses: In two ways
glosses: with duplicity
Synonyms: sense: in a double manner
word: double
word: twofold
word: twice
sense: in two ways
word: dually
sense: with duplicity
word: deceptively
sense: with duplicity
word: double-handedly
sense: with duplicity
word: duplicitously
Derived terms: doubly even
doubly incontinent
doubly infinite
doubly labeled water
doubly-linked
doubly magic
doubly transitive
jiggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡi/
rhymes: -ɪɡi
Forms: form: more jiggy
form: jiggier
form: most jiggy
form: jiggiest
Etymology: From jig + -y.
Senses: examples: [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419134671&id=qU0TRF3GqzIC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=omSLlDSrnJuoz4MXcYZv4kmsWCM
“He likes jiggy tunes best—please sing him jiggy tunes.”
[1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0813109272&id=7zF6mDo_GJgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=Jp2rPhf8QBFjX6DvPObEbPJqmWg
We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm.
glosses: Resembling or suggesting a jig.
examples: text: He's gone completely jiggy.
glosses: Crazy.
examples: text: If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up.
ref: 1989. Radford & Crowley, Drug Agent
glosses: Jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
examples: Get yourself some jiggy gear.
glosses: Extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful.
examples: text: Just can't sit
Gotta get jiggy wit it
ref: 1997-1998, “Gettin' Jiggy Wit It”, performed by Will Smith:
text: Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.
ref: 1998. L.A. Times
text: When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have […] Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby […]
ref: 1998. People Magazine
glosses: Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music.
Derived terms: get jiggy
jiggily
jigginess
jiggy-jiggy
jiggy jiggy
Related terms: english: with it
translation: with it
word: get down
five-by-five
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: five by five
Etymology: From radio communications phrase dating from the 1950s. The first five referred to a rating of signal clarity, the other to reception strength. See Signal strength and readability report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: "Hon, are you getting good data from us?" "Five-by-five." "Any sign of hostiles?" "Nope." "Can I get a few more syllables from you?"
ref: 2019 December 13, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2025:
text: McInnis nodded, and Carter keyed the mic. "CAONCI-Site-43 calling Overwatch Command," he intoned in his best radio voice. Veiksaar smirked. "CAONCI-Site-43, Overwatch Command. Do you read?"
The response came immediately, to the visible relief of all nine of them. Even Wettle. "Five by five, CAONCI-Site-43. Five by five."
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 602:
glosses: Loud and clear.
glosses: Fine; OK.
five-by-five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-by-fives
form: five by five
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game.
examples: text: "Yeah? No stuff? You, a date? Wad yuh know. What is she, a five-by-five?"
ref: 1953, Warren Eyster, Ear From the Customary Skies, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 335:
text: "The muscle was Oscar Huong, a real Mr. five-by-five. Father supposedly a black Marine boxing champion. The brains was Nguyen Trinh—or 'Nugey,' for short. He had no idea who his daddy was."
ref: 1998, Jeremiah Healy, The Only Good Lawyer: A John Francis Cuddy Mystery, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 71:
synonyms: word: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled
word: butterball
word: chubster
word: chunker
word: chunky monkey
word: elephant
word: fat
word: fatfuck
word: fatso
word: fattie
word: fatty
word: fatty bom bom
word: fatty boombalatty
word: fat-ass
word: fatass
word: fat fuck
word: fatshit
word: fussock
word: gorbelly
word: hambeast
word: hamplanet
word: heffalump
word: landwhale
word: lardass
word: lardbucket
word: lardo
word: oinker
word: obeast
word: pig
word: podge
word: porker
word: pudge
word: roly-poly
word: salad dodger
word: swagbelly
word: thunder thighs
word: tubbo
word: tub of guts
word: tub of lard
word: whale
glosses: Someone whose body is roughly shaped like a square; a short and fat person.
hereafter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/
ipa: /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hereafters
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Senses: glosses: From now on.
glosses: Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
examples: text: She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.
ref: c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth:
text: […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]
ref: 1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer:
glosses: In time to come; in some future time or state.
Synonyms: sense: in time to come
word: someday
word: one day
sense: from now on
word: henceforth
word: henceforward
word: henceforth
sense: sequentially after this point
word: followed by
word: subsequently
word: then
hereafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/
ipa: /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hereafters
form: hereafters
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Senses: synonyms: thereafter
aftertime
see also Thesaurus:the future
glosses: A future existence or state.
examples: text: 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.
ref: 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1:
synonyms: thereafter
afterlife
eternal life
see also Thesaurus:life after death or Thesaurus:afterlife
glosses: Existence after death.
Derived terms: sweet hereafter
hereafter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/
ipa: /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hereafters
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Senses: glosses: Future.
Synonyms: unborn
future
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
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whereat
whereaway
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wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
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whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
conspectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conspectuses
Etymology: From Latin cōnspectus (“survey”).
Senses: examples: text: Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
Bundestag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊndəsˌtɑːɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bundestag.
Senses: examples: text: The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag.
ref: 2020 May 15, “Burning EU and other flags can now bring German jail term”, in BBC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2025:
glosses: The federal/state parliament of Germany.
Related terms: Bundesrat
Reichstag
welch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛltʃ
Forms: form: welches
Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh.
Senses: examples: text: She's a welch. That watering-can isn't hers: I lent it to her three years ago.
synonyms: welcher
hypernyms: infringer
coordinate_terms: moocher
pincher
glosses: A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
welch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛltʃ
Forms: form: welches
form: welching
form: welched
form: welched
Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh.
Senses: coordinate_terms: mooch#Verb
pinch#Verb
hypernyms: impinge
infringe
glosses: To fail to repay a small debt.
examples: text: I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?
ref: 1992, Bo Goldman, Scent of a Woman (film)
text: MICHAEL: Clemenza promised Rosato three territories in the Bronx after he died, and then you took over and welched.
ref: 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
glosses: To fail to fulfill an obligation.
Derived terms: welcher
welsher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welshers
Etymology: From welsh + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of welcher.
SPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPDs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of schizoid personality disorder.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of schizotypal personality disorder.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sadistic personality disorder.
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sensory processing disorder.
glosses: Initialism of spectral power distribution.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of serial presence detect.
glosses: Initialism of summary plan description.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of surge protective device (surge protector).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of symphysis pubis dysfunction.
SPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Shimano Pedaling Dynamics
SPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German SPD (“Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”).
Senses: examples: text: Albrecht Lein reports that the core of the Braunschweig Antifa was made up of KPD and SPD members in their forties and fifties who had avoided the front, though Catholic workers’ organizations and other forces were also involved.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
text: In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names. The previous coalition government, headed by the SPD (red), included the Green Party (green) and Liberal Party (yellow) - together they were known as the “traffic light” coalition.
ref: 2025 February 22, Sebastian Shukla, Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto, “Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Germany (“Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”).
Coordinate terms: sense: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
word: AfD
sense: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
word: CDU
sense: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
word: CSU
sense: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
word: FDP
FDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Free Democratic Party of Germany (Freie Demokratische Partei); a German centrist classical liberal political party.
Coordinate terms: sense: Freie Demokratische Partei
word: AfD
sense: Freie Demokratische Partei
word: CDU
sense: Freie Demokratische Partei
word: CSU
sense: Freie Demokratische Partei
word: SPD
nonmodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: nŏn-mŏdərn
Forms: form: non-modern
Etymology: From non- + modern.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of past times; not modern.
Synonyms: unmodern
Derived terms: nonmodernness
nonmodern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: nŏn-mŏdərn
Forms: form: nonmoderns
form: non-modern
Etymology: From non- + modern.
Senses: examples: text: The headscarf is a perfect tool to block the nonmoderns from participating in the class privileges that the modern state represents.
ref: 2012, Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion, page 52:
glosses: One who is not modern.
CDU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDUs
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of crude distillation unit.
CDU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “I am certain that this so-called ‘firewall’ will stop after this election,” AfD youth wing leader Hannes Gnauck told CNN Sunday evening. He added, “There will be a CDU after Friedrich Merz, and this CDU will have to work together with the AfD.”
ref: 2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”) (a major mainstream German political party)
Coordinate terms: sense: Christlich Demokratische Union
word: AfD
sense: Christlich Demokratische Union
word: CSU
sense: Christlich Demokratische Union
word: FDP
sense: Christlich Demokratische Union
word: SPD
lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: lightings
Etymology: From light + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
synonyms: illumination
light source
light
glosses: The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
examples: text: We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
ref: 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense, page 142:
glosses: The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
glosses: The process of annealing metals.
Derived terms: bias lighting
bisexual lighting
cameo lighting
candlelighting
downlighting
firelighting
gas-lighting
gas lighting
lighting rig
lighting technician
mood lighting
neon lighting
Phong lighting
Rembrandt lighting
sidelighting
streetlighting
strobe lighting
sunlighting
toplighting
track lighting
underlighting
lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From light + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of light
blook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʊk/
ipa: /blʉk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: blooks
Etymology: Blend of blog + book
Senses: glosses: A book serialized on a blog (weblog) platform.
glosses: A book about blogging.
examples: 2006: "'Blooks are the new books, a hybrid literary form at the cutting edge of both literature and technology,' said Bob Young, founder of self-publishing site Lulu which organised and sponsored the prize." US cook wins blogging book prize BBC Online, 3 April 2006.
glosses: A printed book containing content which first appeared on a blog.
militia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Forms: form: militias
form: militiae
Etymology: From Latin mīlitia (“army, military force/service”), from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militsia.
The use of "militia" rather than "police" to refer to the police force (of Belarus and some other countries) originated in the USSR.
Senses: examples: text: He coasts down to a dead stop in the middle of the channel, makes a scan for militia men and wireheads, and finds none.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 387:
glosses: An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.
glosses: Synonym of militsia: the national police force of certain countries (e.g. Belarus).
synonyms: word: militsia
extra: the national police force of certain countries (e.g. Belarus).
Derived terms: antimilitia
militialike
militiaman
militiaperson
militiawoman
Ghandi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Gandhi.
derogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
Forms: form: derogations
Etymology: From Old French derogacion (French dérogation), from Latin dērogātiō.
Senses: examples: text: Always have the greatest excesses and the most reprehensible practices been committed when backed up by or given the sanction of religion. But all this represents no derogation of the original phallic cult per se. It merely proves that the gods have always been what we have made them.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page vi:
glosses: An act which belittles; disparagement.
examples: text: Two sets of Mk. 2 coaches hauled by Class 37s were introduced on peak Rhymney services during the summer. The coaches do not comply with the Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) standards and would therefore need a derogation to continue in passenger service after 31 December.
ref: 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
topics: law
glosses: The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.
Related terms: abrogation
abrogating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abrogate
derogating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derogate
greave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grēv
ipa: /ɡɹiːv/
homophone: grieve
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: greaves
Etymology: From Middle English greve, from Old English grǣfe, grǣfa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“ditch, hole”).
Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove”). See grove.
Senses: examples: text: she fled into that covert greave
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A bush; a tree; a grove.
glosses: A bough; a branch.
greave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grēv
ipa: /ɡɹiːv/
homophone: grieve
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: greaves
Etymology: From Middle English greve, greyve, from Old English grǣfa, grēfa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grēbō, an ablaut variant of to *grōbō (“pit, ditch”) (whence doublet of groove) , from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”). Also related to grave.
Senses: glosses: A ditch or trench.
greave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grēv
ipa: /ɡɹiːv/
homophone: grieve
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: greaves
form: greeve
Etymology: From Middle English greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic جورب (“stocking, leg cover”). Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”); if so, related to Etymology 2 above.
Senses: examples: text: And through the stained windows bright, / From o'er the red-tiled eaves, / The sunlight blazed with colored light / On golden helms and greaves.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
text: Then he cast off his breast-plate, thigh pieces, and greaves, while Alleyne followed his example.
ref: 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.
Synonyms: cnemid
Derived terms: greaved
greave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grēv
ipa: /ɡɹiːv/
homophone: grieve
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: greaves
form: greaving
form: greaved
form: greaved
Etymology: Back-formation from greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
Related terms: english: residue left after animal fat has been rendered
translation: residue left after animal fat has been rendered
word: greaves