cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lying-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lying-ins
form: lyings-in
Senses: examples: text: from our first knowing each other, which was soon after my lying-in, we were almost inseparable companions […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 404:
glosses: The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.
examples: text: As she lay by the birth-fire, she gazed on the face of the child asleep in the bamboo cradle […] Once free from the lying-in, Linchong set herself to bringing up the baby.
ref: 1995, Meredith Borthwick, transl., Many Lives, Kukrit Pramoj, pages 177–8:
glosses: A period of postpartum confinement, typically a month or longer, formerly common in Europe and still practiced in some parts of the world.
lying-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to childbirth
glosses: of, or relating to postpartum confinement
accountable officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accountable officers
Senses: glosses: Individual required to maintain accounting, including records thereof, of property and funds, whether public or quasi-public. The accountable officer may or may not have physical possession of the property or funds.
Related terms: responsible officer
blahg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blahgs
Etymology: Blend of blah + blog
Senses: glosses: A dull, uninteresting weblog.
barleycorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)liˌkɔː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: barleycorns
Etymology: From barley + corn.
Senses: examples: text: The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour.
ref: 1912, V.S. Vernon Jones, Aesop's Fables:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A grain of barley.
examples: text: This trip to Italy has actually enlarged the diameter of my head thirteen barleycorns!
ref: 1879, Geo. Alfred Townsend, Bohemian Days:
text: Then shewed the devil the booke unto the friar, and the friar saw it was an uncut unique of incalculable value; the height of it was half a cubit and the breadth of it the fourth part of a cubit and the thickness of it five barleycorns lacking the space of three horsehairs.
ref: 1907, Various, The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.):
glosses: The length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or eight millimetres, still used as a basis for shoe sizes.
topics: architecture
arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A small groove between two moldings.
Derived terms: barleycorn sight
egosurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egosurfers
Etymology: From egosurf + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who egosurfs.
sellout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sellouts
form: sell-out
Etymology: A deverbal from sell out.
Senses: examples: text: A statement by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR), which organized the protest, charged that WPIX's sale of air time to the Anita Bryant Ministries "is a sell-out of the more than one million lesbians and gay residents in the WPIX broadcast service area.
ref: 1980 April 19, Philip Shehadi, “Bryant Program Sparks Protest”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
text: When his hearing came up, the sellout of Taiwan was particularly on my mind. I asked him if he thought that Taiwan should be pressured into making an accommodation with the Communist government in Beijing.
The candidate refused to answer my question.
ref: 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: An action in which principles are compromised for personal gain.
examples: text: The rock star used to be hardcore, but now he's just a sellout.
text: The nineties were not an age for the aspirant. The worst thing you could be was a sellout, and not because selling out involved money. Selling out meant you needed to be popular, and any explicit desire for approval was enough to prove you were terrible.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who sells out, who compromises their principles for financial gain or some other advantage.
examples: text: I performed in front of a sellout crowd.
text: Mel White recalls being a high school student and seeing Billy Graham preaching before sell-out crowds at San Francisco's Cow Palace.
ref: 1994 October, Michael Bronski, “Queer and Present Danger: Gay Conservatives, Sex and the Christianization of the Gay Movement”, in Gay Community News, page 22:
glosses: The selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event.
Related terms: word: selldown
word: sell-off
word: buyout
egosurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: egosurfs
form: egosurfing
form: egosurfed
form: egosurfed
form: ego-surf
Etymology: From ego + surf.
Senses: examples: text: My little sister Pixie was on the computer. As is the custom, I moaned at her to get off (feigning non-existent A-level work I had to do "before it's too late"), then noticed a page full of pictures of her. "Hah! Ego-surfing again, are we?" I cried jubilantly.
ref: 2007 March 30, Peaches Geldof, “It may start as innocent flirtation, but be warned, you too could become a lonely MySpace addict”, in The Guardian:
hyponyms: namesearch
glosses: To search the Internet for references to one's name or works in order to gratify one's ego.
Derived terms: egosurfer
egosurfing
legitimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/
Forms: form: legitimacies
Etymology: From legitimate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The legitimacy based on a revolutionary essence was replaced by legitimacy with an ultranational, ultra-Yugoslav character.
ref: 2000, Stuart Nagel, Handbook of Global International Policy, page 193:
glosses: The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.
examples: text: After decades of inequality and oppression, the regime had lost legitimacy with its own population.
text: The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was seen by many as proof of capitalism’s legitimacy over communism.
text: Democracy’s legitimacy stems from the consent of the governed.
topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.
Public acceptance of an institution, such as a polity or societal system.
glosses: Lawfulness of birth or origin; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: legitimateness
Derived terms: nonlegitimacy
semilegitimacy
begrudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɡɹʌd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: begrudges
form: begrudging
form: begrudged
form: begrudged
Etymology: From Middle English bigrucchen (“to grumble at”), equivalent to be- (“at, about, over”) + grudge. Compare also English begrouch.
Senses: glosses: To grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.
glosses: To be reluctant.
examples: text: Okay, then, next time you go and leave me stay here. See if I begrudge you a little fun.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 16, number 1, page 50:
text: A defeat would have been harsh on the Gunners, especially after an improved rearguard action in the second half, but few could begrudge the German side a point from a match they dominated for long spells.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To give reluctantly.
Derived terms: begrudgement
begrudger
begrudgery
begrudging
wildness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildnesses
Etymology: From Middle English wildenes, wildenesse, equivalent to wild + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: tameness#Noun
domestication#Noun
;
civility#Noun
glosses: The state or quality of being wild.
Related terms: ferociousness
ferocity
fierceness
demolition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛm.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
ipa: [ˌdɛm.əˈlɪʃ.n̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɛ~ɪˈmɔlɪʃən/
Forms: form: demolitions
Etymology: From Old French demolition, from Latin dēmōlītiō (“a tearing down”). Equivalent to demolish + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.
ref: 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
text: At Kiwi, 40 miles from Nelson [New Zealand], eight women installed themselves in the goods shed, taking with them their knitting, and a supply of food and magazines. The demolition crew was unable to pull the building down without injuring them.
ref: 1955 December, “Notes and News: Women Delay Railway Demolition”, in Railway Magazine, page 878:
glosses: The process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.
Derived terms: counterdemolition
demolition ball
demolition derby
demolitionist
nondemolition
redemolition
Related terms: teardown
wrecking ball
wrecking bar
diffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfjuː.ʒən/
ipa: /dɪˈfju.ʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: diffusions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin diffūsiō, from diffundō; can be decomposed as diffuse + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
examples: text: gaseous diffusion
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
examples: text: Even the false-necked vase, though it reaches its widest diffusion at this epoch, is, as we have seen, a type found existing in much earlier strata.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 99:
glosses: The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
weather
glosses: Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
glosses: The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
Derived terms: autodiffusion
biodiffusion
cultural diffusion
diffusional
diffusion-barrier
diffusion hypoxia
diffusionism
diffusionist
diffusionless
elastodiffusion
electrodiffusion
error diffusion
hydrodiffusion
hyperdiffusion
immunodiffusion
interdiffusion
microdiffusion
photodiffusion
prediffusion
pseudodiffusion
rediffusion
rotodiffusion
self-diffusion
subdiffusion
superdiffusion
thermodiffusion
vibrodiffusion
Related terms: diffuseness
diffusity
diffuser
statistician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstætɪsˈtɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: statisticians
Senses: glosses: A person who compiles, interprets, or studies statistics.
glosses: A mathematician with a specialty of statistics.
Derived terms: biostatistician
hydrogen bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogen bonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A weak bond in which a hydrogen atom in one molecule is attracted to an electronegative atom (usually nitrogen or oxygen) in the same or different molecule.
Hypernyms: intermolecular force
hydrogen bond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hydrogen bonds
form: hydrogen bonding
form: hydrogen bonded
form: hydrogen bonded
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To bond to another species by means of hydrogen bonds. E.g. Water hydrogen bonds with itself.
Related terms: covalent bond
ionic bond
servabo fidem
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: I shall keep faith (motto of various groups).
John Barleycorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: John (commonly used to personify a concept) + barleycorn; barley is used to produce malt, the source of most British alcoholic drink.
Senses: glosses: A personification of alcoholic drink, particularly beer and whisky.
bazooka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈzuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: bazookas
Etymology: From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
glosses: Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
glosses: A woman's breast, especially a large one.
examples: text: Suppose the EFSF buys some bonds. That will push down yields for awhile.^([sic]) But what happens when the money starts to run out? Yields will go back up. A firebreak/firewall/bazooka needs unlimited funds to work.
ref: 2012 June 21, Matthew O'Brien, “Why the Euro Crisis Will Never End in 1 Chart”, in The Atlantic:
text: “I don’t think [policymakers]^([sic]) realise it’s not enough,” said a veteran fixed-income investor in Hong Kong. “You need some big bazooka action to improve sentiment as a whole.”
ref: 2022 August 24, Thomas Hale, Cheng Leng, Hudson Lockett, “Investors price in $130bn loss on China developers’ dollar bonds”, in Financial Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A large rescue or stimulus package.
Derived terms: bazookaist
bazookaman
spudzooka
bazooka
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈzuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: bazookas
form: bazookaing
form: bazookaed
form: bazookaed
Etymology: From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).
Senses: glosses: To shoot with a bazooka.
bazooka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈzuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Etymology: Alteration of Spanish bazuco, basuco, derived from base. Doublet of basuco.
Senses: glosses: Crack cocaine.
entrée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒntɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɑntɹeɪ/
Forms: form: entrées
form: entree
Etymology: Borrowed from French entrée. Doublet of entrada and entry.
Senses: examples: text: ENTREES AND ENTREMETS. Usually, outside of France, entrees are side or corner dishes. ... In conclusion I again remark, entrees can be made from almost anything, the difference being, they are highly cooked and seasoned. Remember nothing large is served as an entree. There are game entrees, meat entrees, fish entrees, fowl entrees, etc.
ref: 1887, Estelle Woods Wilcox, Practical housekeeping: A careful compilation of tried and approved recipes (published in Dayton, Ohio, United States), page 457:
synonyms: appetizer
hors d'oeuvre
starter
glosses: A smaller dish served before the main course of a meal.
raw_tags: in the US and Canada
examples: text: Entree: The main course is normally beef, chicken, duck, or lamb, and you eat these foods with a dinner knife and dinner fork.
ref: 2007, Sue Fox, Etiquette for Dummies (published in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States), page 180:
synonyms: main
main course
glosses: The main course or main dish of a meal.
examples: text: It was not by the aid of mules and porters, sedans and sledges, that the hero of Carthage made his entrée into Italy.
ref: 1796, John Owen, Owen's travels into different parts of Europe, in the years 1791 and 1792, page 307:
text: Much as it is the fashion to deride the nobility, by decrying their morality and denying their ability, even by those who have the entrée, and therefore may be supposed to know them the best, in point of fact, at the present day, there are amongst them an immense proportion of good and sensible people.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 245:
text: But soon Edward [Scissorhands] […] becomes very popular when the neighbors find out that he is able to create ingenious, beautiful topiaries in the gardens, great hairdos for women, and superb grooming on pet dogs. He even comes in handy grilling shish-kabobs at a barbecue. Edward understands that his entrée into social acceptability is through his talent, and he wants to be accepted and loved.
ref: 1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20:
text: Burton conveniently afforded him entree into the world of art and those who buy it.
ref: 2008, Lyn Hamilton, The Chinese Alchemist, page 253:
synonyms: access
admission
admittance
entry
glosses: The act of entering somewhere, or permission to enter; admittance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An introduction or prelude.
Related terms: entry
appetizer
starter
egotistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/
Forms: form: more egotistical
form: most egotistical
Etymology: From egotistic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
examples: text: All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry:
text: “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
ref: 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN:
glosses: Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
qualifier: by confusion of the similar words
glosses: Egoistical (advocating egoism).
Derived terms: egotistically
nonegotistical
unegotistical
Related terms: egotist
egotism
pluot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpluːɒt/
ipa: /ˈpluɑt/
Forms: form: pluots
Etymology: A portmanteau from blend of plum + apricot. Compare earlier plumcot.
Senses: glosses: A fruit which is a cross between a Japanese plum and an apricot, featuring more characteristics of plums than those of apricots.
Synonyms: plucot
plumcot
aprium
Hypernyms: interspecific plum
aprium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪpɹiəm/
Forms: form: apriums
Etymology: Blend of apricot + plum
Senses: examples: text: A three-quarter apricot is an aprium, which is very apricotlike in tree type and fruit. Plumcots are extremely flavorful fruits that tend to bear poorly for the first few years.
ref: 2007, The home orchard: growing your own deciduous fruit and nut trees (ISBN-10: 1-879906-72-4), page 33
text: For an excellent plain Aprium jam, you may omit the almonds.
ref: 2010, Rachel Saunders, Sara Remington, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook, page 140:
text: When the puppet is finished, we wander through the farmer's market and stop at the local foods booth, where our friend Aaron lets us sample farm-direct apriums. Amy spots a bevy of belly dancers and says she wants to watch.
ref: 2010, Michael Perry, Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg, page 216:
glosses: A plum-apricot cross, with characteristics of both fruits.
Synonyms: pluot
plumcot
broccoflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broccoflowers
Etymology: Blend of broccoli + cauliflower.
Senses: examples: text: This colorful combo is just the thing for a busy weeknight. If you have never tasted broccoflower, its flavor is a blend of, you guessed it, broccoli and cauliflower.
ref: 2003, Christy Rost, The Family Table: Where Great Food, Friends, and Family Gather Together, Capital Books, →ISBN:
text: Have you met the broccoflower? Some mad scientist has crossed the cauliflower with broccoli and created an incredible veggie. Hence, the broccoflower.
ref: 2011, Jan McCracken, Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 101:
coordinate_terms: Romanesco
glosses: Either of two edible plants of the species Brassica oleracea with light green heads.
alcolock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kə.lɒk/
ipa: /-kəʊ-/
ipa: /ˈæl.kə.lɑk/
ipa: /-koʊ-/
Forms: form: alcolocks
Etymology: Blend of alcohol + lock
Senses: examples: text: Various international studies have shown that alcolock users had 65% to 95% fewer repeat offences than drivers whose driving licence was suspended or revoked. The previous Government conducted a trial programme in 2005, but there was never any follow-up.
ref: 2013 December 10, Rehman Chishti, “Road Safety”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons):
glosses: A mechanism that prevents a car from starting if the driver has exceeded the legal limits of alcohol consumption.
stealth tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stealth taxes
Senses: glosses: A new or increased tax or other similar charge introduced so as to prevent people from noticing it.
glosses: Mandatory rendering of money to a government that is not explicitly identified as a tax.
Related terms: stealth-tax
stealth taxation
stealth-tax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stealth-taxes
form: stealth-taxing
form: stealth-taxed
form: stealth-taxed
Senses: glosses: To enact or collect a stealth tax
Related terms: stealth tax
stealth taxation
miswanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miswant
miswant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miswants
form: miswanting
form: miswanted
form: miswanted
Etymology: From mis- + want.
Senses: glosses: To want (something) even though it will probably lead to one's own harm or unhappiness (e.g. an addictive drug).
Related terms: miswanting
miswanted
miswanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miswant
sorrowful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɹoʊfəl/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹəfəl/
ipa: /ˈsɑɹoʊfəl/
ipa: /ˈsɑɹəfəl/
ipa: /ˈsɒɹəʊfəl/
ipa: /ˈsɒɹəfəl/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹɐʉfɘl/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹɘfɘl/
Forms: form: more sorrowful
form: most sorrowful
form: sorrowfull
Etymology: From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
Senses: synonyms: word: grievous
word: lamentable
word: mournful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
examples: text: sorrowful accident
text: She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
synonyms: word: pitiful
word: woebegone
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Producing sorrow; causing grief.
error catastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: error catastrophes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations.
altophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Latin altus (“high”) + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: acrophobia
antonyms: bathophobia
glosses: Fear of heights.
apiphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Latin apis (“bee”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An inordinate fear of bees.
aulophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós, “flute”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Some people are terrified of something most would consider so trivial such as a musical instrument (that we typically get joy from), but to a sufferer of aulophobia - “woodwind” you know - stage fright at the orchestra is taken to a new level!
ref: 2018 October 23, Melissa Mignogna, “Phobias: Fight or flight from the flutes explained.”, in The Woodlands Behavioral Health & Wellness Center:
glosses: The fear of flutes.
bathophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊbiə
ipa: /ˌbæθəˈfəʊbiə/
Etymology: From batho- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.
examples: text: "You're afraid of the dark. That's nyctophobia. And you're afraid of deep places, or depth. That's bathophobia."
ref: 2004, Michael A. Gibbs, A Fairy of Anneliese Glade, →ISBN:
glosses: The fear of depths.
Related terms: batophobia
Rhadamanthine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɹædəˈmænθaɪn/
/ˌɹædəˈmænθɪn/
/ˌɹædəˈmænθin/
Forms: form: more Rhadamanthine
form: most Rhadamanthine
Etymology: From Rhadamanthus + -ine, after Rhadamanthus, a king in Greek myths.
Senses: examples: text: When the father comes home and finds Georgiein disgrace, and Janey in tears, of course the ideal Rhadamanthine thing to do is to lay the coping stone to the boy's wall of isolation, and to add a fresh supply to Janey's bitter fountain. But not being Rhadamanthine, only weak and human and paternal, the sinful man ignores the lines of discipline marked out, and takes Georgie and Janey to his arms with quite impartial caresses and a cheery well-favoured comfort.
ref: 1869, The Broadway, page 92:
text: Little recks René, with a breast to cleanse, / Of Rhadamanthine law that reigned erewhile: / Brimful of truth, truth's outburst will convince / (Style or no style) who bears truth's brunt—the Prince.
ref: 1878, Robert Browning, The Two Poets of Croisic:
text: It was going to another place where measures were sometimes subjected to Rhadamanthine scrutiny, but he hoped the just principles which this House had recognised by large majorities would be considered on their merits.
ref: 1906, The Parliamentary Debates, Great Britain. Parliament, page ccclxiv:
glosses: Strictly and uncompromisingly just.
examples: text: In a commodious gas-lit box, surrounded by books and papers, and with a mighty folio of loose leaves open before him — a book of Fate, in truth — sits a Rhadamanthine man, buttoned up in a great-coat often; for be it blazing July or frigid December, it is always cold at three o'clock in the morning.
ref: 1862, George Augustus Sala, Twice Around the Clock: Or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London:
text: And in these unruly islands I was prepared almost to welcome the face of Rhadamanthine severity.
ref: 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, “VIII, Letters from Samoa”, in In the South Seas. Letters from Samoa, etc:
glosses: Inflexibly rigorous or severe.
Synonyms: Rhadamanthean
clinophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From clino- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: fear of going to bed
emetophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌmɛt.əˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From emeto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Faryl Zaklin, 38, of San Diego, California, is still overcoming a lifelong phobia that has given her numerous panic attacks; part of her recovery involved watching episodes of "Jackass" and "Family Guy." She has emetophobia: fear of vomit.
ref: 2010 June 15, Elizabeth Landau, “Who's afraid of snakes, spiders, vomit?”, in CNN:
text: Ignorant about vomiting before the incident, I was now terrified of it. I self-diagnosed myself with emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
ref: 2011 July 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “I had never vomited. Ever.”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: Not many people have heard of the condition emetophobia but I’ve lived with it for over 30 years and it was a worry when I was pregnant with my son, Hunter, last year.
ref: 2012 November 6, Sarah Cawood, Nilufer Atik, “Sarah Cawood: Having a baby helped me get over sick phobia”, in Daily Mirror:
glosses: An inordinate fear of vomit or vomiting, especially in public.
Related terms: emetophobic
ecclesiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecclesio- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: fear of churches
electrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophobias
Etymology: From electro- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: fear of electricity
eleutherophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλευθερία (eleuthería, “freedom”) + -phobia.
Senses: antonyms: eleutherophilia
eleutheromania
glosses: Fear of freedom.
heliophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From helio- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Individuals grappling with heliophobia may go to great lengths to avoid sunlight, impacting their physical health by limiting Vitamin D production and leading to feelings of isolation and despair.
ref: 2015 February 4, “Overcome the Fear of Sunlight: Therapy for Heliophobia”, in Transform Psychology:
antonyms: heliophilia#Noun
hypernyms: phobia#Noun
fear#Noun
glosses: Fear of sunlight; dislike and strenuous avoidance of direct sunlight (and, in some cases, all sunlight).
Related terms: heliocentric
heliocentrism
heliophile
heliophobe
heliotrope
heliotropic
heliotropism
paraheliotropic
paraheliotropism
gymnophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From gymno- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An inordinate fear or hatred of nudity.
hippophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From hippo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An irrational fear of horses or other hoofed animals like ponies, donkeys, or mules.
Synonyms: equinophobia
Related terms: hippophobe
hippophobic
logophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From logo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear of words.
Related terms: word: logophobe
word: logophobic
english: fear of public speaking
translation: fear of public speaking
word: glossophobia
english: fear of books
translation: fear of books
word: bibliophobia
pathophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: pathophobias
Etymology: From patho- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: fear of disease
Derived terms: monopathophobia
trichopathophobia
globalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globalisms
Etymology: From global + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An ideology based on the belief that people, goods and information ought to be able to cross national borders unfettered.
glosses: A socio-economic system dedicated to free trade and free access to markets.
Derived terms: anti-globalism
antiglobalism
hyperglobalism
Related terms: globalist
globalisation
globalise
globalize
neoglobalism
cosmopolitanism
philophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From philo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: fear of falling in love
Related terms: philophobe
philophobic
decomposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkəmˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decomposers
Etymology: From decompose + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism, such as a bacterium or fungus, which carries out the process of decomposition of organic material.
procrustean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈkɹʌsti.ən/
Forms: form: more procrustean
form: most procrustean
form: Procrustean
Etymology: From Procrustes + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The object in choosing the political capital is average nearness of approach from the various confines of the State; but commerce submits to no such Procrustean laws in selecting her capitals, and consequently she has placed Detroit on the borders of Michigan, […]
ref: 1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter IX, in North America. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: The concept of an Age of Nationalism is a bit procrustean.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 287:
glosses: Enforcing strict conformity through disregard of individual differences or special circumstances.
Derived terms: procrustean bed
Procrustean assignment
Related terms: ergonomic
one-size-fits-all
agathokakological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌɡæθəʊˌkækəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
ipa: /əˌɡæθoʊˌkækəˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
ipa: /əˌɡæθə-/
Forms: form: more agathokakological
form: most agathokakological
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”) + κακός (kakós, “bad”) + -logical.
Senses: examples: text: There may be an opposite fault; for indeed upon the agathokakological globe there are opposite qualities always to be found in parallel degrees, north and south of the equator.
ref: 1865, Robert Southey, The Doctor, Etc, page 120:
text: Just throwing a number out, I'd say he is at least seven or seven and a half feet tall. Not really muscular, just tall, thin, and brooding with something evil, or at the very least an agathokakological sense of being.
ref: 2012, Randy M Harrison, Completion and Perfection, Randy M Harrison, →ISBN, page 59:
text: When any project dominates your life for a sizeable length of time, let alone the best part of six years, you have to accept the agathokakological nature of the beast.
ref: 2015, Ronan O'Callaghan, Walzer, Just War and Iraq: Ethics as Response, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Composed of both good and evil.
sry
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: sry 2 leave u out, but this was 2 good 2 pass up.
ref: 2014, Sharon M. Draper, Panic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 30:
text: look im sry about playing ahead
ref: 2024, Michael Anthony Steele, Level Up, Stone Arch Books, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Abbreviation of sorry.
astrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌastɹəʊˈmɛtɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌastɹəˈmɛtɹɪk/
Etymology: From astro- + -metric.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: of or relating to astrometry
Derived terms: astrometrically
spectroastrometric
Related terms: astrometry
astrometrician
Elina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
resilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An elastic protein found in the exoskeletons of insects, facilitating, for example, folding wings or jumping relatively great distances.
WASD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left, down and right, respectively.)
contrapuntal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒntrəˈpʌntəl/
Forms: form: more contrapuntal
form: most contrapuntal
Etymology: From Latin punctus contra punctum (“note against note”).
Senses: glosses: Of or in counterpoint.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to counterpoint.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: With two or more independent melodic lines.
raw_tags: of a piece of music
Derived terms: contrapuntalism
contrapuntally
cupola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpələ/
ipa: /ˈkupələ/
ipa: /ˈkjupəloʊ/
Forms: form: cupolas
form: cupolae
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin cūpula (“little tub”); from Latin cūpa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over.
Senses: examples: text: the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: The stations on the City & South London were small but pretty, with cupolas to accommodate the winding gear of the small and claustrophobic hydraulic lifts.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:
topics: architecture
glosses: A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: railroad
glosses: A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
examples: text: The cupola has a small cylindrical chimney-like bore that is lined with a refractory material.
ref: 2008, Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails, →ISBN:
text: Cast iron produced in a cupola possesses the following advantages : The cost of melting is low. The control of chemical composition is better. Temperature control is easier. Molten metals can be tapped from the cupola at regular intervals.
ref: 2009, S.K. Garg, Comprehensive Workshop Technology, →ISBN, page 260:
glosses: A type of furnace used for smelting.
examples: text: the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule
text: From each anterior cupola there projects forwards the processus prenasalis lateralis inferior.
ref: 1937, Sir Gavin De Beer, The Development of the Vertebrate Skull, page 180:
text: The cupola of the lung is mostly medial and posterior to the vein as it begins to course deeper into the thorax (Fig. 5.7).
ref: 2015, Charles E. Smith, Trauma Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 85:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
glosses: A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.
Derived terms: bicupola
cupolaed
cupolar
celery seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celery seeds
Senses: glosses: The seed of the plant celery, Apium graveolens, used as a seasoning in cooking.
detente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detentes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of détente.
détente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈtɒnt/
ipa: /deɪˈtɑnt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɑnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: détentes
form: detente
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French détente (“relaxing”).
Senses: examples: text: Analogous structural and political constraints stood in the way of a lasting détente between Germany and Britain.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 318:
text: No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
ref: 2014 January 14, Stephen Kinzer, “Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.
Related terms: detent
corn syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn syrups
Senses: glosses: A sticky sweet liquid, consisting of sugars dissolved in water, produced from corn (maize). Used as a sweetener in cooking, especially in commercial kitchens but also in candy making.
Derived terms: dark corn syrup
high fructose corn syrup
light corn syrup
lonesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊnsəm/
ipa: /ˈloʊnsəm/
Forms: form: more lonesome
form: most lonesome
form: lanesome
Etymology: From lone + -some, mid-17th century.
Senses: examples: text: 'Where'er the sun shakes out his spears, and the lonesome waters mirror up the moon, where'er storms roll [...] there shall thy power pass and thy dominion find a home.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.
Derived terms: high lonesome sound
lonesomely
lonesomeness
unlonesome
lonesome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊnsəm/
ipa: /ˈloʊnsəm/
Forms: form: lonesomes
form: lanesome
Etymology: From lone + -some, mid-17th century.
Senses: examples: I sat and watched the cars pass all by my lonesome.
glosses: Oneself alone.
Derived terms: by one's lonesome
on one's lonesome
jidaigeki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jidaigekis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese genre of film and television set in pre-Meiji Restoration Japan
hypernyms: period drama
glosses: A film or programme of this kind.
Related terms: english: perhaps
translation: perhaps
word: Jedi
sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar
Related terms: carbohydrates
sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sugar
gum arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gums arabic
form: gum-arabic
form: gumarabic
Etymology: gum + Arabic; the name was used in Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages since the 9th century (صَمْغ عَرَبِيّ (ṣamḡ ʕarabiyy)), and retained in the languages of Europeans who first acquired it via Arab ports.
Senses: glosses: An edible substance taken from one of two species of sub-Saharan acacia trees, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal, used in the food industry as a stabilizer (e.g. in soda, gumdrops and marshmallows) and other purposes including pharmaceuticals, paints and polishes.
Synonyms: E414 when used as a thickener
stabiliser
emulsifier
gum acacia
acacia gum
Arabic gum
acacia
Senegal gum
Indian gum
Derived terms: gum arabic tree
catch-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch-alls
form: catchall
Etymology: From catch + -all.
Senses: examples: text: If you're not careful, the entrance table will quickly become a catch-all for things that come in the door.
text: The category was a catch-all for items that were not filed elsewhere.
text: Cancer is a catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of diseases.
glosses: Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
Derived terms: catch-allism
catch-all party
catch-all phrase
catch-all term
reciprocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌrɛsəˈprɑsəti/
Forms: form: reciprocities
Etymology: From French réciprocité.
Senses: examples: text: In a friendship, reciprocity occurs where the contribution of each party meets the expectations of the other party.
text: There might be benefit on one side, and obligation on the other; but their reciprocity of affection, their mutual exchange of small kindnesses—those strongest rivets of common attachment—were no more.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 111–112:
glosses: The characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
glosses: A reciprocal relationship.
glosses: A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.
qualifier: international law
glosses: The mutual exchange of rights, privileges or obligations between nations. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocity (international relations).
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The responses of individuals to the actions of others.
Derived terms: ethic of reciprocity
quadratic reciprocity
reciprocity principle
Related terms: reciprocality
reciprocate
reciprocating
reciprocatory
reciprocitarian
amphoteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphoteric
form: most amphoteric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμφότερος (amphóteros, “each of two”), from ἄμφω (ámphō, “both”) + -τερος (-teros).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the characteristics of both an acid and a base, and capable of reacting as either; amphiprotic.
Derived terms: ampholyte
amphopropionate
amphotericin
nonamphoteric
polyamphoteric
monocotyledonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + cotyledon + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Strange to say, the islet of Ronde, about 16 miles north of Mauritius, forms a separate biological kingdom, possessing one peculiar species of cabbage-palm, some lizards, two snakes, and relatively more monocotyledonous plants than any other region in the world.
ref: 1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “The Mascarenhas”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14), New York: D. Appleton and Company, Flora and Fauna:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic leaf (a single cotyledon).
Synonyms: monocotic
Derived terms: pseudomonocotyledonous
Related terms: monocotyledon
monocot