cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
horribles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If it does not appeal to you as one of the horribles in life, try it once.
ref: 2005, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman Tenderfoot, page 125:
text: For all the horribles that his legs and feet endured, they weren't the root cause of his suffering.
ref: 2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, page 240:
text: There're tangible horribles out there, honey.
ref: 2003, Christopher Chambers, A Prayer for Deliverance: An Angela Bivens Thriller, page 772:
text: Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
ref: 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights, page 51:
text: The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
ref: 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey, page 1:
text: A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
ref: 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, page 70:
text: Congressmen talked of tyranny, and other imaginary horribles, and one vigilant member opposed the six administrative assistants on the ground that they would be "theoretical intellectualprofessorial nincompoops."
ref: 1976, Otis L. Graham, Jr., Toward a Planned Society: from Roosevelt to Nixon, page 62:
text: I always like to get over the horribles first, so that the good things of life may leave the last impression.
ref: 1906, Ernest Way Elkington, Adrift in New Zealand, page 241:
text: Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of horrible
Derived terms: parade of horribles
soutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈtɑːn/
Forms: form: soutanes
Etymology: Borrowed from French soutane, from Italian sottana, from Latin subtana, from subtus (“below, beneath”), from sub (“under”).
Senses: examples: text: The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits.
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
text: Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
synonyms: cassock
glosses: A long gown with sleeves and buttons at the front, particularly when worn by Roman Catholic clerics.
evangelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evangelize
zoolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoolaters
Senses: glosses: A worshipper of animals
Related terms: zoolatry
narcosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcosyntheses
Etymology: From narco- + synthesis.
Senses: glosses: A form of narcoanalysis in which the patient is made to recall repressed memories under hypnosis.
ba'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ba (“medieval football game played in Scotland”).
armillary sphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armillary spheres
Senses: examples: text: Most of this bench is covered with tiles of Moorish design, but on the front each is stamped with an armillary sphere in which the axis is yellow, the lines of the equator and tropics green, and the rest blue. These one would certainly take to be of Dom Manoel's time, for the armillary sphere was his emblem, but they are said to be older.
ref: 1908, Walter Crum Watson, Portuguese Architecture, page 24:
synonyms: armill
glosses: An instrument consisting of graduated metal circles used to represent the motions of celestial bodies around the earth.
narcoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcoanalyses
Etymology: From narco- + analysis.
Senses: examples: text: He had a set of chains in his room that he said he used with his psychoanalyst; they were experimenting with narcoanalysis and found that Old Bull had seven separate personalities, each growing worse and worse on the way down, till finally he was a raving idiot and had to be restrained with chains.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of psychotherapy in which the patient is administered drugs in order to attain a sleeplike state.
Related terms: narcosynthesis
wuther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌðə/
ipa: /ˈwʌðɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɐðə/
ipa: /ˈwʊðə/
ipa: /ˈwʊðəɹ/
ipa: /ˈwʌðəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wuthers
form: wuthering
form: wuthered
form: wuthered
Etymology: A variant of whither.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whither.
glosses: of a wind: to blow with a dull roaring, such as among trees
wuther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌðə/
ipa: /ˈwʌðɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɐðə/
ipa: /ˈwʊðə/
ipa: /ˈwʊðəɹ/
ipa: /ˈwʌðəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wuthers
Etymology: A variant of whither.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whither.
examples: text: I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat—sure by the beating rain on the easement; sure by the ‘wuther’ of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay.
ref: 1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Auld Lang Syne”, in Villette. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: the sound of a wuthering wind.
bromegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromegrasses
Etymology: From brome + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various North American grasses, of the genus Bromus, that are used for forage.
Synonyms: brome
pryde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prydes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pride.
slipper chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipper chairs
Senses: examples: text: She moved over to a slipper chair and put her head back against a white cushion that lay along the back of the chair against the wall.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, pages 241–2:
text: I was intellect itself, weighing the possibility of blocking the door with the dresser and bed, surveying the room for weapons – the elegant old hat-rack, the slipper-chairs.
ref: 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 48:
glosses: An upholstered chair with a low seat and a high back.
once-in-a-lifetime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel the world
text: With Trump in office, they see what one Gulf official called a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to achieve his country’s objectives.
ref: 2025 May 11, Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, “Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish list”, in CNN:
synonyms: of a lifetime
glosses: Likely to happen only once in one's lifetime; extremely rare.
Related terms: never event
once in a blue moon
once-in-a-generation
once in a purple moon
autapomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autapomorphies
Etymology: From aut- + apomorphy.
Senses: examples: text: In their article, these authors gave a full description of the specimen and concluded that the species was not only lacking several characteristics typical for the genus Gonocephalus but presented additional characters that would justify the removal of G. mjobergi from Gonocephalus.They abstained from naming a new genus based on autapomorphies, given that this would be of no phylogenetic relevance and limited taxonomic use, and deferred a decision until more material became available for study.
ref: 2023, Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser, “Naming And Gaming: The Illicit Taxonomic Practice Of 'Nomenclatural Harvesting' And How To Avoid It”, in Journal of Zoology, volume 320, number 3, page 164:
glosses: A derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon
Derived terms: autapomorphic
Related terms: synapomorphy
synapomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synapomorphies
Etymology: From syn- + apomorphy.
Senses: examples: text: Another supposed synapomorphy of Rhamporhynchidae + Pterodactyloidea presented by Unwin (1995) is the subequal length of metacarpals I–III. In all non-pterodactyloid specimens where this region is known metacarpals I–III are about the same length. Therefore this feature cannot be used as a synapomorphy of Rhamporhynchidae + Pterodactyloidea.
ref: 2003, Eric Buffetaut, Jean-Michel Mazin, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, page 117:
text: A “synapomorphy” for a group then amounts to a state change in a character along the corresponding branch; some synapomorphies may be ambiguous when optimization is ambiguous and multiple MPRs exist.
ref: 2022, Pablo A. Goloboff, From Observations to Optimal Phylogenetic Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data, Vol. 1:
coordinate_terms: symplesiomorphy
glosses: A derived trait that is shared by two or more taxa of shared ancestry.
Derived terms: synapomorphic
Related terms: autapomorphy
symmorphy
brucite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brucites
Etymology: From Bruce + -ite, after its discoverer, American mineralogist Archibald Bruce (1777–1818).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)₂, often found in thin foliated plates, but may be fibrous (see nemalite), of a white or greenish color and vitreous to pearly luster.
mangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mangle
mangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manglings
Senses: examples: text: After having been an inmate of our family nine years, having suffered countless frights and manglings from the many kittens we had kept in the time, he at last died by the claws of the family cat, when released one fine afternoon for an airing, and to have his cage cleaned.
ref: 1851, Edited by Mrs. M. H. Adams, Small Means and Great Ends:
text: That disc comes on the heels of Background Check, a compilation of oddities and rarities that includes obligatory (though still addictive) punk manglings of pop hits like "I Ran" and "I've Got the Music in Me," as well as presumably more respectable numbers like "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" and "12XU."
ref: 2005 April 22, Liz Armstrong, Kabir Hamid, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An act in which something is mangled
blear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪə/
ipa: /blɪɹ/
ipa: /bliə/
ipa: /bliɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /blɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: blare (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: Blair (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: more blear
form: most blear
form: bleer
Etymology: From Middle English blere, related to Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”), Middle High German blerre (“double vision”), German Blerre (“double vision”). Perhaps also related to blur.
Senses: examples: text: A Promontory Wen, with grieſly grace,
Stood high, upon the Handle of his Face:
His blear Eyes ran in gutters to his Chin:
His Beard was stubble, and his Cheeks were thin.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 95, lines 153–156:
text: The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren’s left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
ref: 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 74:
glosses: Dim; unclear from water or rheum.
raw_tags: of eyes or vision
examples: text: Thus I hurle
My dazling spells into the ſpungie aire
Of power to cheate the eye with bleare illuſion,
And give it falſe preſentments, […]
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 6, lines 153-156:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
Derived terms: blear eye
bleareyed
blearness
Related terms: bleary
Burgess Shale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪl
Forms: form: Burgess shale
Senses: glosses: A rock formation in the Canadian Rockies that contains very many fossils from the Cambrian period.
bursitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝˈsaɪ.tɪs/
Forms: form: bursitides
form: bursitises
Etymology: From bursa + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of a bursa, most common in the shoulder, elbow or knee
mulierose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mulierose
form: most mulierose
Etymology: Latin mulier (“woman”).
Senses: glosses: Fond of women.
Related terms: muliebrity
Archæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Archæan
form: most Archæan
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Archaean.
Archæan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The whole history of the earth is divided into five eras, with corresponding rock-systems. These are: 1. Archæan or Eozoic¹ era, embodied in the Laurentian system; 2. Palæozoic² era, embodied in the Palæozoic or Primary system; 3. Mesozoic³ era, recorded in the Secondary system; 4. Cenozoic,⁴ recorded in the Tertiary and Quaternary systems; and, 5. The Psychozoic era, or era of Mind, recorded in the recent system.
ref: 1883, Joseph Le Conte, Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
glosses: Archaic form of Archaean.
footless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more footless
form: most footless
Etymology: From Middle English fotles, from Old English *fōtlēas (only found as fēþelēas (“footless”)), from Proto-Germanic *fōtalausaz (“footless”), equivalent to foot + -less. Cognate with Dutch voetloos, German fußlos, Swedish fotlös, Icelandic fótalaus (“footless, legless”).
Senses: examples: text: The snake is a footless creature.
glosses: Without feet.
glosses: Clumsy or inept.
Synonyms: feetless
Derived terms: footlessly
footlessness
foozle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foozles
form: foozling
form: foozled
form: foozled
Senses: examples: text: Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.
ref: 1921 October 2, “One-handed drivers menace to public”, in Vancouver Sun, Canada, retrieved 30 Aug 2011, page 17:
text: I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.
ref: c. 1900, F. Anstey, Humor and Fantasy:
glosses: To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
Derived terms: foozler
foozle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foozles
Senses: examples: text: There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough
ref: 1838, Denis Ignatius Moriarty, The Wife Hunter:
glosses: A fogey.
examples: text: Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.
ref: 1923, Stacy Aumonier, Odd Fish:
glosses: A mistaken shot in golf.
examples: text: The original Ultima was a kill-the-foozle type of game where the goal was to destroy the Gem of Power, which was held by an evil wizard named Mondain.
ref: 2005, William Abner, Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom 2006:
topics: video-games
glosses: The final boss character in a game.
uPVC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uPVCs
form: PVCu
Senses: glosses: unplasticized polyvinyl chloride
nymphomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nymphomanics
Senses: glosses: nymphomaniac
nymphomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: nymphomaniac
colonialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈloʊ.ni.ə.lɪst/
Forms: form: more colonialist
form: most colonialist
Etymology: From colonial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Outlines of a systemic relation between society and ecology are evident with the theoretical innovations underlying the ecoimperialist and colonialist critiques.
ref: 2017, Paul Thompson, Environmental Justice:
synonyms: colonialistic
glosses: Of or pertaining to colonialism.
Derived terms: colonialistic
colonialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈloʊ.ni.ə.lɪst/
Forms: form: colonialists
Etymology: From colonial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, an extender of brands, and in very good shape.
ref: 2010 November 10, John Caramanica, “Monopoly by Marc Jacobs”, in The New York Times:
text: So far, the daily dose of quinine had been bitter and very unpalatable. […] To make the medicine go down more easily, colonialists occasionally mixed the powder with sugar, water and gin.
ref: 2014, Olivia Williams, “Gin is the Tonic”, in Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: One who supports or advocates colonialism.
Derived terms: anticolonialist
anti-colonialist
de-colonialist
decolonialist
neo-colonialist
neocolonialist
noncolonialist
non-colonialist
palaeo-colonialist
palaeocolonialist
paleocolonialist
paleo-colonialist
post-colonialist
postcolonialist
pre-colonialist
precolonialist
procolonialist
pro-colonialist
Related terms: colonial
colonialism
colonially
colonisation
colonise
colonization
colonize
colony
colonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonizers
Etymology: From colonize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who colonizes:
One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
synonyms: colonist#Noun
hypernyms: colonialist#Noun
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person#Noun
glosses: One who colonizes:
One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
synonyms: colonist#Noun
hypernyms: colonialist#Noun
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person#Noun
glosses: One who colonizes:
One who intrudes and takes over.
hypernyms: person#Noun
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that establishes itself in a new area.
examples: text: Don't scare me like that, colonizer!
ref: 2018 January 29, Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther, spoken by Shuri (Letitia Wright):
text: "Howard University is supposed to be a safe space for black people and we don't need you colonizers infiltrating it," said Charlemagne, radio personality and the co-host of The Breakfast Club.
ref: 2019 April 25, Dream McClinton, “Dog walkers at Howard University infringe on 'black Mecca', students say”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2021:
text: "Disgusted isn't even close to a word for it," they wrote. "How?? how is this okay?? she was a REAL LITTLE GIRL — to do this her, to us, over and over again… i am just at a loss. disgusting. does she not deserve rest? reclamation? honor? you colonizers make me vom," she wrote.
ref: 2022 March 9, Samantha Ibrahim, “Marvel switching 'King Conan' character after indigenous community backlash”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022:
text: Jokes and memes about colonizers' bland-ass food resonate, and not because of their originality or comedic genius; implicit in those quips is a declaration of allegiance with people whose ancestral lands were once plundered by colonial powers for spices and other riches.
ref: 2022 August 23, Jenny G. Zhang, “What We Talk About When We Talk About "White People Food"”, in Bon Appétit, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2022:
synonyms: word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
glosses: A white person.
colorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorants
Etymology: Borrowed from French colorant, equivalent to color + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: And on March 21, Virginia passed a law banning colorants from school food, effective July 1, 2027.
ref: 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN:
text: That difference is “very challenging for companies, because, for example, if a company produces 10 different products that are red, they could be using one synthetic colorant,” Giusti said. “But if they want to replace the synthetic colorant with a natural alternative, they may need to use up to 10 different natural colorants.”
ref: 2025 April 30, Kristen Rogers, “What eliminating artificial food dyes could mean for the food system”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of colourant.
Derived terms: biocolorant
colourant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlər(ə)nt/
Forms: form: colourants
form: colorant
Etymology: From colour + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A pigment, dye etc added to something to change its colour or hue.
Derived terms: biocolourant
color-coordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: color coordinated
form: colour-coordinated
form: colour coordinated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of color coordinated.
colour-coordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colour-coordinated
form: most colour-coordinated
form: color-coordinated
form: color coordinated
form: colour coordinated
Senses: glosses: Designed to have matching colours.
colossally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more colossally
form: most colossally
Etymology: From colossal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:
glosses: In a colossal manner, or to a colossal extent.
comaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comakers
Etymology: From co- + maker.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A person who endorses a promissory note.
topics: business
glosses: A company that cooperates with its buyer or supplier for the benefit of both.
Related terms: comakership
combiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combiners
Etymology: From combine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who or a thing that combines.
combings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fragments of hair etc. removed with a comb.
combustibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combustibilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being combustible
combustive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combustive
form: most combustive
Etymology: From combust + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, caused by, or partaking in combustion.
comedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedowns
form: come-down
Etymology: A deverbal from come down.
Senses: examples: text: He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
text: I have to say it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with the plumpitude of Your Sacrament; that’s to say, with the plenitude of Your Divinity and Humanity.
ref: 2000, Thomas à Kempis, “[The Sacrament of the Altar: How to Prepare for It & What It Tastes Like] Frequency”, in William Griffin, transl., The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Live […] A Contemporary Version, HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 238:
text: “So how are you getting on at UCL?” said Penny kindly, as if it must be a sorry comedown after Oxford.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: downgrade#Noun
glosses: A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A calm, mellow, or depressive period experienced after the (initial) high from taking drugs.
Related terms: crash
degradation
mellowed out
come-hither
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more come-hither
form: most come-hither
form: come hither
Senses: examples: text: Well, I wait in Leicester Square / with a come-hither look in my eye / Yeah, I'm leaning on Nelson's Column / but all I do is talk to the lions
ref: 1970, Jagger–Richards, “Schoolboy Blues”, performed by The Rolling Stones:
text: The sort of woman with crimson hair and rainbow petticoats, come-hither eyes and a throaty laugh.
ref: 1986, Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine:
glosses: Seductive or alluring.
Derived terms: come-hithery
come-hither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come-hithers
form: come hither
Senses: glosses: An act intended to attract sexual interest.
glosses: A persuasive attitude; a binding spell
come hither
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more come hither
form: most come hither
Senses: examples: text: And now she knows, just what those fluttering eyelashes can do, just what that come hither look means.
ref: 2004, Arti N Sheth, Another Day in Bongoland:
glosses: Alternative spelling of come-hither.
come hither
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to direct a horse to move to the left.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, hither.
comfortingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comfortingly
form: most comfortingly
Etymology: From comforting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a comforting manner
comically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɪk(ə)li/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɪk(ə)li/
Forms: form: more comically
form: most comically
Etymology: From comical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.
ref: 2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a comical manner.
commendably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛndəbli/
Forms: form: more commendably
form: most commendably
Etymology: From late Middle English commendably; equivalent to commendable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Condoleezza Rice pops up on Fox to be told by the anchor: “When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime.” With a solemn nod, the former secretary of state to George Bush replies: “It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order.” She maintains a commendably straight face.
ref: 2022 March 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a commendable manner.
compactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compactly
form: most compactly
Etymology: From compact + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compact manner
comparably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmˈpæɹəbl̩i/
ipa: /kəmˈpɛɹəbl̩i/
Forms: form: more comparably
form: most comparably
Etymology: From comparable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a comparable manner.
compatibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compatibly
form: most compatibly
Etymology: From compatible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compatible manner
Derived terms: backwards-compatibly
compositely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compositely
form: most compositely
Etymology: From composite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a composite manner
compulsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compulsively
form: most compulsively
Etymology: From compulsive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compulsive manner; obsessively.
comradely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comradely
form: most comradely
Etymology: From comrade + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Now, if you ever want to put anythin' out of sight, Julia," commented Ferd, with a comradely wink, "you'll know how to do it […]"
ref: 1932, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter I, in Forgive Us Our Trespasses, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
text: Land must be cleared before there was much stock-work for sheep and cattle dogs. But Bobtails were comradely; they guarded the men from the desperate loneliness in those isolated places.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Punk”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship; companionable.
examples: text: Heather was thinking not of the dead, but of the incorrigible living, of him whom she had striven hard, not with tears and common female wiles but with comradely devotion, to save from his worst enemy, himself.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 165:
text: During the trial they conferred together amiably in whispers, continued their comradely discussions during recesses.
ref: 1957 June 3, “A Question of Justice”, in Time:
text: I touch her cheek, take her hand. On this bleak hillside in mid-morning I can find no trace in myself of that stupefied eroticism that used to draw me night after night to her body or even of the comradely affection of the road.
ref: 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Secker & Warburg, page 99:
text: Much of Kühne's work is based on an analysis of comradely ideals constructed and sanctified, especially by right-wing groups, in the interwar years.
ref: 2014, Jason Crouthamel, An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War, Palgrave Macmillan, Introduction, p. 8:
glosses: Of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades.
Derived terms: comradeliness
uncomradeliness
uncomradely
comradely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comradely
form: most comradely
Etymology: From comrade + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He smiled at her as he had before they were lovers; the breasts and thighs and backsides, knees, feet and arms comradely crowded together on the truck seemed to deny the reality of the physical presence he had lent her in a hotel room in Dar.
ref: 1980, Nadine Gordimer, “A Hunting Accident”, in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, published 1982, page 59:
glosses: In the manner of a comrade.
concavely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concavely
form: most concavely
Etymology: From concave + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a concave manner.
concentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concentrically
form: most concentrically
Etymology: From concentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a concentric manner
conceptually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛp.tjʊə.li/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊə.li/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃu.ə.li/
ipa: /kənˈsep.t͡ʃʉ.ə.li/
Forms: form: more conceptually
form: most conceptually
Etymology: From conceptual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The end of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium have bore witness to a remarkable revolution in the way parasite/host biological interactions can be conceptually designed and experimentally studied.
ref: 2006 February 10, Karl F. Hoffman, Jennifer M. Fitzpatrick, “The Application of DNA Microarrays in the Functional Study of Schisostome/Host Biology”, in W. Evan Secor, Daniel G. Colley, editors, Schistosomiasis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 101:
synonyms: conceptionally
;
notionally
glosses: In a conceptual manner.
Derived terms: preconceptually
concertedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concertedly
form: most concertedly
Etymology: From concerted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a concerted manner
confusingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confusingly
form: most confusingly
Etymology: From confusing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a confusing manner
congenially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more congenially
form: most congenially
Etymology: From congenial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a congenial manner
congenitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From congenital + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a congenital manner; from birth.
congruently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more congruently
form: most congruently
Etymology: From congruent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Illuminated by a congruently curved overhead light in the darkened gallery, it sparkles like an oversized necklace of semi-precious stones.
ref: 2010 October 29, Ken Johnson, “William Lamson: ‘A Line Describing the Sun’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a congruent manner.
conically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conically
form: most conically
Etymology: From conical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conical manner.
hotelward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hotel + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: After a day at the beach, we made our way hotelward for dinner.
glosses: Toward a hotel.
stationward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From station + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a station
classward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From class + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a class
farmward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From farm + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a farm
glosses: toward farming
farmward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From farm + -ward.
Senses: qualifier: Of a movement; migration; Of a movement; migration
glosses: which leads to more farming
shopward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From shop + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: As the morning sun was exposing his countenance for about the thousandth time since Elnathan Yardstick had left the employment of his old master, and set up in the 'dry goods-line' for himself, the said Elnathan was seen to issue from his father's mansion and wend his way shopward, with a strap-encircled bundle of account books under one arm, a small leather brass-nailed trunk in his opposite hand, and the iron key to his repository, of earthly goods and chattels, peeping from the aperture of his coat pocket.
ref: 1836, “Elnathan Yardstick”, in Atkinson's Casket, volume 11, page 262:
glosses: Toward a shop.
storeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From store + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a store.
crowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crow
crowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: crowings
Senses: examples: text: The tiny mouth is uttering the most satisfied of crowings, and her eyes have that pure, soft expression never seen except in baby eyes.
ref: 1865, Methodist Episcopal Church, Ladies' Repository:
glosses: A cry of joy or pleasure.
Derived terms: cockcrowing
Related terms: child-crowing
crowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəʊd/
ipa: /kɹoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crow
ravened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raven
bartering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barter
bartering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barterings
Senses: examples: text: Ralph Walker, a white small landowner, remembered farmers swapping chickens or hogs for wheat in the 1930s. Many others described similar barterings of vegetables, fish, wild berries, fruit, and labor among members of extended families […]
ref: 2006, Mark Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow, page 27:
glosses: barter
bartered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barter
wintering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of winter
wintering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winterings
Senses: examples: text: Other winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.
ref: 2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia:
glosses: The act of staying at a place throughout the winter.
wintered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of winter
interwikiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interwiki
interwikied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interwiki
liberos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libero
penciling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pencil
penciling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencilings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pencilling.
penciled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pencil
penciled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pencilled
nanoseconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanosecond
bunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunk
academicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academician
greened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːnd/
rhymes: -iːnd
Forms: form: more greened
form: most greened
Senses: glosses: That is covered in green.
glosses: That has sprouted new leaves or has been covered with vegetation.
Derived terms: ungreened
Related terms: greened-out
greened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːnd/
rhymes: -iːnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of green
weekending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weekend
weekended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weekend
skewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skew
skewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skewings
Senses: examples: unfair skewings of the evidence
glosses: The act of making something skewed; an alteration in a particular direction.
quailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkweɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quail
quailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkweɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: quailings
Senses: examples: text: […] the old man, who had never before known the quailings of fear, was loath in such a tremendous gale to rush, as he considered on certain death.
ref: 1841, William D. Reider, The new tablet of memory, page 52:
glosses: The act of one who quails, or draws back in fear.
quailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kweɪld/
rhymes: -eɪld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quail
brothered
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English brotherrede (“brotherhood”). More at brotherred.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brotherred.
brothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From brother (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brother
pigmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pigment
pigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigmented
form: most pigmented
Derived terms: dyspigmented
hyperpigmented
hypopigmented
nonpigmented
overpigmented
underpigmented
unpigmented
pigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: antonyms: nonpigmented
unpigmented
depigmented
glosses: simple past and past participle of pigment
leafleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leaflet
leafleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leaflet
bucketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucketings
Senses: examples: text: […] by means of a spade only, without any of the filthy ladlings and bucketings which accompany the clearing a cesspool.
ref: 1870, Henry Julian Hunter, Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers, page 142:
glosses: The act of moving material using a bucket.
examples: text: […] it was still obviously still pouring not to^([sic]) far away and they hoped to complete their journey without being further delayed by another bucketing.
ref: 2017, Don Reis, The Glorious Effervescence of Blubbo, page 66:
glosses: A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
glosses: Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”).
synonyms: word: binning
extra: data pre-processing technique
bucketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bucket
bucketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bucket
upbraided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbraid
handfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handful
Romanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanian
downing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of down
downing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: downings
Senses: examples: text: In several recent helicopter downings, the attackers used a variety of weapons[…].
ref: 2007 February 18, Michael R. Gordon, “Planning Seen in Iraqi Attacks on U.S. Copters”, in New York Times:
glosses: An occasion on which something is downed.
examples: text: This was not just a downing of fierce rivals for the home side, it was three precious points to go towards their quest to stay in the top flight.
ref: 2013 November 3, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online:
glosses: A defeat.
ribboning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ribbon
ribboned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribboned
form: most ribboned
Etymology: From Middle English ribaned, equivalent to ribbon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Adorned or ornamented with ribbons.
ribboned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English ribaned, equivalent to ribbon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ribbon
graduates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graduate
graduates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of graduate
inflecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inflect
verbaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verbal
verbaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verbal
bricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brick
bricking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: brickings
Senses: examples: text: […] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]
ref: 1998, Edward Denmark, Not for Queen and Country, page 153:
glosses: The act of pelting with bricks.
topics: law
glosses: A type of return fraud in which a working electronic item is purchased, then deliberately damaged or stripped of valuable components in order to render it unusable, and then returned to the merchant for a refund as a profit.
bricked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: more bricked
form: most bricked
Etymology: From brick + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: bricked up
qualifier: slightly vulgar
glosses: Having a hard-on or erection.
bricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Etymology: From brick + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brick
engendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engender
engendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engenderings
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, it contains three implied narratives of each of the three divine engenderings.
ref: 1977, Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate:
glosses: The act by which something is engendered.