cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
veniality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venialities
Etymology: From venial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: When he heard him in after years accused of shameless veniality, of trickery, lying, duplicity, even murder, he always remembered that impulsive revelation--never repeated--of a warped, unhappy childhood, of a perverted destiny. Mr. Morris came to him later as he stood leaning against the wall behind the chair of Madame de Chastellux. "
ref: 1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore:
text: However enraged I might be at the new revelation of Addicks' extraordinary veniality, the other elements in the situation remained as before.
ref: 1905, Thomas W. Lawson, Frenzied Finance:
synonyms: venialness
glosses: The quality of being venial (pardonable).
synonyms: peccadillo
glosses: A venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour.
venialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veniality
valiaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of valiance.
uncorrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorrupt
form: most uncorrupt
Etymology: From un- + corrupt.
Senses: examples: text: What this city needs is an uncorrupt police force.
glosses: Not corrupt; honest, fair.
examples: text: An uncorrupt dead body was thought to be a vampire.
glosses: Not having decayed.
uncorruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorruptible
form: most uncorruptible
Senses: glosses: Synonym of incorruptible.
synonyms: word: incorruptible
uncorruptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorruptable
form: most uncorruptable
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of incorruptible.
veilless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From veil + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He drove the dust against her veilless eyes
ref: 1874, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:
glosses: Without a veil.
veale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veales
Senses: examples: text: Biefe, Mutton, and Porke, shred pies of the best, Pig, veale, goose, and capon, and Turkey well drest.
ref: 1894, John Ashton, A Righte Merrie Christmasse:
text: And so I to my Lord Crew's, thinking to have dined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother's and Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the Black Spread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some bread, cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner[…]
ref: 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1663:
glosses: Obsolete form of veal.
veales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veale
varmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There's things folks 'ud pay to be rid on, besides varmin.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner:
text: Powerful sight of varmin there allers be round they sheds and places.
ref: 1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard:
glosses: vermin
vegetive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vegetable
synonyms: vegetative
glosses: Of or pertaining to vegetation.
vegetive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetives
Senses: examples: text: I have
(Together with my practice) made familiar
To me and to my aid, the blest infusions
That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Hence vegetives receive their fragrant birth, / And clothe the naked bosom of the earth.
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: vegetable
vegetives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetive
vaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vane + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: More spectacularly, the end of Protoarchaeopteryxs tail sported a fan of feathers that are vaned', suggesting the presence of barbules.
ref: 2001 January 12, Erik Stokstad, “THE FOSSILS: Exquisite Chinese Fossils Add New Pages to Book of Life”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI, pages 232–236:
glosses: Having a vane or vanes.
ultramicrotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramicrotome
valewe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valewes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of value.
valewes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valewe
valew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valews
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of value.
valews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valew
vagabondize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vagabondizes
form: vagabondizing
form: vagabondized
form: vagabondized
Etymology: From vagabond + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Well, last summer, I was out that way among the lakes that lie sleeping in beauty, and along the streams that flow through the old woods, playing the savage and vagabondizing in a promiscuous way.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: "Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village."
ref: 1874, Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards, In the Days of My Youth:
glosses: To act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
vagabondizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vagabondize
vagabondizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vagabondize
vagabondized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vagabondize
vandyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vænˈdaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: vandykes
form: Van Dyke
form: Van Dyck
form: Vandyck
form: Vandyke
Etymology: Named after 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.
Senses: glosses: An edge with ornamental triangular points.
examples: text: He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: Raj, you will be painting sideburns and a Van Dyke on a six-inch figurine of Legolas the elf.
ref: 2009 May 11, Eric Kaplan, Richard Rosenstock, “The Monopolar Expedition”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 23, spoken by Sheldon Cooper:
synonyms: Vandyke beard
glosses: A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century.
glosses: A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations.
vandyke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vænˈdaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: vandykes
form: vandyking
form: vandyked
form: vandyked
form: Van Dyke
form: Van Dyck
form: Vandyck
form: Vandyke
Etymology: Named after 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.
Senses: examples: text: Again I searched, and found a most diabolical pair of cock-nosed shears, capable of vandyking the interiors of elephants.
ref: 1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work, volume 1:
text: The travellers had not advanced many paces towards them before the peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky and docking the last sparse branches of the elms. Mr. Thomasson's exclamation of relief, as he surveyed the building, was cut short by the harsh rattle of a chain, followed by the roar of a watch-dog, as it bounded from the kennel; in a second a horrid raving and baying, as of a score of hounds, awoke the night.
ref: 1898, Stanley John Weyman, The Castle Inn:
glosses: To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.
vandyking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vandykings
Senses: examples: text: Her charms were set off by the mourning dress which she wore, and by the robe called the quintise, which was an upper tunic without sleeves, with bordered vandyking and scalloping worked and notched in various patterns, worn so long behind that it swept the floor, but in front held up gracefully with one hand so as not to impede the step.
ref: a. 1864, John G. Edgar, The Boy Crusaders:
glosses: Edging with ornamental triangular points.
vandyking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vandyke
vandyked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vandyke
vandykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vandyke
vandykes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vandyke
unaccentuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccentuated
form: most unaccentuated
Etymology: From un- + accentuated.
Senses: examples: an unaccentuated syllable
glosses: Not accentuated.
uncheery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncheery
form: most uncheery
Etymology: From un- + cheery.
Senses: examples: text: We owe them nothing but good will; for we rather regard things poetically than politically, and we are anxious to inform and amuse the reader--not to perplex, by constantly reminding him of his uncheery lot in life.
ref: 1832, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 584:
text: On the whole, I have sat under the wing of Saint Swithin; uncheery, sluggish, murky, as the wettest of his Days;--hoping always, nevertheless, that blue sky, figurative and real, does exist, and will demonstrate itself by and by.
ref: 1834-1872, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson,:
text: From whatever reason, the fact remains that his letters are by no means uncheery reading; his books and study, most of all his friendships (with one fellow-captive especially), seem to have kept him contented and even happy.
ref: 1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 7, 1917.:
synonyms: word: cheerless
word: despondent
word: uncheerful
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
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: Not cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
uncommunicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommunicable
form: most uncommunicable
Etymology: From un- + communicable.
Senses: examples: text: But within herself nothing was changed; the same little soul was now as it had been long ago, she could hear it talking, living its intense life within her unknown to everyone, an uncommunicable thing, unchanged among much change.
ref: 1929, George Moore, Evelyn Innes:
glosses: Impossible to communicate.
unchangingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unchanging + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unchanging; constancy.
unchangedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unchanged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: After my long absence, I was immediately struck by the unchangedness of the town.
glosses: The quality of being unchanged.
unconquerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconquerably
form: most unconquerably
Etymology: From unconquerable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Our rural tracts--where no Babel-chimney scales the heavens--are without mighty objects to fill the soul with the sense of an outer world unconquerably aloof from our efforts.
ref: 1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such:
text: Mr. EDMUND GOSSE contributes a foreword to the present volume, in which he draws a pathetic picture of the author, still unconquerably young, despite his years, facing the future with only one fear, that of the unemployment to which his increasing deafness, and the break-up of the world as it was before the War, seemed to be condemning him.
ref: 1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917:
glosses: In an unconquerable manner.
uncommendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommendable
form: most uncommendable
Etymology: From un- + commendable.
Senses: examples: text: During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the Gothic.
ref: 1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader:
text: He arrived at the Eighty-second Street apartment about six o'clock in the evening, and, after studying the dingy name-plates, took the five flights of stairs with uncommendable speed, and presented himself at the rear door on the sixth floor.
ref: 1921, Alice Hegan Rice, Quin:
glosses: Not commendable.
uncomforted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomforted
form: most uncomforted
Etymology: From un- + comforted.
Senses: examples: text: Shall you never go with any one; shall you and I, so near to each other, with so much to keep us together, go always uncomforted.
ref: 1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence:
text: And the two women mourned, uncomforted.
ref: 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:
text: I hope that my philosopher may yet walk on the hills with me, if only for the sake of the love I bear the green valleys; and when I see the great stream passing silently from translucent pool to pool, overhung by rowans and sun-warmed rocks, I shall be glad to think that I have walked on the heights where it was gathered and drawn, and that I have heard it talk hoarsely to itself, cold and uncomforted, among the bleak and dripping stones.
ref: 1913, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Silent Isle:
glosses: Not comforted.
uncherished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncherished
form: most uncherished
Etymology: From un- + cherished.
Senses: examples: text: The reason why the primrose was said to "die unmarried," is, according to Warton, because it grows in the shade uncherished or unseen by the sun, who was supposed to be in love with certain sorts of flowers.
ref: 1855, David Lester Richardson, Flowers and Flower-Gardens:
text: We must go through life unloved and uncherished, bringing princes into the world, seeing happiness and love just beyond our reach all the time.
ref: 1908, George Barr McCutcheon, The Man From Brodney's:
glosses: Not cherished.
uncommissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + commissioned.
Senses: examples: text: One single individual, amidst a vast empire nearly overthrown, surveys its danger with steady eye: he measures, he appreciates it, and ventures, perhaps uncommissioned, to devote all the public and private interests a sacrifice to it.
ref: 1825, Count Philip de Segur, History of the Expedition to Russia:
text: Why should not a widow, having two uncommissioned sons in the army, have her remaining son exempt, as well as if her husband were still living?
ref: 1864, Various, The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I:
glosses: Not commissioned.
unconcealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconcealable
form: most unconcealable
Etymology: From un- + concealable.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding his clothes, there was an air of breeding about him, unconcealable, a thing apart, even, from his good looks.
ref: 1917, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Cinema Murder:
synonyms: inconcealable
glosses: That cannot be concealed.
unconscientious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconscientious
form: most unconscientious
Etymology: From un- + conscientious.
Senses: examples: text: This enabled an unconscientious builder to furnish bulky architectural masses, which presented a specious aspect of solidity and looked more costly than they really were.
ref: 1506, John Addington Symonds, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti:
glosses: Not conscientious.
unconsulted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + consulted.
Senses: examples: text: And, I believe, my lords, all the other general officers were equally unconsulted, and would, if their advice had been asked, equally have disapproved the measures that have been pursued.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10.:
text: And man's first thoughts of the world and the strangely romantic life he is suddenly called up, out of nothingness, to live, unconsulted, uninstructed, left to feel his way in the blinding radiance up into which he has been mysteriously thrust[…]
ref: 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:
glosses: Not consulted.
uncalcified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + calcified.
Senses: examples: text: The amplitude images are highly detailed and exhibit variations in acoustic emission from both calcified and uncalcified regions of the diseased artery.
ref: 1998 April 3, Mostafa Fatemi, James F. Greenleaf, “Ultrasound-Stimulated Vibro-Acoustic Spectrography”, in Science, volume 280, number 5360, →DOI, pages 82–85:
text: Moreover, the lepralielliform ovicell, in which the ectooecium is entirely calcified though perforated by numerous pseudopores, precludes these species from being affiliated with taxa having a microporelliform ovicell, in which the ectooecium is uncalcified.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not calcified.
uncalculable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncalculable
form: most uncalculable
Etymology: From un- + calculable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to calculate.
Synonyms: incalculable
uncontagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontagious
form: most uncontagious
Etymology: From un- + contagious.
Senses: examples: text: His breathlessly ardent attempts to infuse the role with import founder on the lack of any erotic feeling between him and his screaming victim, played with uncontagious hysteria by Penny Slusher.
ref: 1990 October 19, Lawrence Bommer, “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom/The Passion of Dracula”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not contagious.
undebased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undebased
form: most undebased
Etymology: From un- + debased.
Senses: examples: text: But thy free bounty, undebased by pride, Prompt to anticipate the meek request, Unask'd the wants of modest Worth supplied, And spared the pang that shook the suppliant's breast.
ref: 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828):
text: Dancing, which is not only rhythmic movement, pure and simple, undebased with any element of utility, but is capable of performance under conditions positively baneful, is for these reasons the most engaging of them all[…]
ref: 1966, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8:
glosses: Not debased.
unbetrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + betrayed.
Senses: examples: text: The yet unbetrayed traitor stayed after the searchers were gone.
ref: 1901, Allan Fea, Secret Chambers and Hiding Places:
text: […]to league himself with two criminals, assist them to enter the house and to escape from it, and hope to come off unscathed and unsuspected and forever unbetrayed.
ref: 1921, Edward Lucas White, Andivius Hedulio:
glosses: Not betrayed.
unbetrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbetray
unbetrothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + betrothed.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth in consequence remained unbetrothed, and her father soon afterwards secured to himself a more strenuous ally in the earl of Lenox, also of the blood-royal of Scotland, by bestowing upon this nobleman the hand, not of his daughter, but of his niece the lady Margaret Douglas.
ref: 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:
text: The early pledging and marriage of the children has reduced illicit sexual intercourse to a minimum; nevertheless, it sometimes happens that an unbetrothed girl, not a pota, is found to be pregnant.
ref: 1922, Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian:
glosses: Not betrothed.
unanswering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + answering.
Senses: examples: text: Lying so, her face turned up against it, her stiffened lips kissing the very dumb, unanswering wood, a thought came to her.
ref: 1869, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts:
text: He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him.
ref: 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo:
glosses: Giving no answer; unresponsive.
unannoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unannoyed
form: most unannoyed
Etymology: From un- + annoyed.
Senses: examples: text: Being a large commercial place, he here expects to behold all the happy effects of the new constitution; he congratulates himself on travelling at a period when he can procure information, and discuss his political opinions, unannoyed by fears of state prisons, and spies of the police.
ref: 1792, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
text: He has loafed, seen the country and green things, laughed in joy, lain on his back and listened to the birds singing overhead, unannoyed by factory whistles and bosses' harsh commands; and, most significant of all, he has lived!
ref: 1912, Jack London, War of the Classes:
glosses: Not annoyed.
annualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annualizations
Etymology: From annual + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of annualizing.
annualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annualization
undelaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undelaying
form: most undelaying
Etymology: From un- + delaying.
Senses: glosses: Not delaying; prompt.
undisfigured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisfigured
form: most undisfigured
Etymology: From un- + disfigured.
Senses: examples: text: Let then the beauty be undisfigured and the retirement unviolated, unless there be reason for believing that rights and interests of a higher kind and more apparent than those which have been urged in behalf of the projected intrusion will compensate the sacrifice.
ref: 1876, William Wordsworth, The Prose Works of William Wordsworth:
text: Last week a woman whom she knew had had her nose broken in an automobile accident, and as she remembered this it seemed to her that the mere fact of her undisfigured features was sufficient to be the cause of joyful gratitude.
ref: 1906, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, The Wheel of Life:
glosses: Not disfigured.
undiseased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiseased
form: most undiseased
Etymology: From un- + diseased.
Senses: examples: text: He was a contemplative, rather stout gentleman, of excellent digestion--of quiet perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis, happy in his inability to know the causes of things, preferring the things themselves.
ref: 1884, George Willis Cooke, George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy:
text: But loveliness of colour, perfectness of form, endlessness of change, wonderfulness of structure, are precious to all undiseased human minds; and the superiority of the mountains in all these things to the lowland is, I repeat, as measurable as the richness of a painted window matched with a white one, or the wealth of a museum compared with that of a simply furnished chamber.
ref: 1913, Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.), English Prose:
glosses: Not diseased.
undiscouraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiscouraged
form: most undiscouraged
Etymology: From un- + discouraged.
Senses: examples: text: Though they were attentive and inquisitive, it was long before fruit appeared; but undiscouraged, she, with prayer and faith, continued to sow beside all waters. Mrs. Judson was surprised at the native intelligence and reflecting minds possessed by some of the Burmese women.
ref: 1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal:
text: When out of work and still undiscouraged, he has been forced to "hit the road" between large cities in his quest for a job.
ref: 1912, Jack London, War of the Classes:
glosses: Not discouraged.
undevout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undevout
form: most undevout
Etymology: From un- + devout.
Senses: examples: text: If we could but remember that, there would be no fear of our being ungodly, irreligious, undevout.
ref: 1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons:
text: Larry was undevout, careless, thinking little of spiritual things, so little, that he had scarcely troubled himself either to question or to accept what he had been taught, but he was quick to respond to emotion of any kind; now he listened, with an unaccustomed reverence, to Barty's voice, brokenly whispering the prayers of his Church.
ref: 1920, E. Oe. Somerville, Martin Ross, Mount Music:
glosses: Not devout.
undespairing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undespairing
form: most undespairing
Etymology: From un- + despairing.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever may have been his thoughts, the undespairing Norman grappled with his troubles in the usual way.
ref: 1898, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Heroes of the Middle West:
glosses: Not despairing.
underivative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underivative
form: most underivative
Etymology: From un- + derivative.
Senses: examples: text: The ideas of substance and of the attributes are conceived through themselves, or immediately (intuitively) cognized; they are underivative, original, self-evident ideas.
ref: 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:
glosses: Not derivative.
undelighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undelighted
form: most undelighted
Etymology: From un- + delighted.
Senses: examples: text: While ravish'd fancy vivifies the form, While judgment toils to analyze its charm, While admiration spreads her speaking hands, The lofty artist undelighted stands[…]
ref: 1808, Thomas Gent, Poetic Sketches:
text: And renew, by necessity, / Night after night your courses, / In echoing, unnear'd silence, / Above a race you know not-- / Uncaring and undelighted, / Without friend and without home[…]
ref: 1891, Matthew Arnold, Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold:
glosses: Not delighted.
undelightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undelightful
form: most undelightful
Etymology: From un- + delightful.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]our Harriet may turn gadfly, and never be eaſy but vvhen ſhe is forming parties, or giving vvay to them, that may make the home, that hitherto has been the chief ſcene of her pleaſures, undelightful to her.
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XVIII. Miss Byron. In Continuation.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 125:
text: Every trick that money can play with the most lavish abundance of water is here exhibited; nor is the sight of a jet d'eau, or the murmur of an artificial cascade, undelightful in a hot day, let the Nature-mongers say what they please.
ref: 1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I:
text: However, ironically, it has also been pointed out that until the excess of nutrients in the upper estuary is eliminated, such clearing of the water could very possibly cause a great increase in the already disastrous algae blooms, by allowing sunlight to penetrate to greater depths and foster more production of this undelightful greenery.
ref: 1968, United States Department of the Interior, The Nation's River:
glosses: Not delightful.
undeflected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deflected.
Senses: examples: text: By sliding this prism in front of the spectrum I can deflect outward any portion of the spectrum I like, and by a mirror can reflect it through a second lens, forming a patch of light on the screen overlapping the patch of light formed by the undeflected rays.
ref: 1887, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887:
text: A lump of matter flying in space might enter our solar system with such speed as to be able to pass through and go on its way almost undeflected.
ref: 1920, Various, Recent Developments in European Thought:
glosses: Not deflected.
undiminishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiminishing
form: most undiminishing
Etymology: From un- + diminishing.
Senses: examples: text: Their misery, however, was an undiminishing burden, yea, even in the days in which, according to Erasmus, it was joy to live.
ref: 1892, Gustav Karpeles, Jewish Literature and Other Essays:
text: We saw freshly-killed horses on the roadside, and in the Grande Place in "Pop" the fresh shell holes showed that the process of hammering was still going on with undiminishing vigour.
ref: 1917, George G. Nasmith, On the Fringe of the Great Fight:
glosses: Not diminishing.
unforeknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + foreknown.
Senses: examples: text: Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, / Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: And, no doubt, it was destiny of a sort, unforeknown, deceitful, apparently malignant, that sent Charlotte back again to Brussels after her aunt's death.
ref: 1912, May Sinclair, The Three Bront:
glosses: Not known in advance.
unexemplified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exemplified.
Senses: examples: text: It is remarkable that, in reviewing my collection, I found the word SEA unexemplified.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes:
text: Would it not be an unexemplified unthankfulness to requite rebellion to him, for so much unparalleled affection?
ref: a. 1653, Hugh Binning, The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning:
glosses: Not exemplified; of which no example has been seen.
uneffaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + effaced.
Senses: examples: text: She knew her baby through his manly stature and mature features, less from his likeness to his father than from certain uneffaced traces of infantine form and expression.
ref: 1874, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry:
text: If there is any truth in the old adage that a burnt child dreads the fire, I ought to be very loath to touch a sermon, while the memory of what befell me on a recent occasion, possibly not yet forgotten by the readers of the Nineteenth Century, is uneffaced.
ref: 1902, T. H. Huxley, Collected Essays, Volume V:
glosses: Not effaced.
Vandyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vandykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of vandyke.
unemancipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unemancipated
form: most unemancipated
Etymology: From un- + emancipated.
Senses: examples: text: Outside lay emancipated Berrytown, to unemancipated Kitty only a dumb panorama: inside, her meals, her lessons and perpetual consultations with her mother on bias folds and gussets while they made their dresses or sewed for the Indian missions.
ref: 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science:
text: The first reason is that the unemancipated teacher instinctively does to-day what he did twenty years ago, and that twenty years ago, when children were examined in reading from their own books, the teacher heard them read aloud, day after day in order that he might make sure that they knew their books well enough to pass the inspector's test.
ref: 1912, Edmond Holmes, What Is and What Might Be:
glosses: Not emancipated.
unenjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenjoyed
form: most unenjoyed
Etymology: From un- + enjoyed.
Senses: examples: text: For I think it truth that a life uncommanded now is uncommanded; a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed; a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely: for the past is gone and no one knows the future.
ref: 1909, David Grayson, Great Possessions:
text: A thousand gay and pleasant hours are wasted in ill-humor; we let them slip by unenjoyed, and sigh for them in vain when the sky is overcast.
ref: a. 1900, T. Bailey Saunders, M.A., Counsels and Maxims:
glosses: Not enjoyed.
Vandykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vandyke
unessayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + essayed.
Senses: examples: text: The standing instructions of our representatives at Madrid and Havana have for years been to leave no effort unessayed to further these ends, and at no time has the equal good desire of Spain been more hopefully manifested than now.
ref: 1889, Grover Cleveland, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents:
text: If ever it should be necessary to encounter it, if I were pursued like a wild beast, till I could no longer avoid turning upon my hunters, I would then turn upon the true author of this unprincipled attack; I would encounter the calumny in its strong hold; I would rouse myself to an exertion hitherto unessayed; and, by the firmness, intrepidity, and unalterable constancy I should display, would yet compel mankind to believe Mr. Falkland a suborner and a murderer!
ref: 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
glosses: Not essayed; unattempted.
unjarring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjarring
form: most unjarring
Etymology: From un- + jarring.
Senses: glosses: Not jarring; smooth.
unjarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unjar
unexhaustible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexhaustible
form: most unexhaustible
Etymology: From un- + exhaustible.
Senses: examples: text: He was a perfect matter of the Greek, Latin and French languages; and, which is seldom known to happen, had at once such a prodigious memory, and unexhaustible fund of wit, as would have singly been admired, and much more united.
ref: 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland:
text: He began to tell them of the white man's food, of its variety and unexhaustible quantity.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 130:
glosses: Not exhaustible; endless; inexhaustible.
unenvying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenvying
form: most unenvying
Etymology: From un- + envying.
Senses: examples: text: Even Sir Ralph was struck with her extreme gracefulness, and pointed her out to Mistress Nicholas, who, unenvying and amiable, joined heartily in his praises.
ref: 1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches:
text: "I think not," said Mrs. Markham, with a glance at Julia, who, never withdrawing her eyes, stood with lips slightly apart, and her face bright with unenvying admiration.
ref: 1873, A. G. Riddle, Bart Ridgeley:
glosses: Not envying.
unenvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenvious
form: most unenvious
Etymology: From un- + envious.
Senses: examples: text: I am as sure as if I had omniscient sight into the depths of his good heart that he has distinct and unenvious joy in every pleasure that he sees other people taking.
ref: 1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters:
text: Eleanor's sweet eyes shone so kindly on her successful rival, and she showed so frank and unenvious an admiration of Sylvia's wit and learning, displayed perhaps a trifle ostentatiously by that young lady in the ensuing conversation with Mrs. Draper, that Sylvia had a fresh, healing impulse of shame for her own recently acquired attitude of triumphing hostility towards the world.
ref: 1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig:
glosses: Not envious.
unenviously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unenviously
form: most unenviously
Etymology: From unenvious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without envy.
undivined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + divined.
Senses: examples: text: In the actual sounds of many of the Hebrew letters lies a singular power, unguessed by the majority, undivined especially, of course, by the mere scholar, but available for the pure in heart who may discover how to use their extraordinary values.
ref: 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord:
text: He looked up at the sound of the swift step and the sudden stir, and for one instant their eyes met--an inscrutable look, fraught with an undivined meaning.
ref: 1912, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Ordeal:
glosses: Not divined.
undomestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undomestic
form: most undomestic
Etymology: From un- + domestic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet one word more of personal concern-- Since I withdrew unwillingly from France, I led an undomestic wanderer's life, 350 In London chiefly harboured, whence I roamed, Tarrying at will in many a pleasant spot Of rural England's cultivated vales Or Cambrian solitudes.
ref: 1896, William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III:
text: Kate knew it was not really home, but she had to admit that these busy undomestic moderns had found a good substitute for it: or, at least, that, taking their domesticity through the mediumship of Mrs. Dennison, they contrived to absorb enough of it to keep them going.
ref: 1914, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, The Precipice:
glosses: Not domestic.
undrooping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undrooping
form: most undrooping
Etymology: From un- + drooping.
Senses: examples: text: A good deed done hath memory's blest perfume,-- A day of self-forgetfulness, all given To holy charity, hath perennial bloom That goes, undrooping, up from earth to heaven.
ref: 1851, Sam G. Goodrich, Poems:
text: Her eye was clear, her skin fresh, her shoulders undrooping.
ref: 1900, Emerson Hough, The Girl at the Halfway House:
glosses: Not drooping.
undulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undulled
form: most undulled
Etymology: From un- + dulled.
Senses: examples: text: How can we help admiring that open and cheerful brow which, as yet, no care or sin has furrowed; those light and active limbs, full of health and vigour; the eye so quick; the ear so undulled; the memory so ready; the young curiosity so eager to take in new knowledge; the young feelings, not yet spoiled by over-excitement, ready to admire, ready to love?
ref: 1856, Thomas Arnold, The Christian Life:
text: In order to keep his intellect undulled by the routine of his dreary work, Matthew Arnold was wont to write a few lines of poetry each day.
ref: 1912, Arthur E. P. B. Weigall, The Treasury of Ancient Egypt:
glosses: Not dulled; sharp or alert.
undistinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistinguishing
form: most undistinguishing
Etymology: From un- + distinguishing.
Senses: examples: text: Nor can we avoid ascribing the undistinguishing and extravagant applause, that has been bestowed upon the style, to the same source of fashion, the rank, the fortune, the connexions of the writer.
ref: 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
text: What had she to say that would not humble herself and pain her family; that would not increase her own grief by the confession of it, extend an useless resentment, and perhaps involve the innocent with the guilty in undistinguishing ill-will?
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 276:
text: It is a simplicity wrought out by knowledge and skill; not the rough product of an undistinguishing, sweeping general principle.
ref: 1923, Daniel Webster, The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster:
glosses: Failing to distinguish; undiscerning.
unenfeebled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenfeebled
form: most unenfeebled
Etymology: From un- + enfeebled.
Senses: examples: text: Signe did not hesitate to back up his words with like dissembling, and replied that it was natural that hands which dealt more in wounds than wools, and in battle than in tasks of the house should show the hardness that befitted their service; and that, unenfeebled with the pliable softness of women, they should not feel smooth to the touch of others.
ref: 1905, Oliver Elton, The Danish History, Books I-IX:
text: Further, she would be more likely to bring to the bearing and rearing of her children a constitution unenfeebled by premature overwork and energies unsapped by its monotonous grind.
ref: 1915, Alice Henry, The Trade Union Woman:
glosses: Not enfeebled.
unenlivening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenlivening
form: most unenlivening
Etymology: From un- + enlivening.
Senses: examples: text: There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,--egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that.
ref: 1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine:
text: These unenlivening calculations were catching.
ref: 1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North:
glosses: Not enlivening.
unfigured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + figured.
Senses: examples: text: The best covering for a Kitchen Floor is a thick unfigured oil-cloth, of one colour.
ref: 1894, anonymous author, Enquire Within Upon Everything:
text: In King Victor and King Charles Browning adopted, and no doubt deliberately, a plain, unfigured and uncoloured style, as suiting both the characters and the historical subject.
ref: 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:
glosses: Not figured; not marked with a pattern.
glosses: Not figurative; literal.
unflecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflecked
form: most unflecked
Etymology: From un- + flecked.
Senses: examples: text: The ceaseless motion of the vessel rocking at the centre of a circular space of blue, with a perfectly symmetrical dome of azure enclosing her above, unflecked by a single cloud, becomes at last almost unbearable from its changeless sameness of environment.
ref: 1897, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:
text: Shores that Stella had last seen dismal and forlorn in the frost-fog, sheathed in ice, banked with deep snow, lay sparkling now in warm sunshine, under an unflecked arch of blue.
ref: 1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber:
glosses: Not marked with flecks.
unfearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfearing
form: most unfearing
Etymology: From un- + fearing.
Senses: examples: text: The little Dog learned, without more ado, And soon could sit upright and walk upright too; In deepest waters unfearing could spring, And whatever was lost could speedily bring.
ref: 1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl:
text: What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:
text: I feel that these old Northmen were looking into Nature with open eye and soul: most earnest, honest; childlike, and yet manlike; with a great-hearted simplicity and depth and freshness, in a true, loving, admiring, unfearing way.
ref: 1901, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature:
glosses: Without fearing.
unfearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfearingly
form: most unfearingly
Etymology: From unfearing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without fearing; fearlessly.
uncreatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + creatable.
Senses: examples: text: Matter is uncreatable and indestructible; Nature and man can only form and transform.
ref: 1892, Henry Drummond, Beautiful Thoughts:
text: We are enabled to see with the penetrating vision of the mathematical insight that no less real and no more real are these fantastic forms of the world of relativity than those supposed to be uncreatable or indestructible in the play of the forces of nature.
ref: 1918, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Architecture and Democracy:
glosses: Impossible to create.
unfamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfamed
form: most unfamed
Etymology: From un- + famed.
Senses: examples: text: Ere that, I'll perish here, unfamed, forgotten!
ref: 1889, George Borrow, The Death of Balder:
text: O black slave singers, gone, forgot, unfamed, You--you alone, of all the long, long line Of those who've sung untaught, unknown, unnamed, Have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.
ref: 1922, Edited by James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry:
glosses: Not famed.
unfeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeared
form: most unfeared
form: unfear’d
Etymology: From un- + feared.
Senses: examples: text: Blessed be God that there are still places where grinding poverty is unfelt and unfeared!
ref: 1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858:
text: The excitement, and danger, and hurry and bustle constantly incident to travel at the present day were all unfelt and unfeared by this company.
ref: 1900, John Kline, Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary:
glosses: Not feared.
unblack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + black.
Senses: glosses: Not black.
Synonyms: nonblack
Derived terms: holy unblack metal
betread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betreads
form: betreading
form: betrod
form: betrodden
Etymology: From Middle English bitreden, from Old English betredan, equivalent to be- + tread.
Cognate with German betreten, Middle Low German betreden, Dutch betreden, Swedish beträda, Norwegian Bokmål betrede, betre and Danish betræde.
Senses: glosses: To tread over or walk upon.