cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
good-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more good-heartedly
form: most good-heartedly
Etymology: From good-hearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goodheartedly.
good-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goodheartedness.
good-humoredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more good-humoredly
form: most good-humoredly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goodhumoredly.
good-naturedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more good-naturedly
form: most good-naturedly
Senses: examples: text: But here the woman saved me: I pretended a violent disorder of my head, and a feverish heat, that indisposed me too much to receive his embraces. He gave in to this, and good-naturedly desisted.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: Alternative spelling of goodnaturedly.
goody-two-shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goody-two-shoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goody two shoes.
grass-roots
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Another Bush — George W.’s brother Jeb — is likely to be a big player in the Republican Party’s future. And the most powerful grass-roots force in America, the Tea Party, derives its energy mostly from the same older, white voters who once vilified Bill Clinton.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grassroots.
Related terms: grass roots
tillerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪləmən/
ipa: /ˈtɪlɚmən/
Forms: form: tillermen
Etymology: From tiller + -man.
Senses: examples: text: That function was reserved for the tillerman (the man that sits at the top steering position at the rear of the aerial ladder).
ref: 2003, Tom Zambrano, Warriors of Fire:
text: The driver in the back is called the tillerman. The tillerman steers the rear wheels, allowing the truck to turn onto narrow streets and alleys.
ref: 2005, Justin T. Mayhue, Hagerstown Firefighting Through the Years:
glosses: A person who steers the rear wheels of a fire truck (a tiller truck) or controls its ladder
swatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Aisha, access the Pupa's informational color swatches. Okay, royal blue means the Pupa has kennel cough, cornflower blue means one of us just had a sex dream about the other one, navy blue means his Hulu plan is expiring, robin's egg blue means we get a free Xbox, Pacific blue means we all die at midnight!” [all gasp] “We were so close to gettin' that Xbox!”
ref: 2021 March 26, Josh Bycel & Jen McCartney, “The Solar Opposites Almost Get an Xbox” (1:25 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Korvo Opposites (Justin Roiland):
glosses: plural of swatch
swatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swatch
ambar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambars
Etymology: Some uses are directly from Persian انبار (anbâr), others are via Turkish ambar, Serbo-Croatian а̏мба̄р, Russian амба́р (ambár), Volga German Ambar, etc. Doublet of sambar.
Senses: examples: text: Generally the small granary (which the colonists referred to by its russian name, ambar), [existed. ... The oven's] auxiliary structure was as common to a home site as the principal abode, the barn, and the ambar.
ref: 1977, Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present, pages 78–79:
text: 57. Shortly after the coming of the American administrators it was found that one of the Tehran ambars had through lack of proper disinfection and ventilation become infected with weevils. [...] 58. The chief of the ambar had also previously requested authority to issue in small quantities 5,000 kharvars of grain which contained bitter seeds of which had been damaged by insect pests. Had his recommendation been approved when submitted early in the last year this grain could have been disposed of […]
ref: 1985, British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: From the First to the Second World War. Series B, Turkey, Iran, and the Middle East, 1918-1939, page 84:
text: Larger quantities of grain were kept in an ambar, a sub-terranean storage space aout three meters deep. [...] At the entrance of the ambar dung cakes were put to deter insects.
ref: 2003, Willem M. Floor, Agriculture in Qajar Iran, page 231:
text: The ambar is built from logs or thick planks well and tightly adhering to each other. It is divided into partitions [...] for this or that type of grain (for instance, rye, wheat, etc.).
ref: 2004, Petar Vlahović, Serbia: the country, people, life, customs, page 194:
text: The ground floor is most often used to store fuel (wood, coal, and dung cakes), dried and pickled foods, flour, grain, old tools, and other equipment. [...] Extra grain and flour may be kept in large 100-kilo gunny sacks near the ambar.
ref: 2007, Margaret Dittemore, Looking Towards the Road: Architecture and Change in a Turkish Village, page 175:
glosses: Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
automatonophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatonophobias
Etymology: From automaton + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The plot involved angel statues that came alive with demonic faces the instant their victims stopped looking at them. Can I say for certain it gave some kid automatonophobia? No, but I’m glad I didn’t see it when I was six.
ref: 2016 March 23, Keith Wagstaff, “Why Do Statues of Humans Terrify Me? An Investigation”, in VICE:
glosses: Fear of humanlike figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots.
Derived terms: automatonophobiac
caddywompus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cattywampus (“crooked, skewed, slanted, off”).
parvo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin parvus (“small”).
Senses: glosses: small
storm trooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm troopers
form: stormtrooper
form: storm-trooper
Etymology: Based on, but not quite a calque of, German Sturmtruppen (literally “storm troops”).
Senses: glosses: A German soldier trained in special infiltration tactics, introduced around the end of World War I.
theophylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θi.əˈfɪl.iːn/
ipa: /θi.əˈfɪl.ɪn/
ipa: /θiˈɑf.əl.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪlɪn
Etymology: From translingual Thea (“former genus name for the tea plant”) + Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bitter crystalline compound present in small quantities in tea leaves, isomeric with theobromine; used as a drug in therapy for respiratory diseases.
retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retardant
form: most retardant
Etymology: From French retardant.
Senses: glosses: Serving to impede (slow down) the action of something
Derived terms: fire-retardant
flame-retardant
retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retardants
Etymology: From French retardant.
Senses: glosses: Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something
Derived terms: fire retardant
flame retardant
theanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theanines
Etymology: Thea (“genus of tea”) + -anine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: amino acid commonly found in tea
fallboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallboards
Etymology: From fall + board.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The hinged cover which protects the keyboard of a piano when not in use
top-flight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As the search continued, I developed five criteria for the selection process. The next Chief Justice must have a top-flight legal mind; he must be young enough to serve at least ten years; he should, if possible, have experience both as a practicing lawyer and as an appeals court judge; he must generally share my view that the Court should interpret the Constitution rather than amend it by judicial fiat; and he must have a special quality of leadership that would enable him to resolve differences among his colleagues so that, as often as possible, the Court would speak decisively on major cases with one voice or at least with a strong voice for the majority opinion.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 419:
text: Whether the band might have developed into a top-flight act is unknown, for in 1972 most of the group's original core members departed.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 253:
glosses: Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence
examples: text: However, despite their wretched record of not having won a top-flight away game in their last 26 attempts, Fulham showed no signs of travel sickness against Stoke.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
glosses: In the highest division
Related terms: top flight
etui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etuis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of étui.
étui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [eɪˈtʰwiː]
Forms: form: étuis
form: etwee
form: etui
Etymology: Borrowed from French étui.
Senses: examples: text: From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an etwee and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.
ref: 1791 June 1, John Ireland, “The Harlot’s Progress. Plate I.”, in Hogarth Illustrated, volume I, [London]: J[ohn] & J[osiah] Boydell […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:
text: Secondly, glass bottles are useless: the drugs should be stowed away in tin or wooden boxes, such as the natives of the country use, and when a phial is required, it must be fitted into an étui of some kind.
ref: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, p. 26 n:
text: And what about that comb in a real-leather etui, what about, what about it – oh, it would get fouled up in no time and it would take an hour of work to remove the grime from between its tight teeth [...].
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 13:
text: And from a buff leather etui monogrammed in silver, he extracted one of his Maria Mancinis-- a lovely specimen from the top of the box, flattened on just one side the way he especially liked it ….
ref: 1995, Thomas Mann, translated from the 1925 German by John E. Woods, "The Magic Mountain", Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, p. 46
glosses: A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles.
seigniorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seigniorial
form: most seigniorial
Etymology: From seignior + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Right and Title of the said Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, in and to all and singular the said Fiefs and Seigniories of the Island of Montreal, of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and of Saint Sulpice, and their several Dependencies, and in and to all Seigniorial and Feudal Rights, Privileges, Dues, and Duties arising out of and from the same, and in and to all and every the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, […] shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law; […]
ref: 1840 June 8, C[harles] Poulett Thomson, “An Ordinance to incorporate the Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal; to confirm their title to the Fief and Seigniory of the Island of Montreal, the Fief and Seigniory of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and the Fief and Seigniory of Saint Sulpice, in this Province; to provide for the gradual Extinction of Seignioral Rights and Dues within the Seigniorial Limits of the said Fiefs and Seigniories; and for other Purposes [No. 164 of 1840]”, in Copy of Ordinances Passed by the Governor and Special Council of Lower Canada, in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accounts and Papers. United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Commons; 1841, session 1), volume XV, published 3 February 1841, →OCLC, pages 151–152:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a seignior.
seismically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seismically
form: most seismically
Etymology: From seismic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Nabby Adams crumpled and crashed off his chair. The house rumbled seismically at the heavy fall.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 183:
glosses: In a seismic manner; with the qualities of an earthquake.
self-confidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more self-confidently
form: most self-confidently
Etymology: From self-confident + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a self-confident manner
self-consciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more self-consciously
form: most self-consciously
Etymology: From self-conscious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That’s why self-consciously Anglo-catholic churches which are a mile high up the paschal candle can do reasonably well in the current climate.
ref: 2016 May 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Seven Actual Marks of Mission”, in Thurible.net:
glosses: In a self-conscious manner.
self-evidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more self-evidently
form: most self-evidently
Etymology: From self-evident + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a self-evident manner
self-righteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more self-righteously
form: most self-righteously
Etymology: From self-righteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a self-righteous manner.
signally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more signally
form: most signally
Etymology: From signal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She would have given anything to have kept her colour, but the more she tried to do so the more signally she failed.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: In a signal manner; conspicuously
Related terms: virtue-signally
incomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incomers
Senses: glosses: One who comes in.
glosses: An outsider who moves to a community or a place; (used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants).
Synonyms: sense: outsider who moves to a community or place
word: comeling
word: newling
word: offcomer
word: newcomer
timple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmpəl
Forms: form: timples
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish timple, from tiple, of uncertain etymology.
Senses: glosses: A traditional musical instrument of the Canary Islands and Murcia, having four or more commonly five strings, and similar in size to a ukulele but with a distinctive semi-round back.
selvedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selvedges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of selvage.
selvedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: selvedges
form: selvedging
form: selvedged
form: selvedged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of selvage.
sentimentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimentalisms
Etymology: From sentimental + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A liking for sentimental things.
glosses: An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
separatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separatisms
Etymology: From separate + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.
glosses: A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).
examples: text: Apartheid was a government-enforced form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.
glosses: The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.
Related terms: separatist
apartheid
secessionism
segregation
clock paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock paradoxes
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: The phenomenon in which two observers who start together with identical clocks, follow different timelines, and then rejoin can have different elapsed times on their clocks, especially if one travels at a relativistic speed.
Synonyms: twin paradox
twin paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin paradoxes
form: twins paradox
Etymology: From the thought experiment conducted by Albert Einstein, in which one of a pair of twins sets off in a spaceship on a trip at high speed, and due to the effects of relativity, his effective clock ticks slower than the twin who remains at home, not encountering relativistic effects, so that when the spacetraveller twin returns home to compare clocks, the spacetraveller will have experienced less elapsed time than the homebody, thus having aged less than the homebody twin and being younger.
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: The clock paradox.
wikipedia: Albert Einstein
coal ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal balls
form: coalball
Senses: glosses: A nodule of plant material permeated with minerals found mostly in bituminous and anthracite coal seams
coalbed methane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: natural gas extracted from an underground coal formation
cobaltite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobaltites
Etymology: From cobalt + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare gray mineral, a mixed sulfide and arsenide of cobalt and iron with chemical formula CoAsS; it is an ore of cobalt.
Derived terms: spherocobaltite
racoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racoons
form: raccoon
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of raccoon.
coccolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccoliths
Etymology: Derived from coccolithophore. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”) + Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”), due to the shape of the organism's exoskeleton.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized
Derived terms: coccolithic
coccolithogenesis
heterococcolith
holococcolith
coccolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccoliths
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “kernel”) + -lith.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of coccolite (“diopside”).
Supreme Leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Supreme Leader
groundsill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹaʊndsəl/
Forms: form: groundsills
form: grunsel
form: groundsel
form: groundsell
Etymology: From Middle English groundselle, ground sille, equivalent to ground + sill.
Senses: glosses: A timber beam used as the foundation for a building.
glosses: The lowest beam of a door-frame; the threshold.
grunsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grunsels
Etymology: From Middle English gronsell, grounsel, grownsel, variant of groundselle. More at groundsill.
Senses: examples: text: Next came one
Who mourn'd in earnest, when the Captive Ark
Maim'd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off
In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge,
Where he fell flat […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XVI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 458–61:
text: South beside the altar's ledge
Fair Zenild drew her knife
North upon the grunsel edge
Sir Schinnild lost his life.
ref: 1804, William Herbert, “Sir Ebba”, in Miscellaneous Poems, volume I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of groundsill (“threshold”).
grunsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grunsels
Etymology: From Middle English grundeswülie. More at groundsel.
Senses: examples: text: Basked in the sun, or plunged into thy stream's [1.20]
Alternate, all a summer's day, or coursed
Over the sandy fields, and dashed the flowers
Of yellow grunsel […]
ref: 1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:
text: Travelled for some miles along the open country, which was all without hedgerows, sometimes arable, sometimes moorish, and often whole tracts covered with grunsel.
ref: 1803, Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, First Week:
text: If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
evermore the petlings, with sad brow,
Will look for thee upon the holly bough,
Where thou didst chirp thy signal note, ere on
The lowly grunsel thou didst light […]
ref: 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
text: Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut
Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]
ref: 1841–1864, John Clare, "We passed by green closes" (one of the "Knight Transcripts", copied from Clare's manuscript poems written while he was involuntarily confined at the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum)
text: "Yes; Messrs. So-and-so lets me go in their grounds and get the bird-seed. Yer see, I got grun'sel here, and plantain and chick-weed"
ref: 1894, Frederic Morrell Holmes, Some Unfasionable Slums: Second Round—South London, in The Quiver: The Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading::
glosses: Alternative form of groundsel (“any of several species of Senecio, a genus of the daisy family”).
big wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big wigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bigwig.
postocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ocular.
Senses: glosses: Situated behind the eyes.
Synonyms: postorbital
Related terms: preocular
postocular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postoculars
Etymology: From post- + ocular.
Senses: glosses: Any of the scales lying directly behind and in contact with the eye of a reptile.
cloudier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cloudy: more cloudy
Connor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Conor
form: Conner
form: Konner
form: O'Connor
Etymology: The first name is from Irish Conchúr, Conchobhar, from Old Irish Conchobar (“lover of hounds”). The surname is from Irish Ó Conchúir (“descendant of Conchúr”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A village near Kells, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
glosses: An unorganized territory in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.
sex symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex symbol
disdainfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disdainfully
form: most disdainfully
Etymology: From disdainful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disdainful manner.
discursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discursively
form: most discursively
Etymology: From discursive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If then I seem to step somewhat too discursively from point to point of my topic, let me suggest that I do so in the hope of thus the better keeping unbroken that chain of graduated impression by which alone the intellect of Man can expect to encompass the grandeurs of which I speak, and, in their majestic totality, to comprehend them.
ref: 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 103:
text: There were certain things […] that pricked him to talk discursively and incautiously; but now he realized that he had only been talking like a character in a novel, and not a very good novel.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VIII, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: We are dealing in the Iliad with a commanding vision of man, articulate in every detail, not with a tale of adventure automatically or discursively carried forward.
ref: 1962, George Steiner, “Homer and the Scholars”, in Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman, New York: Atheneum, published 1986, page 176:
text: In that realm, which was discursively constructed and called the Orient, certain kinds of assertions could be made, all of them possessing the same powerful generality and cultural validity.
ref: 1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vintage, published 2003, Chapter 2, part II, p. 148:
glosses: In a discursive manner.
discourteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discourteously
form: most discourteously
Etymology: From discourteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discourteous manner.
discouragingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discouragingly
form: most discouragingly
Etymology: From discouraging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discouraging manner.
dazzlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dazzlingly
form: most dazzlingly
Etymology: From dazzling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables:
text: The sun was almost at zenith and the glare was dazzlingly intense.
ref: 1941, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1945, Part One, p. 22:
text: 1963, Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (1927), translated by Basil Creighton, revised by Walter Sorell, Penguin, 1964, p. 55,
And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and dazzlingly over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment.
glosses: In a dazzling manner.
discordantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discordantly
form: most discordantly
Etymology: From discordant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Taking old William and Benny with me, I was soon camped in a little hut on the west point of Frigate Bird, in a grove of tall puka trees where the wind moans with a pleasing dolorousness and a dozen species of sea birds squawk discordantly from their perches in the branches.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 82:
glosses: In a discordant manner.
discontinuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discontinuously
form: most discontinuously
Etymology: From discontinuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
Synonyms: word: intermittently
word: fitfully
word: discontinuously
word: in fits and starts
word: patchily
word: spasmodically
word: sporadically
Related terms: word: flakily
word: irregularly
word: jerkily
word: unreliably
word: unsteadily
discontentedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discontentedly
form: most discontentedly
Etymology: From discontented + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discontented manner.
disconcertingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋli/
ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈsɝtɪŋli/
Forms: form: more disconcertingly
form: most disconcertingly
Etymology: From disconcerting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:
text: At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
ref: 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a disconcerting manner; upsettingly.
devastatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more devastatingly
form: most devastatingly
Etymology: From devastating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Grimsby doesn’t ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it’s a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
glosses: In a devastating manner.
upsettingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more upsettingly
form: most upsettingly
Etymology: From upsetting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an upsetting manner.
discerningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discerningly
form: most discerningly
Etymology: From discerning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discerning manner.
deviously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deviously
form: most deviously
Etymology: From devious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a devious manner.
determinedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more determinedly
form: most determinedly
Etymology: From determined + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: where closeness, when it does manage to show itself, usually falls victim to outside forces that seem determinedly hostile to any manifestation of happiness.
ref: 1982 February 6, Lester Strong, “A World Cast Adrift”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 13:
glosses: In a determined manner.
detrimentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more detrimentally
form: most detrimentally
Etymology: From detrimental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover an idol in a temple if situated straightway to our main entrance as if persistently gazing posture; thus emits detrimentally harmful vibes. Vaastushastra, therefore, says that such idols emit highly charged damaging energies.
ref: 2012, Wedha-Pointblank Arrow Form Vaastushastra Perceptive:
glosses: In a detrimental manner.
diagnostically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diagnostic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a diagnostic manner.
Derived terms: postdiagnostically
prediagnostically
disadvantageously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disadvantageously
form: most disadvantageously
Etymology: From disadvantageous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disadvantageous manner.
diabolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diabolically
form: most diabolically
Etymology: From diabolical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Two recent books, one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner At Home”, in Memories and Portraits, New York: Charles Scribner, page 1:
glosses: In a diabolical manner.
Related terms: diabolic
diabolical
diabolicalness
discernibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɜː(ɹ)nɪbli/
Forms: form: more discernibly
form: most discernibly
Etymology: From discernible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discernible manner.
diffusely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diffusely
form: most diffusely
Etymology: From diffuse + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a diffuse manner.
diplomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪ.pləˈmæt.ɪk(.ə)li/
ipa: [ˌdɪ.pləˈmæɾ.ɪk(.ə)li]
Forms: form: more diplomatically
form: most diplomatically
Etymology: From diplomatic + -ally or diplomatical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He dealt with the problem very diplomatically
text: Frito smiled diplomatically, but was suddenly stricken by a severe stomachache.
ref: 1969, The Harvard Lampoon (Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney), Bored of the Rings, Signet, page 30:
glosses: In a diplomatic manner.
examples: text: Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: domain
glosses: From the perspective of diplomacy
didactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more didactically
form: most didactically
Etymology: From didactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a didactic manner.
Derived terms: diciness
nondidactically
Related terms: sense: Derived terms
word: didact
sense: Derived terms
word: didactic
sense: Derived terms
word: didactical
sense: Derived terms
word: didacticism
sense: Derived terms
word: didacticist
decreasingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːsɪŋ(ɡ)li/
Forms: form: more decreasingly
form: most decreasingly
Etymology: From decreasing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a decreasing manner; progressively less.
developmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From developmental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Between 6 and 12 months, babies are more open to new foods — and new experiences — than they will be later on as toddlers, when a certain amount of “neophobia” or “new means no” is developmentally normal, Ms. Lipner said. “Normal kids transition through a normal pickiness phase,” around 18 months, she said, when “they’re also learning autonomy and control.”
ref: 2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018:
glosses: In terms of development.
Derived terms: postdevelopmentally
dingily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪndʒɪli/
Forms: form: more dingily
form: most dingily
Etymology: From dingy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snowbank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.
ref: 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe & Co., page 273:
text: Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high,
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;
ref: 1871, Walt Whitman, “Bivouac on a Mountain Side”, in Leaves of Grass, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 277:
text: Gracie died just at the time when I had no emotion whatsoever to spend on her: dingily, surrounded by nurses and heartless starched blouses, in a Bournemouth nursing home.
ref: 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Pocket Books, published 1962, Book Three, pp. 169-170:
glosses: In a dingy manner.
digitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt.li/
ipa: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtəli/
Forms: form: more digitally
form: most digitally
Etymology: From digital + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The film was shot digitally.
glosses: In a digital manner.
Derived terms: digitally originated graphic
decorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkɹəsli/
Forms: form: more decorously
form: most decorously
Etymology: From decorous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] below them, men and women, and boys and girls, sinners all, loitered; sometimes one of the church-members passed and saw them and waved. Then, for the moment that they waved decorously back, they were intimidated.
ref: 1965, James Baldwin, “The Rockpile”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial Press:
glosses: In a decorous manner.
dictatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dictatorially
form: most dictatorially
Etymology: From dictatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dictatorial manner.
diffidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪf.ɪ.dənt.li/
Forms: form: more diffidently
form: most diffidently
Etymology: From diffident + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The author too keenly feels that he has no further claims than these, and he therefore most diffidently asks for his work the indulgence of his readers.
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, preface:
text: The same evening John Rossitter wrote to the Bishop of Nawaub, and very humbly and diffidently offered himself, his young life, his health and his strength, his talents and energies, his younger son's portion, all that God had given him, for his Master's use;
ref: 1883, Evelyn Whitaker, Miss Toosey's Mission, page 85:
text: "May I see you sometimes?" he asked diffidently.
ref: 1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Voice of the People, page 193:
glosses: In a diffident manner; without confidence in oneself.
Synonyms: sense: in a diffident manner
word: bashfully
sense: in a diffident manner
word: hesitantly
sense: in a diffident manner
word: humbly
sense: in a diffident manner
word: shyly
sense: in a diffident manner
word: uncertainly
Related terms: diffidence
diffident
devilishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more devilishly
form: most devilishly
Etymology: From devilish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a devilish manner.
diagrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diagrammatical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Armstrong goes on [sic] discuss the psychologist Abraham Maslow's "hierarchy of needs", which he again presents diagrammatically, and again modified somewhat.
ref: 2009, D.M. Armstrong, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 6
glosses: In a diagrammatic manner
diagrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diagrammatic
form: most diagrammatic
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, a diagrammatic map of the electrified area is repeated at the top of every page.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
text: He sits facing a diagrammatic wall map of the area under his supervision.
ref: 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 341:
text: What we need is some way of representing all this information about constituent structure in diagrammatic form. In fact, this can be done in terms of a tree diagram [...]
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: In the form of a diagram.
examples: diagrammatic accuracy
glosses: Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.
Derived terms: nondiagrammatic
semidiagrammatic
difficultly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more difficultly
form: most difficultly
Etymology: From difficult + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding, and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: With difficulty; not easily.
motorcycle club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorcycle clubs
form: MC
Senses: glosses: A group of individuals whose primary interests and activities involve motorcycles.
dependability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependabilities
Etymology: From depend + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being dependable; the ability to be depended upon.
Derived terms: undependability
dependabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dependability
dreaminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreaminesses
Etymology: From dreamy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:
glosses: The characteristic of being dreamy.
Related terms: dreamy
dreamily
drippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dripping
Zulgo-Gemzek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Chadic language of northern Cameroon, spoken by about 26,000 people.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Gemjek
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Guemshek
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Zulgo
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Zulgo-Gemzek terms
gnd ⁠
Dreamtime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹiːmtaɪm/
Forms: form: Dream Time
form: Dream-time
form: dreamtime
Etymology: A false calque of Eastern Arrernte Altyerrenge (“the Dreaming”), based on the incorrect assumption that the word is related to altyerre (“a dream”) or altyerre areme (“to dream”). "-time" is an addition unrooted in Aboriginal language.
Senses: examples: text: No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of the creation of geological Australia and its flora and fauna with the related religious and moral connotations of site-worship and animism) .
ref: 1980, Meanjin - Volume 39, page 402:
text: The tall slender birds were performing a legendary fight in the Dreamtime story – one that the old law had marked on them forever with a wattle of flaming red skin on the back of their heads.
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 101:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal mythology
glosses: The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.
Synonyms: Alchera
Alcheringa
Dreaming
Related terms: songline
dialefe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialefes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian.
Senses: glosses: A short metrical pause between two identical vowel sounds, one at the end of a word, the other at the beginning of the next word.
lymph nodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymph node
impavid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impavid
form: most impavid
Etymology: From Latin impavidus, itself from im- (“not”) + pavidus (“fearful”).
Senses: glosses: fearless, undaunted
Derived terms: impavidly
impavidness
Zari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A West Chadic language of Nigeria.
Synonyms: Zariwa
Related terms: zaz ⁠
Zenaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sanhaja.
Zenaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Berber language of Mauritania.
Related terms: zen ⁠
guttiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guttiform
form: most guttiform
Etymology: From Latin gutta (“drop”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like or resembling a drop.
scleral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sclera + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: sclerotic
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the sclera.
Derived terms: choroidoscleral
corneoscleral
intrascleral
scleral buckle
scleralization
transscleral
uveoscleral
tectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.tɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈtɛk.tə.fɔɹm/
Forms: form: more tectiform
form: most tectiform
Etymology: From New Latin tēctiformis (“roof-shaped”), from tēctum (“roof”) + -ifōrmis.
Senses: topics: anthropology
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Roof-shaped; sloping downwards on two sides from a raised central ridge.
tectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.tɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈtɛk.tə.fɔɹm/
Forms: form: tectiforms
Etymology: From New Latin tēctiformis (“roof-shaped”), from tēctum (“roof”) + -ifōrmis.
Senses: examples: text: 1924, American Anthropologist, Volume 26, New Series, page 48,
The tectiforms reproduce in a remarkable manner the simple shelters, tents, and huts in use today among primitive and nomadic races in various parts of the world.
text: Because of their composition and the coexistence in them of meanders and tectiforms they differ from chimpanzee drawings, which are in many other ways a comparable phenomenon.
ref: 2014, David Maclagan, Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing, page 8:
text: Inclusion of both ideomorphs and tectiforms as proto-art, and adaptation of the images to the natural textures of the rock surfaces as proto-cinema, suggests that the need to animate and annotate go beyond mere literal representation.
ref: 2015, Molly Fuller, Robert Miltner, “Chapter 9: Land as Ekphrastic Prompt for Memoirist Prose Poems in N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain”, in Sandra Lee Kleppe, editor, Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century, page 162:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of cave painting or engraving, having in its simplest form the shape of an upward-pointing wedge or arrow, thought to represent the roof of a tent or rudimentary building.
scutiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scutiform
form: most scutiform
Etymology: Latin scutum (“shield”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a shield; scutate.
scutiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutiforms
Etymology: Latin scutum (“shield”) + -form
Senses: examples: text: There are similarities between the form of the central boss on scutiforms and the central setting on filigree pendants, and between the use of punched dot decoration on scutiforms and beaded wire on filigree pendants. Scutiforms, however ...
ref: 1997, Helen Geake, The Use of Grave-goods in Conversion-period England, c.600-c.850, British Archaeological Reports Limited:
text: ... suggest that the purported depictions of bees' combs were extremely similar to what he described as four scutiforms from the cave of Altamira in Spain.
ref: 2015, Siyakha Mguni, Termites of the Gods: San Cosmology In Southern African Rock Art, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 64:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol that is shaped like a shield.
Yupik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yupiks
form: Yupik
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yup'ik.
Yupik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yup'ik.
ocas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oca