cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burntness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From burnt + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being burnt.
butteriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buttery + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This south-of-the-border burger mixes the guacamole into the hamburger meat for extra-rich butteriness.
ref: 2010, Jane Murphy, The Great Big Burger Book, page 26:
glosses: The state or quality of being buttery.
cadaverousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cadaverous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cadaverous.
calamitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calamitous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being calamitous.
caliginousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caliginous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being caliginous.
cancerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cancerous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If, on the other hand, a tumor consist chiefly of fibre or fibrillating blastema, the presumption of its cancerousness diminishes; we have, however, seen a growth in the liver, which had all the aspect of a scirrhous formation, and probably was so, which yet consisted solely of fibre-forming solid blastema.
ref: 1854, Charles Handfield Jones, A Manual of pathological anatomy:
text: Only one line of mouse cells will perform this trick— a line called NIH 3T3 that has been bred in the laboratory for so many generations that it has long since forgotten what normality is, and is within a whisker of cancerousness even without the intervention of extraneous oncogenes.
ref: 1983 June 9, New Scientist, volume 98, number 1361, page 691:
text: Starting in 1999, he began to mutate particular genes in human cells in culture and then to “interrogate” them for their cancerousness.
ref: 2009, Catherine Brady, Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres:
glosses: The state or quality of being cancerous.
cankeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cankered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cankered.
canonicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canonical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being canonical.
cantiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being canty.
capableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From capable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being capable.
capillariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From capillary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being capillary.
capitalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From capital + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being capital.
carnalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carnal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being carnal.
carrotiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carroty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.
ref: 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:
glosses: The state or quality of being carroty.
catchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From catchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being catchy.
causedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caused + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The term Causation, as the author observes, signifies causingness and causedness taken together, but I do not see on what ground he asserts that it connotes present time.
ref: 1829, John Stuart Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind:
glosses: The state or quality of being caused.
causelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From causeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being causeless; absence of a cause.
causticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caustic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being caustic.
cautelousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cautelous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now it ſeems this clauſe of abundant cautelouſneſs was not in the oath of the earls and barons, neither needed it: for if K. Stephen broke with his people, of courſe their fealty ceaſed.
ref: 1769, Samuel Johnson, “A History and Defence of Magna Charta”, in A History and Defence of Magna Charta, Dublin: James Williams, page 125:
glosses: The state or quality of being cautelous.
cautelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cautelous
form: most cautelous
Etymology: From Middle French cauteleux.
Senses: examples: text: The least touch of [Gaveston's] memory adds more to the King's affliction, who is fixt not to forget, or forgive, so bold and heinous a Trespass. The operations in the King were yet so powerful, but the jelousies of the Actors [who have killed Gaveston] are as cautelous, so fair a warning-piece bids them in time make good their own security. Lincoln, the principal Pillar of this Faction, follows his Adversary [Gaveston] to the Grave, but with a much fairer Fortune.
ref: c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 12:
text: I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.
examples: text: Some are of disposition fearefull, some bold, most cautelous, all Savage.
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 140:
glosses: Cautious, careful.
Derived terms: incautelous
Related terms: cautel
cautelously
cautelousness
lodgments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodgment
wiseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wisenesses
Etymology: From Middle English wisnesse, from Old English wīsnes (“teaching, wisdom”), equivalent to wise + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Yet have I something in me dangerous,
Which let thy wiseness fear.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: The state, quality, or measure of being wise; wisdom.
celestialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From celestial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being celestial.
centralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From central + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being central.
centricalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From centrical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being centrical.
deracinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deracinated
form: most deracinated
Senses: examples: text: Lucha Corpi's novel explores the ambiguities of social dissent in a liberal democracy by putting into motion a murder mystery where all the major characters are Mexican Americans, some more deracinated than others, some more powerful than others, and some darker than others.
ref: 2003, When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America, page 4:
text: The deracinated Jew is like the deracinated Negro is like the deracinated European is like the deracinated American, as Gertrude Stein might put it.
ref: 2014, Amos N. Wilder, Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition, page 54:
text: Those rendered as deracinated and invasive appear to threaten the ecology on which the state's enclosure is cultivated, posing possible changes to the political ecosystem that would render its soil incapable of supporting the same environment and threatening the family of beings supposedly native to it.
ref: 2017, Mark F. N. Franke, “Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species”, in Jennifer Lawrence, Sarah Marie Wiebe, editor, Biopolitical Disaster, page 1967:
glosses: Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
examples: text: Yet, resorting to Derrida now, one may wonder whether the acceleration and excess of meaning generated by such as the realm of the "virtual" leaves us any more deracinated than we were before with a comparative lack of meaning – leaves us any less unable “to objectivize [the archive] with no remainder" – any less unable to transcend the partiality of any afformed determinacy (1998: 16-18, 68).
ref: 2013, Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols, The Ends of History: Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason, page 45:
text: In the related introduction to his essays, he contrasts his own emphasis on tradition with another, more recent—and more deracinated — approach.
ref: 2013, Charles I. Armstrong, Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History:
text: Deracinated concepts, like deracinated particulars, travel much more easily. I think one can view Deleuze and Guattari's commercial and pedagogic concepts as both deracinated in this sense, though, of course, made to then move for very different purposes.
ref: 2018, Gavin Lucas, Writing the Past:
text: In both, the blame lies with preceding generations who have passed down their apocalyptic sins for the youth to suffer: a deracinated people, a scarred and exploited landscape, and perhaps most importantly, a slobbish, all-too-comfortable generation of men.
ref: 2022, Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, “Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements”, in The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right, page 73:
glosses: Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.
Derived terms: underacinated
deracinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deracinate
deracinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deracinate
glosses: Pulling up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
glosses: Forcing (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
glosses: To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
confusedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confusednesses
Etymology: From confused + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being confused.
centrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈsɛntɹəkəl/
ipa: /ˈsɛntɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪkəl
Forms: form: more centrical
form: most centrical
Etymology: From centric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: “ It is time then,” said Fitzurse, “ to draw our party to a head, either at York, or some other centrical place. […]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 265:
glosses: In or by the center; central.
glosses: Containing a center.
Derived terms: centrically
centricalness
deracinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deracinate
ceremonialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ceremonial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ceremonial.
deepness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːpnəs/
rhymes: -iːpnəs
Forms: form: deepnesses
Etymology: From Middle English depnesse, from Old English dēopnes (“deepness; depth; an abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *deupnassī, equivalent to deep + -ness. Cognate with German Low German Deepnis (“deepness, depth”).
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)
Synonyms: depth
certainness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From certain + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being certain.
greyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greynesses
form: grayness
Etymology: From Middle English graynes, greynes; equivalent to grey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The sun had gone behind the clouds. As the ship slid out on its way a stray beam pierced the greyness.
ref: 1910 May 11, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Conclusion”, in A Gentleman of Leisure, New York, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 269:
text: The sight of them [the Grampians] as we crossed the viaduct over the North Esk I am not likely to forget. After a night of snow, they hung wraith-like across the sky, exquisitely beautiful in the greyness of winter dawn.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
glosses: The quality or state of being grey.
hollowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollownesses
form: hollownesse
Etymology: From hollow + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being hollow.
chaoticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chaotic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being chaotic.
pulsated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlˈseɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pulsate
characteristicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From characteristical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being characteristical.
chargeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chargeable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being chargeable.
unsatisfying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsatisfying
form: most unsatisfying
Etymology: From un- + satisfying.
Senses: glosses: Not providing satisfaction.
Derived terms: unsatisfyingly
unsatisfyingness
unmelted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmelted
form: most unmelted
Etymology: From un- + melted.
Senses: glosses: Not melted; in a solid state.
unlikelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unlikely: more unlikely
unglazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + glazed.
Senses: examples: text: Unglazed tiles, dull rather than glossy, are usually laid on floors—although nothing precludes their use on walls.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38:
text: For an unglazed ham, you dress the fat with golden breadcrumbs. For a glazed ham you can become even more fancy.
ref: 2015, Thane Prince, Preserves, Pickles and Cures: Recipes for the Modern Kitchen Larder:
text: The unglazed donuts can be frozen for up to a month.
ref: 2019, Carolyn Ketchum, Easy Keto Breakfasts, page 98:
glosses: Not glazed; thus:
Having no glaze (no glazed coating).
examples: text: Penmaenmawr station is very basic with an unglazed shelter and a 'next train' indicator.
ref: 2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:
glosses: Not glazed; thus:
Having no glass in the windows; having open spaces as windows, or being windowless.
undecorated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decorated.
Senses: glosses: Without decoration or adornment
glosses: Without decorations, medals, orders
charmingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From charming + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being charming.
childliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From childly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being childly.
cholericness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From choleric + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being choleric.
Christianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being Christian.
splutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplʌtə/
ipa: /ˈsplʌtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: splutters
Etymology: The noun is imitative. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: a splutter of water from a pipe
text: [He] broke down a slap, as he called it, in a dry stone fence, and lugged the unresisting animal [a horse] through the breach, about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: As certain liquors, confined in casks too cramped in their dimensions, will ferment, and fret, and chafe in their imprisonment, so the spiritual essence or soul of Mr. Tappertit would sometimes fume within that precious cask, his body, until, with great foam and froth and splutter, it would force a vent, and carry all before it.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 4.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 256:
text: There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a splutter of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up.
ref: 1912, Victor Appleton [pseudonym], “Tom’s Mysterious Box”, in Tom Swift in Captivity: Or A Daring Escape by Airship (Tom Swift Series), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
glosses: A forceful choking or spitting sound.
examples: text: But party carries every thing nowadays, and what a splutter have I heard about the wit of that saying, repeated with admiration about a hundred times in half an hour.
ref: 1711 February 12 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter XV.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XIV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 346:
text: [M]y ways of out-of-the-wayness were by no means quiet, but perpetually firing up under their feet in little splutters and spitfires of the most appalling heresy; […]
ref: 1887, John Ruskin, “Rome”, in Præterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life, volume II, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A noisy commotion.
synonyms: controversy
glosses: A disagreement or dispute.
examples: text: a splutter of rage from the old man
synonyms: sputter
glosses: Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
splutter
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplʌtə/
ipa: /ˈsplʌtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Etymology: A modification of God’s blood.
Senses: examples: text: I vvill ſhevv him that I vvas not bred at Oxford for nothing.—Splutter! I vvill ſhevv him my head is good for ſomething elſe beſides preaching.
ref: 1731 (date written), Scriblerus Secundus [pseudonym; Henry Fielding], “The Grub-Street Opera. […]”, in The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq; […], volume II, London: […] John Bell, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act III, scene xiii, page 240:
text: Here he vvas interrupted vvith, "Splutter and oons! you louſy tog, vvho do you call my maſter?[…]."
ref: 1748, [Tobias Smollett], “The Behaviour of Mr. Morgan— […]”, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, pages 229–230:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: A minced oath expressing anger or wonder, usually attributed to Welsh people: 'sblood.
splutters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splutter
spluttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplʌtəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsplʌtɚɹɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
Forms: form: splutterings
Etymology: From splutter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of splutter: the act of one who splutters.
spluttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplʌtəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsplʌtɚɹɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
Etymology: From splutter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splutter
spluttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splutter
rearranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearrange
oddest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒdəst
Senses: glosses: superlative form of odd: most odd
odder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏd′ər
ipa: /ˈɑd.ɚ/
ipa: [(ʔ)ɑɾɚ]
homophone: otter (in accents with flapping)
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of odd: more odd
limped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of limp
lichenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lichenous
form: most lichenous
Etymology: From lichen + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 9”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
text: Green-graped upon their walls
An ancient hoary vine
Hath clustered their carven, lichenous stones
With tendril serpentine.
ref: 1917, Walter de la Mare, “The Two Houses”, in The Sunken Garden, and Other Poems, London: Beaumont Press, page 39:
glosses: Covered in lichen.
examples: text: He went on foot across the wilder recesses of the park, where slimy streams of green moisture, exuding from decayed holes caused by old amputations, ran down the bark of the oaks and elms, the rind below being coated with a lichenous wash as green as emerald.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 27”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The tree sloths of the South American forests are among the oddest of mammalian types. They are small nocturnal forms with a lichenous growth which often gives a greenish tinge to their gray hair.
ref: 1933, Alfred Sherwood Romer, chapter 9, in Man and the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, published 1937, page 206:
glosses: Composed of lichen.
examples: text: 1907, Louis Fischer, Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, Chapter 6. Disorders Resulting from Improper Nutrition, p. 358,
The mouth becomes the seat of a parasitic stomatitis; the skin is harsh and dry; small boils or a lichenous rash make their appearance.
text: As the day advanced we saw the miracle of the desert flowers in vivid contrast to the lichenous grey of the persistent bushes and shrubs with which I had grown familiar throughout the journey.
ref: 1958, Ritchie Calder, Men Against the Desert, Allen & Unwin, page 89:
glosses: Resembling lichen.
Synonyms: lichenose
lunch-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch-times
form: lunchtime
form: lunch time
Etymology: From lunch + time.
Senses: examples: text: It's almost lunchtime, so I think I'll finish up later this afternoon.
glosses: The time of day at which lunch is eaten.
intensest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of intense: most intense
hearthrug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearthrugs
Etymology: From hearth + rug.
Senses: examples: text: Penelope rose from the hearthrug and threw herself on to the Chesterfield.
ref: 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Confidante”, in Encounters, page 53:
text: "Just as I reached Amen, when the creature should have been slinking away abashed, the big bearskin hearthrug stood up on end and simply enveloped me."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A rug placed in front of a fireplace, on the hearth.
hearthrugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearthrug
grappled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grapple
distributivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributivities
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the fact of being distributive
gesticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gesticulate
fluctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fluctuate
fractured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fractured
form: most fractured
Senses: glosses: Broken into sharp pieces.
examples: text: Her fractured family could never agree on anything.
glosses: Split into groups which disagree.
Derived terms: nonfractured
unfractured
fractured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fracture
expounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expound
expounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expoundings
Senses: examples: May 7, 1814, William Cobbett, "The Pope", in Political Register
[…] all the elaborate expoundings of these impudent empirics, who are a million times worse than the worst of Catholic Priests.
glosses: The act by which something is expounded.
corroded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corroded
form: most corroded
Senses: glosses: Damaged by corrosion.
Derived terms: precorroded
uncorroded
corroded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corrode
permanency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permanencies
Etymology: From Latin permanentia. Compare permanence.
Senses: examples: text: The permanency of the new government is questionable.
glosses: The state or quality of permanence.
examples: text: Family Ghosts are permanencies, you know; but I'll tell you what I'll do.
ref: 1885, Gertrude Jerdon, Keyhole Country, page 108:
glosses: A person or thing permanently in residence.
Synonyms: perdurance
remanence
permanence
outflanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outflank
serialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serialise
suffocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suffocate
suffocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suffocated
form: most suffocated
Senses: glosses: Having died as a result of suffocation.
toiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilers
Etymology: From toil + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Every workingman in your city, every toiler in your country, in every country, in the whole world, is exploited and enslaved the same as you are.
ref: 1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 3, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who toils or labors.
tunnelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tunnel
tergiversates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tergiversate
rotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rotted
form: most rotted
Senses: glosses: Destroyed or damaged by rot.
glosses: Deeply annoyed or irritated.
Synonyms: rotten
Related terms: rottedness
rotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rot
tergiversating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tergiversate
tergiversated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tergiversate
shirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirk
shirks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shirk
rapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rap
chronicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chronical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being chronical.
churchliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From churchly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being churchly.
circularness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From circular + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being circular.
civilness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From civil + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being civil.
deadlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of deadly: more deadly
clamorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamourousness
Etymology: From clamorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being clamorous.
clandestineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clandestine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clandestinity.
synonyms: word: clandestinity
classlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From classless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being classless.
Khatri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khatris
Etymology: From Punjabi ਖਤਰੀ (khatrī), Hindi खत्री (khatrī), Nepali खत्री (khatrī).
Senses: glosses: A member of the second-highest of the four castes or varnas in traditional Punjabi society.
Related terms: kshatriya
Khatri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Punjabi ਖਤਰੀ (khatrī), Hindi खत्री (khatrī), Nepali खत्री (khatrī).
Senses: glosses: A surname of people of the Kshatriya order in Nepali Khas society.
polyethoxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + ethoxylated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Formed into a polymer whose repeat unit is derived from ethylene oxide
Derived terms: polyethoxylated surfactant
polyfluoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + fluoro.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Many fluorine atoms in a molecule.
Derived terms: polyfluoroalkyl
polyfluoro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + fluoro.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing many fluorine atoms.
hydrocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪdɹə(ʊ)ˈsɛfələs/
Forms: form: more hydrocephalous
form: most hydrocephalous
Etymology: From hydrocephalus + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Hydrocephalous is the word.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a swollen head.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Afflicted with hydrocephalus.
pacesetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacesetters
form: pace-setter
form: pace setter
Etymology: From pace + setter.
Senses: examples: text: It’s all been a dreadful embarrassment, but why should anyone outside Germany be concerned? Because Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness and toward the easier comforts of togetherness, advocacy and fun.
ref: 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: pacemaker
;
trendsetter
glosses: One who or that which determines the rate of action through leading.
Related terms: bring up the rear
take up the running
pacesetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacesetter
palatially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From palatial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner or style befitting a palace.
Related terms: palatial
palpitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpitation
panelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panelists
form: panellist
Etymology: From panel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who is a member of a panel.
panelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panelist
snot-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snot-nosed
form: most snot-nosed
form: snotnosed
form: snotty-nosed
form: snotnose
form: snot-nose
Etymology: From snot + nosed; evoking a certain stereotype of conceited youth as suffering upper respiratory ailments that result in mucus-filled noses and nasal voices.
Senses: examples: text: “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald.
ref: 2016 August 26, Tal Kopan and Theodore Schleifer, “Target of explicit LePage voicemail denies calling him a racist”, in CNN:
glosses: Young and arrogant or conceited.
snub-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snub-nose
form: most snub-nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snub-nosed.
snub-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snub-nosed
form: most snub-nosed
form: snub-nose
Senses: examples: a snub-nosed pair of pliers
glosses: Having a nose that is short and turned upward at the tip.
Related terms: word: snub nose
word: snubnosed revolver
tubal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːbəl/
ipa: /ˈtubəl/
rhymes: -uːbəl
Etymology: From tube + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The tubal heating surface of the Raven design was considerably less than on the contemporary Gresley design, and the grate area was the same, although the firebox heating surface was less.
ref: 1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, in Railway Magazine, page 195:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one.
Derived terms: tubal abortion
tubal ligation
tubed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Possessing a tube or tubes.
tubed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tube
tubful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubsful
form: tubfuls
Etymology: From tub + -ful.
Senses: glosses: an amount that would fill a tub
tubfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubful
townsfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Etymology tree
English town
English -s-
English folk
English townsfolk
From town + -s- + folk.
Senses: glosses: The people who live in a town, especially the lower and middle classes.
Synonyms: townfolk
Related terms: townsperson
bestrewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bestrew
Synonyms: bestrewed
blubbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌbəɹi/
Forms: form: more blubbery
form: most blubbery
Etymology: From blubber + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The foam panels had a blubbery texture.
glosses: Having the characteristics of blubber.
glosses: Fat or obese.
examples: text: He made a blubbery appeal to the judge.
glosses: With much blubbering.
boilermaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪləɹmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: boilermakers
Etymology: From boiler + maker.
Senses: examples: text: The sole boilermaker visited the out-depots if necessary, but such occasions were exceptional, engines being worked up to Horsham on suitable duties and changed over as required.
ref: 1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:
glosses: A person qualified to make or repair boilers.
examples: text: the beauteous Asian was […] knocking back boilermakers and their helpers at an astonishing pace.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 597:
glosses: A whiskey with a beer chaser.
boilermakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boilermaker
Senses: glosses: plural of boilermaker
bookbindery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookbinderies
Etymology: From book + bindery.
Senses: synonyms: bindery
glosses: A building where books are assembled and bound.
Related terms: bookbinder
bookbinderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookbindery
binderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bindery
demigoddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demigoddesses
Etymology: From demi- + goddess.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Female equivalent of demigod.
demigoddesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demigoddess
dialyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialysis
dieter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dieters
Etymology: From diet + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who diets, usually in an effort to lose weight.
Derived terms: nondieter
Related terms: weight-watcher
dieters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dieter
diggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digging
dockworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dockworkers
form: dock worker
Etymology: From dock + worker.
Senses: examples: text: Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”
ref: 2009 August 13, N. R. Kleinfield, “Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 May 2015:
text: The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.
ref: 2024 October 1, Heather Long, “The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2024:
synonyms: docker#Etymology_2
;
stevedore
longshoreman
wharfie
hypernyms: tradesperson
laborer
<
worker
<
person
coordinate_terms: dockmaster
wharfmaster
;
fieldworker
factoryworker
mineworker
glosses: A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
Related terms: dockworking
dockworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dockworker
dogear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogears
Etymology: See dog-ear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog-ear.
Derived terms: dogeared
dogear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogears
form: dogearing
form: dogeared
form: dogeared
Etymology: See dog-ear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog-ear.
dogears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogear
dogears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dogear
dogcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogcatchers
form: dog-catcher
Etymology: From dog + catcher.
Senses: synonyms: animal control officer
dog warden
glosses: A person whose job is to catch and remove stray dogs.
Synonyms: word: dog warden
Derived terms: dogcatching
could not get elected dogcatcher
Related terms: dog pound
dogcatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogcatcher
dogeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dogeared
form: most dogeared
Etymology: From dog + eared.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog-eared.
dogeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dog + eared.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dogear
dollhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollhouses
Etymology: From doll + house.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doll's house.
Derived terms: dollhouselike
dollhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollhouse
do-nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.
Senses: examples: text: It became clear that a chronic do-nothing approach to the problem's management would no longer suffice.
text: Manchester needs more railway capacity. Just how that is provided until the new platforms are built for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, I will leave for the experts, but a do-nothing approach is not going to be helpful and quite justifiably will create more arguments that the North is being ignored.
ref: 2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Castlefield conundrum”, in Rail, page 31:
glosses: Doing nothing, not taking any action.
do-nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-nothings
Etymology: Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.
Senses: synonyms: word: idler
word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
antonyms: word: doer
word: patient
word: victim
word: do-nothing
word: do-naught
word: faineant
word: idler
word: layabout
word: lollygagger
word: scrounger
word: slacker
word: slugabed
glosses: A lazy person.
Derived terms: do-nothingism
do-nothingness
Related terms: know-nothing
do-nothings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-nothing
doodler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doodlers
Etymology: From doodle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who doodles.
doodlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doodler
doorplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorplates
Etymology: From door + plate.
Senses: glosses: A plaque mounted on a door, bearing information about the occupant of a room or building.
doorplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorplate
domineeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more domineeringly
form: most domineeringly
Etymology: From domineering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a domineering manner.
dozenth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dozen + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: Twelfth.
dozenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dozenths
Etymology: From dozen + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:dozenth.
glosses: A twelfth (1/12th).
drapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of drape
drapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: Heavy cloth hung over a window.
Synonyms: curtains
Derived terms: measure the drapes
the carpet matches the drapes
the curtains match the drapes
drapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drape
draperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drapery
dreamworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamworlds
form: dream-world
form: dream world
Etymology: From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).
Senses: examples: text: At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:
glosses: An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.
Related terms: dreamland
dreamscape
fairyland
fantasy land
cloudland
neverland
dreamworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreamworld
dreamland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamlands
Etymology: From dream + -land.
Senses: examples: text: “Child of earth,” she said, ”dost think we are here in dreamland?” ¶ He answered nothing, and she said, “This is no dream. […]”
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.
examples: text: Those long legs of McTominay sensed where the ball would land, and carried him there first to crack a half-volley past Arrizabalaga and send Scotland into dreamland.
ref: 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald:
glosses: An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy.
Synonyms: sense: imaginary world experienced while dreaming
word: slumberland
Derived terms: Dreamlander
Related terms: dreamscape
dreamworld
fantasy land
cloudland
neverland
slumberland
storyland
dreamlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreamland
dreamless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dream + -less.
Senses: examples: text: She spent the night in a deep and dreamless sleep.
text: Old Yew, which graspest at the stones
⁠That name the under-lying dead,
⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Without dreams.
Derived terms: dreamlessly
dreamlessness
dressmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛsˌmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: dressmakers
Etymology: From dress + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.
Coordinate terms: seamstress
tailor
Derived terms: dressmaker's ham
dressmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dressmaker
shengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheng
mouth organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth organ
Mishima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named either after the Japanese island of Mishima, where the original pottery was transported from Korea, or after a radiating character of almanacs made in Mishima, Japan.
Senses: glosses: A slip inlay style of ceramic pottery adopted from Korea, probably in the 16th century.
coercibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coercible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being coercible.
coerciveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coercive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being coercive.
Synonyms: coercivity
Related terms: coercion
coequalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coequal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being coequal.
coessentialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coessential + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being coessential.
coessential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + essential.
Senses: glosses: Holding the same essence or nature.
glosses: Being essential for each other (with something else).
Derived terms: coessentiality
coessentially
coessentialness
Related terms: consubstantial
childlikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childlikenesses
Etymology: From childlike + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, certainly, though by uncertain years; yet her whole aspect was that of more than childlikeness; […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The state or quality of being childlike.