cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmiːnəbəl/
ipa: /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/
ipa: /əˈmin.ə.bəl/
rhymes: -ɛnəbəl
Forms: form: more amenable
form: most amenable
form: amesnable
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).
Senses: synonyms: persuadable
agreeable
coordinate_terms: word: suggestible
english: stronger and more negative
translation: stronger and more negative
word: gullible
glosses: Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
examples: text: The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
synonyms: compliant
complaisant
glosses: Willing to comply; easily led.
glosses: Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
examples: text: Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.
topics: law
glosses: Liable to the legal authority of (something).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
raw_tags: of a group
Derived terms: amenableness
amenably
nonamenable
supramenable
unamenable
centuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.t͡ʃə.ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of century
change of innings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changes of innings
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The ten-minute interval between one side's innings ending and the other side's beginning.
chucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chuckers
Etymology: From chuck + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who chucks; a thrower.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowling it.
Derived terms: chucker-out
motherchucker
pie-chucker
spearchucker
athletics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æθˈlɛtɪks/
Etymology: From athletic: see -ics. Probably formed on the model of gymnastics.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
examples: text: The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence.
ref: 2009 January 17, William C. Rhoden, “University Sells Itself During Playoffs”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
Derived terms: athleisurewear
cyberathletics
para-athletics
Related terms: athleticism
athletics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æθˈlɛtɪks/
Etymology: From athletic + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of athletic
drabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: drabbles
form: drabbling
form: drabbled
form: drabbled
Etymology: From Middle English drabelan.
Senses: examples: text: That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
glosses: To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.
examples: to drabble for barbels
glosses: To fish with a long line and rod.
Derived terms: bedrabble
drabbler
drabble-tail
drabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: drabbles
Etymology: From a game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; possibly derived in turn from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble.
Senses: glosses: A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.
Synonyms: flash fiction
flashfic
microfiction
short short story
spamfic
sudden fiction
Related terms: urls: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/drabble
word: in
urls: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/drabble
word: Dictionary.com, LLC
urls: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/drabble
word: 1995–present
urls: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drabble
word: in
urls: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drabble
word: Springfield
urls: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drabble
word: Mass.: Merriam-Webster
urls: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drabble
word: 1996–present
forty two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-two.
professional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛʃənəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈfɛʃ(ə)nəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɵfəʃ(ə)nəl/
Forms: form: professionals
Etymology: From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al.
Senses: glosses: A person who belongs to a profession.
examples: text: My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:
glosses: A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
examples: text: There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.
glosses: A prostitute.
glosses: A reputation known by name.
examples: text: I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: An expert.
glosses: One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
Derived terms: certified safety professional
non-professional
nonprofessional
profersonal
pseudo-professional
pseudoprofessional
semi-professional
semiprofessional
super professional
super-professional
superprofessional
professional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛʃənəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈfɛʃ(ə)nəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɵfəʃ(ə)nəl/
Forms: form: more professional
form: most professional
Etymology: From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
ref: 2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
glosses: That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
glosses: Expert.
Derived terms: legal professional privilege
non-professional
nonprofessional
professional class
professional deformation
professional engineer
professional foul
professionalism
professional politician
professional rescuers doctrine
professional secrecy
professional sport
professional student
professional suicide
professional support lawyer
professional university
professional victim
professional wrestler
professional wrestling
pseudo-professional
pseudoprofessional
semi-professional
semiprofessional
ultraprofessional
unprofessional
neap tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːpˌtaɪd/
ipa: /ˈnɪpˌtaɪd/
Forms: form: neap tides
Etymology: From neap + tide. Compare Danish niptid (“neap tide”), German Nipptide (“neap tide”), Old English nēpflōd (“neap tide”).
Senses: examples: text: Spring tides occur when the Sun and Moon line up, since the gravities of the two bodies add together to create larger tidal forces. Neap tides occur when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to one another as seen from Earth. In this case, the gravitational forces counteract each other, creating weaker tidal forces.
ref: 1992 July 24, Neil F. Comins, “A New Slant on Earth”, in Astronomy, volume 20, number 7, page 44:
text: Rear Adm. Harry Hill, put in command of the amphibious force, consults with local mariners and reaches a cautious consensus that neap high tide in the lagoon on November 20 will surely be close to five feet deep.
ref: 1993 November 24, Michael Kernan, (Tarawa), “...heavy fire...unable to land...issue in doubt.”, in Smithsonian, volume 24, number 8, page 118:
text: ... and neap tides (tides that occur during the first and third quarters of the moon and that have the least difference between high and low tides), ...
ref: 1995, Richard M. Schlenker, Sarah J. Yoshida, “Developing Science Activities”, in Science Activities, volume 32, number 2, page 34:
antonyms: spring tide
glosses: The tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
spring tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring tides
Senses: examples: text: Spring tides at Chepstow rise 40 ft., and there is a rapid current except for a very short time.
ref: 1952 September, “Chepstow River Bridge Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 623:
text: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
glosses: The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced so that this tide is of maximum range.
Hyponyms: king tide
Derived terms: proxigean spring tide
savannah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savannahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of savanna.
Derived terms: savannah bamboo
savanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: səvănə
ipa: /səˈvænə/
enpr: səvănə
ipa: /səˈvɛnə/
enpr: səvänə
ipa: /səˈvɑnə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: savannas
form: savannah
Etymology: From Spanish sabana, from Taíno.
Senses: glosses: A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Echites spp.
word: savanna flower
taxonomic: Petaurus ariel
word: savanna glider
word: savanna hawk
taxonomic: Passerculus sandwichensis
word: savanna sparrow
taxonomic: Citharexylum spp.
word: savanna wattle
word: savannization
clean bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clean bowls
form: clean bowling
form: clean bowled
form: clean bowled
Etymology: clean (“without mistakes or errors”, adverb) + bowl.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.
fast food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæst ˈfuːd/
ipa: /ˈfɑːst ˈfuːd/
Forms: form: fast foods
form: fast-food
form: fastfood
Senses: glosses: Food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared.
examples: text: In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food
ref: 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, page 189:
text: Everyone loves some junk food some of the time. That's why there are more than 140,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S.
ref: 1986, “JUNK. OR. GEMS?”, in 1000s of free things: or almost free, page 131:
text: In high schools with open campuses, students leave at lunchtime to buy fast food elsewhere. Since leaving school is unsafe, schools are opting to serve less nutritious foods so the students stay on campus. For example, many schools have invited junk food franchises into their cafeterias, including Subway, Taco Bell, and Domino's.
ref: 1999, Carol Silverman Saunders, Safe at School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12:
text: Disney even chose to stop licensing its film characters for McDonald’s Happy Meals, citing the link between fast food and childhood obesity.
ref: 2012 June 6, Dawn C. Chmielewski, “Disney bans junk-food advertising on programs for children”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: Junk food companies spent billions of advertising dollars in 2017 targeting black and Hispanic kids, a new study has revealed. / Television ads for fast food, sugary drinks and fatty or salty snacks are almost exclusively targeted to minority youth, the report, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found.
ref: 2019 January 15, Lauren Tousignant, “Junk food ads overwhelmingly target black, Hispanic kids”, in New York Post:
glosses: A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
examples: text: The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons.
ref: 2002 March 29, “Going Offshore”, in Time:
text: Guys are good for two things: 1) help when you need to move something heavy, and 2) fast-food sex where you always know what's on the menu and, with a little work, you can supersize it
ref: 2007, Margo Candela, Life over easy:
text: Outside, the drive-in crowd is heading back into the Sturm und Drang of city traffic and a fast-food world
ref: 2008 August 19, Carmen K. Sisson, “A Georgia church tries drive-in worship”, in Christian Science Monitor, page 25:
glosses: Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
Synonyms: sense: type of meal served quickly
word: short order
sense: quick meal of low nutritional value
word: junk food
Derived terms: slow food
Related terms: junk food
élan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈlɑːn/
ipa: /eɪˈlæn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: élans
form: elan
Etymology: Borrowed from French élan.
Senses: examples: text: Sam, carried away by the élan of the performance, was unable to resist joining them.
ref: 1916, Booth Tarkington, Penrod and Sam, page 197:
text: The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to radicalize the whole society, to create mass participation at all levels of decision-making, and to restore the revolutionary élan of the 1940s.
ref: 1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 159:
text: A pocket calculator was the closest that most 1970s consumers came to owning anything with computational power, even if all it could do was basic math. Those tiny gizmos seemed enticing because they offered rare glimpses into the enigmatic world of technology, and the Sinclair Executive also had the élan of being the first one.
ref: 2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Spirit; zeal; ardor.
examples: text: Mary Ellen had never seen any woman, with the exception of Abigail, take such an active role in the company of men, though Abigail did it with élan and never directly or conspicuously.
ref: 2001 10, Daniel Alef, Pale Truth, Titans of Fortune Publishing, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Despite [the] Holmesian frame story, the overall voice of the series is fresh and original, Horowitz writing with the effortless élan that distinguishes all of his work.
ref: 2018 November 1, Anthony Horowitz, quoting Booklist, The Sentence is Death: A mind-bending murder mystery from the bestselling author of THE WORD IS MURDER, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Grace; style (especially apparently effortless).
Related terms: élan vital
lance
lancet
unfreeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: unfreezes
form: unfreezing
form: unfroze
form: unfrozen
Etymology: From un- + freeze.
Senses: glosses: To defrost something.
glosses: To thaw.
examples: text: He lowered the gun, and we unfroze.
glosses: To resume movement.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To release from a previously locked or frozen state.
examples: text: The indictment said that after Mr. Bankman-Fried received confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, the rest of the bribe money was paid.
ref: 2023 March 28, Matthew Goldstein, “Sam Bankman-Fried Is Charged With Foreign Bribery”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To release previously suspended financial assets.
Synonyms: defrost
que
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: cue
homophone: Q
homophone: queue
Forms: form: ques
Senses: examples: text: having lost their own pees and ques, by some pitiful attempt in our alphabetical orchard
ref: 1820, John Borthwick Gilchrist, The Stranger's Infallible East-Indian Guide, London, page 163:
text: he was about to be interviewed by German television and he had to be on his pees and ques.
ref: 2011, Elgin Dobbins, Thirty Seconds to Midnight, page 386:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q. Alternative form of cue.
examples: text: Then about 1950 two German brothers who had a meat market began cooking BBQ in their market to use up left over meat. One got the idea to smoke a brisket as he was smoking sausage one weekend. He left it all weekend in his smokehouse and on Monday as they were serving their que, pork, sausage & chicken, he cut a slice […]
ref: 2009 December 25, Nick Cramer, “My "homemade" Italian meatball recipe - for Nick and Meir”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Instead please join in the sharing of que methods and recipes, or questions.
ref: 2010 September 22, Nanzi, “Re: Yoy guys are killing this group”, in alt.food.barbecue (Usenet):
text: The back route I favor involves a long stretch on Highway 74 and brings me close enough to Lumberton for a barbeque detour. That was my target today. Being already in Lumberton, it only made sense to score some “que.”
ref: 2011, Kathy Reichs, Spider Bones: A Novel, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Clipping of barbeque.
glosses: Alternative form of queue.
establish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/
Forms: form: establishes
form: establishing
form: established
form: established
Etymology: From Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”).
Senses: examples: text: Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: To make stable or firm; to confirm.
examples: text: But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:18:
glosses: To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
examples: text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
examples: text: to establish a fact   to establish a pattern
glosses: To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
Derived terms: disestablish
establishable
established church
establisher
establishing shot
establishment
long-established
preestablish
re-establish
reestablish
unestablish
Related terms: stable
Narita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Narita City spread out below her, a vast, sprawling patchwork of densely packed residential neighborhoods and industrial farmlands, threaded through by freeways and broken up by small, rectilinear forests.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 473:
glosses: A city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: An international airport serving Tokyo, Japan.
fundamentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fundamentally
form: most fundamentally
Etymology: From fundamental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.
ref: 2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times:
text: Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.
ref: 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN:
glosses: In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.
Synonyms: word: basically
word: essentially
word: at bottom
word: at heart
word: au fond
word: by definition
word: deep down
word: fundamentally
word: in effect
word: in essence
word: in the end
word: in the final analysis
word: substantially
word: ultimately
Hypernyms: word: intrinsically
Related terms: word: actually
word: in summary
word: mostly
funny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌni/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fənˈ(n)i/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: funnier
form: funniest
Etymology: From fun + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When I went to the circus, I only found the clowns funny.
glosses: Amusing; humorous; comical.
examples: text: The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
text: I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
text: Oh it's a funny time of year / There'll be no blossom on the trees
ref: 2002, “Funny Time Of Year”, in Out of Season, performed by Beth Gibbons ft. Rustin Man:
glosses: Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.
examples: text: 'Moved in where?' Sam asked Brona in confusion. 'What boyfriend?'
'Glen,' Brona said quietly. 'You met him a while ago, remember? He only moved in last week. I was going to tell you but […] I thought you might be funny about it, that's all.'
ref: 2011, Sarah Webb, It Had To Be You:
text: Ash would have been happy to sit and stare at Viv all day, but when he saw the other guys staring at his sister, too, he got funny about it.
ref: 2012, Jade Varden, The Tower (Deck of Lies, #2):
glosses: Showing unexpected resentment.
examples: text: Funny man ah get drop like a bad habit.
ref: 2005, Damian Marley, “Welcome to Jamrock”, in Welcome to Jamrock (album title):
glosses: Homosexual; gay.
Synonyms: word: amusing
word: chucklesome
word: comedic
word: comic
word: comical
word: droll
word: filarious
word: frolicsome
word: funnisome
word: funny
word: gut-busting
word: hilarious
word: howlarious
word: humourful
word: humorous
word: hysterical
word: jocular
word: joculatory
word: jokes
word: jokesome
word: joky
word: laughable
word: laugh-out-loud
word: laughworthy
word: playful
word: rib-tickling
word: risible
word: screaming
word: sidesplitting
word: sniggersome
word: tattyfilarious
word: thalian
word: thigh-slapping
word: uproarious
word: wacky
word: zany
Hyponyms: word: absurd
word: bawdy
word: corny
word: farcical
word: goofball
word: goofy
word: loony
word: ludicrous
word: ribald
word: ridiculous
word: silly
Derived terms: does the Pope wear a funny hat
do-funny
funnies
funnily
funniment
funniness
funnisome
funny animal
funny as a barrel of monkeys
funny as a dose of the clap
funny bone
funny book
funny boy
funny brownie
funny business
funny car
funny current
funny farm
funny ha ha
funny ha-ha
funny in the head
funny-ish
funny-looking
funny man
funnyman
funny money
funny pages
funny paper
funny papers
funny peculiar
funny stuff
funny that
funnywoman
ha-ha funny
ha ha funny
I'm not being funny
it is not even funny
it is not funny
it isn't even funny
it isn't funny
it's not even funny
it's not funny
nonfunny
you in the funny pages
you in the funny papers
semi-funny
sleep funny
unfunny
Related terms: word: fun
word: witty
funny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌni/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fənˈ(n)i/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: funnies
Etymology: From fun + -y.
Senses: examples: text: After church I am met by a dear parishioner who says, "Got a funny for you. Father." Now I'll have "funnies," so I can reply. "Got one for you too, Mary!"
ref: 1996, The Living Church - Volume 212, page 20:
text: Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day.
ref: 2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr. Dog Bites, page 54:
glosses: A joke.
examples: text: Chic Young, who created his funny funny, “Blondie,” in 1930, and kept it the most popular comic strip in the world right through the unfunny generation, was quick to see the difference between the innocent funnies and the new generation of comics that started after the Second World War:
ref: 1974, The New York Times Magazine, page cliv:
text: The artist gave priority to “Mark Trail,” usually spending at least eight hours a day on it, then working at night on “The Ryatts,” a funny that featured the foibles of a family much like his own, which included four children.
ref: 2014 March 9, Johnny Vardeman, “Drawn into history: Gainesville cartoonist to continue legacy of Mark Trail comic”, in Gainesville Times:
text: His father was more likely to listen to the radio, although he would read the Sunday funnies, and his grandmother would only read the Italian language paper she picked up at the corner candy store.
ref: 2009, R. P. Moffa, The Vaulted Sky, page 343:
glosses: A comic strip.
examples: text: Where's the funny? Your meme sucks.
text: Finally, the funny.
glosses: Humor in general.
funny
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌni/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fənˈ(n)i/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: funnier
form: funniest
Etymology: From fun + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was breathing funny now.
ref: 1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London: Flamingo Books, page 41:
text: At this the farmer gets to breathing funnier, hiccuping, little stray burps roll out—uncontrolled, we’re talking here.
ref: 1989 fall, Allan Gurganus, “A Hog Loves Its Life”, in Gordon Lish, editor, The Quarterly, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 118:
synonyms: funnily
glosses: In an unusual manner; strangely.
examples: text: Dem nuh waan nuh honey, dem only waan di money. Dat’s how me know seh dem bwoy deh all a move funny.
ref: 2002, Sean Paul, “Like Glue”, in Dutty Rock (album title):
text: He walked away, pushing the napkin in his pink pants pockets. By the way, he dresses and walks funnier out of school. He likes tight feminine colored clothes and walks like he is holding a stick between his butt cheeks. You probably wouldn’t notice him if you didn't hear his voice and looked him in the eye. Jenna assumed he liked men.
ref: 2017, Christina Williams, “The Bullied Girl In the Mall”, in Scribble: A Novel, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Nuff boy move funny just fi get money.
ref: 2018, Jah Lando, Money Hard:
glosses: In a manner seen as being typical of a homosexual, or indicating homosexuality.
funny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌni/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fənˈ(n)i/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: funnies
Etymology: Perhaps a jocular use of funny. See above.
Senses: examples: text: I myself recollect the funnies at Eton, which were certain little boats, capable of containing one person only, who, like an Indian in his canoe, was constantly obliged to balance himself, with such critical nicety, that the least mistake was certain of producing a ducking.
ref: 1810, Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, During the Period of His Education at Eton and Oxford, volume 1, pages 63–64:
text: As I do not belong to the boat-club, I always row by myself in a funny […] or at least go in a two-oared boat, with some friend with whom I should otherwise be walking.
ref: 1841 December 12, William Thomson, “[Letter to father]”, in Silvanus P. Thompson, The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, volume 1, published 1910, page 33:
text: We were going to have a go in one of the double scull ‘funnies’ that could be had from the Rowing Club in the harbour, but he is off up the line tomorrow to rejoin his old Battery.
ref: 1971, Julian Tyndale-Biscoe, Gunner Subaltern, page 144:
text: There was a great market for leisure boats, too: no wherries any longer, but whole fleets of punts, rowing gigs, funnies, skiffs, whiffs and randans […]
ref: 1999, Patrick Wright, The River: The Thames in Our Time, →ISBN, page 145:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A narrow, clinker-built double-ender for sculling.
toilet humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet humor
Senses: glosses: Scatological or vulgar language intended to be amusing.
Synonyms: potty humor
potty talk
mister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-tər
ipa: /ˈmɪstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɪstɚ]
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
homophone: Mr.
homophone: Mister
Forms: form: misters
Etymology: Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.
Senses: examples: text: You may sit here, mister.
text: You keep away from my wife, mister.
text: Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.
ref: 1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358
text: There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.
ref: 1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:
text: Liara: We have to hurry. The whole place is caving in!
Shepard: Joker! Get the Normandy airbone and lock in on my signal. On the double, mister!
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therum:
text: Asterix: What? And only now you tell us?
Obelix: I was talking to the future queen, mister Asterix!
Asterix: And I advise you to change your tone, mister Obelix!
Obelix: The future queen and I don't need your advice, mister Asterix! Mister Asterix gives too much advice anyway!
ref: 2013, Asterix and the Picts, page 37:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
examples: text: There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.
glosses: A man.
Derived terms: misteress
misters before sisters
sisters before misters
sister from another mister
Related terms: Mister Man
mister man
mister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-tər
ipa: /ˈmɪstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɪstɚ]
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
homophone: Mr.
homophone: Mister
Forms: form: misters
form: mistering
form: mistered
form: mistered
Etymology: Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.
Senses: examples: 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!”
“None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”
glosses: To address by the title of "mister".
mister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-tər
ipa: /ˈmɪstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɪstɚ]
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
homophone: Mr.
homophone: Mister
Forms: form: misters
Etymology: From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier.
Senses: glosses: Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
examples: text: The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,
To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: What mister-chance hath brought thee to the field Without thy sheepe?
ref: 1772, William Browne, The Works of William Browne: Containing Britannia's Pastorals, page 83:
text: For als he been a mister wight Betray'd by wandering in the night To tread the circled haunt;
ref: 1779, Samuel Johnson, “A Fairy Tale”, in The Works of the English Poets, page 27:
glosses: A kind, type of.
examples: text: He is richt gude, Ane man of wealth and nobill blude, Bot hes mair mister of ane Hude.
ref: 1603, Ane verie excellent and delectabill treatise intitulit Philotus:
text: England, that stands muckle in mister of a Reformation.
ref: 1692, Jacob Curate, The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence:
text: Now is over lait to preis my freind indeid , Quhan that I have sik mister, and sik neid: Better had bene be tyme I had overtane, To preis my freind, quhen mister had I nane.
ref: 1792, John Pinkerton, Scotish Poems:
glosses: Need (of something).
examples: text: That the portis be mendytt and lokit and reformit as mister is.
ref: 1543, John Stuart, Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen:
text: Which works the church had in its treasury to sell at mister.
ref: 1722, John Lauder Fountainhall, Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda 1665-1676:
text: When his Máster shall say, Ha Sir, I know you well enough; ye did speak indeed but never in a mister; ye did sneak, as they use to say, when none speired at you, ye were stout then;
ref: 1754, John Livingston, A Brief Historical Relation of the Life of Mr J. Livingston, page 68:
text: If 2 coparceners are seised of land, and one releases to the other in fee with warranty; this passes by way of mister le estate.
ref: 1793, Charles Viner, A General Abridgment of Law and Equity:
glosses: Necessity; the necessary time.
mister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-tər
ipa: /ˈmɪstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɪstɚ]
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
homophone: Mr.
homophone: Mister
Forms: form: misters
form: mistering
form: mistered
form: mistered
Etymology: From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier.
Senses: examples: text: As for my name, it mistreth not to tell;
Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
text: I mister not to write mair of Bissiness to zour Lordschip; bot, as I hear, how soon the Compris of thair Factoris is hard, that thai will gif thame new Commissionis again, or utheris in thair Placis.
ref: 1734, Robert Keith, The History of the Affairs of Chuch and State in Scotland, page 489:
glosses: To be necessary; to matter.
mister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-tər
ipa: /ˈmɪstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɪstɚ]
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
homophone: Mr.
homophone: Mister
Forms: form: misters
Etymology: mist + -er
Senses: examples: text: Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.
text: Use a mister and steamer. If you're avoiding fat, use an oil mister while cooking. Using a steamer for cooking can also cut down on the amount of oil you consume.
ref: 2017, Steve Alvest, The Life Actionbook:
glosses: A device that makes or sprays mist.
Related terms: demister
kitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː]
homophone: kiddie
homophone: kiddy (US, Canada, New Zealand)
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: kitties
Etymology: Origin uncertain; sense 2 (relating to card games) is possibly from kit (“collection of items”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: qualifier: bowls
glosses: Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).
synonyms: word: jack
extra: a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls
examples: text: Your business is busted up, your thousand dollars is gone into the kitty of this corrupt country on that last bluff you made, […]
ref: 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Fourth in Salvador”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, pages 213–214:
text: They told me you always had to come back to the band with your hand open so they could see what tip you got and you put that in the kitty.
ref: 1995 September 8 (date interviewed), Peter Vacher, quoting Betty Hall Jones, “Betty Hall Jones: Piano, Organ, and Vocals”, in Swingin’ on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, published 2015, →ISBN, page 99:
topics: card-games
games
poker
glosses: A pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use.
topics: card-games
games
poker
synonyms: word: pool
word: stakes
word: pot
extra: a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game
glosses: Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”).
topics: card-games
games
poker
glosses: Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”).
synonyms: word: widow
extra: an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder
Derived terms: word: kitty party
kitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː]
homophone: kiddie
homophone: kiddy (US, Canada, New Zealand)
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: kitties
Etymology: Origin uncertain, possibly a clipping of kid(cote) (“lockup, prison”) (UK, dialectal, obsolete) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Besides we had a nice tollbooth, / To pull'd down was a pity, / And in its stead we've got—forsooth— / A vile pernicious kitty. / […] / Like convicts in a condemn'd cell, / They're fed on bread and water; / 'Midst winter's cold and putrid smell, / Thus tort'ring human nature.
ref: 1824, Robert Gilchrist, “The Retrospect”, in A Collection of Original Local Songs. […], 2nd edition, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland: […] [F]or the author, by W. A. Mitchell, […], →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: A jail, a prison; also, a lockup.
kitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː]
homophone: kiddie
homophone: kiddy (US, Canada, New Zealand)
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: kitties
Etymology: From Kitty (“diminutive of the female given name Katherine”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like the males of our distinct Kitty-wrens,—a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird.
ref: [1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Instinct”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).
kitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: /ˈkɪti/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾi]
ipa: [ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː]
homophone: kiddie
homophone: kiddy (US, Canada, New Zealand)
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: kitties
Etymology: Clipping of kitt(iwake) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In the parish of Gaurie three curiosities upon the coast are exhibited to travellers: 1st, A perpendicular rock, of very great extent, full of shelves, and possessed by thousands of birds called kittywakes. […] Some people are fond of eating the young kitties; but the shooting of them is a favourite diversion every year.
ref: 1806, Ro[bert] Forsyth, “Banffshire”, in The Beauties of Scotland: […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [John Brown] for Arch[ibald] Constable and Co. and John Brown, […], →OCLC, page 460:
glosses: Synonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”).
synonyms: word: kittiwake
extra: (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”)
thier
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of their.
clearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪɚli/
ipa: /ˈklɪəli/
ipa: /ˈkliːɹli/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Forms: form: more clearly
form: clearlier
form: most clearly
form: clearliest
Etymology: From Middle English clerli, clerely, clerelych, cleerliche, clerliche, equivalent to clear + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He enunciated every syllable clearly.
topics: manner
glosses: In a clear manner.
examples: text: Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion.
text: While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Without a doubt; obviously.
examples: text: He was clearly wrong on all points but one.
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a degree clearly discernible.
Synonyms: sense: without a doubt
word: expressly
word: unambiguously
word: explicitly
word: obviously
noxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒkʃəs/
ipa: /ˈnɑkʃəs/
Forms: form: more noxious
form: most noxious
form: noctious
Etymology: From Latin noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent.
Senses: examples: text: In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; [...]
ref: 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:
text: [...] many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: Harmful; injurious.
Synonyms: harmful
injurious
scathing
Derived terms: nonnoxious
noxiously
noxiousness
noxious stimulus
noxious trade
unnoxious
Related terms: obnoxious
nocent
innocent
mysticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs′tĭ-sĭz′əm
ipa: /ˈmɪs.tɪˌsɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈməs.təˌsəz.əm/
ipa: /ˈmis.ʈiˌsiz.im/
Forms: form: mysticisms
Etymology: From mystic + -ism, from Old French mistique (“mysterious, full of mystery”), from Latin mysticus (“mystical, mystic, of secret rites”), from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated, initiate”) from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “to close one's lips or eyes; initiate into the mysteries”). Compare Asturian misticismu, Catalan misticisme, French mysticisme, German Mystizismus, Italian misticismo, Portuguese misticismo, Sicilian misticisimu, Spanish misticismo.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
examples: text: In the history of Christian mysticism the problem how to discriminate between such messages and experiences as were really divine miracles, and such others as the demon in his malice was able to counterfeit, thus making the religious person twofold more the child of hell he was before, has always been a difficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
glosses: Obscure thoughts and speculations.
Derived terms: quantum mysticism
synchromysticism
bors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bor
thaumaturgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, powerfulest of all, least recognised of all, a Noblesse of Literature; without steel on their thigh, without gold in their purse, but with the “grand thaumaturgic faculty of Thought” in their head.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (Death of Louis XV):
text: It was the conferring of thaumaturgic powers. We can't do it now as rapidly as that.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: In the service of Venus ghastly and unhallowed crimes have been committed, men have braved tempestuous dangers, have renounced magnificence, power, and possessions, confirming the almost thaumaturgic virtue of ‘All for love.’
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page i:
text: These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: Of, or relating to, the working of magic or performance of miracles.
Related terms: thaumaturge
thaumaturgy