cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unspared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spared.
Senses: examples: text: It is only here and there, by Duerer, Holbein, Carpaccio, or other such men, that we get a living bird rightly drawn;[18] but we may be greatly thankful for the unspared labor, and attentive skill, with which many illustrations of ornithology have been produced within the last seventy or eighty years.
ref: 1897, John Ruskin, Love's Meinie:
text: Cornelia knew later, when she was older and had thought more, that the queen had instantly caught the defiant mood of her guest, and thereupon left nothing unspared to conciliate it.
ref: 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Caesar:
glosses: Not spared.
Ruskinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ruskinian
form: most Ruskinian
Etymology: From Ruskin + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It was constructed from local materials and completed in 1842; it is Victorian but looks Romanesque; Ruskinian in its simplicity, it pre-dates Ruskin by a decade.
ref: 2012, Frances Wilson, “Evergreen Architecture”, in Literary Review, section 402:
glosses: Of or pertaining to John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, critic, and artist.
unsupplied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsupplied
form: most unsupplied
Etymology: From un- + supplied.
Senses: examples: text: The whole number of blacks receiving religious instruction from these Christian bodies, making allowance for the proportion of white and colored included in the three thousand Wesleyans, is about twenty-two thousand--leaving a population of eight thousand negroes in Antigua who are unsupplied with religious instruction.
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
text: So long as this want is unsupplied, and the juvenile offender is contaminated by contact with the hardened criminal, the statesmen and those who control the legislatures of both countries, dishonor their profession of Christianity.
ref: 1842, Joseph Sturge, A Visit To The United States In 1841:
text: So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 486:
glosses: Not supplied.
unskilfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unskilful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The mind sometimes exercises this judgment out of necessity, where demonstrative proofs and certain knowledge are not to be had; and sometimes out of laziness, unskilfulness, or haste, even where demonstrative and certain proofs are to be had.
ref: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume II.:
text: It happened, by the advantage of situation, by the unskilfulness and the fatigue of the enemy, by the valour of our soldiers, and their experience in former battles, that they could not stand one attack of our men, and immediately turned their backs: and our men with full vigour followed them while disordered, and slew a great number of them; the horse pursuing the rest, left but few, who escaped by flight.
ref: 1915, W. A. Macdevitt, "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries:
glosses: Lack of skill.
unsupple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsupple
form: most unsupple
Etymology: From un- + supple.
Senses: examples: text: This was, by every earthly canon, a good man, but a stern and unsupple.
ref: 1918, Mary Johnston, Foes:
text: His voice is coarse and apparently unsupple but, as with Howlin' Wolf, his breath control and subtle shifts in intensity, pitch, and timbre infuse this blunt instrument with texture and nuance.
ref: 2003 June 6, David Whiteis, “Jon Dee Graham”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Singer Roberta Duchak is more sensitive rhythmically yet awfully bright and unsupple on the high notes.
ref: 2005 November 11, Laura Molzahn, “Come Fly With Me”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not supple.
unstiffen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstiffens
form: unstiffening
form: unstiffened
form: unstiffened
Etymology: From un- + stiffen.
Senses: examples: text: We stopped here about ten o'clock this morning, and I was so tired and stiff after the long night wedged in tight in the railway carriage that I got out to get some air and unstiffen myself, instinctively clutching my fiddle-case; and a Bavarian officer on the platform, watching the train with some soldiers, saw me and came over to me at once and demanded to see my papers.
ref: 1917, Alice Cholmondeley, Christine:
glosses: To remove the stiffness from; to relax; to make pliant.
unstiffens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstiffen
unstiffening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstiffen
unshattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shattered.
Senses: examples: text: Now, ye stand in that past day, grateful images of unshattered repose, simple in your tranquillity, strong in your self-possession, yet ever musical and springing as the footsteps of a child.
ref: 1844, S.M. Fuller, Summer on the Lakes, in 1843:
text: They rarely ventured on the attempt to storm any fortified post, for the military engines of antiquity were feeble in breaching masonry before the improvements which the first Dionysius effected in the mechanics of destruction; and the lives of spearmen the boldest and most high-trained would, of course, have been idly spent in charges against unshattered walls.
ref: 1905, Various, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2:
glosses: Not shattered; intact.
unstayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stayed.
Senses: examples: text: In vain: your turbulence is unallayed, My flame unquenched; your rioting unstayed; My life so wretched from your strife to save it That death were welcome did I dare to brave it.
ref: 1903, Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay:
text: No niggard churl our High Chieftain, But lavishly His gifts are made, Like streams from a moat that flow amain, Or rushing waves that rise unstayed.
ref: 1908, Sophie Jewett, The Pearl:
glosses: Not stayed or held back.
examples: text: A little while later, when I came to the dining-room for the first breakfast, I met Lovaina in a blue-figured aahu of muslin and lace, a close-fitting, sweeping nightgown, the single garment that Tahitians wear all day and take off at night, a tunic, or Mother Hubbard, which reveals their figures without disguise, unstayed, unpetticoated.
ref: 1921, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.:
glosses: Not wearing stays.
examples: text: Wingsails are typically mounted on an unstayed spar.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Without stays.
unsevered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unsevered, equivalent to un- + severed.
Senses: examples: text: It is delightful to see early intimacies thus enduring through all the accidents of life, local attachments unsevered by time, and the old age and childhood of man bound together by these natural charities.
ref: 1846, Henry Francis Cary, Lives of the English Poets:
glosses: Not severed.
unsettlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsettlements
Etymology: From un- + settlement.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding the unsettlement produced by the treaty during the past season, the Indians have raised an adequate supply of provisions to keep them comfortably during the year; and they manifest an increased desire to avoid the use of ardent spirits, and to have their children educated.
ref: 1842, Joseph Sturge, A Visit To The United States In 1841:
glosses: The quality of being unsettled; upset or unrest.
glosses: An illegal or unofficial settlement, or community of people living together.
unseverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseverable
form: most unseverable
Etymology: From un- + severable.
Senses: examples: text: […]out on the brightly lighted plazoleta she could almost see Sigmund and Siglinda clasping in an eternal unseverable embrace, as she had seen them from the wings of the opera[…]
ref: 1921, Vicente Blasco Iba, The Torrent:
glosses: That cannot be severed.
unthumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + thumbed.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of his life he had become, on his own ground, as mellow as he was rich; he combined consummate shrewdness with the disposition superficially to fraternise, and his "social position," on which he had never wasted a care, had the firm perfection of an unthumbed fruit.
ref: 1908, Henry James, chapter V, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2833), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
text: Beside the table, bare except for the formal, unthumbed Bible, Mrs. Horowitz rattled out a paper, her near-sighted eyes traveling back and forth across the page.
ref: 1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas:
glosses: Not thumbed.
unthriving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthriving
form: most unthriving
Etymology: From un- + thriving.
Senses: examples: text: In every place where there are half a dozen houses is planted an unthriving tree of liberty, which seems to wither under the baneful influence of the bonnet rouge.
ref: 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
text: He stopped short and looked at the brick wall of the terrace, faced with shallow arches, meagrely clothed by a few unthriving creepers, with an ill-kept narrow flower-bed along its foot.
ref: 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes:
glosses: Failing to thrive; weak or sickly.
untile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untiles
form: untiling
form: untiled
form: untiled
Etymology: From Middle English untylle; equivalent to un- + tile.
Senses: examples: text: But before they went, Sir W. Batten and my lady did begin to taunt them, but the rogues answered them as high as themselves, and swore they would come again, and called me rogue and rebel, and they would bring the sheriff and untile his house, before he should harbour a rebel in his house, and that they would be here again shortly.
ref: 1663 March 3 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 21st, 1662–1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 47:
text: As soon as he arrived, he prepared to force his way into the house, but it was found so impracticable that at length they were obliged to untile part of the roof, from whence a person descended, and opened the door to those who did not choose so dangerous an entrance as that through which he had passed.
ref: 1762, Sarah Scott, A Description of Millennium Hall:
glosses: To remove the tiles from.
untiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untile
untiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untile
useter
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: There was JOB BIGLER, who useter leed the Skeensboro brick meetin house quire, tryin to pick his teeth with the corner of a pictur-frame, while standin before the lookin glass was WILLYAM DUNBAR vainly endevorin to ascertain if he was the Siameese Twins, or else was the lookin-glass a double-plated one.
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870:
text: "Me an' Dusty useter 'ave a drop an' a jaw together every night for three months after we married.
ref: 1917, Stella Benson, This Is the End:
text: "Then I met Spruggy Boyce, who useter drive with me in the Umpteenth Field Ambulance.
ref: 1919, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of used to.
unsuspicion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + suspicion.
Senses: examples: text: He had counted upon blindness, the unsuspicion of perfect confidence; but a passive, conscious conformity such as this--The thing was unbelievable, providential, too unnaturally good to last.
ref: 1907, Will Lillibridge, Where the Trail Divides:
text: But the half-light of the room was a very obliging ally against such unsuspicion as her son's.
ref: 1914, Leroy Scott, No. 13 Washington Square:
glosses: Lack of suspicion.
untasteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untasteful
form: most untasteful
Etymology: From un- + tasteful.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it was one of the leathern ladies that awakened such an extraordinary interest in the boy; for on its feet were the red morocco boots, bound and tied with light blue ribbon--very untasteful was the contrast--which he had made out of gratitude for the kindness shown him on the day in which he dropped the shoes in the gutter.
ref: 1862, Sarah A. Myers, Watch--Work--Wait:
synonyms: word: tasteless
word: bedizened
word: blatant
word: blingish
word: brash
word: catchpenny
word: chichi
word: chintzy
word: crass
word: crude
word: flashy
word: flaunting
word: florid
word: flossy
word: froufrou
word: garish
word: gauche
word: gaudy
word: gay
word: glaring
word: gross
word: gussied up
word: hideous
word: kitschy
word: loud
word: meretricious
word: obtrusive
word: ostentatious
word: pizazzy
word: pretentious
word: ritzy
word: raffish
word: showy
word: snazzy
word: splendiferous
word: tacky
word: tasteless
word: tawdry
word: tinselly
word: too much
word: unbecoming
word: untasteful
word: vain
word: whorish
word: zesty
glosses: Not tasteful.
Related terms: word: all one's taste is in one's mouth
word: distasteful
word: untastefully
word: untasty
untechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untechnical
form: most untechnical
Etymology: From un- + technical.
Senses: examples: text: In 1868, thinking that an untechnical statement of the views current among the leaders of biological science might be interesting to the general public, I gave a lecture embodying them in Edinburgh.
ref: 1894, Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses:
text: Now, as earlier, Jackson's ignorance of law was somewhat compensated by his common sense, courage, and impartiality; and while only one of his decisions of this period is extant, Parton reports that the tradition of fifty years ago represented them as short, untechnical, unlearned, sometimes ungrammatical, but generally right.
ref: 1919, Frederic Austin Ogg, The Reign of Andrew Jackson:
text: Still there is no doubt that the earliest Buddhist texts and the discourse ascribed to the Buddha himself speak, when using ordinary untechnical language, of rebirth and of a man dying and being born[434] in such and such a state.
ref: 1962, Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3):
glosses: Not technical.
unthriftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unthrifty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Many a one here is born to a fair estate; and is stripped of it, whether by the just disherison of his offended Father, or else by the power or circumvention of an adversary, or by his own mis-government and unthriftiness.
ref: 1652, Joseph Hall, The Sons of God Led by the Spirit of God:
text: The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot.
ref: 1864, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864:
text: It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness.
ref: 1921, A.H. Beesley, The Gracchi Marius and Sulla:
glosses: The quality of being unthrifty.
untransplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transplanted.
Senses: examples: text: Another, marked N, was planted in 1807, five and one-half feet high, in the Speech House grounds, next the road; and L, M, N, X, have remained untransplanted in the Acorn Patch.
ref: 1903, George Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2:
text: Normal untransplanted marrow was used as a control to ensure the quality of the stroma and the comparability of the experiments at different times.
ref: 2000 March 10, Tao Cheng et al., “Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence Maintained by p21cip1/waf1”, in Science, volume 287, number 5459, →DOI, pages 1804–1808:
glosses: Not transplanted.
unwifely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwifely
form: most unwifely
Etymology: From un- + wifely.
Senses: examples: text: He reproached his wife with unwifely disobedience, and with the crime of turning her own offspring against his father, and the two but mocked him!
ref: 1897, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman:
text: Yet every day the theme of this old troubadour's talk around the hotels is female entanglements--mendacious, unwifely, and for him unavailing.
ref: 1899, James Lane Allen, Aftermath:
glosses: Not wifely.
Derived terms: unwifeliness
unweaponed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + weaponed.
Senses: examples: text: If the hour and the circumstance and the cause will but unite us, this unweaponed host will stretch away at once in majestic orders of tens of thousands--legions upon legions that would shame Xerxes for numbers and that first Caesar for strength.
ref: 1908, Elizabeth Miller, The City of Delight:
text: He it was who alone and unweaponed had struggled with Grendel, and he who heedless had swam to the depths of the tarn to kill the she-ogre.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
glosses: Not armed with a weapon.
unwaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwaxy
form: most unwaxy
Etymology: From un- + waxy.
Senses: glosses: Not waxy.
over-the-shoulder boulder holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-the-shoulder boulder holders
Senses: examples: text: I longed to be part of the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder club, if only I had boulders to hold! Or small stones. Even pebbles would have been acceptable.
ref: 2005, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Chicken soup for the girl's soul, page 261:
text: And there wasn't one plain white cotton and elastic over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder in the bunch.
ref: 2009, Julie Miller, Jule McBride, Carrie Hudson, Oneclick Buy: April 2009 Harlequin Blaze:
text: The image was not attractive, but I didn't find my look in an underwire bra, which was more like an over-the-shoulder boulder holder on me, any better.
ref: 2011, Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender:
glosses: A large bra.
over-the-shoulder boulder holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of over-the-shoulder boulder holder
unwet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wet.
Senses: examples: text: Such episodes belonged to the times; and, after all, by making a circuit of six miles he found the Psalter miraculously unwet, and only his worldly pride remained at the lake's bottom.
ref: 1899, George Edward Woodberry, Heart of Man:
text: […]Dante, looking out with fear upon the foam and spray and vapour of the flood, saw thousands of the damned flying before the face of one who forded Styx with feet unwet.
ref: 1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series:
glosses: Not wet.
unwet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwets
form: unwetting
form: unwet
form: unwet
Etymology: From un- + wet.
Senses: examples: text: UNWET YOUR PANTS with dry-on-the-fly cargos
ref: 2016, Unwet Your Pants, Duluth Trading Co.:
glosses: To dry, particularly of something that has recently been made wet.
unweariable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweariable
form: most unweariable
Etymology: From un- + weariable.
Senses: examples: text: As a spot upon a white cloth sets off the general whiteness, so this dispatch illustrates Lincoln's unweariable patience and long-suffering without parallel.
ref: 1899, John T. Morse, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II:
text: The beautiful book he produced was worthy of the zeal, and unsparing, unweariable pains, which had been spent on it by the band of enthusiasts, and it was truly a little triumph of humanism.
ref: 1905, Oliver Elton, The Danish History, Books I-IX:
glosses: Tireless.
weariable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weariable
form: most weariable
Etymology: From weary + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of becoming wearied.
developt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of develop
unwilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + willed.
Senses: examples: text: Or is it to go no further than to condemn such a law as that which in England gives unwilled lands to the eldest son?
ref: 1905, John Morley, Rousseau:
glosses: Not disposed of in a legal will.
examples: text: In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body.
ref: 1907, Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux, The Unfolding Life:
glosses: Not willed or wished for.
unwinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + winged.
Senses: examples: text: The Virgin sits at the foot of the cross; before her, and half-sustained by her knees, lies the form of the dead Saviour, seen in front; his arms are held up by two angels (unwinged, as is usual with Michael Angelo).
ref: 1881, Mrs. Jameson, Legends of the Madonna:
synonyms: apterous
wingless
glosses: Not winged.
untread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untreads
form: untreading
form: untrod
form: untrod
Etymology: From un- + tread.
Senses: glosses: To retread (one's steps) in the opposite direction; to walk back.
untreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untread
untreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untread
ununitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ununitable
form: most ununitable
Etymology: From un- + unitable.
Senses: examples: text: Such contrivances are of the greatest beauty, for they unite all that could be desired, nay, all that appeared wholly ununitable; they complicate, and yet carry the solution in themselves; they produce restlessness, and yet lead to repose; they succeed in reaching the goal, while appearing to be making every effort to keep from it.
ref: 1914, Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief), The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III:
text: It may have been compounded at different times, have been the result of many tastes or distastes: but there was, after all, a unity in it that marked it as the composition of one master artist; there was an unspeakable harmony in all its flavors and apparently ununitable substances.
ref: 1872, Charles Dudley Warner, Saunterings:
glosses: That cannot be united.
ununiformly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ununiformly
form: most ununiformly
Etymology: From ununiform + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not uniform; unevenly.
unvexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvexed
form: most unvexed
Etymology: From un- + vexed.
Senses: examples: text: He took up a paper, bowed to me with an unvexed air, and read a column or so.
ref: 1901, Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons:
text: Yet even though unvexed by this gruesome knowledge, after two or three days I noticed that Cookie was ill at ease.
ref: 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons:
glosses: Not vexed.
unvital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvital
form: most unvital
Etymology: From un- + vital.
Senses: examples: text: While humanity is growing, they continue fixed; daily get more mechanical and unvital; and by and by tend to strangle what they before preserved.
ref: 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:
glosses: Lacking vitality.
t-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈti.ɡɝl/
ipa: /ˈti.ɡɚ.əl/
Forms: form: t-girls
form: tgirl
Senses: examples: text: Some of them are unaware that t-girls are often heterosexual, and the idea that a genetic woman would enjoy being with a t-girl usually tickles them pink.
ref: 2003, Helen Boyd, My husband Betty: love, sex, and life with a crossdresser, page 211:
text: Sex play with a t-girl is fun. It's like sex play with a sexy girl, except for that extra penis and a tendency to be more uninhibited than it usually is with your average non-t-girl.
ref: 2008, Lannie Rose, How To Change Your Sex, page 42:
glosses: A trans woman.
Related terms: t-boy
t-girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t-girl
unwandering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwandering
form: most unwandering
Etymology: From un- + wandering.
Senses: examples: text: When they are permitted to reach any height from which to look down, the terrible craving appears to be temporarily appeased; and they become kind, and even generous, to all who look up with willing, unwandering gaze.
ref: 1903, Nancy Huston Banks, Round Anvil Rock:
text: Dawson--lean and keen, tough and brown of skin, and so carelessly dressed that he looked as if he slept in his clothes--listened with the sympathetic, unwandering attention which men give only him who comes telling where and how they can make money.
ref: 1906, David Graham Phillips, The Second Generation:
glosses: Not wandering.
unwantedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwanted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: By kindergarten, Lisa had internalized her unwantedness and begun “to feel there was something gross and shameful about me,” as if she were “wormy inside, like I’d caught whatever disease or larvae were passed through raw eggs and flour when I snuck raw cookie dough.”
ref: 2018 April 9, Melanie Thernstrom, “The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being unwanted.
offring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offre
warehousable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warehousable
form: most warehousable
Etymology: From warehouse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for storage in a warehouse.
offred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offre
unwaning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwaning
form: most unwaning
Etymology: From un- + waning.
Senses: examples: text: With light unwaning on her eyes
ref: 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To William Wordsworth:
text: She waked often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the unwaning star.
ref: 1920, May Edginton, Married Life:
glosses: Not waning.
unweakened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweakened
form: most unweakened
Etymology: From un- + weakened.
Senses: examples: text: The same intolerable awe and dread that had come upon him in the night, returned unweakened in the day.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: A refined female nature; something tremulous in it, timid, and with a certain rural freshness still unweakened by long converse with the world.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
text: That nothing but good could happen she always knew, because since the very beginning God—the same personal kindly force that she had always worshiped, unaltered by her deep learning, unweakened by any theological dissertations—was there manifesting the whole year round His wonderful love for the world.
ref: 1912, Elinor Glyn, Halcyone:
glosses: Not weakened.
unkenned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnd
Etymology: From un- + kenned.
Senses: glosses: Unknown.
unworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unworth, unwurth, equivalent to un- + worth.
Senses: examples: text: Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets:
text: As the lawyer unfolded his plan the partner-clerk, as a devotee of cunning, found himself convicted of comparative unworth; with every sentence he deported himself less like Pelman the partner, shrank more and more to Joey the devil clerk.
ref: 1917, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Copper Streak Trail:
text: Feeling a sense of unworth, we kill ourselves in a number of ways.
ref: 1989, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, The art of being human: the humanities as a technique for living:
glosses: Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
unworth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworth
form: most unworth
Etymology: From Middle English unworth, unwurth, equivalent to un- + worth.
Senses: examples: text: Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: unworthy
unworth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unworth, unwurth, from Old English unweorþ, unweorþe (“unworthy, poor, mean, of low estate, worthless, contemptible, ignoble”), equivalent to un- + worth.
Senses: examples: text: This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter.
ref: 1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him:
text: That would be something not unworth boasting about--that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath.
ref: 1916, John Lang, Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches:
glosses: Not worth; not deserving of.
unwedgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwedgeable
form: most unwedgeable
Etymology: From un- + wedgeable.
Senses: examples: text: Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak[.]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Strong, tough as the oak-root, and as gnarled and unwedgeable; no fibre of him running straight with the other: a block for Destiny to beat on, for the world to gaze at, with ineffectual wonder!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mirabeau”, in London and Westminster Review:
glosses: That cannot be split, as with a wedge.
unweddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweddable
form: most unweddable
Etymology: From un- + weddable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being wed.
unwinnowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + winnowed.
Senses: examples: text: While stooping over to fill his fan with unwinnowed grain, the buck, taking advantage of his position, came like a catapult against him, and sent him like a ball from a Paixhan gun, head foremost into the chaff.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: A few miles away the loud Niagara of London runs swift, and the air vibrates with all the tumult of the strenuous life of man; but here the air is dead, unwinnowed by any clamorous wind, unshaken by any planetary motion.
ref: 1907, William J. Dawson, The Quest of the Simple Life:
glosses: Not winnowed.
upboil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upboils
form: upboiling
form: upboiled
form: upboiled
Etymology: From up- + boil.
Senses: glosses: To boil upward.
upboiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upboil
upboiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upboil
upboils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upboil
unsufficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more unsufficient
form: most unsufficient
Etymology: From un- + sufficient.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insufficient.
synonyms: word: insufficient
upborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of upbear
upbraidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more upbraidingly
form: most upbraidingly
Etymology: From upbraiding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He hears the horses--they have broken their tethers--he can hear them whinnying, upbraidingly, far off.
ref: 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:
text: And then--there lay the heart of the worry, proving him only too likely a graceless jealous middle-age curmudgeon, a senile sentimentalist, thus did he upbraidingly mock himself--were there not signs of Damaris developing into a rather thorough paced coquette?
ref: 1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard:
glosses: So as to upbraid; scoldingly.
uprears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uprear
upreared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uprear
usward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: uswards
Etymology: From Middle English us-ward; equivalent to us + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour.
ref: 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:
text: But the Gods have sent him to usward to work us measureless good: It is even Sigurd the Volsung, the best man ever born, The man that the Gods withstand not, my friend, and my brother sworn."
ref: 1904, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs:
glosses: Toward us.
uswards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of usward.
schoolwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schoolward.
uptilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uptilt
uptilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uptilted
form: most uptilted
Senses: glosses: Tilted upward.
uptilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uptilt
uptilts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uptilt
uptilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uptilt
innecessary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innecessary
form: most innecessary
Etymology: From in- + necessary.
Senses: glosses: Not required.
Synonyms: unnecessary
uptimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uptime
uprisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprisals
Etymology: From uprise + -al.
Senses: examples: text: My staying won't do you any good," said the old lady, whose purple sun-bonnet seemed to heave with the uprisal of her hair, "except, perhaps, to get you a better meal than the servants would have given you.
ref: 1886, Frank Richard Stockton, The Late Mrs. Null:
text: In that interval, the priests came to Acoma and held footing for fifty years, until the bloody uprisal of 1680 occurred, in which priest, soldier and settler were massacred or driven from the land, and every vestige of their occupation was extirpated.
ref: 1903, James Cox, My Native Land:
glosses: An uprising.
uprisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uprisal
katabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more katabolic
form: most katabolic
Senses: examples: text: Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic.
ref: 1907, William I. Thomas, Sex and Society:
text: Compared with the female, the male animal is katabolic; he is active, impulsive, destructive, skilful, creative, intense, spasmodic, violent.
ref: 1912, Earl Barnes, Woman in Modern Society:
glosses: Alternative form of catabolic.
Derived terms: hyperkatabolic
kemb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kembs
form: kembing
form: kembed
form: kembed
form: kempt
form: kempt
Etymology: From Middle English kemben, from Old English cemban, from Proto-West Germanic *kambijan, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (“to comb”). Cognate with Dutch kemmen (“to comb”), German kämmen (“to comb”), Danish kæmme (“to comb”), Icelandic kemba (“to comb; card; debug”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of comb.
kemb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kembs
Etymology: From Middle English kemben, from Old English cemban, from Proto-West Germanic *kambijan, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (“to comb”). Cognate with Dutch kemmen (“to comb”), German kämmen (“to comb”), Danish kæmme (“to comb”), Icelandic kemba (“to comb; card; debug”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of comb.
Derived terms: kembster
unkembed
unkempt
kembing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kemb
kembed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kemb
qualmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: qualmier
form: qualmiest
Etymology: From qualm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Weary, listening to the whistling and the shuffling of feet, felt a queer, qualmy feeling in the region of his diaphragm, and he yielded to a hunger for consolation and company in his misery.
ref: 1904, B. M. Bower, The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories:
glosses: queasy; nauseous
qualmier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of qualmy: more qualmy
qualmiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of qualmy: most qualmy
quartzofeldspathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quartzofeldspathic
form: most quartzofeldspathic
Etymology: From quartz + -o- + feldspathic.
Senses: examples: text: These igneous suites may represent nearshore phases of the major offshore ophiolite accumulations, and the presence of micaceous quartzofeldspathic sandstones is similar to lithologic associations in some parts of the Matakaoa Volcanics at East Cape (Pirajno 1980).
ref: 1982 November 26, R. N. Brothers, M. Delaloye, “Obducted ophiolites of North Island, New Zealand: origin, age, emplacement and tectonic implications for Tertiary and Quaternary volcanicity”, in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, volume 25, number 2, →ISSN, page 258:
glosses: Containing quartz and feldspar.
kynde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyndes
Senses: examples: text: Yea, but Marcus Tullius nameth that the ende of godlines which is an exquisite, a far passing, and a very absolute goodnes in euerye puincte, wherein there is contained all kynde of vertu: vnto the knowledge ther of whosoeuer can attaine, shuld desire none other thig, but hold himselfe hauyng onely that, as one most fully content and satisfied.
ref: 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure:
glosses: Obsolete form of kind.
kyndes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kynde
upliftingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uplifting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uplifting.
kolacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolackies
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the fresh-baked bread, cake, and fruit-filled kolacky, they also shelve locally produced clover honey.
ref: 1995 April 7, Richard Moskal, “Wonewoc, WI”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of kolache.
kolackies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kolacky
kithara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitharas
form: kitharai
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek κιθάρᾱ (kithárā). Doublet of cithara, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Its great development, as well as the use of many small instruments (kithara, flute, etc.), go far to prove that music must have formed a larger part of woman's domestic life than the actual records show.
ref: 1908, Arthur Elson, Woman's Work in Music:
glosses: Alternative form of cithara.
kitharai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kithara
kitharas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kithara
kitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchins
Senses: examples: text: There is a fountaine of hot burning water with the which they heate the Church of the Monastery and the Fryers chambers, it commeth also into the kitchin so boyling hot, that they vse no other fire to dresse their meate: and putting their breade into brasse pots without any water, it doth bake as it were in an hot ouen.
ref: 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:
text: From that he led me to their kitchin; wheir ware 3 spits full of meat rosting (sometymes they have 7 when the Colledge is full).
ref: 1665-1676, Sir John Lauder, Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36:
glosses: Obsolete form of kitchen.
kitchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchin
kidvid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidvids
Etymology: From kid + vid.
Senses: examples: text: Univision now has an entire Saturday morning slate of cartoons and kidvids.
ref: 1987, Adweek, volume 37, numbers 47-59:
text: Stumpy and Gristle must have all the cutesy mannerisms of their kiddy-show forebears, and the pacing and tempo of the dialogue must parallel exactly those of pre-Sesame Street kidvid, if the maximum horror is to result when the action suddenly takes a Stephen King turn.
ref: 1990 May 11, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Stumpy's Gang . . . A Comic Mutilation”, in Chicago Reader:
text: They had their biggest successes in kidvid in the late 60s and early 70s, with shows like The Bugaloos, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and most prominently H.R. Pufnstuf, which aired between 1969 and 1974.
ref: 1999 August 27, Cecil Adams, “Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Babies weaning on kidvid!
ref: 2004 July 23, Tom Chalkley, “Howl Part II, Rehowled”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Video material produced for children.
kidvids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidvid
superior good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superior goods
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A good that makes up a larger proportion of consumption as income rises, having income elasticity greater than one.
Hypernyms: normal good
Related terms: luxury good
normal good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal goods
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: a good for which demand increases when income increases and falls when income decreases but price remains constant, i.e. with a positive income elasticity of demand.
Hyponyms: superior good
inferior good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferior goods
Senses: examples: text: Cheap, low-quality goods (such as canned food) are inferior goods for many people. The more money they have, the less they purchase those goods.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A good that decreases in demand when consumer income rises; having a negative income elasticity of demand.
Hyponyms: Giffen good
intercell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cell.
Senses: examples: text: A wooden nest box, containing cotton batting nesting material replaced twice a year, was attached at 1.3 m to a large tree [26 to 58 cm in diameter at breast height (DBH)] in each of 20 grid cells; boxes were stratified to maximize intercell distances.
ref: 1998 February 13, Clive G. Jones et al., “Chain Reactions Linking Acorns to Gypsy Moth Outbreaks and Lyme Disease Risk”, in Science, volume 279, number 5353, →DOI, pages 1023–1026:
glosses: Between cells.
insuppressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insuppressible
form: most insuppressible
Etymology: From in- + suppressible.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed as if the sense of public resentment had long been gathering strength unperceived, and now burst forth into insuppressible violence.
ref: 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
text: In its stead Victor favoured Karslake with a slow smile of understanding that broadened into an insuppressible grin of successful malice, a grimace of crude exultation through which peered out the impish savage mutinously imprisoned within a flimsy husk of modern manner.
ref: 1921, Louis Joseph Vance, Red Masquerade:
glosses: That cannot be suppressed.
Derived terms: insuppressibly
intelligibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intelligible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A defect running through his otherwise admirable modes of instruction, as it did through all his modes of thought, was that of trusting too much to the intelligibleness of the abstract, when not embodied in the concrete.
ref: 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography:
text: Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon.
ref: 1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,:
glosses: The quality of being intelligible.
inexecutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexecutable
form: most inexecutable
Etymology: From in- + executable.
Senses: examples: text: It is not divine miracle, Friedrich knows well, that has lost him his late Bohemian Conquests without battle fought: it was rash choosing of a plan inexecutable without French co-operation,--culpable blindness to the chance that France would break its promises, and not co-operate.
ref: 1745, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.):
glosses: That cannot be executed or carried out.
indulgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indulgencies
Etymology: From Latin indulgentia.
Senses: examples: text: My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received.
ref: 1897, Ernest Renan, Recollections of My Youth:
text: The poor Tagalo carried with him a large collection of little books written by you, which were given him by his Priest, who told him they represented so much indulgency for his next life.
ref: 1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:
glosses: indulgence
Derived terms: indulgency pattern
overindulgency
indeterminateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indeterminate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It sprang from the wish not to mar the indeterminateness of the absolute by the opposition of the attributes, while, on the other hand, an equally pressing need for the conservation of the immanence of substance forbade a bold transfer of the attributes to the observer.
ref: 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:
glosses: The quality of being indeterminate.