cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
erucic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A long-chain unsaturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₇CH=CH(CH₂)₁₁COOH, found in rapeseed and mustard seed oils; strictly, the cis-isomer of the molecule (the trans-isomer is called brassidic acid).
Derived terms: isoerucic acid
craven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/
rhymes: -eɪvən
Forms: form: more craven
form: most craven
Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
Senses: examples: text: The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
text: Prime Minister Abe's fumbling and craven performance took place on a national holiday in Korea, marking the countrywide uprising against the Japanese colonial rule that began on March 1, 1919. March 1 is also the day in 1932 that Japan chose to inaugurate Manchukuo (after seizing northeastern China).
ref: 2010, Bruce Cumings, The Korean War:
text: “But they’ve made some big carve-outs that are just absolute nonsense. There’s no perfect approach to content moderation, but they could at least try to look less transparently craven and incoherent.”
ref: 2020 October 12, Andrew Marantz, quoting Dave Willner, “Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself”, in The New Yorker:
text: The PP has seized on the possibility of an amnesty to rally support and to portray the PSOE leader as craven, dependent on Catalan separatists and hellbent on remaining in office.
ref: 2023 September 26, Sam Jones, “Spain elections: Feijóo launches doomed bid to lead country”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.
ref: 2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47:
text: To abet Trump’s fake reality, the craven House Republicans refused to put up a plaque honoring the police officers and others who defended the Capitol that awful day.
ref: 2025 May 31, Maureen Dowd, “Tech Bro Had to Go”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: boneless
word: chicken
word: chicken-hearted
word: chickenshit
word: cowardly
word: craven
word: dastardly
word: fainthearted
word: fearful
word: heartless
raw_tags: in this sense
word: gutless
word: hen-hearted
word: kiasi
word: lily-livered
word: milky
word: mousy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: niding
word: nithing
word: poor-spirited
word: pusillanimous
word: sissy
word: spineless
word: timid
word: timorous
word: unhearty
word: weak-kneed
word: wimpish
word: yellow
word: yellow-bellied
glosses: Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
Derived terms: cravenly
cravenness
cry craven
uncraven
craven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/
rhymes: -eɪvən
Forms: form: cravens
Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
Senses: examples: text: He is a craven and a villain else.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
text: “God knows I would rather die licked in the fire by the side of my king than to live out my days twitted and scorned as a craven.”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 45:
synonyms: word: bottler
word: caitiff
word: candy-ass
word: candy-arse
word: coistril
word: coward
word: chicken
word: chicken liver
word: chickenshit
word: cocktail
word: cowardy custard
word: craven
word: dog
word: fraidy cat
word: funker
word: gutless wonder
word: invertebrate
word: jessie
word: lizard
word: milquetoast
word: nancy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: nidget
word: niding
word: nithing
word: piece of crap
word: piece of shit
word: pisspants
word: pullet
word: punk
word: pussy
word: pussyhole
word: quiche-eater
word: quakebreech
word: quakebuttock
word: recreant
word: scaredy cat
word: scaredy pants
word: shithouse
word: sissy
word: slag
word: sluggard
word: snool
word: sook
word: weak sister
word: wheyface
word: yellow belly
word: yellow back
glosses: A coward.
craven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.vən/
rhymes: -eɪvən
Forms: form: cravens
form: cravening
form: cravened
form: cravened
Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: To make craven.
humorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞o'mərəs
ipa: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
ipa: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
rhymes: (UK) -uːməɹəs
homophone: humerus
Forms: form: more humorous
form: most humorous
Etymology: From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
glosses: Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
glosses: Showing humor; witty, jocular.
glosses: Damp or watery.
examples: text: [S]uch is now the Duke's condition
That he misconstrues all that you have done.
The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed,
More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 380-83:
text: It is a melancholy humor[…]that firſt put this humorous conceipt [translating resverie] of writing into my head.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 212:
text: I felt at this time as if I could have been fond of him too, if he would have let me; but I was timid from my childhood, and before long my dread of his displeasure […] conquered my humorous inclination to love one who was so handsome, so accomplished, so indulgent and devoted.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
Synonyms: sense: arousing laughter
word: amusing
sense: arousing laughter
word: funny
sense: witty
word: amusing
sense: witty
word: jocular
sense: witty
word: witty
Derived terms: humorously
humorousness
nonhumorous
semihumorous
unhumorous
Related terms: humor
humour
flattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæt.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈflæt.ɚ.i/
rhymes: -ætəɹi
Forms: form: flatteries
Etymology: From Middle English flaterye, flaterie, from Old French flaterie, from the verb flater (“to flatter”). By surface analysis, flatter + -y (forming abstract nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?
text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
examples: text: But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.
ref: 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] XI. False Joy.”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: An instance of excessive praise.
Synonyms: word: flattery
word: adulation
word: ass-kissing
word: ass-licking
word: blandishment
word: gloze
word: hoomalimali
word: soft sawder
word: sooth
word: sycophancy
Hypernyms: word: courtship
word: praise
Derived terms: Cape Flattery
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
self-flattery
Related terms: flatter
flattered
flattering
chew the fat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews the fat
form: chewing the fat
form: chewed the fat
form: chewed the fat
Etymology: One of the possible origins is from the fact that after a meal people would go into their sitting room with their guests and chit chat while chewing on the fat left over from a meal.
Another possibility comes from sailors who often had salted beef and pork on long voyages and the fat would harden. Sailors would eat and complain about the hard life of the sea while "chewing the fat"
Probably just from comparison of the jaw movements in chewing to the jaw movements in talking.
Senses: examples: text: We're not supposed to waste time chewing the fat with the customers.
synonyms: word: chew the rag
word: shoot the breeze
word: shoot the shit
word: shoot the bull
word: throw the bull
glosses: To chat idly or generally waste time talking.
Related terms: chew the cud
all foam, no beer
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: all foam and no beer
Senses: examples: text: It looks good and sounds good, but it's not a true quality control program. It is all foam, no beer.
ref: 2004, Marc A. Bringman, Swapping Lies!: Deception in the Workplace, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
text: But rhetoric was all we got-turn on Clinton's spigot, and he's all foam, no beer. His boldest “action” was to appoint a study commission.
ref: 2010 November 2, Jim Hightower, If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates: More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower (Revised Edition), Harper Collins, →ISBN:
text: Wilfred shrugged. “I think we came to an understanding.” “I doubt it,” she shook her head. “He'll be calling the mayor next.” “I wouldn't worry about Barrand. He's all foam, no beer. He'll call, make a fuss, then fix the window and forget about it.
ref: 2016 October 4, Steve Vernon, Resurrection: Book Two of the Tatterdemon Trilogy, Stark Raven Press, page 73:
glosses: Synonym of all hat and no cattle.
synonyms: word: all hat and no cattle
examples: text: Remember, I'm a mentally challenged college drop-out, a few beers short of a six-pack. All foam - no beer. I dropped out of GA Tech in my sophomore year.
ref: 2007, William S. Gilmer, Investing in Stocks, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 336:
glosses: Synonym of not the sharpest tool in the shed.
synonyms: word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
-hood
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Etymology: From Middle English -hod, from Old English -hād, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head).
Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.
Senses: examples: child - childhood
glosses: A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.
examples: brother - brotherhood
neighbour - neighbourhood
glosses: A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.
Synonyms: word: -head
word: -ness
word: -ship
word: -itude
word: -th
word: -ia
word: -ity
word: -icity
word: -mony
word: -osity
word: -dom
Related terms: falsehood
likelihood
livelihood
unlikelihood
hardihood
lustihood
brotherhood
childhood
fatherhood
maidenhood
maidhood
manhood
motherhood
widowerhood
widowhood
womanhood
sisterhood
nationhood
neighborhood
statehood
peoplehood
selfhood
singlehood
villainhood
statehooder
godhood
prophethood
kinghood
priesthood
knighthood
monkhood
personhood
sainthood
servanthood
serfhood
victimhood
quiddity
omnivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑmˈnɪ.vɝ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more omnivorous
form: most omnivorous
Etymology: From omni- + -vorous.
Senses: coordinate_terms: carnivorous
folivorous
frugivorous
herbivorous
insectivorous
glosses: Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
examples: text: The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.
ref: 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion, page 57:
text: He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]
ref: 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press, page 72:
glosses: Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
glosses: All-consuming.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a parasite: attacking many species; not confined to a single host plant.
Derived terms: omnivorously
omnivorousness
Related terms: devouring
omnivore
voracious
herbivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(h)ɜːɹˈbɪvəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more herbivorous
form: most herbivorous
Etymology: From New Latin herbivorus, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“I eat”).
Senses: examples: text: One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments
ref: 2002, Ronald H. Karlson, Dynamics of Coral Communities, page 96:
glosses: Feeding chiefly on plants.
Derived terms: antiherbivorous
herbivorously
herbivorousness
macroherbivorous
megaherbivorous
nonherbivorous
Related terms: herbivore
omnivorous
insectivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnsɛkˈtɪv(ə)ɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more insectivorous
form: most insectivorous
Etymology: From Latin insectum (“insect”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to eat”), equivalent to insectivore + -ous or insect + -i- + -vorous.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers in the Netherlands have linked neonicotinoids found in surface water to declines in insectivorous birds and there is widespread scientific evidence that neonicotinoids harm bees – reducing their ability to pollinate plants, for instance.
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Feeding on insects.
glosses: Capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.
raw_tags: of a plant
Synonyms: entomophagous
insectivorian
Related terms: Insectivora
insectivore
insectivory
Venus flytrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venus flytraps
form: Venus' flytrap
form: Venus fly trap
form: Venus's flytrap
Etymology: From Venus (after the resemblance of the leaves to a human vulva) + flytrap (after the insectivorous nature of the plant).
Senses: synonyms: tipitiwitchet
dionaea
glosses: An insectivorous plant of the savannas of North and South Carolina, Dionaea muscipula; the leaves are hinged and bordered with stiff hairs, and close when an insect alights on them.
glosses: A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.
Derived terms: penis fly trap
Venus flytrap sea anemone
Related terms: Droseraceae
insectivore
macromolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækɹəʊˌmɒlɪkjuːl/
Forms: form: macromolecules
Etymology: From macro- + molecule.
Senses: examples: text: Beadle discovered that genes carried instructions to build proteins—complex, multidimensional macromolecules that were the workhorses of the cell.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 345:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A very large molecule, especially used in reference to large biological polymers (e.g. nucleic acids and proteins).
Synonyms: word: macromolecule
Hypernyms: molecule
Hyponyms: word: nucleic acid
word: protein
Derived terms: biomacromolecule
block macromolecule
geomacromolecule
heteromacromolecule
regular star macromolecule
star macromolecule
supermacromolecule
supramacromolecule
variegated star macromolecule
Related terms: macromolecular
macromolecularly
sundew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sundews
Etymology: From sun + dew. Cognate with Dutch zonnedauw, Icelandic sóldögg, German Sonnentau.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
Derived terms: Cape sundew
forked sundew
fork-leaved sundew
showy sundew
pitcher plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitcher plants
Senses: glosses: Any of various insectivorous plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora (in order Ericales); Nepenthes (in order Caryophyllales), or Cephalotus (in order Oxalidales) that have pitcher-like leaves or parts of leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects.
Hyponyms: sense: Nepenthes genus
word: monkey cup
sense: Nepenthes genus
word: nepenthes
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cephalotus follicularis
word: Albany pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia spp.
word: American pitcher plant
taxonomic: Nepenthes attenboroughii
word: Attenborough's pitcher plant
taxonomic: Cephalotus follicularis
word: Australian pitcher plant
taxonomic: Darlingtonia californica
word: California pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia purpurea
word: common pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia leucophylla
word: crimson pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia minor
word: hooded pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia spp.
word: North American pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia purpurea
word: northern pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia purpurea
word: purple pitcher plant
taxonomic: Nepenthes spp.
word: tropical pitcher plant
word: West Australian pitcher plant
taxonomic: Cephalotus follicularis
word: Western Australian pitcher plant
taxonomic: Sarracenia flave
word: yellow pitcher plant
statistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: [stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kl̩]
Forms: form: more statistical
form: most statistical
Etymology: From statistic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
glosses: Of or pertaining to statistics.
Derived terms: astrostatistical
biostatistical
combined statistical area
ethnostatistical
geostatistical
lexicostatistical
microstatistical
nonstatistical
parastatistical
prestatistical
pseudostatistical
statistical analysis
statistical data binning
statistical inference
statisticality
statisticalization
statistical language acquisition
statistically
statistical mechanical
statistical mechanics
statisticalness
statistical power
statistical process control
statistical randomness
statistical region
statistical semantics
statistical significance
statistical thermodynamics
statistical tie
superstatistical
thermostatistical
unstatistical
-aholic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -holic.
stuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Etymology: From stuff + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stuff
grevilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grevilias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grevillea (“tree of genus Grevillea”).
-son
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /sən/
Forms: form: -sson
Etymology: From Middle English -son, -eson, -esson, -essone, -essonne, from Middle English -es (“'s”) + sone (“son”).
Senses: glosses: Added to a stem (usually a given name or surname) to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
glosses: Added to a stem (usually a given name or surname) to form a given name.
Derived terms: Adamson
Addison
Aitchison
Allinson
Allison
Anderson
Atkinson
Bateson
Beeson
Benson
Bryson
Carson
Casson
Clarkson
Collinson
Cookson
Coulson
Cuthbertson
Davidson
Davison
Dawson
Dennison
Dickenson
Dickinson
Dickson
Diskerson
Dobson
Dodson
Donaldson
Dowson
Dyson
Eason
Edmondson
Ellison
Elson
Emerson
Emmerson
Erickson
Ferguson
Gibson
Gilson
Gleeson
Goodson
Grayson
Gregson
Hampson
Hanson
Harrison
Henderson
Henson
Hewitson
Hewson
Hickson
Higginson
Higson
Hobson
Hodgkinson
Hodgson
Hodkinson
Hodson
Hopkinson
Howson
Hudson
Hutchinson
Hutchison
Hutson
Ibbotson
Jackson
Jameson
Jamieson
Jefferson
Jenkinson
Jepson
Jobson
Johnson
Kitson
Lawrenson
Lawson
Leeson
Maddison
Mallinson
Manson
Marson
Mason
Masterson
Mathieson
Mawson
Morrison
Musson
Neilson
Nelson
Newson
Nicholson
Parkinson
Paterson
Patterson
Pattinson
Pattison
Pearson
Peterson
Phillipson
Ranson
Rawlinson
Rawson
Richardson
Ritson
Robertson
Robinson
Robson
Rogerson
Rollinson
Rowson
Sampson
Sanderson
Simpson
Smithson
Stephenson
Stevenson
Stimpson
Thomason
Thompson
Thomson
Tomkinson
Tomlinson
Tyson
Watkinson
Watson
Widdowson
Wilkinson
Williamson
Willson
Wilson
Related terms: Coxon
Dixon
Moxon
Nixon
snert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snerts
form: Snert
Etymology: This is generally believed to be an acronym, variously considered to stand for "Snot-Nosed, Egotistical, Rude Teenager", "Snot-Nosed Eros-Ridden Teenager", "Sexually Nerdish Egotistically Rude Troll", or similar.
Senses: examples: text: A small army of AOL technicians vigilantly patrols for snerts (read the "The Control Room" sidebar in this chapter), but the battle is often an impasse.
ref: 1995, Tom Lichty, AOL for Windows 95 Membership Kit and Tour Guide, →ISBN:
text: While members like Stinkybolthole frequently posted flames, the online community studied had one very noticeable snert, who went by the name of JH, whom from a sample of ten of his posts, posted six flames, meaning 60% of his posts were flames.
ref: 2008, Celia Romm Livermore, Social Networking Communities and E-Dating Services, →ISBN:
text: Campbell et al. (2002) also point out that the posts of these snerts, which they call sorcerers and trolls, which they call tricksters, could possibly look similar.
ref: 2009, Subhasish Dasgupta, Social Computing, →ISBN:
glosses: A participant in online discussions who is generally obnoxious and insulting.
ha ha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ha-ha
form: haha
Etymology: Natural utterance first recorded in Old English; compare ha.
Senses: examples: text: and cryden out harrow and weilaway
ha ha the fox and after hym they ran
and eek with staves many other man
ref: 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 106, verso:
english: And cried, "Help! Help and alas!
Ha, ha! The fox!" and after him they ran,
And also with staves many another man.
translation: And cried, "Help! Help and alas!
Ha, ha! The fox!" and after him they ran,
And also with staves many another man.
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glosses: Expression of laughter.
glosses: A defiant expression used to tease somebody.
Synonyms: tee hee
ho ho
spiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪni/
rhymes: -aɪni
Forms: form: spinier
form: spiniest
Etymology: From spine + -y.
Senses: coordinate_terms: hispid
bristly
silky
smooth
glosses: Covered in spines or thorns.
examples: text: The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy
ref: 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:
glosses: Troublesome; difficult or vexing.
examples: text: And, as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold ſpinie Graſhoppers / Sit chirping, […]
ref: [1611?], Homer, “The Third Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: Like a spine in shape; slender.
Synonyms: sense: covered in spines
word: thorny
sense: covered in spines
word: prickly
sense: troublesome
word: thorny
sense: troublesome
word: prickly
Derived terms: aspiny
medium spiny neuron
Neotropical spiny rat
Solomon Island spiny monitor
spinily
spininess
spiny anteater
spiny bamboo
spiny broom
spiny-cheeked honeyeater
spiny-cheek sleeper
spiny cocklebur
spiny coriander
spiny dogfish
spiny eel
spiny-headed worm
spiny hopsage
spiny lobster
spiny mouse
spiny murex
spiny oyster
spiny pocket mouse
spiny projection neuron
spiny rat
spiny seahorse
spiny shark
spiny softshell turtle
spiny spider crab
spiny-tailed lizard
spiny tubeworm
subspiny
Texas spiny lizard
spiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪni/
rhymes: -aɪni
Forms: form: spinies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of spinney.
start codon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: start codons
Etymology: start (“indicating first, initial”) + codon
Senses: glosses: The codon at which translation of mRNA into protein starts, encoding the first amino acid.
Synonyms: initiation codon
Related terms: with an explanation of translation initiation in both prokaryote and eukaryote
heady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: headier
form: headiest
Etymology: From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
text: Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love / Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
ref: 1950, James Shelton, “Lilac Wine”:
glosses: Intoxicating or stupefying.
examples: text: We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
glosses: Tending to upset the mind or senses.
examples: text: The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
glosses: Exhilarating.
examples: text: Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
glosses: Intellectual.
examples: text: He made such heady promises that when the time came, he was never able to fulfill them.
glosses: Rash or impetuous.
Derived terms: headily
headiness
overheady
unheady
dolven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And my cōmyſſyon is not to call them to faith onely / but also to ye knowleg of trueth which among the gentyles was ouerheaped & doluen in the imagynacyons[…]
ref: 1534, Erasmus, chapter I, in Leonard Cox, transl., The paraphraſe of Eraſm[us] Roterdame vpon [the] epiſtle of ſai[n]t Paule vnto his diſcyple Titus […] , London: Iohan Bydell:
text: But yet if thou wouldſt conſider how often men go to ſeeke Death where it ſeemeth to be doluen moſt deepe[…]
ref: 1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XI, in Phillip Sidney Knight, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewneſſe of Chriſtian Religion […] , London: Robert Robinſon, page 159:
text: All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages.
ref: 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, chapter IV, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:
glosses: past participle of delve
doughty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊti/
ipa: /ˈdaʊti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
note: Canada, Canadian raising
ipa: [ˈdʌʊ̯ɾi]
rhymes: -aʊti
Forms: form: doughtier
form: more doughty
form: doughtiest
form: most doughty
form: doubty
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg.
The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 21:
text: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams's play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref: 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “‘Tennessee Williams,’ by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, page 13]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2019:
synonyms: word: dauntless
word: fearless
word: intrepid
word: resolute
word: stouthearted
word: valiant
word: adventurous
word: aweless
word: bad
word: bold
word: brass-balled
word: chivalrous
word: courageous
word: daredevil
word: daring
word: dauntless
word: doughty
word: fearless
word: fortitudinous
word: gallant
word: gutsy
word: heroic
word: intrepid
word: lionhearted
word: orped
word: plucky
word: stalwart
word: stalworth
word: stouthearted
word: unafraid
word: undaunted
word: valiant
word: valorous
word: venturesome
antonyms: word: brave
glosses: Bold; brave, courageous.
Derived terms: dought
doughtily
doughtiness
doughty-handed
undoughty
doughty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊti/
ipa: /ˈdaʊti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
note: Canada, Canadian raising
ipa: [ˈdʌʊ̯ɾi]
rhymes: -aʊti
Forms: form: doughties
form: doubty
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg.
The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: A person who is bold or brave.
glede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: gledes
form: gled
Etymology: From Middle English glede, from Old English glida, from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; akin to Icelandic gleða, Swedish glada. Compare glide.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
glede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: gledes
form: glead
form: gleed
form: gled
Etymology: From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glowing heat”), German Glut (“glowing heat, embers”), Swedish glöd (“embers”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”). More at glow.
Senses: examples: 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water],
His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.
1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Council of Elrond],
It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it.
glosses: A live coal; an ember.
grave wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grave + wax.
Senses: glosses: A waxy substance found on corpses: adipocere.
adulterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
enpr: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn
ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
enpr: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn
ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/
Forms: form: more adulterine
form: most adulterine
Etymology: From Latin adulterīnus.
Senses: examples: text: a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection i:
glosses: Spurious; due to adulteration.
glosses: Born of adultery.
glosses: Pertaining to adultery.
examples: text: when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised[…]
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
glosses: Illegal; unlicensed.
adulterine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
enpr: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn
ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
enpr: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn
ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/
Forms: form: adulterines
Etymology: From Latin adulterīnus.
Senses: glosses: One born of an adulterous union.
Related terms: bastard
gandermooner
uzzard
wetewold
blind-side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind-sides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blindside.
blindside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: blindsides
form: blind side
form: blind-side
Etymology: From blind + side.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: blind spot
glosses: A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: blind spot
glosses: A tram/train driver's field of blindness around a tram (trolley/streetcar) or a train; the side areas behind the tram/train driver.
glosses: A person's weak point.
examples: text: Showing no ill-effects from her lay-off, the full-back had already beaten three defenders on a jagging kick return, when she was sprung down the blindside a minute later.
ref: 2025 September 20, Mike Henson, “Kildunne stars as England see off France to make final”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
examples: text: The blindside packs down at the scrum on the blindside.
text: However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
qualifier: rugby union
glosses: The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6.
blindside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: blindsides
form: blindsiding
form: blindsided
form: blindsided
form: blind side
form: blind-side
Etymology: From blind + side.
Senses: examples: text: The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.
text: What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.
ref: 2008 April 24, GameAxis Unwired, page 54:
glosses: To attack (a person) on his or her blind side.
examples: text: He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.
text: Mr. Hassan offered Ms. Huynh $20 million in Google stock — less than 10 percent of his shares — and half of three Bay Area real estate properties: houses in Palo Alto and San Francisco, and a commercial building in Menlo Park. She felt blindsided and hurt. She refused.
ref: 2021 August 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But when they did arrive at 9am on Thursday, they were still able to blindside the Chelsea hierarchy. On Wednesday, they had certainly not anticipated the imposition of them the following morning.
ref: 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
text: The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog.
ref: 2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To catch off guard; to take by surprise.
Derived terms: blindsider
autecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autecologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek via Latin auto- (“on itself”) + ecology.
Senses: examples: 1959: Odum, '
In regard to subdivisions, ecology is commonly divided into autecology' and synecology.
glosses: one of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species.
Derived terms: autecologist
Related terms: synecology
loanword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊnˌwɝd/
ipa: /ˈləʊnˌwɜː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: loanwords
form: loan word
Etymology: A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð.
Senses: examples: text: "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.
text: New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers, and asphalte has lost its final e, and manœuvre has become maneuver, and pyjamas has become pajamas.
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 32, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251:
text: Indeed, in 1957 Xenophon Zolotas, the then governor of the Bank of Greece, gave two speeches to the IMF that contained just Greek loanwords apart from the inevitable basic English. (Example: “Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria.”)
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: A word directly taken into one language from another one.
Synonyms: word: borrowing
word: foreign word
word: gainword
Hyponyms: Hobson-Jobson
Coordinate terms: calque
Related terms: calque
foreignism
loanblend
loanshift
loan translation
partial calque
semantic loan
semi-calque
synecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synecologies
Etymology: From syn- + ecology.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of two broad subdivisions of ecology (the other being autecology), meaning the study of groups of organisms associated as a unit (essentially a biological community).
Derived terms: paleosynecology
synecological
synecologically
synecologist
determinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/
ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: determinates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: And since being negatively-charged and being positively-charged are determinates of the same determinable, [D5] will not permit us to infer worlds where anything negatively-charged is also positively-charged.
ref: 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A single state of a particular determinable attribute.
determinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/
ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: determinates
form: determinating
form: determinated
form: determinated
Etymology: From Middle English determinaten, from determinat + -en, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French déterminer.
Senses: examples: text: The sly, slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To bring to an end; to determine.
propound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /prəˈpaʊnd/
Forms: form: propounds
form: propounding
form: propounded
form: propounded
Etymology: From the Middle English proponen (“to put forward”), from Latin prōpōnere (“to put forward”), from prō- (“before”) + pōnere (“to put”). Doublet of propose. Compare expound.
Senses: examples: text: Today I'll expound at length the theory that I propounded last year.
text: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11:
text: A Mormon tribunal will try a woman whose national campaign in support of the Equal Rights Amendment is said to be undermining the church. Mormon officials declared that the woman, Sonia Johnson, is propounding "false doctrine."
ref: 1979 December 1, “Mormon Tribunal To Try Feminist”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 2:
text: Each school propounds its own theory without having given any thought to whether we are following what they say or getting left behind.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 243b:
text: Summarizing the history of the immigration debates in the U.S., Kaufmann sees in Bourne and his followers many of the same arguments advanced today by proponents of liberal immigration laws, who, he says, encourage racial minorities to celebrate their culture while propounding anti-racist norms that discourage whites from doing the same.
ref: 2019 May 4, Theodore Kuper, “Whiteshift: Identity Politics in an Era of Demographic Change”, in National Review:
synonyms: put forward
advance
offer
propose
put forth
moot
produce
coordinate_terms: exhort
profess
glosses: To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
Related terms: proponent
propose
propone
malcontent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmal.kən.tɛnt/
ipa: /ˈmæl.kənˌtɛnt/
ipa: /ˌmæl.kənˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more malcontent
form: most malcontent
Etymology: From Middle French malcontent, from mal- + content; compare Late Latin malecontentus.
Senses: examples: text: [Alban] Butler also commends the piety of Simon Montfort, the persecutor of the Albigenses, and the father of the famous malcontent earl of Leicester, who flourished in the reign of king Henry III.
ref: 1810, Joseph Milner, Isaac Milner, “Century XIII. Chap. VI. Authors and Eminent Persons in this Century.”, in The History of the Church of Christ. Volume the Fourth: Containing the Remainder of the Thirteenth Century; also the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Part of the Sixteenth Centuries. Edited on the Plan and in Part from the Mss. of the Late Rev. Joseph Milner, A.M. Edition the Second, with Large Additions, Corrections, etc. by the Revᵈ. Isaac Milner, D.D., F.R.S. Dean of Carlisle, and President of Queen's College, Cambridge (The Works of the Late Rev. Joseph Milner, A.M.; IV), 2nd edition, London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for T[homas] Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 24:
text: The duke of Gloucester was a sickly child […] he died of a sore throat, and rash fever, occasioned by an imprudent participation in the festivities of his birthday. The famous humourist, Dr. [John] Radcliffe, the Abernethy of his day, who was malcontent with the government, was called in too late, he declared, to save his royal patient.
ref: 1838 May, “Description of the Portrait of Queen Anne”, in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic, and the Lady's Magazine and Museum, a Family Journal of Original Tales, Reviews of Literature, the Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, &c. &c. (United Series), volume XII, London: Dobbs & Co., →OCLC, page 55, column 1:
text: Sir, I will stake any thing short of my salvation, that those who are malcontent now, will be more malcontent three years hence, than they are at this day. I have no favor for this Constitution.
ref: 1851, Hugh A. Garland, quoting John Randolph of Roanoke, “The Virginia Convention—Every Change is Not Reform”, in The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, volume II, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway; Philadelphia, Pa.: Geo[rge] S[wett] Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street, →OCLC, page 331:
text: To cap everything, yet another war waged by malcontent generals did further widespread damage to the railways.
ref: 1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 438:
text: The stress created by all of the changes seemed to be more than she could handle. Initially, she thought her husband was malcontent on purpose and felt he was aware of the arguments he seemed to be starting.
ref: 1999, Jodi J. Olshevski; Anne D. Katz; Bob G. Knight; T. J. McCallum, “Stress-Neutral Thoughts”, in Stress Reduction for Caregivers, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: Brunner/Mazel, ISBN 978-0-87630-940-7; republished New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2012, page 94
glosses: Dissatisfied with current conditions; disaffected, discontented, rebellious.
Derived terms: malcontently
malcontentment