cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
duct engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duct engines
Senses: glosses: A form of jet engine that possesses an inlet duct, such as a turbojet, ramjet, or turbofan. Rockets are not considered duct engines.
unappetizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unappetizingly
form: most unappetizingly
form: unappetisingly
Etymology: From unappetizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unappetizing or unappealing manner.
vindicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vindicative
form: most vindicative
Etymology: From Middle French vindicatif, from Medieval Latin vindicativus.
Senses: examples: text: page 316: A vindicative war can be defined as one in which we strive to gain that which is our own or which is due to us. […]
page 328: […] since that is a vindicative war in which we strive to gain what is our own, but a punitive war is one in which a penalty is exacted from one against whom the war is brought; […]
ref: 1964, Christian Freiherr von Wolff, Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum, volume 2, number 13:
glosses: Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate.
examples: text: He in heat of action Is more vindicative than jealous love.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword, […]
ref: 1668, Andrew Honyman (Church of Scotland), A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous Libel … Naphtali, page 83
glosses: Vindictive, excessively vengeful.
Derived terms: vindicate
vindicativeness
vindicativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vindicative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vindicative.
unbefitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbefitting
form: most unbefitting
Etymology: From un- + befitting.
Senses: glosses: Not befitting; not appropriate or suitable.
unbefitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbefit
uglified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uglify
villeins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villein
vernaculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernacular
violater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violaters
Etymology: From violate + -er, after Middle French violateur.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of violator.
yellow journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From The Yellow Kid, the name of a newspaper comic.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: tabloidism
text: It is the sort of paper which the father of the family is expected to take home with him from his office and read aloud to the chicks before bed-time. It was founded by its proprietor, Mr. Benjamin White, as an antidote to yellow journalism.
ref: 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Psmith, Journalist:
text: In the heyday of yellow journalism, newspapers like Joseph Pulitzer’s World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal sent out squads of reporters to hunt down leads and, if evidence failed to materialize, make up stories.
ref: 2007 October 24, William Grimes, “Murder by Mail in Gilded Age New York”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jul 2008:
glosses: Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
Derived terms: yellow journalist
Related terms: yellow press
tabloid
indivisibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indivisibility
gender benders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender bender
love interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love interest
lacrymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: more lacrymal
form: most lacrymal
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lacrimal.
lacrymal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: lacrymals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lachrymal (vase intended for collecting tears).
hereditament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹɛdɪtəmənt/
/hɛɹɪˈdɪtəmənt/
Forms: form: hereditaments
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hereditament, from Anglo-Norman hereditament or its etymon Medieval Latin hērēditāmentum, from Late Latin hērēditō (“to inherit”), from hērēs (“heir”).
Senses: examples: text: The captain […] had been greatly enamoured; that is to say, of Mr Allworthy's house and gardens, and of his lands, tenements, and hereditaments[…].
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1979, page 25:
text: And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That […] the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, […] shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law […].
ref: 1840 June 8, C[harles] Poulett Thomson, “An Ordinance to incorporate the Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal[No. 164 of 1840]”, in Copy of Ordinances Passed by the Governor and Special Council of Lower Canada, in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accounts and Papers. United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Commons; 1841, session 1), volume XV, published 3 February 1841, →OCLC, pages 151–152:
topics: law
glosses: Property which can be inherited.
glosses: Inheritance; the act of inheriting.
spinelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɑɪn.ləs.nəs/
Etymology: From spineless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Johnson's political spinelessness is a betrayal not just of the North, but the whole country, and its ramifications will wreak havoc with the life chances and prospects of generations to come.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “IRP snuffs out 'levelling up'”, in RAIL, number 945, page 3:
glosses: The state or quality of being spineless (not having a spine (literally or figuratively)); cowardice.
spinsterishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪnst(ə)ɹɪʃnəs/
Etymology: From spinsterish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spinsterish.
spinning jennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinning jenny
spinning mules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinning mule
jennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jenny
jennies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jenny
spinsterhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinsterhood
spirillums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirillum
belter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltə/
ipa: /ˈbɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: belters
Etymology: From Middle English beltere, equivalent to belt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A maker or worker of belts.
belter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltə/
ipa: /ˈbɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: belters
Etymology: From belt (“hit”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.
ref: 2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC:
glosses: Anything that is particularly good of its class.
glosses: A very good-looking person.
belter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltə/
ipa: /ˈbɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: belters
Etymology: From belt (“sing forcefully”) + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix). Compare West Frisian balter (“screamer, shouter”).
Senses: glosses: One who sings forcefully.
glosses: One who uses the specific vocal technique of belting.
glosses: A song suitable for forceful singing.
belter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltə/
ipa: /ˈbɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: belters
Etymology: From belt + -er, from asteroid belt.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.
belter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛltə/
ipa: /ˈbɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more belter
form: most belter
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of belta (“fantastic; excellent”).
spiritlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spiritless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spiritless.
whup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whups
form: whupping
form: whupped
form: whupped
Etymology: Variant of whip.
Senses: examples: text: We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.
ref: 1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga:
text: Whyn't ya whup her, Ma? […] Go on, give her a whup.
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, “Chapter Sixteen”, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC:
ref: 1972, Leon Barnett, Whup A Little Lovin' On Me / Angel In My Arms, J.E.K. International Records:
text: He might have come after Bart […] because he wanted to whup a nigger?
ref: 1972, Joe Gores, Dead Skip: A DKA File Novel, Random House, →ISBN, page 31:
text: I used to whup you four games out of five.
What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.
ref: 1986, August Wilson, Fences:
qualifier: Southern US or African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of whoop (“to whip, thrash, or defeat”).
whup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whups
Etymology: Variant of whip.
Senses: examples: text: Whup (hwup). Negro for whip.
ref: 1893, H. A. Shands, Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi, Published by the author, page 68:
text: “You jus’ min’ your business, mister,” Ma said fiercely. “You’ll git a whup yourself. Now leggo, Ruthie.”
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, “Chapter Sixteen”, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC:
qualifier: Southern US or African-American Vernacular
glosses: A whip.
whup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Variant of whoop.
Senses: examples: text: The ſcantlin won,the winners muſt cry whup,
The goale is got,and now the game is vp.
ref: 1599, T. Cutvvode, Caltha Poetarum: or The Bumble Bee, London: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Oliue, unnumbered page:
text: WHup^([sic]) (Fᴀᴜꜱᴛᴜʟᴜꜱ) all draw ny thee
That doe love thee, or lov'd by thee,
Joying in thy ſafe returning!
ref: 1638, R. Brathwait, edited by Joseph Haslewood, Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal, London, published 1820, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of whoop (“an exclamation, or representation of a shout or cry, expressing joy or surprise”).
vis-á-vis
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vis-à-vis.
spitefulnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitefulness
splashier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of splashy: more splashy
splashiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of splashy: most splashy
splendrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ssplendrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being splendrous.
spoiler effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoiler effect
split personalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split personality
splinter parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splinter party
spontaneous combustions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spontaneous combustion
spongiocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongiocyte
spot the differences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot the difference
sportscasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportscast
sporocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporocyte
spottinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spottiness
simians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simian
spritzings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spritzing
spritzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spritz
spritzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spritz
spottier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spotty: more spotty
spottiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spotty: most spotty
spuminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spumy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spumy.
spuriousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:spuriousnesses.
glosses: plural of spuriousness
spurious infections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurious infection
spumonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spumoni
water's edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water's edges
form: waters' edges
Senses: glosses: The edge of any body of water, such as a lake or sea.
squalliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squally + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being squally.
squarishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squarish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being squarish.
squalors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squalor
squeezableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squeezable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being squeezable.
squeezability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squeezabilities
Etymology: From squeezable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being squeezable.
squelchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squelchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being squelchy.
squirminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squirmy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being squirmy.
squishiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɪ.ʃi.nəs/
Forms: form: squishinesses
Etymology: From squishy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The squishiness of an hour-old fertilized egg can predict its viability, ....
ref: 2016, Stanford University, Science Daily, 'Squishiness' can indicate embryo viability, researchers find.:
glosses: The state or quality of being squishy.
squishyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] the joy of the archetypal confectionery is the irregularly-sized, shifting, sugared, soft squishyness that promises more pleasure than could ever be contained in a machine-built, clinically fried ring of dough.
ref: 1983, Punch, volume 284, page 65:
text: Tegen followed the sound, ducking and weaving between the crowding trees until she felt the soft squishyness of mud under her clogs and her feet were cold and wet.
ref: 2008, Beth Webb, Fire Dreamer, page 66:
glosses: Misspelling of squishiness.
squirrellier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squirrelly: more squirrelly
squirrelliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squirrelly: most squirrelly
squirmier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squirmy: more squirmy
squirmiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squirmy: most squirmy
squeezabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squeezability
staffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staffing
stadtholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadtholder
staddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staddle
stagestruckness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stagestruck + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stagestruck.
stagier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stagy: more stagy
stagiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stagy: most stagy
staginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staginesses
Etymology: From stagy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stagy.
glosses: The result or product of being stagy.
staginesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staginess
stagnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagnation
stagnancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagnancy
beatificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beatificates
form: beatificating
form: beatificated
form: beatificated
Etymology: From Latin beātificāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of beātificō (“to bless, to make happy”). Equivalent to beatific + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: The composition, not offering any historical fact, but an assemblage of beatificated personages, who lived at different periods, it is needless to give an account of it.
ref: 1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings […] :
glosses: To beatify.
stalenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staleness
fao
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of for the attention of; used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on when the address is of an organisation.
revelationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revelationary
form: most revelationary
Etymology: From revelation + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to something that causes a revelation in oneself, or any given situation.
tumble drier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumble driers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tumble dryer.
universal sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universal set
boss about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bosses about
form: bossing about
form: bossed about
form: bossed about
Etymology: boss + about
Senses: glosses: To act in a bossy manner toward (another person), ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior.
Synonyms: boss around
boss around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bosses around
form: bossing around
form: bossed around
form: bossed around
Etymology: * From boss and around.
Senses: examples: text: One big difference between me and my literary original; I haven't the faintest desire to boss around planetsful of people.
ref: 2013, Ryk E. Spoor, Spheres of Influence:
glosses: To act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior.
Synonyms: boss about
ofrenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ofrendas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ofrenda.
Senses: examples: text: Other marginalized groups draw attention to their cause through large public ofrendas that usually include pictorial or sculptural and sometimes literary calaveras.
ref: 1998, Juanita Garciagodoy, Digging the Days of the Dead, University Press of Colorado, page 95:
text: This show featured installations, painting, and sculptures, all of which are recast as ofrendas to the dead.
ref: 2001, Karen Mary Davalos, Exhibiting Mestizaje, University of New Mexico Press, page 145:
glosses: A shrine of offerings to one's ancestors set up on the Day of the Dead.
lol wut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of LOLWUT.
standard electrode potentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard electrode potential
standard transmissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard transmission
stannites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stannite
staphylococcuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylococcus
starknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starkness
starchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of starchy: more starchy
starchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of starchy: most starchy
state of beingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From state of being + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of state of being.
statecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statecraft
starvelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starveling
start codons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of start codon
staunchnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staunchness
station breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of station break
static memory allocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static memory allocation
statesmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statesmanship
stealthinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stealthiness
steamfittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steamfitting
steamboatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steamboating
steatopygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From steatopygia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to steatopygia.
steering arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steering arm
steepnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steepness
steel cage matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steel cage match
stereoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereoscopy
stengahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stengah
stevias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stevia
sternnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternness
stilyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stilyard
stigmatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stigmatization
stickups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickup
stimulativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stimulative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stimulative.
stipulativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stipulative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stipulative.
stingarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stingaree
stinkbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinkbush
stitcheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stitchery
stochasticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stochasticity
herbivorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From herbivorous + -ness.
Senses: coordinate_terms: carnivorousness
frugivorousness
omnivorousness
glosses: The state or quality of being herbivorous.
praiseworthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of praiseworthy: more praiseworthy
praiseworthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "That's a fine young fellow," said the historiographer of earwigs, to an American who stood next him in the crowd.
"Well, sir, which?"
"Why, the young man that saved the others."
"Ah. I think the man that couldn't swim was the praiseworthiest."
ref: 1856, L. S. Lavenu, chapter XVII, in Erlesmere; or, Contrasts of Character, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 171:
glosses: superlative form of praiseworthy: most praiseworthy
applaudable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more applaudable
form: most applaudable
Etymology: From applaud + -able.
Senses: hypernyms: laudable
admirable
praiseworthy
commendable
glosses: Worthy of being applauded.
Derived terms: word: applaudably
worthinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worthiness
valueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From value + -ness.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: referenceness
glosses: The quality of being a value or a value type.
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: The state or quality of having value.
qualityness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualitiness
Etymology: From quality + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of being or having quality.
goodnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊdnəsɪz/
/ˈɡʊdnɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of goodness
attributeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attribute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having attribute.
characteristicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From characteristic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being characteristic.
distinguishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distinguish + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: distinguishability
distinguishableness
glosses: The state or quality of being distinguishable.
synonyms: distinguishedness
glosses: The state or quality of being distinguished.
distinguishableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distinguishable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of distinguishability (“the state or quality of being distinguishable”).
synonyms: word: distinguishability
extra: the state or quality of being distinguishable
differentnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of differentness
alikenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alikeness
similarness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From similar + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being similar; similarity
comparabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparability
comparableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From comparable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
prospiciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prospicience
prosopographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopography
whistle blow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whistle blows
form: whistle blowing
form: whistle blew
form: whistle blown
Etymology: Back-formation from whistle blower.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blow the whistle.
proscenium arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proscenium arch
identicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From identical + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: identity
word: sameness
word: identicalness
word: identity
word: sameliness
word: sameness
word: uniformity
coordinate_terms: equivalence
;
similarity
;
resemblance
glosses: The state or quality of being identical.
identicalnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identicalness
safenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safeness
showyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of showiness.
morsure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːʒə/
ipa: /ˈmɔːʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹʃɚ/
Forms: form: morsures
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English morsure, from Middle French or Anglo-Norman morsure, from Early Medieval Latin morsūra, from mordēre, morsum (“to bite”) + -ūra (“ure”).
Senses: examples: text: all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand.
ref: 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit:
glosses: The act of biting.
Quiberon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and coastal resort in Morbihan department, Brittany, France.
minibars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibar
collegue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The photograph shows a copy given to me by collegues at the University of California, San Diego.
glosses: Misspelling of colleague.
deuteragonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌduː.təˈɹæɡ.ə.nɪst/
ipa: /ˌdju.təˈɹæɡ.ə.nɪst/
Forms: form: deuteragonists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δευτεραγωνιστής (deuteragōnistḗs, literally “second actor”), originally in Greek drama, from ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”).
By surface analysis, deuter- (“second”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).
Senses: examples: text: The issue is no longer about the artistic representation of woman going on within the story: rather, the art object, now unrelated to the actual woman (at a literal level, at any rate), becomes her deuteragonist and antagonist, and the opposition thus settled becomes further complicated by reversal, exchanges, shifts in their respective positions.
ref: 2001, Donatella Izzo, Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James, University of Nebraska Press, page 58:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A secondary character; specifically, the second most important character (after the protagonist).
examples: text: The first disposition accords with the attested reality of Nero acting in masks resembling his own features or those of women with whom he was in love (Suet. Nero 21.3), especially Poppaea (Dio 63.9.5), and generates a set of roles for the deuteragonist all of which focus on failed counsel; it also underlines the parallelism between the Seneca-Nero and Nero-Prefect scenes, and reinforces the view that the First and Second Prefect are not identical.
ref: 2008, A. J. Boyle, editor, Octavia: Attributed to Seneca, Oxford University Press, page 93:
text: In the distribution of the other roles between the deuteragonist and the tritagonist, the same criteria must have applied. When two characters had an important part in a tragedy and could not be played by a single protagonist, the second was played by the deuteragonist.[…]The tritagonist, even more than the deuteragonist, had to play several secondary roles.
ref: 2018, Jacques Jouanna, translated by Steven Rendall, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, Princeton University Press, page 201:
qualifier: ancient Greek drama
glosses: An actor playing a role (potentially all roles) requiring a second actor to be present on the stage, opposite the protagonist.
Synonyms: sidekick
Coordinate terms: protagonist
tritagonist
Related terms: antagonist
tyrannosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrannosaur
poëm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poëms
Senses: examples: text: We cannot indeed recommend these Poëms as any standard of polite taste and elevated genius, nor as perfect patterns for imitation.
ref: 1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect..., page xvi:
text: [Title]
ref: 1788, John Gilborne, The Triumphant Return, a Poëm: In Latin and English: Humbly Dedicated to…, Title:
text: Harte (Walter). — Essay on painting; in his poëms on several occasions. London. 1727. in-8°.
ref: 1851, Jacques Nicolas Paillot de Montabert, Traité complet de la peinture, page 512:
text: 6. John Douglass, bishop of Centurio and vicar apostolic in the London district, 1794, in-4°.
7. The Battle of Bangor, satirical poëm (la bataille de Bangor, ou le triomphe de l’Église).
8. The first Eklog of Virgil translated into skottic vers.
ref: 1864, Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Benedikt Welte, Isidore Goschler, Johann Goschler, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la théologie catholique, page 309:
text: 895 Milton, J. Works, containing : paradise lost, a poëm, and paradise regained, Simson agonistes and poëms…
ref: 1879: Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noord-Brabant Bibliotheek, Catalogus der boekerĳ, page 890 (Gebroeders Muller)
glosses: Alternative spelling of poem.
fish fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish fries
Senses: glosses: A meal, especially a cookout, featuring deep-fried, battered fish.
shivaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪvəˈɹiː/
ipa: /ˈʃɪvəˌɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: shivarees
Etymology: From French charivari.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charivari.
shivaree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪvəˈɹiː/
ipa: /ˈʃɪvəˌɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: shivarees
form: shivareeing
form: shivareed
form: shivareed
Etymology: From French charivari.
Senses: glosses: To serenade (a newly married couple) with the noisy banging of pots and pans.
laccolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlækəlɪθ/
Forms: form: laccoliths
form: lacolith
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “cistern”) + -lith.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of igneous or volcanic rock found within strata which forces the overlaying strata upwards and forms domes.
glosses: A mass similar to lopolith but concave up.
Derived terms: hydrolaccolith
laccolithic
Related terms: dike
lopolith
batholith
waking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wake up
warp speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warp speeds
Senses: examples: text: The ship was accelerating to warp speed, when one of the engines failed.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical, extremely rapid, speed, resulting from entering a separate dimension, termed hyperspace; much faster than the speed of light.
examples: text: Wow, you can cycle at warp speed!
glosses: Any very fast speed.
Paymon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Classical Persian پیمان (paymān, literally “pact, promise, commitment”), possibly transmitted via Tajik Паймон (Paymon) based on transliteration.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name پیمان (peymân).
nolo episcopari
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Latin nolo episcopari (“I do not want to be bishop”). It was formerly maintained that those nominated for the post of bishop politely declined the offer twice with these words.
Senses: examples: text: He soon found means to make his addresses, in express terms, to his mistress, from whom he received an answer in the proper form, viz.: the answer which was first made some thousands of years ago, and which hath been handed down by tradition from mother to daughter ever since. If I were to translate this into Latin, I should render it by these two words, Nolo Episcopari: a phrase likewise of immemorial use on another occasion.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: their Leader – for so, in spite of his Nolo episcopari, we must presume to call him — has given in his Elbing Letter so distinct a pledge – not merely of opinions, but of actual designs if his ministerial career had not been arrested – that we have little doubt that [...] Sir Robert Peel will substantially forward there measures, whoever may propose them.
ref: 1847, ‘Parliamentary Prospects’, The Quarterly Review, volume LXXXI:
text: ‘Nolo episcopari,’ he urges in grateful deprecation.
ref: 1869, Pele-Mele, ‘Nolens (Volens) Episcopari’, New Monthly Magazine, vol. 145
text: Carlyle's hero may say, "I will be king"; but the Christian saint must say "Nolo episcopari." If the great paradox of Christianity means anything, it means this—that we must take the crown in our hands, and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who feels himself unfit to wear it.
ref: 1908, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy:
glosses: Expressing a facetiously modest refusal of something which is actually desired.
prævent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prævents
form: præventing
form: prævented
form: prævented
Senses: examples: text: It is known what endeavours I uſit to prævent the paſſing of it; and, if our freinds had been in the Houſe, or, as the Houſe was at that time conſtituted, had that buſines been carried by reaſon, and not by violence and faction, the motioning of it had been explodit with ſhame.
ref: 1842, David Laing, “(K.) For the Right Reverend Mr. Robert Bailye, Professor of Divinity in Glasgow.2”, in The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, A.M, Principal of the University of Glasgow. M.DC.XXXVII.-M.DC.LXII., volume third [sic], page 341:
text: And it ware to be wiſhed that we had ſuch a ſtatute made with us, as I find they have in England, viz. Act 27, anno 21 Jacobi 1. Regis, viz. that I ſhall be murder for the mother not to call for help, or to conceall the death of hir baſtard child; which would prævent exceedingly the deſtroying of children, if theſſe violent preſumptions ware once made eneugh, vide ſupra, page 25, in the caſe of one Knox.
ref: 1848, John Lauder, David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs: Selected from the Manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., volume first 1661-1683 [sic]; № 179, p. 68; page 224:
text: Where that damn’d wisard hid in sly disguise
(For so by certain signes I knew) had met
ref: 1900, Henry Charles Beeching, The Poetical Works of John Milton, page 63, lines 571–573 [of an unknown poem] (The Clarendon Press)
roman: Already, ere my best speed could prævent,
text: […] and little did I, or perhaps either hee or you thinke (any more than my selfe) 10 months since, that it should have fallen to my share to prævent him in doeing this office first for mee […]
[…]
But though it bee very unlucky, and being what you could not well prævent, as haveing nothing before you but publique bruite to reckon by […]
ref: 1926, Joseph Robson Tanner, Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679–1703, pages 105 and 176:
glosses: Archaic spelling of prevent.
he who hesitates is lost
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: A person who spends too much time contemplating what to do may miss a valuable but fleeting opportunity.
Synonyms: carpe diem
intemerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intemerate
form: most intemerate
form: intemerated
Etymology: First attested in 1492, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin intemerātus, from in- (“not”) + temerātus, perfect passive participle of temerō (“to violate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from temerē (“by chance, casually, rashly”).
Senses: examples: text: The states of the kingdom are bound, with faithful concern, to leave intemerate all the royal prerogatives, after the dictates of the Swedish law, so that they shall be kept in their full vigor and strength ...
ref: 1792, William Coxe, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark:
text: The flagrant corruption and prostitution of all that is sacred at Rome, had never spread its taint into his upright, intemerate soul.
ref: 1846, William Harrison Ainsworth, Ainsworth's Magazine:
text: You mean to make her your wife ; and the wife of Carberry Ratcliff must be intemerate!
ref: 1864, Epes Sargent, Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition:
text: And hitherto their flesh had been intemerate and inviolable; the strictest orders had been issued that none should dare to slap them, and all were only too prone to coax and pet the beautiful angels.
ref: 1865, David Masson, George Grove & John Morley, Macmillan's Magazine:
glosses: Pure, undefiled, chaste.
wikipedia: Middle English
Derived terms: intemerateness
Related terms: word: temerarious
word: temerary
word: temeration
word: temerity
frames of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame of mind
GG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiː dʒiː/
Forms: form: GGs
form: G.G.
form: G. G.
form: G.-G.
form: G-G
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of governor general or governor-general.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of generative grammar.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Initialism of genetic girl or genuine girl.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of girl/girl.
GG
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiː dʒiː/
Forms: form: G.G.
form: G. G.
form: G.-G.
form: G-G
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of good game; commonly used at the end of a gaming match; also sometimes used to end an argument.
glosses: Initialism of good going; may be used genuinely or sarcastically.
Derived terms: GGEZ
GGWP
GG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiː dʒiː/
Forms: form: G.G.
form: G. G.
form: G.-G.
form: G-G
Senses: examples: text: Physics test today was out of the world…Honestly I think I’m going to fail big time…I didn’t know I had to study statics! What’s the point in testing LAST year’s work? Like wtf lawl…So i think I flung that section…GG liao lor…
ref: 2007 March 7, Thomas Kwok, Camping Grounds 2.0, What a week, accessed on 2015-10-22
text: Liverpool GG liao la. Steven Jialat hamstring problem. Dirk Kuyt ankle problem. take west ham win this saturday.
ref: 2010 November 18, QQfufa, Hardware Zone Singapore, Liverpool GG liao la, accessed on 2015-10-22
text: GG liao.. I can't get in to my account liao ... Keep say someone inside...
ref: 2013 December 23, BBdotcom Enterprise, Facebook, retrieved 22 Oct 2015:
text: Gg liao moi go Malaysia forgot to off my data roaming Den i check singtel app saying 1mb data roaming = $25.
ref: 2015 October 20, Kitaro9202, Hardware Zone Singapore, GG liao moi go Malaysia forgot off my data roaming, accessed on 2015-10-22
glosses: Likely to have an undesirable outcome, which one cannot change or escape from.
Synonyms: sense: done for
word: doomed
sense: done for
word: finished
sense: done for
word: dead meat
GG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiː dʒiː/
Forms: form: G.G.
form: G. G.
form: G.-G.
form: G-G
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Gamergate.
lopolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒpəliθ/
Forms: form: lopoliths
Etymology: Ancient Greek λοπός (lopós, “shell”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”)
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a mass of volcanic or igneous rock found within strata which has spilled downward into underlaying strata and forms depressed regions.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: mass similar to laccolith but concave down
Derived terms: lopolithic
Related terms: dike
laccolith
batholith
lopoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lopolith
all-consuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From all- + consuming.
Senses: examples: text: Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
text: A myth common to several cultures in the galaxy, Reapers were once imagined as space monsters that consumed entire stars. Archaeologists who searched for the sources of such myths found little besides the themes of all-consuming devils that are common to primitive cultures.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (science fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Reapers Codex entry:
text: It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.
ref: 2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers” (6:12 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023:
glosses: That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
examples: text: Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that's been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
text: Brown revealed that his time as London Transport Commissioner has been all-consuming, describing it as "full-on".
ref: 2020 July 15, Paul Clifton, “Brown "hours from stopping the Underground and buses"”, in Rail, page 7:
glosses: Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy.
unsubdued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + subdued.
Senses: glosses: Unconquered, not vanquished.
glosses: Restless, not calm.
Derived terms: unsubduedness
unsubduedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsubdued + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unsubdued.
abandonedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abandoned + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All mutterings and sly glances would be directed at Mam and her abandonedness, completely bypassing say, the maroon wool/polyester-mix topcoat that Mrs. Parsons might have bought at a whopping seventy-five percent off.
ref: 2006, Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story, page 45
glosses: The state or quality of being abandoned.
portableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From portable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The portableness of the radio apps have increased the popularity of Radio Wimbledon.
ref: 2011 January 7, Nicholas McCarvel, “Radio Wimbledon Adapts to the Times”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being portable; portability.
extraness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extra + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being extra.
expectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From expected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being expected.
superiorness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superior + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being superior.
Synonyms: word: superiority
qualitativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From qualitative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being qualitative.
quantitativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quantitative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being quantitative.
GBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of great bodily injury.
GBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Great Britain and Ireland, historic term used before the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 (following the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922).
coordinate_terms: FBI
glosses: Initialism of Georgia Bureau of Investigation.