cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpopular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpopular
form: most unpopular
Etymology: From un- + popular.
Senses: examples: text: an unpopular opinion
glosses: Lacking popularity.
examples: text: And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
ref: 2025 July 13, Aaron Blake, “Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring”, in CNN:
glosses: Not liked or popular; disliked or ignored by the public.
Derived terms: unpopularity
unpopularize
unpopularly
astrologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹɒl.ə.d͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: astrologers
Etymology: From Middle English astrologer, astrologier, astrologere, formed from Middle English astrologie or Latin astrologus + Middle English -ere, equivalent to astrology + -er. Ousted imported Middle English astrologien (“astrologer”), borrowed from Old French astrologien. Displaced Old English tungolwītga (literally “star prophet”).
Senses: examples: text: Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler both made a living as astrologers.
text: When witchcraft became a statutory offence again in 1563, astrologers reincurred the risk of prosecution […]
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 335:
text: Astrologers, when they observe this pattern, insist that it corresponds to the zodiacal progression. I am not an astrologer and I hold no brief for it, but I do believe the origins of astrology are not with the Chaldeans of Mesopotamia but with the hunters and gatherers of the Stone Age.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
glosses: One who studies or practices astrology.
Synonyms: astrologist
astrologue
Derived terms: astrologeress
pirogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹəʊɡ/
ipa: /pɪˈɹəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: pirogues
Etymology: From French pirogue, in turn from Spanish piragua, from Kari'na piraua. Doublet of periagua.
Senses: synonyms: periagua
glosses: A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.
glosses: A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft.
examples: text: There are even more elaborately prepared Cajun specialties, such as Bayou Bouillabaisse and pirogue of pasta and seafood.
ref: 1996, Rick Perlmutter, Gayle Perlmutter, Walt Disney World for Lovers, page 240:
text: The eggplant pirogue, a regional specialty, is especially good here.
ref: 1999, Fodor's 2000 USA, page 484:
text: Diners love the pirogue bread with crawfish tails, the barbecue shrimp with fiery tasso and the banana bread pudding.
ref: 2005 August, “Restaurants”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 300:
text: She had ordered eggplant pirogue — a hollowed out eggplant, breaded, fried, and stuffed with shrimp, crawfish, and crab.
ref: 2019, Marlys Beider, Continuum, page 257:
qualifier: Cajun cooking
glosses: A boat-shaped food that is stuffed with seafood.
quantifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒn.tɪˌfaɪ.ə.blə/
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.təˌfaɪ.ə.blə/
ipa: [ˈkwɑn.ɾəˌfaɪ.ə.blə]
ipa: /ˈkwɔn.tɪˌfɑɪ.ə.blə/
Forms: form: more quantifiable
form: most quantifiable
Etymology: From quantify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If the human factor in production is reduced through automation, the process becomes more quantifiable.
ref: 1956, D. J. Liston, “The Statistician and Business Research”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 7, number 2, page 67:
glosses: Capable of being quantified.
Derived terms: semiquantifiable
quantifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒn.tɪˌfaɪ.ə.blə/
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.təˌfaɪ.ə.blə/
ipa: [ˈkwɑn.ɾəˌfaɪ.ə.blə]
ipa: /ˈkwɔn.tɪˌfɑɪ.ə.blə/
Forms: form: quantifiables
Etymology: From quantify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that can be quantified; a measurable.
literacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/
ipa: /ˈlɪtɹəsi/
ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)ɹə-]
ipa: /ˈlɪtɹəsi/
ipa: /ˈlɪtɹəsi/
ipa: /ˈlətəɹəsi/
ipa: [ˈləɾəɹəsi]
ipa: /ˈlətɹəsi/
Forms: form: literacies
Etymology: From literate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday (September 8, 2025) declared Himachal as a “fully literate State” on the occasion of International Literary Day. […] Journey from 7% to 99.30%: The Chief Minister said Himachal Pradesh had reached this goal well before the scheduled timeframe, adding that the journey from minimal literacy rate of around 7% to full literacy had been full of challenges, yet the State had consistently moved forward with the aim of providing quality education. […] Mr. Sukhu said the literacy rate in Himachal Pradesh had reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95% […] Union Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar, in a video message, congratulated Himachal Pradesh on this achievement and emphasised the importance of providing skill-based education to the newly literate.
ref: 2025 September 8, “Himachal Pradesh becomes ‘fully literate State’. CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu says the literacy rate in Himachal reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95% with the hill State ranking first in student-teacher ratio”, in The Hindu:
coordinate_terms: reading comprehension
glosses: The ability to read and write.
examples: text: computer literacy
text: media literacy
text: Prof Alan McKee, who led the project, argues that young adults should be taught “porn literacy” to help them “read porn well” and look for healthy and ethical depictions of sex.
ref: 2023 June 9, Tory Shepherd, “Can pornography be healthy? If it follows six rules, perhaps”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The ability to understand and evaluate something.
Derived terms: aliteracy
antiliteracy
biliteracy
carbon literacy
cineliteracy
computeracy
computer literacy
cultural literacy
cyberliteracy
data literacy
disciplinary literacy
ecoliteracy
electracy
e-literacy
emergent literacy
food literacy
health literacy
hyperliteracy
information literacy
mediacy
media literacy
metaliteracy
multiliteracy
pluriliteracy
preliteracy
protoliteracy
quasiliteracy
semiliteracy
sexual literacy
subliteracy
technoliteracy
transliteracy
triliteracy
Related terms: graphicacy
letter
literal
literary
literate
literature
numeracy
literate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹət/
Forms: form: more literate
form: most literate
form: litterate
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English litterate, borrowed from Latin lītterātus, līterātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of literato and literatus.
Senses: examples: text: Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 86:
text: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday (September 8, 2025) declared Himachal as a “fully literate State” on the occasion of International Literary Day. […] Journey from 7% to 99.30%: The Chief Minister said Himachal Pradesh had reached this goal well before the scheduled timeframe, adding that the journey from minimal literacy rate of around 7% to full literacy had been full of challenges, yet the State had consistently moved forward with the aim of providing quality education. […] Mr. Sukhu said the literacy rate in Himachal Pradesh had reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95% […] Union Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar, in a video message, congratulated Himachal Pradesh on this achievement and emphasised the importance of providing skill-based education to the newly literate.
ref: 2025 September 8, “Himachal Pradesh becomes ‘fully literate State’. CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu says the literacy rate in Himachal reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95% with the hill State ranking first in student-teacher ratio”, in The Hindu:
antonyms: illiterate
glosses: Able to read and write; having literacy.
examples: text: The reason literature plays a unique role in any literate culture is its longevity.
ref: 2008 January 7, Charles Hugh Smith, Can a Fragmented Culture Find Common Ground?:
glosses: Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
examples: text: The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan even commissioned an alphabetic script for his empire, to be used officially for all its literate languages, Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic and Persian.
ref: 2005, Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Harper:
glosses: Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
Derived terms: aliterate
antiliterate
biliterate
cineliterate
computerate
computer literate
cyberliterate
ecoliterate
e-literate
food-literate
graphicate
hyperliterate
literately
literateness
literate programming
literatesque
literatize
metaliterate
monoliterate
multiliterate
nonliterate
pluriliterate
postliterate
preliterate
protoliterate
quasiliterate
semiliterate
subliterate
superliterate
technoliterate
triliterate
unliterate
Related terms: illiterate
letter
literacy
literal
literary
literature
literate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹət/
Forms: form: literates
form: litterate
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English litterate, borrowed from Latin lītterātus, līterātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of literato and literatus.
Senses: glosses: A person who is able to read and write.
glosses: A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.
litterbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtɚˌbʌɡ/
Forms: form: litterbugs
form: litter bug
form: litter-bug
Etymology: From litter + bug. Coined in 1947 by New York copywriter Paul B. Gioni for The American Ad Council, perhaps punning on jitterbug.
Senses: examples: text: […] I mean I'm sittin' here, on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug
ref: 1967, Arlo Guthrie, “Alice's Restaurant”:
text: Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.
ref: 2021 January 8, Nicole Hemmer, “The striking parallels between the assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol”, in CNN:
text: Mr. Doherty was known to publicly berate litterbugs and upbraid motorists whose stranded cars prevented plows from clearing snow.
ref: 2023 April 18, Sam Roberts, “John J. Doherty, Stalwart Sanitation Commissioner, Dies at 84”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2024:
synonyms: litter lout
glosses: A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up.
monocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + culture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: monocultured; axenic
text: A false idea has taken hold in MAGAdom about the movement’s supposed monocultural superiority.
ref: 2025 January 8, Luke Winkie, “Boooooooo”, in Slate:
coordinate_terms: bicultural
tricultural
;
multicultural
polycultural
glosses: Having only one (single) culture; of or relating to a monoculture (of microorganisms, people, or otherwise).
Derived terms: monoculturalism
monoculturalization
monoculturally
memorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: memorizations
form: memorisation
Etymology: From memorize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of committing something to memory or memorizing.
Derived terms: dememorization
rememorization
Melbournite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Melbournites
Etymology: From Melbourne + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: Melburnian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
merciful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːsɪfl̩/
ipa: /ˈmɝsɪfl̩/
Forms: form: more merciful
form: most merciful
Etymology: From Middle English merciful, mercyful, equivalent to mercy + -ful. Displaced native Old English mildheort.
Senses: examples: text: `Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: Showing mercy.
Synonyms: ruthful
Derived terms: mercifully
mercifulness
overmerciful
unmerciful
Merv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkmen [Term?], from Persian مرو (Marv).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mary, a city in Turkmenistan noted for its former role on the Silk Road and similar trade routes.
synonyms: word: Mary
extra: a city in Turkmenistan noted for its former role on the Silk Road and similar trade routes
Synonyms: sense: ancient Mary, Turkmenistan
word: Meru
sense: ancient Mary, Turkmenistan
word: Alexandria
sense: ancient Mary, Turkmenistan
word: Alexandria Margiana
sense: ancient Mary, Turkmenistan
word: Antioch
sense: ancient Mary, Turkmenistan
word: Antiochia
sense: ancient Mary, Turkmenistan
word: Antiochia Margiana
Derived terms: Mervian
Related terms: Margiana
Margiane
Merv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜːv/
ipa: /mɝv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
Etymology: Clipping of Mervyn.
Senses: glosses: A male given name, clipping of Mervyn.
mesmeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛzˈmɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Forms: form: more mesmeric
form: most mesmeric
Senses: examples: text: Even were he to write a lie, he could not meet her and maintain it, with her eyes upon his face: they had uttermost power over him—power as of life and death,—those fine grey sweet mesmeric eyes !
ref: 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, “Karma”, in Karma and Other Stories and Essays, London: George G. Harrap and Co., published 1921, →OCLC, Chapter VI, page 36:
text: Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 152:
text: Then suddenly he remembered something Differ had often talked about, what he called the Suggestive Power of the Written Word, the making, by means of arrangements of word and phrase, of mesmeric passes as it were before the reader's mind in order to convince—that was Differ's word, Convince!—Convince Against All Reason.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., published 1943, →OCLC, page 125:
text: She was a firm believer in mesmeric healing, from which she claimed to have benefited greatly, and she was also very much involved in the spiritualist experiments of those days […]
ref: 1990, A.S. Byatt, chapter 6, in Possession: A Romance, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: Of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization.
Derived terms: mesmerically
unmesmeric
Related terms: mesmerizing
mesmerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesmerists
Senses: glosses: One who mesmerizes.
œnomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of oenomancy.
opprobrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊbɹiəs/
Forms: form: more opprobrious
form: most opprobrious
Etymology: From Middle English opprobrious, from Middle French opprobrieux and its etymon Late Latin opprobriōsus.
Senses: examples: text: "Don’t speak of my painting before Naumann," said Will. "He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!"
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXII, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 389:
text: KLAUS: You're so much nicer than the other one. He was a complete asshole!
 REGINALD: Such opprobrious language for your father!
 KLAUS: Yeah, I… I don't know what that means.
ref: 2022, “Marigold”, in The Umbrella Academy, season 3, episode 6:
glosses: Causing opprobrium; offensive and shameful.
Derived terms: opprobriously
opprobriousness
objectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪvli/
Forms: form: more objectively
form: most objectively
Etymology: From objective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impartial, objective manner.
examples: text: Struggling with objectively awful English accents, the two actors spend their time on screen dragging out terrible jokes, as though trapped in the improv-exercise equivalent of eternal damnation.
ref: 2018 December 25, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2019:
glosses: Without question, without a doubt, definitely, indisputably, not meriting discussion or argument.
oppressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more oppressed
form: most oppressed
Senses: glosses: Subject to oppression.
Derived terms: nonoppressed
unoppressed
oppressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oppress
plausibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plausibly
form: most plausibly
Etymology: From plausible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She lied plausibly, but the police suspected her anyway.
topics: manner
synonyms: believably#Adverb
credibly#Adverb
antonyms: implausibly#Adverb
unbelievably#Adverb
incredibly#Adverb
coordinate_terms: probably#Adverb
likely#Adverb
;
possibly#Adverb
maybe#Adverb
perhaps#Adverb
perchance#Adverb
glosses: In a plausible manner.
examples: text: Plausibly, she said she'd been working at the time.
glosses: Probably; not falsifiably, based on available facts and general knowledge.
Related terms: plausible deniability
deniably
undeniably
rationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rationally
form: most rationally
Etymology: From rational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rational manner
randomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹændm̩li/
Forms: form: more randomly
form: most randomly
Etymology: From random + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I just randomly remembered this dream from 2 years ago.
text: It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:
text: Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.
ref: 2020 June 6, Alan Bernal, “Overwatch gets crazy minigames with epic WarioWare-inspired mod”, in Dexerto:
glosses: In a random manner.
examples: text: When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.
ref: 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 314:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.
rapidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈpɪdɪti/
Forms: form: rapidities
Etymology: From rapid + -ity, from French rapidité, from Latin rapiditas.
Senses: examples: text: Although appreciating the rapidity and frequency of the Southern electric services I was now to use on short journeys, I became more than ever convinced that electric traction offers very little of interest to the dyed-in-the-wool railwayist.
ref: 1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
glosses: speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light; defined as artanh(v), where artanh is the hyperbolic arctangent, and v = speed (with c = speed of light = 1).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis
Derived terms: midrapidity
pseudorapidity
sacrilegious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk.ɹəˈlɪd͡ʒ.əs/
ipa: /sæk.ɹəˈlɪd͡ʒ.əs/
ipa: /sæk.ɹəˈlid͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəs
rhymes: -iːdʒəs
Forms: form: more sacrilegious
form: most sacrilegious
Etymology: Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + legō (“steal something sacred”).
Senses: examples: text: At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
Derived terms: sacrilicious
Related terms: sacrilege
restorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: restorers
Etymology: From restore + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Slightly mesmerized by this accomplishment, Rita asked, "Are you a chair mender?" "I'm the best carver, joiner, and expert furniture restorer in this country. So what about it?" "If you really are a good restorer - you'll have to wait a minute, though. I'm only looking after the place for the owner at present. I'll have to consult her."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 62:
text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.
glosses: Something or someone that restores.
Derived terms: hair restorer
reproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːpɹəˈdʌktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌktɪv
Forms: form: more reproductive
form: most reproductive
Etymology: From re- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, […]. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: Of or relating to reproduction.
glosses: That reproduces.
Derived terms: assisted reproductive technology
basic reproductive number
basic reproductive rate
basic reproductive ratio
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
reproductive cell
reproductive cloning
reproductive division
reproductive health
reproductive justice
reproductive medicine
reproductive right
reproductive system
reproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːpɹəˈdʌktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌktɪv
Forms: form: reproductives
Etymology: From re- + productive.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A reproductive organism (especially such as in an insect).
rudely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːdli/
rhymes: -uːdli
Forms: form: more rudely
form: most rudely
Etymology: From Middle English rudely, rudeliche, equivalent to rude + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Accompanying the article was a drawing: a chambermaid gripped the long wooden handle of a warming pan that projected rudely from between a tailcoated gentleman’s legs.
ref: 2008 June 1, Nicholson Baker, “Sex and the City (Circa 1840)”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a rude manner.
Related terms: rudeness
rudimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuːdɪˈmɛntəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɹuːdɪˈmɛnt͡ʃɹi/
Forms: form: more rudimentary
form: most rudimentary
Etymology: From rudiment + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.
glosses: Of or relating to one or more rudiments.
examples: text: His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.
text: His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road.
text: Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
ref: 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Safdar, in his rudimentary ambulance, has been at the frontline of the shifting conflicts consuming his city, placing himself at huge personal risk for very little money.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
Related terms: rudiment
rudimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuːdɪˈmɛntəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɹuːdɪˈmɛnt͡ʃɹi/
Forms: form: rudimentaries
Etymology: From rudiment + -ary.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the rudimentary mammae of boars.
scientifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪfɪkli/
ipa: /ˌsɑe.ənˈtɪfɪkli/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtəfəkli/
ipa: [ˌsɑe̯.ənˈtəfəkli]
Forms: form: more scientifically
form: most scientifically
Etymology: From scientific + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using science or methods of science.
glosses: Using the scientific method.
examples: text: He tried to approach his bad habits scientifically.
glosses: Methodically.
examples: text: Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: how scientifically grounded the book is; whether there are guidelines for self-diagnosis, […]
ref: 2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN:
glosses: With regard to science.
examples: text: Scientifically, there's nothing special about the year 2012.
text: I remembered the old doctor, - ‘It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.’ I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 210:
glosses: From a scientific perspective.
Synonyms: sense: methodically
word: systematically
word: systemwise
word: methodically
stabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stāʹ-bəl-īz'
ipa: /ˈsteɪ.bəlˌaɪz/
note: Indic
ipa: /sʈɛb(ɪ)ˈlaɪz/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsʈeb(ɪ)laɪz/
rhymes: -eɪbəlaɪz
Forms: form: stabilizes
form: stabilizing
form: stabilized
form: stabilized
form: stabilise
Etymology: From stable + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Jody stabilized the table by putting a book under the short leg.
glosses: To make stable.
examples: text: The country will stabilize after the next election ends.
glosses: To become stable.
Related terms: stabilizer
stabilization
skanky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæŋ.ki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: skankier
form: skankiest
Etymology: From skank + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a skank (disreputable woman).
examples: text: Heavy Metal, Music from the Motion Picture (1981, Elektra): This movie is pretty lousy if you're sober and/or an adult, and the soundtrack should be either glammier or skankier, or maybe both.
ref: 2010, Chuck Klosterman, “The Jack Factor”, in Chuck Klosterman on Rock: A Collection of Previously Published Essays:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the skank dance.
unsympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more unsympathetic
form: most unsympathetic
Etymology: From un- + sympathetic.
Senses: examples: text: His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: After years of unsympathetic commercial use and dereliction, nothing of note remained inside, which accordingly has been reconfigured with modern amenities such as underfloor heating.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:
synonyms: word: cold
word: harsh
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Not sympathetic; ill-disposed
sympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: sympathetics
form: sympathetick
form: sympathetical
Etymology: Mid 17th century in the sense “relating to an affinity or paranormal influence”, from Latin sympathēticus. By surface analysis, sympathy + -etic (“pertaining to”); compare pathetic. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwiende.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A sympathetic nerve.
utilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utilizations
form: utilisation
Etymology: From French utilisation or from utilize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
ref: 2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of utilisation.
Synonyms: use
usage
Derived terms: capacity utilization
underutilization
utilization rate
utilization review
utilization time
compartmentalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)kɒm.pɑː(ɹ)tˌmɛn.təl.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /(ˌ)kɑm.pɑɹtˌmɛn.təl.əˈzeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: compartmentalizations
form: compartmentalisation
Etymology: From compartmentalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Division into compartments or parts.
examples: text: In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 9:
glosses: The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The dissemination of information and knowledge between different people or organisations on a need-to-know basis, so as to reduce the risk of espionage should one person or organisation be compromised externally.
Derived terms: microcompartmentalization
miscompartmentalization
overcompartmentalization
recompartmentalization
subcompartmentalization
rabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: rabbles
form: rabbling
form: rabbled
form: rabbled
form: ravel
Etymology: First attested since 1300s, from Middle English rablen (“to ramble; rave; speak in a confused manner”), cognate with Middle Dutch rabbelen (“to talk; chatter; trifle”), Low German rabbeln, robbeln (“to chatter; prattle”).
Senses: glosses: To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense
glosses: To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out
rabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: rabbles
Etymology: From Middle English rabel, probably from the verb (see above).
Senses: glosses: A bewildered or meaningless string of words.
glosses: A pack of animals; or any confused collection of things.
glosses: A mob; a disorderly crowd.
examples: text: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, [...]
ref: 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5:
synonyms: word: plebs
word: riffraff
word: canaille
word: commonality
word: commonalty
word: crowd
word: demos
word: everyone
word: general public
word: great unhosed
word: great unwashed
word: herd
word: hoi polloi
word: lower class
word: many
word: masses
word: mob
word: multitude
word: odds and sods
word: peasantry
word: plebs
word: populace
word: proletariat
word: rabble
word: rank and file
word: riffraff
word: third estate
word: trash
word: unwashed
word: unwashed masses
word: working class
glosses: The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace.
Derived terms: rabble rouser
rabblesome
ribble-rabble
rabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: rabbles
Etymology: From Old French roable (modern French râble), from Latin rutabulum (“a poker”).
Senses: glosses: An iron bar used in puddling.
rabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: rabbles
form: rabbling
form: rabbled
form: rabbled
Etymology: From Old French roable (modern French râble), from Latin rutabulum (“a poker”).
Senses: glosses: To stir with a rabble.
Derived terms: rabbler
garde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of guard.
garde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gardes
form: garding
form: garded
form: garded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of guard.
Related terms: arrière-garde
avant-garde
garde-collet
garde de rein
garde-faude
garde rein
garderobe
passe-garde
passe garde
retrogarde
gardai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardaí
Senses: glosses: plural of garda
antigay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigay
form: most antigay
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-gay.
antislavery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antislavery
form: most antislavery
Etymology: From anti- + slavery.
Senses: examples: text: Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Opposed to the practice of slavery.
Derived terms: antislaveryism
antivaccinationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antivaccinationists
form: anti-vaccinationist
Etymology: From anti- + vaccination + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes vaccination.
Synonyms: antivaxer
anti-vaxer
antivaxxer
anti-vaxxer
Related terms: antivaccination
anti-vaccination
anti-vaccine
antivaccine
antivax
anti-vax
antivaxx
anti-vaxx
pro-vaccination
provaccination
pro-vaccine
provaccine
provax
pro-vax
provaxx
pro-vaxx
vaccinate
vaccination
vaccinator
vaccinatory
vaccine
antivaccinationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-vaccinationist
Etymology: From anti- + vaccination + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by opposition to vaccination.
antivaccinationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + vaccination + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to vaccination.
antivivisection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vivisection.
Senses: glosses: opposed to vivisection
arms factory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arms factories
Senses: glosses: a factory where weapons are produced
cellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛlɪst/
Forms: form: cellists
Etymology: From cello + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
ref: 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times:
text: Though relative newcomers to classical music, they seemed closely attuned to the eight cellists onstage, raising their heads abruptly as the piece’s languid strains gave way to rapid-fire bow strokes.
ref: 2021 April 28, Lisa Abend, “When the Cellos Play, the Cows Come Home”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Someone who plays the cello.
Synonyms: word: celloist
word: cello player
word: violoncellist
Derived terms: electric cellist
mandocellist
rabble rouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabble rousers
form: rabble-rouser
Senses: examples: text: They proceed steadily from studies of human character and destiny, the proper business of the novelist, to mere outpourings of social and economic panaceas, the proper business of leader writers, chautauquas rabble-rousers and hedge politicians.
ref: 1917, H. L. Mencken, “Joseph Conrad”, in A Book of Prefaces:
text: He often appears with Gen X rabble-rousers like Hiroyuki Nishimura, a celebrity entrepreneur and owner of 4chan, the online message board where some of the internet’s most toxic ideas bloom, and Takafumi Horie, a trash-talking entrepreneur who once went to prison for securities fraud.
ref: 2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: demagogue
glosses: Someone or something that tends to inspire mobs; something controversial or provocative.
azbuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Slavic languages, especially using the Cyrillic script, compare Russian а́збука (ázbuka) (also Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian), from the first Old Church Slavonic letter names аз (az) and буки (búki) (compare Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos) = ἄλφα (álpha) + βῆτα (bêta) or Persian الف (alef) + باء (bâ')), from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ, *buky.
Senses: glosses: The Cyrillic alphabet.
pounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: plural of pound
pounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pound
scattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskætɚd/
ipa: /ˈskætəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scatter
scattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskætɚd/
ipa: /ˈskætəd/
Forms: form: more scattered
form: most scattered
Senses: examples: text: scattered applause
text: And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:
And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,
Share equally the gold that bought their liues,
And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
text: The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
glosses: Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
examples: text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Seemingly randomly distributed.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
raw_tags: of clouds
examples: text: Scattered showers.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
raw_tags: of precipitation
Derived terms: nonscattered
scattered disc
scatteredly
scatteredness
scattered shower
unscattered
hopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊps/
ipa: /həʊps/
rhymes: -əʊps
Senses: glosses: plural of hope
hopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊps/
ipa: /həʊps/
rhymes: -əʊps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hope
midst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪdst/
ipa: [mɪdst]
ipa: [mɪtst]
rhymes: -ɪdst
Forms: form: midsts
form: midest
form: middest
form: middis
form: middst
form: myddest
form: mydest
form: myddis
form: myddst
form: mydst
Etymology: From Middle English middes, midst, myddest (“middle”), from Old English midde, reshaped in Middle English phrases like in middes (“in the middle”) by analogy with adverbs in -(e)s; also compare Old English on middan, tōmiddes. Forms in -(e)st are probably due to influence of superlatives.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.
ref: 1995, Mary Ellen Pitts, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science, page 225:
text: As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."
ref: 2002, Nathan W. Schlueter, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963, speech, quoted in One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., page 89:
glosses: A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
Synonyms: centre
center
middle
midst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪdst/
ipa: [mɪdst]
ipa: [mɪtst]
rhymes: -ɪdst
Forms: form: midest
form: middest
form: middis
form: middst
form: myddest
form: mydest
form: myddis
form: myddst
form: mydst
Etymology: From Middle English middes, midst, myddest (“middle”), from Old English midde, reshaped in Middle English phrases like in middes (“in the middle”) by analogy with adverbs in -(e)s; also compare Old English on middan, tōmiddes. Forms in -(e)st are probably due to influence of superlatives.
Senses: examples: text: Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.
text: She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Among, in the middle of; amidst.
Synonyms: amid
amidst
Derived terms: in the midst of
in one's midst
obtaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈteɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obtain
quietly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ət.li/
Forms: form: more quietly
form: most quietly
Etymology: From Middle English quietely, quyetly, equivalent to quiet + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: In a quiet manner.
Derived terms: go quietly
trembling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛmblɪŋ/
Forms: form: tremblings
Senses: glosses: A tremble.
trembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛmblɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tremble
Derived terms: knee-trembling
Trembling Giant
trembling poplar
dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: examples: text: the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller
text: ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of dress
dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
glosses: Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
glosses: Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
examples: text: No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
ref: 1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26:
text: hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
ref: 1980, Calamus, page 8:
text: She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
ref: 1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Wearing a dress.
Synonyms: sense: wearing clothes
word: clothed
word: raimented
word: clothed
Derived terms: all dressed
all-dressed
brain-dressed
cladly dressed
dressed to kill
dressed to the nines
dressed up
evening-dressed
full-dressed
get dressed
halfdressed
hammer-dressed
morning-dressed
mutton dressed as lamb
mutton dressed up as lamb
nondressed
overdressed
power-dressed
rough-dressed
underdressed
well-dressed
lifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪftɪd/
rhymes: -ɪftɪd
Etymology: From lift + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lift