cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
broiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From broil + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of broil
bumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bumble
bumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumblings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who bumbles; a mistake or error, especially through clumsiness.
bumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bumbling
form: most bumbling
Senses: examples: text: a bumbling fool
text: This wasn’t the first time I held Isaacson’s judgment in low regard. […] Linda Yaccarino, Musk’s almost comically bumbling CEO of X is “wickedly smart”.
ref: 2023 September 13, Gary Shteyngart, “Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Acting in a confused or ineffectual way; incompetent or inept; showing little or no skill.
Derived terms: bumblingly
boardinghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boardinghouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boarding house.
Derived terms: boardinghouse reach
boarding house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarding houses
form: boarding-house
form: boardinghouse
Senses: examples: text: Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
ref: 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:
glosses: A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
glosses: A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.
Synonyms: sense: one or both senses
word: digs
sense: one or both senses
word: guesthouse
sense: one or both senses
word: pension
sense: one or both senses
word: lodging house
sense: one or both senses
word: rooming house
Coordinate terms: sense: boarding school quarters
word: dorm
sense: boarding school quarters
word: dormitory
bobolink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobolinks
Etymology: Imitative of its song. Compare Bob Lincoln.
Senses: examples: text: Lethe in my flower / Of which they who drink / In the fadeless orchards / Hear the bobolink.
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 330:
text: The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.
ref: 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297:
glosses: An American migratory songbird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), resembling a blackbird with the bill of a finch.
Synonyms: conquedle
Bob Lincoln
butterbird
ricebird
rice bunting
bobwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobwhites
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: Any one of four species of quail in the genus Colinus, of the bird family Odontophoridae, limited to the Americas.
Derived terms: crested bobwhite
northern bobwhite
spot-bellied bobwhite
Yucatan bobwhite
boccie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bocce.
bocce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏchʹ-i
ipa: /ˈbɑt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: bocces
form: boccie
form: bocci
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bocce.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court, or informally, as a lawn game.
examples: text: The object is throw or roll the bocces as close as possible to the pallino.
ref: 2012, Victoria Rowell, Paul Tukey, Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games, →ISBN:
text: The side with their bocces closest to the pallino earns points.
ref: 2013 February 6, Brian Messenger, “Bocce balls are rolling”, in Eagle-Tribune:
text: When he first started we had to buy a smaller set of bocces because his hands were small.
ref: 2013 April 30, Paul Haigh, “Bocce star to represent Australia”, in Liverpool City Champion:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.
Related terms: boccia
bodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑdid/
Forms: form: more bodied
form: most bodied
Etymology: From body + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a specified form of body.
glosses: Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate.
Derived terms: able-bodied
close-bodied
full-bodied
many-bodied
multibodied
scarlet-bodied wasp moth
slender-bodied
unbodied
wide-bodied
bodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑdid/
Etymology: From body + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of body
bodysuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodysuits
Etymology: From body + suit.
Senses: examples: text: He'd have to stow the Gun somewhere; no place to conceal it in the skintight bodysuit.
ref: 1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam, published 1976, →ISBN, page 25:
text: “Hey, what are you guys doing?” “Dude, we're gonna tailgate the tryouts.” “Oh, shit. That's a good idea. Oh, you gonna bust out Green Man, bro?” “No. No Green Man.” “What's Green Man?” “Well, in high school, Charlie was like our school mascot.” “A mascot nobody wanted. He'd get wasted and dress in this green spandex bodysuit.” “Spandex?” “It was really sad.” “That's it.” “You gotta bring the Green Man suit.” “Yeah, no. Done with it.” “The spandex.” “Green Man was good. It got me through some hard times. But I'm done with it. Tell you what. You can wear it if you want, but I'm just gonna be relaxing, okay? This is gonna be about chilling out for me.” “No. This is gonna be exactly like Woodstock.”
ref: 2007 September 13, Charlie Day & David Hornsby & Glenn Howerton, “The Gang Gets Invincible” (3:56 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Mac (Rob McElhenney):
glosses: A one-piece, skin-tight garment rather like a leotard.
Synonyms: bodyliner
underwear
Derived terms: bodysuited
bodywork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyworks
Etymology: From body + work.
Senses: examples: text: That's some extremely shiny bodywork.
synonyms: auto body
glosses: The exterior body of a motor vehicle.
examples: text: There's a lot of bodywork still left to be done.
synonyms: auto body
glosses: The repair of such a body.
glosses: The application of physical therapy as a preventive measure.
examples: text: Men providing massage and bodywork exemplify a gray zone between a legal personal service and a sexualized encounter forbidden by law in most of the United States.
ref: 2011, Michael D. Smith, Christian Grov, In The Company of Men, page 15:
glosses: A service offered that includes an erotic massage and may also include prostitution.
Related terms: word: body shop
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: bodystyle
boffo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒfoʊ/
Forms: form: more boffo
form: most boffo
Etymology: Entertainment industry slang; possibly from box office or buffo.
Senses: examples: text: “Come on, Lana. Give me and the bird a chance. We're boffo.”
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:
text: And if the Hollywood stuff didn’t grab you, you could glom onto “RRR,” S.S. Rajamouli’s phenomenally successful Raj-era Indian action epic that, for sheer boffo exuberance, outdid anything the studios churned out this year.
ref: 2022 December 22, Peter Rainer, “Beyond the blockbusters: The 10 best films of 2022”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: With a track list stacked with hits such as “Stronger,” “Toxic” and “Circus,” the show has the potential for boffo success, but it also faces unique challenges.
ref: 2023 June 21, Julia Jacobs, “A Britney Spears Jukebox Musical Hopes for #SeeBritney Energy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: boff
clicko
glosses: Outstanding; very good or successful.
boffo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒfoʊ/
Forms: form: boffos
Etymology: Entertainment industry slang; possibly from box office or buffo.
Senses: glosses: A great success; a hit.
raw_tags: in the world of entertainment
otsu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 乙 (“second”).
Senses: examples: text: Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.
ref: 1991, Christopher Seeley, A History of Writing in Japan:
text: He rejects the claim of Matsumoto (1984) that the kô and otsu -o- vowels are in complementary distribution, and therefore these two vowels are allophones of a single vowel.
ref: 2001, John R. Bentley, A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese.
Related terms: otsu-rui
kô/kō
kô-otsu
kō-otsu
bolshevik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolsheviks
form: bolsheviki
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bolshevik.
bondholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bondholders
Etymology: From bond + holder.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The registered owner of a financial bond.
Hypernyms: debtholder
creditor
Coordinate terms: noteholder
bone-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bone dry
Senses: synonyms: dry as a bone
glosses: Totally dry; without moisture.
bookbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookbindings
Etymology: From book + binding.
Senses: glosses: The art, craft or process of binding books.
Related terms: bookbinder
bibliopegist
bibliopegy
bookmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookmakings
Etymology: From Middle English boke-making, equivalent to book + making.
Senses: glosses: The art or profession of determining odds and receiving and paying off bets, especially bets on the outcome of sporting events.
glosses: The art or practice of compiling books from the writings of others.
Related terms: bookie
bookmaker
boondoggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boondogglers
Etymology: From boondoggle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who boondoggles; a wastrel.
bootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bootee.
Derived terms: shootie
bootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booties
Senses: examples: text: A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages, where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly find him sustenance. A Sea Soldier may now and than chaunce to haue a snapp at a bootie or a price, which may in an instant make him a fortune […]
ref: 1876, Publications, London, England: New Shakspere Society, page 169:
glosses: Obsolete form of booty (“treasure”).
bootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booties
Senses: examples: text: […] and buried where he fell, was disinterred by a 'Bootie' who wanted to photograph him for his album.
ref: 1982, Sunday Best, volume 2, page 34:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier.
unaccommodating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccommodating
form: most unaccommodating
Etymology: From un- + accommodating.
Senses: glosses: Not accommodating.
bossism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossisms
Etymology: From boss + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The domination of a political party by a single, powerful person (the boss)
unaccounted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accounted.
Senses: glosses: Not accounted
Derived terms: unaccounted-for
unaccounted-for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccounted-for
form: most unaccounted-for
Etymology: From un- + accounted-for.
Senses: glosses: Not accounted for.
unacknowledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacknowledged
form: most unacknowledged
Etymology: From un- + acknowledged.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he use of both acknowledged and unacknowledged (silent) translations of non-English sources makes it difficult for users to determine if a certain term genuinely appeared in an English-language text.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 496:
text: Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity. Some niche communities, such as furries, anime fans, and fetish groups, who were once mocked on social media, have since amassed cultural power that has launched them into the mainstream.
ref: 2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: Not acknowledged.
unadventurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unadventurous
form: most unadventurous
Etymology: From un- + adventurous.
Senses: glosses: Not adventurous
unadvertised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unadvertised, equivalent to un- + advertised.
Senses: examples: text: Once the party outing season in June is over, Saturday long-distance traffic at Waterloo closely follows the public timetable and few unadvertised relief trains have to be run.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 263:
glosses: Not advertised
unadvised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unadvised
form: most unadvised
Etymology: From Middle English unavised; equivalent to un- + advised.
Senses: glosses: Not having received advice.
glosses: Ill-advised; imprudent; rash.
Derived terms: unadvisedness
unaligned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaligned
form: most unaligned
Etymology: From un- + aligned.
Senses: glosses: Not aligned.
unannounced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + announced.
Senses: examples: text: But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.
ref: 1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
text: In 2008, she was at times criticized for being detached from voters, insulated in a bubble of staff and security and avoiding spontaneity. She began her 2016 campaign by riding 16 hours in a van from New York to Iowa, making unannounced stops at gas stations and fast-food restaurants, before arriving for what was billed as a series of low-key conversations with a handful of voters.
ref: 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times:
text: The Major Stations category is keenly contested, with 24 other large city centre termini and major rail hub stations all vying for recognition. As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.
ref: 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 33:
glosses: Not announced beforehand.
botcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botchers
Etymology: From Middle English bocchere, bochchare, equivalent to botch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night:
glosses: A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
glosses: chairmaker
examples: text: Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
ref: 1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388:
text: "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
glosses: A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
glosses: A young salmon; a grilse.
Derived terms: botcherly
Related terms: botch
unanticipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unanticipated
form: most unanticipated
Etymology: From un- + anticipated.
Senses: glosses: Not anticipated.
unapologetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapologetic
form: most unapologetic
Etymology: From un- + apologetic.
Senses: glosses: Not apologetic for having said or done something that causes actual or potential harm, especially when being apologetic would be appropriate.
Synonyms: nonapologetic
uncharming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncharming
form: most uncharming
Etymology: From un- + charming.
Senses: glosses: Not charming
Synonyms: charmless
uncharming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncharm
unapparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapparent
form: most unapparent
Etymology: From un- + apparent.
Senses: examples: text: He watched her strap the brassiere back on, the line on her back almost unapparent, the plump of unremarkable flesh.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 483:
synonyms: hidden
inapparent
invisible
antonyms: apparent
visible
glosses: Not apparent; not seen on the surface.
unappealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappealing
form: most unappealing
Etymology: From un- + appealing.
Senses: examples: text: President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement.
ref: 2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
glosses: Not appealing.
unappetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappetizing
form: most unappetizing
form: unappetising
Etymology: From un- + appetizing.
Senses: glosses: Not appetizing.
Derived terms: unappetizingly
unappetizingness
unappreciative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappreciative
form: most unappreciative
Etymology: From un- + appreciative.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: ungrateful
glosses: Not appreciative.
unapproved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapproved
form: most unapproved
Etymology: From un- + approved.
Senses: examples: text: The unapproved imports were sent back to the originating country.
text: The pods of the tara plant are used to make tara gum and tara flour. The latter has been found to be an unapproved food additive.
ref: 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN:
glosses: Not approved.
glosses: Not proven.
unarmored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unarmored
form: most unarmored
form: unarmour'd
Etymology: From un- + armored.
Senses: glosses: Not armored; not wearing armor
unassertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unassertive
form: most unassertive
Etymology: From un- + assertive.
Senses: glosses: Not assertive
unassisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + assisted.
Senses: examples: text: Moran did not support these women, nor did she believe that women should catch their own babies in an unassisted birth.
ref: 2012, Laura Kaplan Shanley, Unassisted Childbirth, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Not assisted; without assistance
Derived terms: unassisted suicide
unassisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unassisted
form: most unassisted
Etymology: From un- + assisted.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine if children never got any feedback, such as praise and encouragement, as they learnt to walk and only received it when they could walk unassisted.
ref: 2006, Diane Louise Szarkowicz, Observations and Reflections in Childhood, →ISBN, page 4:
text: […] he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
synonyms: unassistedly
glosses: Without assistance.
unauthentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɔːˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌʌnɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌʌnɑˈθɛn.tɪk/
Forms: form: more unauthentic
form: most unauthentic
Etymology: From un- + authentic.
Senses: synonyms: inauthentic
glosses: Not authentic; inauthentic.
unbaptized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbaptized
form: most unbaptized
form: unbaptised
Etymology: From Middle English unbaptized, unbaptist, equivalent to un- + baptized.
Senses: examples: text: The neophyte was given a new name in place of the baptismal one, usually of an evil and revolting character, and this was written in blood in the Devil's book, the covers of which were bound in the skin of unbaptised infants.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:
glosses: Not baptized.
unbeknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnbɪˈnəʊn/
ipa: /ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊn/
Forms: form: more unbeknown
form: most unbeknown
form: unbeknownst
Etymology: From un- + beknown.
Senses: examples: text: Following the debate in question, Tim Loughton sent an unmarked copy of Hansard to his constituent to inform him that he would no longer be acting as his MP as the constituent had made this position untenable. [...] However, and unbeknown to Loughton, the constituent reported the debate to the police as a 'hate crime' and complained that sending a copy of Hansard was 'harassment'.
ref: 2015, Roger Williams, “Harassment in Sussex”, in Rough Justice: Citizens’ Experience of Mistreatment and Injustice in the Early Stages of Law Enforcement, Hook, Hampshire: Waterside Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Contributions, Media and Experiences), page 106:
glosses: Not beknown.
uncaught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + caught.
Senses: glosses: Not caught.
unceremonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊniəs
Forms: form: more unceremonious
form: most unceremonious
Etymology: From un- + ceremonious.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. De Brooke replied, that she could have no objection to form the acquaintance of Mrs. Belmour, since it appeared she was so unceremonious and so conformable to the taste of her friends, in respect to her mode of visiting them.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter V, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 52:
antonyms: ceremonious
glosses: Not ceremonious.
Derived terms: unceremoniously
unceremoniousness
unchaperoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchaperoned
form: most unchaperoned
Etymology: From un- + chaperoned.
Senses: glosses: Not chaperoned; not having a chaperone
uncharitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncharitable
form: most uncharitable
Etymology: From un- + charitable.
Senses: examples: text: It would not be uncharitable to pass a poor verdict on the majority of post-war small station designs. With some exceptions, they have ignored their surroundings in terms of style and materials, and they have failed to provide the welcome and amenities that waiting passengers deserve.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 43:
glosses: Not charitable
unclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + claimed.
Senses: examples: text: Any unclaimed items of luggage may be destroyed.
text: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
text: On his first day, Safdar went with another driver to collect one of the unclaimed bodies frequently found on the streets of Karachi.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not claimed.
unclassified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclassified
form: most unclassified
Etymology: From un- + classified.
Senses: glosses: Not classified
unclassified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + classified.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclassify
uncluttered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncluttered
form: most uncluttered
Senses: glosses: Not cluttered; without clutter
Related terms: clutter-free
clutterless
uncluttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of unclutter
uncollected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncollected
form: most uncollected
Etymology: From un- + collected.
Senses: examples: text: The barman glanced around in search of uncollected glasses.
text: That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.
ref: 2009 December 7, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not collected or gathered.
synonyms: uncomposed
untogether
glosses: Absent in mind; not having one's thoughts collected.
uncombed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncombed
form: most uncombed
Etymology: From un- + combed.
Senses: glosses: Not combed.
Synonyms: dishevelled
shaggy
uncombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + combed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncomb
uncompleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + completed.
Senses: glosses: Not completed.
Derived terms: uncompletedness
uncomplimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn(ˌ)kɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
enpr: ŭn'kŏm(')-plĭ-mĕnʹtə-rē
enpr: -trē
ipa: /ˌʌn(ˌ)kɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
rhymes: -ɛntɹi
Forms: form: more uncomplimentary
form: most uncomplimentary
Etymology: From un- + complimentary.
Senses: glosses: Not complimentary; negative or insulting.
uncompounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + compounded.
Senses: examples: text: The short uncompounded names were naturally even less comprehensible than the compounded ones; […]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
glosses: Not compounded.
unconformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconformable
form: most unconformable
Etymology: From un- + conformable.
Senses: glosses: Not conformable.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting unconformity.
unconquered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconquered
form: most unconquered
Etymology: From un- + conquered.
Senses: glosses: Not conquered
unconsecrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsecrated
form: most unconsecrated
Etymology: From un- + consecrated.
Senses: examples: text: One day, he decided to perform a funeral service for the unconsecrated souls he believed were imprisoned somewhere below in the hope of finally laying them to rest.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 480:
glosses: Not consecrated.
unconsidered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsidered
form: most unconsidered
Etymology: From un- + considered.
Senses: examples: text: He proteſted to him, […] that this Flight of his ſhou'd be look'd on as a heat of Youth, and raſhneſs of a too forward Courage, and an unconſider'd impatience of Liberty, and no more; […]
ref: 1688, A[phra] Behn, Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave. A True History, London: […] Will[iam] Canning, […], →OCLC, page 201:
text: In his extreme desire to grasp dollars and power, the unintellectual exile was ready to throw himself into the arms of any wandering cut-throat whose help could be secured, and Babalatchi experienced great difficulty in restraining him from unconsidered violence.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter V, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part I, page 61:
text: If the remark were merely unconsidered, if on further reflection he would like to withdraw or amend it, I am sure the gesture would be appreciated.
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 15, in The Childhood of Jesus, London: Harvill Secker, page 116:
glosses: Not considered.
Not carefully planned or thought through beforehand. (of an action or statement)
examples: text: My father […] was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: At length the auction began in the room below, whence they could hear each familiar article knocked down, the highly prized ones cheaply, the unconsidered at an unexpected price.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC, part V (At Aldbrickham and Elswhere), page 361:
text: She pointed to a draughty, unconsidered table by the door.
ref: 1906, William John Locke, chapter 22, in The Belovéd Vagabond, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, page 285:
glosses: Not considered.
Not noticed; not considered worthy of notice.
synonyms: neglected
unconsumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + consumed.
Senses: examples: text: A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Not consumed.
Synonyms: uneaten
unused
unconsummated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsummated
form: most unconsummated
Etymology: From un- + consummated.
Senses: glosses: Not consummated
unconverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconverted
form: most unconverted
Etymology: From un- + converted.
Senses: examples: V. Knox
If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
glosses: Not converted (especially in the religious sense).
unconverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconvert
uncooperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncooperative
form: most uncooperative
form: unco-operative
form: uncoöperative
Etymology: From un- + cooperative.
Senses: synonyms: noncooperative
glosses: Not cooperative.
uncorrected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to un- + corrected.
Senses: synonyms: noncorrected
glosses: Not corrected.
Related terms: uncorrectable
uncorroborated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorroborated
form: most uncorroborated
Etymology: From un- + corroborated.
Senses: examples: text: Atsme similarly protested when editors sought to portray Trump as racist by referring to a reconstructed and uncorroborated conversation in a book by a former COO at one of Trump’s companies, which attributes to Trump defamatory and racist remarks against black people.
ref: 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
glosses: Not corroborated.
uncounted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English uncountit; equivalent to un- + counted.
Senses: examples: text: This pile was counted yesterday. Those piles over there are still uncounted.
glosses: Not counted.
examples: text: Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.
text: Rumour is a pipe, / Blowne by ſurmizes, / Iealouſies[,] coniectures, / And of ſo eaſie, and ſo plaine a ſtop, / That the blunt monſter, with vncounted heads, / The ſtill diſcordant wau’ring multitude, / Can play vpon it.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i (induction)], signature A2, recto:
text: […] under proper control and with an intelligent system of recess-and-noon-period-recreation the child can have uncounted good times, while with too stern a discipline or too lax a facile subjection of the teasesome and bully types and too little attention to promoting harmonious play, the grade school years may be made an unpleasant period of life.
ref: 1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230:
text: The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.
ref: 1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:
text: Around the same time, nationally syndicated journalist Robert Walters was reporting that ‘many members of Congress refuse to even acknowledge the fact that uncounted thousands of jobs in the auto, steel and other traditional “smokestack” industries have been irretrievably lost while employment opportunities in high technology fields are becoming available at an accelerating rate[…]
ref: 2019, Richard Carr, quoting Robert Walters, March of the Moderates […] , Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: countless
uncountable
glosses: Very numerous.
uncrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊnd
Etymology: From Middle English un-crowned; equivalent to un- + crowned.
Senses: glosses: Not crowned; not yet crowned.
glosses: Deprived of the monarchy.
uncrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncrown
uncured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cured.
Senses: glosses: Not cured.
uncured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncure
uncustomary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncustomary
form: most uncustomary
Etymology: From un- + customary.
Senses: examples: text: He had kept it cryptic on the phone; that plus the uncustomary afternoon meeting would warn the jeweler that it was serious.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 288:
glosses: Not customary.
undeclared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + declared.
Senses: examples: text: an undeclared war
glosses: Not declared
Derived terms: undeclared work
boxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boxlike
form: most boxlike
form: box-like
Etymology: From box + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a box.
homogeneous mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogeneous mixtures
Senses: glosses: A mixture that is uniform throughout, and has only one phase.
unchivalrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchivalrous
form: most unchivalrous
Etymology: From un- + chivalrous.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Porter was especially interested in everything I had to say about you, and asked many questions. I am afraid I took a rather unchivalrous delight in picturing your desire and resolve to go back eventually to your native jungle.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 73:
text: Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard.
ref: 2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN:
glosses: Not chivalrous.
unchopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chopped.
Senses: glosses: Not chopped
unchosen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chosen.
Senses: glosses: Not chosen.
unchristened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchristened
form: most unchristened
Etymology: From un- + christened.
Senses: glosses: Not christened.
unchristened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unchristen + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unchristen
unchronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchronological
form: most unchronological
Etymology: From un- + chronological.
Senses: examples: text: One of Ford's best effects in unchronological narration comes from having Dowell tell the same story twice in order 'to render those superimposed emotions'.
ref: 1915, Thomas C. Moser, The Good Soldier:
glosses: Not chronological.
unchronicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchronicled
form: most unchronicled
Etymology: From un- + chronicled.
Senses: examples: text: Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
glosses: Not chronicled
unchurched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭn-chûrcht′
ipa: /ʌnˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃt/
ipa: /ʌnˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃt
Forms: form: more unchurched
form: most unchurched
form: unchurcht
Etymology: From un- + churched.
Senses: examples: text: […] create a composite profile of the typical unchurched person your church wants to reach.
ref: 2004 April 11, Rob Walker, quoting Rick Warren, “Godly Synergy”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 24:
text: Fewer young people may be interested in the Church, but the Church is definitely still interested in them. That’s how young, unchurched activists may inadvertently end up leading not only political change, but also change within the Church itself.
ref: 2016 March 22, Emma Green, “Where Is the Church in the Black Lives Matter Movement?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Who does not generally attend church.
glosses: Who has never attended church; who has not been exposed to the experience, culture, etc., of church.
uncirculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncirculated
form: most uncirculated
Etymology: From un- + circulated.
Senses: glosses: Not circulated.
uncircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncircular
form: most uncircular
Etymology: From un- + circular.
Senses: glosses: Not circular
Synonyms: noncircular
uncited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncited
form: most uncited
Etymology: From un- + cited.
Senses: glosses: not cited
unclarified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclarified
form: most unclarified
Etymology: From un- + clarified.
Senses: glosses: Not clarified.
unclasped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + clasped.
Senses: glosses: Not clasped
uncleanable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncleanable
form: most uncleanable
Etymology: From un- + cleanable.
Senses: glosses: Not cleanable
uncleansed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncleansed
form: most uncleansed
Etymology: From un- + cleansed.
Senses: glosses: Not cleansed
uncleansable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncleansable
form: most uncleansable
Etymology: From un- + cleansable.
Senses: glosses: Not cleansable
uncocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncocked
form: most uncocked
Senses: glosses: Not cocked
uncocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncock
uncoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncoded
form: most uncoded
Etymology: From un- + coded.
Senses: glosses: Not coded.
uncoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uncode + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncode
uncommerciable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommerciable
form: most uncommerciable
Etymology: From un- + commerciable.
Senses: examples: text: By prohibiting all his Majesty's subjects from dealing in tobacco, except with a single company, one third of the exports of the United States are rendered uncommerciable here.
ref: 1829, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson:
text: By artist I mean of course everyone who had tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommerciable ones of the human spirit.
ref: 1998, Robert C. Berg, Garry L. Landreth, Kevin A. Fall, Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures, →ISBN, page 157:
text: The negative neo-liberal approach opposes a system as a whole that involves the state as a party in otherwise private contractual arrangements, the creation of inalienable assets and enlarged transaction costs in a 'complex' 'unworkable' uncommerciable way.
ref: 2011, P.G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights, →ISBN:
glosses: Not commerciable.
unconceived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconceived
form: most unconceived
Etymology: From un- + conceived.
Senses: glosses: Not conceived
undefinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undefinable
form: most undefinable
Etymology: From un- + definable.
Senses: examples: text: There was some little undefinable coolness between old General Chattesworth and Devereux. He admired the young fellow, and he liked good blood in his corps, but somehow he was glad when he thought he was likely to go.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Not definable.
Synonyms: word: indefinable
Related terms: undefinability
undefinable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undefinables
Etymology: From un- + definable.
Senses: examples: text: What's interesting is ambiguity. What's interesting is the haziness, the blurrings, the undefinables, the space and tension between people, the area between the margins that pushes us to stop, to question.
ref: 2006, Sean Lennon, Paul Spickard, Kip Fulbeck, Part Asian, 100 Per Cent Hapa:
glosses: Anything that cannot be defined.
undemanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undemanding
form: most undemanding
Etymology: From un- + demanding.
Senses: glosses: Not demanding
unabbreviated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unabbreviated
form: most unabbreviated
Etymology: From un- + abbreviated.
Senses: glosses: Not abbreviated
unabbreviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See unabbreviate (verb)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unabbreviate
unaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaimed
form: most unaimed
Etymology: From un- + aimed.
Senses: glosses: Not aimed
isolato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolatos
form: isolatoes
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, Woolson clearly portrays the danger Fog courted by remaining isolated in his castle, for if no stranger had ever come for Silver, when Fog died of old age she would have starved to death. In this paradox of strength and naiveté inevitably forced to face death or return to society, Woolson admits that to remain an isolato on an island is to refuse to acknowledge reality.
ref: 1999, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 82, page 335:
text: Moreover, whereas Oppen was often at the center of literary activity, Bronk was something of an isolato — not quite in the mold of a Dickinson, but not so very far from it either. He had no interest in "poetics" or in literary politics and only the most tangential relations to any school or circle of poets.
ref: 2009, Henry Weinfield, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk:
glosses: An isolated person; a hermit or outsider.
heterogeneous mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogeneous mixtures
Senses: glosses: A mixture that is separated into different regions or phases that have different compositions or properties.
bottle-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bottle-feed
bottle-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has been fed by bottle
Related terms: breast-fed
bottle-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottle-feeds
form: bottle-feeding
form: bottle-fed
form: bottle-fed
Senses: glosses: To feed a baby using a bottle, especially using a bottle filled with milk other than from its mother
Derived terms: bottlefeeding
Related terms: english: feeding bottle
translation: feeding bottle
word: baby bottle
alt: breastfeed
word: breast-feed
word: breastfeeding
bounden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈbaʊndən/
Etymology: From bound + -en, the archaic past participle of bind.
Senses: synonyms: word: bound
word: ybounden
antonyms: word: unbounden
glosses: past participle of bind.
examples: text: I am much bounden to your Maieſty.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 11, column 2:
text: In the concluding whereof Sir Thomas More so worthily handled himself, procuring in our league far more benefits unto this realm, than at that time, by the king or his council was thought possible to be compassed, that for his good service in that voyage, the king, when he after made him Lord Chancellor, caused the Duke of Norfolk openly to declare to the people, as you shall hear hereafter more at large, how much all England was bounden unto him.
ref: 1626, William Roper, S. W. Singer, The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes. Or The Life of Syr Thomas More Knight, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England, new revised and corrected edition, Paris [i.e. Saint-Omer]: [Printed at the English College Press], →OCLC; republished as The Life of Sir Thomas More, by His Son-in-law, William Roper, Esq. […], Chiswick, London: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, for R. Triphook, […], 1822, →OCLC, page 36:
text: He'll mind, I reckon, not getting any work out'n me, but I won't be bounden to him any longer. How can he keep me if I ain't bounden to him?
ref: 1963, William A. Owens, chapter 2, in Look to the River, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum; republished as Look to the River (Texas Tradition Series; 8), Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 1988, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
synonyms: word: bound
word: ybounden
antonyms: word: unbounden
glosses: past participle of bind.
To be obliged; to be under a duty or obligation (to do something).