cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sisterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sisterlike
form: most sisterlike
Etymology: From sister + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sister.
Synonyms: sisterly
saltires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltire
hotwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotwives
Etymology: From hot + wife.
Senses: examples: text: Jeff and Allison secretly live the "hotwife/cuckold" lifestyle.
ref: 2015, Carter Saint, Coming Out As a Cuck:
text: 2018 ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
The Vixen, often known as ‘Hotwife’, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her).
coordinate_terms: hothusband
glosses: A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with people other than her spouse, with the spouse's approval. A wife whose spouse is a swinger or wittol.
hotwife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotwifes
form: hotwifing
form: hotwifed
form: hotwifed
Etymology: From hot + wife.
Senses: glosses: To participate in a hotwife sexual relationship.
unsisterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsisterlike
form: most unsisterlike
Etymology: From un- + sisterlike.
Senses: glosses: Not sisterlike.
skinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skinlike
form: most skinlike
Etymology: From skin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling skin or some aspect of it.
dermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dermal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dermal way; of or to the skin.
Derived terms: basiepidermally
ectodermally
electrodermally
endodermally
epidermally
hypodermally
intradermally
mesodermally
neuroectodermally
panmesodermally
subdermally
subepidermally
transdermally
skylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skylike
form: most skylike
Etymology: From sky + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Trailing and creeping plants of every clime will soon be twining their fingers into every recess of the iron-work, and mounting still higher by every pillar and "coigne of vantage," until they have gained the skylike arch of glass.
ref: 1854, The eclectic magazine of foreign literature, science, and art:
glosses: Resembling the sky or some aspect of it.
surcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surcoat
surcoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surcoat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a surcoat.
sluicelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sluicelike
form: most sluicelike
Etymology: From sluice + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sluice.
CC RAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: charge-coupled RAM cell.
clearing house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearing houses
Senses: examples: text: The Railway Clearing House, which was established 120 years ago, was disbanded on March 31. [see "Further reading" for the Wikipedia article.]
ref: 1963 May, “News and Comment: End of the Railway Clearing House”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
glosses: A central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.
examples: text: The mixed load is likely to have come from Rotterdam, one of Europe's key clearing houses for drugs
ref: 2011, Samuel West (narrator), Smugglers TV series (ep. 2),
glosses: A hub of collection, maintenance, and distribution of goods, information etc.
glosses: A repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data
Derived terms: automated clearing house
Related terms: inclearing
outclearing
compression pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compression pumps
Senses: glosses: A machine used to keep blood and lymph flowing by pushing air through bands or sleeves that are placed on the arms or legs.
cushoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushoons
form: koshoon
form: kushoon
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The equivalent of a regiment or brigade in Tippu Sultan's army.
God complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God complexes
Senses: examples: text: Bad motherfucker, God complex / Motivate your ass, call me Malcolm X
ref: 2016, “Don't Hurt Yourself”, in Lemonade, performed by Beyoncé:
glosses: An unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.
Related terms: Christ complex
messiah complex
savior complex
hubris
megalomania
play God
soldierlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soldierlike
form: most soldierlike
form: soldier-like
Etymology: From soldier + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a soldier.
Synonyms: soldierly
macrobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of large living organisms.
Related terms: macrobiological
macrobiologist
man of parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of parts
Etymology: The phrase saw much use in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, especially in England.
Senses: examples: text: He was a fellow of parts, quick, humorous, a clever painter, and with an eye for certain poetical effects of sea and ships.
ref: 1881, R.L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
text: To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist:
glosses: A man who is talented in multiple areas of life.
microsclerodermin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsclerodermins
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A family of macrocyclic compounds derived from a marine sponge.
over-canvassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-canvassed
form: most over-canvassed
Etymology: From over- + canvassed.
Senses: glosses: Of a sailing boat (dinghy, yacht or sailing ship): carrying too much sail for the current wind conditions.
gap years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gap year
squirelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squirelike
form: most squirelike
Etymology: From squire + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a squire.
suitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suitlike
form: most suitlike
Etymology: From suit + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a suit (set of clothes).
syruplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syruplike
form: most syruplike
Etymology: From syrup + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling syrup or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: syrupy
taglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taglike
form: most taglike
Etymology: From tag + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tag.
tapelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tapelike
form: most tapelike
Etymology: From tape + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling tape (the narrow band of material) or some aspect of it.
veillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more veillike
form: most veillike
Etymology: From veil + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The moon went slowly down in chastened loveliness; she departed like some sweet bride into her chamber, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars peeped shyly out.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a veil.
woollike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woollike
form: most woollike
Etymology: From wool + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling wool or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: woolish
wooly
woolly
tealike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tealike
form: most tealike
Etymology: From tea + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling tea (the drink or plant) or some aspect of it.
tradesmanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tradesmanlike
form: most tradesmanlike
Etymology: From tradesman + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tradesman.
Synonyms: tradesmanly
cherublike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cherublike
form: most cherublike
Etymology: From cherub + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cherub.
Synonyms: cherubic
clumplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clumplike
form: most clumplike
Etymology: From clump + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a clump.
cokelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cokelike
form: most cokelike
Etymology: From coke + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling coke (coal residue) or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: coky
courtlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more courtlike
form: most courtlike
Etymology: From court + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a court.
glosses: Courteous; polite.
Derived terms: uncourtlike
courtierlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more courtierlike
form: most courtierlike
form: courtier-like
Etymology: From courtier + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a courtier.
Synonyms: courtierly
Derived terms: uncourtierlike
dawnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dawnlike
form: most dawnlike
Etymology: From dawn + -like.
Senses: synonyms: auroral
aurorean
dilucular
glosses: Resembling dawn or some aspect of it.
disclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disclike
form: most disclike
form: disklike
Etymology: From disc + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a disc.
disklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disklike
form: most disklike
form: disclike
Etymology: From disk + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a disk.
downlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downlike
form: most downlike
Etymology: From down + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling down (soft immature feathers) or some aspect of it.
Aristophanean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aristophanean
form: most Aristophanean
Etymology: Latin Aristophanēus + -an
Senses: topics: broadcasting
communications
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
poetry
publishing
television
theater
writing
glosses: Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, his plays or his poetry.
Synonyms: Aristophanic
dwarflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dwarflike
form: most dwarflike
Etymology: From dwarf + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dwarf; small, diminutive.
elflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elflike
form: most elflike
Etymology: From elf + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an elf.
Synonyms: list at elven
fairylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fairylike
form: most fairylike
Etymology: From fairy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:
synonyms: elfin
fey
magical
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fairy.
Derived terms: unfairylike
epiclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epiclike
form: most epiclike
Etymology: From epic + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an epic.
fatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatlike
form: most fatlike
Etymology: From fat + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
fumelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fumelike
form: most fumelike
Etymology: From fume + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fume.
Synonyms: fumy
fumiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fumy: most fumy
gablelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gablelike
form: most gablelike
Etymology: From gable + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gable.
atticlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atticlike
form: most atticlike
Etymology: From attic + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an attic.
gladelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gladelike
form: most gladelike
Etymology: From glade + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a glade.
gnatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gnatlike
form: most gnatlike
Etymology: From gnat + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gnat; tiny, insignificant.
atticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atticky
form: most atticky
Etymology: From attic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] with its nice atticky smell that no other house in the world had! It just fitted all around you, when you went in the door […]
ref: 1922, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rough-hewn:
text: She had no intention of giving up her flat, especially since her rent included the three little atticky rooms on the third floor, the top floor of the house […]
ref: 1998, Maeve Brennan, The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin:
text: You'd think it might hold the scent of smoke, or an atticky perfume of mouse and moth-wing.
ref: 2008, Melissa J Delbridge, Family Bible:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an attic.
Synonyms: atticlike
grouselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grouselike
form: most grouselike
Etymology: From grouse + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a grouse.
guardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guardlike
form: most guardlike
Etymology: From guard + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a guard.
guardianlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guardianlike
form: most guardianlike
Etymology: From guardian + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a guardian.
goadlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goadlike
form: most goadlike
Etymology: From goad + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a goad.
gulflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gulflike
form: most gulflike
Etymology: From gulf + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gulf.
gutlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gutlike
form: most gutlike
Etymology: From gut + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gut.
haglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haglike
form: most haglike
Etymology: From hag + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hag; hideous, cronelike.
halolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halolike
form: most halolike
Etymology: From halo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a halo.
heathlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heathlike
form: most heathlike
Etymology: From heath + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a heath.
hemplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemplike
form: most hemplike
Etymology: From hemp + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling hemp or some aspect of it.
herblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herblike
form: most herblike
Etymology: From herb + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a herb.
hiplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hiplike
form: most hiplike
Etymology: From hip + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hip (joint of the body).
hoelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoelike
form: most hoelike
Etymology: From hoe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hoe (agricultural implement).
vanquishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vanquishable
form: most vanquishable
Etymology: From vanquish + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be vanquished; defeatable, conquerable.
unvanquishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvanquishable
form: most unvanquishable
Etymology: From un- + vanquishable.
Senses: examples: text: [...] if a man shall give his mind to these [i.e. stones, and herbs, and charms], he shall not only render his soul unvanquishable by passions, but shall also preserve his body the better in health: [etc.]
ref: 1662, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, Thomas Dring, page 52:
text: Rise like Lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number
ref: 1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. […], London: Edward Moxon […], published 1832, →OCLC:
antonyms: vanquishable
glosses: That cannot be vanquished; undefeatable, inconquerable.
keeplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keeplike
form: most keeplike
Etymology: From keep + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a keep (castle tower).
hormonelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hormonelike
form: most hormonelike
Etymology: From hormone + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hormone.
kinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinglike
form: most kinglike
Etymology: From king + -like.
Senses: synonyms: kingly
antonyms: unkinglike
unkingly
hypernyms: regal
royal
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a king.
unkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unkingly
form: most unkingly
Etymology: From un- + kingly (adverb via Middle English unkyngly).
Senses: examples: text: […] yet a people is also of God, a part of God, and they may uncrown him, destroy him and cast him forth if he act unkingly.
ref: 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 7:
glosses: Not kingly.
Related terms: king
kingdom
kingly
unkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From un- + kingly (adverb via Middle English unkyngly).
Senses: glosses: In an unkingly manner; not befitting a king.
lakelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lakelike
form: most lakelike
Etymology: From lake + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lake.
lemminglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lemminglike
form: most lemminglike
Etymology: From lemming + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lemming, especially in having a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
Synonyms: sense: following blindly
word: herdlike
lemurlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lemurlike
form: most lemurlike
Etymology: From lemur + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lemur.
metallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metallike
form: most metallike
Etymology: From metal + -like.
Senses: synonyms: metallic
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a metal.
nightlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nightlike
form: most nightlike
Etymology: From night + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
bathing suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathing suit
unknightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unknightly
form: most unknightly
Etymology: From un- + knightly.
Senses: examples: text: There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:
glosses: Not knightly.
glosses: Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.
unknightlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unknightlike
form: most unknightlike
Etymology: From un- + knightlike.
Senses: glosses: Not knightlike.
knightlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knightlike
form: most knightlike
Etymology: From knight + -like.
Senses: glosses: Knightly; bold, gallant, etc.
niblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niblike
form: most niblike
Etymology: From nib + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Tubular awls with niblike points (like a pen point) and made from bird bones or the leg bones of certain small mammals
ref: 1920, Bulletin, numbers 235-236, page 354:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the nib of a pen.
niblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niblike
form: most niblike
Etymology: From nibs + -like.
Senses: examples: text: All my togs were so niblike and splash
ref: 1878, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, page 201:
glosses: Gentlemanly.
novalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more novalike
form: most novalike
form: nova-like
Etymology: From nova + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nova.
nunlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nunlike
form: most nunlike
form: nun-like
Etymology: From nun + -like.
Senses: synonyms: nunnish
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nun.
nurselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nurselike
form: most nurselike
Etymology: From nurse + -like.
Senses: examples: text: LF 43 looking for same serious relationship. Thoughful, affectionate, nurselike, romantic eve, music art and much more.
ref: 1986 April 12, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 17:
synonyms: nursely
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nurse.
petallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petallike
form: most petallike
Etymology: From petal + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a petal.
pinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinelike
form: most pinelike
Etymology: From pine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pine tree.
pithlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pithlike
form: most pithlike
Etymology: From pith + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling pith or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: pithy
conelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conelike
form: most conelike
Etymology: From cone + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cone.
Synonyms: cone-shaped
conical
playlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more playlike
form: most playlike
Etymology: From play + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a play (dramatic production).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of play (recreational behaviour).
poetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poetlike
form: most poetlike
Etymology: From poet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a poet.
porcelainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more porcelainlike
form: most porcelainlike
Etymology: From porcelain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling porcelain or some aspect of it.
princelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more princelike
form: most princelike
Etymology: From prince + -like.
Senses: synonyms: princely
coordinate_terms: princesslike
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kinglike
queenlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prince.
puttylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puttylike
form: most puttylike
Etymology: From putty + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling putty or some aspect of it.
rubylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubylike
form: most rubylike
Etymology: From ruby + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a ruby.
Related terms: topazlike
diamondlike
sapphirelike
emeraldlike
rufflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rufflike
form: most rufflike
Etymology: From ruff + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a ruff.
roughishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roughishly
form: most roughishly
Etymology: From roughish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a roughish manner; somewhat roughly.
resinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resinlike
form: most resinlike
Etymology: From resin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a resin.
Synonyms: resinous
resiny
resinification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resinifications
Etymology: From resin + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of resinifying.
resinifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resinification
saberlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saberlike
form: most saberlike
Etymology: From saber + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sabrelike.
satyrlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satyrlike
form: most satyrlike
Etymology: From satyr + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a satyr.
seamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seamlike
form: most seamlike
Etymology: From seam + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one.
ref: 1996, Sonia Mycak, In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a seam.
seedlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seedlike
form: most seedlike
Etymology: From seed + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: seedy
text: Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
ref: 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a seed.
staglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more staglike
form: most staglike
Etymology: From stag + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stag.
sewerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sewerlike
form: most sewerlike
Etymology: From sewer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sewer (drainage pipe).
shadowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shadowlike
form: most shadowlike
Etymology: From shadow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shadow.
sheaflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sheaflike
form: most sheaflike
Etymology: From sheaf + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sheaf.
un-Jewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-Jewish
form: most un-Jewish
Etymology: From un- + Jewish.
Senses: synonyms: goyish
glosses: Not Jewish, or not Jewlike.
shelflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shelflike
form: most shelflike
Etymology: From shelf + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shelf.
serflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serflike
form: most serflike
Etymology: From serf + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Millions were reduced to serflike conditions where a small white elite dominated different groups of black and white sharecroppers, indebted tenants and permanent debtors virtually enslaved through peonage.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 116:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a serf.
sighlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sighlike
form: most sighlike
Etymology: From sigh + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sigh.
screamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more screamlike
form: most screamlike
Etymology: From scream + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scream.
silklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silklike
form: most silklike
Etymology: From silk + -like, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: The first artificial silk was cellulose-based rayon, known as viscose in Europe; DuPont's entirely synthetic nylon was insufficiently silklike at first to serve as a good substitute in fashion but quickly replaced Japanese silk for Allied military applications during World War II.
glosses: Synonym of silky, like silk.
synonyms: word: silky
word: like silk
præserve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præserves
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of preserve.
præserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præserves
form: præserveth
form: præserving
form: præserved
form: præserved
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, I thought I must cry mightily unto the Lord, that He would mercifully direct me, and protect me, in all my feeble, but faithful, Endeavours to serve Him; and that he would particularly furnish me with Patience, to undergo all the Obloquy, whereto my Fidelity to His Interests may expose me, in an evil Generation, and præserve me from all the Devices of Satan ever to blast me with Reproaches, that may at all incapacitate me for eminent Serviceableness.
ref: 1911, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, volume 7, self-published, page 358:
glosses: Archaic spelling of preserve.
silkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silkie
glosses: plural of silky
silkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lightweight, tightly woven silkies, sheers, lingerie
ref: 1992, Tammy Young, Naomi Baker, Serged Garments in Minutes, page 22:
text: Gina knew from experience — from her first set of NaughtyNice silkies — that it was a color that looked very, very nice on her.
ref: 2018, K. D. West, The Visitor Rises:
glosses: Silky lingerie.
synonyms: ranger panties
glosses: Short shorts for men, made of a thin fabric, with a lining and a pocket inside to hold a key while jogging.
whalelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whalelike
form: most whalelike
Etymology: From whale + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But there were others, too. Whalelike things that glided serenely through murky depths, warmed by a radioactive core they had assembled in the moon’s core.
ref: 1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.: Spectra, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a whale.
duncelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duncelike
form: most duncelike
Etymology: From dunce + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dunce.
Related terms: duncely
duncish
glandlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glandlike
form: most glandlike
Etymology: From gland + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gland.
glenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glenlike
form: most glenlike
Etymology: From glen + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a glen.
judgelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more judgelike
form: most judgelike
Etymology: From judge + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a judge.
Synonyms: judgely
Derived terms: unjudgelike
præserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præserve
præserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præserve
maplelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maplelike
form: most maplelike
Etymology: From maple + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a maple tree.
postcardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postcardlike
form: most postcardlike
Etymology: From postcard + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a postcard; picturesque.
præserveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præserve
præserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of præserve
præserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of præserve
bothersomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bothersome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bothersome.
bothersomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bothersomely
form: most bothersomely
Etymology: From bothersome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bothersome way.
funnel weavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel weaver
andouillette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑnduˈjɛt/
ipa: /ˌænduˈjɛt/
Forms: form: andouillettes
Etymology: From French andouillette.
Senses: glosses: A small andouille (type of sausage).
Related terms: andouille
sieve of Eratosthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An ancient algorithm for finding prime numbers that works by discarding multiples from a list of potential primes.
wikipedia: Eratosthenes
Urmia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːmɪə/
Etymology: Probably from Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܐܘܪ (w-r, “city”), a common Assyrian name for cities around Mesopotamia, and ܡܝܐ (miyā, “water”), referring to the great lake nearby.
Senses: glosses: A salt lake northwestern Iran, near Turkey.
glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Urmia County's Central District and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, on the shore of the lake of the same name.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Çoruh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorokhi
form: Chorokh
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Çoruh.
Senses: glosses: A river in Turkey flowing north through the Armenian Highland and emptying into the Black Sea in the Adjara region of Georgia.
Armenian Highland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A plateau in the north of West Asia, connecting the Lesser Caucasus with the Taurus Mountains. Total area: about 400,000 km². Average elevation: 1500 to 2000 metres, highest point: Mount Ararat. The area lies mostly in eastern Turkey; also includes the whole of modern Armenia, southern Georgia, western Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran, Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Synonyms: Armenian Plateau
Armenian Upland
enchiridions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchiridion
enchiridia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchiridion
prestezza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting technique which uses a series of fast brushstrokes to create the impression of faces and objects, rather than working out their details
pelidnoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelioma
Etymology: From Latin pelidnoma, from Ancient Greek πελίδνωμα (pelídnōma, “dark spot”).
Senses: glosses: A circumscribed, elevated, livid patch on the skin.
boose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːs/
ipa: /ˈbʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: booses
form: boosy
form: boosey
Etymology: From Middle English bose, boose, from Old English *bōs (attested in bōsih, bōsig (“cow-stall”)), from Proto-Germanic *bansaz, *bandsaz, *bandstiz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).
Senses: examples: text: It especially used of the sweepings of cows' booses; and this leads me to remark that it is in the language connected with the farm that some of our good old English monosyllables are to be traced.
ref: 1854 July 15, Notes and Queries, number 246, page 50:
glosses: A stall for an animal (usually a cow).
boose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːs/
ipa: /ˈbʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
ipa: /buːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /buːs/
ipa: /ˈbʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Etymology: From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).
Senses: examples: text: 1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles"
'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;
And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.
text: Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of booze.
Derived terms: booser
boose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːs/
ipa: /ˈbʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
ipa: /buːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /buːs/
ipa: /ˈbʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: booses
form: boosing
form: boosed
form: boosed
Etymology: From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman:
glosses: Alternative spelling of booze.
crono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κρόνος (Krónos, “Cronus”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: saturni-
hypernyms: planeto-
glosses: Relating to Saturn
Derived terms: cronocentric
Related terms: english: the Sun
translation: the Sun
word: helio-
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeo-
english: the Earth
translation: the Earth
word: geo-
english: the Moon
translation: the Moon
word: seleno-
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areo-
english: Jupiter
translation: Jupiter
word: zeno-
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: urano-
crono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chrono- (“relating to time”).
frippet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frippets
Senses: glosses: A frivolous young woman.
frippish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frippish
form: most frippish
Etymology: From French friperie, via frippery + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Gaudy, tawdry, showy in a cheap way.
Yorkshiremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorkshireman
protocanonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + canonical.
Senses: glosses: Describing the first (authorized) canon of books of scripture.
Coordinate terms: deuterocanonical
sapheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæphɛdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of saphead
Thier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thiers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Thier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Theil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
basal ganglion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basal ganglia
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of nuclei in the brain interconnected with the cerebral cortex, thalamus and brainstem.
basal ganglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basal ganglion
Synonyms: basal nuclei
Meronyms: corpus striatum
substantia nigra
subthalamic nucleus
Lewy body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvi ˌbɒdi/
Forms: form: Lewy bodies
Etymology: Named after Jewish German-born American neurologist Frederic Lewy (1885–1950).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal aggregate of protein that develops inside nerve cells.
wikipedia: Frederic Lewy
protogine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protogines
Etymology: From French protogine, coined in 1806 on the basis of Ancient Greek πρωτόγονος (prōtógonos, “first-created”), with an added suffix -ine, which the author used for certain minerals.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of granite containing silvery flakes of talc or similar minerals.
protogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting protogyny.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Whose female parts (stigma) becomes mature before the male ones (anthers).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Whose female parts (archegonia) mature before the male parts (antheridia) release their spermatozoids.
awesomenessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôʹsəmnəsnəs
ipa: /ˈɔːsəmnəsnəs/
Etymology: Redundant suffixation: awesomeness + -ness or awesome + -ness + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 2006: “aprilmark@gmail.com”, The Pepper Cascade (Google group): Swimming
PS we still have the coupons, so we have to consider the awesomenessness to receive a discount coupon. please post with a reason why you should deserve a discount coupon.
text: >.< this is called a dragonfly
when ewe type him in the chat box his wings wiggle awesomenessness
ref: 2006: “CharlaX”, Gmail Help Discussion (Google group): CHat(caht)
text: awesomenessness!!!!
ref: 2007: “Shantell Hoskin”, Chocolate 4 Life (Google group): awesomenessness!!!! (thread title)
glosses: awesomeness
protome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomes
form: protoma
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προτομή (protomḗ, “severed head, bust”), from προ- (pro-, “front”) + τομή (tomḗ, “part cut off”).
Senses: glosses: A decorative element, on ancient artefacts, based on the head of an animal or bust of a person.
personal trainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal trainer
St. Paul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Saint Paul.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Alaska; the main settlement of Saint Paul Island in the Bering Sea.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Indiana; named for Jonathan Paul, an early settler.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Missouri; named for a local church named for Paul the Apostle.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Howard County, Nebraska, named for James N. and Nicholas J. Paul, the founders of the city.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Oregon; named for the Saint Paul Mission, itself named for Paul the Apostle.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Virginia.
glosses: A town in Alberta, Canada, in the County of St. Paul.
glosses: A municipal district in eastern central Alberta; in full, the County of St. Paul No. 19.
Sabora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saboraim
form: Savora
Etymology: From Hebrew סָבוֹרָא (sāḇorā), from Aramaic.
Senses: glosses: Any of the leading Jewish rabbis who completed the revision of the Babylonian Talmud in the 6th century C.E.
Related terms: Amora
Tanna
segs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seg
glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of sex (“sexual activity”).
blakey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blakeys
Etymology: From Blakey, a brand name of cast-iron shoe protectors invented in 1880 by John Blakey.
Senses: examples: text: She wouldn't actually bring the shoes herself, but she would drive down with any complaints or remarks. I was expected to know instantly […] which pair she meant out of a sackful, and be able to suggest rubber heels, or a blakey, or whatever she would like.
ref: 1943, Raymond Postgate, Somebody at the Door, page 78:
synonyms: seg
glosses: A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
Coordinate terms: hobnail
blakeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blakey
canastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canasta
sabzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səbˈziː/
Forms: form: sabzis
form: sabji
form: subji
form: subjee
form: subz
form: subzi
form: sabzee
Etymology: From Hindi सब्ज़ी (sabzī), from Classical Persian سبزی (sabzī).
Senses: glosses: Any green vegetable.
glosses: The larger leaves and the seed capsules of Indian hemp which are used to make bhang.
sacaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sachaline
Senses: glosses: A coarse herb (Fallopia sachalinensis) that is cultivated in the U.S. for forage and for decorative purposes.
sacbrood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sac + brood.
Senses: glosses: A viral disease in honey bees which affects the larvae, causing them to shrivel up and become scalelike.
Related terms: foulbrood
abidest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: əbīʹdĭst
ipa: /əˈbaɪdɪst/
Etymology: abide + -est
Senses: examples: text: Master, where abidest Thou ?
ref: 1868: Charles Rogers, Lyra Britannica, page 139, “Come and See”, first line of verses 1–4
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of abide
saccharase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharases
Senses: glosses: invertase
saccharate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharates
Etymology: From saccharic acid + -ate (“derivative, salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of saccharic acid.
glosses: A metallic derivative of a sugar, usually with a bivalent metal; especially sucrate (not used systematically).
antirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more antirational
form: most antirational
Etymology: From anti- + rational.
Senses: examples: text: This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,” and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”
ref: 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — Tracts for the Times. […] ” (book review), in The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volume XXVII, Number II, pages 196-197
text: Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged. The New Left was as much an outgrowth of the antirational as the culture it had rejected.
ref: 1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 328:
text: His own conception of a genuine (fifth order) postmodernism is not at all antirational and embraces everything that was a source of real strength in the fourth (“modern”) order of consciousness.
ref: 2009, Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
Related terms: arational
irrational
non-rational
saccharated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saccharated
form: most saccharated
Senses: glosses: combined with sucrose
saccharic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saccharic
form: most saccharic
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from saccharine substances
Related terms: saccharic acid
sacchariferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more sacchariferous
form: most sacchariferous
Etymology: From Latin sāccharum (“sugar”) + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Producing or containing sugar.
saccharimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the sugar content of a liquid, especially with a saccharimeter
Related terms: saccharimeter
saccharimetrical