cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flashily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flashily
form: most flashily
Etymology: From flashy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
glosses: In a flashy manner
flatteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flatteringly
form: most flatteringly
Etymology: From Middle English flateryngly, flateringli, alteration of earlier flaterandly. By surface analysis, flattering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flattering manner.
flauntingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flauntingly
form: most flauntingly
Etymology: From flaunting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flaunting manner
flaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flaunt
flaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaunting
form: most flaunting
Senses: examples: text: He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 1, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: That flaunts; showy or gaudy.
Derived terms: flauntingly
flauntingness
flaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flauntings
Senses: examples: text: Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend […]
ref: 1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:
glosses: The act by which something is flaunted.
flawlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔː.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈflɑː.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈflɑː.lɪs.li/
Forms: form: more flawlessly
form: most flawlessly
Etymology: From flawless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow.
ref: 2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:
glosses: In a flawless manner.
fleetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fleetly
form: most fleetly
Etymology: From fleet + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fleet manner; swiftly
flimsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flimsily
form: most flimsily
Etymology: From flimsy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flimsy manner
flippantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flippantly
form: most flippantly
Etymology: From flippant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: In response to the announcement on X Tuesday, Newsom flippantly posted, “You bent the knee” with a screenshot of Trump writing about Musk visiting the White House during his presidency.
ref: 2024 July 16, Gillian Brassil and Nicole Nixon, “Elon Musk says he’ll move X & SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas. Here’s why”, in The Sacramento Bee, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2024:
glosses: In a flippant manner.
floppily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more floppily
form: most floppily
Etymology: From floppy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a floppy manner.
floridly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more floridly
form: most floridly
Etymology: From florid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a florid manner
fluidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fluidly
form: most fluidly
Etymology: From fluid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fluid manner; smoothly.
foggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foggily
form: most foggily
Etymology: From foggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a foggy manner
foolhardily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foolhardily
form: most foolhardily
Etymology: From foolhardy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a foolhardy manner
forgetfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forgetfully
form: most forgetfully
Etymology: From forgetful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a forgetful manner
formidably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more formidably
form: most formidably
Etymology: From formidable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a formidable manner.
formlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more formlessly
form: most formlessly
Etymology: From formless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a formless manner
fortuitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fortuitously
form: most fortuitously
Etymology: From fortuitous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] For the genetic constitution of the individual may determine only a range of possible behaviour. The actual behaviour of each individual is fortuitously dependent on the total environment, and this latter can include the actual group. For example, the tendency of birds to refrain from mating may prevent the group from exhausting its food supply.
ref: 2017 July 12, Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Sketching Theoretical Biology: Toward a Theoretical Biology, Volume 2, volume 2, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN:
glosses: In a fortuitous manner; in a manner of happening by chance; coincidentally; accidentally.
glosses: In a fortuitous manner; in a manner of happening by a lucky chance; luckily; fortunately.
forthrightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forthrightly
form: most forthrightly
Etymology: From forthright + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a forthright manner
forwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forwardly
form: most forwardly
Etymology: From forward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a forward manner
Related terms: backwardly
downwardly
sidewardly
upwardly
fractionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fractionally
form: most fractionally
Etymology: From fractional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One twin was fractionally older than the other.
glosses: In a fractional manner
fragrantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fragrantly
form: most fragrantly
Etymology: From fragrant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fragrant manner
fraternally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fraternally
form: most fraternally
Etymology: From fraternal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fraternal manner.
fraudulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fraudulently
form: most fraudulently
Etymology: From Middle English fraudulently; equivalent to fraudulent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But there is one study that has been interpreted to suggest it is at least possible. It found that between 32,000 and 2.8 million noncitizen voters might have fraudulently cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election. The study, based on a survey of 38,000 people after that election, has been under fire since it was published in 2014.
ref: 2017 January 26, Nate Cohn, “Illegal Voting Claims, and Why They Don’t Hold Up”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a fraudulent manner.
freakishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more freakishly
form: most freakishly
Etymology: From freakish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: "Certainly not freakishly small and certainly not enormous," Horwell said. "Not one of these witnesses can be relied upon."
ref: 2014 March 26, Richard Horwell QC, quotee, “Max Clifford's penis 'neither freakishly small nor enormous', lawyer tells court”, in The Guardian, sourced from Press Association, →ISSN:
text: Nicolas Cage’s performance in the freakishly great 1989 cult classic Vampire’s Kiss transcends language and exposes the limitations of human vocabulary, entering a space sometimes rationalised with the defeatist turn of phrase: “there are no words”.
ref: 2022 August 23, Luke Buckmaster, “Vampire’s Kiss: Nicolas Cage is unforgettable in this freakishly great cult classic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a freakish manner.
Derived terms: unfreakishly
frenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frenetically
form: most frenetically
Etymology: From frenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a frenetic manner
frenziedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frenziedly
form: most frenziedly
form: phrenziedly
Etymology: From frenzied + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frenzied manner.
friskily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more friskily
form: most friskily
Etymology: From frisky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a frisky manner
frivolously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frivolously
form: most frivolously
Etymology: From frivolous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frivolous manner
frontally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frontally
form: most frontally
Etymology: From frontal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: when the lesbian and gay movement addresses class issues frontally
ref: 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18:
glosses: In a frontal manner
Derived terms: abfrontally
bifrontally
midfrontally
frostily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɔs.tɪ.li/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒs.tɪ.li/
Forms: form: more frostily
form: most frostily
Etymology: From frosty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They're of the generation that believes that steak houses should be dimly lit and frostily chilled (hell, they actually believe in steak houses).
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: In a frosty manner.
frowzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frowzily
form: most frowzily
Etymology: From frowzy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frowzy manner
frugally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frugally
form: most frugally
Etymology: From frugal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When they are at work they live most frugally, denying themselves every comfort and luxury till they have made a "pile."
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192:
glosses: In a frugal manner.
fruitlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fruitlessly
form: most fruitlessly
Etymology: From fruitless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Few political careers start when people are in their 70s, but Hendy is actually relishing it, although he is incensed sometimes by the pointlessness of the posturing by the opposition, which keeps him up late. "The bit I don't like is getting home at 0100 or 0200 in the morning because the opposition have been fruitlessly arguing for a long time."
ref: 2025 October 1, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister at the heart of rail reform”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 35:
glosses: In a fruitless manner.
frustratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frustratingly
form: most frustratingly
Etymology: From frustrating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frustrating manner; in a manner that causes frustration.
Related terms: frustratedly
fulsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfʊlsəmli/
Forms: form: more fulsomely
form: most fulsomely
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fulsomly; equivalent to fulsome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The traditional format produced more lively hearings -- with justices often interrupting each other -- and advocates unable to always respond fulsomely.
ref: 2021, Ariane de Vogue, SCOTUS revises oral argument format ahead of blockbuster term, in: CNN Online, September 21 2021
glosses: In a fulsome manner
fumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fumblingly
form: most fumblingly
Etymology: From fumbling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fumblingly she groped and groped, till the burning blood gushed from her nose and mouth; then, mercifully, her tired senses swooned, and she fell with her head resting on the tree.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 299:
glosses: In a fumbling manner; while fumbling.
funereally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more funereally
form: most funereally
Etymology: From funereal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We crawled funereally up the 1 in 100 to Blisworth and reduced speed to not more than 5 m.p.h. round the curve, [...].
ref: 1962 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 41:
glosses: In a funereal manner.
fussily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fussily
form: most fussily
Etymology: From fussy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
ref: 1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41:
text: There's actually not much to see. Tooth-billeds don't build elaborate structures, merely scratching out a space on the rainforest floor that they decorate fussily with soft green leaves.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 212:
glosses: In a fussy manner.
futilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfju.təl.li/
ipa: /ˈfju.tə.li/
ipa: /ˈfju.taɪl.li/
Forms: form: more futilely
form: most futilely
Etymology: From futile + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress.
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC:
glosses: In a futile manner.
fuzzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fuzzily
form: most fuzzily
Etymology: From fuzzy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His view of the world goes into grainy black and white, much brighter than it was before. Here and there, certain objects glow fuzzily in pink or red.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 387:
glosses: In a fuzzy manner.
bananaquit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bananaquits
Etymology: From banana + quit (“small passerine bird”).
Senses: examples: text: Consider an example involving the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), a common land bird in Central and South America and on several Caribbean islands (Seutin et al., 1994).
ref: 2000, John C. Avise, Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species, page 270:
text: Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Waldbauer, What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life, page 140:
text: It had been weeks since Valerie had been outside on the patio, weeks since Ana had left out sugar water for the hummingbirds and bananaquits, who still continued to flutter around the empty feeders ever hopeful that their easy nectar would return.
ref: 2010, LeAnn Neal Reilly, The Mermaid's Pendant, page 490:
glosses: A nectar-feeding bird, Coereba flaveola, thought to be related to the Darwin's finches and the grassquits.
high yaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high yallers
Senses: glosses: A light-skinned black person.
Synonyms: high yellow
sapadilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapadillas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapodilla.
potter's clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potter's clays
Senses: glosses: The clay used by a potter.
examples: text: I am the potter’s clay.
text: We are but potter’s clay.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person or people created and shaped by God.
examples: text: And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 2:41:
text: In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom.
ref: 1971. Old Testament, NASB Version, Daniel 2:41
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A nation or kingdom.
soucouyant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /suːkuːˈjɑ̃/
Forms: form: soucouyants
form: soucriant
Etymology: From West Indies Creole.
Senses: examples: text: 1986, Kenneth Ramchand, “Wayne Vincent Brown”, in Daryl Cumber Dance (ed.), Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 90,
We can notice, for example, that “Vampire” combines the folkloric soucouyant (blood-sucking old woman in the shape of a ball of fire), a science fiction creature (“clammy, from its bed of hairs / And thirsty” [p. 24]), the moon again (Brown’s poems are obsessed by the moon); …
text: 2002, David E. Jones, Evil in Our Midst: A Chilling Glimpse of the World's Most Feared and Frightening Demons, Square One Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 133,
The Soucouyant is an evil fire, a kind of witch, that robes itself entirely in the skin of an old woman to hide its true identity from neighbors.
text: “The soucouyant is an old woman that sheds her skin,” Beth said. “She flies out of her house and looks for human blood. When she finds it, she changes into an animal of some kind and sucks the blood away.”
ref: 2003, Ken Douglas, Jack Stewart, Diamond Sky, Bootleg Press, →ISBN, page 110:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
coordinate_terms: loogaroo
jumbie
glosses: A night witch who sucks people's blood, sheds her skin, and can transform into a fireball and fly.
Related terms: loogaroo
shaddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃadək/
ipa: /ˈʃædək/
Forms: form: shaddocks
form: shattuck
form: shaddoc
form: shadock
form: chaddock
form: chadock
Etymology: A clipping of earlier shaddock-tree. Popularly claimed to be from a "Captain Shaddock" of the British East India Company who introduced its seeds to Barbados from Southeast Asia. However, there are various historical problems concerning this lore, mainly pertaining to records of the purported seaman's surname; for one thorough review see this article by Shattocke Family history here (nota bene: Dead link. Try similar substitute page). Compare etymology of shrapnel, veritably also from a British officer's surname.
The surname itself is of Old English origin; probably from or related to Chaddock at Lancashire, an estate in the township of Tyldesley, in the parish of Leigh (see Chaddock Hall). The second particle may be descended from the diminutive suffix -ock, but it is more likely ultimately cognate with English oak. However, Shaddock is an attested old variant of the name Chadwick and it may simply be from that.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth Millar had five acres under shaddocks, callaloo, peppers and calabash.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 302:
glosses: Synonym of pomelo, in all its senses including (inexact) grapefruit.
synonyms: word: pomelo
extra: (inexact) grapefruit
word: in all its senses including
extra: (inexact) grapefruit
wikipedia: Barbados
Chaddock Hall
East India Company
Derived terms: word: shaddock-tree
word: shaddock orange
word: shaddock-bower
word: shaddock-frail
word: shaddock-stock
potters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑtɚz/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of potter
club drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club drugs
Senses: synonyms: rave drug
coordinate_terms: party pill
hypernyms: recreational drug
glosses: Any recreational drug commonly associated with nightclubs and raves or the clubgoing culture in general.
club drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of club drug
gamma-hydroxybutyric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma-hydroxybutyric acids
form: GHB
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A naturally-occurring biochemical of uncertain function; sometimes used as a recreational drug.
exenteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛksɛntəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: exenterations
Etymology: From Latin exenterare.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
examples: text: How to keep the corps seven dayes from corruption by anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choisest practise.
ref: 1658. Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 27
glosses: The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.
flabbergast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːst/
enpr: flăb′ər-găst'
ipa: /ˈflæbɚˌɡæst/
Forms: form: flabbergasts
Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; possibly dialectal (Suffolk), from flabby or flap (“to strike”) + aghast. The word may be related to Scottish flabrigast (“to boast”) or flabrigastit (“worn out with exertion”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: word: dork
word: dweeb
word: geek
word: dork
word: flabbergast
word: flabagast
word: flabaghast
word: gink
word: nerd
word: Nigel
word: nosebleed
glosses: An awkward person.
examples: text: His flabbergast was so great he couldn’t even come up with a plausible answer.
text: Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.
ref: 1852 October, “Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”, in Yankee Notions, volume 2, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, […], →OCLC, page 297:
text: Then quit your flabbergast, and talk in plain English.
ref: 1868 February 22, Oliver Optic [pseudonym; William Taylor Adams], “Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World”, in Oliver Optic, editor, Oliver Optic’s Magazine. Our Boys and Girls, volume III, number 60, Boston, Mass.: Published by Lee and Shepard, […], →OCLC, chapter XVI (Pistols for Two), page 117, column 2:
text: Bob's big-eyed flabbergast struck him as comic and he laughed and said, "Lying sack, hey?"
ref: 1998, James Carlos Blake, Red Grass River: A Legend, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN; 1st Perennial edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2000, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: word: astonishment
word: astoundedness
word: awe
word: dumbfoundedness
word: flabbergaster
word: flabbergastation
word: flabbergastment
word: stupefaction
word: bafflement
word: bemusement
word: bewilderment
word: confusion
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergastation
word: flabbergastment
word: misunderstanding
word: muddle
word: mix-up
word: noncomputation
word: quagmire
word: amazement
word: astonishment
word: awe
word: bewilderment
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergastation
word: flabbergastment
word: shock
word: stupefaction
word: surprise
glosses: Overwhelming confusion, shock, or surprise.
flyby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪˌbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪbaɪ
Forms: form: flybys
form: fly-by
Etymology: From fly + by.
Senses: examples: text: The upcoming flyby of Halley's comet is expected to provide new information on the nature of the comet.
text: Farthest from the dim red dwarf Ondeste, the ice dwarf Maisuth has attracted no interest beyond a cursory flyby by automated probe in 1874. No significant resources were noted.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maisuth, Ondeste System:
glosses: A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.
examples: text: Two of your snot-nose jockeys did a fly-by on my tower at over 400 knots!
ref: 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Air Boss Johnson:
synonyms: word: flypast
word: flyover
glosses: A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.
glosses: A brief visit.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailby performed by a hydrofoil vessel while hydrofoiling.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional animated sequence in which the camera moves past an object or scenery.
Derived terms: flyby anomaly
post-flyby
Related terms: driveby
run by
sailby
fly-through
flypast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flypasts
Etymology: From fly + past.
Senses: examples: text: An impromptu flypast by the Red Arrows finished off the special event in style.
ref: 2021 September 22, “News in pictures: Red Arrows add to gala success”, in RAIL, number 940, page 29:
glosses: A low-level flight of a ceremonial nature; a flyover (US)
Related terms: sailpast
flyover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyovers
form: fly-over
Etymology: Deverbal from fly over.
Senses: glosses: A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British).
examples: text: They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.
ref: 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
text: As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:
text: The sales of toy motor-cars were enormous, and not only are there cars, there are all the accessories to go with them. In 1960 there were road sections with flyovers and banked corners on which sports and saloons could whizz along at a speed of 250 m.p.h, which apparently was a real speed of from six to seven miles per hour.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 89:
synonyms: overpass
antonyms: underpass
flyunder
glosses: A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.
glosses: A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.
examples: text: Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place.
ref: 2018 September 26, Carson Vaughan, “'Boom Town' Explodes the Notion of ‘Flyover’ Territory”, in The Atlantic:
text: If Democrats end up flipping state houses in places Trump won in 2016, they will have proved themselves capable of winning in the places coastal elites derisively refer to as “flyover America.”
ref: 2018 October 30, Rahm Emanuel, “The Biggest Story of the Midterms Is One the Democrats Aren’t Telling”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Middle America, noncoastal America.
Derived terms: flyover country
flyover state
Related terms: overflight
overfly
genomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gene + -omics or genome + -ics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: genetics
glosses: The study of the complete genome of an organism.
Hyponyms: allogenomics
archaeogenomics
cardiogenomics
chemical genomics
chemogenomics
clinicogenomics
cytogenomics
ecogenomics
epigenomics
functional genomics
geogenomics
glycogenomics
histogenomics
immunogenomics
macrogenomics
megagenomics
metabogenomics
metabologenomics
metagenomics
microgenomics
mycogenomics
neurogenomics
nutrigenomics
oncogenomics
palaeogenomics
paleogenomics
pangenomics
pathogenomics
peptidogenomics
pharmacogenomics
phenogenomics
phylogenomics
postgenomics
proteogenomics
psychogenomics
radiogenomics
sociogenomics
subgenomics
taxonogenomics
toxicogenomics
virogenomics
Derived terms: allogenomics
archaeogenomics
cardiogenomics
chemical genomics
chemogenomics
clinicogenomics
cytogenomics
ecogenomics
epigenomics
functional genomics
geogenomics
glycogenomics
histogenomics
immunogenomics
macrogenomics
megagenomics
metabogenomics
metabologenomics
metagenomics
microgenomics
mycogenomics
neurogenomics
nutrigenomics
oncogenomics
palaeogenomics
paleogenomics
pangenomics
pathogenomics
peptidogenomics
pharmacogenomics
phenogenomics
phylogenomics
postgenomics
proteogenomics
psychogenomics
radiogenomics
sociogenomics
subgenomics
taxonogenomics
toxicogenomics
virogenomics
Related terms: word: genomic
bag for life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪf
Forms: form: bags for life
Senses: glosses: A reusable shopping bag, especially one that the retailer commits to replacing when it wears out.
shopping bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopping bags
Senses: hyponyms: grocery bag
glosses: A strong bag with handles used to put purchases in; usually made of plastic, paper or fabric, sometimes given away with a purchase.
Derived terms: shopping-bag lady
two-stroke engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-stroke engines
Senses: coordinate_terms: four-stroke engine
glosses: An engine that operates on the two-stroke principle.
four-stroke engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-stroke engines
Senses: coordinate_terms: two-stroke engine
glosses: An engine that operates on the four-stroke principle.
engine displacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine displacements
Senses: examples: text: (a)(1) Engine displacement shall be calculated using nominal engine values and rounded to the nearest whole cubic centimetre, in accordance with ASTM E 29-67.
ref: 2003, Code of Federal Regulations, volume 40: Protection of the Environment, Office of the Federal Register, page 630:
glosses: The total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle.
regimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regimental
form: most regimental
Etymology: From regiment + -al.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Relating to a regiment
glosses: Overly strict; rigid
Derived terms: regimental sergeant major
subdirectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdirectories
Etymology: From sub- + directory.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: subfolder
glosses: A directory located inside another directory.
Hypernyms: directory
perversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/
Forms: form: perversities
Etymology: From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.
Senses: examples: text: Hey kids, the word of the week is "pupaphobia"! Others may enjoy being frightened by chainsaw-wielding maniacs and cannibal clowns, but my Halloween is never complete without a murderous Muppet or two. Thankfully, a pair of events last Friday the 13th provided a perfect double feature of puppet perversity.
ref: 2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando Weekly:
glosses: The quality of being perverse.
examples: text: More generally, for the ULD property to hold, the substitution effects (which are always well behaved) must be large enough to overcome possible “perversities” coming from the wealth effects.
ref: 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 112:
text: “Of all this world's perversities, there is only one I cannot abide: the kink-shame. I'm off!” “You can't walk out! I'm walking out!”
ref: 2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (11:26 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Shlub (Matt Berry):
glosses: Something which is perverse.
Derived terms: diversity is perversity
polymorphous perversity
pardonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː(ɹ)dənəbəl/
Forms: form: more pardonable
form: most pardonable
Etymology: Back-formation from unpardonable, equivalent to pardon + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps they set out to do too much, a more pardonable offence than doing too little.
ref: 1951 July, “Notes and News: Recalling 160 Years”, in Railway Magazine, page 492:
synonyms: forgivable
excusable
venial
glosses: Capable of being pardoned; worthy of pardon.
Derived terms: pardonableness
pardonably
pasteboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasteboards
Etymology: From paste + board.
Senses: examples: text: All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
text: He handed Larry two slips of pasteboard, theater tickets, as was evident at first glance.
ref: 1912, Howard Roger Garis, Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy:
text: To many, a railway ticket is but an uninteresting bit of pasteboard, which must be purchased before a journey is undertaken, and once obtained, may be stowed away in a convenient pocket and forgotten, until a watchful railway official requests its production.
ref: 1939 November, R. S. Tayler, “A Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
glosses: Card stock.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.
examples: text: “We shall only have to leave our pasteboards, Arthur.” He used the word ‘pasteboards,’ having heard it from some of the ingenuous youth of the nobility about town, and as a modern phrase suited to Pen’s tender years.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: […] he no sooner learnt that the British officer in command had sent in his pasteboard, than he instantly returned the visit […]
ref: 1860, William Johnson Neale, Paul Periwinkle: Or, The Pressgang, page 18:
text: Peter called on the Pierces, only to find them out, and as no notice was taken of his pasteboard, he drew his own inference, and did not repeat the visit.
ref: 1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him, page 47:
glosses: A person's visiting card.
Derived terms: pasteboardy
pasteboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paste + board.
Senses: examples: text: A poor, pasteboard story. The conventional, unattractive heroine is recovering from an illness in Rome. She is discontented and sorry for herself because her planned career as a sports mistress has now to be abandoned.
ref: 1955, The Junior Bookshelf, volume 19, page 241:
glosses: unsubstantial; flimsy
fluency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːənsi/
Forms: form: fluencies
Etymology: From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence.
Senses: examples: text: She has fluency, nobility, / Elegance and symmetry, / Stability, fluidity, / Like poetry in motion.
ref: 1996, Vera Morris, Bill Francoeur, A Little Princess: The Musical: Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “Sara Crewe”, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 4:
glosses: The quality of smoothness of flow.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being fluent in a language; a person's command of a particular language.
examples: text: While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes
Derived terms: disfluency
dysfluency
nonfluency
overfluency
wildfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildfire
snaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sneɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snake
amplifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.plə.faɪ.əz/
ipa: /ˈæm.plə.faɪ.əɹz/
ipa: /ˈæm.plə.faɪɹz/
Senses: glosses: plural of amplifier
blaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blarings
Senses: examples: text: […] they do not heed the noisy blarings of those who proclaim the great sin of their apostacy.
ref: 1829, William Pitt Scargill, Tales of a Briefless Barrister, volume 1, page 280:
glosses: Any loud noise, such as from an elephant.
blaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blare
civil rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil right
Senses: glosses: The rights that can reasonably be expected by any citizen.
examples: text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
glosses: Those rights which are guaranteed protection by the US Constitution and are considered to be unquestionable, deserved by all people under all circumstances, especially without regard to race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and disability.
Derived terms: civil rightist
civil rights movement
Related terms: absolute right
civil liberties
fundamental right
human right
natural right
neuroright
persistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɪst(ə)nsi/
Forms: form: persistencies
Senses: examples: text: By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]
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 II, scene ii]:
text: On entering her room he had been struck by the absence of that saucy independence usually apparent in her bearing towards him, notwithstanding the persistency with which he had hovered near her for the previous month.
ref: 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter V, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the fourth (Somerset, Dare and De Stancy), page 267:
text: However that may be, the hostility of the comic writers had evidently a general hostility behind it. Our tradition states this definitely and the persistency of the attacks proves it.
ref: 1913, Gilbert Murray, Euripides and His Age, Chapter II:
text: "I'm not into mood changes," he says. "These ups and downs undermine consistency and persistency of purpose."
ref: 2008 March 29, Ed Pilkington, “The white house losers”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 06 Jul 2014:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being persistent.
examples: text: The table shows that three-year "persistencies" range from 89.6 per cent with Standard Life (this means only 10 per cent of plans have lapsed after three years) to 58.9 per cent with Sun Life (almost 40 per cent of plans lapse after three years).
ref: 1998 March 28, John Chapman, “Pensions Investigated”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 06 Jul 2014:
glosses: A measure of how much something persists.
Synonyms: persistence
unsubstantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsubstantial
form: most unsubstantial
Etymology: From un- + substantial.
Senses: examples: text: What boots it, that my Fortune decks me thus / With unſubſtantial Plumes; when my Heart groans / Beneath the gay Capariſon, and Love / With unrequited Paſſion wounds my Soul!
ref: 1749, [Tobias George Smollett], The Regicide: Or, James the First, of Scotland. A Tragedy. […], London: […] [F]or the benefit of the author, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 37:
text: They are (said he) meer phantoms of ignorance and credulity, swelled up in the repetition, like those unsubstantial bubbles which the boys blow up in sopasuds with a tobacco pipe.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 89, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minute afterward he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: Psychoanalysis, the modern science of reading dreams, has taught us to take heed of these unsubstantial images.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8:
synonyms: word: airy
word: aery
word: ethereal
word: immaterial
word: insubstantial
word: tenuous
word: unreal
word: unsubstantial
glosses: Insubstantial.
playhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪhaʊs/
Forms: form: playhouses
Etymology: From Middle English *pleyhous, possibly continuing Old English pleġhūs (“playhouse, theatre”). By surface analysis, play + house. Compare Dutch speelhuis, German Spielhaus.
Senses: synonyms: theater
glosses: A venue for performing plays.
glosses: Alternative form of play house (“child's toy domestic dwelling”).
inefficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inefficiencies
Etymology: From in- + efficiency.
Senses: examples: text: Yet only 21 percent of adult TANF recipients are working today, largely because of these inefficiencies and loopholes.
ref: 2024 September 23, Sam Adolphsen, Paige Terryberry, “WITH REFORM, TANF CAN LIFT AMERICAN FAMILIES OUT OF DEPENDENCY”, in Foundation for Government Accountability, page 5:
text: “An organization’s reputational integrity is its greatest currency. When you compromise that, you have lost the loyalty and trust of your employees,” Wahler said. “His approach is going to increase inefficiency by creating an environment marked by instability, a lack of trust and divisiveness.”
ref: 2025 February 27, Jeanne Sahadi, “DOGE’s heavy-handed approach is not likely to make the government more efficient”, in CNN:
glosses: Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
untrodden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrodden
form: most untrodden
Etymology: From un- + trodden.
Senses: examples: text: Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342:
text: If he could only get away from the holes in the banks, he thought, there would be no more faces. He swung off the path and plunged into the untrodden places of the wood.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
text: Moreover the most becoming place for temples and altars he said to be that which, while being most visible, would be most untrodden; for it is pleasant for those who are undefiled to approach it.
ref: 1994, Xenophon, translated by Amy L. Bonnette, Memorabilia, page 93:
text: The upper layer of the soil is, therefore, less solid than in other trampled habitats and the optimum development of the community can only take place in the broader joints between paving stones in more untrodden places, often in strips of pavement at the foots^([sic]) of walls where the shifting sand accumulates and turbulent air currents may play an important role.
ref: 1969, S. Segal, Ecological Notes on Wall Vegetation, published 2013, page 252:
glosses: That has never been trod upon; unexplored, unspoiled.
glosses: Of a person: undefeated.
wrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrapt
form: most wrapt
Etymology: From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.
Senses: examples: text: Lo! where the ſtripling, wrapt in wonder, roves / Beneath the precipice o'erhung with pine; […]
ref: 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, London: […] E[dward] & C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 11:
glosses: Misspelling of rapt.
wrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The piano-forté, at which Marianne, wrapt up in her own music and her own thoughts, had by this time forgotten that any body was in the room besides herself, was luckily so near them that Miss Dashwood now judged, she might safely, under the shelter of its noise, introduce the interesting subject, without any risk of being heard at the card table.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: simple past and past participle of wrap
tragical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tragical
form: most tragical
Senses: examples: text: We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Fortunately the illness passed away without serious consequences; yet it seemed the first break in our festivities, and was followed by an event of a most tragical nature.
ref: 1898, Liliʻuokalani, “Kamehameha IV”, in Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shephard Publishers, page 18:
text: No statesman who has the least conception of responsibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragical and appalling outpouring of blood and treasure […]
ref: 1918, Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Joint Session of Congress on the Fourteen Points:
glosses: tragic
Derived terms: comico-tragical