cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
effervescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛfəˈvɛsənt/
ipa: /ˌɛfɚˈvɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more effervescent
form: most effervescent
Etymology: From French effervescent, from Latin effervēscō (“boil up”).
Senses: synonyms: word: bubbly
word: sparkling
word: ebullient
glosses: Giving off bubbles; fizzy.
raw_tags: of a liquid
examples: text: "It is rarely in human life," rejoined Douglas, "we realize the inimitable paintings our imaginations form, and less so during the effervescent period of youth. The bright impression glows upon the fancy, ravishes the mental view, but ere long vanishes, and leaves the prospect desolate and forlorn."
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 223:
text: The effervescent Suarez then went close again as he worked space for a shot after a mazy run but could not keep his close-range shot below the crossbar.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: lively
word: high-spirited
word: animated
word: ebullient
word: buoyant
word: abuzz
word: agile
word: airy
word: alive
word: animate
word: animated
word: brisk
word: busy
word: busy as a bee
word: buxom
word: buzzing
word: diligent
word: driven
word: driving
word: dynamic
word: eager
word: effervescent
word: energetic
word: enthusiastic
word: expeditious
word: frisky
word: gay
word: glowing
word: happy
word: hearty
word: impetuous
word: industrious
word: keen
word: kinetic
word: lively
word: merry
word: mobile
word: motivated
word: moving
word: nimble
word: peppy
word: perky
word: restive
word: snappy
word: spirited
word: sprightly
word: sprunt
word: spry
word: vibrant
word: vigorous
word: vivacious
word: vivid
word: zealous
word: zestful
word: zippy
glosses: Vivacious and enthusiastic.
Synonyms: word: abubble
word: bubblesome
word: bubbly
word: ebullient
word: effervescent
word: fizzy
word: foamy
word: frothy
word: gassy
word: sparkling
word: sparkly
word: spumescent
Hypernyms: word: fluidic
Hyponyms: word: bubblicious
word: carbonated
word: semisparkling
Derived terms: effervescently
effervescent tablet
ineffervescent
noneffervescent
uneffervescent
Related terms: effervesce
effervescence
effervescency
effervescible
effervescing
effervescive
unappreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappreciated
form: most unappreciated
Etymology: From un- + appreciated.
Senses: examples: text: Leaving on another Northern Class 195, I head for a trip along one of the UK's most unappreciated scenic lines - the Cumbrian coast.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 56:
glosses: Not deemed to have any value, valueless, worthless, not appreciated.
glosses: Not having risen in value
raw_tags: of an investment
unapproachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapproachable
form: most unapproachable
Etymology: From un- + approachable.
Senses: synonyms: inaccessible
glosses: Not accessible or able to be reached.
synonyms: word: reserved
word: standoffish
word: aloof
word: cool
word: distant
word: frosty
word: hankty
word: hard-to-get
word: offish
word: quiet
word: remote
word: reserved
word: standoffish
word: strange
word: thorny
word: touch-me-not-ish
word: unapproachable
word: unbending
word: undemonstrative
word: unimpressionable
word: uninvolved
glosses: Aloof and unfriendly.
examples: text: Jack Governor, always a man of wonderful resources, was Chief Cook, and made some of the best dishes I ever ate, including unapproachable curries.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
text: Often, I say, have I wavered in my faith as to the unapproachable beatitude of bachelorism, when dining out, for example, at a well-appointed marital menage.
ref: 1863, Secrets of My Office, by a Bill Broker, page 313:
glosses: Without any serious competition; unbeatable.
unarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈɑɹmd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
Etymology: From un- + armed.
Senses: glosses: Defenceless and lacking weapons.
glosses: Defenceless and lacking weapons.
Lacking both weapons and protective armour.
examples: text: An unarmed jellyfish would never capture prey.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not having thorns, claws, or other dangerous appendages.
examples: text: […] in order to see such Objects as are very remote, purblind Persons must make Use of concave Glasses, whose Radii are equal to the Distances at which they see distinctly with their unarmed Eyes.
ref: 1759, William Porterfield, A treatise on the eye, the manner and phaenomena of vision:
glosses: Unaided, as of the vision without a glass.
Related terms: armless
unashamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmd/
Etymology: From un- + ashamed.
Senses: examples: text: And smiling as a Master smiles at one / That is not of his school, nor any school / But that where blind and naked Ignorance / Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, / On all things all day long ; he answer’d her.
ref: 1862, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Vivien”, in The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, page 266:
text: "How else shall we go back unashamed to our women?"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: There is a similarity between the dynamics of the streets of New York and the dynamics of a Latin American plaza. Menendez suggests that they both capture a fascination with fashion, the appreciation for that which is done merely for effect, its unashamed desire to squander it all.
ref: 1990 September 1, Norma Romano-Benner, “Shaping the ’90s”, in Americas:
text: Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
glosses: feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
unassuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnəˈsjuːmɪŋ/
ipa: /ʌnəˈsuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Forms: form: more unassuming
form: most unassuming
Etymology: From un- + assuming.
Senses: examples: text: Various bridges were required, including a lofty one at Brantham, but money was saved by providing unassuming structures at the three intermediate stations.
ref: 1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
text: The crews themselves throughout were an interesting study. The drivers, as older men, bore that air of quite unassuming competence, as British drivers have always done and which in any field has come to be regarded as characteristic of men bearing heavy responsibility to which at the same time they are equal.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 84:
glosses: Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.
unattractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more unattractive
form: most unattractive
Etymology: From un- + attractive.
Senses: examples: text: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
glosses: Not handsome or beautiful or appealing.
examples: text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
text: In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
text: In light of the similarities of this word to siṡáya etc. and their close semantic proximity, it is unattractive to separate these two words.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 192:
glosses: Lacking the power to attract interest.
unattractive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: unattractives
Etymology: From un- + attractive.
Senses: glosses: An aesthetically unattractive person
unattractiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unattractive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ugliness.
synonyms: word: ugliness
unauthorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unauthorised
Etymology: From un- + authorized.
Senses: glosses: Not having any authority.
examples: text: The dangers of scofflawry vary wildly. The person who illegally spits on the sidewalk remains disgusting, but clearly poses less risk to others than the company that illegally buries hazardous chemical waste in an unauthorized location.
ref: 1983 January 24, Frank Trippett, “Essay: A Red Light for Scofflaws”, in Time:
glosses: Without official authorization.
Derived terms: unauthorized term
unavoidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/
Forms: form: more unavoidable
form: most unavoidable
Etymology: From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
Senses: examples: text: an unavoidable urge
glosses: Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
examples: text: A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
Synonyms: sense: impossible to avoid
word: inescapable
sense: impossible to avoid
word: inevitable
unavoidable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/
Forms: form: unavoidables
Etymology: From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
Senses: examples: text: Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least[…]
ref: 1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490:
glosses: Something that cannot be avoided.
unbaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + baked.
Senses: glosses: Not baked or cooked.
Related terms: half baked
half baked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more half baked
form: most half baked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-baked.
teddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: teddies
form: teddys
Etymology: See teddy bear.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of teddy bear.
glosses: Any stuffed toy.
teddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: teddies
Etymology: Possibly named after a German-American designer, Theodore Baer.
Senses: examples: text: Silk teddies and negligées up front, knickers fanned out on tables in the centre, bras hanging in the back - there are no minutes lost finding your bearings.
ref: 2003, Michelle Lee, The Observer, 4 May 03:
synonyms: body
camiknickers
glosses: A type of all-in-one women's undergarment.
matt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matt
form: most matt
Senses: examples: text: Outside the sky was low and hard and cold, with a matt texture I recognized from when I'd lived around here.
ref: 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: Alternative spelling of matte.
matt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matts
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of mat (“an alloy in coppersmithing”).
glosses: Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”).
Derived terms: mattify
matt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: matts
form: matting
form: matted
form: matted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”).
picaninny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picaninnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pickaninny.
roam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōm
ipa: /ɹəʊm/
enpr: rōm
ipa: /ɹoʊm/
homophone: Rome
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: roams
Etymology: From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.
Senses: examples: text: Glass in hand, he set off on a roam of the first floor.
ref: 2017, Rick Maloy, Evenings and Mournings:
glosses: The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination
pickney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickneys
Etymology: From pickaninny.
Senses: examples: text: And he tell my father about country and where he can go and he can take him pickney with him and when he say pickney I shake but nobody know that me under the cover.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 13:
glosses: A child.
peccadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛ.kəˈdɪ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɛ.kəˈdɪ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -ɪləʊ
Forms: form: peccadillos
form: peccadilloes
Etymology: From Spanish pecadillo, diminutive form of pecado (“sin”), from Latin peccatum (“sin, error, fault”), from peccō (“I sin, offend”).
Senses: examples: text: We tolerate Irene and Phil’s mild racist quirks and planet-destroying peccadilloes (“I could never own any car smaller than my Cutlass Supreme”) because their existence acts as a tranquilizer in an otherwise slightly-out-of-control world.
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 112:
text: The sex scandal issue isn’t really central, since Americans have a long record of voting for the candidates they think can deliver, regardless of private peccadilloes.
ref: 2016 May 19, Gail Collins, “Subtract One Clinton”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A small flaw or sin.
examples: text: When he comes to the prayer, he sometimes does me the honor of personally recommending me to the Lord, advising him that I am a worthy man and begging him to condone my occasional peccadillos.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 106:
text: No sexual peccadillo is left unremarked upon.
ref: 2019, John O’Connell, chapter 56, in Bowie's Bookshelf, →ISBN:
synonyms: veniality
glosses: A petty offense.
zij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zijes
Etymology: From Middle Persian zīg (literally “cord”).
Senses: examples: text: Zijes are comprised of a set of canons and a set of tables. These tables can be grouped as follows: calendar conversions; mean motions; solar, lunar, and planetary equations; trigonometry and spherical astronomy; planetary latitudes, visibilities, and retrogradations; lunar visibility; precession or trepidation; solar and lunar eclipses; astrological tables; geographical coordinates; and star lists. Some zijes may not have had all these items, and others may have had [more]. In particular, planetary velocity tables appear in only [those] that derive from the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib.
ref: 2003, José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein, “Astronomical Commentary”, in The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An Islamic book that tabulates parameters used for various astronomical events and movements.
unbalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbalanced
form: most unbalanced
Etymology: From un- + balanced.
Senses: synonyms: out of whack
lopsided
ill-disposed
unstable
imbalanced
inbalanced
glosses: not balanced, without equilibrium
glosses: irrational or mentally deranged
glosses: expressing support for a certain point of view; biased
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other
unbalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + balanced.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbalance
unbearable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbearable
form: most unbearable
Etymology: From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
Senses: examples: text: The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
glosses: So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
Synonyms: insufferable
unsupportable
homoscedasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊməʊskɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/
ipa: /hoʊmoʊsɪdæsˈtɪsɪti/
Forms: form: homoscedasticities
form: homoskedasticity
Etymology: From homo- + scedasticity.
Senses: examples: text: Before analysis, homoscedasticities of sample variances were assessed by Cochran's C and Bartlett's Box tests.
ref: 1989, AW Storey, “The freshwater mussel, Westralunio carteri Iredale, as a biological monitor of organochlorine pesticides”, in Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 40, number 6, page 587:
text: Unlike OLS^([Ordinary Least Squares]) regression, logistic regression does not assume linearity of relationship between dependent and independent variables; does not require normally distributed variables; does not assume homoscedasticity; and in general has less stringent requirements.
ref: 2010, Min Gyo Koo, Island Disputes and Maritime Regime Building in East Asia, footnote, page 46:
text: Preliminarily, the weak homoscedasticity of the two classes has been tested:[…].
ref: 2010, Francesca Greselin, Salvatore Ingrassia, “Weakly Homoscedastic Constraints for Mixtures of t-Distributions”, in Andreas Fink, Berthold Lausen, Wilfried Seidel, Alfred Ultsch, editors, Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence, Springer, page 225:
text: Thus, Glejser's test also rejects the hypothesis of homoscedasticity.
ref: 2013, Chandan Mukherjee, Howard White, Marc Wuyts, Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries, page 264:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A property of a set of random variables such that each variable has the same finite variance.
Related terms: homoscedastic
unbecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/
Forms: form: more unbecoming
form: most unbecoming
Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing
Senses: examples: text: She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.
text: A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25:
text: With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
text: ― Lily: “Don’t stare so much. It’s unbecoming. It makes you look like a country bumpkin.”
ref: 2017 July 12, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 7, Chapter 7, Part 2:
text: Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.
examples: text: He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
text: No proceedings in respect of unbecoming conduct shall be taken in respect of the lawful political opinions or activities of any bishop, priest or deacon.
ref: 2003, General Synod of the Church of England, “Section 8(3)”, in Clergy Discipline Measure 2003, page 4:
text: “You must be able to smell it too, Chloe. That smell of . . . Well, I’m not going to say what it reminds me of, that would be impolite and unbecoming of a woman of my class and distinction, but it’s a bad smell.”
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: [Prince Andrew:] Do I regret the fact that he [Jeff Epstein] has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming? Yes.
 [Emily Maitlis]: Unbecoming? He was a sex offender.
 [Prince Andrew:] Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm being polite.
ref: 2019 November 17, 48:00, in Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, BBC Newsnight:
glosses: Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
Synonyms: unsuitable
unfit
indecent
indecorous
improper
Related terms: unbecomingly
unbecomingness
unbecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/
Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbecome
unbecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/
Forms: form: unbecomings
Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing
Senses: examples: text: By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
ref: 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living:
glosses: The process by which something unbecomes.
unbelievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnbəˈliːvəbl̩/
Forms: form: more unbelievable
form: unbelievabler
form: most unbelievable
form: unbelievablest
Etymology: From un- + believable.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Come on, girls,’ said Steve, ‘be honest, we won.’ / ‘Yeah,’ said Raymond, ‘we let you off because you’re girls.’ / ‘You’re unbelievable,’ said Liz. / ‘Well, if we’re unbelievable,’ said Steve, ‘then you’re unbelievabler.’
ref: 1996, Colin Thompson, “Four Pigeons”, in Venus the Caterpillar and Further Wild Stories, London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 24:
synonyms: beyond belief
incredible
noncredible
antonyms: believable
credible
glosses: Not to be believed.
examples: text: The most unbelievable thing happened to me today!
text: This restaurant makes unbelievable pizza!
text: Whether you want the unbelievablest sheer of chiffon . . . or the most durable of service weight . . . I’ve concluded, after a round of looking, that these stores give you a real money’s worth!
ref: 1932 February 6, Virginia Chumley, “Visits with Virginia”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XLIV, number 189, Chattanooga, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 6:
text: In other words—join the gpo and hear the world; have fun; talk to the wildest, craziest, simply unbelievablest people.
ref: 1967, New Society, volume 9, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 680, column 1:
text: The unbelievablest (to coin a word) thing about this animation is the fact that it is generated in real time, like a video game!
ref: 2010 March 9, Emily Lakdawalla, “Unbelievably spectacular flight through Candor Chasma”, in The Planetary Society, Pasadena, Calif., archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
synonyms: incredible
glosses: Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe.
examples: text: His excuse seems rather unbelievable.
synonyms: improbable
infeasible
unlikely
antonyms: feasible
likely
plausible
probable
glosses: Implausible or improbable.
Derived terms: superunbelievable
unbelievably
Related terms: belief
believe
potentate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.tən.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.tən.teɪt/
Forms: form: potentates
Etymology: From Middle English potentat, from Old French, from Late Latin potentātus (“rule, political power”), from Latin potēns (“powerful, strong”), the active present participle of possum (“I am able”).
Senses: examples: text: But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die,
For that's the end of humane miſerie.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.
ref: 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
text: Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 269:
glosses: A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
glosses: A powerful polity or institution.
glosses: A self-important person.
examples: text: "Those foreigners," thought the female potentate of the Sun, "won't know what to order; but I'll show them what a good supper is."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 194:
glosses: Someone acting in an important role.
Related terms: potence
potency
potent
potential
potentiality
potentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.tən.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.tən.teɪt/
Forms: form: more potentate
form: most potentate
Etymology: From Middle English potentat, from Old French, from Late Latin potentātus (“rule, political power”), from Latin potēns (“powerful, strong”), the active present participle of possum (“I am able”).
Senses: glosses: Regnant, powerful, dominant.
cut to the chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts to the chase
form: cutting to the chase
form: cut to the chase
form: cut to the chase
Etymology: From cinema usage: to cut (edit a film) so as to get to the exciting part.
Also, preceded by Chaucer c.1400, "The Wife of Bath's Tale"- "And shortly forth this tale for to chace" (To cut a long story short).
Senses: examples: text: We don't have much time here. Could you cut to the chase?
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I don't like to play games, the whole wait three days to text you, flirt with other women in front of you. It's exhausting. Let's just cut to the chase. We're in love with each other.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
glosses: To get to the point; to get on with it; to state something directly.
Synonyms: word: cut to Hecuba
word: get on with it
word: get to the point
Related terms: cut to the quick
get to the fireworks factory
small talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-talk
form: smalltalk
Senses: examples: text: [T]o the credit of the lady it may be added, that […] without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 134:
text: If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.
ref: 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, Misunderstood:
text: Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob.
ref: 2009 June 10, John Cloud, “Michael Jackson 1958–2009”, in Time:
glosses: Idle conversation, typically regarding innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness.
Synonyms: sense: idle conversation
word: chit-chat
word: pleasantries
word: foretalk
english: meaningless types
translation: meaningless types
word: chatter
Derived terms: Smalltalk
small-talker
Related terms: big talk
happy talk
flank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: flanks
form: flanking
form: flanked
form: flanked
form: flanck
Etymology: From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
Senses: glosses: To attack the flank(s) of.
glosses: To defend the flank(s) of.
examples: text: Stately colonnades are flank'd with trees.
ref: c. 1728, Christopher Pitt, Epistle to Mr. Spence:
text: [...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Express Travel on Slow Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:
text: It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.
ref: 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:
glosses: To place to the side(s) of.
glosses: To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
Synonyms: straddle
Derived terms: flankable
outflank
flank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: flanks
form: flanck
Etymology: From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
Senses: examples: Holonym: side
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: latus
coordinate_terms: loin
glosses: The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
examples: text: Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
glosses: The side of something, in general senses.
examples: I took the quarter I found and hid in my right flank.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Either of the two pockets located on the seat of a pair of pants.
examples: Ford survived a primary challenge in 1976 from the right flank of the Republican Party by Ronald Reagan.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An ideological faction within a political party.
glosses: The outermost strip of a road.
examples: text: The hosts also had Paul Robinson to thank for a string of saves, three of them coming against Jerome Thomas, who gave Michel Salgado a torrid time down the left flank.
ref: 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The wing, one side of the pitch.
glosses: That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: side
sense: side of formation
word: wing
Derived terms: word: flank eruption
word: flank speed
word: flankwise
sense: flesh between the last rib and the hip
word: flank steak
word: oblique flank
flank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: flanck
Etymology: From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
Senses: examples: text: All ahead flank!
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack.
raw_tags: of speed
politeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlaɪtnəs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /pəˈləɪʔnəs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /pəˈlo̞ɪʔnəs/
Forms: form: politenesses
Etymology: From polite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being polite.
examples: text: These politenesses left Miss Marley floundering for initiative, holding Jasper and being solemnly inspected by Podson, who clearly depended on her the convention of an afternoon call.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: A polite act.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being polite
word: civility
sense: quality of being polite
word: courtesy
sense: quality of being polite
word: courtliness
sense: quality of being polite
word: etiquette
sense: quality of being polite
word: grace
sense: an act of being polite
word: civility
sense: an act of being polite
word: courtesy
Derived terms: superpoliteness
barefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɹfʊt/
ipa: /ˈbɛəfʊt/
ipa: /ˈbɑːɹfʊt/
ipa: /ˈbæɹfʊt/
Etymology: From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).
Senses: examples: text: After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
text: [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9, column 1:
text: It was firm enough to walk on, but Bradly took off his boots to preserve the leather from sea-water, and for the pleasure of barefoot walking on cool sand.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: Wearing nothing on the feet.
glosses: Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.
qualifier: CB radio
glosses: Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
Synonyms: barefooted
discalced
shoeless
unshod
unshoed
Derived terms: barefoot and pregnant
barefoot doctor
barefooter
barefooting
barefoot shoe
pregnant and barefoot
Related terms: barefooted
bare-footen
barefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɹfʊt/
ipa: /ˈbɛəfʊt/
ipa: /ˈbɑːɹfʊt/
ipa: /ˈbæɹfʊt/
Etymology: From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).
Senses: examples: text: She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.
text: Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.
ref: 2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:
glosses: Wearing nothing on the feet.
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
Derived terms: run barefoot through
the shoemaker's children go barefoot
soliloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: səlĭlʹəkwē
ipa: /səˈlɪləkwi/
Forms: form: soliloquies
Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.
text: Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare.
ref: 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, J.M. Dent & Co, London, Chapter XII: Watching Blackbirds, Nightingales, Sand-martins, etc., page 315:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
coordinate_terms: aside
glosses: The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
examples: text: The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135:
text: Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
synonyms: monologue
antonyms: colloquy
dialogue
dialog
glosses: A speech or written discourse in this form.
Hypernyms: locution
oration
Derived terms: soliloqual
soliloquist
soliloquize
Related terms: word: solo
word: solitude
english: see other terms on same loquor root
translation: see other terms on same loquor root
word: locution
word: apostrophe
word: stage whisper
soliloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: səlĭlʹəkwē
ipa: /səˈlɪləkwi/
Forms: form: soliloquies
form: soliloquying
form: soliloquing
form: soliloquied
form: soliloquied
Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).
Senses: glosses: To issue a soliloquy.
Synonyms: word: soliloquize
forensic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹɛn.zɪk/
ipa: /fəˈɹɛn.sɪk/
Forms: form: forensick
Etymology: From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”) + -ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”).
Senses: examples: text: In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
text: Fire investigators […] and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing], interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
ref: 1996 June 8, Bill Clinton, Weekly Presidential radio Address:
glosses: Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
examples: text: Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.
ref: 1851, Edward Shepherd Creasy, “Chapter V”, in The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World:
text: Mr. Philips’ incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 164:
glosses: Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.
examples: text: A forensic account of history
text: With forensic precision
text: It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held, […]
ref: 1885, Isaac N. Arnold, “Chapter VIII”, in The Life of Abraham Lincoln:
glosses: Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.
glosses: Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.
Synonyms: topics: legal
law
word: Related
topics: legal
law
word: appropriate for a court of law
sense: Related or used in debate and argumentation
word: rhetorical
Derived terms: antiforensic
bioforensic
cyberforensic
forensic accountancy
forensic accountant
forensic accounting
forensically
forensicate
forensic biology
forensic engineering
forensicist
forensic linguistics
forensic medicine
forensics
forensic science
paleoforensic
phytoforensic
unforensic
Related terms: forensal
forensical
forensive
prætor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prēʹtôr
ipa: /ˈpɹiːtɔː/
Forms: form: prætors
form: prætores
Senses: examples: text: “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:
text: Further, this Italia was reduced in size by Sulla (in 81), if not earlier. All the northern districts had at first been administered directly by the magistrates of the city of Rome, but now we find prætores or proprætores of Cisalpine Gaul, which had come to rank as a province, separated from the rest of the country by the Arno on the side of the Tyrrhenian sea by the little stream of the Rubicon which flows into the Adriatic between Ravenna and Rimini.
ref: 1997, Victor Chapot, E. A. Parker, The Roman World, page 89:
glosses: Alternative spelling of praetor.
fane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: feign
homophone: foehn
homophone: fain stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: fanes
form: faine
form: phane
Etymology: From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane.
Senses: examples: text: The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered.
ref: 1801, John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, page 541:
glosses: A weathercock, a weather vane.
examples: text: So fate fell-woven forward drave him,
and with malice Mordred his mind hardened,
saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly.
‘Let their fanes be felled and their fast places
bare and broken, burned their havens,
and isles immune from march of arms
or Roman reign now reek to heaven
in fires of vengeance! [I.18-25]
ref: c. 1935, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur, Harper Collins, London, published 2013, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A banner, especially a military banner.
darkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑɹki/
ipa: /ˈdɑːki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: darkeys
form: darky
form: darkie
Etymology: From dark + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: The windmill under the care of Mr. Kinney, a kind hearted old Englishman, was to me a source of infinite interest and pleasure. The old man always seemed pleased when he saw a troop of darkey little urchins, with their tow-linen shirts fluttering in the breeze, approaching to view and admire the whirling wings of his wondrous machine.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
text: Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master.
ref: 1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune
glosses: A person with dark skin.
glosses: A dark lantern.
Related terms: blackie