cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
freezing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːzɪŋ
Forms: form: freezings
Etymology: By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
ref: 1829, James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York:
text: […] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.
ref: 2015, Kevin Revolinski, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Madison (page 116)
glosses: The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The action of numbing with anesthetics.
Synonyms: frost
Derived terms: antifreezing
cryofreezing
postfreezing
Related terms: freeze-dry
freezer
freezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːzɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freeze
Derived terms: freezing point
squeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: squeaks
Senses: glosses: A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
topics: games
glosses: A card game similar to group solitaire.
examples: text: "I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]
ref: 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night:
glosses: A narrow squeak.
Derived terms: pip-squeak
squeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: squeaks
form: squeaking
form: squeaked
form: squeaked
Senses: examples: text: But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
ref: 2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
glosses: To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
examples: text: If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To inform, to squeal.
glosses: To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
topics: games
glosses: To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
examples: text: […] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.
ref: 1999, Surfer, volume 40, numbers 7-12:
text: France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To win or progress by a narrow margin.
Synonyms: sense: to inform
word: drop a dime
word: grass up
word: snitch
Derived terms: bubble and squeak
squeak by
squeaker
squeakish
squeak out
squeakquel
squeak through
squeaky
until the pips squeak
escape velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape velocities
Senses: examples: text: The gravitational force exerted by a planet determines its surface gravity and escape velocity.
ref: 1996, Thomas Arny, Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy, McGraw-Hill Science, page 74:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: The minimum speed needed to escape the gravitational field of a planet or other body.
examples: text: “All signs point to Netflix having reached escape velocity, with subscribers scaling far faster than investors expected,” Mr. Greenfield said.
ref: 2024 April 18, Nicole Sperling, Benjamin Mullin, quoting Rich Greenfield, “Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A major breakthrough or milestone; momentum.
hexa-2,4-dienal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an unsaturated aldehyde, CH₃CH=CH-CH=CH-CHO, used in the manufacture of perfumes etc
Synonyms: sorbic aldehyde
lidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lid + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year,” Epode II, in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle & Messrs. Robinsons, 2nd edition, p. 15,
[…] yet, as she lies
By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream,
If ever to her lidless dragon eyes,
O Albion! thy predestin’d ruins rise,
The Fiend-hag on her perilous couch doth leap,
Mutt’ring distemper’d triumph in her charmed sleep.
text: Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coffin, and the open grave were under no inspection but the moon’s.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 9”, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
text: You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 6”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: When I exercised the pony, old Johnny, after school hours I loved to ride through the Cook Street chaos of garbage. High and safe on the horse’s back I could look down into it and see wild rose bushes forcing their blooms up through lidless cook stoves and skunk cabbage peeping out of bottomless perambulators, beds tipped at any angle, their years of restfulness all finished and done with.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Cook Street”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: One foot caught on a ridge in the blacktop driveway and I stumbled. The cup of café mocha flew out of my grasp and settled lidless on the pavement.
ref: 2007, Nicole Young, chapter 11, in Love Me If You Must (A Patricia Amble Mystery), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Without a lid.
Derived terms: lidlessness
licking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: lickings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is licked.
glosses: A severe beating.
examples: text: Our football team took a licking last night.
glosses: A great loss or defeat.
Derived terms: arse-licking
ass-licking
cookie licking
cuntlicking
take a licking
licking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lick
Related terms: Licking County
Licking Creek
antibacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bacterial.
Senses: examples: text: This drug has an antibacterial effect.
text: Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Killing or inhibiting bacteria.
glosses: Opposing the theory that diseases are caused by bacteria.
Derived terms: antibacterially
nonantibacterial
antibacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibacterials
Etymology: From anti- + bacterial.
Senses: examples: text: Many household products contain antibacterials.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug having the effect of killing or inhibiting bacteria.
Related terms: antibiotic
antimicrobial
antiseptic
antiviral
brittle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtl̩/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: brittler
form: more brittle
form: brittlest
form: most brittle
Etymology: From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
Senses: examples: text: Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
text: A diamond is hard but brittle.
text: 'Do you suppose our convent, and I too,
 Are insufficient, then, to pray for you?
 Thomas, that joke's not good. Your faith is brittle.
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 329:
glosses: Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.
examples: text: Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
glosses: Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: minerals; etc; minerals; etc
glosses: Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
raw_tags: of rocks
examples: text: What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
glosses: Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
raw_tags: of a system
glosses: Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
raw_tags: of diabetes
Derived terms: brittility
brittle bone disease
brittlebush
brittle cinder
brittle fracture
brittlegill
brittle hair syndrome
brittlely
brittleness
brittle star
brittlestem
brittly
embrittle
nonbrittle
quasibrittle
Sabinas brittle hair syndrome
unbrittle
brittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtl̩/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: brittles
Etymology: From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
Senses: examples: text: As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
glosses: A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
glosses: Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
Synonyms: brickle
Derived terms: peanut brittle
brittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtl̩/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: brittles
form: brittling
form: brittled
form: brittled
Etymology: From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
Senses: examples: text: The project is based on a similar project, the Class project, which was started by the University of Cornell several years ago under the leadership of Stuart Lynn to preserve brittling old books.
ref: 1999, J. Siekmann, Maria T. Pazienza, J. G. Carbonell, Information Extraction: Towards Scalable, Adaptable Systems, page 24:
text: Her heart fluttered, then stilled when May snapped the image away and her voice brittled.
ref: 2020, Alys Murray, The Magnolia Sisters:
glosses: To become brittle.
examples: text: Not being versed in the terms of English venery, he asked Abbot Ulfketyl what brittling of a deer might mean; and being informed that it was that operation on the carcass of a stag which his countrymen called eventrer, and Highland gillies now “gralloching”[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 38, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson:
glosses: To gut.
Related terms: word: break
word: breakable
word: short
errand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ěr'-ənd
ipa: /ˈɛɹənd/
rhymes: -ɛɹənd
Forms: form: errands
form: arrand
Etymology: From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).
Senses: examples: text: What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XXIII”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 217:
english: “What do you want”, said King Arthur, “and what is your mission?”
translation: “What do you want”, said King Arthur, “and what is your mission?”
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text: Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent.
In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.
ref: 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
synonyms: run
glosses: A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
A mission or quest.
examples: text: The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.
text: I'm going to town on some errands.
synonyms: run
glosses: A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
examples: text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The purpose of such a journey.
examples: text: I had not taught thee then the alphabet
Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
Deliver errands mutely and mutually.
ref: 1633, John Donne, Elegy VII:
glosses: An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
Derived terms: errand boy
errand-ghost
errand ghost
errandy
fool's errand
idiot's errand
lost errand
make an errand
run an errand
sleeveless errand
errand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ěr'-ənd
ipa: /ˈɛɹənd/
rhymes: -ɛɹənd
Forms: form: errands
form: erranding
form: erranded
form: erranded
form: arrand
Etymology: From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).
Senses: examples: text: All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
glosses: To send someone on an errand.
examples: text: She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
glosses: To go on an errand.
libertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/
ipa: /ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/
Forms: form: libertines
Etymology: From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.
Senses: glosses: Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
Synonyms: word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
Hypernyms: word: person
word: sensualist
Hyponyms: word: copulator
word: libidinist
word: promiscuous man
word: promiscuous woman
Related terms: word: drunkard
word: glutton
word: pleasure
word: prostitute
libertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/
ipa: /ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/
Forms: form: libertines
Etymology: From French libertin.
Senses: glosses: One who is freethinking in religious matters.
examples: text: So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.
ref: 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Helen Constantine, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 123:
glosses: Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
Synonyms: word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
Hypernyms: word: person
word: sensualist
Hyponyms: word: copulator
word: libidinist
word: promiscuous man
word: promiscuous woman
Related terms: word: liberate
word: liberal
word: liberty
word: drunkard
word: glutton
word: pleasure
word: prostitute
libertine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/
ipa: /ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/
Forms: form: more libertine
form: most libertine
Etymology: From French libertin.
Senses: glosses: Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Related terms: libertinism
libertinage
firstborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fûrstʹ-bôrn'
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)stˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
other: [ˈfɜːstˌbɔːn]
other: [ˈfɝstˌbɔɚ̯n]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)stbɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: firstborn
form: firstborns
Etymology: From Middle English first borne, equivalent to first (adverb) + born.
Senses: glosses: The first child to be born to a parent or family.
Related terms: baby of the family
middle child
nextborn
primogeniture
firstborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fûrstʹ-bôrn'
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)stˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
other: [ˈfɜːstˌbɔːn]
other: [ˈfɝstˌbɔɚ̯n]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)stbɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: first-born
Etymology: From Middle English first borne, equivalent to first (adverb) + born.
Senses: glosses: Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.
glosses: Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
Related terms: middleborn
rustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌstɪk/
rhymes: -ʌstɪk
Forms: form: more rustic
form: most rustic
form: rustick
form: rusticke
form: rustique
Etymology: From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
Senses: examples: text: rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
text: She had a rustic, woodland air.
ref: 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven:
text: late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
text: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:
glosses: Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
examples: text: rustic manners
glosses: Unfinished or roughly finished.
glosses: Crude, rough.
examples: text: the manners not too polite nor too rustic
ref: 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:
text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Simple; artless; unaffected.
Derived terms: rosy rustic
rustic bunting
rusticity
rustic moth
rustic ware
rustic-work
rustic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌstɪk/
rhymes: -ʌstɪk
Forms: form: rustics
form: rustick
form: rusticke
form: rustique
Etymology: From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
Senses: examples: text: The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
ref: 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226:
text: The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
ref: 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC:
glosses: A rural person.
examples: text: Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
ref: 1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “The Stain of Indigo”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A noctuoid moth.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Derived terms: mottled rustic
narcissist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcissists
Etymology: From Narcissus (“a character in Greek mythology who became obsessed with his own reflection”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: So what do you do if someone close to you is a narcissist?
ref: 2024 November 7, Christina Caron, “Narcissism Is a Trait That’s Hard to Shake, Study Says”, in The New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: One who shows extreme love and admiration for themselves.
glosses: An egoist; a person full of egoism and pride.
Derived terms: narcissistical
narcopath
nonnarcissist
Related terms: narcissism
narcissistic
narcissize
liberalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹəlaɪz/
Forms: form: liberalizes
form: liberalizing
form: liberalized
form: liberalized
form: liberalise
Etymology: From liberal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to make liberal, free.
glosses: to become liberal, free.
Derived terms: liberalization
liberalizer
unliberalized
lurid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈl(j)ʊə.ɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɔːɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈlʊɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɚɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈlʉːɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈluːɹɪd/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪd
Forms: form: more lurid
form: most lurid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūridus (“pale yellow, wan”).
Senses: examples: text: The accident was described with lurid detail.
text: Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author.
ref: 2021 May 22, Dalya Alberge, “John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel”, in The Observer:
glosses: Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.
glosses: Melodramatic.
examples: text: Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame;
ref: 1729, James Thomson, Britannia:
text: Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 86:
text: The great banths sniffed the unfamiliar odours, and then with a rush they broke past us with low growls, swarming across the gardens beneath the lurid light of the nearer moon.
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 “Corridors of Peril”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
examples: text: The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.
glosses: Being of a light yellow hue.
examples: text: a lurid plant with maroon leaves and pink flowers
ref: 1976, Ethnology:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a brown colour tinged with red.
Derived terms: luridity
luridly
luridness
Caribbean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən/
ipa: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən/
ipa: /kəˈɹɪbiən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: Carribean
Etymology: From Carib or Caribe, a people who lived in the West Indies, + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Among those seeking the Caribbean nation’s highest office on May 19 are the current president, a former president, and a mayor.
ref: 2024 May 17, Jessica Hasbun, “The Dominican Republic votes on Sunday. Here’s what to know”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 May 2024:
glosses: Pertaining to the sea and region of the western Atlantic bounded by South America, Central America, and the islands of the West Indies (such as Cuba and Hispaniola).
Caribbean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən/
ipa: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən/
ipa: /kəˈɹɪbiən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: Caribbeans
form: Carribean
Etymology: From Carib or Caribe, a people who lived in the West Indies, + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person native to the Caribbean region
glosses: A member of the Amerindian tribes that inhabited the Caribbean region before the arrival of the Europeans
Caribbean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən/
ipa: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən/
ipa: /kəˈɹɪbiən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: the Caribbean
form: Carribean
Etymology: From Carib or Caribe, a people who lived in the West Indies, + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Caribbean Sea.
glosses: A continental region centered on the Caribbean Sea, consisting of those countries located in the sea and in bordering areas of South America and Central America.
Derived terms: Caribbean box jellyfish
Caribbean coot
Caribbean flamingo
Caribbean pine
Caribbean time
circum-Caribbean
Related terms: Carib
Caribbeanist
Caribbean Sea
Caribe
Carib Indians
Caribs
sacerdotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæs.ə(ɹ)ˈdəʊ.təl/
other: /ˌsæ.kə(ɹ)ˈdəʊ.təl/
rhymes: -əʊtəl
Forms: form: more sacerdotal
form: most sacerdotal
Etymology: From Middle English sacerdotale, from Old French sacerdotal, from Latin sacerdōtālis (“priestly”).
Senses: examples: text: ...and so neither is the Silence of the Reformed, and of the Church of England in relation to the Rebaptization of Persons Baptiz'd by Midwives and Laymen, any Argument against their receiving Sacerdotal Baptism; so long as that is the only Baptism which Christ Instituted, and which by his Law every one is bound to receive, who has not yet received it.
ref: 1711, Roger Laurence, Sacerdotal Powers:
text: ...some of the figures are costumed in the style of religious art, with flowing sacerdotal garments.
ref: 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:
text: Verena's initial appearance in Boston, as he called her performance at Miss Birdseye's, had been a great success; and this reflection added, as I say, to his habitually sacerdotal expression.
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.
Synonyms: word: hieratic
word: priestly
Derived terms: sacerdotalism
sacerdotally
priestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːstli/
rhymes: -iːstli
Forms: form: more priestly
form: priestlier
form: most priestly
form: priestliest
Etymology: From Middle English prestly; equivalent to priest + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to priests.
glosses: Having the appearance of or resembling a priest.
Synonyms: hieratic
sacerdotal
Related terms: high-priestly
chalice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪs/
rhymes: -ælɪs
Forms: form: chalices
form: calice
Etymology: From Middle English chalis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice, borrowed from Latin calix, calicem (“cup”), of uncertain etymology. In view of Umbrian skalçeta (“sacrifical vessel”), perhaps from a Proto-Italic *(s)kalik-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel-. Pokorny considered a parallel formation in Sanskrit कलश (kaláśa-, “(water-)jar, tub, pot, dish”), for Proto-Indo-European *kel-eḱ-, but De Vaan finds this unlikely. Alternatively, borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix) or an unattested variant thereof, maybe with contamination from κάλυξ (kálux, “shell, calyx”), but it is also possible that all were borrowed from related substrate words. Possible doublet of calyx and kelch. Compare Sumerian 𒃲(GAL).
Senses: examples: text: [W]e but teach / Bloody Inſtructions, which, being taught, returne / To plague th' Inuentor. This euen-handed Iuſtice / Commends th' Ingredience of our poyſon'd Challice / To our owne lips.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 1:
synonyms: goblet
glosses: A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
glosses: A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.
Derived terms: chaliced
chalice drum
chalicelike
enchalice
mixed chalice
poisoned chalice
Related terms: calyx
kylix
lethargic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈθɑɹd͡ʒɪk/
ipa: /ləˈθɑːd͡ʒək/
ipa: /ləˈθɑː.d͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒɪk
Forms: form: more lethargic
form: most lethargic
form: lethargick
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ληθαργικός (lēthargikós), from λήθαργος (lḗthargos, “forgetful, lethargic”), from λήθη (lḗthē, “a forgetting, forgetfulness”) (from which Lethe (“river in Hades”)) + ἀργός (argós, “not working”). By surface analysis, lethargy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:
text: She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
ref: 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:
synonyms: word: torpid
word: lazy
word: unmoving
word: abeyant
word: at rest
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: dull
word: fallow
word: idle
word: inactive
word: inert
word: languid
word: latent
word: nonactive
word: quiescent
word: silent
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: slow
word: suspended
word: torpid
word: unactive
word: unbusy
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
word: crawling
word: languid
word: languorous
word: draggy
word: creeping
word: dreich
word: gastropodous
word: glacial
word: heavy-footed
word: inching
word: inert
word: labored
word: leaden
word: lead-footed
word: lethargic
word: low-speed
word: lumbering
word: plodding
word: pokey
word: ponderous
word: slothlike
word: slow
word: slow as a snail
word: slow as Christmas
word: slow as molasses
word: slow as molasses in January
word: slowfooted
word: sluggish
word: stately
word: steady
word: subglacial
word: sullen
word: tardigrade
word: tedious
word: testudineous
word: torpid
word: unspeedy
glosses: Sluggish, slow.
synonyms: word: torpid
word: unmoving
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Indifferent, apathetic.
Derived terms: antilethargic
lethargically
lethargicness
Related terms: alethic
alethiology
lethargy
Lethe
philalethia
unmoving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːvɪŋ
Forms: form: more unmoving
form: most unmoving
Etymology: From un- + moving.
Senses: synonyms: word: at rest
word: motionless
word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
glosses: Not moving; still; static.
examples: text: A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film.
ref: 1996, Film Review:
synonyms: unaffecting
unpoignant
unarousing
glosses: Not emotionally moving or rousing; failing to inspire the emotions.
vulnerary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌl.nəɹ.əɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈvʌl.nɚ.ɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: more vulnerary
form: most vulnerary
Etymology: From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound”).
Senses: examples: text: Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XXVIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture XX: Conclusions”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page 496:
glosses: Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
glosses: Causing wounds; wounding.
vulnerary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌl.nəɹ.əɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈvʌl.nɚ.ɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: vulneraries
Etymology: From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound”).
Senses: examples: text: On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.
ref: 1757, John Rutty, A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, Comprehending the Most Celebrated Medicinal Waters, both Cold and Hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other Parts of the World, London: Printed for William Johnston, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 494:
glosses: A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
Related terms: vulnerable
travels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of travel
travels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of travel
ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɹts/
ipa: /pɔːts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /po(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /poəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: plural of port
pig iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig irons
Etymology: From pig (“oblong block of cast metal”) + iron.
Senses: examples: text: We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
hypernyms: iron
<
metal
coordinate_terms: cast iron
wrought iron
glosses: A type of crude, brittle iron shaped like a block, unsuitable for working but suitable for casting, commonly used as an industrial raw material.
Related terms: puddled bar
balanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælənst/
rhymes: -ælənst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balance
balanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælənst/
rhymes: -ælənst
Forms: form: more balanced
form: most balanced
Senses: examples: text: He believed he rarely got sick because of his balanced diet.
glosses: Containing elements in appropriate proportion; proportionately weighted on all dimensions and therefore unlikely to tip over.
Derived terms: balanced budget
balanced category
balanced diet
balancedness
contrabalanced
dysbalanced
gender-balanced
imbalanced
inbalanced
nonbalanced
unbalanced
underbalanced
well-balanced
Satanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪtənɪzm/
Forms: form: Satanisms
form: satanism
Etymology: From Satan + -ism.
Senses: examples: Religious groups that follow Satanism include Luciferians and Laveyans.
glosses: Worship or reverence to Satan (usually synonymous with "the Devil").
glosses: A profession, philosophy, or ideological construct featuring a positive, admirable, or useful association to the figure, character or entity known as 'Satan'; or, featuring opposition to all morality and the procurement of what is wanted regardless of the consequences concerning others.
glosses: LaVeyan Satanism.
glosses: A devilish disposition.
Hyponyms: LaVeyan Satanism
Luciferian
LaVeyanism
Derived terms: crypto-satanism
Related terms: satanic
Satanic
satanist
Satanist
Kelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: Kelley
form: Kelli
form: Kellie
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Ó Ceallaigh. Doublet of Kellogg and Callahan.
Senses: examples: text: ([…] something special in Kelly or red), whose narrow shawl collar has a slight V in back and knots at the throat in front.
ref: 1949 November 19, The New Yorker, volume 25, page 88:
text: […] red or Kelly, with curved yoke and collar; and garments in skipper, pink, red, black or gray, with covered buttons on a yoked back.
ref: 1949, Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, inc, Current Bulletin:
glosses: Kelly green.
Satanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satanists
Etymology: From Satan + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Examples of Satanists include Luciferians and Laveyans.
glosses: One who identifies with Anton Szandor LaVey's philosophical teachings and the religion, Satanism, founded upon it.
glosses: One who worships Satan.
Hyponyms: LaVeyan Satanist
Luciferian
Related terms: Satanism
Antonio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtoʊnioʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Antonio and Spanish Antonio. Doublet of Anthony.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Derived terms: Mount San Antonio
Port Antonio
San Antonio de la Cruz
San Antonio del Monte
San Antonio Los Ranchos
San Antonio Masahuat
San Antonio Oeste
San Antonio Pajonal
San Antonio Village
Related terms: Antonian
Antonine
hired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪəd/
ipa: /ˈhaɪɹd/
ipa: /ˈhaɪɚd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hire
Gregory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɛɡəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɛɡ(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: Gregorys
Etymology: Via Latin Grēgorius, from post-classical Ancient Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios, “watchful, vigilant”), from Ancient Greek ἐγείρω (egeírō, “awaken, arouse”).
Senses: examples: text: The surname Graff was chosen because upscale consumers respect anything Teutonic - regard it as efficient, intelligent, and reliable. But only up to a point. A forename like Helmut or Wilhelm wouldn't have done. Too German. Too foreign. 'Gregory' scores high on the likability scale. All-American. Greg. He's one of the boys, with Teutonic ancestry.
ref: 1990, Jonathan Kellerman, Time Bomb, page 163:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
examples: text: “The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and head of the new maritime research center, Njord, at the National Museum of Denmark, in the news release. […] Gregory led the excavations alongside marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch, who is also a curator at the National Museum.
ref: 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A small town on the Gregory River in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A small town and port in the Shire of Northampton, Western Australia.
glosses: A city in Gregory County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: Synonym of Hopewell, Gibson County, Tennessee.
synonyms: word: Hopewell
word: Gibson County
word: Tennessee
glosses: A city in San Patricio County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Gregory County
Stoke St Gregory
Related terms: Greg
Gregg
Gregor
Grigory
Gregory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɛɡəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɛɡ(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: Gregorys
Etymology: Via Latin Grēgorius, from post-classical Ancient Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios, “watchful, vigilant”), from Ancient Greek ἐγείρω (egeírō, “awaken, arouse”).
Senses: glosses: Shortened form of Gregory Peck, a neck
promised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒm.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.mɪst/
Senses: examples: text: On December 16, the Times reported that if the promised weather change came, Robert would likely take off the next day.
ref: 2013, Lanayre D. Liggera, The Life of Robert Loraine: The Stage, the Sky, and George Bernard Shaw, →ISBN:
text: Not only was there still no sign of the promised economic recovery, but their presentational skills lapsed into farce.
ref: 2014, John Crace, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, →ISBN:
text: One can suggest, however, that by linking their claim on legitimacy to heightened expectations of change, the Russian authorities may face an even more serious legitimacy deficit in the future if the promised change does not take place or if the scale of this change is not perceived as sufficient by key groups in the society.
ref: 2014, Valentina Feklyunina, Stephen White, The International Economic Crisis and the Post-Soviet States, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Predicted; expected; anticipated.
examples: text: After a moment, as they danced, he put the question, and she said, “I am promised to Neskaya Tower.
ref: 2013, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Two To Conquer, →ISBN:
text: The violins struck up and in one move the Prince swept Konstantina so close to his chest that she gasped. “Sir,” she heard herself remonstrate as they began to circle the floor, “please remember that I am promised to the Baron!”
ref: 2015, Barbara Cartland, Love by Moonlight, →ISBN:
text: I am promised to another,” Nicole answered.
ref: 2016 -, Aimie K. Runyan, Promised to the Crown, →ISBN:
glosses: Under obligation to some future commitment, such as a marriage or vocation.
examples: text: If this son was not the promised savior, at least he could be the forefather of the Messiah, and Eve knew it. After expecting the promised seed for a hundred and thirty years, her hope and expectations had given place to despondency and hopelessness.
ref: 2010, Lloyd A. Atabansi, The Promised Seed: The Origin of Evil, Mankind and the Godly Seed, →ISBN:
text: He then departed to wait, with impatience, for the next day, and the promised appointment.
ref: 2015, John Walker, John Aubrey, Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, →ISBN:
text: The executor of Story I's estate, Sidway, was therefore legally bound to deliver the promised $5,000 to whoever currently held the interest in the sum, which by the time of the trial was Hamer.
ref: 2016, CTI Reviews, Contract Law Fundamentals, →ISBN:
glosses: Due to become manifest because of a past promise.
Derived terms: promised land
promised one
promised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒm.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.mɪst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of promise
injured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnd͡ʒɚd/
ipa: /ˈɪndʒəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of injure
injured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnd͡ʒɚd/
ipa: /ˈɪndʒəd/
Forms: form: more injured
form: most injured
Senses: glosses: Suffering from an injury
Derived terms: cryoinjured
injuredly
injuredness
injured party
noninjured
uninjured
vaccine-injured
evilness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evilnesses
Etymology: From Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] they lament the evilness and malice of evil men, and pray God for the evil, that he will convert them from their evilness and malice, and so make them good of evil men.
ref: 1808, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church:
glosses: The quality or state of being evil.
Synonyms: badness
viciousness
malignity
vileness
corruptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corrupt + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being corrupt.