cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
incontrovertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪŋ.kɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.təbl̩/
Forms: form: more incontrovertible
form: most incontrovertible
Etymology: From in- + controvertible.
Senses: examples: text: incontrovertible evidence
text: Her statement that dogs are mammals is incontrovertible.
text: Just now he was wearing a suit of maple-syrup brown with faint but incontrovertible purple stripes.
ref: 1921 November 23, Leonard Hatch, “My Heart Leaps Up”, in The Outlook:
text: There is incontrovertible evidence that electrification of itself has great publicity value, but this would be greatly enhanced if the public knew in more detail how it would transform their services.
ref: 1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Through a glass darkly”, in Trains Illustrated, page 642:
text: All said that the incontrovertible evidence that climate change has already arrived—in the form of frighteningly extreme wildfires, drought, storms and floods afflicting every corner of the United States—has helped build political support.
ref: 2022 August 7, Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman, “Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: indisputable
undeniable
unquestionable
antonyms: controvertible
glosses: Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
Synonyms: inarguable
incontestable
Derived terms: incontrovertibility
incontrovertibleness
incontrovertibly
Related terms: controversy
controvert
increment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/
Forms: form: increments
Etymology: From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
text: A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage.
ref: 1832 June 9, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Sympathy of Old Greek and Latin with English—Roman Mind—War”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: The action of increasing or becoming greater.
examples: text: In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
ref: 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
text: The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 90:
glosses: The amount of increase.
glosses: An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
Synonyms: sense: action of increasing or becoming greater
word: enlargement
word: expansion
sense: amount of increase
word: addition
word: supplement
Derived terms: word: autoincrement
word: incremence
word: incremental
word: increment borer
word: in increment
word: microincrement
word: post-increment
word: pre-increment
word: unearned increment
Related terms: increase
increment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/
Forms: form: increments
form: incrementing
form: incremented
form: incremented
Etymology: From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.
ref: 1890, H. E. J. G. Du Bois, “On Magnetic Circuits”, in Philosophical magazine, page 346:
text: public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.
ref: 2007 January 23, “Busiest two weeks for recruiters”, in Recruiter Magazine:
text: The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.
ref: 1984, Brian W. Kernighan with Rob Pike, The UNIX programming environment, page 124:
glosses: To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
Derived terms: autoincrement
incrementable
incrementation
incrementer
incrementor
unincremented
jubilant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːbɪlənt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.bə.lənt/
Forms: form: more jubilant
form: most jubilant
Etymology: From Latin iubilans ("shouting for joy").
Senses: examples: text: be in jubilant mood
glosses: In a state of elation.
Synonyms: sense: in a state of elation
word: delighted
sense: in a state of elation
word: elated
sense: in a state of elation
word: joyful
sense: in a state of elation
word: thrilled
Derived terms: conjubilant
jubilance
jubilantly
overjubilant
unjubilant
longevity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /lɒŋ-/
note: dialects, US, lot–cloth split
ipa: /lɔnˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/
note: dialects, US, lot–cloth split
ipa: [lɔ̃nˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti]
note: dialects, US, lot–cloth split
ipa: /lɔŋˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/
note: dialects, US, lot–cloth split
ipa: [lɔ̃ŋˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti]
note: of Canada
ipa: /lɑnˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/
note: of Canada
ipa: [lɑ̃nˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ɾi]
note: of the US
ipa: /lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/
note: of the US
ipa: [lɒŋˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /lɔŋˈd͡ʒev.ə.ti/
ipa: [lɔŋˈd͡ʒev.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /lɒŋˈd͡ʒev.ə.ti/
ipa: [lɒŋˈd͡ʒev.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: longevities
form: longævity
Etymology: Early 17th century, learned borrowing from Latin longaevitās, from longaevus (“ancient, aged”) + -itās. The first part is related with English long and this association led to the alternative pronunciation with /ŋ/.
Senses: examples: text: Grandpa had incredible longevity: he lived to be 105 years old!
text: This 142-year-old tiny ex-LNWR SB [signal box, at Batley] is an amazing survivor, probably owing its longevity to its location alongside a level crossing. Indeed it started life as a gate box with the delightful name of Lady Ann's Crossing.
ref: 2020 July 1, David Allen, “Signalling from Leeds along the S&C”, in Rail, page 74:
text: The longevity of spicy and swicy will depend on how committed consumers are to sticking with these flavors as they grow older.
ref: 2024 June 2, Parija Kavilanz, “‘Swicy’ is the hottest trend in food right now”, in CNN:
glosses: The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.
examples: text: A ‘postdating’ is an example of the use of a lexical item at a later date than currently recorded and these are important in establishing the longevity of use of a term and whether or not it has become obsolete.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
glosses: Duration over time; persistence.
Synonyms: long-livedness
permanence
Derived terms: longevity noodle
longevity peach
prolongevity
shortgevity
Related terms: longevous
ominous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈɑmɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈɔmɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈɒmɪnəs/
Forms: form: more ominous
form: most ominous
Etymology: From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from Old Latin osmen, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed (see ōmen).
Senses: examples: text: In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 324:
synonyms: word: momentous
word: omenic
word: portentous
word: big
word: central
word: consequential
word: critical
word: crucial
word: epochful
word: essential
word: extraordinary
word: fateful
word: fatefraught
word: fatesome
word: heavy
word: pivotal
word: high on the totem pole
word: historic
word: innegligible
word: key
word: life-or-death
word: meaningful
word: necessary
word: noted
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: paramount
word: pertinent
word: relevant
word: remarkable
word: salient
word: significant
word: unignorable
word: valuable
word: vital
word: weighty
glosses: Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
examples: text: California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
text: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club:
text: After growing substantially in the 1990s and modestly in the 2000s, the total number of American kids fell from 2010 through 2019, an ominous milestone.
ref: 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:
synonyms: threatening
portentous
inauspicious
glosses: Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
Synonyms: word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
Hypernyms: word: evil
word: fated
word: unlucky
word: augural
word: panomphean
word: prophetic
Hyponyms: word: black-letter
word: doomed
word: doomsday
Derived terms: ominosity
ominously
ominousness
unominous
Related terms: omen
abomination
procrastination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹoʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: procrastinations
Etymology: From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.
ref: 1742, [Edward Young], “Night the First”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
Synonyms: sense: act of postponing
word: deferral
word: prolongation
word: deferment
Derived terms: bedtime procrastination
procrastination is the thief of time
Related terms: procrastinate
pugnacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more pugnacious
form: most pugnacious
Etymology: From the stem of Latin pugnāx + -ous, from pugnō (“I fight”), from pugnus (“fist”).
Senses: examples: text: Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.
ref: 1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter 3, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 15, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.
ref: 2003, Ken Follett, Hornet Flight, →ISBN, pages 249–250:
text: [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
text: Of course the Johnston swings around to engage the entire flotilla, and, despite taking several more hits, Johnston successfully forces away the first two ships, which leads to the entire squadron taking a detour to avoid the single pugnacious ship.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:50 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
text: In a speech this weekend, Ms. Le Pen suggested that her “pugnacious” young protégé, Jordan Bardella, who is one of the most popular politicians in France, was ready to become prime minister.
ref: 2025 September 8, Roger Cohen, “French Prime Minister Bayrou Loses Confidence Vote, Putting Pressure on Macron”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.
Derived terms: pugnaciously
Related terms: impugn
poniard
pugilism
pugnacity
repugn
repugnant
volatile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.əˌtaɪ.(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/
ipa: [ˈvɑ.lə.tl̩]
ipa: [ˈvɑ.lə.ɾɫ̩]
Forms: form: more volatile
form: most volatile
Etymology: From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
glosses: Explosive.
raw_tags: of a substance
examples: text: Its pricing is highly volatile — and therefore highly risky. For all its nosebleed ascents, bitcoin also has had some gut-punching plunges. Between November 2021 and November 2022, for example, the price of bitcoin dropped 75%, from $64,455 to $16,196, according to data on coinmarketcap.com.
ref: 2024 November 19, Jeanne Sahadi, “Bitcoin has smashed records. Should you invest?”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Variable or erratic.
raw_tags: of a price
examples: text: a volatile man
glosses: Quick to become angry or violent.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Fickle.
glosses: Temporary or ephemeral.
glosses: Potentially violent.
raw_tags: of a situation
examples: text: This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called result, then stores true in the volatile field finished. The main thread waits for the field finished to be set to true, then reads the field result.
ref: 2010, Jon Jagger, Nigel Perry, Peter Sestoft, Annotated C# Standard, page 467:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
raw_tags: of a variable etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
raw_tags: of memory
glosses: Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
Derived terms: nonvolatile
sal volatile
unvolatile
volatilely
volatile memory
volatile organic compound
volatility
volatile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.əˌtaɪ.(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/
ipa: [ˈvɑ.lə.tl̩]
ipa: [ˈvɑ.lə.ɾɫ̩]
Forms: form: volatiles
Etymology: From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).
Senses: glosses: A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
examples: text: Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
ref: 2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.
rancorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋ.kəɹ.əs/
Forms: form: more rancorous
form: most rancorous
form: rancourous
Etymology: From rancor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: rancorous speech
text: Despite its attempt to provide what it saw as sober current-affairs programming in a sea of often-rancorous cable news channels, and winning some top awards in journalism, Al Jazeera America was unable to build an audience—it reached about 60 million households, compared to 100 million for other cable broadcasters—or draw advertisers.
ref: 2016 January 13, “The End of Al Jazeera America”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 13 Jan 2016:
synonyms: malicious
resentful
venomous
glosses: Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.
repeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈpiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: repeals
form: repealing
form: repealed
form: repealed
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel.
Senses: examples: text: to repeal a law
text: […] I here divorce myself
Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,
Until that act of parliament be repeal’d
Whereby my son is disinherited.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third 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 I, scene i]:
text: 1776, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, p. 8,
As manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.
text: It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that altho’ laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non-repealing passes for consent.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: Labour says it will repeal the legislation if it wins the next General Election.
ref: 2024 February 7, Mel Holley, “Network News: War of words between Prime Minister and union”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 14:
glosses: To cancel, invalidate, annul.
examples: text: There weepe, for till my Gaueston be repeald,
Assure thy selfe thou comst not in my sight.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: The banish’d Bolingbroke repeals himself,
And with uplifted arms is safe arrived […]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene 2]:
glosses: To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
examples: text: Whence Adam soon repeal’d
The doubts that in his heart arose.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 59-60:
glosses: To suppress; to repel.
Synonyms: annul
cancel
invalidate
revoke
veto
repeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈpiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: repeals
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel.
Senses: examples: Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.
glosses: An act or instance of repealing.
sedentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɹi/
Forms: form: more sedentary
form: most sedentary
Etymology: From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“I sit, I am seated”).
Senses: examples: text: The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
glosses: Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
raw_tags: of a human population
examples: text: […]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]
ref: 1765 [1738], Bishop William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, page 220:
text: […]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…]
ref: 1844 October 3, Benjamin Disraeli, The Acquirement of Knowledge, An address delivered to the members of the Manchester Athenæum:
topics: lifestyle
medicine
sciences
glosses: Not moving much; sitting around.
raw_tags: of a job
examples: text: Such restless revolution day by day
 Repeated, while the sedentary earth
 That better might with far less compass move[…]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: The Soul, considered abstractedly from its Passions, is of a remiss and sedentary Nature, slow in its Resolves, and languishing in its Executions.
ref: 1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “No. 255”, in The Spectator:
glosses: inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
examples: text: till length of years
 And sedentary numbness craze my limbs
 To a contemptible old age obscure.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, lines 569-571:
glosses: Caused by long sitting.
Synonyms: sense: not moving
word: immobile
word: motionless
word: torpid
word: stationary
sense: living in a fixed geographical location
word: settled
sense: living in a fixed geographical location
word: non-migratory
sense: sitting around
word: chairborne
sense: sitting around
word: sitsome
sense: inactive
word: abeyant
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: inactive
sedentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛd.ən.tɹi/
Forms: form: sedentaries
Etymology: From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“I sit, I am seated”).
Senses: examples: text: Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.
ref: 1998, Effect of acute exercise on skin potential in sedentaries and trained athletes.:
text: The non-sedentaries rather do not without grain or rice, but the sedentaries have, in Wirth's table, not much less sheep and goats than the non-sedentaries. That is a reason to suppose that the sedentaries can cope without the non-sedentaries
ref: 2001, Jaarbericht, Issues 35-38, page 99:
text: With the decline and eventual downfall of the south, it was their relationship with the Arab sedentaries of the north which assumed greater importance;
ref: 2005, The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1, Volume 2, page 19:
text: Smiths are not nomadic among the nomads and sedentary among the sedentaries, nor half-nomadic among the nomads, half-sedentary among sedentaries.
ref: 2012, Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being, page 37:
text: "These baths are great both for active people like sportsmen, as well as for sedentaries who spend too much time behind their desks," explains Dicioni Lino
ref: 2015, Road to Beauty Day 8: Hairstyling Tips on the Road:
glosses: a sedentary person
simulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/
Forms: form: simulates
form: simulating
form: simulated
form: simulated
Etymology: First attested in 1652; Borrowed from Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from similis (“like”). See similar.
Senses: examples: text: We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
text: This video game simulates a pinball machine.
glosses: To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
Derived terms: simulative
simulatively
Related terms: simulator
emulate
simulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊ.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/
Forms: form: more simulate
form: most simulate
Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English symulat(e), simulat(e), similat(e) (“feigned; similar”), borrowed from Latin simulātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: examples: text: under simulate religion
ref: 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
glosses: Feigned; pretended.
spurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˈspjʊ.ɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˈspʊ.ɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˈspjɔ.ɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ʊəɹiəs
Forms: form: more spurious
form: most spurious
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.
Senses: examples: text: His argument was spurious and had no validity.
text: We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
ref: 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023:
text: [Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.
ref: 2019 July 19, Noah Kulwin, “Democrats Fail the Left, Once Again”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023:
glosses: False, not authentic, not genuine.
examples: text: I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.
text: Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.
glosses: Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.
examples: text: […] who alſo in her prime of love,
Spouſal embraces, vitiated with Gold,
Though offer’d only, by the ſent conceiv’d
Her ſpurious firſt-born; Treaſon againſt me?
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 29, lines 389-392:
glosses: Bastardly, illegitimate.
Synonyms: sense: false
word: counterfeit
sense: false
word: fake
sense: false
word: false
sense: false
word: bogus
Derived terms: nonspurious
spuriosity
spurious diphthong
spurious infection
spurious language
spuriously
spuriousness
unspurious
Related terms: specious
stevedore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːvəˌdɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈstivəˌdɔɹ/
Forms: form: stevedores
form: stevedoring
form: stevedored
form: stevedored
Etymology: From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.
Senses: examples: text: During the year 334,242 tons of cargo were stevedored and 933,092 tons were handled and transferred.
ref: 1914, Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Panama Rail Road Company to the Stockholders, New York, N.Y.: Panama Rail Road Company, →OCLC, page 11:
text: [I]n Barcelona, when he was stevedoring at the docks […]
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., a Novel, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC:
text: I stevedored [railway] ties, a lot of those devils. In the holds of ships. I was in the bow because I was small to get in there. I loaded a lot of these ties that came out of Navarro and that layout.
ref: 1976, Bruce Levene et al., Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, volumes I (A–L), [Ukaih?] Calif.: Mendocino County Historical Society, →OCLC, page 161:
glosses: To load or unload a ship's cargo.
tout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊt/
ipa: /tʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: touts
Etymology: From Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian (“to be sticking out, protrude”), related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, project”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly influenced by dialectal toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Compare also Old English tot, ġetot (“pomp, splendour, vainglory”).
Senses: examples: text: Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena; they are famed for selling counterfeits.
text: Paul Muniment looked at his young friend a moment. 'Do you want to know what he is? He's a tout.'
'A tout? What do you mean?'
'Well, a cat's-paw, if you like better.'
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
synonyms: word: barker
word: pitchman
word: spruiker
glosses: Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
examples: text: No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
examples: text: The Derry Brigade of the IRA thought it had got rid of its informer problem when earlier that year it executed Paddy Flood as a tout, after holding him for six weeks.
ref: 2011, Hugh Jordan, Milestones in Murder: Defining Moments in Ulster's Terror War:
glosses: An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
glosses: A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
Derived terms: ticket tout
tout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊt/
ipa: /tʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: touts
form: touting
form: touted
form: touted
Etymology: From Middle English touten (“to jut out, protrude, gaze upon, observe, peer”), from Old English *tūtian (“to be sticking out, protrude”), related to Old English tȳtan (“to stand out, be conspicuous, shine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, project”). Compare Icelandic túta (“a teat-like prominence”), tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly influenced by dialectal toot (“to stick out; project; peer out; peep”), from Middle English toten, totien, from Old English tōtian (“to peep out; look; pry; spectate”). Compare also Old English tot, ġetot (“pomp, splendour, vainglory”).
Senses: examples: text: Mary has been touted as a potential successor to the current CEO.
text: China has touted its policy of non-interference for decades.
ref: 2016 January 25, “Why Arabs would regret a toothless Chinese dragon”, in The National, retrieved 25 Jan 2016:
text: For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
ref: 2012, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in The A.V. Club:
text: Newspaper articles also were generally positive in tone, although a tendency towards sensationalism means that the spread of hybrid forms is occasionally touted as the universal language of the future.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 9:
glosses: To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
examples: text: To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.
ref: March 1, 2016, Ben Judah on BBC Business Daily
glosses: To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
examples: text: Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lvi
glosses: To look upon or watch.
Synonyms: pimp
pitch
promote
spruik
tout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊt/
ipa: /tʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Etymology: Probably from French tout (“all”).
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
Related terms: tout court
mangetout
tout ensemble
ambiguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/
ipa: /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/
ipa: [ɛəmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs]
ipa: /æmˈbɪɡ.jʉ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪɡjuəs
Forms: form: more ambiguous
form: most ambiguous
Etymology: From Latin ambiguus (“moving from side to side, of doubtful nature”), from ambigere (“to go about, wander, doubt”), from ambi- (“around, about, on both sides”) + agere (“to drive, move”).
Senses: examples: text: The politician was criticized for his ambiguous statements and lack of precision.
synonyms: word: equivocal
word: unclear
word: ambiguous
word: equivocal
word: fuzzy
word: generic
word: gray
word: imperspicuous
word: imprecise
word: indeterminate
word: indefinite
word: indistinct
word: turbid
word: uncertain
word: unclear
word: undefined
word: undefinable
word: vague
word: woolly
antonyms: unambiguous
clear
glosses: Open to multiple interpretations.
examples: text: And forasmuch as in this same question I am ambiguous, and Simplicius is resolute....
ref: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Mathematical collections and translations, in two tomes - Salusbury:
glosses: Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: ambiguously
ambiguousness
inambiguous
nonambiguous
Related terms: ambages
ambiguate
ambiguation
ambiguity
disambiguation
situs ambiguous
contradictory
mistakable
confusing
adulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌædjʊˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: adulations
Etymology: From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
Senses: examples: text: He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.
text: Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 1”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: To law enforcement officers injured in the Jan. 6 mayhem, as well as members of Congress and others present in the Capitol that day who feared for their lives, such adulation for convicted rioters is not only misguided but also anathema to a civilized society.
ref: 2025 January 15, Linda Feldmann, “Outside the DC jail, where Jan. 6 rage and devotion live on”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Flattery; fulsome praise.
Related terms: adulate
adulator
adulatory
admiration
adoration
contemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹəɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: more contemporary
form: most contemporary
Etymology: From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
Senses: examples: text: A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Claudian's Old Man of Verona^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_(Cowley)/The_Dangers_of_an_Honest_Man_in_much_Company#Section23):
text: As this King [Henry VIII] vvas contemporary vvith the greateſt Monarchs of Europe, viz. the Emperor, the Kings of Spain and France, ſo he vvas engaged in many VVars, and in divers Leagues and Pacifications vvith them or either of them; for the better conſulting the Peace of Mankind.
ref: 1721, John Strype, “A Notable Book Came Forth, Called, ’’A Supplication of the Poor Commons to the King’’; Shewing the Late State of the Kingdom. […]”, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It: Shewing the Various Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry the Eighth. […], volume I, London: […] John Wyat, […], →OCLC, page 407:
synonyms: coetaneous
coeval
contemporaneous
antonyms: anachronistic
glosses: From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
examples: text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 23, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
text: Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012:
synonyms: word: current
word: modern
word: contemporary
word: current
word: hodiern
word: modern
word: present
word: present-day
antonyms: archaic
coming
glosses: Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
Synonyms: word: coetaneous
word: coeval
word: contemporaneous
word: coincident
word: contemporary
word: cotemporal
word: cotemporaneous
Hypernyms: word: coexistent
Derived terms: adult contemporary
contemporarily
contemporariness
contemporary circus
contemporary gospel
contemporary R&B
contemporize
hot adult contemporary
noncontemporary
penecontemporary
precontemporary
rhythmic contemporary
ultracontemporary
uncontemporary
urban contemporary
Related terms: word: penecontemporary
word: present
contemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹəɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: contemporaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
Senses: examples: text: Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
text: The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
text: Life is predicated by the decisions and choices we make – and, earlier this year, the personal fused with the professional again as Mata reached the landmark moment when he knew he had to try to harness football’s power for the benefit of people less fortunate than him and his contemporaries.
ref: 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2018:
text: More than most of her contemporaries on “LeftTube,” [Contrapoints] has a style; her editorial signature is an unmistakably ornate flourish.
ref: 2018 August 24, Katherine Cross, “The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction”, in The Verge (news), Vox, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023:
glosses: Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
glosses: Something existing at the same time.
examples: text: Annexation therefore was inevitable; but (as I have said above) it was not necessarily of prime importance in our national policy, and there has been no need to exaggerate—as I fear many of our contemporaries have exaggerated— […]
ref: 1900, The Speaker, the Liberal Review, volume 2, page 621:
glosses: Something existing at the same time.
A rival newspaper or magazine.
carp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːp/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: carp
form: carps
Etymology: From Late Middle English carpe (“the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)”), from Old French carpe, from Late Latin carpa, possibly from Proto-West Germanic *karpo (possibly due to the introduction from the fish from the Danube into England in the 14th century; whence Middle Low German karpe and Old High German charpho, karpho); further etymology unknown.
Senses: examples: text: The Carp is a ſtately, a good, and a ſubtle fiſh, a fiſh that hath not (as it is ſaid) been long in England, but ſaid to be by one Mr. Maſcall (a Gentleman then living at Plumſted in Suſſex) brought into this Nation: […] Carps and Loches are obſerved to breed ſeveral months in one year, vvhich moſt other fiſh do not, and it is the rather believed, becauſe you ſhall ſcarce or never take a Male Carp vvithout a Melt, or a Female vvithout a Roe or Spavvn; […]
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], chapter VIII, in The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN, pages 161–162:
text: Like scaly carp and feathered swan
To nature's world we do belong.
ref: 1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull:
text: Illinois took the initiative in renaming the Asian carp given the state’s position as a sort of “last stand” against the carp entering the Great Lakes.
ref: 2022 June 22, Patti Wetli, “Introducing Copi, the Fish Formerly Known as Asian Carp”, in WTTW:
text: Matsumoto Castle exhibits the architecture of both war and peace, from its steep wooden stairs, hidden inner levels and archer’s perches to the moon-viewing room added in 1630, which also offers a vantage point for viewing the brocaded carps and ducks residing in the castle moat.
ref: 2023 May 18, David McElhenney, “13 of Japan’s best castles”, in CNN:
glosses: Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
Hyponyms: Asian carp
bighead carp
black carp
carp bream
common carp
crucian carp
flying carp
German carp
grass carp
Indian carp
invasive carp
Japanese crucian carp
koi
koi carp
leather carp
mirror carp
mud carp
Prussian carp
river carp
sabre carp
silver carp
Derived terms: carpless
carplike
carp louse
carp pox
carpsucker
holy carp
toothcarp