cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
imposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪm.pəˈzɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪmˈpoːzɪʃən/
Forms: form: impositions
Etymology: From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.
Senses: glosses: The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
examples: text: They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
text: He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.
ref: 1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
glosses: That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
glosses: A trick or deception put or laid on others.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
synonyms: impot
qualifier: school or university slang
glosses: A task imposed on a student as punishment.
Synonyms: sense: act of imposing and the like
word: imposure
sense: act of imposing and the like
word: infliction
sense: act of imposing and the like
word: obtrusion
sense: that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined
word: burden
sense: that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined
word: charge
sense: that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined
word: enjoinder
sense: that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined
word: injunction
sense: that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined
word: tax
sense: trick or deception put or laid on others
word: cheating
sense: trick or deception put or laid on others
word: deception
sense: trick or deception put or laid on others
word: delusion
sense: trick or deception put or laid on others
word: fraud
sense: trick or deception put or laid on others
word: imposture
sense: trick or deception put or laid on others
word: trick
Derived terms: impositional
reimposition
superimposition
supersolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersolar
form: most supersolar
Etymology: From super- + solar.
Senses: examples: text: The heat of a white dwarf is supersolar.
glosses: Having features greater than those of the sun.
examples: text: The kingly bard / Must smite the chords rudely and hard, / As with hammer or with mace; / That they may render back / Artful thunder, which conveys / Secrets of the solar track, / Sparks of the supersolar blaze.
ref: 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Merlin. I.”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, pages 180–181:
glosses: Above the sun.
exaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzækʃən/
Forms: form: exactions
Etymology: From Middle English exaccioun, exaccion, from Middle French exaction, from Old French, from Latin exāctiō.
Senses: examples: text: the exaction to tribute or of obedience
glosses: The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force
glosses: extortion.
glosses: That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
Derived terms: nonexaction
enjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
ipa: /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: enjoins
form: enjoining
form: enjoined
form: enjoined
Etymology: From Middle English enjoinen, from Old French enjoindre (“to join with”), from Latin iniungo (“to attach”), a compound of in- (“into” “upon”) and iungo.
Senses: examples: text: I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix]:
text: to confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 9:31:
text: At some landmark in the jungle the beater halted, pointed to the ground as a sign that this spot would do, and put his finger on his lips to enjoin silence.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days:
text: But to my surprise and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been diligently consulting Yojo—the name of his black little god—and Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; [...]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
examples: text: They [the Noahide laws] also enjoin the establishment of a just system of laws and courts.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 15:
glosses: To prescribe under authority; to ordain.
examples: text: In 1983, BLM was enjoined by court order from using any herbicides in its Medford, Oregon District. Subsequent court action in 1984 enjoined BLM from the use of herbicides throughout Oregon and the U.S. Forest Service was similarly enjoined throughout Region 6 (Pacific Northwest).
ref: 1989, U.S. Department of the Interior, chapter 1, in Western Oregon Program-Management of Competing Vegetation: Proposed Record of Decision, Bureau of Land Management, page 9:
text: the judicial power of the United States had no power to enjoin the executive branch of the government from the execution of a constitutional duty or of a constitutional law
ref: 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
topics: law
glosses: To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
Derived terms: enjoinable
enjoiner
enjoinment
preliminarily enjoin
Related terms: word: injunction
impossibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impossibly
form: most impossibly
Etymology: From impossible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Not possibly; in an impossible manner.
examples: text: The topology problem was impossibly difficult.
glosses: To the point of impossibility.
examples: text: Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.
text: ANDRÉ SARAIVA, the slight 35-year-old graffitist and night-life entrepreneur, showed up at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in the Marais on a recent Saturday night in his trademark impossibly skinny jeans and a navy Thom Browne peacoat.
ref: 2007 April 22, Julia Chaplin, “The Life of the After-Party”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Contrary to what had been thought possible.
imposingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imposingly
form: most imposingly
Etymology: From imposing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imposing manner.
imposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imposers
Etymology: From impose + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who imposes.
importunately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more importunately
form: most importunately
Etymology: From importunate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'I suppose I must see who it is', she thought, and set her chair in motion. The chair, like the music, was worked by machinery and it rolled her to the other side of the room where the bell still rang importunately.
ref: 1909, E.M. Forster, “I”, in The Machine Stops:
glosses: In an importunate manner; with persistent or urgent solicitation.
importable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more importable
form: most importable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French importable.
Senses: examples: text: So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Insupportable, unbearable.
Derived terms: importably
importable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more importable
form: most importable
Etymology: From import + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being imported.
Derived terms: nonimportable
importable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: importables
Etymology: From import + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.
ref: 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN):
glosses: Something that can be imported.
imponderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɒndəɹəbl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɑːndəɹəbl/
Forms: form: more imponderable
form: most imponderable
Etymology: From im- + ponderable.
Senses: glosses: Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
glosses: Difficult or impossible to comprehend or evaluate.
Derived terms: imponderableness
imponderably
imponderable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɒndəɹəbl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɑːndəɹəbl/
Forms: form: imponderables
Etymology: From im- + ponderable.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance or body, which is not ponderable, i.e., which not does not having a detectable amount of matter or measurable mass. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
glosses: An imponderable question.
examples: text: One key imponderable is the attitude of the companies that will no longer have a role in the business. It is worth noting here that several have already thrown the towel in or been gently pushed out, such as Stagecoach and National Express.
ref: 2024 July 10, Christian Wolmar, “The future of the rail franchises is certainly uncertain”, in RAIL, number 1013, page 50:
glosses: A factor that cannot be anticipated.
SOV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: SVO
OSV
VSO
VOS
glosses: Initialism of subject–object–verb [word order]: Of a language, employing a system of syntax in which a typical sentence contains a subject, followed by the object, followed by the verb.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of shot-on-video.
Related terms: sense: subject-object-verb
word: anastrophe
SOV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single occupancy vehicle.
impolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɒ.lɪ.tɪk/
Forms: form: more impolitic
form: most impolitic
form: impolitick
Etymology: From im- + politic.
Senses: examples: text: On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have been highly impolitic for my chief to have given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!
ref: 1956 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 4:
text: Even when it was impolitic to admire, let alone name, Evagrius, his descriptions of progress in the spiritual life could not be and were not ignored […].
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 210:
text: And thereafter it became impolitic to say anything critical about the Harris sprint.
ref: 2024 November 8, Ross Douthat, “How Democrats Helped Trump”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: unwise
inexpedient
unadvisable
glosses: Not in accordance with good policy.
Derived terms: impolitically
impoliticness
inexpedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnɪkˈspiːdi.ənt/
Forms: form: more inexpedient
form: most inexpedient
Etymology: From in- + expedient.
Senses: examples: text: But the reputation of the Order must not be permitted to be endangered, and a case might occur, in which it would be inexpedient to extend this courtesy, and where the lodge would feel compelled to proceed to the trial and punishment of the offender, without appealing to his lodge.
ref: 1856, Albert Mackey, chapter XXII, in The Principles of Masonic Law:
glosses: Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; unsuitable to time and place
Derived terms: inexpediently
impoliteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impolitenesses
Etymology: From impolite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being impolite; incivility; rudeness.
uncivil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭnʹsĭv-əl
ipa: /ʌnˈsɪv.əl/
rhymes: -ɪvəl
Forms: form: more uncivil
form: most uncivil
Etymology: From un- + civil.
Senses: synonyms: savage
barbarous
uncivilized
glosses: Not civilized
examples: text: uncivil behavior
text: John Terry and Frank Lampard would not have reacted as the Nigerian did to the (admittedly X-rated) challenge that led to the Liverpool forward being sent off in last week’s Carling Cup quarter-final against Chelsea. All very dangerous, all very uncivil.
ref: 24 December 2007, “The Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: But since you probably weren’t there, and be thankful for that, here is a quick primer on local, uncivil civics so that you might appreciate the recent political clamor in this part of eastern Tennessee.
ref: 4 February 2008, New York Times:
glosses: Not civil; discourteous; impolite
Derived terms: uncivil war
Related terms: incivil
rimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rim + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) brimless, lipless, ledgeless
text: rimless glasses
text: 1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]
glosses: Lacking a rim.
examples: text: Took aim and scored, a sure, rimless basket.
ref: 2022, Jay E. Tria, You Out of Nowhere:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not touching the rim of the basket while passing through it.
unpolished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpolished
form: most unpolished
Etymology: From un- + polished.
Senses: glosses: Not polished; not brought to a polish.
glosses: Deprived of polish.
examples: text: Vovchsafe to grace these rude vnpolish'd rymes, / Which long (dear friend) haue slept in sable night, / And, come abroad now in these glorious tymes, / Can hardly brook the purenes of the light.
ref: 1594, Michael Drayton, “[Sonnets.] To the Deere Chyld of the Muses, and His Euer Kind Mecænas, Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 1:
synonyms: word: plain
word: rude
word: uncivilized
word: aweless
word: bad-mannered
word: barbaric
word: bold
word: bumptious
word: crude
word: churlish
word: discourteous
word: gauche
word: ill-bred
word: ill-mannered
word: impolite
word: incivil
word: insolent
word: lack-grace
word: mismannered
word: rantipole
word: rough
word: rude
word: uncivil
word: uncourteous
word: uncouth
word: uncultured
word: underbred
word: unmannerly
word: unpolished
word: unpolite
word: unrefined
antonyms: civilized
polished
refined
glosses: Not refined in manners or style
Derived terms: unpolishedness
impolitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impolitely
form: most impolitely
Etymology: From impolite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impolite manner; uncivilly; rudely.
uncivilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncivilly
form: most uncivilly
Etymology: From uncivil + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncivil manner; discourteously; rudely.
courteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more courteously
form: most courteously
Etymology: From Middle English curteisly, curteisliche; equivalent to courteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a courteous manner; with obliging civility or condescension; politely.
implosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Formed by implosion.
Derived terms: implosively
implosiveness
implosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implosives
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An implosive sound; an implodent.
Related terms: ejective
implodent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implodents
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An implosive sound.
implicitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implicitnesses
Etymology: From implicit + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He heard me calmly; and as calmly promised to further our attachment. The implicitness of my reliance stayed not to ask his sympathy. To talk of her was happiness, and my brother seemed a part of that home whither he was then returning.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: The state or quality of being implicit.
implausibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more implausibly
form: most implausibly
Etymology: From implausible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an implausible or dubious manner.
implausibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implausibilities
Senses: glosses: Lack of plausibility; the quality of being implausible.
examples: text: Her story was rejected because of its numerous implausibilities.
glosses: Something implausible.
plausibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plausibilities
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin plausibilitās.
Senses: examples: text: integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities
ref: 1668, David Lloyd, Memories of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of Those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages that Suffered […] for the Protestant Religion:
glosses: The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise.
examples: text: Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.
ref: 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
glosses: The appearance of truth, especially when deceptive; speciousness.
examples: text: She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!
ref: 1869, Robert Browning, “XI. Guido.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 164, lines 1680–1681 and 1685–1687:
glosses: A plausible statement, argument etc.
examples: text: The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
ref: 2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: The fact of being believable; believability, credibility.
raw_tags: in more positive sense
Derived terms: implausibility
implacably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more implacably
form: most implacably
Etymology: From implacable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If you had told us in the early 1970s that ten years later, perhaps the most vital segment of the gay movement would be gay churches and religious groups, you would not have been believed. We took for granted that the churches were a major source of anti-gay ideology and were therefore to be opposed implacably. As we waxed, they would wane.
ref: 1981 December 1, Duncan Mitchel, “The God That Dare Not Speak Its Name”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 8:
glosses: In an implacable manner.
implacability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implacabilities
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin implacabilitas (“unappeasable”).
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being implacable.
impiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impiously
form: most impiously
Etymology: From impious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impious manner; profanely; wickedly.
dispassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpæʃənət/
Forms: form: more dispassionate
form: most dispassionate
Etymology: From dis- + passionate.
Senses: synonyms: word: nonpassionate
word: unpassionate
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
antonyms: passionate
glosses: Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice.
Derived terms: dispassionately
dispassionateness
undispassionate
dispassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpæʃənət/
ipa: /dɪsˈpæʃəneɪt/
ipa: /dɪsˈpæʃənət/
Forms: form: dispassionates
form: dispassionating
form: dispassionated
form: dispassionated
Etymology: From dispassion + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: antonyms: passionate
glosses: To free from passion.
impingement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɪnd͡ʒmənt/
Forms: form: impingements
Etymology: From impinge + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of impinging.
Derived terms: impingement black
shoulder impingement syndrome
dispassionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dispassionately
form: most dispassionately
Etymology: From dispassionate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On November 18, 2011, the officer dispassionately pepper-sprayed a line of several nonviolent protesters sitting on the ground at the university, who flinched and covered their faces but remained passive with their arms interlocked, as onlookers shrieked and screamed out for the officer to stop.
ref: 2013 October 24, Crimesider Staff, “John Pike, Calif. officer who pepper-sprayed student protesters, awarded $38,000”, in CBS News:
text: He describes the untenable position of the railways' finances reasonably dispassionately. From 1952 onwards, British Railways ran an operational deficit, and in 1961 made an annual loss of £86.9 million.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
glosses: In a dispassionate manner.
Plexiglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Plexiglas.
impetuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impetuously
form: most impetuously
Etymology: From impetuous + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: violently
rashly
glosses: In an impetuous manner; with sudden force
rashly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rashly
form: most rashly
Etymology: From rash + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:
text: [H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a:
synonyms: word: rash
glosses: In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.
presumptuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presumptuously
form: most presumptuously
Etymology: From presumptuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.
arrogantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more arrogantly
form: most arrogantly
Etymology: From arrogant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Many a RP podcaster, blogger, and Youtuber have fired up their livesteaming software, to arrogantly beat their chests, boasting that men reach their “peak SMV” (“Sexual Marketplace Value”, or desirability to women) in their late 30s.
ref: 2024 February 1, “When Men’s Dating Options Hit The Wall”, in Salt Lake Single Guy, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2024:
glosses: In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
Synonyms: like someone owns the place
self-importantly
self-importance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + importance.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Marchmont was about thirty years of age, and what is generally called a fine-looking man. His figure was good, as far as his height and proportion went; but his movements wanted ease, and, consequently, grace; and there was something of self-importance in his air—the last thing in the world to prepossess a beholder in his favour.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 168–169:
text: Wikileaks has always had a healthy sense of self-importance—one that seems, at least in part, well-deserved. But there's something uniquely hubristic about accusing a major newspaper (and former collaborator) of "gross negligence or malice" over the release of 251,000 unredacted top-secret cables—when the fault lies with the website itself.
ref: 2011 August 31, Max Read, “Wikileaks^([sic]) Freaks Out at Newspaper Over Its Own Dumbassery”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2011:
glosses: An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, especially as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
self-conceit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-conceits
form: self-conceipt
Etymology: From self- + conceit.
Senses: glosses: Conceit of oneself; an overweening opinion of one's own powers or endowments; vanity.
distinctiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɪŋ(k)tɪvnɪs/
Forms: form: distinctivenesses
Etymology: From distinctive + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: unicity
word: uniquity
word: distinctiveness
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: unicity
word: uniqueness
word: uniquity
glosses: The quality of being distinctive, individual or discrete.
synonyms: word: designation
word: distinction
word: characteristic
word: designation
word: distinction
word: distinctiveness
word: feature
word: trait
word: property
word: attribute
word: hallmark
word: quality
word: parameter
word: race
word: touch
word: whatness
glosses: Something which distinguishes something from anything else.
Derived terms: biodistinctiveness
imperviously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperviously
form: most imperviously
Etymology: From impervious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
grain elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grain elevators
Senses: examples: text: By analyzing the costs of operating a country grain elevator these advantages, if any exist, should appear.
ref: 1922, Joseph Bernard Kenkel, The Cooperative Elevator Movement: A Study in Grain Marketing at Country Points in the North Central States, Catholic University of America, pg. 97
text: Interest in the safety and health of workers in grain elevators has increased substantially since the series of recent grain elevator explosions and fires.
ref: 1980, United States Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health and Safety, A staff report on the oversight of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with respect to grain elevator fires and explosions, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. pg 3
text: As the grain elevator and other industrial structures became more common on the plains, they redefind the traditional pastoral image of the American landscape.
ref: 1996, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger, Grain Elevators, Princeton Architectural Press, pg. 9
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A large structure for the storage of grain. It is more specialized than a regular granary in that it uses an elevating mechanism to hold the grain in one of many different bins, and that it is designed to fill large trucks and train cars for shipping grain in bulk.
Related terms: feed mill
flourmill
granary
marine leg
silo
impenetrably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impenetrably
form: most impenetrably
Etymology: From impenetrable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Far otherwise the inviolable Saints,
In cubick phalanx firm, advanced entire,
Invulnerable, impenetrably armed;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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: And now, on Fancy’s easy wing convey’d,
The King descended to th’ Elyzian shade.
There, in a dusky vale where Lethe rolls,
Old Bavius sits, to dip poetic souls,
And blunt the sense, and fit it for a scull
Of solid proof, impenetrably dull.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, pages 135-136:
text: She looked at Jane, to see how she bore it; but Jane was very composedly talking to Bingley. She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued however impenetrably grave.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 18, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: And apart from the manifold ruffianism, shrouded impenetrably under the mixed hats and turbans of men whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is the sure receptacle of all the murderers and ruffians whose crimes have given them a motive for withdrawing themselves for a season from the public eye.
ref: 1827, Thomas De Quincey, edited by Robert Morrison, On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, Oxford University Press, published 2006, Postscript, p. 100:
text: He could not see it, the inside of the bunker coated with coal-dust being perfectly and impenetrably black; but he heard it sliding and clattering, and striking here and there, always in the neighbourhood of his head.
ref: 1902 January–March, Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”, in George R. Halkett, editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume XXVI, London: Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, →OCLC, chapter 4:
glosses: In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously.
impermeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impermeably
form: most impermeably
Etymology: From impermeable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impermeable manner.
imperturbably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperturbably
form: most imperturbably
Etymology: From imperturbable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Are you an alienist?’ I interrupted. ‘Every doctor should be - a little,’ answered that original, imperturbably.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
glosses: In an imperturbable manner; calmly.
cotillion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊtɪlˈjɒ̃/
ipa: /kətɪlˈjɒ̃/
ipa: /koʊtɪlˈjɑ̃/
ipa: /kətɪlˈjɑ̃/
Forms: form: cotillions
form: cotillioning
form: cotillioned
form: cotillioned
form: cotillon
Etymology: Circa 1750, in the sense of the dance, from French cotillon (“petticoat”), extended to the dance because of the distinctive lift of dress revealing the petticoat, from cotte (“dress”) + -illon (diminutive). Said to derive from the then-popular song Ma commère, quand je danse, mon cotillion va-t-il bien.
Senses: glosses: To dance the cotillion.
impertinently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impertinently
form: most impertinently
Etymology: From impertinent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impertinent manner.
impersonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impersonally
form: most impersonally
Etymology: From impersonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impersonal manner.
impermissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪmpɝˈmɪsɪbl/
Forms: form: more impermissible
form: most impermissible
Etymology: From im- + permissible.
Senses: examples: text: Their use was “impermissible not because it is unwise or ineffective, but because [federal law]^([sic]) does not allow it”, the decision explained.
ref: 2025 May 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, “US federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Not permissible; not to be permitted or allowed.
Related terms: impermissibility
impermissibly
permissible
impermeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˌpɝmi.əˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ɪmˌpɜːmi.əˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: impermeabilities
Etymology: Borrowed from French imperméabilité.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being impermeable
donna angelica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian donna angelica (“angelic woman”) (Dante).
Senses: glosses: an idealized concept of the purity of woman
impermanently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impermanently
form: most impermanently
Etymology: From impermanent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impermanent manner.
impermanent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French impermanent, from im- + permanent.
Senses: glosses: not permanent; unperpetual.
Coordinate terms: momentary
temporary
Derived terms: impermanently
Related terms: impermanence
impermanence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impermanences
form: impermanency
form: unpermanence
form: unpermanency
Etymology: From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.
Senses: glosses: Lack of permanence or continued duration.
examples: text: I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same
ref: 1971, “Changes”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie:
synonyms: word: ephemerality
word: temporariness
word: brevity
word: briefness
word: caducity
word: ephemerality
word: ephemeralness
word: fleetingness
word: fugacity
word: impermanence
word: temporariness
word: transience
word: transiency
word: transientness
word: transitoriness
glosses: The quality or state of being impermanent.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.
doublure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublures
Etymology: Borrowed from French doublure.
Senses: glosses: An elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book.
glosses: The reflexed margin of a trilobite carapace.
imperishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperishably
form: most imperishably
Etymology: From imperishable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The occasion was private and there were no reporters, but Lord Roxton's speech was fixed verbatim in the minds of all his audience and has been imperishably preserved.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: In an imperishable manner.
downdraught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downdraughts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of downdraft.
imperishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French impérissable. See im- + perishable.
Senses: examples: text: an imperishable monument
text: The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 127:
text: Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 313:
glosses: Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.
Derived terms: imperishableness
imperishably
imperishable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperishables
Etymology: From Middle French impérissable. See im- + perishable.
Senses: glosses: something that does not perish, or keeps for a long time
indestructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + destructible.
Senses: synonyms: undestroyable
undestructable
unbreakable
unruinable
unwreckable
glosses: Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed; invincible.
Derived terms: indestructibility
indestructibleness
indestructibly
Related terms: durable
strong
impenetrable
downdraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downdrafts
form: downdraught
Etymology: From down- + draft.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole.
Related terms: downburst
destructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/
Forms: form: more destructible
form: most destructible
Etymology: From destruct + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
Synonyms: breakable
destroyable
wreckable
Derived terms: biodestructible
destructibleness
indestructible
undestructible
imperiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperiousnesses
Etymology: From imperious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: arrogance
haughtiness
glosses: The quality of being imperious
imperiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperiously
form: most imperiously
Etymology: From imperious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:
glosses: In an imperious manner; in the style of an emperor.
examples: text: Something up above was calling him imperiously[.]
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
glosses: In a way that brooks no refusal; commandingly.
imperilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperilments
Etymology: From imperil + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled.
downhole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: down-hole
Etymology: From down- + hole.
Senses: examples: text: In the work over, part of the new "string" was a down-hole titanium gauge.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44:
text: Pressure readings are taken downhole next to the feed zone and the total flow is measured on the surface using a separator.
ref: 2015, Ronald DiPippo, Geothermal Power Plants:
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Located in the drilled bore of an oil well either underground or undersea.
imperially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɪəɹɪəli/
Forms: form: more imperially
form: most imperially
Etymology: From imperial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imperial manner.
examples: text: If I have established a prima facie case that all is not well with the body politic of the Empire, how then is the problem capable of solution? In order to deal with the situation, it is fundamental to remember (whether one likes it or not) that the Statute of Westminster has been enacted, and therefore one must now deal with the matter not from an insular standpoint, but imperially.
ref: 1937 November 18th, Edward Frank Iwi, “A Plea for an Imperial Privy Council and Judicial Committee”, in Transactions of the Grotius Society: Papers Read before the Society in the Year 1937, volume 23: Problems of Peace and War, →JSTOR, page 135:
glosses: From an imperial standpoint; with due regard to the whole of an empire, and not only to its metropole.
imperially
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɪəɹɪəli/
Etymology: From imperial + -ly.
Senses: examples: Sheldon
glosses: Imperial power; imperium.
imperialistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperialistically
form: most imperialistically
Etymology: From imperialistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an imperialistic manner.
imperialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˌpɪəɹi.əlˈɪstɪk/
ipa: /ɪmˌpɪɹi.əˈlɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more imperialistic
form: most imperialistic
Etymology: From imperialist + -ic or imperial + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to imperialism or imperialists; favoring imperialism.
Derived terms: imperialistically
neoimperialistic
nonimperialistic
ultraimperialistic
unimperialistic
imperfectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperfectnesses
Etymology: From imperfect + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being imperfect.
Synonyms: imperfection
imperfectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperfectly
form: most imperfectly
Etymology: From imperfect + -ly or im- + perfectly.
Senses: examples: text: We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Mrs. PAGE is gifted with a pleasing voice, which is yet imperfectly weeded of certain sharpnesses, but seems susceptible of a wide range of melodious inflection.
ref: 1861 June 14, “Amusements.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an imperfect manner or degree; not fully or completely.
imperceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptɪv
Forms: form: more imperceptive
form: most imperceptive
Etymology: From im- + perceptive.
Senses: glosses: Unable to perceive.
Derived terms: imperceptively
imperceptiveness
imperceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being imperceptible.
imperatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperatively
form: most imperatively
Etymology: From imperative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1625, John Donne, Sermon preached 26 April, 1625, in Fifty Sermons, Volume 2, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, 1649, Sermon 33, p. 299,
[…] being a mother, and having the dignity of a Parent upon her, she does not proceed supplicatorily, she does not pray them, nor intreat them, she does not say, I would you would go forth, and I would you would looke out, but it is Egredimini, & videte, imperatively, authoritatively, Do it, you must do it: […]
text: Improvement is imperatively needed.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Written in the Schoolroom”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 279:
text: If a man has been possessed by devils for long enough they will rend him as they leave him, however imperatively they may have been cast out. Ernest did not stay long where he was, for he feared each moment that his father and mother would come out.
ref: 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXIX, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, pages 312–313:
text: The military band happened to be braying operatic selections on the plaza just then, and twice he raised his hand imperatively for silence in order to listen to a favourite passage.
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, chapter VII, in Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC, part first (The Silver of the Mine), page 76:
text: — Come here, Tommy, his sister called imperatively, at once! And you, Jacky, for shame to throw poor Tommy in the dirty sand. Wait till I catch you for that.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 332:
text: […] wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 11–12:
glosses: In an imperative manner.
impenitent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnɪt(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnət(ə)nt/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)nt]
Forms: form: impenitents
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English impenitent (“not penitent, unrepentant”), from Latin impaenitentem, the accusative feminine or masculine singular of impaenitēns (“unrepentant”), from im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + paenitēns (“contrite, penitent, regretting, repenting”) (the present active participle of paeniteō (“to be sorry, regret; to cause to repent; to repent”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate; to hurt”)). By surface analysis, im- + penitent.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: For as for the firſt kynde of eleccion, after whiche, Chriſte hathe choſen bys catholike churche out of the Jewes and Gentiles, to be his church here in earth: in thys kynde are there penitentes and impenitentes bothe.
ref: 1532, Thomas More, “The Confutacion of [William] Tyndale’s Aunswere […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book IV (Whether the Church can Erre), page 525, column 1:
glosses: One who is not penitent.