leukas/Wiktionary huggingface dataset:
innuendo (noun): A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
Synonyms: inuendo
innuendo (noun): A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
Synonyms: inuendo
innuendo (verb): To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
Synonyms: inuendo
oblate (noun): A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
oblate (noun): A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
oblate (adj): Flattened or depressed at the poles.
Antonyms: prolate
Example: The Earth is an oblate spheroid.
accede (verb): To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
Synonyms: come round; agree; concur; soothe; band together
Antonyms: reject; split off; leave; refuse; decline
Hypernyms: surrender; assent
accede (verb): To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
Synonyms: come round; agree; concur; soothe; band together
Antonyms: reject; split off; leave; refuse; decline
Hypernyms: surrender; assent
accede (verb): To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
Synonyms: come round; agree; concur; soothe; band together
Antonyms: reject; split off; leave; refuse; decline
Hypernyms: surrender; assent
hematite (noun): An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe₂O₃.
Synonyms: hæmatite; martite; kidney ore; haematite
jeet (noun): An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.
regressive (adj): That tends to return, revert or regress.
Antonyms: progressive
regressive (adj): Whose rate decreases as the taxed amount increases.
Antonyms: progressive
crawler (noun): A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
crawler (noun): A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
crawler (noun): A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
malignancy (noun): The state of being malignant or diseased.
Synonyms: malignity; malignance
Antonyms: benignity; benignancy
malignancy (noun): A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
Synonyms: malignity; malignance
Antonyms: benignity; benignancy
malignancy (noun): That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
Synonyms: malignity; malignance
Antonyms: benignity; benignancy
meld (verb): Especially in games of the rummy family: To announce or play (a combination of playing cards) and thus score points.
meld (verb): Especially in games of the rummy family: To announce or play a combination of playing cards and thus score points.
meld (noun): Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points.
fecundity (noun): Ability to produce offspring.
Synonyms: fertility; fœcundity; fertileness
fecundity (noun): Ability to cause growth or increase.
Synonyms: fertility; fœcundity; fertileness
fecundity (noun): Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
Synonyms: fertility; fœcundity; fertileness
malaise (noun): A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
adjectival (adj): Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
Example: adjectival syntax
indivisible (adj): Incapable of being divided; atomic.
Synonyms: unsplittable
Antonyms: unmergeable; divisible; incombinable; ununifiable; uncombinable
indivisible (adj): Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.
Synonyms: unsplittable
Antonyms: unmergeable; divisible; incombinable; ununifiable; uncombinable
indivisible (noun): An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.
llama (noun): A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
coachman (noun): A man who drives a horse-drawn coach, a male coach driver.
coachman (noun): A fish in the genus Heniochus, either Heniochus acuminatus or Heniochus diphreutes.
amuse (verb): To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (an individual) with pleasing emotions.
Synonyms: entertain; beguile; exhilarate; please; gratify
amuse (verb): To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.
Synonyms: entertain; beguile; exhilarate; please; gratify
Example: His jokes rarely fail to amuse.
amuse (verb): To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
Synonyms: entertain; beguile; exhilarate; please; gratify
arbitrage (noun): A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
repatriate (noun): A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.
repatriate (verb): To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
kinematic (adj): Of or relating to motion or to kinematics.
Synonyms: motoric
seismology (noun): The study of the vibration of the Earth's interior caused by natural and unnatural sources, such as earthquakes.
ecumenism (noun): Ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
Synonyms: œcumenism
whiplash (noun): An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
heighten (verb): To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
Antonyms: lessen
heighten (verb): To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
Antonyms: lessen
Example: to heighten beauty
swindle (verb): To defraud.
Synonyms: swizz; be sold a pup
swindle (verb): To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
Synonyms: swizz; be sold a pup
Example: She swindled more than £200 out of me.
swindle (verb): for a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw
Synonyms: swizz; be sold a pup
swindle (noun): An instance of swindling.
Synonyms: swizz; scheme
swindle (noun): Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
Synonyms: swizz; scheme
swindle (noun): An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
Synonyms: swizz; scheme
breccia (noun): A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material.
instantaneously (adv): Without any delay; in an instantaneous manner.
Synonyms: immediately; instantly; right now; in a flash; outright
luthier (noun): A person who, or a business which, makes or repairs stringed wooden musical instruments, such as lutes, violins, and guitars.
rectifier (noun): A device that converts alternating current into direct current; often a diode.
Antonyms: power inverter
rectifier (noun): An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship.
Antonyms: power inverter
spousal (adj): of or relating to a spouse, spouses; to the relationship between spouses
antimatter (noun): Matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter.
Synonyms: anti-matter
antimatter (noun): A form of matter that has a key property, such as charge, opposite to that of ordinary matter.
Synonyms: anti-matter
relativism (noun): The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
relativism (noun): A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
sadhu (noun): An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty).
gab (noun): One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
boundless (adj): Without bounds, unbounded.
Synonyms: limitless; extentless; unbottomed; infinite; bottomless
Antonyms: limited
nullify (verb): To make legally invalid.
Synonyms: annul; cancel
Example: The contract has been nullified.
nullify (verb): To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
Synonyms: annul; cancel
Example: It nullifies the night / from overkill
panchayath (noun): The smallest administrative area in India
Synonyms: panchayat
microchip (verb): To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
Synonyms: chip
althea (noun): Any of several plants of the genus Althaea; the hollyhocks and mallows, native to Eurasia.
mimosa (noun): A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.
mimosa (noun): Certain plants of the genus Albizia (silk tree, pink siris).
thesaurus (noun): A publication, traditionally in the form of a printed book and now often online, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
Synonyms: synonymicon
thesaurus (noun): A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
Synonyms: synonymicon
airworthiness (noun): The state of being airworthy.
Antonyms: unairworthiness
centrifuge (noun): A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
centrifuge (noun): An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.
centrifuge (noun): By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)
centrifuge (verb): To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.
armature (noun): The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
armature (noun): The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
armature (noun): A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
thrips (noun): Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.
Synonyms: thrip
echolocation (noun): The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar.
quadrature (noun): The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area.
eyebrow (noun): The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
Synonyms: vallum; supercilium; brow
eyebrow (noun): A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
Synonyms: vallum; supercilium; brow
eyebrow (noun): A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.
Synonyms: vallum; supercilium; brow
tonya (noun): A trade broker in Japan, usually a wholesaler, warehouse manager, or shipment manager.
parka (noun): A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.
Synonyms: parki; parkee
orc (noun): Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.
Synonyms: ork
orc (noun): A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
Synonyms: ork
orc (noun): A Russian soldier or gangster. Sometimes considered an ethnic slur for Russians.
Synonyms: ork
culpability (noun): The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
pembina (noun): Viburnum edule, the squashberry, the lowbush cranberry.
Synonyms: pimbina
pembina (noun): One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.
Synonyms: pimbina
sanctification (noun): The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.
johar (noun): The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.
Synonyms: jauhar; juhar
campanile (noun): A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.
vaccinium (noun): Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
woe (noun): Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
woe (adj): Woeful; sorrowful
Example: hys clerk was wo to do þat dede
sacrum (noun): A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.
precondition (noun): A condition that requires satisfaction before taking a course of action.
Synonyms: prerequisite; pre-condition
precondition (noun): A medical illness, ailment, or adverse condition that exists before an insurance policy takes effect.
Synonyms: prerequisite; pre-condition
disgraceful (adj): Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
Synonyms: disgracefull
disgraceful (adj): Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
Synonyms: disgracefull
crave (verb): To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
crave (verb): To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.
Example: I crave your honour's pardon.
hoverfly (noun): Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
Synonyms: hover fly; hover-fly
jest (noun): An act performed for amusement; a joke.
Synonyms: witticism; banter; prank; wisecrack; crack
jest (noun): Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
Synonyms: witticism; banter; prank; wisecrack; crack
jest (noun): A deed; an action; a gest.
Synonyms: witticism; banter; prank; wisecrack; crack
Example: the jests or actions of princes
jest (verb): To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
Synonyms: tease; mock; jest; banter; kid
Example: Surely you jest!
obovate (adj): Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.
exaltation (noun): The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
exaltation (noun): The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
exaltation (noun): That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
pinafore (noun): A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes, and most often worn by young girls as an overdress.
sphincter (noun): A ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening (such as the anus or the openings of the stomach), constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning.
Example: the sphincter of the bladder
jackass (noun): A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
patiently (adv): In a patient manner.
Synonyms: paciently
Antonyms: impatiently
grumpy (adj): Dissatisfied and irritable.
Synonyms: crabby; grouchy; cranky; cantankerous; surly
encapsulation (noun): The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
encapsulation (noun): Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
encapsulation (noun): The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
bogle (noun): A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
Synonyms: boggle
bogle (noun): A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.
Synonyms: boggle
impoundment (noun): A body of water impounded within an enclosure, such as a reservoir.
helpline (noun): A telephone service (or (by extension) one using email, SMS, or the Web) which offers help to those who call, as either a public emergency service or customer service.
brownfield (noun): A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry and may be contaminated or need extensive clearing.
brownfield (adj): Being a development that has to integrate with legacy systems.
Example: a brownfield project
ammonite (noun): Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
ammonite (noun): An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.
desiccation (noun): The state or process of being desiccated
Synonyms: demoisturization; demoisturisation
desiccation (noun): An act or occurrence of desiccating
Synonyms: demoisturization; demoisturisation
rapier (noun): A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless).
tickle (verb): To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
Synonyms: kittle
tickle (verb): To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
Synonyms: kittle
tickle (verb): To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
Synonyms: kittle
aleph (noun): The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
Synonyms: alif; alaph; olaph; alef
aleph (noun): The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
Synonyms: alif; alaph; olaph; alef
wrest (noun): A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
wrest (noun): A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
panellist (noun): A person who appears on a panel, either as a member of a committee or jury, or as part of a panel game.
Synonyms: panelist
orientalism (noun): The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
Synonyms: Orientalism
orientalism (noun): An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
Synonyms: Orientalism
orientalism (noun): A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
Synonyms: Orientalism
xo (noun): Alternative form of xoxo (an abbreviation for hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.)
Synonyms: XO
mithun (noun): Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle.
Synonyms: gayal; mithan; gaur
caddy (noun): A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
Synonyms: caddie
caddy (noun): A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
Synonyms: caddie
caddy (noun): A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
Synonyms: caddie
Example: Place the disc in the DVD caddy.
caddy (noun): Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”)
Example: Caddy, pass me my five iron.
caddy (verb): Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
cornel (noun): Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
Synonyms: cornel cherry; cornelian cherry
cornel (noun): The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.
Synonyms: cornel cherry; cornelian cherry
ripen (verb): to grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)
Example: Grapes ripen in the sun.
ripen (verb): To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe
Example: The warm sun ripened the corn.
bumble (verb): To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
sledgehammer (noun): A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
Synonyms: sledge-hammer
ingress (verb): To enter (a specified location or area)
Example: We were ingressing the target area.
chard (noun): An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
Synonyms: Swiss chard; mangold; silverbeet
chard (noun): Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.
Synonyms: Swiss chard; mangold; silverbeet
callous (adj): Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
Synonyms: callused; calloused; insensitive; heartless; callusy
callous (adj): Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
Synonyms: callused; calloused; insensitive; heartless; callusy
nightjar (noun): Any of various medium-sized nocturnal birds of the family Caprimulgidae, that feed predominantly on moths and other large flying insects.
Synonyms: nightchurr
semicircle (noun): An arc whose center is the penalty spot, extending from the top of the penalty area.
detonator (noun): A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
Synonyms: torpedo
detonator (noun): a small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
Synonyms: torpedo
detonator (noun): Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
Synonyms: torpedo
ferric (adj): Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 3
decrepit (adj): Weakened or worn out from age or wear.
Synonyms: withered; aged; decrepid; timeworn; old
acidosis (noun): An abnormally increased acidity of the blood.
Antonyms: alkalosis
electroacoustic (adj): Of or pertaining to electroacoustics
Synonyms: acoustoelectric
alkene (noun): An unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbon with one or more carbon–carbon double bonds.
Synonyms: olefin
intercut (verb): To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.
unprofessional (adj): unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace
Example: unprofessional behavior
toolbox (noun): A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.
Hypernyms: box
muck (noun): Slimy mud, sludge.
Example: I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
muck (noun): Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
Example: What's that green muck on the floor?
exuberance (noun): The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
Synonyms: ebullience
exuberance (noun): An instance of exuberant behaviour.
Synonyms: ebullience
exuberance (noun): An overflowing quantity; superfluousness.
Synonyms: ebullience
premaxilla (noun): Either of a pair of bones in front of the maxillary bones in the upper vertebrate jaw
Synonyms: incisive bone
slava (noun): The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.
glorify (verb): To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
Synonyms: exalt; mythify; transfigure
Antonyms: slander; vilify
glorify (verb): To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone as excellent baselessly.
Synonyms: exalt; mythify; transfigure
Antonyms: slander; vilify
glorify (verb): To worship or extol.
Synonyms: exalt; mythify; transfigure
Antonyms: slander; vilify
nettle (noun): Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles: Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
nettle (noun): Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles: Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
nettle (noun): Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash. Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
nettle (verb): Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
toga (noun): A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome.
Synonyms: toge
berserk (noun): Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”)
Synonyms: beserk; berzerk
berserk (adj): Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control.
offstage (adj): Of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
Synonyms: off-stage
offstage (adj): Of or relating to the private life of a celebrity.
Synonyms: off-stage
offstage (adv): Taking place offstage (as above)
Synonyms: off-stage
Antonyms: onstage
offstage (verb): To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.
Synonyms: off-stage
rivet (noun): A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
rivet (noun): A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
recklessly (adv): In a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence
recklessly (adv): With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others.
recidivism (noun): Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.
recidivism (noun): Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.
Example: alcohol(ic) recidivism
quietus (noun): A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
diphthong (noun): A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
Synonyms: dipthong
diphthong (noun): A vowel digraph or ligature.
Synonyms: dipthong
zircon (noun): A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.
zircon (noun): A crystal of zircon, sometimes used as a false gemstone.
clueless (adj): Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
Antonyms: informed; clueful
clueless (adj): Without any clues or hints.
Antonyms: informed; clueful
absurdist (noun): An advocate of absurdism, in particular a writer of absurd topics.
regionalism (noun): Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
Synonyms: federalism; statism; provincialism
regionalism (noun): The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
Synonyms: federalism; statism; provincialism
regionalism (noun): A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
Synonyms: federalism; statism; provincialism
palmar (adj): Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage.
Synonyms: palmal
Antonyms: dorsal
Hypernyms: volar
palmar (adj): In the direction of the palm.
Synonyms: palmal
Antonyms: dorsal
Hypernyms: volar
palmar (adj): Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.
Synonyms: palmal
Antonyms: dorsal
Hypernyms: volar
exclusionary (adj): Acting to exclude something
Antonyms: inclusionary
Example: Social groups are often exclusionary.
annihilate (verb): To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
Synonyms: destroy; benothing; eradicate; extinguish
Antonyms: create; generate
annihilate (verb): To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
Synonyms: destroy; benothing; eradicate; extinguish
Antonyms: create; generate
annihilate (verb): To treat as worthless, to vilify.
Synonyms: destroy; benothing; eradicate; extinguish
Antonyms: create; generate
pyrolysis (noun): The decomposition of a material or compound due to heat, in the absence of oxygen or other reagents.
bedlam (noun): A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
prioress (noun): A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.
dainty (adj): Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
Synonyms: petite; neat
dainty (adj): Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
Synonyms: petite; neat
dainty (adj): Excellent; valuable, fine.
Synonyms: petite; neat
dainty (noun): A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event.
bluegill (noun): A North American sunfish; Lepomis macrochirus.
monogamy (noun): A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings.
monogamy (noun): The practice of being married to one person as opposed to multiple.
Example: Coordinate term: polygamy
bristle (noun): A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.
Example: the bristles of a pig
bristle (noun): A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
bristle (noun): The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
bristle (verb): To abound, to have an abundance of something, especially something jutting out.
bristle (verb): To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
cep (noun): An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).
Synonyms: porcini; cepe; cèpe; penny bun
ulus (noun): An administrative division of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, similar to райо́н (rajón, “district”) in Russia proper.
decriminalization (noun): The act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess). (Compare legalization, which often implies regulation.)
Synonyms: decriminalisation
Antonyms: criminalization
Hypernyms: legal reclassification
decriminalization (noun): The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the criminal justice system (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
Synonyms: decriminalisation
Antonyms: criminalization
Hypernyms: legal reclassification
alexia (noun): Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
Hypernyms: dyslexia
assize (noun): A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
Synonyms: aßize
assize (noun): The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
Synonyms: aßize
assize (noun): An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
Synonyms: aßize
assize (verb): To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.
Synonyms: aßize
lamprey (noun): Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
wile (noun): A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
Synonyms: beguilement; allurement
Example: He was seduced by her wiles.
osh (noun): A Tajik dish of rice cooked with meat and oil; a kind of pilaf.
telegraphic (adj): Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.
ambiance (noun): A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
Synonyms: ambience
ambiance (noun): A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
Synonyms: ambience
videography (noun): The art and technology of producing moving (video) images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
brazier (noun): An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
Synonyms: brasier
keg (noun): A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
Synonyms: kag; cag; kager
keg (verb): To store in a keg.
Synonyms: kag; cag; kager
deadpan (adj): Deliberately impassive or expressionless.
Synonyms: dead pan; dead-pan; poker-faced
Example: a deadpan face or look
deadpan (adj): Having such a face or look.
Synonyms: dead pan; dead-pan; poker-faced
Example: The comedian remained deadpan.
deadpan (adv): In a deadpan manner.
Synonyms: dead pan; dead-pan
deadpan (noun): A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
Synonyms: deadpan comedy; deadpan humour; dead-pan; dead pan
deadpan (verb): To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.
Synonyms: dead pan; dead-pan
lawman (noun): A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
Synonyms: lagman; lawspeaker; lageman; Orcadian & Shetlandic chief justice; police officer
lawman (noun): One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
Synonyms: lagman; lawspeaker; lageman; Orcadian & Shetlandic chief justice; police officer
lawman (noun): The presiding justice of the supreme court.
Synonyms: lagman; lawspeaker; lageman; Orcadian & Shetlandic chief justice; police officer
pica (noun): A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
pica (noun): A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
pica (noun): A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.
tallow (noun): A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
tallow (verb): To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
Example: to tallow sheep
prophylaxis (noun): A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.
gaslight (noun): A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas (or town gas).
Synonyms: gas-light; gas light
Hypernyms: lamp; light
gaslight (noun): The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp.
Synonyms: gas-light; gas light
Hypernyms: lamp; light
gaslight (verb): To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent reasons.
musculature (noun): The collection of all muscles in a single body or in a single organ.
iconoclasm (noun): The belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.
pseudoscientific (adj): Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.
supersede (verb): To take the place of.
Synonyms: replace; superseed; supercede; usurp; supplant
supersede (verb): To displace in favour of itself.
Synonyms: replace; superseed; supercede; usurp; supplant
supersede (noun): An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
Synonyms: superseed; supercede
bushido (noun): An ethical code of the samurai that was prevalent in feudal Japan that advocated unquestioning loyalty to the master at all costs and obedience in all deeds, valuing honor above life.
babbler (noun): Any of several passerine birds, of the families Timaliidae and Paradoxornithidae (both found in Asia, Africa) and Pomatostomidae (found in Australia).
martyrology (noun): The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly A liturgical calendar of days for the commemoration of formally recognized saints, usually including some biographical notes.
Synonyms: Mart.; menologe; synaxarium; menologion; menology
martyrology (noun): The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly Synonym of hagiography, a story of a saint's life and death.
Synonyms: Mart.; menologe; synaxarium; menologion; menology
martyrology (noun): The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly Synonym of Eleh Ezkerah, a midrash concerning the Ten Martyrs killed by the Romans, usually read on both Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av.
Synonyms: Mart.; menologe; synaxarium; menologion; menology
goody (noun): Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
goody (adj): Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”)
goody (noun): Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
fanlight (noun): a semicircular or semioval window over a door or other window, normally having a fan-like structure of ribs; sometimes hinged to the transom
Hypernyms: light
fanlight (noun): an electric fan, usually a ceiling fan, that is also a light fixture
Hypernyms: light
cartouche (noun): An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
carat (noun): A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls .
Synonyms: karat; k
Example: Meronym: grain
carat (noun): Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
Synonyms: karat; k
carat (noun): A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.
Synonyms: karat; k
banovina (noun): Any of the provinces or banates into which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was subdivided during the period 1929–1941.
typist (noun): A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
harmonia (noun): A harmonic mode in ancient Greek music, characterized by a particular set of chords and rhythmic patterns.
painterly (adj): Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
Antonyms: plastic; linear
painterly (adj): Having clear brush-strokes.
Antonyms: plastic; linear
unveil (verb): To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden.
Synonyms: unvail
unveil (verb): to show, especially for the first time
Synonyms: unvail
unveil (verb): To remove a veil; to reveal oneself.
Synonyms: unvail
spotter (noun): A member of a sniper team who in addition to this function is responsible for providing additional information about targets from a different point of view.
spotter (noun): One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it.
flagellum (noun): In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
Synonyms: whip; cilium
flagellum (noun): In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
Synonyms: whip; cilium
treadmill (noun): A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
treadmill (noun): A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.
treadmill (noun): A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
treadmill (verb): To keep busy, for example with work or with other tasks, without being able to get ahead or make progress towards long-term goals.
hooligan (noun): A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific.
loamy (adj): Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
temperamental (adj): Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
temperamental (adj): User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate.
cota (noun): A perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.
svl (noun): Initialism of snout to vent length: a measurement of size taken from the tip of an animal’s nose to the opening of the cloaca at the tail base.
fajr (noun): the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.
Synonyms: dawn prayer
scape (noun): A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
scape (noun): The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
scape (noun): The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
draconian (adj): Very severe, cruel, or harsh.
Synonyms: Draconian
Example: The Soviet regime was draconian.
draconian (adj): Of or resembling a dragon.
Synonyms: dragonish; draconic; draconine; dragonlike; dragony
folate (noun): A salt or ester of folic acid, especially one present in the vitamin B complex.
conscript (noun): One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
Example: The soldier was a conscript.
conscript (noun): A constructed script or writing system, especially for use with a conlang or spelling reform.
hotbed (noun): A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.
hotbed (noun): An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.
hotbed (noun): An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
endow (verb): To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
Synonyms: indow
endow (verb): Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
Synonyms: indow
endow (verb): Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
Synonyms: indow
Example: She was endowed with a beautiful voice.
intractable (adj): Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
intractable (adj): (of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
intractable (adj): Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
leash (noun): A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
leash (noun): A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
leash (verb): To fasten or secure with a leash.
Antonyms: unleash
mannerism (noun): A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
mannerism (noun): Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
mannerism (noun): In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
Synonyms: Mannerism
mannerism (noun): In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.
Synonyms: Mannerism
corroborate (verb): To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
brocade (noun): A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
brocade (noun): Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
nullification (noun): The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
nullification (noun): The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
nullification (noun): Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification; a person who has undergone this surgery is a nullo.
tufa (noun): Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
Hypernyms: limestone; calcite
tufa (noun): A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
Hypernyms: limestone; calcite
hasta (verb): third-person singular simple present indicative of hafta: Contraction of has to; is required to
Example: He hasta visit the doctor.
kell (noun): That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
kell (noun): The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
Example: Bury himself in every silkworm's kell
flimsy (adj): Weak; ill-founded.
Example: a flimsy excuse
straddle (verb): To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
straddle (verb): To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
straddle (verb): To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
straddle (noun): A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
straddle (noun): An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
southwesterly (adj): situated in, or pointing to, the southwest
Synonyms: south-westerly
southwesterly (noun): A strong wind or storm from the southwest.
Synonyms: south-westerly
Example: southwester
campana (noun): A church bell, particularly a large bell used in medieval church steeples or towers.
onerous (adj): imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.
Synonyms: difficult; taxing; wearing; demanding
claret (noun): A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
claret (noun): A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.
Example: claret:
claret (adj): Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.
gyro (noun): A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
Synonyms: giros; gyros; yiros; yero; giro
Example: I'll have a gyro, please.
fractionation (noun): A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient.
fractionation (noun): A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
misinterpretation (noun): An instance of misinterpreting.
Synonyms: misseinterpretacion
doorman (noun): A person who holds open the door at the entryway (entrance) to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.
Synonyms: doorkeeper
inlay (verb): To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
inlay (noun): A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
inlay (noun): The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
crappie (noun): A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish.
Synonyms: croppie
bosom (noun): The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
Synonyms: breasts; bosome
bosom (noun): The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
Synonyms: breasts; bosome
bosom (noun): The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
Synonyms: breasts; bosome
bosom (adj): In a very close relationship.
Synonyms: bosome
Example: bosom buddies
bosom (verb): To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
Synonyms: bosome
bosom (verb): To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
Synonyms: bosome
bosom (verb): To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
Synonyms: bosome
immerse (verb): To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
Synonyms: submerge
oxon (noun): Any organic compound derived from another in which a phosphorus-sulfur bond in the parent has been replaced by a phosphorus-oxygen bond in the derivative.
erudition (noun): Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
Synonyms: information; scholarship; learning; scholarism; lore
erudition (noun): The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.
Synonyms: information; scholarship; learning; scholarism; lore
scheduler (noun): A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
scheduler (noun): An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads.
pinion (verb): To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
pinion (verb): To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.