nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: doltishness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English doltish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English doltishness From doltish + -ness. 1. The characteristic of being doltish. Labels: uncountable
Word: crustier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of crusty: more crusty Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: crustiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of crusty: most crusty Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: bank cheque Part of Speech: noun 1. A cheque which is payable by a bank itself, as opposed to an ordinary cheque payable only out of the funds of a particular customer's account. A bank cheque is normally obtained by a bank customer (by paying its face value), the point is that the person receiving the cheque has the security of knowing it's payable by the bank and thus cannot bounce (not so long as the bank is solvent).
Word: lap sash seatbelt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + sash (“length of cloth worn over the shoulder”) + seatbelt (“restraining belt”). 1. A type of seatbelt which goes across the pelvis and then up and diagonally across the body; the conventional type found in most cars today. Labels: Australia, UK Example: […]automobile accidents in which a casualty occurred in Victoria (Australia) during 1973 and 1974, Nelson (1974) has stated that from a clinical point of view the current lap-sash seatbelt-head configuration is not reducing the incidence of whiplash injuries to a significant extent. Example: From 4 years to about 11 years, a booster seat, initially with a harness (until about 6 years) and then with an adult lap/sash seatbelt, offers the safest option for car travel.
Word: brick veneer Part of Speech: noun 1. A building construction technique in which an external, non-structural, brick wall conceals a structural wall of another material (such as timber or steel); the layer of covering thus produced. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The front has a brick veneer, and the back is sided in clapboard. Example: Many home buyers like the low maintenance and quality look of a brick veneer home. The veneer will never need painting; it will protect the house from wind (Figure 1); and if the work is done right, the veneer will last the lifetime of the house. 2. A building with such a veneer. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncommon, uncountable Example: PRIMROSE CHAPEL DEDICATION. Primrose Chapel was organized 54 years ago. Those who organized it and stood faithfully by it in its infancy have nearly all passed to their heavenly reward. The old frame building served well its day and generation, but it had grown insufficient in capacity to accommodate the crowds that attended there regularly. A new and a larger church was badly needed. The new church is a brick veneer with a seating capacity of about three hundred. It is considered to be one of the finest rural churches in this State. It is lighted with a Delco and in all it cost about $7,000. It has a membership of 137, a Sunday school of 80, an Epworth League [chapter] of 93, and a wide-awake Ladies' Aid.
Word: metacentric stability Part of Speech: noun 1. The tendency of a ship or other water-going vessel to remain upright due to its centre of gravity being below its centre of buoyancy, i.e. basically having most of its weight down low. Labels: uncountable
Word: penalty phase Part of Speech: noun 1. The portion of some criminal trials that occurs after a guilty verdict has been rendered, in which the punishment for the crime is decided.
Word: rebirthing Part of Speech: noun 1. Rebirth. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. An act of resetting a player character's level to its initial value (i.e., 1) while retaining equipment and/or some skills (a feature that allows a player to try out different classes or builds). Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually 3. The practice of simulating the birth process by wrapping a child tightly in blankets from which it must struggle to escape, as an intended treatment for attachment disorder. Labels: New-Age, uncountable, usually 4. The practice of transferring identifying parts of a wrecked car (registration plates, compliance plate, etc.) onto a stolen car of the same make and model, allowing the stolen car to be sold with the identity of the wreck. Labels: Australia, slang, uncountable, usually Example: 2004, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004 Year Book Australia, Number 86, page 325, Other investigations include South-East Asian organised crime, money laundering and tax fraud on the Commonwealth, vehicle rebirthing and identity fraud. Example: They are also involved in cannabis dealing, vehicle theft, car rebirthing, currency counterfeiting and fraud. 5. The role-playing practice of bodily crawling into and reemerging from a simulated vagina. Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually
Word: food court Part of Speech: noun 1. A common area for dining, containing or surrounded by contiguous counters of multiple food vendors, often adjoining a shopping area.
Word: danse macabre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French danse macabre. Pronunciation: /dɑns məˈkɑb(ɹə)/, /dɑns məˈkɑb/, /dɑns məˈkɑbɹə/, /dɑns məˈkɑbəɹ/ 1. A conventional subject in art, literature and drama, or a particular work in that style, in which death (in the form of a putrid corpse, skeleton, the Grim Reaper, etc) is shown leading people to the grave.
Word: calques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calque Labels: form-of, plural
Word: calques Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of calque Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: veridical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin veridicus (“truly said”), from verus (“true”) and dīcō (“to say”). Pronunciation: /vəˈɹɪdɪkəl/ 1. True. 2. Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality. Example: Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical. Example: There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.
Word: shellacked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shellac + -ed. 1. Coated in shellac. Example: At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold. 2. Drunk. Labels: slang Example: Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.
Word: Aigio Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Αίγιο (Aígio). 1. A town in Greece located in the northeastern Achaea prefecture
Word: Kato Achaia Part of Speech: name 1. A town in Greece located in the northwestern Achaea prefecture.
Word: hollers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of holler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hollers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of holler Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hollering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of holler Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hollering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who hollers. Example: They can have no idea who I am or what I've done, but they leap to and give slapstick chase anyway, their cartoon hollerings — "Stop! Thief" — sounding in my ears as I tear up the avenue[…]
Word: hollered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of holler Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: legendaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of legendary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: teeters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of teeter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: teetered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of teeter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: great unwashed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Though attributed by many to Edmund Burke, the first published use of the phrase was by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in a dedicatory epistle for 1830, Paul Clifford. Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɒʃt/, /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɔːʃt/, /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɑːʃt/ 1. The general populace, particularly the working class. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: [T]he gentlemen of the inns of court, and the gentlemen of the universities… live in abodes which were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained among us. … Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed: and in the Temple especially, it is pretty certain, that only under the greatest difficulties and restrictions the virtue which has been pronounced to be next to godliness could have been practised at all. Example: The Liberal campaign was so carefully orchestrated that McLeod was never in a position to be confronted by the great unwashed. Unfortunately, the great unwashed rarely vote for a leader whom they have never met.
Word: jockeyed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jockey Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spiels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spiel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spiels Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spiel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: spieling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spiel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spieled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spiel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: decorums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of decorum Labels: form-of, plural Example: She had outraged every rule of the court, mocked their proprieties, and infringed their decorums; yet they talked of her genius, and called her la Reine philosophique.
Word: superegos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superego Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of id Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cummin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cumin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end. 2. Pronunciation spelling of cumming. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable, vulgar
Word: cummin Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of cumming. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, vulgar
Word: beanery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English bean Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English beanery From bean + -ery. 1. An inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro. Labels: informal Example: Do not make the excuse that you cannot get the right foods at the beaneries. The beaneries are going to serve just what the customers demand and when enough of you fellows get to demanding vitalized foods you are going to get them. Example: I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.
Word: skulling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of skull Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
Word: skulling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of determining the age of a young bird by measuring the degree of ossification of its skull.
Word: overstress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + stress. 1. To place excessive emphasis on something. Labels: transitive 2. To place excessive physical stress on something, especially to such an extent that it deforms or breaks. Labels: transitive Example: [...] the complete frame will withstand a standing and buffing load of 200 tons without overstressing. 3. To stress someone excessively. Labels: transitive Example: “I think we better not catch him anymore right now,” said the vet. “We don’t want to overstress him.” Example: Susannah, I’m afraid my husband’s been ill for some time—a heart condition. I don’t want to overstress him.
Word: dodecarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dodec- + -archy, after the pattern of heptarchy, etc. 1. A government of twelve people. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And this dodecarchy may have lasted much longer than is stated by Herodotus; the immense labyrinth on Lake Moeris, the building of which is ascribed to it, is a proof of this, or else we must deny that it was erected during the dodecarchy.
Word: prescript Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/ 1. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate. Example: By his prescript a sanctuary is framed Of cedar 2. A medical prescription. Labels: obsolete Example: Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.
Word: prescript Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/ 1. Directed; prescribed. Labels: not-comparable Example: A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.
Word: plaster cast Part of Speech: noun 1. A cast made of a stiff material (often plaster of Paris and gauze) in order to immobilize a broken bone for the period of healing. 2. A copy of a piece of art or other object cast in plaster. Example: The police got a plaster cast of the suspect's footprint.
Word: walkthrough Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from walk through. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːk.θɹuː/ 1. Alternative form of walk-through. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
Word: walkthrough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from walk through. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːk.θɹuː/ 1. A tour of a space, such as a property for sale or rent. 2. The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through the algorithms or code as determined by input conditions and choices made along the way. 3. A thorough demonstration that explains or illustrates the steps involved in winning the game. 4. A financial audit that traces a sample transaction through the system to ensure that it is processed and reported correctly. 5. A theatrical or film rehearsal in which the actors move around the stage or set but are not in costume. Example: Near-synonym: run-through
Word: lection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lesson. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛkʃən/ 1. The act of reading. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.
Word: uncomprehendingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uncomprehending Middle English -ly English -ly English uncomprehendingly From uncomprehending + -ly. 1. In an uncomprehending manner.
Word: uncompromisingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uncompromising Middle English -ly English -ly English uncompromisingly From uncompromising + -ly. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪzɪŋli/ 1. In an uncompromising manner. Example: But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated. Example: They show that the "B1" 4-6-0s are just as speedy as the Stanier class "5" 4-6-0s of the former L.M.S.R., though like the Staniers they can be uncompromisingly "hard" engines to ride on.
Word: unconcernedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unconcerned Middle English -ly English -ly English unconcernedly From unconcerned + -ly. 1. In an unconcerned manner. Example: Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight. Example: Willie flits up, catches another insect, drops unconcernedly to his perch again, runs along the bullock's back in his bounding-jockey act, swallows his meal and announces he's a 'sweet-pretty-little-creature'.
Word: unconscionably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unconscionable Middle English -ly English -ly English unconscionably From unconscionable + -ly. 1. In an unconscionable manner. Example: Unconscionably, they and their outliers in the hard Brexit media have attempted to stifle debate and question those who demand proper scrutiny of the most significant political and economic challenge to Britain in decades. Example: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
Word: unconstitutionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unconstitutional + -ly or un- + constitutionally. 1. In a manner or to an extent that is unconstitutional. Example: “Most of [the law] acts as a hammer instead of a scalpel,” Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez wrote, calling it “a blunt tool hinders humorous expression and unconstitutionally stifles the free and unfettered exchange of ideas.”
Word: unconventionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unconventional Middle English -ly English -ly English unconventionally From unconventional + -ly. 1. In an unconventional manner.
Word: undauntedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English undaunted Middle English -ly English -ly English undauntedly From undaunted + -ly. 1. In an undaunted manner.
Word: undemonstratively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English undemonstrative Middle English -ly English -ly English undemonstratively From undemonstrative + -ly. 1. In an undemonstrative manner.
Word: uncouthly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uncouth Middle English -ly English -ly English uncouthly From uncouth + -ly. 1. In an uncouth manner.
Word: knapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knap + -er. 1. One who knaps.
Word: underhandedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English underhanded Middle English -ly English -ly English underhandedly From underhanded + -ly. 1. In an underhanded manner. Example: Because that democratic process did not initially support one of Hutchinson's choices of candidates, he points the finger at "leadership" and implies that things were underhandedly rigged from the start.
Word: knappers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of knapper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undeservedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From undeserved + -ly or un- + deservedly. 1. In an undeserved manner. Example: In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh.
Word: mithqal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian or Urdu مثقال (mesqâl), and their source, Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight, unit of weight”), from ثَقَلَ (ṯaqala, “to weigh”). Doublet of metical Pronunciation: /mɪθˈkɑːl/ 1. A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals. Example: The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town." 2. A coin originally having such a weight.
Word: undesirably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English undesirable Middle English -ly English -ly English undesirably From undesirable + -ly. 1. In an undesirable manner.
Word: unethically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unethical Middle English -ly English -ly English unethically From unethical + -ly. 1. In an unethical manner.
Word: uneventfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uneventful Middle English -ly English -ly English uneventfully From uneventful + -ly. 1. In an uneventful manner.
Word: unexceptionably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English exceptionable English unexceptionable Middle English -ly English -ly English unexceptionably From unexceptionable + -ly. 1. In an unexceptionable manner. Example: I told him my dislike of all men—of him—of matrimony—still he persisted. I used him with tyranny—led, indeed, partly by my temper, partly by design; hoping thereby to get rid of him; till the poor man (his character unexceptionably uniform) still persisting, made himself a merit with me by his patience. Example: The sentiments, as expressive of manners, or appropriated to characters, are, for the greater part, unexceptionably just.
Word: miskal Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mithqal. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unexceptionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception English -al English exceptional English unexceptional Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English unexceptionally From unexceptional + -ly. 1. In an unexceptional manner.
Word: unfailingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unfailing + -ly or un- + failingly. 1. Without fail; reliably; always. Example: While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'.
Word: unfaithfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unfaithful Middle English -ly English -ly English unfaithfully From unfaithful + -ly. 1. In an unfaithful manner.
Word: unfashionably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unfashionable Middle English -ly English -ly English unfashionably From unfashionable + -ly. 1. In an unfashionable manner.
Word: unflaggingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unflagging Middle English -ly English -ly English unflaggingly From unflagging + -ly. 1. In an unflagging manner; without becoming tired.
Word: unflappably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unflappable Middle English -ly English -ly English unflappably From unflappable + -ly. 1. In an unflappable manner.
Word: unforgivably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unforgivable Middle English -ly English -ly English unforgivably From unforgivable + -ly. 1. In an unforgivable manner. Example: Mr. Dukakis charged that when it came to advising President Reagan on Iran, Mr. Bush was "disastrously and completely and unforgivably wrong." Example: The astonished Ken Wharfe came by just in time to witness this bizarre spectacle and in an appropriately policemanly manner rebuked the butler for his 'unforgivably disloyal' and 'deeply unprofessional' behaviour.
Word: ungracefully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ungraceful Middle English -ly English -ly English ungracefully From ungraceful + -ly. 1. In an ungraceful manner.
Word: ungraciously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ungracious Middle English -ly English -ly English ungraciously From ungracious + -ly. 1. In an ungracious manner. Example: They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
Word: ungrammatically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ungrammatical Middle English -ly English -ly English ungrammatically From ungrammatical + -ly. 1. In an ungrammatical manner.
Word: unhelpfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English helpful Middle English -ly English -ly English unhelpfully From un- + helpful + -ly. 1. In an unhelpful manner. Example: Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated aspects of patristic theology, such as the Emerging Church and paleoorthodoxy.
Word: unhesitatingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unhesitating Middle English -ly English -ly English unhesitatingly From unhesitating + -ly. 1. In an unhesitating manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: I am city-bred myself, and though at my age I prefer the quiet of the country, yet for a young girl I well know the charm of a city life. Of course, we would all regret the loss of our Patty, who has grown to be a part of our daily life, but, nevertheless, were I to vote on this matter, I should unhesitatingly cast my ballot in favour of New York. Example: The voice was confident. Bond believed it. These people had shown they would unhesitatingly go the limit.
Word: knaps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of knap Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: knapping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of knap Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: knapping Part of Speech: noun 1. The process or result of a stone being knapped. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: unhurriedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unhurried Middle English -ly English -ly English unhurriedly From unhurried + -ly. 1. In an unhurried manner.
Word: knapped Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: knapped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of knap Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uninhibitedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English uninhibited Middle English -ly English -ly English uninhibitedly From uninhibited + -ly. 1. In an uninhibited manner.
Word: unintelligibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unintelligible Middle English -ly English -ly English unintelligibly From unintelligible + -ly. 1. In an unintelligible manner.
Word: unitedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English united Middle English -ly English -ly English unitedly From united + -ly. 1. In a united manner; together; in unison. Example: The chickens burst unitedly into a hungry clamour, as Mrs. Stein, with the full dish in her hands, leant over the yard to count them.
Word: unjustifiably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unjustifiable Middle English -ly English -ly English unjustifiably From unjustifiable + -ly. 1. In an unjustifiable manner.
Word: unmercifully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unmerciful Middle English -ly English -ly English unmercifully From unmerciful + -ly. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmɜɹ.sɪˌfʊl̩.li/ 1. In an unmerciful manner. Example: They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. Example: These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
Word: unpardonably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unpardonable Middle English -ly English -ly English unpardonably From unpardonable + -ly. 1. In an unpardonable manner. Example: The assertion that homosexuality threatens the lives and well-being of the public because it leads to AIDS is unpardonably remote from the facts. Indeed, the far more devastating AIDS epidemic in East and Central Africa is being spread almost exclusively through "normal" heterosexual intercourse.
Word: unpleasantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unpleasant Middle English -ly English -ly English unpleasantly From unpleasant + -ly. 1. In an unpleasant manner. Example: The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.
Word: unprecedentedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unprecedented Middle English -ly English -ly English unprecedentedly From unprecedented + -ly. 1. In an unprecedented manner; without precedent. Example: The next day was fine, but after that the weather was unprecedentedly bad, considering that it ought to have been the dry monsoon.
Word: unproductively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive English unproductive Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English unproductively From unproductive + -ly. 1. In an unproductive manner. Example: He did not come however. Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came. The anxious interval wore away unproductively.
Word: unprofessionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unprofessional + -ly or un- + professionally. 1. In an unprofessional manner. Example: Bouteillan, the old bald butler who unprofessionally now wore a mustache (dyed a rich gravy brown), met him with gested delight [...].
Word: unprofitably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unprofitable Middle English -ly English -ly English unprofitably From unprofitable + -ly. 1. In an unprofitable manner.
Word: unreliably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unreliable + -ly, blending to + -ably. 1. In an unreliable manner.
Word: unremittingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unremitting Middle English -ly English -ly English unremittingly From unremitting + -ly. 1. In an unremitting manner. Example: Day by day, those who watched unremittingly by the bed-side, by the sofa, by the pillowed chair, saw hope recede farther and farther from them. Example: Bells ringing, flags waving, may-poles—so long unseen—bonfires in due preparation for night, morris-dancers, who had practised for the last four-and-twenty hours unremittingly to refresh their ancient craft, an ox roasted whole, cakes, ale, crowds, confusion,—all assembled in and about Avonleigh Park, to greet the master's return.
Word: unreservedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unreserved Middle English -ly English -ly English unreservedly From unreserved + -ly. 1. In an unreserved manner; showing emotion or lack of restraint.
Word: unreservedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From un- + reservedly. 1. Without reservation or shyness; readily. Example: I apologize unreservedly. Example: Monsieur Tarzan would be delighted to place his interests unreservedly in the hands of his friend, Lieutenant D’Arnot.
Word: unresponsively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unresponsive Middle English -ly English -ly English unresponsively From unresponsive + -ly. 1. In an unresponsive manner.
Word: unsatisfactorily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unsatisfactory Middle English -ly English -ly English unsatisfactorily From unsatisfactory + -ly. 1. In an unsatisfactory manner.
Word: unscientifically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unscientific Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English unscientifically From unscientific + -ally. 1. In an unscientific manner. Example: The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
Word: unscrupulously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unscrupulous Middle English -ly English -ly English unscrupulously From unscrupulous + -ly. 1. In an unscrupulous manner. Example: His acquaintances were passed without greeting; while, as for his confidential friends, them he pointedly, unscrupulously, and with a kind of fierceness, cut dead.
Word: unseeingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unseeing Middle English -ly English -ly English unseeingly From unseeing + -ly. 1. Without seeing.
Word: unselfishly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English selfish Middle English -ly English -ly English unselfishly From un- + selfish + -ly. 1. In an unselfish manner. Example: The brutal insouciance of her fellow immortals — whether her sharp-tongued mother, Perse; or chilly Hermes; or righteous Athena enraged — proves increasingly alien to this thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.
Word: unshakably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unshakable Middle English -ly English -ly English unshakably From unshakable + -ly. 1. In an unshakable manner.
Word: unsoundly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unsound Middle English -ly English -ly English unsoundly From unsound + -ly. 1. In an unsound manner.
Word: unsparingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unsparing Middle English -ly English -ly English unsparingly From unsparing + -ly. 1. In an unsparing manner. Example: But when Boshy's ill-spelt, hopeful letters came, her heart charged her unsparingly, though her carefully school-dictated replies to him were destined to contain no hint of failure.
Word: unspeakably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unspeakable Middle English -ly English -ly English unspeakably From unspeakable + -ly. 1. In an unspeakable manner. Example: My point is that we shouldn't be too hard on the Star, the unspeakably vile supermarket tabloid that has been trying to dirty up Governor Bill Clinton. Example: "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Word: unstintingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unstinting Middle English -ly English -ly English unstintingly From unstinting + -ly. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈstɪntɪŋli/ 1. In an unstinting manner.
Word: unsuspectingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unsuspecting Middle English -ly English -ly English unsuspectingly From unsuspecting + -ly. 1. In an unsuspecting manner.
Word: unsympathetically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unsympathetic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English unsympathetically From unsympathetic + -ally. 1. In an unsympathetic manner.
Word: unthinkably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unthinkable Middle English -ly English -ly English unthinkably From unthinkable + -ly. 1. In an unthinkable manner.
Word: unthinkingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unthinking Middle English -ly English -ly English unthinkingly From unthinking + -ly. 1. In an unthinking manner. Example: The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature, it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in. Example: But, while I was still the girl my parents expected me to be, I was asked to be a Nixonette, and I merrily, unthinkingly donned my white dress and red, white, and blue banner. One of our Nixonette duties was to stand on the curb in front of the San Marino Republican Headquarters and welcome the candidate to town.
Word: untiringly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English untiring Middle English -ly English -ly English untiringly From untiring + -ly. 1. In an untiring manner.
Word: untruly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English untrewly; equivalent to un- + truly or untrue + -ly; compare Old English untrēowlīce. 1. In an untrue manner.
Word: unutterably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unutterable Middle English -ly English -ly English unutterably From unutterable + -ly. 1. In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it. Example: We both of us went on our knees, and, feeling unutterably sad, a whispered prayer went up from our lips as the poor fellow's soul flitted away to a happier and brighter world, and all was over. Example: I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.
Word: unwarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unwary Middle English -ly English -ly English unwarily From unwary + -ly. 1. In an unwary manner. Example: One day as I vnvvarily did gaze / on thoſe fayre eyes my loues immortall light: / the vvhiles my ſtoniſht hart ſtood in amaze, / through ſvveet illuſion of her lookes delight. Example: For in a night the best part of my power, / As I upon advantage did remove, / Were in the Washes all unwarily / Devoured by the unexpected flood.
Word: unworthily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English unworthy Middle English -ly English -ly English unworthily From unworthy + -ly. 1. In an unworthy manner. Example: There are deadly sins from which God's people may recover. A man may even communicate unworthily, and yet, so be it he sin not against the Holy Ghost, he may find forgiveness.
Word: laton Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of latten. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The bright spot upon its summit is a dome of yellow laton from Andalusia, vaulted upon ten columns.
Word: Anitta Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hittite [script needed] (Anitta). The etymology of the name is unknown; neither demonstrably Indo-European nor clearly of non-Indo-European origin. 1. name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).
Word: charact Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French characte, from Latin *characta, from Ancient Greek χαρακτός (kharaktós). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹækt/ 1. A letter or character. Labels: obsolete 2. A character or personality. Labels: obsolete Example: Even so may Angelo / In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms, / Be an arch-villain. 3. A magical symbol. Labels: archaic Example: O son of Khazib! when thou wakest from thy sleep dig under thy feet and thou shalt find a bow of brass and three leaden arrows, inscribed with talismans and characts.
Word: clomb Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kləʊm/ 1. simple past and past participle of climb Labels: archaic, form-of, participle, past Example: From the sails the dew did drip— / Till clomb above the eastern bar / The hornèd Moon, with one bright star / Within the nether tip.
Word: Anny Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Annie. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Annemarie Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name. Example: I said no, and Celia said, "Yeah right. Who's gonna go out with her?" But she smiled when she said it, so I wasn't mad. And then Margaret winked at me and she said, "Cel's just jealous, Annemarie, 'cause you're way prettier than she was when she was your age."
Word: sporto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂ Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂ Proto-Italic *portā Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *portāō Latin portāre Old French porter Anglo-Norman desporterbor. Middle English disporten Middle English sporten English sport English -o English sporto From sport + -o. 1. Synonym of sport (term of endearment)
Word: sporge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from sporgery. 1. To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups.
Word: unprotect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + protect. 1. To remove protection from. Labels: transitive Example: Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it. Example: Caution: When you successfully open a protected file, you’ve just unprotected it. After working with that document and closing it again, you must re-protect it if you still consider it confidential.
Word: mononumerosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- English numero- Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor. New Latin -ōsislbor. English -osis English mononumerosis From mono- + numero- + -osis. 1. The oversimplification of a metric by using a single numerical value to characterize a complex phenomenon or system. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: teppanyaki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese, 鉄板焼き (teppan'yaki), from 鉄板 (teppan, “iron plate”) + 焼き (yaki, “frying; roasting; broiling”). Pronunciation: /ˌtɛpənˈjɑːki/ 1. A Japanese style of cooking in which thin slices of meat, or fish, seafood, vegetables and noodles are quickly fried on a hotplate. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: half-caste Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From half- + caste. 1. Of mixed racial descent. Labels: derogatory, not-comparable Example: It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
Word: half-caste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From half- + caste. 1. A person of mixed racial descent. Labels: derogatory Example: AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.
Word: henpeck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hen + peck. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛnpɛk/, /ˈhɛnˌpɛk/ 1. To nag persistently. Example: But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all? Example: He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that. 2. to peck or peck at another bird. Example: Mrs Allsop and her bar-blue brother travelled well together in good times, but after they ducketed she would chase him from niche to niche, henpecking him while Monte tried to collar them and collect their rings.
Word: henpeck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hen + peck. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛnpɛk/, /ˈhɛnˌpɛk/ 1. A man who is meekly subservient to his wife. Labels: rare Example: One can't swear that Dewan Bahadur Yama Dharma Rao was a henpeck ; nor could be said that the practical Lady was a cockpeck. Example: The moment he allows the emphasis to swing the other way he becomes a sit-by-the-fire, a cockerel, a drone, a henpeck. A woman steps into this man's sphere at her peril.
Word: honeycombed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb. Example: This area is honeycombed with ironstone mines, and signs of an impending subsidence had caused the railway to maintain a continuous watch on the threatened section for several months. Example: Even in her Moloko days, she preferred outre get-ups – the sort of thing now thought to be the preserve of Lady Gaga. Tonight, Murphy has also brought along a hat that suggests both The Handmaid’s Tale and beekeeping, and, for a disco cut called Narcissus, a black honeycombed cowl that makes her look like a microphone on legs.
Word: honeycombed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of honeycomb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: honeyed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English honyed; equivalent to honey + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌnid/ 1. Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey. Example: There were no honeyed words from Dr. Beeching to mollify Scottish feeling on rail service closures during his one-day visit in May. 2. Sugary, syrupy. 3. Dulcet or mellifluous.