nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: miniburger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + burger. 1. A small burger. Example: In the 1980s and ’90s, there was a book party at least once a week at either Elaine’s or Mortimer’s, and the writer Candace Bushnell, then flat broke, went to all of them, especially the ones at Mortimer’s, because it served generous amounts of its famous miniburgers.
Word: miniburgers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miniburger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mumsies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mumsy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nannylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nanny + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a nanny. Example: If you are Margaret Thatcher, effortlessly radiating a kind of low-heeled, nannylike authority, or the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, resting on your laurels as a scientist, all you need do is pass muster.
Word: negotiables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of negotiable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: policemanlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From policeman + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a policeman.
Word: neuromotor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + motor. 1. Pertaining to the relationship between the nervous system and movement. Labels: not-comparable Example: He is also a music therapist in Hartsdale, N.Y., where he specializes in teaching music to children with neuromotor disabilities.
Word: paneless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pane + -less. 1. Without a pane. Labels: not-comparable Example: These days, Mrs. Kern, an 81-year-old widow, lives alone amid floors rotted in places and some paneless windows.
Word: ponyskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pony + skin. 1. The skin of a pony. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ponyskin Chrissie (left) is a tribute to — no surprise here — Chrissie Hynde, the outspoken frontwoman of the Pretenders, while the marbleized leather-and-suede Angie presumably riffs on the dissolute glamour of the ultimate groupie and former Mrs. Bowie.
Word: ponyskins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ponyskin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pruriently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prurient + -ly. 1. In a prurient manner. Example: One blonde proclaims, “If I meet a Negro I’ll have a Negro habit,” and the camera pruriently lingers on Ultra Violet making love with a black man and briefly on an outdoor session of interracial oral sex.
Word: showerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shower + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a shower (bathroom fitting). Example: But Michigan’s showerlike basins will be functional in design and open to all, as evidenced by the jokes they have occasioned about the value to all college students of an occasional foot washing.
Word: smoulderingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From smouldering + -ly. 1. Alternative form of smolderingly. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: smolderingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From smoldering + -ly. 1. With repressed anger or passion. Example: The huge cast and crew included scene makers, hipsters, hangers-on, socialites, amphetamine-thin actress/models, black militants, the publisher Barney Rosset, the boxing champ Jose Torres, the Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, Mailer’s wife at the time — Beverly Bentley — two of his ex-wives, and a sprinkling of professional actors, including Hervé Villechaize and, most crucially, a smolderingly intense Rip Torn.
Word: sneakerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sneaker + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of sneakers. Example: They were as comfortable as advertised, and were surprisingly easy to move around in — almost sneakerlike, in fact.
Word: spearfisher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spear + fisher. 1. One who fishes with a spear. Example: There is a reckless driver, a liar (Ann Hood fibs compulsively, a hilariously inherited trait), a Catholic adolescent with some confessions to make about confession and a spearfisher who, playing hooky in Mexico from family Christmas, cheats by luring her prey with cheese.
Word: spearfishers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spearfisher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stolovaya Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian столовая (stolovaja). 1. A basic, utilitarian cafeteria in Soviet Russia. Example: In the largely intact stolovaya, or canteen, the kitchens had rusting cookers.
Word: stolovayas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stolovaya Labels: form-of, plural
Word: servicemember Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From service + member. 1. One who serves in the armed forces.
Word: servicemembers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of servicemember Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ultrafeminine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ultra- + feminine. 1. Highly feminine. Example: On those occasions he was with Georgina Chapman, his English girlfriend of two and a half years, who, with Keren Craig, designs Marchesa, a three-year-old line of ultrafeminine evening clothes.
Word: drag-net Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dragnet. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dollybird Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dolly bird. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Ms. Boyd had been a successful London model in her dollybird days.
Word: dollybirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dollybird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drag-nets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drag-net Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fingerpointing Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of finger-pointing. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Example: The case is the same with words like ‘here’ and ‘there’. In all such cases, the mere wording, as it can be written down, is not the complete expression of the thought—but one further needs for its correct apprehension the knowledge of certain circumstances accompanying the utterance, which are used as means of expressing the thought. Fingerpointings, gestures and glances may belong here too. Example: The delays have caused much fingerpointing about who at the United Nations -backed Special Court for Sierra Leone is most to blame.
Word: miniclimax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + climax. 1. A minor climax. Example: BRISTOL, Tenn., Aug. 26  The race to the playoffs is almost over in Nascar ’s Nextel Cup series, and the drama that usually makes the final few weeks of the regular season a miniclimax is oddly missing this time.
Word: miniclimaxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miniclimax Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suburbanize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From suburban + -ize. 1. To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb. Labels: transitive Example: Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it.
Word: suburbanized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of suburbanize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: suburbanizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of suburbanize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: suburbanizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of suburbanize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: topspinning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of topspin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: backspun Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of backspin Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: backspinning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of backspin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cupless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cup + -less. 1. Without a cup. Labels: not-comparable
Word: judgeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From judge + -less. 1. Without a judge. Labels: not-comparable
Word: divvers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Jocular modification of divinity + -ers. See Oxford "-er". 1. divinity (as a subject or examination). Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: It is indeed no small hardship to give up fourteen successive evenings to an examination so farcical and extravagant as Divvers, which is void of definite purpose or result, when they might have been doing a thousand and one things of enjoyment and interest such as only a University can provide. Example: It was obvious to everybody by then that he was not going to pass "divvers".
Word: Radder Part of Speech: name Etymology: Jocular modification of Radcliffe + -er. See Oxford "-er". 1. The Radcliffe Camera. Labels: archaic
Word: raddlemen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of raddleman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fire cupping Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of cupping therapy. Labels: uncountable
Word: urbanizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From urbanize + -er. 1. One who develops a place into a city. 2. A place that takes on the characteristics of cities. Example: However, rapid urbanization would be a major break from India's past as the country has been, so far, a reluctant urbanizer. It took half a century for the share of urban population to rise from 17% in 1951 to 28.5% in 2001.
Word: urbanizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of urbanizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blenderize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blender + -ize. 1. To liquefy (food) in a blender. Labels: transitive Example: He has returned, leading small jazz bands, and the one he led on Sunday had a curious duality. Mr. Williams is a crowd pleaser, with a neat synthesis of John Coltrane’s and Cannonball Adderley’s phrasing and harmonic language; his pianist, Eric Lewis, was a crowd-riler, moving from ostinatos to blenderized whirls of notes, hitting the keys about as hard as anyone can, lodging his solos into your neck.
Word: blenderizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blenderize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: blenderizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blenderize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blenderized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of blenderize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: liquefication Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of liquefaction. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: blenderization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blender + -ization. 1. The liquefaction of food in a blender. Labels: uncountable
Word: protobacco Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + tobacco. 1. In favour of tobacco or public smoking in general. Example: The studies were selected from an original group of 131 papers if they were peer-reviewed and directly compared protobacco media messages in African-American and Caucasian markets.
Word: rediscussion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + discussion. 1. Discussion of a previous topic again. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Eni released a subdued statement Monday saying only that it had "received a letter in the last few days with an offer for friendly rediscussion of the contract."
Word: unpaint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + paint. 1. To remove paint from. Labels: transitive 2. To efface. Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: unpainting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unpaint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unpaints Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unpaint Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Ryukyuan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ryukyu + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈɹjuːkjuːən/ 1. Of, relating to, or derived from Ryukyu. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ryukyuan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ryukyu + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈɹjuːkjuːən/ 1. A member of the ethnic group indigenous to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
Word: Ryukyuan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ryukyu + -an. Pronunciation: /ˈɹjuːkjuːən/ 1. Any of the traditional languages of Ryukyu, in modern times predominantly displaced by Japanese.
Word: Ryukyuans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ryukyuan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retraumatize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + traumatize. 1. To traumatize again or anew. Labels: transitive Example: One risk of introducing potent material too fast is that a veteran could become retraumatized and perhaps unwilling to continue other kinds of therapy, as well.
Word: retraumatizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retraumatize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: retraumatizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retraumatize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retraumatized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of retraumatize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: postdefection Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + defection. 1. After defection. Labels: not-comparable Example: Intriguingly, what won them back to him was an attempt by Soviet officials and expatriates in Paris to ruin his first postdefection performance by booing and throwing coins onto the stage as he began the demanding Bluebird solo in “The Sleeping Beauty.”
Word: predefection Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + defection. 1. Before defection. Labels: not-comparable Example: The predefection years have so far been portrayed best in “Rudolf Nureyev: Three Years in the Kirov Theater,” a loving, little-known collection of reminiscences by friends and colleagues published in 1995 in Russia.
Word: unextraordinary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + extraordinary. 1. Not extraordinary; mundane, ordinary. Example: And maybe her very unextraordinary singing is part of her appeal.
Word: underpunctuated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + punctuated. 1. Having insufficient punctuation. Example: Before “Come Clean,” also known as the theme song for the MTV reality drama “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” she made a characteristically dispassionate (and, it seemed, underpunctuated) request for audience participation: “Hey you guys know this song help me sing O.K.”
Word: underpunctuated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From underpunctuate + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of underpunctuate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: callicarpa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Callicarpa. 1. Any of the genus Callicarpa of shrubs and small trees, the beautyberries. Example: There were callicarpas full of pale lavender berries, which would turn purple in the fall; viburnums and shrub dogwoods; and lacy elderberries juxtaposed against dense evergreens or the large, floppy leaves of an oakleaf hydrangea.
Word: callicarpas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of callicarpa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stephanandra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Stephanandra of deciduous shrubs with wavy-margined leaves. Example: MIXOLOGY In Duncan and Julia Brine's garden, a sugar maple shelters stephanandra.
Word: stephanandras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stephanandra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boula Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various Caribbean drums. Example: Instead of trap drums, his band features two drummers playing the island’s traditional boula and marké hand drums.
Word: confidentialities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of confidentiality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contentments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of contentment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exceedances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exceedance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frostinglike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frosting + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of frosting. Example: There are variations, like Al Held’s stark, existentialist compositions, with the canvas divided into quadrants. Ms. Goldfarb’s impasto is applied, frostinglike, with a palette knife, and Norman Bluhm offers a symphony of splatters. Example: Combine baking soda and castile or liquid soap to form a frostinglike consistency to use as a soft scrub cleanser instead of a sink, tub, and tile cleaner.
Word: grippier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of grippy: more grippy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: grippiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of grippy: most grippy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: scorepad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From score + pad. 1. A pad of paper on which the scores for a game are noted.
Word: scorepads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scorepad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: twinklier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of twinkly: more twinkly Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: twinkliest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of twinkly: most twinkly Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: biogeneric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + generic. 1. A copy of a drug, created through biotechnology. Example: The European Commission cleared the biogeneric version of the drug known as epoetin alfa, Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland, said yesterday.
Word: biogenerics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biogeneric Labels: form-of, plural
Word: securitizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From securitize + -er. 1. One who or that which securitizes. Example: The company, based in Boston and the third-largest securitizer of student loans, received a subpoena on Aug. 22, according to a statement yesterday on its Web site.
Word: securitizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of securitizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semibiographical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + biographical. 1. Combining elements of biography with fiction. Labels: not-comparable Example: 9 P.M. (Starz) THE QUEEN (2006) Queen Elizabeth II and Tony Blair struggle with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in this semibiographical drama directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Peter Morgan (“Last King of Scotland”).
Word: underprices Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of underprice Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: underpricing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of underprice Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: underpricing Part of Speech: noun 1. The setting of a price too low. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: waterstained Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From water + stained. 1. Stained with water. Example: The Hotel Carter is one of the last cheap places to stay in Times Square, a reputation borne out by its waterstained carpets, peeling walls and healthy occupancy rates.
Word: brownface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brown + face, based on earlier blackface. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊnˌfeɪs/ 1. A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race. Labels: uncountable Example: The problem isn’t so much Lancaster’s unconvincing brownface makeup — though it looks as if it had been applied by the same heavy laborers who blacktopped Laurence Olivier for “Othello” — as it is the extremely un-Leonardian softness of his presence.
Word: cytotechnology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyto- + technology. 1. The microscopic interpretation of cells to detect cancer and other abnormalities. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His mother is the director of cytotechnology at the Albany College of Pharmacy of Union University.
Word: cytotechnologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyto- + technologist. 1. A scientist working in the field of cytotechnology. Example: Her mother retired as a clinical instructor and cytotechnologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn.
Word: cytotechnologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cytotechnologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ozymandian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ozymandias + -ian. 1. Suggesting or pertaining to Shelley's Ozymandias, a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity. Example: Travelers in the antique land of the genre fable will find themselves confronted not perhaps by a wreck of Ozymandian proportions, but still with a sizable selection of rubble. Example: Delhi is littered with the Ozymandian debris of empires.
Word: larkily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From larky + -ly. 1. playfully Example: Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence.
Word: lobotomization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lobotomize + -ation. 1. Performing a lobotomy, the act of lobotomizing. Labels: uncountable Example: Those inclined to lament golden ages long past might be inclined to put forth this distinguished musician’s latest gig as evidence of the lobotomization of musical theater in recent years.
Word: minifilm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + film. 1. A short film. Example: These gorgeous minifilms feature muscled figures, often shirtless, looking like jewel thieves or Spiderman,^([sic]) atop buildings where they skip and leap with such death-defiance and frank grace that it’s hard to keep from calling their sport dance. Example: Yet this stylized minifilm captures some elemental aspects of his career. 2. A 10 cm² film used for chest X-rays that requires only 2.0 mrad (as opposed to the standard film of 35 by 42.5 cm, which requires at least 9.2 mrad).
Word: meltage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From melt + -age. 1. The process of melting. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: While the resulting ice balls make a dramatic visual statement, their size and shape also serve a functional purpose, chilling the cocktail with little meltage.
Word: multistation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + station. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one station. Labels: not-comparable Example: Like the Universal multistation gym, the Nautilus made exercise simpler.
Word: multivenue Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + venue. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one venue. Labels: not-comparable Example: WHEN Paris held its first Nuit Blanche — a frenetic all-night, multivenue cultural bash — in 2002, few could have imagined that five years later White Night fever would be sweeping Europe ’s capitals, and spreading to other cities.
Word: noncloying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + cloying. 1. Not cloying. Labels: not-comparable Example: He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance.
Word: nonimplicated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + implicated. 1. Not implicated. Labels: not-comparable Example: Part of an earlier generation of refugees, imbued with nostalgia for the storied, soulful Eastern Europe of her parents’ past, Lewycka seems to look on the incoming wave with less indulgence and more mortification than a nonimplicated person might.
Word: prepractice Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + practice. 1. Before a period of practice. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Austin club is across the street from Tam Deli and Café, an unassuming Vietnamese restaurant and a convenient stop for prepractice banh mi, sandwiches served on French rolls.
Word: preround Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + round. 1. Before a round of golf. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pulverizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pulverizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supercapitalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + capitalism. 1. Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism. Labels: uncountable Example: Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington. 2. A form of degenerated capitalism. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: When Lenin spoke about “a series of exclusions from freedom” which individuals and “capitalists” enjoy in what he called “democratism”, he was not very far away from Mussolini's rejection of “supercapitalism” which according to him meant the degeneration of “heroic and dynamic capitalism.”
Word: unaging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + aging. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ 1. That does not age; timeless, immortal. Labels: not-comparable Example: Age notwithstanding, none of these men seem interested in sailing to Byzantium anyway: Justine’s got them all on the last stage to someplace wilder and scarier, where Yeats’s “monuments of unaging intellect” are thoroughly beside the point.
Word: unairbrushed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + airbrushed. 1. Not painted with an airbrush. Labels: not-comparable 2. Real, genuine; without the removal of blemishes and inconveniences. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: Rich and strange in detail, magnanimous yet unsparing in tone, it presents an unairbrushed portrait of two quarreling middle-aged Ukrainian-English sisters, Vera and Nadia, who reconcile to save their stubborn father from a disastrous late marriage.
Word: underrealized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English realized English underrealized From under- + realized. 1. Inadequately realized. Example: Murray’s characters are both overdetermined and underrealized.
Word: unelect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + elect. 1. To vote (somebody previously elected) out of office. Labels: transitive Example: In detailing the machinations of superrich Democratic activists like George Soros, who blew through close to $30 million of his wealth in an unsuccessful attempt to unelect George W. Bush in 2004, and barricade-bashing cyberpunks like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the popular Daily Kos Web site, whose participant-readers attack all things Republican with the same fervor they showed when championing the already forgotten Ned Lamont in his unsuccessful attempt to unseat Senator Joseph Lieberman in 2006, Bai reluctantly and repeatedly owns up to a hard truth: “There’s not much reason to think that the Democratic Party has suddenly overcome its confusion about the passing of the industrial economy and the cold war, events that left the party, over the last few decades, groping for some new philosophical framework.”
Word: unelecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unelect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unfeminist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + feminist. 1. Not feminist. Example: DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, fashion is bourgeois, girly, unfeminist, conformist, elitist, frivolous, anti-intellectual and a cultural stepchild barely worth the attention paid to even the most minor arts.
Word: unionless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From union + -less. 1. Without an industrial union. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is also a unionless job.
Word: countermotion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + motion. 1. A physical movement that counterbalances another movement. 2. A legal motion filed in opposition to a previous motion. Example: Last week, United States District Court Judge Joel A. Pisano refused to issue a temporary injunction halting the state investigation, and the state filed a countermotion asking the federal government not to interfere in a state legal matter.
Word: countermotions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countermotion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: countermodels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countermodel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reflip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + flip. 1. To flip again. Labels: transitive Example: Ten pages into my Baby-sitters Club book, time to reflip onto my stomach.
Word: reflips Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reflip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reflipped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reflip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reflipping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reflip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reflexological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reflexology + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to reflexology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: roastery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From roast + -ery. Doublet of rosticceria and rotisserie. 1. A place where meat, coffee, etc. is roasted. Example: Mr. Peet was born in 1920 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where he learned the coffee trade while cleaning machinery and running errands at his father’s small coffee roastery. Example: “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
Word: roasteries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roastery Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of roasterie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unelaborate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + elaborate. 1. Not elaborate; simple. Example: The body design has been carried out to the requirements of the B.T.C. Design Panel in association with the Design Research Unit and its lines are described as "intentionally unelaborate". Example: He uses a mode of lyric writing that’s unelaborate, untheoretical.
Word: untheoretical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + theoretical. 1. Not theoretical. Example: He uses a mode of lyric writing that’s unelaborate, untheoretical.
Word: amenorrheic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of amenorrhoeic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: But when we combined stress, exercise, and cut down on food, 75 percent became amenorrheic.
Word: amenorrheic Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of amenorrhoeic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: amenorrheics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amenorrheic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amenorrhoeics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amenorrhoeic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bachatero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish bachatero. 1. A singer of bachata music. Example: Oscar, Mr. Díaz’s homely homeboy hero, is “not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about — he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy” with a million hot girls on the line.
Word: bachateros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bachatero Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chunni Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi چُنّی (cunnī) / Punjabi ਚੁੰਨੀ (cunnī). 1. Synonym of dupatta – a long scarf worn by South Asian women. Example: Her head was covered with a green and yellow bandhani chunni which was tucked into the cleavage of her blouse. Example: She no longer wears the scarf, called a chunni, while she works.
Word: chunnis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chunni Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clawedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clawed + -ness. 1. The property of having claws (of a specified type or number). Labels: rare, uncountable Example: One reason for this, the researchers say, is that it might be more difficult for a fiddler to size up an opponent of opposite clawedness.
Word: indignance Part of Speech: noun 1. indignation Labels: uncountable Example: And seeing him behind a stranger Knight, Where - as no living Creature he mistook, With great Indignance he that Sight forsook Example: “We were all insulted,” Mr. Goodwin said, “and indignance translates into action.”
Word: innovational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From innovation + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to innovation. Example: “I am looking for things that are going to stimulate the American people” to find the value in space exploration, he said, “the inspirational, the innovational and just the human quest to discover.”
Word: otologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oto- + -logist, after otology. Pronunciation: /əʊˈtɒlədʒɪst/ 1. A doctor specializing in otology. Example: “We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Example: Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.
Word: otologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of otologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overequip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + equip. 1. To furnish with too much equipment. Labels: transitive Example: More precisely, he is overequipped: among the items he takes from London are a collapsible canoe, a Union Jack, six linen suits, an astrolabe and a portable humidor.
Word: overequipped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overequip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overequipping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overequip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overenthusiastically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From overenthusiastic + -ally. 1. With excessive enthusiasm.
Word: overestimator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From overestimate + -or. 1. One who overestimates.
Word: underestimator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From underestimate + -or. 1. One who underestimates.
Word: overestimators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overestimator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underestimators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of underestimator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postflight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + flight. 1. After a flight. Labels: not-comparable Example: The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.
Word: postflight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post- + flight. 1. The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat. Example: Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.
Word: stringcourse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From string + course. 1. A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors. Example: Seismic improvements and strengthening interventions like inserting tie-rods or adding upper stringcourses, or horizontal bands, to the masonry can be designed case by case to meet specific weaknesses.
Word: stringcourses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stringcourse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sunblocked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sunblock + -ed. 1. Wearing sunblock. Labels: not-comparable Example: Skin needs ultraviolet radiation to begin the synthesis of vitamin D, but dermatologists say you can probably get the necessary electromagnetic input from a mere 20 minutes of sun exposure a week, as you go about your daily affairs, sunblocked and sans beach.
Word: undented Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + dented. 1. Not dented. Labels: not-comparable Example: She has written a fierce, haunting book about exile and loss and family love, and how that love can survive distance and separation, loss and abandonment and somehow endure, undented and robust.
Word: bruschettas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bruschetta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: otocyst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oto- + cyst. 1. An organ involved in balance and orientation. Example: If the otocysts were removed from these animals, they swam normally and no peculiarities were observed in their behavior. 2. The precursor of the inner ear.
Word: string course Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stringcourse. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: otocysts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of otocyst Labels: form-of, plural
Word: popcorns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of popcorn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: popcorns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of popcorn Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: commandwide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From command + -wide. 1. Throughout a military command. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Air Combat Command has ordered a commandwide stand down on Sept. 14 to review procedures, officials said.
Word: gaspy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gasp + -y. 1. Resembling or characterised by gasps. Example: Then his eyes began to spread and his breath to come out kinder gaspy like, and he says: "Ger-reat Scott, it's the LONGITUDE!" Example: When I tried it on, I discovered why my friends were so gaspy: it fit perfectly.
Word: gaspier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of gaspy: more gaspy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: hopscotcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hopscotch + -er. 1. One who plays the game of hopscotch. Example: Out came vanilla-scented pillar candles and shiny brass candleholders, bags of potpourri and cellophane-wrapped flip-flops, and enough unopened packages of rainbow chalk to keep an entire neighborhood of hopscotchers content.
Word: hopscotchers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hopscotcher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperliteracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + literacy. 1. Very high literacy. Labels: uncountable Example: But to audiences who appreciate the collision of hyperliteracy with parables from the tabloids, she’s an outstanding M.C. 2. Familiarity with hypertext technologies. Labels: uncountable
Word: sundrenched Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of sun-drenched. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: EARLY this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.
Word: shearings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shearing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: technogeek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From techno- + geek. 1. A geek with expertise in technology, especially computers. Labels: informal Example: Being able to use electronic mail, for example, should be a prerequisite to getting a piece published and certainly won't cause a writer to transform into a technogeek. Example: Do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters and product and furniture designers, the hackers are united only by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or repurposed.
Word: technogeeks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technogeek Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tetramethylpiperidines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tetramethylpiperidine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tetramethylguanidines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tetramethylguanidine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backweight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + weight. 1. A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity. Example: Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight.
Word: backweights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backweight Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backwinding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of backwind Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: backwinded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of backwind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: backwinds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backwind Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backwinds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of backwind Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: backwound Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of backwind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: caperings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of capering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: installational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From installation + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to installation. Labels: not-comparable Example: “Vessels are so over” is the apparent subtext of this potpourri of the figurative, abstract and installational.
Word: equipotentials Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of equipotential Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unfecund Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fecund. 1. Not fecund. Example: My soil is awful, an unfecund combination of sand, rocks and roots, the ungenerous leavings of Long Island’s glacially bulldozed moraine.
Word: studentlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From student + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a student. Example: All these pieces establish a climate all too well known in modern dance: studentlike; serious; worthy; mainly heavy-footed; theatrically tepid.
Word: upbuild Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + build. 1. To build up (literally). Labels: transitive Example: […] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […] Example: These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations. 2. To build up; to develop (figuratively). Labels: transitive Example: Briefly, the Republic, as he sees it, was upbuilt by a cunningly manipulated political machine that reared a seemingly solid superstructure on the false foundation of the interests of a class rather than of the people. Example: It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]
Word: upbuilds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of upbuild Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: upbuilt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of upbuild Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: upbuilding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of upbuild Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: upbuilding Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation. Example: It was beyond the local parson to remain passive while this spiritual cuckoo pulled to pieces this little nest of his victim's weary upbuilding.
Word: upbuilded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of upbuild Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: upbraider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From upbraid + -er. 1. One who upbraids.
Word: upbraiders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of upbraider Labels: form-of, plural
Word: upbraidest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: upbraid + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of upbraid Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: unupbraided Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + upbraided. 1. Not having been upbraided. Labels: not-comparable
Word: aftershow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From after- + show. 1. Occurring after a show. Labels: not-comparable Example: With “The Hills,” they use a master story (the fight between Lauren and Heidi) to propel themselves through narrative tributaries that might take them onto other platforms and technologies (message boards, aftershow discussions, video-sharing, music-download sites).
Word: aftershow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From after- + show. 1. An event which takes place following a show Example: Prince had brought the band back onstage to join him in the final encore of the main show, 'Get on the Boat', so it seemed likely he'd jam with them at the aftershow. 2. A talk show that discusses another television show that has already aired.
Word: coarsener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From coarsen + -er. 1. That which makes coarse. Example: MTV, you pornographer, you segregationist, you imperialist, you coarsener of culture, you aborter of attention spans.
Word: coarseners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coarsener Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonparish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + parish. 1. Not of or pertaining to a parish. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Los Angeles Archdiocese has said it will sell large amounts of nonparish property, including its administrative headquarters, to pay for the settlement.
Word: teensiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of teensy: most teensy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: teensier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of teensy: more teensy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: trivializer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trivialize + -er. 1. One who or that which trivializes. Example: You plunderer of album rock, you late adapter of rap, you trivializer of politics, you abandoner of music.
Word: trivializers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trivializer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brownstoned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brownstone + -ed. 1. Built with brownstone. Labels: not-comparable Example: An oak tree grew in Brooklyn once, on a pleasant, brownstoned block.
Word: brownstoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of brownstone Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: clanker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clank + -er, onomatopoeic. The sense meaning "robot" appears in science fiction at least as early as 1958. Its broader popular use increased on social media beginning around 2024, due to the AI boom. In this wave of usage, it was especially influenced by the word's appearance in the Star Wars franchise, particularly the 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando. In Star Wars, the term was used towards B1-series battle droids, which were humanoid robots that were manufactured for the sole purpose of fighting in armed conflicts. Their nickname of "clanker" stems from the fact that they would frequently make clanking noises any time they moved around due to being cheaply mass-produced. Pronunciation: /ˈklæŋkə/, [ˈkʰl̥æŋkə], /ˈklaŋkə/, /ˈklæŋkɚ/, [ˈkʰl̥æŋkɚ] 1. Something that makes a clanking noise. Example: Hurt him, hang him, Scrape-trencher, Stare-wearer, Wine-ſpiller, Mettle-clanker, Rogue by generation : Why dost heare Will? Example: Poor boys have got to study hard. Then they’ll get rich too—they’ll be doctors, and officers, and officials. I want to be a clanker—with a sword at my side and spurs on my boots—clank, clank! 2. A robot or artificial intelligence. Labels: Internet, derogatory, humorous Example: I got laid off 'cause they got them goddamn clankers taking our jobs. Example: Lousy clanker. 3. A person who uses automated technology or generative AI. Labels: Internet, broadly Example: Education is getting overtaken by clankers. 4. A fib. Labels: slang Example: Stop telling clankers! Example: Have done with all thought of the fellow and of his clankers concerning his birth.
Word: counterspying Part of Speech: noun 1. Spying on spies. Labels: uncountable
Word: counterspying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of counterspy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clankers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clanker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: droptop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drop + top. 1. Alternative form of drop top (“convertible car”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: These aren’t impractical performance machines or big-dollar luxury cars; they’re the sunny but humble conveyances you see trolling South Beach with discreet Enterprise stickers on their rear bumpers, cars aimed at people who want a spacious droptop for short money.
Word: entrapments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entrapment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: droptops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of droptop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dropsides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dropside Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dropships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dropship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dropships Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dropship Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person