nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: jooked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jook Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: jooking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jook Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jooks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jook Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dowp Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of doup. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: melos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos). 1. The melody in Ancient Greek music.
Word: melos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of melo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wall brown Part of Speech: noun 1. An orange and brown butterfly (Lasiommata megera), of the family Nymphalidae. Example: Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).
Word: wall browns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wall brown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: white admiral Part of Speech: noun 1. A striking, white and black butterfly, of species Limenitis camilla, Limenitis arthemis or Limenitis trivena, of the family Nymphalidae.
Word: white admirals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of white admiral Labels: form-of, plural
Word: white-letter hairstreak Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, brown butterfly with a W-shaped white streak, Satyrium w-album, of the family Lycaenidae.
Word: white-letter hairstreaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of white-letter hairstreak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wood white Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, white butterfly, Leptidea sinapis, of the family Pieridae.
Word: wood whites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wood white Labels: form-of, plural
Word: operationality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From operational + -ity. 1. That characteristic of being operational. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: operationalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of operationality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: achirality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From achiral + -ity. 1. The characteristic of being achiral; the absence of chirality. Labels: physical, uncountable
Word: Papes Part of Speech: name 1. A surname 2. A surname from the Slavic languages
Word: Papes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Pape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: falterings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of faltering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laborlore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From labor + lore. 1. Folk elements of the lives of workers. Labels: uncountable Example: Returning to college at 40, he began studying what he called laborlore: the work songs, slang, craft techniques and tales that helped to define the trade unions and create a sense of group identity.
Word: microfocus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + focus. 1. The ability to focus on a microscopic target
Word: microfocus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From micro- + focus. 1. To focus on a microscopic target
Word: microforces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microforce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: microfoams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microfoam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mayories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mayory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: midplay Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mid- + play. 1. During a play. Labels: not-comparable Example: LaBute’s plays are, in fact, so provocative that some past audience members have walked out midplay or screamed out “kill the playwright” or slapped an actor’s face after a performance.
Word: multirotational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + rotational. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one rotation. Labels: not-comparable Example: Belbin said the difference between gold and silver could have been their downgraded twizzle, a multirotational turn on one foot while gliding across the ice.
Word: nonlosing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + losing. 1. Not losing. Labels: not-comparable Example: He has managed the Marines to their only five nonlosing seasons in the past 25 years, but he is not expected to return next year.
Word: nontitle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + title. 1. Not of or pertaining to a title. Labels: not-comparable Example: The longest title and nontitle matches are allowed 25 and 15 minutes, respectively.
Word: nontitular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + titular. 1. Not titular. Labels: not-comparable
Word: speakability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From speak + -ability. 1. The quality of being speakable. Labels: uncountable Example: Why, if speakability is Carson’s aim, would she have one of her characters declare, “Look at him, look how he drips unhealth — shudder object!”
Word: counterhistory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + history. 1. An alternative interpretation of history Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza.
Word: counterhistories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterhistory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neurotrauma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + trauma. 1. Neural trauma. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One of the most promising neurotrauma protocols comes from an Emory University researcher, Donald Stein, whose work suggests that a dose of the hormone progesterone administered within 24 hours of a brain injury could have a profound protective effect.
Word: neurotraumas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neurotrauma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nichey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From niche + -y. 1. niche; not mainstream but serving a narrow market or audience Labels: informal Example: “There are so many of the nichey, maybe weird-at-first communities, that can use this,” said Andrew Bolwell, head of the MagCloud effort at Hewlett-Packard.
Word: tormas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of torma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blackhearted Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of black-hearted. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Eventually he asked them to “go somewhere else with your negative, hateful, blackhearted and useless souls.”
Word: multimorbidity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multi- + morbidity. 1. The condition of being multimorbid. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Yet people with multiple health problems — a condition known as multimorbidity — are largely overlooked both in medical research and in the nation’s clinics and hospitals.
Word: multimorbidities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of multimorbidity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nobiletin Part of Speech: noun 1. An O-methylated flavone found in citrus peels. Labels: uncountable Example: One group of chemicals, called polymethoxylated flavones, includes nobiletin, tangeretin and sinesetin.
Word: nonvertebral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + vertebral. 1. Not vertebral. Labels: not-comparable Example: A new review of clinical trials appears to show a strong dose-dependent effect for vitamin D in lowering the risk for nonvertebral fractures in the elderly.
Word: clergypersons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clergyperson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pastorpreneur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pastor + -preneur. Pronunciation: /ˌpɑː.stə.pɹəˈnɜː/, /ˌpæs.tɚ.pɹəˈnɝ/, /ˌpæs.tɚ.pɹəˈnʊɚ/ 1. An entrepreneur who sets up churches as a business venture. Example: This American style of religion has begun to spread around the world through the efforts of what the authors call pastorpreneurs, who have modeled themselves on their American counterparts, building megachurches and entrepreneurial empires.
Word: pastorpreneurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pastorpreneur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonmethoxylated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + methoxylated. 1. Not methoxylated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: premilitary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + military. 1. Before military service. Labels: not-comparable Example: The allegations arose from the accounts of soldiers at a conference of graduates of a premilitary course at an academic college in northern Israel.
Word: zurek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Polish żurek. 1. Sour cereal soup (a type of sour rye soup, originating from Poland) Labels: uncountable
Word: restructural Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to a restructuring. Labels: not-comparable Example: Could President Obama really scare the restructural recidivists in Detroit into coming up with changes big enough to do the job?
Word: flaki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Polish flaki (“tripe soup”). 1. A traditional Polish tripe soup. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: runover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from run over. 1. A line of text that overruns the available space, either breaking to a new line within the column or violating the margin. 2. The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot. Example: CBS ranked No. 1 on Sunday night, aided by “60 Minutes” and an 18-minute runover into the 7 o’clock hour of live basketball coverage from the afternoon.
Word: runovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of runover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sinensetin Part of Speech: noun 1. A methylated flavone found in Orthosiphon aristatus var. aristatus (syn. Orthosiphon stamineus). Labels: uncountable
Word: tangeritin Part of Speech: noun 1. An O-polymethoxylated flavone found in tangerine and other citrus peels. Labels: uncountable
Word: unstagey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + stagey. 1. Alternative form of unstagy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: This improvisatory element engendered a vibrant, appealingly unstagey quality of performance.
Word: nontaxing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + taxing. 1. Not imposing a tax. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not taxing; straightforward, simple. Labels: not-comparable Example: The result is a nontaxing documentary whose highest use might be as a primer for high school students headed to Jerusalem on a class trip.
Word: underinsureds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of underinsured Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overinsure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + insure. 1. To insure for too great a value. Labels: transitive Example: I am overinsured on this boat.
Word: overinsuring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overinsure Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overinsures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overinsure Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overinsured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overinsure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scornfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English scorn Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English scornful English scornful Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną 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 scornfulness From scornful + -ness. 1. The quality of being scornful. Labels: uncountable Example: It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others.
Word: hypernationalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + nationalism. 1. Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The most talked-about new book here, “China is Unhappy,” combines hypernationalism with biting criticism of Western mismanagement and of China’s reluctance to grasp its place in history.
Word: recharacterization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek χᾰρακτηρίζω (khăraktērízō)der. Medieval Latin charactērizōder. English characterize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English characterization English recharacterization From re- + characterization. 1. The assignment of a new character or personality to something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Images of trapped, unconscious, and dead wolves reflect as well as contribute to the recharacterization of the wolf. 2. The treatment of a certain course of conduct in a different manner to which the participants describe it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You owe tax on April 15 on $100,000, unless you reverse the transaction — a process called recharacterization.
Word: recharacterizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recharacterization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antislave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + slave. 1. Opposing slavery. Example: (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)
Word: contortionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From contortion + -ism. 1. Synonym of contortion. Labels: uncountable Example: On days at Shea Stadium last season when he did not pitch, Mike Pelfrey retreated to the clubhouse to show off his hidden talent: contortionism. Example: Because most stretching exercises involve no amazing feat of contortionism, they can be performed by anyone […]
Word: minishow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + show. 1. A small show. Example: We’d do a night of five 10- to 15-minute minishows.
Word: minishows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minishow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superaggressive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Latin aggressuslbor. English aggress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggressive English superaggressive From super- + aggressive. 1. Highly aggressive. Example: We are being superaggressive in these communities.
Word: recharacterisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + characterisation. 1. Alternative form of recharacterization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: recharacterisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recharacterisation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonalive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + alive. 1. Not alive. Labels: not-comparable Example: “If you see a corpse and refer to it as nonalive, it doesn’t make it less dead.”
Word: recanvass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + canvass. 1. To canvass again or anew. Labels: transitive
Word: recanvass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + canvass. 1. A second or subsequent canvassing. Example: Each man had exactly 77,225 votes as of Friday at 1:45 p.m., with a recanvass of voting machines completed in 5 of the district’s 10 counties, elections officials said.
Word: recanvassed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of recanvass Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: recanvassing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of recanvass Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: recanvasses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of recanvass Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: recanvasses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recanvass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seapower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sea + power. 1. naval military power Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Representative Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of a House seapower subcommittee, said questions had emerged about whether a new system for catapulting planes off the next generation of carriers would work. 2. A country that has an effective military navy Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bloggerati Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of blogger + literati. 1. Blog authors collectively. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only Example: That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.
Word: burdensomely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From burdensome + -ly. 1. In a burdensome fashion. Example: On this and other shows, and in her 2008 biography, “sTori Telling,” Tori Spelling freely discusses her “complicated” relationship with her mother, her distress at the will, and her burdensomely privileged childhood.
Word: canoodlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canoodling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palindromicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From palindromic + -ity. 1. The state or quality of being palindromic. Labels: uncountable Example: A program that repeatedly checks an input line for palindromicity (a word or sentence is a palindrome if it is the same as its reverse, eg 'able was I ere I saw elba' is a palindrome).
Word: palingenetic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to palingenesis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Palinistas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Palinista Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diplomaed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diploma + -ed. 1. Having an academic diploma. Labels: not-comparable Example: In June 1959, I bought Snow’s “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” and read it with the kind of delighted assent that only a newly diplomaed graduate of a comprehensive liberal arts high school might muster.
Word: rewritings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rewriting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feedable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From feed + -able. 1. Capable of being fed (given food). Labels: not-comparable Example: I didn’t fantasize about its features, as I did with the feedable Baby Alive doll when I was 6 or with my first Macintosh, when I was 19. 2. Capable of being fed (given as food). Labels: not-comparable Example: feedable crops 3. Able to be fed into a machine. Labels: not-comparable Example: mechnically feedable paper
Word: flaglet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flag + -let. 1. A small flag. Example: Given the present crisis and empty coffers, working meetings geared toward results are more appropriate for politicians than a program of touristy forays, throngs waving flaglets and bulletproof glass, the whole culminating in a neo-feudal state banquet.
Word: flaglets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flaglet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperverbal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + verbal. 1. Highly verbal; tending to talk very much. Example: If it haunts him, it’s going to haunt his alter ego. Mr. Leary, 51, who is also a producer of the show, isn’t Tommy Gavin, but the resemblance is no accident: both men are Irish-Americans, lapsed Catholics, sometime hockey players and prone to hyperverbal explosions of caustic wit.
Word: idolizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From idolize + -er. 1. One who idolizes. Example: But he does pretty good work to the body of the Ali image, and it was a fairly humiliating read for me, an Ali idolizer stuck back in that night in 1975.
Word: idolizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of idolizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oldfangled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From old + fangled, modelled after new-fangled. 1. old-fashioned Example: Made from hand-harvested agave hearts roasted over a mesquite fire, Sombra seems a fitting partner for Chartreuse, with its producers’ similar adherence to oldfangled tradition.
Word: postgenocide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + genocide. 1. After a genocide. Labels: not-comparable Example: According to Gérard Prunier, everything conspired to turn Congo into a kill zone: a dying dictator; the end of the cold war; Western guilt; and a tough, suspicious, postgenocide, Israel-like Rwanda, whose national ethos, simply stated, was Never Again.
Word: pregenocide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + genocide. 1. Before a genocide. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rondels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rondel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secretarially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From secretarial + -ly. 1. In secretarial fashion. Example: I spent my adolescence touch-typing, convinced my life would be passed secretarially, my left pinkie building novelty muscle manning the A. Then the technology changed, and I improvised an inelegant three-finger style for computer keyboards.
Word: studiedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From studied + -ness. 1. The quality of being studied. Labels: uncountable Example: The tale of Meade and Ms. Althouse is a cross between the studiedness of a Victorian epistolary courtship a modern-day Robert Browning googling his dear Elizabeth Barrett — and the wackiness of 21st-century life online.
Word: transportive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From transport + -ive. 1. Serving to transport to another place. Example: For all the hype and initial success of devices like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of their transportive appeal.
Word: unbookish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + bookish. 1. Not bookish. Example: The death of her mother when Margaret was just 6, followed by the arrival of an unbookish stepmother, led to her position as the most important female in her father’s life.
Word: I'm full Part of Speech: phrase 1. Indicates that the speaker does not wish to continue eating.
Word: unscenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + scenic. 1. Not scenic. Example: SOMEWHERE in the five boroughs of New York City there may be a less appealing view, but this one is certainly a contender for the prize: the vantage point from the profoundly unscenic Roosevelt Island Bridge, on a dank and blustery March night, as you look straight down into the frigid East River.
Word: unvain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + vain. 1. Not vain. Example: The great thing about Russell is that he’s so unvain.
Word: yachtboard Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From yacht + board. 1. On board a yacht. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: According to one version, he'd been so drunk at a yachtboard party one night that he'd fallen overboard and drowned in Sydney Harbour within sight of the Cremorne ferry dock. Example: Cheeta swings from vine to vine through le tout Hollywood, from saucy poolside romps with Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Clark Gable and Clara Bow, to suave yachtboard revels — “a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar” — with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn.
Word: minisymphony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + symphony. 1. A short symphony. Example: The humorous program began with Mr. Robertson’s droll conducting of “A Musical Joke,” Mozart’s intentionally clunky and satirical minisymphony.
Word: antisalt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + salt. 1. Opposing salt. Example: Like other critics, he has compared the antisalt campaign to the campaign against fat that began several decades ago.
Word: eotaxins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eotaxin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: debtlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From debt + -like. 1. Resembling debt. Example: Before the crisis, perhaps 70 percent of demand came from practitioners of convertible arbitrage, who aimed to profit from the interplay of the debtlike and equitylike characteristics of the securities.
Word: equitylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From equity + -like. 1. Resembling equity. Example: Before the crisis, perhaps 70 percent of demand came from practitioners of convertible arbitrage, who aimed to profit from the interplay of the debtlike and equitylike characteristics of the securities.
Word: overscreened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overscreen Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: folar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese folar. 1. A traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter. Labels: uncountable Example: Mr. Alexandre is no stranger to the kitchen, as he’s proud to announce, having won several contests at the social club for his folar, a traditional Easter bread that in Trás-os-Montes is stuffed with cured meat.
Word: megafortune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + fortune. 1. A fortune of an amount in the millions. Example: The provision would funnel an additional $91 billion over 10 years to the heirs of megafortunes, money that would otherwise have been paid in federal taxes or donated to charity.
Word: megafortunes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megafortune Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overhire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + hire. 1. To hire too many employees. Labels: intransitive Example: He borrowed from Sequoia’s presentation and told the staff that Jive needed to conserve cash, make swift and deep cuts and invest based on results instead of ahead of them, as they had when they overhired. Example: “It is now clear to me that we over-hired,” he wrote. A Coinbase spokesman declined to comment.
Word: overhires Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overhire Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overhiring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overhire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overhired Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overhire Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: recorked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of recork Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chiffonlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chiffon + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of chiffon. Example: At the time, her brief to Margi Kent, who still designs much of her wardrobe, was to create “something urchinlike out of ‘Great Expectations’ or ‘A Tale of Two Cities,’” a chiffonlike, raggedy skirt that would still look beautiful with black velvet platform boots.
Word: counterinterpretation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + interpretation. 1. An interpretation that goes against another interpretation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I ask because when historians of any era run out of new things to say, they inevitably turn to a counterinterpretation.
Word: counterinterpretations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterinterpretation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Loft Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two main origins: * From Middle English lofte (“loft, attic”), possibly a surname given to a household servant who worked in an upper chamber; see the noun loft. * Borrowed from Danish Loft, a habitational surname. 1. A surname.
Word: psychophant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By confusion with the prefix psycho-. 1. Misspelling of sycophant. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: Socrates was not a sophist nor a psychophant. Example: Adolescents play out these interim roles of clown, miniature adult, social psychophant, bully, etc., to compensate for the loss of power that accompanies their perceived or real losses.
Word: Popp Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German.
Word: keelie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːli/ 1. A sparrowhawk or kestrel. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 2. A common or violent urban youth. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: That was what she said if it was Glasgow people, Oh they are just keelies.
Word: keelies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of keelie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unbracing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unbrace Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unbraced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unbrace Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbraced Part of Speech: adj 1. Not braced Labels: not-comparable
Word: unbraces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unbrace Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: make yourself at home Part of Speech: phrase 1. An invitation to a guest in the speaker's home to treat the house as if it were theirs. Labels: idiomatic
Word: make oneself at home Part of Speech: verb 1. To make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home. Labels: idiomatic Example: If you were lucky as a child, you were fêted in households other than your own, encouraged to relax, kick back and make yourself at home.
Word: fearnought Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fearnaught. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: desirements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desirement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desirelessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From desireless + -ness. 1. Absence of desire. Labels: uncountable
Word: hypercapitalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + capitalist. 1. Exhibiting or pertaining to hypercapitalism. Example: What the revisionists have done, Milton Friedman included, is provide ideological cover for a moribund political party. Mr. Friedman’s own place in the history books will rest upon how the chroniclers portray his role in the hypercapitalist free fall of the early 21st century. Example: [Sam] Altman is rapidly building out an economy within Silicon Valley that seems intended to essentially supplant Silicon Valley—a guild of hyper-capitalist entrepreneurs who will help one another fix the broken world.
Word: AMOLED Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym of active matrix organic light-emitting diode. Pronunciation: /ˈæməʊˌlɛd/ 1. Abbreviation of active matrix OLED, a display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: junkpile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From junk + pile. 1. A pile of junk; a scrapheap. Example: The technology behind it is known as active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, or “Amoled,” an acronym that will hopefully have a brief layover on its way to the jargon junkpile, but one that is worth remembering in the short term.
Word: junkpiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of junkpile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonpsychological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + psychological. 1. Not psychological. Labels: not-comparable Example: He shows interestingly scant interest in the nonerotic and nonpsychological details of her existence; he prefers the hot stuff, just as his readers will.
Word: overtheorize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + theorize. 1. To theorize too much. Labels: intransitive
Word: overtheorizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overtheorize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overtheorizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overtheorize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overtheorized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overtheorize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overtheorized Part of Speech: adj 1. having been unhelpfully subjected to too much theory.
Word: postserial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + serial. 1. After serialism. Labels: not-comparable Example: Here was music by a young composer audaciously combining postserial techniques with the buzz-saw din of rock.
Word: prepasted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + pasted. 1. Having paste already applied, requiring only the addition of water. Labels: not-comparable Example: Made by Brewster Home Fashions, a wallcovering company, all three murals are printed on vinyl-coated prepasted paper and measure 90 by 108 inches.
Word: pretrimmed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + trimmed. 1. Trimmed in advance. Labels: not-comparable Example: pretrimmed meat Example: pretrimmed wallpaper
Word: priestesslike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From priestess + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a priestess. Example: Yet when she turns away, raising those arms in a priestesslike gesture, that fabric acts as a curtain, shielding her from prying eyes.
Word: connoisseurial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From connoisseur + -ial. 1. Of or pertaining to connoisseurs. Example: Finished drawings sometimes were kept as prototypes for paintings and as objects of connoisseurial delectation, but generally they served as the underlying, invisible foundation for paintings.
Word: unisexually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unisexual + -ly. 1. In a unisexual way. Labels: not-comparable Example: The only problem is that the dancers were talking about doing something they loved, and the servers, as the wait staff members are unisexually known, are doing something they hate, just to pay the bills.
Word: cubiclelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cubicle + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a cubicle. Example: Leah Christiana Gonzalez’s place is more modest, with a cubiclelike bedroom, no living room and a shower she shares with seven roommates who keep odd hours.
Word: dinerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diner + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a diner. Example: Kodak, a 6-year-old Labrador mix that lives with Mike Hickey, the trainmaster, in an apartment with an electric fireplace, trotted up and down the train, then headed to its dinerlike restaurant, the Pie Car, where the cooks give her bacon.
Word: flyspecking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flyspeck + -ing. 1. A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint. Labels: uncountable
Word: flyspecking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From flyspeck + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of flyspeck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outsave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + save. 1. To save more money than. Labels: transitive Example: The gleefully frugal happily seek new ways to economize and take pride in outsaving the Joneses.
Word: outsaves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outsave Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outsaving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outsave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outsaved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outsave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sputterings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sputtering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: triethylenetetramine Part of Speech: noun 1. An oily liquid used as a crosslinker in epoxy curing and in treating Wilson's disease. Labels: uncountable
Word: trientine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From short of trie(thyle)n(e)t(etram)ine. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈɛnˌtiːn/ 1. Triethylenetetramine dihydrochloride, an oral copper chelating agent used to treat Wilson's disease. Labels: uncountable
Word: unmussed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + mussed. 1. Not mussed. Example: Two bus shelters […] were replaced this week with shiny new steel-and-glass structures that can keep passengers on the B23 bus line dry on rainy days and unmussed on windy ones.
Word: bosomed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bosom + -ed. 1. Having a bosom (of a specified kind). Labels: not-comparable Example: Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus’ train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! Example: 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild! Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!
Word: changefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From changeful + -ness. 1. Propensity to change. Labels: uncountable Example: I have cause to weep—I must weep over my own changefulness, and over the sweetest illusions of my youth. Example: The faint fluctuations in the light as someone ironed and someone played and someone experimented and the refrigerator cycled on and off had been part of the dream. This changefulness, though barely noticeable, had been a torment. But it had stopped now.
Word: clarities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clarity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exhilarations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exhilaration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grapiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grapy + -ness. 1. A resemblance to grapes. Labels: uncountable Example: While the Manischewitz’s cloying sweetness comes through (one suspects it would take a full gallon of bourbon to subdue that candied Concord grapiness), the drink is determinedly balanced, and rather festive to boot.
Word: loukoumades Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Greek λουκουμάδες (loukoumádes), ultimately from Arabic لُقْمَة (luqma, “morsel”). 1. Pastries made of deep-fried dough soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame. (used especially of the Greek version of these pastries) Labels: plural, plural-only Example: A $28 traditional Greek dinner, available after 5 p.m. next Sunday, will feature magiritsa, Greek salad, rotisserie- or oven-roasted lamb and loukoumades — Greek-style doughnuts.
Word: neomodern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neo- + modern. 1. Of or pertaining to a "new simplicity" in reaction to the complexity of postmodern architecture and eclecticism. Example: Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod. Freeman Thomas and J Mays, now both with Ford, worked under Mr. Warkuss.
Word: yawnfest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yawn + -fest. 1. A particularly boring event. Labels: informal Example: In summation, I was hugely disappointed with this yawnfest.
Word: yawnfests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yawnfest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quackings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quacking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semidome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + dome. 1. Half of a dome ("cut" vertically), used to cover a semicircular area. Example: At Holy Cross Catholic Church on West 42nd Street, opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the uninviting Romanesque exterior is in stark contrast to the airy sanctuary, with its great open space and a main altar set in a lovely semidome and illuminated by nine stained-glass panels.
Word: semidomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semidome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semidomed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + domed. 1. In the shape of a semidome. Labels: not-comparable 2. Supplied with a semidome. Labels: not-comparable Example: a semidomed chapel
Word: foreacre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + acre. 1. The headland of a ploughed field; the land at the ends of a field where the furrows cross. Labels: dialectal
Word: tobaccoish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tobacco + -ish. 1. Resembling or characteristic of tobacco. Example: And a too-sweet, tobaccoish residue lingered in Julian from his unchecked fantasies, and he laughed at himself (so like his father wrapping a fur stole around Billie Holiday’s shoulders), and he laughed at Cait O’Dwyer’s sorcery, and he wondered if, in her real life, she required a steady diet of recent heartbreak in order to manufacture fresh emotion for her consumers.
Word: unparodied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + parodied. 1. Not having been parodied. Labels: not-comparable Example: And no president should be left unparodied.
Word: underdefined Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + defined. 1. Inadequately defined. Example: The campaign of 2008 was but the latest instance of a presidential contest (like 1952 and 1964, to name only two) when the debate over foreign affairs was underdeveloped and the election mandate for the new president in foreign policy was strong but underdefined.
Word: vampirette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vampire + -ette. 1. A female vampire. Example: The bond with the dead, at once sister and young bride, may give us another perspective on the same-sex eroticism that, all agree, this male writer imagines and creates between the vampirette and her victim. Example: There will be no stores open at midnight for the latest Pinkwater, no nerd swarms, girl gaggles or nerd-girl swaggles, cloaked as wizards or vampirettes, whining at the doors, demanding completion.
Word: vampirettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vampirette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deloft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + loft. 1. To reduce the loft of a stroke with. Example: To ensure that you do not make a normal transfer of weight to your front foot during the swing, which may be good for full shots or chips but delofts the club in a flop shot, practice keeping your front heel off the ground throughout the swing.
Word: delofts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of deloft Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: delofting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deloft Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: delofted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deloft Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: miniloan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + loan. 1. A loan for a small amount. Example: Others have argued that without these miniloans, people would bounce checks, incurring average costs of $27 or more per overdraft.
Word: miniloans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miniloan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miniloci Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minilocus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: redeem oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To resolve, or make up for, one's previous folly. Labels: idiomatic Example: I know in the past I've been a giant twat, but all the hard work I've done since then is to redeem myself. I just want to do something useful, and I'm sorry if I cock it up sometimes. Example: Behind them, goalkeeper Senne Lammens redeemed himself on the one occasion he made a serious mistake, turning away a goal-bound Max Alleyne header from a corner the Belgian had needlessly given away.
Word: premeditatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From premeditative + -ly. 1. In a premeditative manner; with premeditation. Example: “Sure, I would want to get involved, but we’ve been premeditatively kept out of it,” Mr. Padavan said, adding that he would support a payroll tax but saw bridge tolls as problematic.
Word: timbalero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Spanish 1. One who plays the timbales. Example: “The timbales are for providing accompaniment, backup for the group; and a good timbalero must have a strong left hand to play the tumbao and pailas or cascara,” he said, referring to different rhythmic patterns in a measure.
Word: timbaleros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of timbalero Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypervirulent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + virulent. 1. Extremely virulent. Example: “But in the past few years the bugs have become hypervirulent, more severe and now it’s a global threat.”
Word: limbolike Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From limbo + -like. 1. A 2D platform-puzzle video game, often with a melancholy theme, similar to Limbo. Example: Silt, The Cub, Planet of Lana, and similar platformers demand a new term: the ‘Limbolike’.
Word: limbolike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From limbo + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of limbo. Example: The hall’s organ, a personal gift of Miss Tully herself, remains absent, dismantled and resting in limbolike storage in upstate New York.
Word: lookover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from look over. 1. A brief visual inspection. Example: Originally, whole-body imaging was proposed as an alternative for the relatively few passengers chosen for secondary screening, allowing them to opt for a machine lookover rather than a physical pat-down.
Word: lookovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lookover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skeletoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of skeleton Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: skeletoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of skeleton Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nonterror Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + terror. 1. Not of or pertaining to terrorism. Labels: not-comparable Example: Since Sept. 11, 2001, when the country’s attention understandably turned to terrorism, nearly 120,000 Americans have been killed in nonterror homicides, most of them committed with guns.
Word: ornithologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ornithological + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˌɔːnɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkli/, /ˌɔɹnɪθəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkli/ 1. In terms of ornithology. Labels: not-comparable Example: But Perry, Cabrera and Campbell could hear the Masters bird choir tweeting (that’s 140 characters or less, ornithologically speaking) over the quiet of the gallery following them.
Word: ornithomimosaurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ornithomimosaur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postnatural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + natural. 1. After nature; encompassing artificially constructed organisms such as the results of genetic engineering and cybernetics. Example: In the gallery of postnatural history, for example, is a goat that has been genetically tinkered with to produce spider silk, useful for fishing line and bulletproof vests, in its milk.
Word: backstepping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + stepping. 1. A technique for designing stabilizing controls for a special recursive class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Labels: uncountable 2. A gradual backward movement of organisms or a sedimentary environment caused by changes in environmental factors. Labels: uncountable Example: Once the sea level stabilized again, the same group of corals grew once more, but farther inshore and up to 10 feet higher in elevation, a process known to geologists as backstepping.
Word: parasequence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + sequence. 1. A relatively conformable, genetically related succession of beds and bedsets bounded by marine flooding surfaces and their correlative surfaces.
Word: parasequences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parasequence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paraselenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paraselene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paraselenae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paraselene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parasitaemias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parasitaemia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: consumerize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English consumer 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 consumerize From consumer + -ize. 1. To turn into a consumer. Labels: transitive 2. To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market). Labels: transitive Example: Mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning were commercialized decades before they were consumerized. Example: Nikon has tried to consumerize an existing S.L.R.; Canon has tried to S.L.R.-ize an existing consumer camera.
Word: consumerizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of consumerize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present