nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: pre-eminent Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of preeminent. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: He was in high spirits, doing every thing with happy ease, and pre-eminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; […]
Word: protogyny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- English -gyny English protogyny From proto- + -gyny. 1. The condition in which an organism begins life as a female and then changes into a male. Labels: uncountable 2. The condition of flowers whose female parts mature before the male ones. Labels: uncountable 3. The emergence of females before males from dormancy, or more rapid development of female brood leading to their appearance earlier in a season. Labels: uncountable 4. The arrival of females before males at a mating site. Labels: uncountable
Word: background process Part of Speech: noun 1. A process that is not currently able to receive input from its controlling terminal. Labels: Unix
Word: proustite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after French chemist Joseph L. Proust (1754-1826) in 1832, + -ite. 1. A mineral, Ag₃AsS₃, often found with pyrargyrite in silver veins. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: isometrically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English isometric Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English isometrically From isometric + -ally. 1. In an isometric manner.
Word: isolationist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English isolation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English isolationist From isolation + -ist. 1. Relating to, or supporting, isolationism. Example: You’re basically seeing with Netanyahu what Trump wished he could have done. America has an isolationist bent right now, we don’t want to get involved in boots on the ground warfare.
Word: isolationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English isolation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English isolationist From isolation + -ist. 1. One who advocates or supports isolationism.
Word: irritatingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irritating Middle English -ly English -ly English irritatingly From irritating + -ly. 1. In an irritating way; in a manner causing irritation, or that irritates.
Word: irritably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irritable Middle English -ly English -ly English irritably From irritable + -ly. 1. In an irritable manner.
Word: irritability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin irritabilitās, equivalent to irritable + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹɪtəˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: irritability of temper Example: Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children. 2. A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants. Example: There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects. 3. A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: irrigable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English irrigate Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English irrigable From irrigate + -able. 1. Able to be irrigated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: kathenotheism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined 19th century by Max Müller from the phrase Ancient Greek καθ’ ἕνα (kath’ héna, “one by one”) and the word θεός (theós, “god”), following theism, extending the prior coinage henotheism by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling which he had himself popularised. 1. Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times. Labels: uncountable
Word: monolatrism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See monolatry. Possibly backformed from monolatrist, variant of monolater. 1. The worship of a single deity (while possibly believing in others). Labels: uncountable Example: The concept of monotheism sees a gradual development out of notions of henotheism and monolatrism.
Word: don't shoot the messenger Part of Speech: proverb 1. The bearer of bad news should not be held accountable for it. Labels: humorous, sarcastic
Word: because of Part of Speech: prep 1. On account of; due to, for the purpose of. Example: Because of being tired, she left earlier than the rest.
Word: maltheism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Macaronic nonce coinage from mal-, from Latin malus (“bad”), + theism (compare misotheism and dystheism). Attested in Usenet discussions from 1985http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=maltheism&safe=off&qt_s=Search&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=4&as_maxm=10&as_maxy=1986 1. The belief that further to any deity's existence being rejected, the low evaluation of their properties would result in them not being worthy of worship. Labels: uncountable Example: Eve's decision is enough to make me consider choosing agnosticism as my preferred faith, or at least maltheism.
Word: eutheism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coinage from eu- + theism (as antonym of dystheism) Attestation in a 1998 theology lecture https://web.archive.org/web/20071203180444/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/356/lec19.html. Humorous attestation on Usenet in 2002http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.everquest/browse_thread/thread/8f0df5dadf848aee/cb60e1f231543a29?lnk=st&q=eutheist&rnum=1#cb60e1f231543a29. 1. The belief that there is a god, and that this god is benevolent. Labels: uncountable Example: […] many of them still believe god exists, but that he has let them down and so they keep their belief in his existence, but no longer worship him (and even hate him). ie rather than switching to atheism, they switch from eutheism to dystheism (although they may incorrectly call themselves atheist). Example: Protest theology rejects the often axiomatic assumption that God is always good or just (eutheism). More to the point, it holds that the eutheistic outlook not only stunts our ability to have a true, meaningful relationship with God, but that the theological contortions it demands also cause us to miss several important themes and lessons latent in the Hebrew Bible.
Word: fooling about Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fool about Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hoh Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of ho. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"
Word: eld Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”). Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old. Pronunciation: /ɛld/ 1. One's age, age in years, period of life. Labels: dialectal, rare, uncountable Example: A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice. Example: The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law. 2. Old age, senility; an old person. Labels: archaic, poetic, uncountable Example: Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe; Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile, And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe, Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle, To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle. Example: Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man? 3. Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time. Labels: archaic, poetic, uncountable 4. Former ages, antiquity, olden times. Labels: archaic, poetic, uncountable Example: Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld, when the damosel fled with her lover.
Word: eld Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”). Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old. Pronunciation: /ɛld/ 1. Old. Labels: obsolete
Word: eld Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”). Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old. Pronunciation: /ɛld/ 1. To age, become or grow old. Labels: archaic, dialectal, intransitive, poetic 2. To delay; linger. Labels: archaic, intransitive, poetic 3. To make old, age. Labels: archaic, poetic, transitive
Word: alr Part of Speech: adv 1. Clipping of already. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable 2. Clipping of alright. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: alr Part of Speech: adj 1. Clipping of alright. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: alr Part of Speech: intj 1. Clipping of alright. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: Erbe Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Erbe. 1. A surname from German.
Word: collins Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Tom Collins. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑlɪnz/, /ˈkɒlɪnz/ 1. Any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water.
Word: fool about Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfuːl əˈbaʊt/ 1. to fool around Labels: intransitive
Word: impugned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of impugn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: belladonna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian belladonna (altered by folk etymology: bella donna (“beautiful lady”)) from Medieval Latin blādōna (“nightshade”), of Gaulish origin. The folk etymology was motivated by the cosmetic use of nightshade for dilating the eyes. Pronunciation: /ˌbɛləˈdɑnə/, /ˌbɛləˈdɒnə/ 1. A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat. 2. An alkaloid extracted from this plant, sometimes used medicinally, containing atropine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The elderly women who practiced herbalism and administered belladonna (a pain killer) to pregnant women were apt to be accused of witchcraft. The Medieval church was against the administration of belladonna because they believed women were meant to suffer pain in childbirth as a result of Eve's sin. Example: Cathy teetered downstairs on very high heels, her hair swept up in a disintegrating “brioche”, her eyes glistening with belladonna drops.
Word: port forwarding Part of Speech: noun 1. The forwarding of a network port from one device to another; especially, such forwarding when done to provide an external user with access to a port on a private IP address. Labels: Internet, uncountable
Word: irreversibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From irreversible + -ly or ir- + reversibly. 1. In an irreversible manner. Example: But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises. Example: We also perform IR-VIS absorbance measurements and find that the results suggest that during irradiation some of the dye molecules form dimers and trimers and that the polymer host is irreversibly damaged by photooxidation and Norrish type I photocleavage.
Word: irreverently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irreverent Middle English -ly English -ly English irreverently From irreverent + -ly. 1. In an irreverent manner. Example: He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame. Example: Elisha […] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently […]
Word: irreverence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English irreverence, from Latin irreverentia, from irreverēns (“irreverent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). By surface analysis, ir- + reverence. 1. The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: irretrievably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irretrievable Middle English -ly English -ly English irretrievably From irretrievable + -ly. 1. In an irretrievable manner; irrecoverably. Example: Old English seems, and remains, irretrievably distant[.] Example: Such comments needlessly and irretrievably polarize the collective and its neighbors.
Word: irrecoverably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irrecoverable Middle English -ly English -ly English irrecoverably From irrecoverable + -ly. 1. In an irrecoverable manner; beyond recovery. Example: Unfortunately for our knowledge of the ancient Italian mythology, the ballad-poetry of Rome is irrecoverably lost.
Word: irrecoverable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English irrecoverable, from Middle French irrecovrable. Attested earlier than recoverable. By surface analysis, ir- + recoverable. 1. Not recoverable; incapable of being recovered Example: irrecoverable data Example: an irrecoverable debt 2. That cannot be recovered from or made good; irremediable. Example: an irrecoverable disease; irrecoverable danger
Word: recoverable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English recoverabille, recoverable, recovererabyll (error), equivalent to recover + -able. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/, /ɹə-/, [ɹɪˈkʌvɚəbl̩], [ɹə-] 1. Capable of being regained or recovered. Labels: not-comparable Example: recoverable data 2. Restorable from sickness, faintness, danger, etc. Labels: not-comparable 3. Capable of being brought back to a former condition, or recovered from. Labels: not-comparable Example: a recoverable error 4. Obtainable from a debtor or possessor. Labels: not-comparable Example: recoverable debt
Word: recoverable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English recoverabille, recoverable, recovererabyll (error), equivalent to recover + -able. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/, /ɹə-/, [ɹɪˈkʌvɚəbl̩], [ɹə-] 1. Amounts of reinsurance coverage that are due from a reinsurer.
Word: restorable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English restore Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English restorable From restore + -able. 1. Capable of being restored or reclaimed Example: restorable memory Example: 18 March 2013, Max Davidson writing in the Daily Telegraph, Need a four-poster bed? Dormy House hotel auctions off contents Don’t dismiss builders’ skips. You may not find a Chippendale desk, but you might collar a restorable sofa. Always ask the builder or house owner for permission first.
Word: irretrievable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English retrieve Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English retrievable English irretrievable From ir- + retrievable. 1. Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable Example: an irretrievable loss Example: But, having hung him, you cannot unhang him. With all your liability to err, you dare to take a step, which, if wrong at all, is infinitely so, because irretrievable.
Word: retrievable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English retrieve Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English retrievable From retrieve + -able. 1. Capable of being retrieved or recovered. Example: Mislaid items are retrievable from the Lost Property office. 2. From which recovery is possible. Example: His mistakes are fatal; those of the Law are only temporary and retrievable.
Word: irresponsibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From irresponsible + -ly or ir- + responsibly. Pronunciation: /ˌɪ.ɹɪˈspɒn.sə.bli/, /ˌɪ.ɹɪˈspɑːn.sə.bli/ 1. In an irresponsible manner; so as to be irresponsible. Example: He had frequent fits of melancholy in which he declared that he was neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. His was neither an irresponsibly contemplative nature nor a sturdily practical one, and he was for ever looking in vain for the uses of the things that please and the charm of the things that sustain.
Word: irresponsibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ir- + responsibility or irresponsible + -ity. 1. The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: How important can the greenhouse effect, biodiversity or future worldwide timber shortages seem to a third-worlder, for example? It would be wrong to think of this third-worlder as irresponsible or as a squanderer of resources before serious steps are taken towards solving the well-known and much worse problem of resource squandering and environmental irresponsibility in the developed nations.
Word: irretentive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English retentive English irretentive From ir- + retentive. 1. Not retentive; not apt to retain.
Word: irretraceable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English retraceable English irretraceable From ir- + retraceable. 1. Not retraceable; unable to be retraced.
Word: retraceable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English retrace Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English retraceable From retrace + -able. 1. Capable of being retraced.
Word: irretention Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English retention English irretention From ir- + retention. 1. Absence of retention; the state or quality of being irretentive; lack of power to retain information
Word: irresuscitably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irresuscitable Middle English -ly English -ly English irresuscitably From irresuscitable + -ly. 1. So as not to be resuscitated; in an irresuscitable manner.
Word: irresuscitable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English resuscitable English irresuscitable From ir- + resuscitable. 1. Incapable of being resuscitated or revived.
Word: irresolution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle French irresolution (modern French irrésolution), from ir- + resolution (“resolution”); compare Italian irresoluzione. By surface analysis, ir- + resolution. Pronunciation: /ɪɹɛzəˈluːʃən/ 1. Lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Again he paced the chamber; but an involuntary movement of awe and inquietude constantly led his eye towards the alcove. He drew near it with irresolution.
Word: irresoluteness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English irresolute 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 irresoluteness From irresolute + -ness. 1. The state of being irresolute. Labels: uncountable
Word: irresolutely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irresolute Middle English -ly English -ly English irresolutely From irresolute + -ly. 1. In an irresolute or wavering manner. Example: [H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.
Word: farmland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English farm Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English farmland From farm + land. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑːmlænd/, /ˈfɑːɹmlænd/ 1. Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop. 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: wavering Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English waver Middle English -ynge English -ing English wavering From waver + -ing. 1. Fluctuating, uncertain, undetermined, unsteady. 2. Being in doubt; indecisive.
Word: wavering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English waver Middle English -ynge English -ing English wavering From waver + -ing. 1. gerund of waver: a state of fluctuation or indecision. Labels: form-of, gerund Example: the waverings of politicians, trying to please everybody Example: The Bill for the Carlisle & Hawick Railway, an independent line, but intended to be worked and maintained by the Caledonian, failed, and the people of Hawick, after considerable wavering, decided to give their support to the North British Border Union line, which the Carlisle & Hawick scheme was, of course, intended to block.
Word: wavering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English waver Middle English -ynge English -ing English wavering From waver + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of waver Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: undetermined Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + determined. 1. Not determined; not settled; not decided. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not limited; not defined; indeterminate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: undetermined Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of undetermine Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: irresistibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irresistible Middle English -ly English -ly English irresistibly From irresistible + -ly. 1. In an irresistible manner. Example: And yet, at other times, there is a mysterious indraft, which irresistibly draws a passing vessel among the isles, though not bound to them. Example: Among them was the "West Country" driver, Swain, of Bude, over the Great Central, who reminded me irresistibly of a hunter putting a particularly mettlesome steed at the fences.
Word: irreproachably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irreproachable Middle English -ly English -ly English irreproachably From irreproachable + -ly. 1. In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
Word: blamelessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English blameless Middle English -ly English -ly English blamelessly From blameless + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪm.lɛs.li/ 1. In a blameless manner.
Word: blameless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blameles, equivalent to blame + -less. 1. Free from blame; without fault; innocent. Example: And while American Jews do not hold the left blameless, in the age of Trump, we’re a lot more concerned about right-wing anti-Semitism. 2. Not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof. Example: He shall be as now nameles, But he shall not be blameles, Nor he shall not be shameles; For sure he wrought amys, […]
Word: irreproachable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1630. Borrowed from French irréprochable, from Middle French inreprochable. See also ir- + reproachable. 1. Free from blame, not open to reproach or criticism; blameless. Labels: not-comparable Example: At Athens the Prieſts and Prieſteſſes were drawn by lot, from the men and virgins of diſtinguiſhed family and irreproachable life. Maimed or deformed perſons were not admitted, and purity and chaſtity were ſo particularly required, that the Prieſts frequently uſed means to emaſculate themselves. Example: “Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found a husband the most docile, irreproachable, and obedient of created beings, and that all heiresses apparent to thrones will do the same;[…]”
Word: guiltless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English giltles, gultles, gyltles, from Old English *gyltlēas, equivalent to guilt + -less. Compare Old English sċyldlēas (“guiltless”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪltləs/ 1. Free from guilt; innocent. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with). 3. Not encumbered with; free from. Labels: humorous Example: Their spears, wommeras, and boomerangs are guiltless of ornamentation, and save in a very few instances no idea of art seems to belong to the race.
Word: guiltlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English guiltless 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 guiltlessness From guiltless + -ness. 1. The state of being guiltless; innocence. Labels: uncountable
Word: guiltlessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English guiltless Middle English -ly English -ly English guiltlessly From guiltless + -ly. 1. In a guiltless manner; innocently.
Word: innocently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English innocent Middle English -ly English -ly English innocently From innocent + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnəsəntli/ 1. In an innocent manner. Example: [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
Word: unacquainted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English acquainted English unacquainted From un- + acquainted. 1. Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something). Example: The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege. Example: 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26, […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […] 2. Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. Labels: obsolete Example: Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright, Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare, She greatly grew amazed at the sight, And th’vnacquainted light began to feare: Example: […] [we] fill up Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep Upon the spot of this enforced cause,— To grace the gentry of a land remote, And follow unacquainted colours here?
Word: reproachable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reproach Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reproachable From reproach + -able. 1. Deserving reproach. 2. Opprobrious; scurrilous; reproachful; abusive. Labels: obsolete
Word: reproachful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reproach + -ful. 1. Expressing or containing reproach 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base Example: He lived a reproachful life.
Word: monomaniacal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *mn̥yétorder. Proto-Hellenic *məňňómai Ancient Greek μαίνομαι (maínomai) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek μανίᾱ (maníā) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ακός (-akós) Ancient Greek μανιακός (maniakós)bor. Late Latin maniacuslbor. French maniaquebor. English maniac English -al English maniacal English monomaniacal From mono- + maniacal. Pronunciation: /ˌmɒnəməˈnaɪəkəl/ 1. Of or relating to a monomaniac. Example: ‘The typical Zweig story,’ the critic William Deresiewicz notes, cooling to his subject in an afterword, ‘is a tale of monomaniacal passion set loose amid the veiled, upholstered civility of the Austrian bourgeoisie, the class into which Zweig was born.’
Word: upbraiding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of upbraid Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: upbraiding Part of Speech: adj 1. Reproachful; chiding; censorious.
Word: upbraiding Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of severe criticism or rebuke. Example: I wish to bring comfort and avoid upbraidings: for your own conscience will reproach you more than the voice of a preacher. 2. An instance of vomiting Labels: obsolete Example: The seed wasteth and consumeth winde, and is good against belchings and upbraidings of the stomach, alaieth gripings of the belly, provoketh urine gently, maketh abundance of milke, and stirreth up bodily lust: it staieth the laske, and also the white flux in women
Word: censorious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cēnsōrius (“of or pertaining to a censor; severe”). In sense 3 ("tending to engage in or support censorship"), reanalyzed as censor + -ious. Pronunciation: /sɛnˈsɔɹiəs/ 1. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. Example: Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring may jarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; […] Example: [S]he remembered the Countess of Rotheles's advice, and she well knew the very pointed words and looks Lady Allerton could assume when it suited her humour to be censorious, and was well aware that every particular of the evening's entertainment would be transmitted with a jaundiced tint to Rotheles Castle for the amusement and animadversion of her invalid brother. 2. Implying or expressing censure. Example: censorious remarks 3. Tending to engage in or support censorship. Labels: proscribed Example: Chick-Fil-A^([sic]) has survived and thrived because they served everyone AND refused to cater to the cancel culture. Now they’ve caved at the behest of the censorious Left. This is a terrible move and just the latest indicator that the center cannot hold. Example: Is there something in the California water that makes Silicon Valley's censorious dweebs so damned shameless?
Word: irrepressibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irrepressible Middle English -ly English -ly English irrepressibly From irrepressible + -ly. 1. In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed; in an irrepressible way.
Word: itemized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of itemize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: irremovable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- Proto-Italic *wre- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Proto-Italic *wremoweō Latin removeō Old French removoir Anglo-Norman removerbor. Middle English removen English remove Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English removable English irremovable From ir- + removable. 1. Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Labels: not-comparable
Word: irremediably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irremediable Middle English -ly English -ly English irremediably From irremediable + -ly. 1. In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction; in an irremediable way.
Word: irrelevantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irrelevant Middle English -ly English -ly English irrelevantly From irrelevant + -ly. 1. In an irrelevant manner. Example: “Not yet,” replied Jane, and then, quite irrelevantly, “I wish England were a million miles from here.” Example: 'Our population would be the same, and our world would still have been dying of its own waste heat!' Irrelevantly, Teela said, 'I wish we could see out.'
Word: irrelevancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ir- + relevancy or irrelevant + -cy. 1. The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection. Labels: uncountable 2. A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion. Labels: countable Example: To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there. Example: "You've been and taken my Japanese umbrella." "I won't have him making an exhibition of himself," said Cripps, ignoring the irrelevancy.
Word: inapplicable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English applicable English inapplicable From in- + applicable. 1. Not applicable; that does not apply or cannot be applied; unsuitable or irrelevant. Example: The argument is inapplicable to the case. Example: In this case, y(#92;cdot) is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices.
Word: irregularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irregular Middle English -ly English -ly English irregularly From irregular + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɛɡjʊləli/ 1. In an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order. Example: A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all. Example: Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised […]
Word: irrefutably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irrefutable Middle English -ly English -ly English irrefutably From irrefutable + -ly. 1. In an irrefutable manner; beyond the possibility of refutation.
Word: irredeemably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irredeemable Middle English -ly English -ly English irredeemably From irredeemable + -ly. 1. In an irredeemable manner; beyond redemption. Labels: not-comparable
Word: irredeemable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- Latin red- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin redimōbor. Old French redimerbor. Middle English redemen English redeem Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English redeemable English irredeemable From ir- + redeemable. Pronunciation: /ɪɹəˈdiːməbəl/ 1. Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped. Example: It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck. Example: She was horribly frightened; but she had pledged her word now, and it was irredeemable. 2. Not able to be cancelled by a payment or converted to another form of currency or financial instrument, especially one considered more secure or reliable. Labels: usually Example: The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to sell their subscription as soon as possible, prefer greatly a perpetual annuity, redeemable by parliament, to an irredeemable annuity, for a long term of years, of only equal amount. Example: Investors have always had to trust somebody or something. . . . But they have not always had to make a leap of faith about a nation's irredeemable paper currency. Up until Aug. 15, 1971 the dollar was exchangeable into gold at the rate of $35 to the ounce.
Word: irredeemable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- Latin red- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin redimōbor. Old French redimerbor. Middle English redemen English redeem Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English redeemable English irredeemable From ir- + redeemable. Pronunciation: /ɪɹəˈdiːməbəl/ 1. A financial instrument that cannot be freely redeemed.
Word: redeemable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin red- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin redimōbor. Old French redimerbor. Middle English redemen English redeem Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English redeemable From redeem + -able. 1. Capable of being redeemed; able to be restored or recovered. 2. Capable of being paid off; subject to a right on the part of the debtor to discharge or of an issuer to repurchase Example: a redeemable annuity Example: redeemable preferred stock 3. Susceptible to correction or reform.
Word: redeemable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin red- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin redimōbor. Old French redimerbor. Middle English redemen English redeem Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English redeemable From redeem + -able. 1. A financial instrument that can be redeemed.
Word: repurchase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English purchase English repurchase From re- + purchase. 1. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Example: Fortunately, however, there was another of the class still in existence, which had been sold years ago to the East Kent Light Railway, and in 1946 the Southern was able to repurchase this engine and all three are now actively engaged in turn on the branch as B.R. Nos. 30582 to 30584.
Word: repurchase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English purchase English repurchase From re- + purchase. 1. The act of repurchasing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: irreconcilably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irreconcilable Middle English -ly English -ly English irreconcilably From irreconcilable + -ly. 1. In an irreconcilable manner; so as to preclude reconciliation.
Word: irreconcilability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being irreconcilable; irreconcilableness. Labels: uncountable Example: 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit There was something almost ludicrous in the complete irreconcilability of a vague conventional notion that he must be a visionary man, with the precise, sagacious travelling of his eye and thumb over the plans […]
Word: irreconcilableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English irreconcilable 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 irreconcilableness From irreconcilable + -ness. 1. The quality of being irreconcilable Labels: uncountable
Word: incompatibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree French incompatiblebor. English incompatible Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English incompatibility From incompatible + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnkəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: irreclaimable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English ir- English reclaim Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reclaimable English irreclaimable From ir- + reclaimable. 1. Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable. Example: irreclaimable land Example: To most in prison/jail, the necessity to be trusted and believed is indispensable. The majority have already lost their stateliness, credibility and so on in the judicial mechanism. Add to that the certainty that all else is irreclaimable in the procedure and you can have the predominant component for suicide. 2. Unredeemable. Example: an irreclaimable criminal Example: Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.
Word: reclaimable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English reclaim Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reclaimable From reclaim + -able. 1. Capable of being reclaimed; reformed or tamed.
Word: irrationally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English irrational Middle English -ly English -ly English irrationally From irrational + -ly. 1. In an irrational manner; without reason; in a manner contrary to reason Example: He was not sure that he wanted to see the Countess Olenska again; but ever since he had looked at her from the path above the bay he had wanted, irrationally and indescribably, to see the place she was living in, and to follow the movements of her imagined figure as he had watched the real one in the summer-house. Example: Some people that irrationally hate the military as a whole *might* just qualify as well.
Word: versine Part of Speech: noun 1. The versed sine. Example: The simplest method of calculating the radius of a curve in situ is to measure the versine; in railway practice this is done by extending a tape 66 ft. (1 ch.) long in a straight line or chord between two points on the periphery of a curve, and then measuring the maximum distance of the rail from the chord at the centre of the 66 ft. The radius in chains is found by dividing the versine in inches into 99. Thus if a versine measures 3 in., the radius will be 33 ch.