yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
skeptic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sceptique (but with a pronunciation closer to that of the Greek etymon), or possibly directly from Late Latin scepticus (originally attested only in the plural Scepticī (“the sect of Skeptics”)), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “to consider”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “to view, examine”).
Inflected forms:
form: skeptics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sceptic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: sceptick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: skeptick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more skeptic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skeptic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sceptic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: sceptick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: skeptick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: But for the fly he might have made me think He had been at his poetry , comparing Nailhead with fly and fly with huckleberry : How like a fly , how very like a fly . But the real fly he missed would never do ; The missed fly made me dangerously skeptic.[…]
The official account of this meeting was that it ended in failure, with the Taliban's mullah Omar telling General Ahmed, “Osama will be the last person to leave Afghanistan.” The 9/11 skeptics believe that meeting was meant to fail.
Even skeptics of the policy acknowledge that the Army conducted an exemplary insourcing program that successfully counteracted the Comptroller's budget ...
The Buddha's perfect body is particularly important in these tropes, and it serves to persuade skeptics of his claims to ultimate authority.
Skeptics of this alliance were proven right because this partnership lasted only for a few years. Once Albania broke off diplomatic relations […]
gloss: Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Skeptical.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: This view of the Great Pyramid is being adopted by a widening circle of Christian believers, until even a skeptic scientist has dignified it as “the religion of the Pyramid!”
No one but you can convince my heart, the stubborn, skeptic heart of mine to break the bad habit of breaking away.
With an increase in divorce rates and half of them growing up with divorced parents, they have a very skeptic view of the concept of ‘happily ever after’.
Related words: skeptical
skepticism
Derived words: antiskeptic
climate skeptic
euroskeptic
Euro-skeptic
nonskeptic
pseudoskeptic
skepticist
skepticize
skeptimist
skeptopathy
technoskeptic
Euroskeptic
Translations:
paedophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paedo-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s
Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor.
Latin -philalbor.
English -phile
English paedophile
From paedo- + -phile.
Inflected forms:
form: paedophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of pedophile.
pos: noun
examples: A "watchtower" Website, keeping track of paedophile groups around the world, is expected to be up and running next year. The campaign will also liaise with law enforcement agencies around the world and share information on suspected Internet paedophiles.
Translations:
vitamin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines. The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for natural substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.
Inflected forms:
form: vitamins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically, and deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
pos: noun
examples: a food rich in vitamins
gloss: preceding a word or its initial letter, to imply that the referent benefits health or wellness
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
I just follow three three Cs: clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin Church
Synonyms: vitamin
Related words: vitamer
:Category:Vitamins
Derived words: B vitamin
sunshine vitamin
vitamer
vitaminic
vitaminize
vitamin A acid
vitamin A
vitamin B complex
vitamin Bc
vitamin B1
vitamin B2
vitamin B3
vitamin B4
vitamin B5
vitamin B6
vitamin B7
vitamin B9
vitamin B12
vitamin B17
vitamin B
vitamin C
vitamin D1
vitamin D2
vitamin D3
vitamin D4
vitamin D5
vitamin D
vitamin E
vitamin F
vitamin G
vitamin H
vitamin I
vitamin J
vitamin K1
vitamin K2
vitamin K
vitamin M
vitamin O
vitaminosis
vitamin P
vitamin R
vitamin V
Translations:
resolute
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin resolutus (“released”), past participle of resolvō (“to release, to unbind”) (re- + solvō, whence solve).
Compare typologically Russian реши́тельный (rešítelʹnyj) (< реши́ть (rešítʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: more resolute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resolute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: resolutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Firm, unyielding, determined.
pos: adj
examples: She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
He was resolute in his decision to stay.
Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.
If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.
gloss: Convinced; satisfied; sure.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A determined person; one showing resolution.
pos: noun
gloss: A projection onto an arbitrary vector.
pos: noun
examples: vector resolute
Synonyms: sturdy
Antonyms: irresolute
Derived words: overresolute
resolutely
resoluteness
unresolute
Translations:
Dickensian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Dickens (the surname of Charles Dickens (1812–1870)) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives or nouns meaning ‘belonging to, relating to, or like’).
Base: Dickens
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Dickensian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Dickensian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Dickensians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens.
pos: adj
gloss: Similar to Dickens' writing style, especially in commenting on society, or in using emotion, humour, or rich descriptions.
pos: adj
examples: a Dickensian name
gloss: Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England.
pos: adj
examples: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.
As earlier implied, the planet is threatened on three major fronts: […] (3) by a Dickensian world of wretched excess and wretched despair.
Down in the subway under the roundabout the looming social ordeal started to weigh down on me, […] By the time I pressed a huge and over-polished brass bell I'd devolved into a shifty-eyed, cinder-cheeked Dickensian urchin, and when the door opened I half expected to see Mrs Bridges throw up her fat, floury hands and scream for the cook's boy.
Leaning against piracy fits in with China's desire to cast off its image of a country where exploited workers toil for a pittance in Dickensian factories that turn the air and water black with the pollution they discharge.
gloss: A person who admires or studies the works of Charles Dickens.
pos: noun
Related words: Dickenesque
Dickensesque
Dickensiana
Dickensish
Dickensite
Dickensy
Derived words: Dickensianly
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: dickensià
lechery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French and Anglo-Norman lecherie. See lecher.
Inflected forms:
form: lecheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inordinate indulgence in sexual activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Again we read at page 174: “Instead of the Universal Roman Catholic Church there existed after 1650 the National Catholic Churches of Spain, France, Austria, Poland, etc. more subject to the Royal supremacy than to the Papal, not, however, so completely as in England.” This is obviously an exaggeration. There never existed in the countries mentioned, least of all in Spain, any National Catholic Church. There would not have existed any such contradictorially-named organization even in England had it not been for the lechery of Henry VIII. Other similar misstatements might be noticed here and there. The author's intention, however, to be just is patent and his success in this respect is noteworthy.
The seeds and roots of the water lily are likewise considered a preventative against lechery.
And it’s not just down to lechery – even, say, someone who opted out of dating the be-penised around 10 years ago looked at all of these things – you bet I looked. I even devoted intricate craft project time to some of it.
Translations:
rebuke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin *busca (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- + bush.
Base: bush
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: rebukes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rebukes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rebuking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rebuked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rebuked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A harsh criticism.
pos: noun
examples: There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.
With his emphasis on accepting the science (he was a trained chemist) – and hence his stern rebuke to the climate change deniers and the politicians who courted them – he even managed to reset the relationship between science and religion, which had been rocky ever since Galileo fell foul of the Inquisition 400 years earlier.
gloss: To criticise harshly; to reprove.
pos: verb
examples: O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
Derived words: rebukeful
Translations:
veritable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French veritable, from Old French veritable, from Latin veritabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more veritable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most veritable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: True; genuine.
pos: adj
examples: He is a veritable genius.
A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.
The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.
gloss: As an intensifier: absolute, indisputable.
pos: adj
examples: From 1748, a veritable troop of elocution experts declared war on Scots diction, providing inspirational lectures, books and yet more lists for diligent anglophiles to memorise.
Translations:
blackguard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From black + guard, thought to have referred originally to the scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who wore black liveries or blacked shoes and boots, or were often stained with soot.
Compound parts: black
guard
Inflected forms:
form: blackguards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blaggard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blackguards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blackguarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blackguarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blackguarded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blaggard
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An unprincipled, contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 1830, Thomas Macaulay, Review of Robert Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress, in the Edinburgh Review
A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.
Pawn another man's property for the sake of a meal, eat and drink one's self to perdition, brand one's soul with the first little sear, set the first black mark against one's honour, call one's self a blackguard to one's own face, and needs must cast one's eyes down before one's self? Never! never!
2006, Jan Freeman, Blaggards' of the year – Boston Globe
"Arrr, keelhaul the blaggards!" wrote Ty Burr in the Globe last summer, pronouncing sentence on the malefactors who brought us the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.
gloss: A man who uses foul language in front of a woman (typically a woman of high standing).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Persons who passed each other in boats upon the Thames used to blackguard each other, in a trial of wit
The Southern Region takes, in the main, a candid line with its public. […] An ill-informed attempt to blackguard the railway publicly is likely to see the complainant put politely—but very firmly—in his place.
And then the drink is very pleasant to us, and keeps up our spirits; for what could a woman in my position do without spirits, without being able to talk and blackguard and give every fellow she meets as good as he brings?
gloss: To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: blackheart
blackhearted
blagger
Derived words: blackguardery
blackguardism
blackguardize
blackguardly
blackguardry
Translations:
ghastly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a conflation of gastly, from Middle English gastly, from gasten (from Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”)) + -ly, and ghostly (which was also spelt gastlich in Middle English). Equivalent to ghast/gast + -ly. Spelling with gh developed in the 16th century due to the conflation.
Base: gast
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: ghastlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ghastliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more ghastly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: ghastlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ghastly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: ghastliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
pos: adj
examples: Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
"My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak." / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
gloss: Horrifyingly shocking.
pos: adj
examples: Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
gloss: Extremely bad.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
dated
examples: The play was simply ghastly.
Well, Uncle, it's really been a ghastly mistake from the very beginning.
gloss: In a ghastly manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her face was ghastly pale, and perhaps rendered still more so by the blueish light of the fire.
She drained it at a single draught, while Sancgraal’s silent lips appeared to tremble with some mental utterance—perhaps, for who can fathom the depths of superstition, in her most cavernous hollows of atheistic doubt?—perhaps murmuring the absolutory formula of his church over her!—Almost immediately after she grew very ghastly pale, and staggered against the shrine.
The officer in charge gave a sudden warning cry and flung out his arms towards the captain, who, turning still ghastlier pale, called out: “Lower the other boats. Lower away, I say—both of them.”
Johnathan's lips moved ghastly before his voice would come. "So I'm crazy, am I? And if I choose to murder you, what would you do?"
We have had word from other quarters,” the Prince Bishop continued, nervously, awkwardly, over-explanatorily, his face ghastlier white even than was usual, “that Grand Master Albrecht is moving his war-engines and cannon here, to Frauenberg!”
You are even ghastlier pale than you were at the wedding.
Derived words: ghast
ghastily
ghastlily
ghastliness
unghastly
Translations:
shocking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shock
English -ing
English shocking
From shock + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more shocking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shocking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inspiring shock; startling.
pos: adj
gloss: Unusually obscene or lewd.
pos: adj
gloss: Extremely bad.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: What a shocking calamity!
gloss: The application of an electric shock.
pos: noun
examples: We terrorize millions of vulnerable and defenseless animals daily with painful shockings, beatings, brandings, […]
Derived words: shockingly
shockingness
shocking pink
unshocking
Translations:
orderly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English order
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English orderly
From order + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more orderly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orderly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ordrely
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: orderlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ordrely
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Neat and tidy; possessing order.
pos: adj
examples: He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.
gloss: Methodical or systematic.
pos: adj
examples: We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.
gloss: Peaceful; well-behaved.
pos: adj
examples: An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
gloss: Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
pos: adj
examples: aids-de-camp and orderly men
gloss: A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.
pos: noun
Synonyms: trim
well-kept
all Sir Garnet
Bristol fashion and shipshape
in order
neat
neat and tidy
neat as a new pin
neat as a pin
nice as ninepence
orderly
prest
ruly
shipshape
shipshape and Bristol fashion
squared away
tidy
tight
tiptop
tosh
trig
Antonyms: disorderly
Related words: clean
restrained
presentable
Derived words: disorderly
misorderly
nonorderly
orderliness
unorderly
Translations:
lovely
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Old English luflīċ, luflīc (“amiable, loving, lovable”), equivalent to love + -ly.
Base: love
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: lovelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: loveliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lovelies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more lovely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lovely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Delightful for beauty, harmony, or grace.
pos: adj
examples: It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
The music box plays a lovely melody.
The castle garden enchants visitors with its lovely blooms.
So it was this beautiful young woman Rokoff had been persecuting. Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.
His pink coat was lovely
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
Then I look at you / And the world's alright with me / Just one look at you / And I know it's gonna be / A lovely day
gloss: Nice; wonderful.
pos: adj
examples: It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
It is a lovely night, and why should we not prolong our ride a little?"
gloss: Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: a most lovely gentlemanlike man
gloss: Loving, filled with love.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: seal the title with a lovely kiss
gloss: An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis
"I'd sooner be on the stage than anywhere else." "You mean you like being cocked up in front of an audience with nothing much on and getting a thrill out of being what those idiotic newspapers call a Lovely or a Glamour Girl. With all the damned glamour on the stage and none off it."
Tom Bower’s 2024 book, The House of Beckham, painted a rather snide portrait of the marriage, in which Beckham is constantly surrounded by lovelies, and Victoria is in a constant huff about it.
gloss: Term of fond address.
pos: noun
examples: Goodbye, my lovely.
But where do you go to my lovely / When you're alone in your bed?
gloss: A lovely object.
pos: noun
examples: In Montréal, the summer months bring in a huge variety of fruits and vegetables and this is the time to preserve them. Preserving can also refer to the storage of these fiber and vitamin rich lovelies.
May Bell ironed the last ruffle and then hung the dress in the wardrobe next to her other lovelies.
gloss: In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: She's not everyone's cup of tea, what with the way she speaks her mind and doesn't always do her hair in the morning, but she scrubs up lovely.
Synonyms: beautiful
charming
lovable
lovesome
loving
Related words: loverly
lovingly
Derived words: everything in the garden is lovely
lovelify
lovelily
loveliness
lovely and
Lovely Banks
lovely fairywren
lovely fir
lovely jubbly
lovely weather for ducks
unlovely
what a lovely day
Translations:
heavenly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English hevenely, hevenly, from Old English heofonlīċ (“heavenly, celestial, chaste”), equivalent to heaven + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon himillīk (“heavenly”), Middle Dutch himellec, hemellijc (“heavenly”), Middle High German himmellich (“heavenly”).
Base: heaven
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: heavenlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more heavenly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: heavenliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most heavenly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Heavenly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more heavenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most heavenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: Heavenly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of God or the gods.
pos: adj
examples: Heavenly Father, I come to You as Your child, kicking and screaming.
gloss: Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
pos: adj
examples: The other heavenly bodies are primarily controlled by the attractive force of the Sun.
gloss: Strongly or sublimely good, beautiful, or pleasurable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Oh, that's absolutely heavenly. Gimme some more.
1817, Charles Phillips (author-editor), Speech in the Case of O′Mullan v. M′Korkill, The Speeches of Charles Phillips, page 131,
No doubt, you have all personally considered — no doubt, you have all personally experienced, that of all the blessings which it has pleased Providence to allow us to cultivate, there is not one which breathes a purer fragrance, or bears an heavenlier aspect than education.
So he flew down and got that acorn, and fetched it up and dropped it in, and was just tilting his head back, with the heavenliest smile on his face, when all of a sudden he was paralyzed into a listening attitude and that smile faded gradually out of his countenance like breath off’n a razor, and the queerest look of surprise took its place.
Everything is wonderful / Being here is heavenly
gloss: In a manner like that of heaven; by the influence or agency of heaven; divinely, miraculously.
pos: adv
examples: by night [she] saw that God in her armes, saying moreover unto her, that the next day, the first man she met withall, should heavenly pay her her wages.
gloss: To a degree such as to elicit great pleasure.
pos: adv
examples: Then, we taste the refried beans and the rice, and they are so heavenly delicious.
Derived words: heavenlily
heavenly marriage
Heavenly Twins
sleep in heavenly peace
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
heavenliness
heavenly bamboo
heavenly birthday
heavenly body
Heavenly Father
heavenly-minded
heavenly stem
heavenly virtues
Heavenly Witnesses
unheavenly
heavenly host
Translations:
cowardly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *cowardly (adjective) and cowardly (adverb), equivalent to coward + -ly. Displaced native Old English earg.
Base: coward
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: cowardlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more cowardly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cowardliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most cowardly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; weakly fearful.
pos: adj
examples: The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.
1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol
The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face.
Antonyms: brave
Translations:
fatherly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English faderly, from Old English fæderlīċ (“fatherly, paternal”), from Proto-West Germanic *faderlīk, from Proto-Germanic *fadurlīkaz (“fatherly, paternal”), equivalent to father + -ly. Cognate with West Frisian faderlik (“fatherly”), Dutch vaderlijk (“fatherly”), German väterlich (“fatherly”), Danish faderlig (“fatherly”), Swedish faderlig (“fatherly”), Icelandic föðurlegur (“fatherly”) . Doublet of fatherlike.
Base: father
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more fatherly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fatherly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more fatherly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fatherly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.
pos: adj
examples: fatherly advice
gloss: Befitting of a father; protective, paternal.
pos: adj
gloss: In a way pertaining to, befitting, or of a father.
pos: adv
examples: Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course.
[…]; tho’ God hath for a while Fatherly Chaſtiſed them by thoſe Rods which he hath afterwards conſumed.
This child is not mine as the first was, / I cannot sing it to rest, / I cannot lift it up fatherly / And bliss it upon my breast;
Indeed we live beneath the sky, . . / That great smooth Hand of God, stretched out / On all His children fatherly, / To bless them from the fear and doubt, / Which would be, if, from this low place, / All opened straight up to His face / Into the grand eternity.
He looked fatherly at me.
When she fell forward a little, as if she were half fainting with the pleasure, he held her, fatherly, in his arms until she recovered.
Derived words: fatherliness
unfatherly
Translations:
motherly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English moderly, from Old English mōdorlīċ (“motherly, maternal”), from Proto-Germanic *mōdērlīkaz (“motherly, maternal”), equivalent to mother + -ly.
Base: mother
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more motherly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most motherly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more motherly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most motherly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Befitting a mother; warm, caring, nurturing, protective, loving.
pos: adj
examples: Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life[…]
gloss: In a way pertaining to, befitting, or of a mother.
pos: adv
examples: The mother sometime beateth the child, but yet her hart melteth vpon it euen in the very beating, and therefore she casteth the rodde into the fier, and colleth the childe, geueth it an apple and dandleth it moste motherly.
I Am glad that you approve and applaud my design, of withdrawing my self from all tumult and business of the World; and consecrating the little rest of my time to those studies, to which Nature had so Motherly inclined me, and from which Fortune like a Step-mother has so long detained me.
To the father it would have been the worst of his loss to see his son wiping the sweat and dust from the forehead his mother had been so motherly proud of, and hear the heavy sigh with which he would sink in the not too easy chair that was all his haven after the tossing of the day’s weary ground[-]swell.
Mrs. Rutherford looked motherly at the eager girl and caressed her curls[…]
Translations:
brotherly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English brotherly, from Old English brōþorlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþerlīk, from Proto-Germanic *brōþērlīkaz, equivalent to brother + -ly (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch broederlijk (“brotherly”), German brüderlich (“brotherly”), Swedish broderlig (“brotherly”). Piecewise doublet of friarly.
Base: brother
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more brotherly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brotherlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brotherly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brotherliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more brotherly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most brotherly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or characteristic of brothers.
pos: adj
examples: brotherly love
Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
They are modelling in parvo around them the predestined Greater America of the mightier, holier, brotherlier comradeship which it seems America has been called into being to bring to pass for the world:— […]
gloss: In the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.
pos: adv
examples: Praising and pleading him, / Lovingly needing him, / Brotherly feeding him, / Preaching and speeding him, / Blessing, succeeding Him, / Thus is the Master near,— / Thus is He here!
I might have seen him, and talked with him brotherly, face to face.
"What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
The people treat me brotherly here.
There was no way she'd be able to act brotherly/sisterly with him.
[…] he traverses planetary-romance versions of Venus and Mars, whups villains till they die, screws bad-ass tall women and acts brotherly to shorter women with bare breasts (it's all right to mention breasts if they belong to your sister) who die for him (even better, I guess), walks away.
So, to be a brother and to act brotherly is a universe of structured experience blissful in Light (higher vibrations) and brightful in darkness (or lower vibrations).
They should behave brotherly toward one another because they are rational and moral beings.
Translations:
happy-clappy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: happy-clappies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: happyclappy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more happy-clappy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most happy-clappy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: happyclappy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Christian church whose worship is characterized by enthusiasm and spontaneity.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: Of or relating to such a worshiper or such a church.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
Translations:
henotheism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Henotheismus, coined in the 19th century by German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) from Ancient Greek ἕν (hén, stem of εἷς (heîs, “one”)) + German Theismus (“theism”, ultimately from Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”))).
Inflected forms:
form: henotheisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Belief in or worship of one deity without denying the existence of other deities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is one kind of oneness which does not exclude the idea of plurality; there is another which does. […] If, therefore, an expression had been given to that primitive intuition of the Deity, which is the mainspring of all later religion, it would have been—'There is a God,' but not yet 'There is but "One God."' The latter form of faith, the belief in One God, is properly called monotheism, whereas the term of henotheism would best express the faith in a single god.
[T]he form of worship presented to us in these most ancient documents [the Hindu Rigveda] of the Aryan people is what Professor Maxmüller [i.e., Max Müller] calls Henotheism, viz., the deity invoked for the time being is regarded as supreme, is extolled above the rest and is made the recipient of the worshipper's highest praises and most fervent supplications.
In both ethnography/anthropology and ancient history scholars have sometimes sought to 'rescue' polytheism by arguing for an element of monolatry or henotheism, in which the power of one god in the pantheon is proclaimed as supreme. But the manoeuvre is conditioned by a Judaeo-Christian evaluation of monotheism. The terms 'polytheism' and 'monotheism' are best abandoned to the theologians.
This new, enriched and reoriented Christian Platonic theology would then have the moral and intellectual resources to absorb the partial visions of Judaism and Islam and pagan henotheisms, preserving the best things in them and discarding the false and inferior things.
Translations:
monism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
politics
religion
sciences
Etymology: The word was coined by German philosopher Baron Christian von Wolff and first used in English in 1862, from New Latin monismus, from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone”). By surface analysis, mon- + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: monisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The doctrine that there is a single source of political authority, especially that the church is subordinate to the state or vice versa.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: The same conflict between the monism of temporal theorists and the dualism of ecclesiastical thinkers—the same opposition of organic to symbiotic union—occurred in the ninth century.
gloss: The legal doctrine that international law forms part of domestic law automatically after ratification or accession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: immanence
pandeism
pantheism
panentheism
dualism
pluralism
Derived words: theomonism
Translations:
fundamentalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
business
finance
Etymology: From fundamental + -ist, after a book series called “The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth“ (1910).
Base: fundamental
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: fundamentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
pos: noun
gloss: A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.
pos: noun
gloss: Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles.
pos: noun
gloss: A fundamentalist Christian.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Related words: fundamentalism
Derived words: antifundamentalist
fundagelical
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
fundamentalistic
nonfundamentalist
techno-fundamentalist
ultrafundamentalist
Translations:
incredulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin incrēdulus (“unbelieving”).
Inflected forms:
form: more incredulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incredulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
pos: adj
examples: Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
In safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when they are standing on the peak.
gloss: Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
pos: adj
examples: Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
Then came a report over the radio from one of St. Los pilots. He was reporting seeing ships, and they weren't American. Worse still, they were close. Incredulous', Admiral Sprague demanded confirmation, and, circling in closer, the pilot radioed back: "I can see pagoda masts. I see the biggest meatball flag on the biggest battleship I ever saw!"
gloss: Difficult to believe; incredible.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance […].
Maybe David Ruben had some valid points about the ACLU on the national level from an historical perspective, although critcizing a non-gay organization for not loudly defending gay rights in 1952 seems a little incredulous.
1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337, quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law, Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), →ISBN, page 564,
Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.
Related words: incredulity
credulous
Derived words: incredulosity
incredulously
incredulousness
Translations:
foreboding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
Inflected forms:
form: forebodings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forboding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more foreboding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foreboding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: forboding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sense of evil to come.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.
A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.
gloss: An evil omen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: Blood on the street / Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next
Translations:
dickwad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English detective
English dick
English -wad
English dickwad
From dick + -wad.
Inflected forms:
form: dickwads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A contemptible person; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: I get dickwad in there wantin' to play wheel of fortune so I can find out their supplier!
"Yeah? Who's gonna stop me, dickwad?"
You treat your girlfriend so bad, you damn dickwad!
Translations:
cocksucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cock + sucker.
Compound parts: cock
sucker
Inflected forms:
form: cocksuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cock sucka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cock suckah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cock sucker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cock-sucka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cock-suckah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cock-sucker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cocksucka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cocksuckah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very annoying or objectionable person; any contemptible person.
pos: noun
examples: I'm extremely happy that I'm not a part of a committee that cocksucker is in.
"Bodie!... You cocksucker, you said it wouldn't snow any more! You said we could make it!"
You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker?
gloss: Someone who performs fellatio.
pos: noun
tags: literally
examples: After he said the kid was a no-talent cocksucker whose teeth were always in the way ...
He attended every Monday night show at Skipper's, where he knew everyone and everyone knew him. Here he was affectionately called "Ed Head" and was famous for being the most sophisticated cocksucker anywhere — the fabulous GTX, "Golden Throated Extra."
Related words: cocksucking
Derived words: kikesucker
Translations:
areolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more areolar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most areolar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to areolae.
pos: adj
examples: Although this may be caused by erroneous preoperative markings, areolar diameter differences are usually caused by skin tension differences between the breasts after wound closure.
gloss: Characterised by areolae (intercellular spaces).
pos: adj
examples: areolar tissue
2012, James W. Fleshman Jr., Open Total Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch, James W. Fleshman, Elisa H Birnbaum, Steven R Hunt, Matthew G Mutch, Ira J Kodner, Bashar Safar, Atlas of Surgical Techniques for Colon, Rectum and Anus, Elsevier (Elsevier Saunders), page 130,
At the level of the sacral promontory, an areolar tissue plane begins behind the superior hemorrhoidal artery (Figure 9-3A and B).
gloss: Of or relating to areoles.
pos: adj
Derived words: areolar tissue
circumareolar
infraareolar
periareolar
retroareolar
subareolar
Translations:
therefrom
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English therfrom, þærfrom, þarvram (also as ther-fro, þer-fro, þarfra), equivalent to there + from. Cognate with Danish derfra, Swedish därifrån, Norwegian Bokmål derfra, Norwegian Nynorsk derifrå, derfrå, Icelandic þarfrá. Compare Saterland Frisian deerfon, West Frisian dêrfan, Dutch daarvan, German Low German daarvan, German davon.
Compound parts: there
from
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: From that.
pos: adv
tags: formal
not-comparable
examples: No man ever deliberately does injury to another without himself suffering therefrom, at some future day, as much as the party he has injured; although it may be after a different fashion.
Therefrom Boshy's saving propensities, being but the idiosyncrasies of the rich, were mercifully endured and spoken of by Mr. Civil.
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom
Translations:
therein
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English theryn, ther-inne, þer-in, from Old English þǣrin, þǣrinne, from Proto-West Germanic *þārin, *þārinna, from Proto-Germanic *þarin, *þarinna, equivalent to there + in. Cognate with Saterland Frisian deerin (“therein”), West Frisian dêryn (“therein”), Dutch daarin (“therein”), German Low German daarin (“therein”), German darin, drin (“therein”), Danish deri (“therein”), Swedish däri (“therein”), Icelandic þar í (“therein”).
Compound parts: there
in
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in that; in that place; in him/her/it.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
pronominal
examples: September 1792, George Washington, letter
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
"Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"
'Behold! once more I kiss thee, and by that kiss I give to thee dominion over sea and earth, over the peasant in his hovel, over the monarch in his palace halls, and cities crowned with towers, and those who breathe therein.'
Translations: