yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
polyoxymethylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)bor.
English oxy-
French méthylène
English methylene
English polyoxymethylene
From poly- + oxy- + methylene.
Inflected forms:
form: polyoxymethylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polymer of formaldehyde having a repeat unit of -CH₂-O- ; it is used in engineering to make small gears etc
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
polypharmacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + pharmacy, after Ancient Greek πολυφάρμακος (poluphármakos).
Base: pharmacy
Affixes: poly-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially elderly) patient, chiefly with connotations of indiscriminate or excessive prescription (involving overmedication and overprescription).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Critics denounced physicians as meddlesome, capriciously practising an often dangerous polypharmacy – a blunderbuss approach.
Faced with wheezing, blue-faced patients, they felt they had to do something, and the approach they adopted was polypragmatism, or polypharmacy: they threw the medicine cabinet at the problem.
Translations:
cheeba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From chiba.
Inflected forms:
form: cheeb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cheba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cheebo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chiba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it / I don't buy cheeba, I grow it
Translations:
polypyrrole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)der.
German Pyrrolbor.
English pyrrole
English polypyrrole
From poly- + pyrrole.
Inflected forms:
form: polypyrroles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of electrically conducting polymers whose repeat unit is a pyrrole
pos: noun
Translations:
polysiloxane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English siloxane
English polysiloxane
From poly- + siloxane.
Inflected forms:
form: polysiloxanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many polymers having a siloxane repeat unit
pos: noun
Translations:
polysulfone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English sulfone
English polysulfone
From poly- + sulfone.
Inflected forms:
form: polysulfones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polysulphone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a several classes of thermoplastic polymers whose repeat units contain a sulfone
pos: noun
Translations:
polyurea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-der.
Ancient Greek οὐρέω (ouréō)
Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron)der.
French uréeder.
New Latinder.
English urea
English polyurea
From poly- + urea.
Inflected forms:
form: polyureas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of polymeric elastomers whose repeat unit is a substituted urea
pos: noun
Translations:
connectedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English connected
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 connectedness
From connected + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: connectednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being connected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
conservativeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conservative
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 conservativeness
From conservative + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being conservative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
crashworthiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crashworthy
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 crashworthiness
From crashworthy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being crashworthy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They noted: "The crashworthiness of the early carriage was of a low standard. By the end of the 19th century, the continuous automatic brake and the absolute block system had greatly reduced the accident rate, but the accidents that did occur often reduced the wood vehicles to matchwood."
But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.
Translations:
cunningness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cunning
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 cunningness
From cunning + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: cunningnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being cunning
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A cunning act
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
blithesome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blithe + -some.
Base: blithe
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more blithesome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blithesome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Happy or spriteful; carefree.
pos: adj
examples: Fare not the birds well, as from spray to spray / Blithsome they bound—yet find their simple food / Scattered abundantly?
She made herself as blithesome as a lark, and at last she offered him two hundred dollars if he would sell her the whistle, and tell her how she should manage to get it safe home with her.
[']Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!' 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!
Translations:
phenethylamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pheno-
English phen-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō
Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)
▲
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.?
Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der.
Latin aethērbor.
German Äther
German Ether
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Ethylbor.
English ethyl
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English amine
English -amine
English ethylamine
English phenethylamine
From phen- + ethylamine.
Inflected forms:
form: phenethylamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phenylethylamine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An aromatically substituted aliphatic amine, C₆H₅C₂H₄NH₂, which is a neurotransmitter in the brain; it has pharmacological properties similar to amphetamine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any of a group of compounds derived from that amine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: fenethylline
Derived words: betaphenethylamine
deprenyl
hydroxyphenethylamine
methylenedioxyphenethylamine
methylphenethylamine
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 苯乙胺
roman: běnyǐ'àn
neuromodulator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English modulate
English -or
English modulator
English neuromodulator
From neuro- + modulator.
Inflected forms:
form: neuromodulators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance other than a neurotransmitter, released by a neuron at a synapse and conveying information to adjacent or distant neurons, either enhancing or dampening their activities.
pos: noun
Translations:
Lipschitz
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Named after Rudolf Lipschitz.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lipschitz continuous
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Related to Lipschitz continuity
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Related to Lipschitz continuity
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fluoridated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Treated with fluoride.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Utah in 2022 ranked 44th in the nation for the percentage of residents that receive fluoridated water, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Translations:
businessperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From business + person.
Compound parts: business
person
Inflected forms:
form: businesspersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: businesspeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person in business, or one who works at a commercial institution.
pos: noun
Translations:
bragger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English braggere, equivalent to brag + -er.
Base: brag
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: braggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who brags.
pos: noun
Translations:
reredos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Western-Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English reredos, from Anglo-Norman reredos, areredos; equivalent to rere (“rear”) + French dos (“back”).
Inflected forms:
form: reredoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raredos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reredosse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images, akin to the iconostasis of the Eastern Churches.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: retable (often synonymous)
A bad reredos will ruin the best church ever designed; and, although a good reredos cannot convert a bad church into a good one, it may do much to lessen the offensiveness of its badness.
Confusion has reigned in scholarly interpretation, however, because the dark-colored leaves have shown through the succeeding coats of paint across the reredos, interfering with the later scenes.
There seem to be no remains of wooden reredoses of the fourteenth century, though there are a number of examples in stone.
gloss: The back of an open fire-hearth, in medieval halls and in some later architecture inspired by them.
pos: noun
Translations:
unrecognizable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English cognize
English recognize
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 unrecognizable
From un- + recognize + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrecognizable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrecognizable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unrecognisable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.
pos: adj
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
examples: He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
Translations:
repeatable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repeat
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 repeatable
From repeat + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more repeatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most repeatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be repeated.
pos: adj
examples: Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.
gloss: That gives the same results when repeated.
pos: adj
Antonyms: unrepeatable
Related words: reproducible
Derived words: irrepeatable
nonrepeatable
repeatably
Translations:
unlace
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unlacen, unlasen, equivalent to un- + lace.
Base: lace
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unlaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unlacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unlaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unlaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unlace your shoes before taking them off.
Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.
gloss: To loosen the clothing of (a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove (film) from a projector.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: lace up
Translations:
unrepeatable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
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 repeatable
English unrepeatable
From un- + repeatable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrepeatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrepeatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be repeated
pos: adj
examples: He told us to get off his property in unrepeatable terms.
gloss: (of an experiment or procedure) That gives different results when repeated
pos: adj
Antonyms: repeatable
Translations:
seigniory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English seignurie, from Old French seignurie, from seignor + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: seigniories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seignory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: signiory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: signory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The estate of a feudal lord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Robert of Artoys baniſht though thou be, / From Fraunce thy natiue Country, yet with vs, / Thou ſhalt retayne as great a Seigniorie: / For vve create thee Earle of Richmond heere, […]
A third Seignorie or Shire there is that goeth to Apamia, vvhich in old time vvas called Celænæ, and aftervvards Ciboron: […]
And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Right and Title of the said Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, in and to all and singular the said Fiefs and Seigniories of the Island of Montreal, of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and of Saint Sulpice, and their several Dependencies, and in and to all Seigniorial and Feudal Rights, Privileges, Dues, and Duties arising out of and from the same, and in and to all and every the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, […] shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law; […]
gloss: The power or authority of a lord; dominion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English.
gloss: The elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: fief
Related words: seigneur
seignior
seigniorage
seignioral
seigniorial
seignioralty
seigniorize
seigniorship
Translations:
self-confident
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English confident
English self-confident
From self- + confident.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-confident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-confident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Confident in one's own abilities.
pos: adj
examples: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
Antonyms: insecure
Translations:
essentialist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English essential
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 essentialist
From essential + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: essentialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more essentialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most essentialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of essentialism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to essentialism.
pos: adj
examples: Christian men in the 1990’s made their own essentialist retreat, responding to a devaluation of masculinity in the institutions of work and the family (Heath 2003; Messner, 1997).
Translations:
shitlist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shit + list, by analogy with hit list.
Compound parts: shit
list
Inflected forms:
form: shitlists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shitlists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shitlisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shitlisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shitlisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of people held in contempt or targeted for revenge, etc.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: “Gerald,” he said, trying to keep his voice steady, “if you countermand these recommendations I’ll have to go to everybody and tell them about Bullock’s shit-list that you did nothing about.”
[J]unkies generally showed up to tell her which other junkies were doing the ripping off and the boasting. Sherri put their names down on her shit list.
This afternoon, as Paul Ryan arrived at the White House to tell Donald Trump that he did not have the votes to pass the American Health Care Act, there were reports that the President’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, had advised his boss to keep a “shit list” of all the Republicans who opposed the bill.
gloss: To place on a shitlist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
vulgar
examples: He refused to pay the protection money, so he's been shitlisted.
Translations:
blackly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *blakaz
Proto-West Germanic *blak
Old English blæc
Middle English blak
English black
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English blackly
From black + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more blackly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blackly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a black appearance.
pos: adv
examples: Here and there, sun glanced off water, and slick surfaces shone blackly orange in the morning light.
gloss: Darkly or gloomily.
pos: adv
examples: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
One of the most interesting — and confusing — vampire stories to deal with questions of morality in the postmodern context is the blackly comic film Vampire's Kiss (dir. Robert Bierman, 1988), which tells of a despicable yuppie named Peter Low — played in completely over-the-top fashion by Nicholas Cage — and his encounter at a singles bar with the vampire Rachel.
gloss: Wickedly.
pos: adv
examples: He knew himself for a lost soul, and all that he loved in the world was out in the tides. There, at any rate, he could go, too, and give back that gift of life he had so blackly misused.
gloss: In accordance with black cultural sensibility.
pos: adv
examples: Maya Angelou's ecomium^([sic])/tribute set the tone for all that followed because she spoke so passionately, personally, and Blackly about her love for Baldwin. She said that it's easy for a woman to find a lover, that she could stand on any street corner or even sit in any church pew and do that, but that brothers were much harder to come by.
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: nigre
bumper-to-bumper
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bumper-to-bumper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bumper-to-bumper
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very crowded and slow-moving, particularly with regard to motor vehicle traffic.
pos: adj
examples: I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge / On another gorgeous sunny Saturday / And I'm seeing that bumper to bumper traffic
gloss: Comprehensive; covering all components.
pos: adj
Translations:
falsified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more falsified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most falsified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Demonstrated to be false.
pos: adj
Translations:
smiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English smytinge, smytynge, equivalent to smite + -ing.
Base: smite
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: smitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who smites.
pos: noun
examples: How can I revoke that decision made in consultation with my ministers and friends desiring my welfare, causing confusion, as the sudden smiting of an army by the enemy.
Two were the smitings of Governor Grey.
In very early times each year was named after some important event in it, e.g., “The year of the first smiting of the East,” and was at the same time connected with the reigning king.
His end in smiting was to bring your heart nearer to him, by removing what estranged it.
When her sisters talked about the Bible it was all the Sermon on the Mount and the Song of Solomon, Proverbs and Psalms; never smitings and plagues.
Translations:
embodying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: embodyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: embodiment
pos: noun
examples: They stood, less like the great champions or warring states of antiquity, throwing their whole force into the struggle for the temporary prizes of the sword, than two great embodyings of principle, two master-spirits, contending for the dominion of the minds of mankind[…]
Translations:
dangerousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dangerous
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 dangerousness
From dangerous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being dangerous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The D.C. Circuit held, however, that when the district court’s finding of dangerousness is based on the nature and circumstances of a defendant’s conduct on January 6, a defendant’s participation in the Capitol riot is not sufficient, standing alone, to justify a finding of dangerousness.
Translations:
dankness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * dank + -ness
Base: dank
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: danknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being dank.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
day-blindness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English day-blind
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 day-blindness
From day-blind + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being day-blind.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
deceitfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deceitful
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 deceitfulness
From deceitful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: deceitfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being deceitful; duplicity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: O full off all sutelte and disseytfulnes the chylde off the devyll, and the enemye of all righteousnes thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde.
'This is the hend, is it, of all my bearing with her deceitfulness, her lowness, her falseness, her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vulgar minds . . .'
1903, Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, ch. 20 "A Moonlight Drive",
The lanterns both rear and forward being always in sight, I was as much at sea as any one as to the length of the herd, knowing the deceitfulness of distance of campfires and other lights by night.
Translations:
deceptiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deceptive
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 deceptiveness
From deceptive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the state or quality of being deceptive
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
decisiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decisive
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 decisiveness
From decisive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being decisive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
defectiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defective
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 defectiveness
From defective + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: defectivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being defective.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
defensiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defensive
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 defensiveness
From defensive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: defensivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being defensive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The gay vs. straight confrontation has been dealt with before in movies and plays but never with the gay character in control and never so free of defensiveness or homosexual guilt.
Translations:
definiteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English definite
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English definiteness
From definite + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: definitenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being definite.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
deliciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Late Latin dē
Late Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-der.?
Proto-Italic *lakjō
Late Latin laciō
Late Latin dēliciō
Late Latin dēliciae
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Late Latin -ōsus
Late Latin dēliciōsusbor.
Anglo-Norman deliciousbor.
Middle English delicious
English delicious
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English deliciousness
From delicious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: deliciousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being delicious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: scrumptiousness, hyperpalatability
Translations:
hyperdrive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
Proto-West Germanic *drīban
Old English drīfan
Middle English driven
English drive
English hyperdrive
From hyper- + drive.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperdrives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace.
pos: noun
examples: The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base.
gloss: A state of accelerated action.
pos: noun
examples: With enemies closing in fast, our hero's mind sprung into hyperdrive.
Related words: jump drive
warp drive
Translations:
page-turner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From page + turner.
Compound parts: page
turner
Inflected forms:
form: page-turners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pageturner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very rapidly.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down.
This is a very fat novel. The first thing you want to do with it is send it to a hospital for one of those crisis diets. Cut out 300 pages and maybe you've got a page-turner that could stand off "The Firm."
gloss: A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance.
pos: noun
examples: She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.
pos: noun
Related words: turn the page
cliffhanger
unputdownable
Translations:
haploinsufficiency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-
Proto-Hellenic *hə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-)
Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der.
English haplo-
English insufficiency
English haploinsufficiency
From haplo- + insufficiency.
Inflected forms:
form: haploinsufficiencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: triplosensitivity
Translations:
cicerone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides.
Inflected forms:
form: cicerones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ciceroni
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
pos: noun
examples: East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed[…]
he was in the act of making his evening plans with the same smelly but nice cicerone in a café-au-lait suit whom he had hired already twice at the same Genoese hotel [...].
Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.
“First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.”
Translations:
methamphetamines
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From methamphetamine, apparently by analogy with amphetamines.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Methamphetamine.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
infliction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin īnflīctiōnem (“imposition”), from Latin īnflīctus, from in- + flīctus, past participle of īnflīgō (“to knock or strike against”), from in- + flīgō (“strike”) (whence in-). By surface analysis, inflict + -ion.
Base: flīctus
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inflictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "What an awful infliction for you, Max. You were always such an impulsive, reckless sort of fellow—never quiet. You must miss such a fearful lot."
The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.
Translations:
blacksnake
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From black + snake.
Compound parts: black
snake
Inflected forms:
form: blacksnakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blacksnaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blacksnaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blacksnaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: black-snake
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To whip with a long, tapering whip.
pos: verb
examples: He said to Stanbrough, “George, you damned son-of-a-bitch, you blacksnaked my aunt with a blacksnake, and I am going to wear this out on you, ” and began striking him with the buggy whip. He struck the deceased several times ...
They were slugged and blacksnaked, run through a gauntlet, deposited on cattle cars headed away from the city, and told never to return.
A settler on the Muddy River was more blunt : "injuns killed a calf the other day we did em up and Blacksnaked [bullwhipped] em I ges they will know better next time made them sing Ki hi Ki hi they have ben good as little pigs since.
Whenever he and Bell had a row—and their rows got bigger and bitterer—the overseer went out and blacksnaked three or four slaves, for they were the only critters in the shape of man that he could abuse without a comeback.
Translations:
blemished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blemished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blemished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having blemishes; flawed.
pos: adj
examples: Stated sharply, today′s centers of higher learning are more blemished than superficial appearances suggest, and what often seems “democratic” is little more than contrived public displays.
One of them in fact singled out Rebecca, not the marmoreal Rowena, as the novel′s most blemished character. “She is,” he complained, “too near perfection.[…]”
The most blemished life will not keep His love from pouring out. It is the blemished and the marked, the hurting and the rejected that stirs this love in Him.
Translations:
blindfolded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a blindfold
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Once people learn the true facts they will no longer want to be "blindfolded donkeys."
Related words: blinded
Translations:
blistered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blistered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blistered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having one or more blisters
pos: adj
examples: A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.
Translations:
blistery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blister
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English blistery
From blister + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more blistery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blistery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having blisters.
pos: adj
Translations:
blockbusting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From block + busting.
Compound parts: block
busting
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Sonny W. Walker, another of the three black salesmen employed along with three whites by Concord Realty, 3524 Church Avenue, picked up the thread of Mr. Harris's bitter disclaimer that it took deliberate blockbusting—sometimes called panic redlining—to make whites move out of East Flatbush.
gloss: Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a blockbusting movie
Translations:
bloodsucking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic inh
Proto-West Germanic gem-pro>*blōþą>blood
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old English blōd
Middle English blood
English blood
English sucking
English bloodsucking
From blood + sucking.
Inflected forms:
form: bloodsuckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.
gloss: parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
gloss: Parasitic, leechlike behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Economic blood-sucking of the Indian peoples, who are forced to pay immense sums of money to sustain rich Indian Civil Servants
Related words: bloodsucker
Derived words: nonbloodsucking
Translations:
blowy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *blēaną
Proto-West Germanic *blāan
Old English blāwan
Middle English blowen
English blow
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English blowy
From blow + -y (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: blowier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blowiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Windy or breezy.
pos: adj
examples: 1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351,
All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me.
[…] one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees.
… This ship is nice, with our heels hitting the deck together. This is the blowy corner and each time we turn it I slant forward against the wind and pull my coat together without losing step with Dick.
Why can’t you stay in when the weather is muddy and blowy?
Someone tell me one thing that's good about sand. It gets so hot sometimes you can't even walk on it, it gets into your eyes when it's blowy, it gets stuck to the hairs on my back, it gets up your nose, in your ears and of course, worst of all, it gets up your clacker.
2014, Guy Nowell, “RMSIR 2014 — Penang to Langkawi. An espresso race,” sail-world.com, 21 November, 2014,
Equally almost traditional is that this is the blowiest leg of the regatta.
gloss: Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. (of fabric, hair, etc.)
pos: adj
examples: […] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […]
A panoramic view of all the lives ruined by the financial markets, from the midlevel banker just trying to meet her monthly quota to the overly loyal gangster who doesn’t realize that loud, blowy Hawaiian shirts are the opposite of subtle.
gloss: Susceptible to drifting. (of soil)
pos: adj
examples: 1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929,
And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops.
1938, Angus Henry McDonald, Erosion and its Control in Oklahoma Territory, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 301, p. 17,
Some farmers, however, quit raising cowpeas on blowy land, because they claimed it aggravated drifting.
Translations:
blue-blooded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blue blood
English -ed
English blue-blooded
From blue blood + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more blue-blooded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blue-blooded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blueblooded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Aristocratic or patrician.
pos: adj
examples: Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee.
But, as I was saying, we listened and heard The Dowd drawl worse than ever. She drops her final g’s like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp.
The Major was the very type of a blue-blooded old aristocrat; he was all noblesse oblige to those within the magic circle of his intimacy—but alas for those outside it!
When I was thirty-five / It was a very good year / It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls / Of independent means / We'd ride in limousines
Translations:
bluechip
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blue-chip
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a blue chip investment; high-value.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bluepoint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Blue Point, New York
Inflected forms:
form: bluepoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blue point
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.
pos: noun
Translations:
bluesy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blues
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English bluesy
From blues + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bluesier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bluesiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of, or similar to, blues music.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: When he entered the kitchen, Vida was folding clothes and singing along to some bluesy country music on the radio.
Translations:
bluing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blue
English -ing
English bluing
From blue + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: bluings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blueing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several processes to protect steel against rust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
steady-state
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a steady state
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
schoolfriend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From school + friend.
Compound parts: school
friend
Inflected forms:
form: schoolfriends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A friend from one's school.
pos: noun
examples: I well remember one occasion when a school-friend and I travelled to Brighton on a cheap train, and rather staggered our parents on our return, when we informed them that we had spent the entire day sitting on a convenient fence on the high cliff west of the station, watching the trains.
Translations:
boombox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boomboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boom box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.
pos: noun
examples: Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
Translations:
boneheaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bone + headed.
Compound parts: bone
headed
Inflected forms:
form: more boneheaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boneheaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a bonehead.
pos: adj
tags: slang
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