yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pendulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pendulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pendulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hanging from, or as if from, a support.
pos: adj
examples: The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union.
gloss: Indecisive or hesitant
pos: adj
gloss: Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
pos: adj
Related words: pendant
pendulum
Derived words: pendulous abdomen
pendulously
pendulousness
Translations:
hyperoxaluria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
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-
English oxal(ic)
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-der.
Ancient Greek οὐρέω (ouréō)
Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron)
Ancient Greek -ουρία (-ouría)bor.
New Latin -ūriabor.
English -uria
English hyperoxaluria
From hyper- + oxal(ic) + -uria.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperoxalurias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The presence of an excessive amount of oxalic acid or oxalates in the urine.
pos: noun
Translations:
stratosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
geography
geology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.
Affixes: strato-
-sphere
Inflected forms:
form: stratospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.
pos: noun
examples: Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).
The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, which separates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching the earth's surface.
The technique would involve spraying large amounts of sulfate particles into the Earth’s lower stratosphere at altitudes as high as 12 miles. The scientists propose delivering the sulfates with specially designed high-altitude aircraft, balloons or large naval-style guns.
Even if you’ve run an ironclad household budget and managed your retirement accounts on your own, you’re about to be at a level of wealth in a different stratosphere. It’s time to hire professionals.
gloss: Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere of the earth in contradistinction to the scoriosphere of the moon.
The stratosphere, or younger sedimentary envelope has been formed almost entirely at the expense of the Sal envelope.
Derived words: in the stratosphere
substratosphere
Translations:
troposphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French troposphère. Equivalent to tropo- + -sphere.
Affixes: tropo-
-sphere
Inflected forms:
form: tropospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lower levels of the atmosphere extending from the surface of the Earth or another celestial body up to the tropopause. It is characterized by convective air movements and a large vertical temperature change.
pos: noun
Translations:
mesosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
geography
geology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From meso- + -sphere.
Base: meso
Inflected forms:
form: mesospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere.
pos: noun
examples: The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, which separates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching the earth's surface.
gloss: The lower mantle, a layer inside the Earth.
pos: noun
Derived words: mesospheric
Translations:
thermosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor.
Latin sphaera
Late Latin sphērader.
Old French spherebor.
Middle English spere
English sphere
English -sphere
English thermosphere
From thermo- + -sphere.
Inflected forms:
form: thermospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The layer of the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and directly below the exosphere.
pos: noun
examples: The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, which separates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching the earth's surface.
Translations:
exosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From exo- + -sphere.
Base: exo
Inflected forms:
form: exospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the uppermost layer of a planet's atmosphere
pos: noun
gloss: an extremely thin atmosphere, as on Saturn's moon Dione
pos: noun
examples: "Scientists weren't even sure Dione would be big enough to hang on to an exosphere" ('Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione', , JPL, Mar. 02, 2012)
Derived words: exospheric
Translations:
psychotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived in English from psychosis + -tic; compare French psychotique, German psychotisch. Attested from the late 19th century. Compare earlier neurotic.
Base: psychosis
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more psychotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: psychotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.
pos: adj
examples: Direct evidence on psychotic behavior is the presence of either delusions or hallucinations (without insight into their pathological nature).
Increasing data suggests that regular marijuana use in adolescence may also be a risk factor for developing very serious psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia.
She suffered psychotic episodes during which she believed herself to be spied upon by light bulbs.
She couldn't possibly know that I was parking in the same spot to visit my psychotic wife on the third floor of the hospital, the floor that needed a special elevator for access.
gloss: Out of control, bizarre, or crazy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Full-bodied tribal rhythms, weird bendy bass lines, screechy high-end guitar melodies, and more psychotic lyrics about "Tension," "Butchers," and "Madness."
This had left the mother feeling "psychotic" and "helpless" because she could not change the family, the school, and society that she said had all caused the son harm.
And if you ever try to record one of our conversations again, I'll set the dogs on you and your psychotic friends, and let them tear you all apart.
gloss: A person affected by psychosis.
pos: noun
Derived words: antipsychotic
BLIPS
micropsychotic
neuropsychotic
nonpsychotic
postpsychotic
prepsychotic
propsychotic
psychotically
psychotic disorder
psychoticism
psychoto-
quasipsychotic
sarchotic
semipsychotic
unpsychotic
Translations:
synchronicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From synchron(ous) + -icity. From Jungian psychology in the 1920s. By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -icity; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Base: synchronous
Affixes: -icity
Inflected forms:
form: synchronicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: synchronization
synchroneity
Antonyms: asynchronicity
desynchronicity
Derived words: synchronicitous
Translations:
encumber
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English encombren, from Old French encombrer, from en- + combrer (“to hinder”) (See cumber). By surface analysis, en- + cumber.
Inflected forms:
form: encumbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encumbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encumbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encumbered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incumber
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To load down something with a burden.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.
gloss: To restrict or block something with a hindrance or impediment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.
gloss: To burden with a legal claim or other obligation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: disencumber
unload
unencumber
Related words: cumber
cumbersome
incumbrance
unencumber
Derived words: encumberer
encumberment
encumbrance
encumbrous
overencumber
unencumberable
Translations:
exonerated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English exonerated, equivalent to exonerate + -ed.
Base: exonerate
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Freed from any question of guilt, acquitted.
pos: adj
Translations:
spec
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: specs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spec's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: specing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spec'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: speced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: speced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spec'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spec'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spec'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spec'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To specify, especially in a formal specification document.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants.
Could they still include the kinds of playful animations Ballinger had specced now that the scenes were more realistic-looking and less whimsical?
And if that is my only criticism, then these trains are pretty well 'specced'. These are an out-and-out commuter train - fast, quiet, and well-designed for their role.
Translations:
specification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French specification, from Medieval Latin specificationem (accusative of specificatio).
Inflected forms:
form: specifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The contractor followed the architect’s specifications.
Each computer is built to the customer’s exact specification.
The product failed to meet the required safety specifications.
gloss: An act of specifying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: species
specific
specify
Derived words: despecification
misspecification
nonspecification
open-specification
overspecification
prespecification
respecification
specificational
subspecification
underspecification
Translations:
couturier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French couture
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -ier
French couturierbor.
English couturier
Borrowed from French couturier.
Inflected forms:
form: couturiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who designs haute couture (high fashion).
pos: noun
gloss: A company that is owned by or employs such a person; a fashion house.
pos: noun
Related words: couture
haute couture
Translations:
pigeonholing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pigeonholings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The classification of disparate entities into narrow and often unfair categories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
categorization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.?
Proto-Hellenic *kətá
Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ)
Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-)
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂goréh₂
Proto-Hellenic *agorā́
Ancient Greek ἀγορᾱ́ (agorā́)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek ἀγορεύω (agoreúō)
Ancient Greek κᾰτήγορος (kătḗgoros)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek κᾰτηγορέω (kătēgoréō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek κᾰτηγορῐ́ᾱ (kătēgorĭ́ā)bor.
Late Latin catēgoriader.
Middle French categorie
French catégoriebor.
Middle English
English category
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English categorize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English categorization
From categorize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: categorizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: categorisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of things arranged by category.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
Related words: categorically
categorize
category
category theory
Derived words: autocategorization
decategorization
miscategorization
overcategorization
recategorization
subcategorization
supercategorization
Translations:
subgenre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English genre
English subgenre
From sub- + genre.
Inflected forms:
form: subgenres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sub-genre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of several categories within a particular genre.
pos: noun
examples: You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.
Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.
Translations:
senile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1660s; borrowed from French sénile, from Middle French senile, from Old French senile, from Latin senīlis (“of or pertaining to old age”), from senex (“old man”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).
Inflected forms:
form: more senile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most senile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to old age.
pos: adj
examples: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
gloss: Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
pos: adj
tags: offensive
often
examples: Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.
Antonyms: juvenile
Related words: senate
senator
senescence
senior
seniority
Derived words: Cnile
nonsenile
presenile
senile angioma
senile gangrene
senile keratosis
senilely
senile wart
senilism
senility
senilize
senilocracy
Translations:
parlour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: parlours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor.
pos: noun
examples: Will you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; / 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Translations:
doddering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dodderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy.
She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury.
gloss: A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
pos: noun
examples: Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.
Translations:
gladius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin gladius (“Roman short sword, gladius”). Doublet of glaive.
Inflected forms:
form: gladiuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gladii
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Roman sword roughly two feet long.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Finally, the Romans made the gladius—sharp, of highly-tempered steel, and strongly piercing—the first real sword (Figs. 17, 18, 19), of which only five specimens are now known to exist.
The gladius was effective either for cutting or for thrusting and was used by legionaries and auxiliaries.
gloss: A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.
pos: noun
examples: From the Cretaceous of North America fossilised gladii in the enigmatic genus Tusoteuthis have been estimated to give a mantle length (body size) of 1.8m, just less than that of the giant squid’s.
Translations:
amputation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French amputation, borrowed from Latin amputātiō (“pruning (of a tree)”).
Inflected forms:
form: amputations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: acrotomophilia
apotemnophilia
apotemnophobia
dismemberment
Derived words: Ewing amputation
Translations:
arson
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French arson, from the verb ardoir, from Latin ardeō (“to burn”). Compare ardent.
Inflected forms:
form: arsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arsons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arsoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arsoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arsoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: carry out an arson attack
Arson, like we thought. three punks doused a car, lit it, and took off.
gloss: To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner.
pos: verb
tags: India
transitive
Translations:
ginseng
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 人參 /人参 (jîn-sim, “ginseng”). Doublet of ninzin.
Inflected forms:
form: ginsengs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genseng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gingseng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ginsing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: jinseng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: jin-seng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When the Afghan princes find it necessary to employ Chob-Chini, (the Jin-seng, or China root so celebrated as a purifier, tonic, and aphrodisiac) they choose the spring season.
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
Derived words: Alaskan ginseng
American ginseng
Asian ginseng
Asiatic ginseng
Brazilian ginseng
Chinese ginseng
dwarf ginseng
eastern ginseng
female ginseng
five-leaf ginseng
ginsenoside
Himalayan ginseng
Indian ginseng
Korean ginseng
notoginseng
Oriental ginseng
Peruvian ginseng
poor man's ginseng
prince ginseng
red ginseng
sang
sanging
Siberian ginseng
southern ginseng
tienchi ginseng
Vietnamese ginseng
western ginseng
Translations:
acer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Acer, from Latin acer (“maple tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: acers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Acer; a maple.
pos: noun
examples: In the plantations to which we allude, there were also some American acers and the Norway maple, exhibiting dark reds and rich yellows.
Translations:
vika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Pijin vika, from Vangunu [Term?], a Solomon Islands language.
Inflected forms:
form: vikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large, tree-dwelling rodent (Uromys vika) found in the Solomon Islands
pos: noun
Translations:
justiciability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ability (of a subject matter) to be evaluated and resolved by the courts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: nonjusticiability
non-justiciability
Translations:
justiciable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French justiciable.
Inflected forms:
form: more justiciable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most justiciable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to justiciability; able to be evaluated and resolved by the courts; that can be adjudicated.
pos: adj
Antonyms: nonjusticiable
unjusticiable
Translations:
invariably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English invariable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English invariably
From invariable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Every time; always, without change.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is invariably late for meetings.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
In common with most Swiss Railways the standard of equipment and of operating efficiency is high, and stations and trains are invariably clean and well maintained.
As a consequence of the previous rules, each of the sixty-four squares is invariably indicated by a unique combination of a letter and a number.
Translations:
violently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English violently; equivalent to violent + -ly.
Base: violent
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more violently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most violently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a violent manner.
pos: adv
gloss: To an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely.
pos: adv
examples: I found myself violently disagreeing with him.
Arthur started to choke violently on his drink.
Those who believe in the blackpill tend to adopt violently misogynistic beliefs about the nature of women, particularly with regard to their sexual behaviour.
Translations:
positively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English positively, equivalent to positive + -ly.
Base: positive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more positively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most positively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a positive manner.
pos: adv
examples: He approached the interview positively.
There’s nothing – not. one. thing. – that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.
gloss: With certainty.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”
gloss: Absolutely; utterly.
pos: adv
examples: […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.
She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in (just as she had imagined) that Pearl Fulton had not turned up.
"Positively do not open," reads the message under the cabinet in which Ed and Lorraine put the possessed Annabelle doll.
gloss: Very.
pos: adv
examples: I had a positively wonderful time.
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
In the 90s it was Craigslist and AOL chat rooms, then Match.com and Kiss.com. But the lengthy, heartfelt e-mails exchanged by the main characters in You’ve Got Mail (1998) seem positively Victorian in comparison to the messages sent on the average dating app today.
Related words: absitively posolutely
Derived words: absatively
absitively
absotively
nonpositively
photopositively
posilutely
positutely
posolutely
Translations:
specially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English specialli, specially, equivalent to special + -ly.
Base: special
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: For a special purpose, person, or occasion.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We had this cake made specially for your birthday.
The train is waiting specially for a high-ranking diplomat.
The school is specially for any child whose schooling was disrupted by illness.
I had my insoles specially made.
gloss: extremely
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
examples: She's specially good at running.
gloss: in particular
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
examples: I love all animals, specially cute furry ones.
Synonyms: for a special purpose
passing
quite
Related words: especially
Translations:
faithfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English feithfulli, equivalent to faithful + -ly.
Base: faithful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more faithfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most faithfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a faithful manner.
pos: adv
examples: The CD reproduces music faithfully.
I have been faithfully married for the past twenty years.
You'll see your problems multiplied / if you continually decide / to faithfully pursue / the policy of truth.
gloss: A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an honorific.
pos: adv
tags: US
Antonyms: unfaithfully
Related words: sincerely
truly
Derived words: faithfully flat
yours faithfully
Translations:
frankly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frank
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English frankly
From frank + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: franklier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more frankly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: frankliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most frankly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt.
pos: adv
examples: to speak frankly
He spoke frankly about the economy.
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
gloss: In truth, to tell the truth.
pos: adv
examples: Most of what they said was, frankly, a pack of lies.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
gloss: To a degree large enough as to be plainly evident.
pos: adv
examples: frankly septic
frankly psychotic
Translations:
infinitely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infinite
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English infinitely
From infinite + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more infinitely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most infinitely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds; endlessly.
pos: adv
gloss: To a surpassingly large extent.
pos: adv
examples: He is infinitely more capable than John.
Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same.
Synonyms: incessantly
nonstop
utterly
Derived words: infinitely many
Translations:
curiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English curiusly, curyously, curiosly, curiouseliche, curyouslyche, equivalent to curious + -ly.
Base: curious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more curiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most curiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.
pos: adv
examples: The children peeped curiously into the attic room.
gloss: Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way.
pos: adv
examples: Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.
Performing a curiously melancholy, undulating developpe, the dancers point their legs at each other like accusing fingers.
“The Life of a Showgirl” doesn’t quite fulfill this prophecy — or, rather, it delivers only technically. It is a work of hyperprofessional songcraft and production, but its emotional texture is curiously flat and joyless.
Derived words: curiously recurring template pattern
overcuriously
Translations:
tenderly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tender
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tenderly
From tender + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tenderly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tenderly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tender manner; gently; sweetly.
pos: adv
examples: and the hour striking at which I was oblig'd to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for parting
After a moment of comfortable silence, with Ben tenderly rubbing his thumb gently over the back of her hand, he asked, “So what do you want to do now that you’re all stuffed full of waffley goodness?”
Outside is getting colder
Why does it feel like I'm older than I asked to be?
But when you say my name
It all falls away so tenderly
Translations:
wonderfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wonderfully, wunderfullie, wonderfulliche, equivalent to wonderful + -ly.
Base: wonderful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wonderfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wonderfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wonderful manner.
pos: adv
examples: He entertained us wonderfully.
We're so wonderfully, wonderfully / Wonderfully, wonderfully pretty
By freeing statisticians from dealing with complicated calculations, the statistical aspects of a problem can become the main focus. This point is wonderfully illustrated by Smith and Gelfand (1992).
“Tacoma has a wonderfully local and real vibe versus some anonymity that can occur in bigger cities,” she says.
gloss: In a wonderful manner.
pos: adv
examples: On a clear night, the Montana sky is wonderfully vast and full of stars.
It was wonderfully stormy and dark on the night when the ship went down.
Although this run was made on Whitsun-Tuesday, and the traffic into London was heavy from all directions, we got a wonderfully clear road and apart from one slight check at Herne Hill were entirely undelayed.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: meravellosament
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 精彩地
lang: Dutch
word: wonderlijk
lang: Dutch
word: fantastisch
lang: Esperanto
word: mirinde
lang: Finnish
word: loistavasti
lang: French
word: merveilleusement
lang: Galician
word: marabillosamente
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θαυμασίως
roman: thaumasíōs
lang: Hungarian
word: csodálatosan
lang: Hungarian
word: csodásan
lang: Italian
word: meravigliosamente
lang: Latin
word: mirābiliter
lang: Polish
word: cudownie
lang: Polish
word: zdumiewająco
lang: Polish
word: zadziwiająco
lang: Portuguese
word: maravilhosamente
lang: Russian
word: замеча́тельно
roman: zamečátelʹno
lang: Spanish
word: maravillosamente
lang: Spanish
word: a las mil maravillas
lang: Swedish
word: underbart
lang: Swedish
word: ljuvligt
lang: Walloon
word: clapanmint
beautifully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From beautiful + -ly, circa 17th century.
Base: beautiful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more beautifully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most beautifully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a beautiful manner.
pos: adv
examples: The intercom system worked beautifully, despite the fact that the ear plugs were designed for human rather than kzinti ears.
Tom Cleverley had one of his better games, the highlight being a beautifully weighted pass to send Walcott away for his goal, and Rooney probably did as well as might have been anticipated given this was his first start in a competitive match since April.
Translations:
honestly
Part of speech: adv
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English honestly, honestlyche, honestliche, equivalent to honest + -ly.
Base: honest
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more honestly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most honestly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an honest manner.
pos: adv
examples: He answered the questions honestly.
You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to say to you.
I can't honestly say that I feel any elatement at the prospect.
Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.
gloss: Frankly, to be honest.
pos: adv
examples: Honestly, I didn't believe a word she said.
Under a popular Instagram post rounding up some of the most amusing memes generated from her BAFTAs performance, the actress commented on Monday, “Honestly I love this.”
gloss: Used to express exasperation, dismay, etc.
pos: intj
examples: Honestly! I want to finish this work and you keep interrupting.
Synonyms: candidly
outright
earnestly
for real
for realsies
forthcomingly
frankly
genuinely
honestly
legitimately
no cap
openly
simply
sincerely
singly
straight up
truly
truthfully
Antonyms: falsely
Related words: accurately
dependably
ethically
honorably
reliably
responsibly
righteously
scrupulously
actually
honest
Derived words: unhonestly
Translations:
fiercely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fersly; equivalent to fierce + -ly.
Base: fierce
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: fiercelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more fiercely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: fierceliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most fiercely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fierce manner.
pos: adv
examples: The wind blew fiercely and the rain fell heavily.
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. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
He helped himself to a cigar and leaned back with a fiercely critical pair of eyes, taking note of the effect which this document would produce.
Russia said at the weekend that its forces had recaptured Kursk, the border region where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive last year, though Kyiv insists its troops are fiercely battling to preserve their foothold in the territory.
gloss: Extremely; to a large degree.
pos: adv
examples: fiercely competitive
a fiercely loved woman
a fiercely proud father
fiercely disappointed
fiercely loyal
fiercely independent
Tuchel made it three out of three against Guardiola by producing a fiercely disciplined, positive Chelsea performance that has brought a season that was shrouded in uncertainty to the most glorious conclusion.
Translations:
principally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English principaly. By surface analysis, principal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a primary manner; pertaining to the principal of a matter.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The game principally consists in taking and carrying off the ball from the opposite party, after being hurled into the air midway between two high pillars, which are the goasl, and the party who bears off the ball to their pillar, wins the game[…]
Timber, hides, furs, and minerals from the north, and grain and other products from the south and the immediate vicinity of the town itself are brought, principally by river, to this point, where the railway cuts the great central waterway of Siberia.
When asked to guess whether champagnes they were drinking was made principally from white or black grapes, most tasters including wine writers and journalists were unable to tell the difference.
Pollination by animals, principally insects and birds, is widespread among plants.
Translations:
hurriedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hurried
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English hurriedly
From hurried + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more hurriedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hurriedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a hurried manner.
pos: adv
examples: The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
“In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.”
If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
But Johnson [...] hurriedly [c]hanged his plea to guilty.
The result was that trains ran as normal on November 7 and 9, although there was still disruption on Saturday November 5, owing to the short notice as rosters were hurriedly rewritten. Rosters are typically agreed a week in advance.
Translations:
decidedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decided
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English decidedly
From decided + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more decidedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most decidedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner which leaves little question; definitely, clearly.
pos: adv
examples: In a decidedly petulant manner she sat with crossed arms and a frown.
"We progress," said he. "Decidedly we progress."
'I understand it was the big American man with a decidedly unpleasant face.'
The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.
In time The Simpsons would, indeed, resort to spoofing such decidedly non-spooktacular fare like E.T and Mr. And Mrs. Smith (both in “Treehouse Of Horror XVIII”) but in 1992 the field was wide-open and the show could cherry-pick the most iconic and beloved fright fare of all time.
gloss: In a decided or final manner; resolutely.
pos: adv
examples: ‘We can't,’ said Vera decidedly, ‘we haven't any boats and we're cut off by a raging torrent from any human habitation.’
Translations:
singularly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English singulerly; equivalent to singular + -ly.
Base: singular
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more singularly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most singularly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strangely; oddly.
pos: adv
examples: He behaved most singularly when we met him last night.
gloss: Extremely; remarkably.
pos: adv
examples: I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
"There were scraps of verse. I do not profess to be a judge of such things, but they appeared to me to be singularly wanting in merit."
gloss: In the singular number; in terms of a single thing.
pos: adv
gloss: solely; only; uniquely
pos: adv
examples: A vast number of Iranians will singularly hold Ayatollah Khamenei, who first became leader in 1989, responsible for setting Iran on a collision course with Israel and the US that ultimately brought considerable ruin to his country and people.
Translations:
wildly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wildely, wijldeli, wildeliche, equivalent to wild + -ly.
Base: wild
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wildly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: wildlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
uncommon
form: most wildly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: wildliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: In a wild, uncontrolled manner.
pos: adv
examples: He swung wildly at the guy's head, but ended up on the floor.
Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.
"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
gloss: To a ridiculous or extreme degree; extremely.
pos: adv
examples: wildly exagerrated
Translations:
lessen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lessenen, lasnen, equivalent to less + -en (verbal suffix).
Base: less
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: lessens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lessening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lessened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lessened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a. 1686, Benjamin Calamy, a sermon
Charity […] shall lessen his punishment.
December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul
St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
The thin glass that makes mirror tiles light in weight also tends to lessen their reflective quality.
Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.
gloss: To become less.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: remit
Derived words: lessenable
lessener
unlessening
Translations:
comfortably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comfortable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English comfortably
From comfortable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more comfortably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most comfortably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a comfortable manner.
pos: adv
examples: I snuggled comfortably into the blankets.
Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion.
gloss: Easily; without effort or difficulty.
pos: adv
examples: Messi was the next to test Cech with a header from Sanchez's cross, the Chelsea keeper gathering the effort comfortably as Barcelona once more failed to produce the final touch to accompany their artistic approach work.
A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
Antonyms: uncomfortably
Derived words: comfortably off
Translations:
vaguely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vague
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English vaguely
From vague + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more vaguely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most vaguely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a vague manner.
pos: adv
examples: He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied.
gloss: Loosely; more or less; somewhat.
pos: adv
examples: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
Translations: