yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
homeschooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of home + schooling.
Inflected forms:
form: home schooling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: home-schooling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Teaching children at home instead of sending them to school.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A German family that claims it will be persecuted for homeschooling if sent back, lost its asylum request Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court and could be deported.
Translations:
overbearingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English overbearing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English overbearingly
From overbearing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more overbearingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most overbearingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an overbearing manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
overcrowding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overcrowdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.
An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.
Department for Transport statistics show that since 2010 overcrowding in the morning peak at 11 cities has risen by 48%, to reach 280,000 standing passengers daily.
Climbers have warned of overcrowding on K2 — the world’s second highest mountain and one of its deadliest — after a sherpa took video of queues snaking towards the summit.
Stops at Fareham, Havant and Chichester add to the cattle-like conditions aboard, although as the door nearest me is blocked by prams and suitcases, my coach is protected from the worst overcrowding.
Translations:
tune-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tune-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of adjustments to an engine in order to improve its performance
pos: noun
gloss: A series of preparations for vigorous exercise; a warm-up
pos: noun
gloss: A match or race (frequently one exhibition in nature) contested as preparation for a match or race of high stakes.
pos: noun
Related words: tune up
Translations:
outstandingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outstanding
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English outstandingly
From outstanding + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more outstandingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most outstandingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an outstanding manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
outspokenly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outspoken
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English outspokenly
From outspoken + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more outspokenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most outspokenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an outspoken manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
outrageously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outrageously, equivalent to outrageous + -ly.
Base: outrageous
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more outrageously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most outrageously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
pos: adv
examples: The hotel was wonderful, but the food was outrageously expensive.
[…] John Currin moved from painting yearbookish images of anonymous girls to painting outrageously goofy pictures of women with ridiculously oversize breasts.
Translations:
outlandishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outlandish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English outlandishly
From outlandish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more outlandishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most outlandishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an outlandish manner.
pos: adv
examples: Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.
Translations:
open-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English open-minded
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English open-mindedly
From open-minded + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more open-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most open-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an open-minded manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
operatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English operatic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English operatically
From operatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more operatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most operatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an operatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment.
There Agnes operatically ponders (“I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps”; “I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate”), poeticizing even her wounds, the bruises “blossoming like star clusters under the skin.”
Translations:
operationally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos
Proto-Italic *opos
Latin opus
Latin opera
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -or
Latin operor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin operātiōder.
Old French operacionbor.
Middle English operacioun
English operation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English operational
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English operationally
From operational + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an operational manner; in accordance with an operation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: “The AN-TPY/2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery, enabling the launch of interceptor missiles and contributing to a networked air defense picture,” he said. “It also happens to be an incredibly expensive piece of kit. The loss of even a single radar of this type would be an operationally significant event. It is probable that a replacement unit would have to be redeployed from elsewhere, which will take time and effort.”
Translations:
opportunely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English oportunely, equivalent to opportune + -ly.
Base: opportune
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more opportunely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most opportunely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner suitable for some particular purpose.
pos: adv
examples: Amongst this number of cordials and alteratives I do not find a more present remedy than a cup of wine or strong drink, if it be soberly and opportunely used.
gloss: In a manner convenient or advantageous at some particular time.
pos: adv
Related words: opportune
Translations:
opportunistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English opportunistic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English opportunistically
From opportunistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more opportunistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most opportunistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an opportunistic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Guided by the Earth’s magnetic field, starlight and other biocompasses that scientists have yet to fully divine, the birds wheel over land and sea, alighting opportunistically en route to rest, preen and refuel.
Translations:
oppositely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English opposite
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English oppositely
From opposite + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more oppositely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most oppositely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an opposite manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
overbid
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English bid
English overbid
From over- + bid.
Inflected forms:
form: overbids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overbidding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overbid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overbid
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overbids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make an excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To outbid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To announce a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
pos: noun
gloss: The announcement of a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.
pos: noun
Derived words: overbidder
Translations:
overbidding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overbiddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overbid; an excessively high offer.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-perpetuating
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 perpetuating
English self-perpetuating
From self- + perpetuating.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-perpetuating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-perpetuating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing itself to continue to exist.
pos: adj
examples: The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.
It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.
Translations:
self-fulfilling
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 fulfilling
English self-fulfilling
From self- + fulfilling.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The prediction of poor turnout for the event was self-fulfilling: once people heard the turnout would be bad, they didn't come.
Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians? If so, then in a self-fulfilling prophecy they may have been organizing their lives according to a religious belief system, and not simply an economic or ecological one.
The big question, I believe, is whether the Italian and maybe Spanish crises are the kind of thing that might be brought under control by ECB bond purchases. This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld. […] So there is a reasonable case that what we’re seeing in Italy is a self-fulfilling crisis trying to happen, in which fear of default is precisely what leads to default.
Translations:
self-proclaimed
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 proclaimed
English self-proclaimed
From self- + proclaimed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Announced by oneself, usually without recognition by others.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was self-proclaimed king of the mountain. Since it was a mountain of garbage, nobody else wanted the title anyway.
The small town of Pitlochry is the self-proclaimed gateway to the Scottish Highlands and the Cairngorms National Park.
“The end of the traffic light coalition is a liberation for our country. The end of the self-proclaimed ‘progressive coalition’ that took Germany to the brink of economic ruin was more than overdue,” Weidel wrote on X.
Translations:
self-induced
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 induced
English self-induced
From self- + induced.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Caused by the action of the person which it affects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His indigestion was self-induced. If he didn't eat so much it wouldn't hurt.
Translations:
semitropical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English tropical
English semitropical
From semi- + tropical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Intermediate between temperate and tropical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-propelling
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 propelling
English self-propelling
From self- + propelling.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Self-propelled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Self-propelling baggage car, converted from a passenger vehicle, for operation over Liverpool electrified lines
Translations:
self-restraint
Part of speech: noun
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 restraint
English self-restraint
From self- + restraint.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His lack of self-restraint led to several ugly scenes of debauchery and violent outburst.
Sovereigntism means a country doing what it wants to do within only the limits of what it can do. It means the end of self-restraint within a framework of mutual restraint.
Translations:
self-respecting
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 respecting
English self-respecting
From self- + respecting.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-respecting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-respecting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having self-respect; having pride or knowledge of one's own worth.
pos: adj
examples: No self-respecting man would tolerate such an insult.
Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through.
Translations:
self-respect
Part of speech: noun
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 respect
English self-respect
From self- + respect.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The knowledge of one's own worth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!
In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging[…]an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.
Would any woman have behaved like that—if a man had said he didn’t want her? We’ve too much self-respect; we’re infinitely finer than they are.
“To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."
Translations:
stratigraphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stratum + -graphic c. 1830.
Base: stratum
Affixes: -graphic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the arrangement of stratigraphy or strata.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cytochalasin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύτος ("a vessel") + χαλαρός ("to slacken, loosen').
Inflected forms:
form: cytochalasins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several related fungal metabolites that have an effect on cytokinesis while not affecting karyokinesis
pos: noun
Translations:
overawe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
French auvebor.
English awe
English overawe
From over- + awe.
Inflected forms:
form: overawes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: over-awe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.
His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.
Antonyms: underwhelm
Translations:
nye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), from Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest.
Inflected forms:
form: nyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brood or flock of pheasants.
pos: noun
Translations:
phenomenologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
Late Latin phaenomenonder.
English phenomenon
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English phenomenology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English phenomenological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English phenomenologically
From phenomenological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a manner characteristic of phenomenology or of phenomenological philosophy.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: There is no question that, phenomenologically considered, the experience of perceiving and the experience of having a hallucination are sufficiently similar that, on the strength of what proves to be a hallucination, one may sincerely claim to have (veridically) perceived something.
gloss: In a manner which places primary or undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs, symptoms and behaviors, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The DSM may be viewed as a behavioristically, phenomenologically oriented nosology which often groups unlike disease states together into categories, and in its behaviorist approach, can ignore distinctions between pathophysiological processes within the brain and normal human response to stressors. Because of this and the modern access, via the techniques of molecular biology, to molecular processes in the human brain and other bodily systems, there is growing call in the psychiatric community to reformulate the mental health nosology, basing it rather upon the pathophysiological processes which may, or may not, underlie problematic behavioral phenomena.
Derived words: postphenomenologically
Translations:
dishtowel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dish + towel.
Compound parts: dish
towel
Inflected forms:
form: dishtowels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dish towel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A towel or any similar cloth used to dry dishes.
pos: noun
examples: A child of the Great Depression, Grandma would never throw away a dishtowel until it had more holes than thread.
Translations:
dizzying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dizzying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dizzying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height.
pos: adj
examples: The salesman presented me with a dizzying array of choices, and I was hard pressed to choose between them.
The organisation fills many gaps left by the state, operating a dizzying array of services, including homes for victims of domestic violence, food banks and a shelter for stray animals.
Translations:
airdate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + date.
Compound parts: air
date
Inflected forms:
form: airdates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The date on which a television or radio program is broadcast.
pos: noun
Translations:
rescale
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
English rescale
From re- + scale.
Inflected forms:
form: rescales
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rescaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rescaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rescaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To alter the scale of a drawing or project; to change the physical proportions.
pos: verb
gloss: To change the scope of a business or project to meet a change in demands.
pos: verb
gloss: To scale again
pos: verb
Derived words: rescaler
unrescaled
Translations:
drive-through
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from drive through.
Inflected forms:
form: drive through
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: drivethrough
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: drive-thru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Philippines
US
form: drive thru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: drivethru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: drive-throughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drive through
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drivethrough
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: drive-thru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Philippines
US
form: drive thru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drivethru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of automobiles while they are in their still-running vehicle, especially when the vehicle does not park in a parking space and the goods received are not consumed until the vehicle vacates the lane.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I switched banks so that I could use a drive-through branch near my home.
gloss: Of a feature of such an establishment (especially a window), adapted to provide such service.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The restaurant’s drive-through window had a turntable of bulletproof glass designed to allow transactions while preventing robberies.
gloss: An establishment, especially a restaurant, providing drive-through service.
pos: noun
examples: Since I was pressed for time, I picked up burgers at a drive-through on the way home.
gloss: The window of such an establishment adapted for such purpose.
pos: noun
examples: “Please pull forward and pay at the drive-through,” said the attendant upon taking my order.
Related words: curb service
drive-by
Derived words: ski-through
Translations:
princessy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English princess
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English princessy
From princess + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: princessier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: princessiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or suitable for a princess.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Such extravagance has seen the rise of “Bridezilla” – the woman who wants everything just so and whom it is death to cross. And, in a nice neat circle of pink commercial fairy dust, the glamour model, Jordan – she of the pinkest, princessiest wedding of all time – has launched her own series of children’s books under her real name, Katie Price.
‘You know, Cinderella would always turn up in a big white dress for the last scene. That was nice.’ / Cerise’s eyes lit up. ‘Yes! I was obsessed with those too! The bigger and princessier the better.[…]’
Translations:
semi-works
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English works
English semi-works
From semi- + works.
Inflected forms:
form: semi-works
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semiworks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A manufacturing plant large enough to produce market development quantities, but smaller than a full-scale commercial plant.
pos: noun
Translations:
prison-bound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prison-bound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prison-bound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Destined for prison, by leading a life of crime.
pos: adj
gloss: Incarcerated.
pos: adj
Translations:
priss
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from prissy (analyzed as priss + -y (“(manner)”)); noun attested 1923.
Inflected forms:
form: prisses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prisses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prissing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prissed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prissed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A prissy person
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Robin: Have you ever been in love? / Steve: Yep. Nancy Wheeler. First semester, senior year. / Robin: Oh my God. She's such a priss.
gloss: To dress or behave in a prissy manner
pos: verb
Translations:
overpopulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
demographics
demography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From over- (prefix meaning ‘excessive; excessively’) + population.
Base: population
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overpopulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An excessive number of occupants (people, animals, plants, etc.) in a particular area; specifically, when the number of occupants exceeds the ability of that area to provide for them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I hope for another end, though not, indeed, from any of the three remedies for over-population commonly suggested by economists. These three are, in brief—Colonization; Bringing in of waste lands; or Discouragement of Marriage.
Over the whole extent of the South Seas, from one tropic to another, we find traces of a bygone state of over-population, when the resources of even a tropical soil were taxed, and even the improvident Polynesian trembled for the future.
When it comes to overpopulation as the cause of wildlife loss in Africa, Prince William just won't let it go.
Antonyms: underpopulation
Translations:
overripe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English ripe
English overripe
From over- + ripe.
Inflected forms:
form: more overripe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overripe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: over-ripe
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Excessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.
pos: adj
Translations:
privatizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: privatization
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
prize-taking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From prize + taking.
Compound parts: prize
taking
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The capturing of an enemy ship at sea; this results in a payment to all hands from the Admiralty.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
gloss: The winning of a prize in a competition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: That wins prizes (used especially of livestock).
pos: adj
Translations:
problemo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From problem + humorous -o suffix to imitate Spanish, the intended word being problema (still masculine, as it is derived from Greek).
Inflected forms:
form: problemos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: problem
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
problem-solve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from problem solving.
Inflected forms:
form: problem-solves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: problem-solving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: problem-solved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: problem-solved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: problem solve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To solve problems.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
precognitive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English cognitive
English precognitive
From pre- + cognitive.
Inflected forms:
form: more precognitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most precognitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: precognitives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the ability to see or predict future events.
pos: adj
gloss: A precognitive person, a seer.
pos: noun
Translations:
pro-celeb
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
English celeb
English pro-celeb
From pro- + celeb.
Inflected forms:
form: proceleb
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: pro-celebrity
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
Translations:
pro-celebrity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From pro + celebrity.
Compound parts: pro
celebrity
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In which professionals and celebrities participate together
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
precolonial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English colonial
English precolonial
From pre- + colonial.
Inflected forms:
form: precolonials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a historical period before colonization.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An inhabitant of an area before colonists first arrived.
pos: noun
examples: After 1970 one no longer expected to find Tio whose parents had experienced the precolonial period, except for a few very old persons. Most people now were grandchildren of the precolonials.
However, archaeological evidence also points to the likelihood of “direct jumps” by Saladoid migrants from South America to the northern Caribbean. It is easy to understand why these early precolonials were engaged in island-hopping.
The precolonials did not do it, and the moderns ought not to do it.
Translations:
preconceived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Conceived beforehand: formed ahead of time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
precursory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin praecursor.
Inflected forms:
form: precursories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being or relating to a precursor; relating to events that will follow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: precursory symptoms of a fever
gloss: A precursor; a sign of the onset of something.
pos: noun
Translations:
predetermination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English determination
English predetermination
From pre- + determination.
Inflected forms:
form: predeterminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of determining beforehand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that has been decided in advance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: predetermine
predeterminer
Translations:
kufr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic كُفْر (kufr), from the root ك ف ر (k f r).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Denial or rejection of Islam.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
prearrangement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
French arrangementbor.
English arrangement
English prearrangement
From pre- + arrangement.
Inflected forms:
form: prearrangements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement or plan made beforehand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
preassigned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
English assigned
English preassigned
From pre- + assigned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: assigned or allotted in advance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the first day of school, the students went to their preassigned rooms.
Translations:
precariousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English precarious
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 precariousness
From precarious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A state of being uncertain or unstable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: instability, jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger
The precariousness of political relations between the two countries could lead to war.
Translations:
relinquishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *linékʷti
Proto-Italic *linkʷō
Latin linquō
Latin relinquō
Old French relenquir
Middle French relinquirbor.
Middle English relinquisshen
English relinquish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English relinquishment
From relinquish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: relinquishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of relinquishing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
self-disciplined
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 disciplined
English self-disciplined
From self- + disciplined.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-disciplined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-disciplined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having self-discipline; in control of oneself and one's actions.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-discipline
Part of speech: noun
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 discipline
English self-discipline
From self- + discipline.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Control of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: willpower
Personal reinventions fail partly for the obvious reasons: you set your goals too high; or your existing obligations at work or home get in the way; or you find (who could have imagined it?) that the unimpressive level of self-discipline you’ve demonstrated for your entire life until this moment can’t magically be tripled overnight.
Translations:
kmet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.
Inflected forms:
form: kmets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kmetovi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A serf in Southeast Europe, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.
The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status.
In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]
Translations:
coloration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
sciences
Etymology: From French coloration, from Latin colōrātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: colorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colorification
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: colouration
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The act or art of coloring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being colored.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Political tendency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.
The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.
gloss: This when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: diatonic
chromatic
coloratura
Derived words: bicoloration
colorational
miscoloration
obliterative coloration
recoloration
warning coloration
Translations:
psychedelia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English psychedelic
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
English -ia
English psychedelia
From psychedelic + -ia.
Inflected forms:
form: psychedelias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The subculture associated with those who take psychedelic drugs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.
Translations:
processual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English process
English -ual
English processual
From process + -ual.
Inflected forms:
form: more processual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most processual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a process, especially to the methodological study of processes in social science.
pos: adj
examples: In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent but encompassing structures of social activity.
gloss: Of or relating to the methodological study of cultural change and variability in archaeology.
pos: adj
Derived words: postprocessual
processualism
processualist
processually
Translations:
parasitically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parasite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English parasitic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English parasitically
From parasitic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more parasitically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most parasitically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a parasitic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Similarly, plants and mycorrhizal fungi are no longer thought of as behaving either mutualistically or parasitically.
Translations:
parochially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parochial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English parochially
From parochial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more parochially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most parochially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a parochial manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
parsimoniously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parsimonious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English parsimoniously
From parsimonious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more parsimoniously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most parsimoniously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a parsimonious manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
passingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English passing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English passingly
From passing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of in passing.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm only passingly familiar with Schopenhauer: I haven't read many of his works.
Translations:
patchily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patchy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English patchily
From patchy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more patchily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most patchily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a patchy manner.
pos: adv
examples: Hawkins, Lewis and Hankin are placed in the Diachronic category due to their attempt at a historical perspective, even though that is very patchily executed.
Translations:
paternally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paternal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English paternally
From paternal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more paternally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most paternally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a paternal manner; fatherly.
pos: adv
examples: Why they selected Boudicca […]to lead them into battle, rather than either of Prasutagus' daughters, or any number of eligible paternally related kin, is lost in the mists of time.
[…] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]
Because Gαs is paternally imprinted in certain hormone target tissues, maternal inheritance of AHO leads to multihormone resistance [pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a (PHP1a)], whereas paternal inheritance leads to AHO alone pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (pseudoPHP)]. Classically, the obesity in AHO is described as occurring similarly in both conditions.
Translations: