yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cardigan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after British military commander James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868). For the surname, see Cardigan.
Inflected forms:
form: cardigans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.
pos: noun
examples: […] a coarsely knit white cardigan and a black turban whose broadened tails could be arranged around her neck scarfwise.
Suzette Sundae, a musician wearing a fifties-style swing dress and a white cardigan over her tattoos, said that she ran a vintage-clothing store in Park Slope. When the store’s traffic fell off, she had Airbnb-ed her home.
“I love that loungewear has become a prevailing new category,” said Barbara Lippert, 65, a writer. “During the worst part of the pandemic even jeans seemed like an overreach, requiring that complex button and zipper action. And cardigans were too much work.”
Translations:
fragrance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g-
Ecclesiastical Latin fragrō
Ecclesiastical Latin fragrāns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Ecclesiastical Latin -ius
Ecclesiastical Latin -ia
Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantiabor.
French fragrancebor.
English fragrance
Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.
Inflected forms:
form: fragrances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fragrances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fragrancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fragranced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fragranced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pleasant smell or odour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
gloss: A perfume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Today, sales of women's fragrances are double those of men's, and 80 percent of all men's after-shaves and colognes are in fact bought by women, as gifts.
gloss: To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: fragranceless
fragrancy
microfragrance
Translations:
belittle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From be- + little. Coined by Thomas Jefferson in 1782.
Base: little
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: belittles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: belittling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: belittled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: belittled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To knowingly say that (someone or something) is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Don't belittle your colleagues.
An essential part of any German campaign is obviously the efficiency of its lines of communication and therefore it is dangerous to belittle our enemy's strength in this direction.
Under the rules as understood by the New York Times, the West is free to mock and belittle its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance.
For many of us, the realization that people in power, regardless of political party, would belittle, name call and seek retribution has been a shock.
gloss: To make small.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now, the big blue space of river and sky belittled him, ulled him back into bewildered childhood.
Derived words: belittled
belittlement
belittler
belittling
unbelittled
Translations:
purposely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English purposly; equivalent to purpose + -ly.
Base: purpose
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more purposely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most purposely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On purpose; intentionally.
pos: adv
examples: [T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.
Translations:
stow
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).
Inflected forms:
form: stows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.
gloss: To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ar.[…]The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep :[…]
gloss: To cease; to stop doing something.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.
“Come, come,” said Silver; “stow this talk. He’s dead, and he don’t walk, that I know; leastways, he won’t walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.”
Derived words: bestow
misstowed
overstow
restow
stowable
stowage
stow away
stowdown
stower
stowing
unstow
Translations:
out-of-print
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: No longer offered for sale by a publisher; no longer on the firsthand market.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm sorry, but that book has been out-of-print for twenty years.
Translations:
out-of-the-way
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more out-of-the-way
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most out-of-the-way
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Remote or secluded.
pos: adj
examples: I know this out-of-the-way hotel where we could stay.
It was from no choice of my own that I was brought up in an out-of-the-way pallazzo, with nothing to do but to fall in love.
In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig?
“Even Darjiling is a little out-of-the-way hole.”
Passenger numbers had been rising sharply. But the replacement of the services by buses, which take far longer because of the number of stations in out-of-the-way villages on the route, will ensure they plummet again.
Translations:
ri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li.
Inflected forms:
form: ris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ri
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
pos: noun
Translations:
outpatient
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
healthcare
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English patient
English outpatient
From out- + patient.
Inflected forms:
form: outpatients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.
pos: noun
examples: An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital.
gloss: Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: MR. MILLER: It is more outpatient than it is inpatient.
The changes are necessary because "health care is going more outpatient than inpatient," Whitacre said.
It is outpatient and prepaid.
Translations:
outpost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English post
English outpost
From out- + post.
Inflected forms:
form: outposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
pos: noun
examples: The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault.
gloss: The body of troops manning such a post.
pos: noun
examples: Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.
gloss: A sentinel positioned outside.
pos: noun
examples: The net had been fully drawn; every member of the gang had been accounted for and now the outposts stationed in the garden were coming in to take over the work of guarding and escorting the haul of prisoners.
gloss: An outlying settlement.
pos: noun
examples: Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection.
On March 9, 1903, an extension, 50 miles in length, was opened from Letterkenny to the remote outpost of Burtonport, a small township on the shores of the Atlantic in the far north-west corner of Co. Donegal, running through some of the wildest and bleakest parts of the country.
[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]
Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.
gloss: A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
pos: noun
Related words: outport
reposting
provincial
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: etuvartio
lang: Greek
word: προφυλακή
roman: profylakí
lang: Polish
word: czata
lang: Polish
word: forpoczta
lang: Spanish
word: avanzada
lang: Spanish
word: destacamento
indefatigably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From indefatigable + -ly, but indefatigable itself was attested later. In use since the 16th century.
Base: indefatigable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more indefatigably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indefatigably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner
pos: adv
examples: Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor.
Translations:
homey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English home
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English homey
From home + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: homier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: homiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Befitting a home; cozy, intimate.
pos: adj
examples: Susan added some homey touches to her office.
The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.
Translations:
err
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).
Inflected forms:
form: errs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: erring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: erred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: erred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a mistake.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
examples: He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.
Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
Gorbachev’s phrase, “fear to err,” is strikingly reminiscent of President Roosevelt’s phrase, “nothing to fear but fear itself.”
gloss: To sin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To err is human, to forgive, divine.
gloss: to stray.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).
pos: intj
examples: Err... what did you just say?
Derived words: errable
erroneous
err on the side of
err on the side of caution
error
inerrable
to err is human
Translations:
elm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”).
See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).
Inflected forms:
form: elms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ellum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the level plain of the Pewsey Vale.
gloss: Wood from an elm tree.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards.
Related words: Burslem
Elmbridge
Elmhurst
Limoges
limousin
Limousin
limousine
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Nine Elms
keyaki
kiaki
zelkova
Derived words: American elm
Atinian elm
bastard elm
Camperdown elm
Caucasian elm
cedar elm
cherry bark elm
chestnut-leafed elm
Chinese elm
common elm
cork elm
Cornish elm
cutleaf elm
Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm
elm bark beetle
elm beetle
elmen
Elmhurst
elm-leaf beetle
elmlike
elmness
Elm Park
elm sawfly
Elmsdale
elm tree
elmwood
Elmwood
elmy
elm yellows
English cork elm
English elm
European field elm
European white elm
field elm
fluttering elm
Great Elm
Guernsey elm
hickory elm
Huntingdon elm
Japanese elm
Jersey elm
lacebark elm
lobed elm
long raceme elm
Manchurian elm
Mexican elm
moose elm
multi-nerved elm
Nine Elms
northern elm
purple elm
red elm
rock elm
Russian elm
Scotch elm
Scots elm
September elm
Siberian elm
slippery elm
smaller European elm bark beetle
soft elm
Southampton elm
southern elm
Spanish elm
spreading elm
stately elm
Texas cedar elm
West Indian elm
Wheatley elm
white elm
winged elm
witch elm
wych elm
yoke elm
Translations:
comprehensible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti
Proto-Italic *hendō
Proto-Italic *praiɣendō
Latin prehendō
Latin comprehendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin comprehēnsibilisbor.
English comprehensible
Borrowed from Latin comprehēnsibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more comprehensible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comprehensible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be comprehended.
pos: adj
Antonyms: incomprehensible
confusing
Translations:
comprehend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend.
Inflected forms:
form: comprehends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comprehending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: comprehended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: comprehended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.
Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world:
And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
gloss: To include, comprise; to contain.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
The King being resolved to have a Peace concluded at any Rate, sent us at last to Monsieur des Farges, who would hearken to no Treaty, without allowing us the benefit of being comprehended in it, by which means our liberty was obtain'd.
In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Related words: comprehensibility
comprehensible
comprehension
comprehensive
comprehensiveness
comprise
Derived words: comprehender
comprehendible
miscomprehend
precomprehend
Translations:
Durham
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English Dūnholm, which is from dun (“hill”) + Old Norse holm (“islet, island”). In order to get from Dunholm to Durham, two major processes had to take place. Firstly, the n at the coda of the first syllable, dun, underwent dissimilation. Specifically, by influence of the m in the coda of the following syllable (holm), said n denasalised and lenited to the oral r, thus dur. Secondly, after a weakening of the vowel quality in the more weakly-stressed syllable holm, this ending was misanalysed as the similar-sounding toponymic suffix, -ham, meaning home or farm.
Doublet of Duresm and Dunelm.
Inflected forms:
form: Durhams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England, and noted for their beef-producing quality.
pos: noun
Translations:
graceful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.
Inflected forms:
form: more graceful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most graceful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gracefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
pos: adj
examples: She is a graceful dancer.
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.
gloss: Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
pos: adj
examples: The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
gloss: Gradual and non-disruptive.
pos: adj
examples: Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.
Antonyms: graceless
clumsy
Related words: grace
gracious
Derived words: graceful degradation
gracefully
gracefulness
graceful pitta
nongraceful
ungraceful
Translations:
graceless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English graceles; equivalent to grace + -less.
Base: grace
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more graceless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most graceless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without grace.
pos: adj
examples: Such dutie as the ſubject owes the Prince, / Euen ſuch a woman oweth to her husband: / And when ſhe is froward, peeuiſh, ſullen, ſowre, / And not obedient to his honeſt will, / What is ſhe but a foule contending Rebell / And graceleſſe Traitor to her louing Lord?
For Modes of Faith let graceleſs Zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whoſe Life is in the right.
Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love; / For how should I be loved as I love thee? — / I, graceless, joyless, lacking absolutely / All gifts that with thy queenship best behove; — […]
There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners— […]
Current toys are made of a graceless material, the product of chemistry, not of nature.
1995, Susan Sontag, "The Art of Fiction No. 143," Interview with Edward Hirsch published in The Paris Review, No. 137, Winter, 1995, p. 7,
[Hirsch:] Do you mind being called an intellectual? [Sontag:] Well, one never likes to be called anything. […] I suppose there will always be a presumption of graceless oddity—especially if one is a woman.
gloss: Lacking gracefulness.
pos: adj
examples: The boy sketched his roughhewn young contadino just in from the fields, naked except for his brache, kneeling to take off his clodhoppers; the flesh tones a sunburned amber, the figure clumsy, with graceless bumpkin muscles; but the face transfused with light as the young lad gazed up at John.
gloss: Without the grace of God.
pos: adj
examples: For it was approaching that uncanny time of year, the festival of Beltane, when the auld pagans were wont to sacrifice to their god Baal. In this season warlocks and carlines have a special dispensation to do evil, and Alison waited on its coming with graceless joy.
gloss: Unfortunate.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Much was he grieued with that graceleſſe chaunce, / Yet from the wound no drop of bloud there fell, / But wondrous paine, that did the more enhaunce / His haughtie courage to aduengement fell: / Smart daunts not mighty harts, but makes them more to ſwell.
Synonyms: clumsy
Antonyms: graceful
Derived words: gracelessly
gracelessness
Translations:
gory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.
Base: gore
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: gorier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: goriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with blood; very bloody.
pos: adj
examples: a gory movie
gloss: Scandalous, and often unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
"What do you know of this Sara Stilton affair, Earl?" / "Not so much—but enough to denounce as high crime and treason her being permitted, let the paid, for eruditing on her muderous experiences and appearing upon the screen in all the gory glamour of shooting her ancient but wealthy husband. […]"
In no time they fired away all the gory intimate details, down to his rose tattoo.
[…] since the gory truth of the matter is I need scatterbrain automobiles of desire to burn up the road in order to get out of my own way
"Don't be so modest, Caitlin. Let's hear all the gory details. For instance, was there leather involved? Or maybe some handcuffs?" / Jeremy giggled.
The gory truth is that white women suffragettes (feminists) were not marching for Black women's right to vote in the early twentieth century. The unsavory reality is that Sistas faced sexism at the hands of our Brothas [too].
His only aim was to catch the CEO at lunch and give him all the gory news to make life difficult for people he didn't like.
gloss: Excessively detailed, often boringly so.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: I ask the obligatory questions about how he thought she was doing and if he changed the medicine. I bite my tongue and get all the gory information. She tortures me for a while, knowing what I really want to know. Then I ask the two most important questions about the medication change. In no particular order, “Are we going to get to go to the all you can eat[…]
All the gory information is in the footnotes to the financial statements. Under U.S. GAAP, companies are required to disclose information about their accounting choices and their expenses in the footnotes. The notes[…]
[…] level detail, you may be thinking that all you need is a big, fast DBMS to handle the gory transaction minutiae, and your job is over. Unfortunately, even with […]
When they go for a drink at the local pub, they may be quite bored with the gory minutiae of the local gossip.
gloss: Bloody; pesky.
pos: adj
tags: dated
slang
examples: "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."
Derived words: gorily
goriness
gory details
ungory
Translations:
gore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).
Inflected forms:
form: gores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A gout or mass of such blood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
usually
examples: And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
gloss: Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
gloss: Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
Derived words: begore
border gore
candy gore
gorcrow
gorefest
goregrind
gorehound
goreless
goresome
gorhen
gorn
gorno
gory
Translations:
teleradiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English radiology
English teleradiology
From tele- (“over a distance”) + radiology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Radiology services provided remotely via telecommunications: a means of electronically transmitting radiologic images and consultative text from location to another, even over long distances.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Holonyms: telemedicine < telehealth
Translations:
gauche
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French gauche (“left, awkward”), from gauchir (“to veer, turn”), from Old French gaucher (“to trample, walk clumsily”), from Frankish *walkan (“to full, trample”), from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to full, roll up”). Akin to Old High German walchan (“to knead”), Old English wealcian (“to roll up, curl”) and English walk, Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.
Inflected forms:
form: more gauche
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gaucher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gauche
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gauchest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
pos: adj
examples: Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display
In 'good society', to make her way
She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.
"He's a trifle gauche" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less gauche."
What was once a multi-million-dollar fantasy of womanhood – exclusively svelte, athletic models in lace-trimmed thongs or diamante push-up bras, each framed by a pair of 12-foot-high angel wings – quickly became a parody so gauche it’s hard to imagine it was ever taken seriously.
gloss: Skewed, not plane.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Having a torsion angle of 60°.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: adroit
Related words: gauche caviar
gauche effect
main-gauche
main gauche
très gauche
Derived words: gauchely
gaucheness
Translations:
lots
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A great deal; very much.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: I feel lots better about it now that we've talked.
I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.
Translations:
retort
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English retorte, from Latin retortus, from retorquēre (“to be forced to twist back”).
Inflected forms:
form: retorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: retorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
pos: noun
examples: He countered her insult with a clever retort.
gloss: To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
pos: verb
examples: “It is a pity,” he retorted with aggravating meekness, “that they do not use a little common sense. The case resembles that of Columbus' egg, and is every bit as simple.[…]”
gloss: To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
pos: verb
examples: to retort the charge of vanity
And with retorted scorn his back he turned.
gloss: To bend or curve back.
pos: verb
examples: a retorted line
With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated.
gloss: To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
pos: verb
examples: As when his virtues, shining upon others, / Heat them and they retort that heat again / To the first giver.
Glasses were filled, arresting the trooper on a theme of passion; the pariahdom of the country cop, whose self-respect is to retort the law's blackmail for blackmail levied on his self-respect.
Derived words: retrotort
retortable
retorter
retortive
unretorted
Translations:
careless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der.
Proto-Germanic *karō
Proto-West Germanic *karu
Old English caru
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English carlēas
Middle English careles
English careless
From Middle English careles, from Old English carlēas (“careless, reckless, void of care, free from care, free”), equivalent to care + -less. Cognate with Icelandic kærulaus (“careless, negligent”).
Base: care
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more careless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most careless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not concerned or worried (about).
pos: adj
examples: "He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him."
"What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?"
"This morning, before father went downtown."
Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
gloss: Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.
pos: adj
examples: Jessica was so careless that she put her shorts on backwards.
These ballads, none of which are later than the fifteenth century, are written in a strain of the most artless simplicity, not the slightest attempt at ornament is to be discerned in them; the same ideas and expressions continually recur, and the rimes are the most careless imaginable, often a mere assonnance in vowels or consonants, sometimes not possessing even that slight similarity of sound.
I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
gloss: Free from care; unworried, without anxiety.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Jessica was careless about putting her shorts on properly.
Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.
Synonyms: careless
cursory
derelict
heedless
irregardless
irrespective
lash
lax
neglectful
negligent
reckless
regardless
remiss
slack
slapdash
sloppy
slovenly
slipshod
unfaithful
Antonyms: meticulous
Related words: guilty
Derived words: beastly careless
carelessly
carelessness
overcareless
Translations:
anytime
Part of speech: adv
intj
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English any time, ony tyme, from Old English ǣniġum tīman, equivalent to any + time.
Base: any
Inflected forms:
form: any time
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: any time
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: any time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At any time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I don’t like beer much. Give me a fine wine anytime.
But despite the President’s offer, it’s unlikely that an influx of Norwegians will begin to settle in the US anytime soon.
gloss: A form of you're welcome in response to thank you or thanks.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Thanks so much for looking after grandpa. ~ That’s all right. Any time, dawg.
gloss: suitable for any time; not associated with any particular time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: they appeal to consumers looking for a cookie to eat with breakfast coffee or tea as well as an any-time snack.
Freeze them and reheat them for a perfect any time snack.
They store beautifully for tomorrow's breakfast or an anytime snack. Wrap them individually for a super convenient snack on the go.
Translations:
cloudy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.
Base: cloud
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: cloudier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cloudiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: clowdy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Early
Modern
Senses:
gloss: Covered with or characterised by clouds.
pos: adj
gloss: Not transparent or clear.
pos: adj
examples: […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.
gloss: Not transparent or clear.
pos: adj
gloss: Uncertain; unclear.
pos: adj
gloss: Using or relating to cloud computing.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: a cloudy infrastructure
gloss: shady; sketchy; suspicious
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: Having cloudlike markings.
pos: adj
examples: cloudy marble
Related words: cloud ceiling
cloud cover
Derived words: cloudily
cloudiness
cloudywing
cloudy wing virus
noncloudy
uncloudy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мътен
roman: mǎten
lang: Bulgarian
word: непрозрачен
roman: neprozračen
lang: Catalan
word: nebulós
lang: French
word: trouble
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θολερός
roman: tholerós
lang: Irish
word: modartha
lang: Italian
word: nebuloso
lang: Italian
word: torbido
lang: Macedonian
word: заматен
roman: zamaten
lang: Manx
word: neuheelit
lang: Middle English
word: cloudy
lang: Middle English
word: trouble
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: grumsete
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: grumsete
lang: Polish
word: mętny
lang: Portuguese
word: turvo
lang: Russian
word: му́тный
roman: mútnyj
lang: Spanish
word: turbio
lang: Turkish
word: bulanık
lang: Turkish
word: belirsiz
lang: Turkish
word: muğlak
lately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lately, latly, equivalent to late + -ly. Compare Old English lætlīċe (“slowly, tardily”), Middle Low German lātlîk (“careless, slack, sloppy”).
Base: late
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: latelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more lately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: lateliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most lately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Recently; not long ago; of late; not long since.
pos: adv
examples: I'd lately returned from Japan.
It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.
Ant. […]I am content : ſo he will let me haue / The other halfe in vſe, to render it / Vpon his death, vnto the Gentleman / That lately ſtole his daughter. / Two things prouided more,[…]
gloss: In a late manner; after-the-fact.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: Don't try to come lately and change your answer now after you've heard everyone else's response.
gloss: Formerly.
pos: adv
examples: David George Philip Cholmondeley, The Marquess of CHOLMONDELEY, K.C.V.O., lately Lord Great Chamberlain, Royal Household.
The ¼th of the manor of Dunterdon is held of the king by knight's service as of his honour of Okehampton, now in the king's hands by reason of the atteinture of Henry lately Marquis of Exeter for high treason, and is worth 55s 6d yearly.
Synonyms: freshly
Derived words: Johnny-come-lately
Translations:
lesson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lection.
Inflected forms:
form: lessons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
pos: noun
examples: In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.
gloss: A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
pos: noun
gloss: Something learned or to be learned.
pos: noun
examples: Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
gloss: Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
pos: noun
examples: I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
The accident was a good lesson to me.
gloss: A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
pos: noun
examples: Here endeth the first lesson.
gloss: A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
pos: noun
examples: She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
gloss: An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
pos: noun
Synonyms: lear
Related words: lectern
lection
lecture
Derived words: double lesson
e-lesson
epistle lesson
learn one's lesson
lessoner
lesson horse
lesson plan
lessons learned
life lesson
life's lesson
lime lesson
microlesson
minilesson
object lesson
teach someone a lesson
Translations:
flapping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
phonology
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Inflected forms:
form: flappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: that flaps or flap
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: flapping sails
gloss: An instance where one, or something, flaps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.
gloss: A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Greyhound racing had its origins in whippet racing, which was derived in turn from hare coursing. By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.
Flapping is racing which is not licensed by the Jockey Club. […] Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.
Flapping is the arse end of greyhound racing, the lowest of the low. Part sport, part fairground attraction, flapping is the bare-knuckle fighting of dog racing.
Translations:
carnivorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin carnivorus (“flesh-eating”).
Inflected forms:
form: more carnivorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most carnivorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
pos: adj
examples: carnivorous animal
gloss: Flesh-eating; (usually also specifically) predatorily so: that is, predatory.
pos: adj
examples: carnivorous diet
gloss: Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.
pos: adj
Synonyms: sarcophagic
sarcophagous
Derived words: anticarnivorous
carnivorously
carnivorousness
hypercarnivorous
hypocarnivorous
macrocarnivorous
mesocarnivorous
noncarnivorous
protocarnivorous
uncarnivorous
Translations:
fut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From standard foot.
Inflected forms:
form: feet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: foot
pos: noun
examples: There's half a fut of clabber on the street outby;
Translations:
outright
Part of speech: adv
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English outright. By surface analysis, out + right.
Inflected forms:
form: outrights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outrighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outrighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outrighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Wholly; completely; entirely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I refute those allegations outright.
Special facilities frequently are provided to enable visiting photographers to get the best results, whereas in the past cameras were sometimes banned outright.
gloss: Openly and without reservation; unreservedly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have just responded outright to that question.
gloss: At once.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two people died outright and one more later.
gloss: With no outstanding conditions.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have bought the house outright.
gloss: Blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: That was an outright stupid thing to say.
gloss: Unqualified and unreserved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I demand an outright apology.
gloss: Total or complete.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We achieved outright domination.
Truths, half truths and outright lies.
With little effort they found dozens of outright lies.
He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.
gloss: Having no outstanding conditions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I made an outright purchase of the house.
They don't seek outright independence, but rather greater autonomy.
gloss: To release a player outright, without conditions.
pos: verb
examples: Sandy Alomar Jr. cleared waivers and was outrighted to Class AA Binghamton in preparation for his promotion when rosters expand Saturday.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: прямо
roman: prjamo
lang: Catalan
word: francament
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 公开地
lang: Finnish
word: suoraan
lang: Finnish
word: avoimesti
lang: French
word: ouvertement
lang: German
word: geradeheraus
lang: German
word: ohne Umschweife
lang: German
word: klar
lang: German
word: freiheraus
lang: Hungarian
word: nyíltan
lang: Hungarian
word: egyenesen
lang: Italian
word: apertamente
lang: Polish
word: otwarcie
lang: Polish
word: wprost
lang: Portuguese
word: abertamente
lang: Romanian
word: deschis
lang: Romanian
word: sincer
lang: Russian
word: открыто
roman: otkryto
lang: Russian
word: откровенно
roman: otkrovenno
lang: Spanish
word: abiertamente
outset
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: CSS
Etymology: From out- + set, replacing earlier outsetting.
Base: set#Verb
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outsets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outsetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outset
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outset
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An onset; the beginning or initial stage of something.
pos: noun
examples: He agreed and understood from the outset, so don't bother explaining again.
At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; […]
It was opened on July 1, 1903, and worked by the former Highland Railway from the outset.
Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
gloss: To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
Translations: