yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
breakneck
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From break + neck.
Compound parts: break
neck
Inflected forms:
form: more breakneck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most breakneck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: breaknecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
pos: adj
examples: breakneck pace
He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.
The line to Dunières conists of a series of breakneck descents almost invariably ended by a violent curve and followed immediately by a panting climb, on which the engine barked thunderously but failed unhappily to maintain its booked speed of 13 m.p.h.
The use of machine learning in this field is hardly new, but the breakneck pace at which it is improving is worrying, Lund says: “With the advent of ChatGPT, the future is bleak.”
gloss: Dangerously fast.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I ran breakneck another hundred yards.
gloss: A fall that breaks the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: A dangerous steep place from which one could fall and be injured.
pos: noun
Related words: breakbone
Translations:
breakup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English break updeverb.
English breakup
Deverbal from break up.
Inflected forms:
form: breakups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: break up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: break-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
pos: noun
examples: Several factors led to speculation that the accident might have been caused by a bomb or missile strike, including heightened safety and security concerns because of the 1996 Olympics then being held in the United States, the fact that TWA flight 800 was an international flight, and the sudden and catastrophic nature of the in-flight breakup.
gloss: The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
pos: noun
examples: "Eventually, I just pieced it together, figuring your butting heads could probably be explained by a break up. Years of anime shipping trained me for this."
gloss: A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
pos: noun
gloss: The season during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Northern
Antonyms: freeze-up
Related words: breakdown
breakoff
Derived words: postbreakup
third-act breakup
Translations:
breast-fed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been suckled at its mother's breast
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
briber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bribe
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English briber
From bribe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bribers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who bribes.
pos: noun
Translations:
bridgeable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bridge
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English bridgeable
From bridge + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more bridgeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bridgeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bridgable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be spanned by, or as if by, a bridge.
pos: adj
gloss: Possible to reconcile.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
bridgework
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bridge
English -work
English bridgework
From bridge + -work.
Inflected forms:
form: bridgeworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Just think. If you were some big shot like a casting director or something, I'd be staring into your bridgework, saying, 'Yes, Mr. Smearkase; no, Mr. Smearkase; not really, Mr. Smearkase. Oh! Mr. Smearkase, that's my knee!'
She called us by all our names, and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eyeteeth. When I admired them and hoped I would have some eventually, she said, “Look here.” With a click of her tongue she thrust out her bridgework, a gesture of cordiality that cemented our friendship.
gloss: The construction or repair of bridges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Of these Stable Creek bridge, 16 miles from Westport, with ten 40 ft. spans and one 20 ft. span, set on a curve of 20 ch. radius, has been completed, and forms part of 2,290 ft. of bridgework now in position on the new route, which is expected to be in service early in 1941.
British Railways have plans to build a loop from the down side of the station to burrow under the Ipswich main line and enable down through trains to reach the Clacton line without having to cross the path of up Ipswich trains at Colchester Junction, but the Essex County Council has objected to the scheme on the grounds that the bridgework involved would interfere with its road improvement plans.
gloss: The component parts of a bridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
brigandage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French brigandage.
Inflected forms:
form: brigandages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lifestyle of a brigand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The criminal acts of brigands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Honan authorities do not appear to have been successful in maintaining order and suppressing brigandage. Amongst the innumerable acts of lawlessness reported, one of the most daring occurred in the early part of December when a band of 500 mounted robbers attacked the district city of Hsi-hua Hsien, and after looting the town departed unmolested, taking with them some of the leading inhabitants for whose release they demanded a ransom.
Synonyms: brigandry
Related words: highway robbery
pillage
plunder
Translations:
brightener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brighten
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English brightener
From brighten + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: brighteners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which brightens.
pos: noun
examples: Country air in the fields, or in gardens, when breathed at proper hours, is an excellent bracer of the nerves, and a sure brightener of the complexion.
Chirol's own advice was simple: get the Russian agreement signed. March, month of change, brightener of days and moods, brought that action notably closer.
gloss: A chemical agent that absorbs ultraviolet and violet light and re-emits blue light by fluorescence, used to make fabric or paper look whiter.
pos: noun
gloss: Any substance added to an electrolytic bath to yield a brighter electroplated surface.
pos: noun
Translations:
bright-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bryht yhed, equivalent to bright + eyed.
Base: bright
Inflected forms:
form: more bright-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bright-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: eager and alert
pos: adj
Translations:
brindle
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Inflected forms:
form: brindles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more brindle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brindle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brindles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brindling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brindled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brindled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A streaky colouration in animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An animal so coloured.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.
gloss: Having such a colouration; brindled.
pos: adj
examples: It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.
gloss: To form streaks of a different color.
pos: verb
examples: Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.
It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.
The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points.
Derived words: Treeing Tennessee Brindle
Translations:
bringer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bring
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bringer
From bring + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bringers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or a thing which brings something.
pos: noun
examples: Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news / Hath but a losing office.
And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
gloss: Someone who supplies or identifies potential recruits for the military in exchange for payment.
pos: noun
tags: historical
specifically
examples: Hancox's recruitment would have gone something like this. In Conventry, where he may have been selling food or livestock at the town's market, he would have been intrigued by the recruiting party, especially the 'bringer', usually a sergeant, no doubt a tall man in scarlet with gold stripes on his sleeve.
Related words: bringer-out
bringer-up
Translations:
brogan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An alteration of brogue. Most dictionaries give the source as Irish *brógán (from bróg (“shoe”) + -án (diminutive suffix)) or its Scottish Gaelic equivalent, but no such word can be confirmed to exist in either language (apart from the given name Brógán, the source of the surname Brogan).
Inflected forms:
form: brogans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavy working shoe; a brogue.
pos: noun
examples: The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet.
Whoever's idea it was to depict Eddie Kendricks wearing an oversized orange sweater, baggy pants, and dull brown brogan loafers on the cover should have been fired.
Translations:
brokenly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English broken
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English brokenly
From broken + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more brokenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most brokenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a broken manner.
pos: adv
examples: —Something I said,
But faint and brokenly of former days,
When in the paths of science and of hope,
We walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal
Of vacant laughter from those bloated lips,
And the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd
For friendship's grasp.
It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.
gloss: with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.
pos: adv
examples: It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.
Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.
Translations:
bronc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: broncs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bronco.
pos: noun
examples: Yet, some broncs will be rebels for a lifetime. A lifetime for a horse is usually under thirty years.
Translations:
brooder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brood
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English brooder
From brood + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: brooders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who broods.
pos: noun
gloss: A heated box used for chicks or premature babies.
pos: noun
examples: [E]verybody worked hard to get the chicks safely into the brooders.
Derived words: mouthbrooder
Translations:
broodingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brooding
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English broodingly
From brooding + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more broodingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most broodingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a brooding manner.
pos: adv
examples: But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.
Translations:
brooklet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brook
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English brooklet
From brook + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: brooklets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A little brook.
pos: noun
examples: Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges;[…] rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to humble brooklets; […]
There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
Translations:
browbeaten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brow + beaten.
Compound parts: brow
beaten
Inflected forms:
form: more browbeaten
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most browbeaten
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: intimidated or subjugated
pos: adj
Translations:
buckskins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: trousers and other clothing made from buckskin
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
budgetary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English budget
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English budgetary
From budget + -ary.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a budget.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.
Translations:
buffered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more buffered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buffered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using a buffer.
pos: adj
examples: a buffered video stream
a buffered railway siding
gloss: Dissolved in a buffer solution.
pos: adj
Derived words: bufferedness
multibuffered
nonbuffered
unbuffered
Translations:
buffoonish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English buffoon
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English buffoonish
From buffoon + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more buffoonish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buffoonish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a buffoon.
pos: adj
examples: Sisi once joked that he was a spy, drawing laughter from the rest because Segun with his habitual look of buffoonish imbecility, his mouth constantly hanging open, hands flailing, does not look smart enough to be a spy.
Translations:
bulgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bulge
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English bulgy
From bulge + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bulgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bulgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bulgey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having one or more bulges; bulging
pos: adj
examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I took Mama Tips to State St Animal Hosp. cuz her right eye was so swollen, plus I'd run out of medication. So I told the vet I'd like him to try & do something bout the one bulgy eye.
She decides that she desperately needs a new pair of jeans. She has a pair, but they make her look bulgy.
Translations:
bummed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bummed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bummed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bummed out.
pos: adj
examples: I'm really bummed that we didn't get a company dinner this summer.
Translations:
bunchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bunchy, bonchy, equivalent to bunch + -y.
Base: bunch
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: bunchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more bunchy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bunchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most bunchy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having, or growing in bunches.
pos: adj
Translations:
bunkhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bunk + house.
Compound parts: bunk
house
Inflected forms:
form: bunkhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bunk house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
pos: noun
examples: The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
Translations:
burnable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰrénuh₁e-?
Proto-Germanic *brinnaną
Proto-West Germanic *brinnan
Old English biernan
▲
Proto-Germanic *brinnaną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *brannijaną
Proto-West Germanic *brannijan
Old English bærnan
Old Norse brennabor.
Middle English brennen
English burn
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English burnable
From burn + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more burnable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most burnable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: burnables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be burned; combustible
pos: adj
gloss: Anything that can be burned.
pos: noun
examples: The lower chamber consumes the burnables. The upper chamber consumes gases, smoke, and odor.
Translations:
burrower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English burrow
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English burrower
From burrow + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: burrowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One that burrows.
pos: noun
gloss: An animal that lives in an underground hole that it has made itself.
pos: noun
Derived words: longfin burrower
Translations:
bush-league
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bush-league
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bush-league
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bush league
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Minor-league; second-rate.
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
bushmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to Dutch bosmeester.
Inflected forms:
form: bushmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A venomous pit viper, Lachesis muta, from tropical America.
pos: noun
Translations:
butternut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butter + nut.
Compound parts: butter
nut
Inflected forms:
form: butternuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The nut of this walnut tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The souari nut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Butternut squash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made a delicious butternut soup.
Derived words: butternut pumpkin
butternut squash
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: Amerikanjalopähkinä
lang: French
word: noyer cendré
lang: French
word: noyer à beurre
lang: German
word: Butternussbaum
lang: German
word: grauer Walnussbaum
lang: German
word: Graunuss
lang: German
word: Butternuss
lang: Korean
word: 백호두나무
roman: baekhodunamu
lang: Polish
word: orzech szary
lang: Spanish
word: nogal blanco americano
dairyman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dairy
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English dairyman
From dairy + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: dairymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who works in a dairy, as:
pos: noun
tags: usually
gloss: A man who works in a dairy, as:
pos: noun
gloss: A man who delivers dairy products.
pos: noun
Related words: dairy cattle
dairy cow
dairy farm
dairy farming
dairying
dairy product
cattleman
cowman
herdsman
Derived words: Dairymans Plains
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: meijerityöntekijä
lang: Polish
word: mleczarz
lang: Polish
word: dojarz
masonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mason
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English masonic
From mason + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to stonemasons or masonry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to freemasonry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a sign or signal, arcane and secretive.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Without attempting to disturb the harmony of this profitable discussion, Quin, by a masonic gesture to the barmaid, had had three glasses filled up again, and Cripps, Bunson and himself were busy emptying them when Limpet awoke to the fact that treachery was being done.
Derived words: antimasonic
masonically
Translations:
destructiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English destructive
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English destructiveness
From destructive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being destructive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Would Helen’s face-seductiveness have wrought as much destructiveness,
Would Antony have followed Cleopatra like a lamb,
Unless those ladies’ vanities for snaring male humanities
Had been associated with a quantum suff. of glam.?
Translations:
devoutness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Ecclesiastical Latin -tus
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor.
Old French devotbor.
Middle English devout
English devout
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 devoutness
From devout + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: devoutnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being devout; religiosity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
chalcopyrite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From chalco- (“copper, ore”) + pyrite. Named by Johann Friedrich Henckel 1725.
Base: pyrite
Affixes: chalco-
Inflected forms:
form: chalcopyrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A yellow mineral that is a mixed sulfide of copper and iron, with the chemical formula CuFeS₂.
pos: noun
Translations:
somatoform
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From somato- + -form.
Base: somato
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no physical or organic cause
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hypochondriasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin; by surface analysis, hypochondr(ium) + -iasis. See also hypochondria, hypochondrium, and Wikipedia at hypochondriasis § Etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: hypochondriases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mental disorder (in some classifications of such disorders, including ICD-11) that is characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: hypochondria
Most individuals who previously would have been diagnosed with hypochondriasis in DSM-IV [1994] (preoccupation with having a serious disease based on the individual’s misinterpretation of bodily symptoms) are now classified as having somatic symptom disorder; however, in one-third of cases, the diagnosis of illness anxiety disorder applies instead.
Translations:
perfector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perfect
English -or
English perfector
From perfect + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: perfectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who perfects.
pos: noun
Translations:
dallying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dallyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: dalliance
pos: noun
examples: Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.
Translations:
procrastinator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English procrastinate
English -or
English procrastinator
From procrastinate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: procrastinators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.
pos: noun
examples: Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.
Translations:
traversal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English traverse
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 traversal
From traverse + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: traversals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of traversing; a crossing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His traversal of the mountains allowed him a view from the peak.
The Stephenson Locomotive Society (North Western Area) and the Manchester Locomotive Society are co-operating in running a special corridor train, to be worked by an 0-6-0 locomotive of the former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, on Saturday, May 12, over a route which includes visits to four historic stations, ascent of the 1 in 27 Werneth Incline, and traversal of lines normally closed to passenger traffic.
gloss: The product or result of traversing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of following a path or route.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: directory traversal
path traversal
retraversal
Translations:
suprasegmental
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Proto-Italic *superos
Proto-Italic *superād
Old Latin suprād
Latin suprā
Latin supra-lbor.
English supra-
English segment
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 segmental
English suprasegmental
From supra- + segmental.
Inflected forms:
form: suprasegmentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are two kinds of phonemes in Chinese: segmental phonemes, which may be thought of as sequential sounds, and suprasegmental phonemes or tones, which in a sense are added to the syllable as a whole.
gloss: More than a segment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: suprasegmentally
Translations:
HE-double-toothpicks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The word hell spelled out, referring to the fact that a lowercase L resembles a toothpick.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hell.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
idiomatic
uncountable
examples: Yet you try it out and the gimpy ones will scream H-E double toothpicks about Social Security in their golden years, which I want to tell them I need some security right now or I'm not going to have any golden years.
Rural Mormons like my friend do not use the "H word" lightly. They say "HE double toothpicks" rather than pronounce the word out loud.
When they do, all kinds of h-e-double-toothpicks can ensue—including a mac that freezes during the startup process.
Translations:
mycotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From myco- + -tic.
Affixes: myco-
-tic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a fungus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to mycosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Micarelli et al. (2019) discuss it as a preliminary stage in their cataloguing of lytic lesions in a skeleton that they eventually ascribe to mycotic infection.
gloss: Infectious; especially, infectious and resembling a mushroom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: embolomycotic
keratomycotic
mycotic aneurysm
mycotic granulomatosis
onychomycotic
otomycotic
premycotic
pseudomycotic
Translations:
clostridium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual Clostridiumbor.
English clostridium
Borrowed from Translingual Clostridium.
Inflected forms:
form: clostridia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clostridiums
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores
pos: noun
Translations:
damnedest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English damned
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *-tHós
Proto-Indo-European *-istHos
Proto-Germanic *-istaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ist
Old English -est
Middle English -est
English -est
English damnedest
From damned + -est.
Inflected forms:
form: damndest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One's best effort.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Fancy was doing her damnedest to pull her own oar and the boys were tripping all over themselves to treat her like a lady."
Translations:
undemocratic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English democratic
English undemocratic
From un- + democratic.
Inflected forms:
form: more undemocratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undemocratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not democratic.
pos: adj
examples: The undemocratic reality of the capitalist workplace leaves its complex, multilayered impacts on all who collaborate there, part-time and full-time.
Translations:
undisguised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English disguised
English undisguised
From un- + disguised.
Inflected forms:
form: more undisguised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undisguised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not disguised, plainly visible.
pos: adj
examples: The Major-General has already been made aware of the fact, that a large number of ill-disposed persons have, for some days, been openly organizing, drilling, and equipping themselves, with the undisguised object of attacking her Majesty's troops, and, if possible, subverting the Government.
1885, Edward Dutton Cook, Anderson, John Henry, article in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 1: Abbadie - Anne,
The bal masqué was ‘a scene of undisguised indecency, drunkenness, and vice.’
1890s, Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), Hellenica, Book 4, Chapter 5,
So when they perceived the approach of Agesilaus, the Argives and their friends left the offerings as they lay, including the preparations for the breakfast, and retired with undisguised alarm into the city by the Cenchrean road.
Translations:
undiscriminating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English discriminating
English undiscriminating
From un- + discriminating.
Inflected forms:
form: more undiscriminating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undiscriminating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not discriminating
pos: adj
Translations:
undigested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English digested
English undigested
From un- + digested.
Inflected forms:
form: more undigested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undigested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not digested
pos: adj
Translations:
undetectable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English detectable
English undetectable
From un- + detectable.
Inflected forms:
form: more undetectable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undetectable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be detected; not detectable.
pos: adj
examples: In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
A trial of scar may be justified in a woman with a previous cesarean section who is currently on HAART, has an undetectable virus and spontaneously goes into labor.
“OK, so for a few weeks I've been working on a bit of a side project. I give you the Red Kriegtober.” “Um--” “Or the Red Octkrieger. I can't decide. It's a narco sub for transporting cocaine. It's totally undetectable by the Coast Guard. Thoughts?”
Some forms of data poisoning are undetectable. Attackers can insert adversarial noise into the training data, altering the training data in a way that is hidden to human observers.
Antonyms: detectable
Translations:
undissolved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English dissolved
English undissolved
From un- + dissolved.
Inflected forms:
form: more undissolved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undissolved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not dissolved.
pos: adj
examples: In an attempt to compare the amount of undissolved solids at two different sites in a lake, the following procedure was followed at each site.
Translations:
undomesticated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English domesticated
English undomesticated
From un- + domesticated.
Inflected forms:
form: more undomesticated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undomesticated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not domesticated
pos: adj
Translations:
undramatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)lbor.
English dramatic
English undramatic
From un- + dramatic.
Inflected forms:
form: more undramatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undramatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not dramatic; lacking in dramatic action.
pos: adj
examples: […] they supply the rest—all told in a long-winded, undramatic dialogue.
Translations:
undrinkable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English drinkable
English undrinkable
From un- + drinkable.
Inflected forms:
form: more undrinkable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undrinkable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: undrinkables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not drinkable.
pos: adj
gloss: Anything not suitable for drinking.
pos: noun
examples: […] but there was a peculiar aroma about that Oxo that no ox had ever provided, unless he were stalled in a chemist's shop, and it was not long before this ruse was discovered and another liquid thereby added to the undrinkables of life.
Popping down a cork coaster, the bartender delivered Alan's next drink and plucked the empties and undrinkables as the music changed.
Translations:
undistracted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English distracted
English undistracted
From un- + distracted.
Inflected forms:
form: more undistracted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undistracted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not distracted
pos: adj
examples: Ant. Say wherefore dost thou crave with such desire
The clearness of an undistracted mind?
Translations:
undoable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English doable
English undoable
From un- + doable.
Inflected forms:
form: more undoable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undoable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: undoables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not doable; impossible to do.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that cannot be done; an impossible or impractical task.
pos: noun
Antonyms: unundoable
Translations:
undrawn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English drawn
English undrawn
From un- + drawn.
Inflected forms:
form: more undrawn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undrawn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not drawn (in various senses).
pos: adj
examples: With my back to the main-mast, I parried the first blow with my undrawn weapon. The blade of the second was lifted to strike me, when his comrade perceived my defensive state, and struck it aside.
This communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.
Here the curtains were undrawn and they could see the lights twinkling out in the windows of the other houses.
The point of these distinctions is that the imagining of disease has much in common with imagining pictures, especially undrawn pictures in the mind.
Translations:
undrilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English drilled
English undrilled
From un- + drilled.
Inflected forms:
form: more undrilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undrilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not drilled
pos: adj
Translations:
unearned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English earned
English unearned
From un- + earned.
Inflected forms:
form: unearnt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not earned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
uneatable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + eatable.
Base: eatable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more uneatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uneatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: un-eatable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not eatable; not fit for eating.
pos: adj
Translations:
unelected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English elected
English unelected
From un- + elected.
Inflected forms:
form: more unelected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unelected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not elected.
pos: adj
examples: “We need elections that we can trust, that we can believe in,” GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday at a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa. “That means yes, unelected judges are not going to decide willy-nilly across the state who ends up on a ballot and who doesn’t.”
Translations:
unenjoyable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English enjoy
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English enjoyable
English unenjoyable
From un- + enjoyable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unenjoyable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unenjoyable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not enjoyable.
pos: adj
Translations:
unblocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English blocked
English unblocked
From un- + blocked.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not blocked (in various senses).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The difference between the two classifications has always been intended to cover unblocked and untrimmed hat bodies, such as panamas, bangkoks, and leghorns, and other hats which are woven by the natives in South American and oriental countries where they are produced.
Translations:
unescorted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English escorted
English unescorted
From un- + escorted.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not escorted; without an escort.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
Translations:
unexcavated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English excavated
English unexcavated
From un- + excavated.
Inflected forms:
form: more unexcavated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unexcavated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not excavated.
pos: adj
Translations:
unexciting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English exciting
English unexciting
From un- + exciting.
Inflected forms:
form: more unexciting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unexciting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not exciting.
pos: adj
examples: Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.
B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
Translations:
mutability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mutabilite, from Old French mutabilite, from Latin mutabilitas; equivalent to mutable + -ity.
Base: mutable
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: mutabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being mutable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He did indeed account somewhat unfairly for this sudden change; for besides some hard and unjust surmises concerning female fickleness and mutability, he began to suspect that he owed this want of civility to his want of horses […]
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.
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