yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unbearable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
Base: bearable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unbearable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbearable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
pos: adj
examples: The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
Translations:
unbecoming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing
Base: becoming
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unbecoming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbecoming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unbecomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.
pos: adj
examples: She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.
A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.
With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
― Lily: “Don’t stare so much. It’s unbecoming. It makes you look like a country bumpkin.”
Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.
gloss: Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
pos: adj
examples: He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
No proceedings in respect of unbecoming conduct shall be taken in respect of the lawful political opinions or activities of any bishop, priest or deacon.
“You must be able to smell it too, Chloe. That smell of . . . Well, I’m not going to say what it reminds me of, that would be impolite and unbecoming of a woman of my class and distinction, but it’s a bad smell.”
[Prince Andrew:] Do I regret the fact that he [Jeff Epstein] has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming? Yes.
 [Emily Maitlis]: Unbecoming? He was a sex offender.
 [Prince Andrew:] Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm being polite.
gloss: The process by which something unbecomes.
pos: noun
examples: By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
Synonyms: unsuitable
unfit
indecent
indecorous
improper
Antonyms: becoming
befitting
suiting
Related words: unbecomingly
unbecomingness
Translations:
unbelievable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + believable.
Base: believable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unbelievable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unbelievabler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most unbelievable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unbelievablest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not to be believed.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: ‘Come on, girls,’ said Steve, ‘be honest, we won.’ / ‘Yeah,’ said Raymond, ‘we let you off because you’re girls.’ / ‘You’re unbelievable,’ said Liz. / ‘Well, if we’re unbelievable,’ said Steve, ‘then you’re unbelievabler.’
gloss: Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The most unbelievable thing happened to me today!
This restaurant makes unbelievable pizza!
Whether you want the unbelievablest sheer of chiffon . . . or the most durable of service weight . . . I’ve concluded, after a round of looking, that these stores give you a real money’s worth!
In other words—join the gpo and hear the world; have fun; talk to the wildest, craziest, simply unbelievablest people.
The unbelievablest (to coin a word) thing about this animation is the fact that it is generated in real time, like a video game!
gloss: Implausible or improbable.
pos: adj
examples: His excuse seems rather unbelievable.
Related words: belief
believe
Derived words: superunbelievable
unbelievability
unbelievableness
unbelievably
Translations:
puissance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
Etymology: From Middle English puissaunce, from Anglo-Norman puissance, pusaunce, and other forms, from Old French puissant (“powerful”).
Inflected forms:
form: puissances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Puissance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: power, might or potency
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Sarazin ſore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his ſword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: / Each others equall puiſſaunce enuies, / And through their iron ſides with cruelties / Does ſeeke to perce: repining courage yields / No foote to foe.
We easily pronounce puissance, truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
After these things above said, the Priest exorcised the salt, saying thus: I conjure thee, creature of salt; that is to say, I conjure in thee the puissance of the Devil in Hell, in the name of God Father omnipotent, and in the charity of our Lord Jesu Christ, and in the virtue of the Holy Ghost […]
Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script […].
gloss: The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was in Dublin that San Lucas scored his first success in what has become something of a speciality for him, the puissance.
Pat [Moss] then went to Oxford to qualify for the Horse of the Year Show, and Danny was fourth in the Puissance, an event with very high jumps.
In a study of horses during a puissance competition that started at a height of 1.80 m and ended in the last round at 2.27 m, success was significantly positively correlated with the following variables at lift-off: vertical velocity of CM, height of CM, distance of CM from the fence; and was significantly negatively correlated with the distance of the leading hind limb to the CM.
Translations:
potentate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English potentat, from Old French, from Late Latin potentātus (“rule, political power”), from Latin potēns (“powerful, strong”), the active present participle of possum (“to be able”).
Inflected forms:
form: potentates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
pos: noun
examples: But Kings and mightieſt Potentates muſt die,
For that's the end of humane miſerie.
She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.
Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture.
Anyone expecting such a speech has forgotten that Trump’s first impulse is to please. He is constitutionally incapable of displeasing a live audience, let alone a foreign potentate who has recently lassoed him with a golden chain.
Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less.
The place in question was the stretch of Campanian coastline around the Bay of Naples. Originally a quiet retreat of rugged cliffs and healing thermal springs, by the middle of the first century B.C., the bay was teeming with military potentates, spendthrift aristocrats and the people who could afford to keep up with them.
gloss: A powerful polity or institution.
pos: noun
gloss: A self-important person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: Someone acting in an important role.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: "Those foreigners," thought the female potentate of the Sun, "won't know what to order; but I'll show them what a good supper is."
Related words: potence
potency
potent
potential
potentiality
Translations:
politeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polite
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 politeness
From polite + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: politenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being polite.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: At school, where politeness is not one of the compulsory subjects, I was "Pup", "Puggy", "Ki-ki", "Balcombe Beauty", "Snarleywow", and other shafts of endearment. I was not petted.
gloss: A polite act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: These politenesses left Miss Marley floundering for initiative, holding Jasper and being solemnly inspected by Podson, who clearly depended on her the convention of an afternoon call.
Antonyms: impoliteness
rudeness
Derived words: superpoliteness
Translations:
barefoot
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).
Compound parts: bare
foot
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing nothing on the feet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
[L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]
It was firm enough to walk on, but Bradly took off his boots to preserve the leather from sea-water, and for the pleasure of barefoot walking on cool sand.
gloss: Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
gloss: Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: Wearing nothing on the feet.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.
Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.
gloss: Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: barefooted
discalced
shoeless
unshod
unshoed
Related words: barefooted
bare-footen
Derived words: barefoot all over
barefoot and pregnant
Barefoot Bay
barefoot doctor
barefooter
barefooting
barefoot shoe
pregnant and barefoot
run barefoot through
the shoemaker's children go barefoot
Translations:
soliloquy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
television
theater
writing
Etymology: 1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“to speak”).
Inflected forms:
form: soliloquies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.
Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare.
gloss: A speech or written discourse in this form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]
Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.
Related words: solo
solitude
locution
apostrophe
stage whisper
Derived words: soliloqual
soliloquise
soliloquist
soliloquize
Translations:
forensic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin forēnsis (“of the forum, public”) + -ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”).
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: forensick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: forensic analysis; forensic examination; forensic evidence; forensic investigation; forensic pathologist
In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.
Fire investigators […] and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing], interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
gloss: Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.
Mr. Philips’ incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill.
gloss: Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: A forensic account of history
With forensic precision
It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held, […]
gloss: Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a forensic learning disability
patients with forensic needs
gloss: Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
Synonyms: Related
appropriate for a court of law
Related words: forensal
forensical
forensive
Derived words: antiforensic
bioforensic
cyberforensic
forensic accountancy
forensic accountant
forensic accounting
forensically
forensicate
forensic biology
forensic engineering
forensicist
forensic linguistics
forensic medicine
forensics
forensic science
paleoforensic
phytoforensic
unforensic
Translations:
chevalier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
Late Latin caballus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Late Latin -āriusnom.
Late Latin -ārius
Late Latin caballārius
Old French chevalier
Anglo-Norman chevalerbor.
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Old French chevalier
Middle French chevalierbor.
Middle English chivaler
English chevalier
From Middle English chivaler or chevaler (also shyvalere while code-switching), from Anglo-Norman chevaler or chivaler, later refashioned after French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of caballero and cavalier.
Inflected forms:
form: chevaliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: cavalier; knight
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame.
pos: noun
Related words: preux chevalier
Translations:
unpleasant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant.
Base: pleasant
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unpleasanter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unpleasant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unpleasantest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unpleasant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not pleasant.
pos: adj
examples: O sweet Portia, / Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words / That ever blotted paper!
It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]
The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
[…] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: […]
And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.
An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage.
Antonyms: pleasant
Translations:
cumulonimbus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin cumulus (“heap”) + nimbus (“cloud”).
Inflected forms:
form: cumulonimbuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cumulonimbi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cumulo-nimbus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cloud with a tall structure and flat base, often associated with thunderstorms.
pos: noun
examples: The one to the east (which at the moment seemed to be leaping straight out of the heart of a sinister slaty-purple patch of cumulonimbus) drained the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers; that to the west a desolate rock and ice-walled valley which was rimmed by some of the highest summits in the Selkirks.
Translations:
estival
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English estival, from Old French estival, from Latin aestivalis.
Inflected forms:
form: more estival
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most estival
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aestival
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: æstival
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to summer.
pos: adj
examples: A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber.
gloss: Coming forth in the summer.
pos: adj
examples: […] begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits. The birds now begin to be very active in devouring the fruits, ...
To the first or aestival class must also be referred a small number of early spring flowerers, such as the Alyssums and Drabas.
Thalictrum purpurascens. Lactuca pulchella. Verbena stricta. The estival period begins about the tenth of June, and is characterized by the rapid diminution of the vernal bloomers rather than by the addition of the important estival flowers .
On the other hand, many tropical flowers and a large number of estival flowers of temperate climates have more specialized structures, their nectar supply being hidden in spurs or at the base of long corolla tubes.
[…] were basking near men-of-the-earth (always a morning glory) and kiss-mes and kiss-me-quicks where she was sure to contract spring fever, vulnerable as she with her romanticist heart was to get it now that estival flowers […]
Related words: estivate
Translations:
sanctity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sanctity, from Old French sanctete, from Latin sānctitās.
Inflected forms:
form: sanctities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something considered sacred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
[…] allowed the Israeli occupation over 75 years to commit the worst crimes ever against the Palestinian people, land and sanctities.
Derived words: nonsanctity
odor of sanctity
odour of sanctity
unsanctity
Translations:
tedium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin taedium, from taedēre (“to weary”).
Inflected forms:
form: tediums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tedia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: taedium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: tædium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.
Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.
Antonyms: amusement
interest
Translations:
unbending
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 bending
English unbending
From un- + bending.
Inflected forms:
form: more unbending
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbending
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unbendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inflexible and not yielding
pos: adj
gloss: very reserved, aloof and asocial
pos: adj
gloss: The act of one who unbends.
pos: noun
examples: He was a frequent visitor at Wimbledon where Mr. Wilberforce now resided, and the following account is given of his social unbendings.
Translations:
carfax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English carfukes, an Anglicisation of Latin quadrifurcus (“four-pronged, four-forked”). Doublet of carfour.
Inflected forms:
form: carfaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A junction of four roads.
pos: noun
gloss: The main intersection in a town.
pos: noun
Derived words: Carfax
Translations:
piston
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French pistonbor.
English piston
Borrowed from French piston.
Inflected forms:
form: pistons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pistons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pistoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pistoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pistoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
pos: noun
gloss: A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
pos: noun
gloss: To move up and down or in and out like a piston.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Latino warrior fucked like a man possessed. His lean hips powered the pistoning rod in short, vicious jabs, so rapidly that the shit-streaked cock was a blur as it pounded Captain Randall's butthole, churning the screaming soldier's ass-juices, rectal blood, and smashed turds into a slimy froth.
Derived words: multipiston
opposed piston opposed cylinder
piston engine
pistoning
pistonless
pistonlike
pistonphone
piston ring
piston rod
piston valve
trunk piston
Translations:
importune
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French importuner and its etymon Medieval Latin importūnor (“to make oneself troublesome”), from Latin importūnus (“unfit, troublesome”), originally "having no harbor".
Inflected forms:
form: importunes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: importuning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: importuned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: importuned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bother, irritate, trouble.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.
But I will no longer importune my young cousin.
gloss: To harass with persistent requests.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]
You were kneel'd to, & importun'd otherwiſe / By all of vs; […]
[W]e have been obliged to hire Troops from ſeveral Princes of the Empire, whoſe Ministers and Reſidents here, have perpetually importuned the Court with unreaſonable Demands, under which our late Miniſters thought fit to be Paſſive.
gloss: To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To import; to signify.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: It importunes death.
Related words: importunity
Derived words: importunable
reimportune
unimportuned
Translations:
importunate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1477, in Middle english; from Latin importūnus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), modelled on Middle French importuné. By surface analysis, importune + -ate. The noun was substantivized from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Base: importūnus
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more importunate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most importunate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: importunates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
pos: adj
examples: Nick was on the point of declaring again that he was a humbug, so vivid was his inner sense of what he thought of his factitious public utterances, which had the cursed property of creating dreadful responsibilities and importunate credulities for him.
Trembling in every limb I raise my loud im­portunate cry,
And in a sacred terror wait the Delian god’s reply.
gloss: Given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.
pos: adj
examples: [...] if you reprimand or punish them, be assured every one will consider you importunate as well as ridiculous.
gloss: An importuner.
pos: noun
examples: This will put an Answer into the Kings mouth, against all importunates.
Related words: importune
Derived words: importunately
importunateness
unimportunate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: досаден
roman: dosaden
lang: Bulgarian
word: натрапчив
roman: natrapčiv
lang: Catalan
word: importú
lang: Finnish
word: vaativainen
lang: Irish
word: achainíoch
lang: Macedonian
word: на́траплив
roman: nátrapliv
lang: Macedonian
word: на́метлив
roman: námetliv
lang: Māori
word: tōwenewene
unbiased
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 bias
English -ed
English biased
English unbiased
From un- + biased.
Inflected forms:
form: more unbiased
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbiased
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not biased.
pos: adj
gloss: Impartial or without bias or prejudice.
pos: adj
examples: A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies.
The methodology, which we have named the Aural-Oral Transect (AOT), is a systematic, easy-to-implement, unbiased way of collecting quantitative data on spoken language use in multilingual settings.
Related words: unbiasedness
Translations:
unbidden
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 bidden
English unbidden
From un- + bidden.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: not invited, requested or asked for
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The words of the spell rose unbidden in his throat. He opened his mouth as in a dream, shaping it around the first barbaric syllable.
Translations:
unblemished
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 blemished
English unblemished
From un- + blemished.
Inflected forms:
form: more unblemished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unblemished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unblemisht
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Lacking blemishes; faultless.
pos: adj
gloss: Free from corruption or evil.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: His own estate it most decidedly was, for he had paid for it with his own money; but it had not descended to him from a long line of unblemished ancestry.
The lake country is a holiday paradise. All the water sports are practiced. Life is lively without being raucous, the landscape is unblemished by gas stations, souvenir stands, or hot-doggeries.
Translations:
unbreakable
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-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-der.
Proto-Germanic *brekaną
Proto-West Germanic *brekan
Old English brecan
Middle English breken
English break
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 unbreakable
From un- + break + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more unbreakable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbreakable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unbreakables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.
pos: adj
examples: unbreakable comb
His 14 singles titles still look like a typo even for those like me who have watched him build that probably unbreakable record, red brick by red brick.
gloss: Resilient.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: the unbreakable spirit of the rebels
gloss: Not able to be broken in.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that cannot be broken.
pos: noun
Antonyms: breakable
fragile
Related words: unbroken
Derived words: sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
unbreakability
unbreakableness
unbreakably
Translations:
unburden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English burden
English unburden
From un- + burden.
Inflected forms:
form: unburdens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unburdening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unburdened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unburdened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To free from burden, or relieve from trouble.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
disturbance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English disturbaunce, from Old French destorbance, destourbance, from destourber (“disturb”), from Latin disturbō. By surface analysis, disturb + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: disturbances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disturbaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that disturbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he’s such a disturbance.
gloss: A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.
gloss: A serious mental imbalance or illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: calmness
rumpus
Derived words: antidisturbance
disturbance regime
emotional disturbance
indisturbance
ipseity disturbance
mental disturbance
nondisturbance
predisturbance
redisturbance
undisturbance
Translations:
umpteenth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English umpteen
English -th
English umpteenth
From umpteen + -th.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring in a relatively large but unspecified position in a sequence.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: That's the umpteenth time I've had to tell him not to swear in front of the children.
For the umpteenth time, I chickened.
Translations:
nth
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English n
English -th
English nth
From n + -th (ordinal suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: nths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring at position n in a sequence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Occurring at a relatively large but unspecified position in a series.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective.
gloss: The item at position n in a sequence.
pos: noun
gloss: The item in a relatively large but unspecified position in a series.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: This is, after all, not strange, for none of them had either knowledge or experience in Occult matters, whereas for over thirty years I have made a special study of this subject, and have gone to and fro over the earth investigating to the nth all records of Spiritual Phenomena.
Derived words: to the nth degree
Translations:
Caucasian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Caucasus (“mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘from, related to, or like’, or forming nouns with the sense ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there.
Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.
Base: Caucasus
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Caucasian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Caucasian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: caucasian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Caucasians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caucasian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Canada
Singapore
US
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: I'll go out and mingle. Jesus, you mix a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie.
gloss: A member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
pos: noun
gloss: A white person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The male Caucasian, twenty-four, a skier, was said to have been missing for over three hours.
Related words: Caucasic
Caucasoid
Caucasus
Derived words: Caucasian agama
Caucasian Albania
Caucasian Albanian
Caucasian alder
Caucasian ash
Caucasian Azerbaijan
Caucasian badger
Caucasian bear
Caucasian birch mouse
Caucasian black grouse
Caucasian bladdernut
Caucasian bluestem
Caucasian clover
Caucasian comfrey
Caucasian dwarf goby
Caucasian elk
Caucasian goat
Caucasian goby
Caucasian grouse
Caucasian hackberry
Caucasian honey bee
Caucasian Iberia
Caucasian leopard
Caucasian lily
Caucasian lynx
Caucasian mole
Caucasian moose
Caucasian mountain ground squirrel
Caucasianness
Caucasian nettle tree
Caucasian newt
Caucasian ovcharka
Caucasian peony
Caucasian persimmon
Caucasian salamander
Caucasian shepherd
Caucasian shepherd dog
Caucasian smooth newt
Caucasian snowcock
Caucasian snowdrop
Caucasian snow vole
Caucasian squirrel
Caucasian tur
Caucasian walnut
Caucasian whortleberry
Caucasian wildcat
Caucasian wingnut
Caucasian zelkova
Caucasity
Dené-Caucasian
Dene-Caucasian
North Caucasian Federal District
South Caucasian
Translations:
gayness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gaynesse, equivalent to gay + -ness.
Base: gay
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: gaynesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being gay (colorful or festive); display or dressiness.
pos: noun
tags: dated
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: And truly, at a short butt, which some men doth use, the peacock feather doth seldom keep up the shaft either right or level, it is so rough and heavy ; so that many men, which have taken them up for gayness, hath laid them down again for profit:
Let me ſpeak prowdly: Tell the Conſtable, ⁠/ We are but Warriors for the working-day: / Our Gayneſſe and our Gilt are all beſmyrcht / With raynie Marching in the painefull field.
gloss: The state of being gay (cheerful); gaiety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
rare
usually
gloss: The state of being gay (homosexual); homosexuality; demeanor stereotypically representative of it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: You cannot blame their gayness, their queerness, their homosexuality on sudden wealth.
Tell Al Sublette I met a great new pianist called Cecil Taylor, [he] plays like [Oscar] Peterson gone Classical, fast runs but Brubeck-Stravinsky-Prokofieff chords, a Juilliard classicist—He, like [James] Baldwin, [is] colored, [and] I think gay,—Baldwin is gay. I don’t dig all this gayness.
I doubt very much that their "gay­ness" had any deep sexual roots. I think it was simply an exotic form of juvenile delinquency.
Those of us who have been in heterosexual marriages too often have blamed our gayness on the breakup of the marriage.
Were there gay people in the ancient world, or is gayness a uniquely modern category?
Their goal was to compel open legal recognition of their beliefs about sex and gayness as being the law in the United States.
Translations:
gonorrhea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin, from Late Latin gonorrhoea, from Ancient Greek γονόρροια (gonórrhoia), from γόνος (gónos, “sperm, seed, offspring”) + ῥοία (rhoía, “flow”) (ca. 1526). By surface analysis, gono- + -rrhea.
Base: γόνος
Inflected forms:
form: gonorrheas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gonorrhoea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: gonorrhœa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Translations:
trichomoniasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From translingual Trichomonas + -iasis.
Affixes: -iasis
Inflected forms:
form: trichomoniases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common sexually transmitted disease caused by the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis and infecting the urinary tract or vagina.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Similar changes occur later after the menopause that, if not ideal for colonization by T. vaginalis they are clearly not impossible, since both prepubertal and post-menopausal trichomoniases in females are well described.
Trichomoniasis is the most prevalent nonviral sexually transmitted infection in humans worldwide.
2009, Sarah L. Cudmore, Gary E. Garber, Chapter 74: Diagnosis and Treatment of Metronidazole-Resistant Trichomonas vaginalis Infection, Douglas Mayers (editor), Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Volume 2: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, page 1092,
Trichomoniasis has long been considered a disease of women, but the disease can also cause significant morbidity in men.
Translations:
sister-wife
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of sister + wife.
Inflected forms:
form: sister-wives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sister wife
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse.
pos: noun
examples: My Grecians shall victorious prove, By me led on to War, the Sister-Wife of Jove.
Ptolemy VII […] married Cleopatra, the sister-wife of his predecessor.
Anat as sister-wife of Baal, Isis as mother of Horos and sister-wife of Osiris, Hera as sister-wife of Zeus
gloss: In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.
pos: noun
examples: Enmities between sister-wives will [be,] from their having known each other too intimately all their lives, more unmannerly than where they are strangers to each other
gloss: A co-wife in general.
pos: noun
examples: Yüeh-niang and her sister-wives, all dressed in formal gowns, came out from inside to greet them and ushered them into the rear reception hall
The concept of 'sisterhood' was popularly applied to the official organizations for Mormon women, and Mormon co-wives were and are still known as 'sister-wives'
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 娣媵
roman: dìyìng
lang: Dutch
word: zuster-vrouw
lang: French
word: sœur-épouse
lang: Polish
word: siostra-żona
hong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”).
Inflected forms:
form: hongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A foreign trading company in China.
pos: noun
examples: "You and your son are about to visit China," said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.
In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.
Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.
Translations:
salve
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).
Inflected forms:
form: salves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: salved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: salved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
[Title:] Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report
gloss: To calm or assuage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
gloss: To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
pos: verb
examples: I do beseech your majesty […] salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
gloss: To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
pos: verb
examples: But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.
What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
gloss: To salvage.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.
gloss: Hail; a greeting.
pos: intj
Derived words: black salve
eyesalve
lip salve
salve bug
salvelike
salvability
salvable
salvage
salvee
salver
salvor
unsalved
weapon-salve
Translations:
close-hauled
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: closehauled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: closehauled
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: with the sails trimmed as close to the wind as possible with all sails full and not shivering
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: with the sails close-hauled
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations: