yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
miserliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English miserly
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 miserliness
From miserly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: miserlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being miserly: excessive parsimony.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: stinginess, cheapness, tightness
Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.
There were enough people in the room who wouldn’t mind seeing Beaufort-Holmes hurt to make the chorus a full and, to the uninitiated ear, good-humoured one. His colleagues wouldn’t mind because of his faith that he was a don, they lecturers or worse, and because of remembered miserlinesses.
Translations:
muenster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Münsterbor.
English muenster
Borrowed from German Münster.
Inflected forms:
form: muensters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Muenster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: munster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of soft white cheese.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mutative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mutate
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English mutative
From mutate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more mutative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mutative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to mutation.
pos: adj
Translations:
dishonoured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dishonoured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dishonoured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dishonored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Disgraced, defiled, treated with dishonour.
pos: adj
Translations:
multiform
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English form
English multiform
From multi- + form.
Inflected forms:
form: more multiform
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most multiform
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: multiforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having more than one shape or appearance.
pos: adj
examples: And yet such is the constitution of the human golfing soul that it not only fails to achieve it, but invents for itself multiform and manifold ifs and ans for not achieving it— […]
gloss: An organism, folktale, etc. that appears in more than one form.
pos: noun
Antonyms: monic
monoform
monomorphic
monomorphous
uniform
Translations:
muleteer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French muletier, from mulet (“mule”), with the spelling influenced by English mule + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: muleteers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mule driver.
pos: noun
examples: This was a tender point with the muleteer; his honour was wounded when his mules were treated with disrespect, and he would have received a blow, perhaps, with more meekness.
There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad-sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like "Sekki-yah!" and kept up a din and a racket that was worse than Bedlam itself.
A guy is sitting on the lead mule. He's the muleteer, ....
Translations:
mounter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mount
English -er
English mounter
From mount + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: mounters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who mounts.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool or device used to mount.
pos: noun
gloss: A person hired to swear to something that is false.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: […] perjury reaches the most awful height. I have heard of mounters, who attend Westminster Hall and other courts, to swear to any thing that may be required of them, for a trifling fee.
Derived words: automounter
Translations:
Balthazar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Balthasar, from Latin Baltassar, from Ancient Greek Βαλτάσαρ (Baltásar), from Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר (bēlšaṣṣar), attested in the Tanakh and the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1), from Akkadian 𒁹𒀭𒂗𒈗𒋀 (Bēl-šarra-uṣṣur, literally “May Bel protect the king”). Doublet of Belshazzar.
Inflected forms:
form: Balthazars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Balthasar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: balthazar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Baltasar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Baltassar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Balthasar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Belshazzar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Beltshatsar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very large wine bottle with the capacity of about 12 liters, equivalent to 16 standard bottles.
pos: noun
Translations:
mussy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English muss
English -y
English mussy
From muss + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: mussier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mussiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.
pos: adj
Translations:
mineralogical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mineralogy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English mineralogical
From mineralogy + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to mineralogy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In recent years, AGeS, the Alliance Geological Service, has offered bounties to private individuals or teams willing to perform mineralogical surveys on the frontier.
Translations:
hermeneutic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτικός (hermēneutikós, “of or for interpreting”), from Ancient Greek ἑρμηνεύς (hermēneús, “interpreter”).
Inflected forms:
form: hermeneutics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having to do with hermeneutics; that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates texts, especially holy texts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: exegetic, exegetical
Following the goal of surrealist automatic writing, the sheer richness of this dream imagery blurs the border between oneirography and fiction—the tawdry colonials, the sign of the alluring woman, the writing lesson, the papyrus turban, the disguised charlatan's reverie, the ecstasy of signification, writing both conscious and unconscious, poetic and hermeneutic, text and mirror, "langage tangage" (Leiris 1985⁹)—composing a narrative philosophy of cross-cultural existence.
gloss: A particular theory of hermeneutics; a particular method of interpretation of text, especially holy texts.
pos: noun
examples: The hermeneutics of suspicion needs to be balanced by a hermeneutic that is grounded in the recognition that written texts represent valid expressions of their author's intent, and that principles may be established that would guide the reader to that intent.
Translations:
ill-favored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-favored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-favored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ill-favoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.
pos: adj
examples: And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.
Translations:
ill-humored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-humored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-humored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ill-humoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad temper.
pos: adj
gloss: Irritable in a surly manner.
pos: adj
Translations:
ill-natured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-natured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-natured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad nature, whether
pos: adj
gloss: Having a bad nature, whether
pos: adj
Related words: ill-mannered
Derived words: ill-naturedness
ill-naturedly
Translations:
illogicality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: illogicalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something illogical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ill-starred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-starred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-starred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.
pos: adj
examples: "Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?"
[…] it appears the possibility of the ill-starred Uxbridge-Rickmansworth rail link being built is now bound up with post-war planning. [it was never built]
Translations:
ill-suited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ill + suited.
Compound parts: ill
suited
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-suited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-suited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unsuitable, unfit or inappropriate for some purpose.
pos: adj
examples: A considerable amount of beet comes from the Clonakilty and Courtmacsherry growing areas to Mallow and if the closure proposals mentioned are implemented this traffic will in future years be thrown on roads ill-suited to such heavy haulage.
gloss: Not suiting each other; poorly matched.
pos: adj
examples: an ill-suited married couple
Translations:
ill-treat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ill + treat.
Compound parts: ill
treat
Inflected forms:
form: ill-treats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ill-treating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ill-treated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ill-treated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.
pos: verb
examples: He would never speak a word, only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
Translations:
ill-treatment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cruel, harsh or unkind treatment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ill-usage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ill-usages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: bad, cruel or unkind treatment
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ill-use
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ill-uses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ill-using
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ill-used
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ill-used
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly.
pos: verb
examples: A Newcastle shunter, Goodchild, working at one end of Forth Goods Yard, was for some reason moved to the other end, with no loss of pay: he thought he was ill-used and ceased work, as did a number of sympathisers.
gloss: Bad, cruel or unkind treatment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
immateriality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From immaterial + -ity.
Base: immaterial
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: immaterialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being immaterial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the immateriality of the soul
God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
Antonyms: materiality
Translations:
immediacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: immediacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being immediate, of happening right away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Lack of mediation; directness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Immediate awareness or apprehension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
immodesty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From im- + modesty or immodest + -y.
Base: modesty
Affixes: im-
Inflected forms:
form: immodesties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being immodest; a lack of modesty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The genitals, privates.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
uncountable
usually
examples: No sooner were we seated in this place, but two Girls about twelve years old enter'd at the same Gate whereat we came in; they were all naked, (as, I said above, the Women generally go) saving that they had a very small blew cloth wrap'd about their immodesties [translating vergogne], and their Arms, Ears, and Necks, were full of ornaments of Gold and very rich Jewels.
Translations:
immunodeficient
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
English deficient
English immunodeficient
From immuno- + deficient.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: exhibiting immunodeficiency
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: immunocompetent
Translations:
impalement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle French empalement; equivalent to impale + -ment.
Base: impale
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: impalements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: empalement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A space fenced in, such as by palings, possibly in the form of an enclosure or cup.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In the sense of an enclosure, the calyx of a flower. (In still older works, also spelt empalement.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The parts of fructification are seven in number... The First part is the calyx, impalement, or flower cup.
Translations:
impassivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impassive
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English impassivity
From impassive + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: impassivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being impassive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He wore gold-rimmed pince-nez, and had a curious impassivity of feature. It struck me that he might look natural on a stage, but was strangely out of place in real life.
[T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.
Translations:
impeachable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impeach
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 impeachable
From impeach + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more impeachable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impeachable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be impeached (of a person).
pos: adj
gloss: That warrants impeachment (of an offence).
pos: adj
Derived words: impeachability
unimpeachable
Translations:
Unitarianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Unitarian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Unitarianism
From Unitarian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Christian theology that God is one person, rather than the three equal persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) posited by Trinitarianism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
unnerved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unnerved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unnerved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.
pos: adj
examples: `Surely he dieth even now.' `True,' she said, with a start. `Oh, why did I not come before! I am unnerved - my hand trembles, even mine - and yet it is very easy.'
[…]Wrapped in around itself and self-befriended,
His science needn't get him so unnerved.
He had been too all out , too much extended .
He slapped his breast to verify his purse
And hugged himself for all his universe . […]
Translations:
unnerving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unnerving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unnerving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing a deprivation of courage, strength, confidence, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).
The situation was unnerving, and dangerous.
Translations:
dishonored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dishonored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dishonored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dishonoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Disgraced, defiled, treated with dishonor.
pos: adj
Translations:
levying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: levyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is levied.
pos: noun
examples: levyings of war
Translations:
bundled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: arranged in a bundle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
delish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of delicious.
Inflected forms:
form: more delish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most delish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Delicious.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Not that I want to rush you, but that'd be simply delish!
Delish! I tried some crackers loaded with cheese and pâté. Double delish!
"Ummm. Sounds delish." I don't know what to say; this is what comes out. "Yes, delish."
Tom Aikens is the name of the notorious kitchen firebrand who runs this wonderful modern European restaurant where the setting is handsome and the food delish.
Translations:
bobbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a bob haircut.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The demand for special combs for bobbed hair […]
In a typical example from 1924, the BIZ published a photograph of a young, bobbed woman wearing an oversized bow tie and neat mustache, accompanied by the “horrific news” from a North American fashion guru that “[w]hen one does not permit hair to flourish on the head, it will grow on the face and body. The ladies will grow mustaches.”
That morning, as she was rushing past them after the first dive, the silver-bobbed woman had yelled, “We're not going anywhere. See you tonight at 6:45.”
Translations:
bristled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bristled, ibrustled, iburstled, equivalent to bristle + -ed.
Base: bristle
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more bristled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bristled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having bristles
pos: adj
Translations:
freighted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English freight
English -ed
English freighted
From freight + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more freighted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freighted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Loaded with cargo; charged.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
examples: The purple silk curtains excluded the night-dews, while they allowed the air to enter freighted with odours from the orange trees on the terrace below.
On hearing of this determination, Mr. [John Jacob] Astor immediately proceeded to fit out a ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.
Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.
'Identity' is a freighted term to use in a philosophical context.
It will also consider problems of periodization, a freighted issue in the case of Russia, in part because there the conclusion of peace did not mark the end of armed conflict.
In the process, I hope to illuminate the myriad, rather than singular, forms of sexuality and eroticism that have in fact always traversed these politically freighted, ideologically constructed divides from a number of directions.
English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too.
Translations:
affianced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: engaged; betrothed
pos: adj
tags: literary
not-comparable
examples: Their relationship, closeted because Wani is nominally affianced, isn't the only secret they share: Wani has introduced Nick to cocaine, a different line of beauty and emblematic of the perilous gratifications the 1980's have seemingly underwritten.
Translations:
ill-prepared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ill + prepared.
Compound parts: ill
prepared
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-prepared
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-prepared
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.
pos: adj
examples: He was ill-prepared for the exam. I'm not surprised he failed.
The colonists, many of them gentlemen ill-prepared to be settlers, achieved failure at almost everything they tried.
Translations:
sanza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: sanzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any type of mbira (thumb piano, a plucked lamellophone) of Southern African origin.
pos: noun
examples: Sanza making is not at all specialized; anyone who wants to play the sanza makes their own. This xylophone is an instrument whose use crosses ethnic groups; one variation of it is known as the balafon.
Translations:
crackled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a crackle, or glaze resembling many small cracks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a crackling sound.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With a crackled voice, she yells out, “Who's there?!”
Translations:
purring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: purrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound that purrs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Kenny G is a dull but wickedly consistent musician: automatic with his tremulous phrasing and canned licks, which formed fast, organized roils during his unaccompanied solos; melismatic purrings of the melody on ballads; and gospel phrases in R&B songs.
gloss: Synonym of shin-kicking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
arching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: archings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hogging, as opposed to sagging.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Forming an arch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The arched part of a structure.
pos: noun
Derived words: uparching
Translations:
yelping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English yelpynge, from Old English ġilping; equivalent to yelp + -ing.
Base: yelp
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: yelpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing a yelp.
pos: noun
examples: […] While still a pup, / You put him in a sack, then beat it / With a stick. When howls and yelpings die, / You send the houseboi out to set him free.
the frenzied yelpings of the huntsman's dogs
Translations:
ennobling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ennobling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ennobling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ennoblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Acting or tending to ennoble.
pos: adj
examples: Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed.
It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.
gloss: An act of making noble.
pos: noun
examples: They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
Translations:
posing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more posing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most posing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: posings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: The act by which something is posed.
pos: noun
examples: different posings of what was essentially the same question
gloss: The act of one who poses or postures.
pos: noun
examples: However much the Ghanaian masses warmed to the traditional pomp and circumstance of his occasional public appearances, members of the elite did not take Nkrumah's posings as a national chief seriously.
gloss: The act of portraying oneself artificially, usually to make oneself appear grander or to fit in with the crowd; pretense
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: posing pouch
posing strap
power posing
Translations:
wearying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wearyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making weary.
pos: noun
examples: Despite vigils and their wearyings, they love the stir and movement of that sunny period when my lady's diamonds emerge from their morocco cases, and every day brings home some new dress, bonnet, or cap, […]
Translations:
skirmishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skirmishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brief battle; a skirmish.
pos: noun
Translations:
nettled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nettled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nettled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: annoyed; offended
pos: adj
examples: Mrs Fitzpatrick was a little nettled at this; and indeed, if it may not be called a lapse of the tongue, it was a small deviation from politeness in Jones, and into which he scarce would have fallen, had not the delight he felt in praising Sophia hurried him out of all reflection; for this commendation of one cousin was more than a tacit rebuke on the other.
Translations:
scrubbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrub
English -ed
English scrubbed
From scrub + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more scrubbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scrubbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
pos: adj
gloss: Having been scrubbed; having received a scrubbing.
pos: adj
Related words: scrub
scrubbing
Translations:
grosser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grossers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A film, etc. that grosses a certain amount of money.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: The cinema had shown all of the year's top grossers.
Translations:
unlovely
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unlovely, onlovely, unlovelich, equivalent to un- + lovely.
Base: lovely
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unlovelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unloveliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unlovelies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: unattractive, ugly
pos: adj
examples: […] an ocean of dereliction, blackened tenements, public drunkenness, dozens of unlovely skyscrapers, featureless housing schemes. It was as if this was all that Glasgow deserved. And yet the city still had a lot of bazazz.
Even today Lambeth is a singularly unlovely part of the British capital, jammed anonymously between the great fan of roads and railway lines that take commuters in and out of the city center from the southern counties.
Francis's own unlovely tunic, and that of his female colleague Clare, foundress of parallel communities for women, are lovingly preserved and displayed by the nuns of St Clare in Assisi […]
gloss: An unattractive or ugly thing or person.
pos: noun
examples: 1982, United Press International, "Clearly, an ugly dog", 2 August.
A hairless runt of a mutt named Chi-chi defeated them all in the 13th annual Ugliest Dog in the World contest: such unlovelies as the moth-eaten chow and the bulldog with a bad eye.
But the uptake of Irish studies by a range of migrant unlovelies clearly involves their expressing a quality of interest in the subject distinguishable from the harmless "inherent interest" which she so values and which presumably is palpable to "anybody", other than them.
Many intriguing unlovelies are found in “The Boxtrolls,” a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow’s creepy-good children’s novel “Here Be Monsters.”
Translations:
naturalized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: naturalised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Adopted; granted citizenship; belonging after being introduced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: naturalized citizen
naturalized flora
Translations:
tremblingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trembling (present participle of tremble) + -ly.
Base: trembling
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more tremblingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tremblingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a trembling manner.
pos: adv
examples: [T]he sailors tremblingly / Call on the Twins of Jove with prayer and vow, / Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow, / And sacrifice with snow-white lambs, […]
Andrew, he said, was coming soon. Tremblingly she wondered when, and went to reread Palmer's letter, but though she had hidden it with her father's unread will, both were gone.
Translations:
affordance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
human-sciences
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
psychology
robotics
sciences
Etymology: From afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist James J. Gibson, and adopted in 1988 by Donald Norman in the context of human-machine interaction.
Base: afford
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: affordances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: So an affordance cannot be measured as we measure in physics.
gloss: A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Take for instance a paperback book. It has a wide variety of affordances including conveying a narrative story, weighing down papers in a windy office, swatting houseflies, etc. While these affordances are properties of the book, whether they are available depends on the context.
gloss: Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.
Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. Plates are for pushing. Knobs are for turning. Slots are for inserting things into. Balls are for throwing or bouncing. When affordances are taken advantage of, the user knows what to do by just looking: no pictures, label, or instruction is required.
Related words: affordant
Translations:
microgroove
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English groove
English microgroove
From micro- + groove.
Inflected forms:
form: microgrooves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The long, spiral groove of a vinyl LP record
pos: noun
gloss: Any microscopic groove
pos: noun
Translations:
micromanagement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Latin manus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Latin -izāre
Vulgar Latin *manizāre
Old Italian maneggiareder.?
Old French manegebor.
Middle English *manage
English manage
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English management
English micromanagement
From micro- + management.
Inflected forms:
form: micro-management
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The direct management of a project, etc. to an excessive degree, with too much attention to detail and insufficient delegation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After years of micromanagement by the Department for Transport, it finally seemed as if the door was fully open to the concept of Rail Devolution, with the prospect of local officials planning and delivering local train services.
gloss: The management of short-term or small-scale aspects of a strategy game.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
mistime
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
English mistime
From mis- + time.
Inflected forms:
form: mistimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mistiming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mistimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mistimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform an action at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I mistimed my leap and fell flat on my face.
Translations:
mistimed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English timed
English mistimed
From mis- + timed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Done at the wrong time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My mistimed leap was declared a false start since I leaped before the gun.
While ostensibly a novel of first love and loss, Unusual Company may more fittingly be described as a tale of estrangement, of wary and mistimed passion.
Translations:
middle-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a medium size
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They came from all directions, and there were thousands of them: big mice and little mice and middle-sized mice; […]
Translations:
middleweight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
Etymology: From middle + weight.
Compound parts: middle
weight
Inflected forms:
form: middleweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A class in between heavy and light.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: This would give the U.S. Army five parachute-capable brigades, or two "middleweight" infantry brigades, or six light infantry brigades, or six airmobile brigades in only two multicapable divisions.
In Ukraine, jaeger brigades are middleweight infantry—neither as light as territorial brigades, which generally lack tracked vehicles, nor as heavy as tank or mechanized brigades with their hundreds of tanks and fighting vehicles.
gloss: An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff.
Derived words: middleweight spaceship
Translations:
mid-size
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: midsize
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mid-sizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: midsize
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of intermediate size.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A car of intermediate size.
pos: noun
examples: When Pontiac dropped a 389 into the intermediate Tempest and called it the GTO, the muscle car tide began turning from big bodies to lighter, more nimble midsizes.
Translations:
midstream
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
English stream
English midstream
From mid- + stream.
Inflected forms:
form: midstreams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The middle of a stream or river.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: in midstream
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: moored midstream
some of them got caught midstream by the tide
gloss: in midstream, abruptly
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: the most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream
But it was in the middle of this process that he had met Ms. Lukoji, and he opted not to change his application midstream to take his marriage into account.
Unlike film, theater and TV, the book world didn’t get interrupted midstream.
Translations:
midtown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-nós?
Proto-Celtic *dūnombor.
Proto-Germanic *tūną
Proto-West Germanic *tūn
Old English tūn
Middle English toun
English town
English midtown
From mid- + town.
Inflected forms:
form: midtowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a city between uptown and downtown.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Translations:
midyear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥der.
Proto-Germanic *jērą
Proto-West Germanic *jār
Old English ġēar
Middle English yeer
English year
English midyear
From mid- + year.
Inflected forms:
form: midyears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The middle part of a year.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An examination taken in the middle part of an academic year.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: “I thought, Thomas,” remarked Clements, crossing his fat legs, “you were out in Havana interviewing palm-climbing fishermen?” / “Well, I’ll be on my way after midyears,” said Professor Thomas. “Of course, most of the actual field work has been done already by others.”
Translations:
mind-read
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mind-reads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mind-reading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mind-read
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mind-read
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mind read
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To discern, or appear to discern, someone's thoughts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
minor-league
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a minor league
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
gloss: Of relatively minor importance
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
proliferative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English proliferate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English proliferative
From proliferate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more proliferative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most proliferative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: proliferatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...stem cells may thus lose some of their proliferative potential and thus 'age'...
cultures of cells may be considered to have reached the end of their proliferative lifespan when the cell number fails to double.
We conclude that aneuploidy causes not only a proliferative disadvantage but also a set of phenotypes...
gloss: Proliferating; tending to proliferate.
pos: adj
examples: ...they give rise to a progressive, proliferative, chronic arthritis.
gloss: Such a cell
pos: noun
Derived words: alloproliferative
angioproliferative
antiproliferative
autoproliferative
cytoproliferative
endoproliferative
fibroproliferative
hematoproliferative
hepatoproliferative
hyperproliferative
hypoproliferative
immunoproliferative
lymphoproliferative
membranoproliferative
mesangioproliferative
myeloproliferative
neoproliferative
neuroproliferative
nonproliferative
osteoproliferative
overproliferative
postproliferative
preproliferative
proliferatively
proproliferative
squamoproliferative
ulceroproliferative
vasculoproliferative
vasoproliferative
Translations:
battledress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From battle + dress.
Compound parts: battle
dress
Inflected forms:
form: battledresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of military uniform.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mintage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin mentabor.
Proto-West Germanic *mintā
Old English minte
Middle English mynte
English mint
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English mintage
From mint + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: mintages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of minting coins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The batch of coins minted at one time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Coins collectively; specie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fee paid to a mint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mixed-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mixed-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mixed-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mixed together in an uncertain manner
pos: adj
gloss: Confused, muddled or bewildered
pos: adj
examples: […] with such expectations of gun violence, should it be any surprise that the expectations are obligingly met by mixed-up kids?
Translations:
mix-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mix updeverb.
English mix-up
Deverbal from mix up.
Inflected forms:
form: mix-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mixup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A confusion, mistake, muddle or misunderstanding.
pos: noun
examples: Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
Translations:
glossing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glossings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note.
pos: noun
examples: And it was in this university that the doctors began to sharpen their wits in matters of Holy Writ; they rejected the glossings and musings of interpreters and took the biblical writings to hand, preaching and writing thereof.
Translations:
trichologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trichology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English trichologist
From trichology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: trichologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A professional who helps people with hair or scalp problems; a practitioner of trichology.
pos: noun
examples: All hairstylists are not trichologists, but most trichologists have been professional hairstylists. Many stylists become trichologists due to their years of experience working with normal and abnormal hair conditions.
Translations: