yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
engender
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
Inflected forms:
form: engenders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: engendering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: engendered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: engendered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: engendre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ingender
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: O Error ſoone conceyu’d,
 Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth,
 But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
gloss: To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
gloss: To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.
The performance on the Wharfedale Line is among the best on Northern's network, and Hornby says the posters, along with displays on station ticket machines and in local media, have engendered a sense of competition with managers on other lines, who want to see this type of marketing on their routes. This new in-your-face type marketing can now be seen across much of the North of England.
gloss: To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there,
 And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear,
 And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
gloss: To copulate, to have sex.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]
I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems,
 Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far,
 Me overtook his mother all diſmaid,
 And in embraces forcible and foule
 Ingendring with me, of that rape begot
 Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry
 Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]
Derived words: engenderable
engenderer
engenderment
misengender
Translations:
ephemeral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ephemeral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ephemeral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ephemerals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lasting for a short period of time.
pos: adj
examples: 1821-1822, Vicesimus Knox, Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools
Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy
It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.
gloss: Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
pos: adj
gloss: Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
pos: adj
examples: The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
gloss: Something which lasts for a short period of time.
pos: noun
Synonyms: earthly
ephemeral
brief
deciduous
evanescent
fleeting
flying
fugacious
fugitive
instant
momentary
passing
perishable
quick
seasonable
short
short-lived
temporary
transient
transitive
transitory
volatile
whilend
worldly
Antonyms: eternal
lasting
perennial
persistent
Related words: ephemera
ephemeron
ephemerality
hemeral
intermittent
unstable
unsteady
speedy
moment
temporarily
transience
Derived words: bovine ephemeral fever
ephemeral fever
ephemeralization
ephemeralize
ephemeral lake
ephemerally
ephemeralness
ephemeral state
nonephemeral
unephemeral
Translations:
fortuitous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin fortuītus.
Inflected forms:
form: more fortuitous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fortuitous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.
pos: adj
examples: […] and during the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected—she did not herself expect—that any thing beyond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers.
‘It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation. That he leaves to abler and to purer hands.
Was it love, she wondered, or a mere fortuitous combination of happy thoughts and sensations?
gloss: Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
pos: adj
examples: And then he met John Dowsett, the great John Dowsett. The whole thing was fortuitous. This cannot be doubted.
Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and, so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to be a very fortuitous mistake for their targets for as long as it lasts.
England were ragged at this point but the response was full of conviction, equalising swiftly then taking control before the tiring Danes and the magnificent Schmeichel were finally overcome with Kane's fortuitous winner.
gloss: Happening independently of human will.
pos: adj
Derived words: fortuitously
fortuitousness
fortuity
nonfortuitous
unfortuitous
Translations:
gargantuan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).
Inflected forms:
form: more gargantuan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gargantuan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Gargantuan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Huge; immense; tremendous.
pos: adj
examples: Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.
Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare.
Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.
gloss: Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: gargantuanism
gargantuanly
gargantuanness
ginormagantuan
hypergargantuan
supergargantuan
Translations:
gregarious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: First attested in 1688; borrowed from Latin gregārius, see -ious.
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more gregarious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gregarious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
pos: adj
gloss: Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
pos: adj
examples: The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters.
Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.
gloss: Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
pos: adj
Antonyms: ungregarious
nongregarious
Derived words: gregariously
gregariousness
semigregarious
Translations:
iconoclast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Borrowed from French iconoclaste and its etymon Medieval Latin īconoclastēs, from Byzantine Greek εἰκονοκλάστης (eikonoklástēs, literally “image breaker”). By surface analysis, icono- + -clast.
Inflected forms:
form: iconoclasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In the days of the early Christian church, people who opposed the veneration (reverence) of images were called iconoclasts.
gloss: One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm.
pos: noun
examples: In February 1895 he [William Cowper Brann, 1855-1898 ] revived publication of the Iconoclast. This time it was successful and eventually attained a circulation of 100,000. Brann took obvious relish in directing his stinging attacks upon institutions and persons he considered to be hypocritical or overly sanctimonious.
gloss: One who attacks cherished beliefs; a maverick.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: After all, the fact that any discussion of the possibility is greeted with hysterical revulsion guarantees that only two types of people will take the "pro" side in public: fearless iconoclasts who do not care what anyone thinks of them; and racists.
Coming so soon after the death of David Bowie, it’s a moment to consider how deeply important iconoclasts are to the evolution of a culture. Do they change the world by trying to change it, or do they change the world through the radical act of simply being themselves?
Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.”
Related words: clast
clastic
icon
iconoclasm
iconoclastic
antidogmatism
contrarian
dissenter
freethinker
heresiarch
heretic
nonconformist
radical
rebel
renegade
schismatic
Translations:
impetuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English impetuous, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“attack, violence”).
Inflected forms:
form: more impetuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impetuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.
pos: adj
examples: But it was natural, that the impetuous, restless young artist should incline more to excess of strength than of delicacy in his playing.
The shrewd kind confidant used gently to hint the sad fact to the impetuous hero of this piece. The impetuous hero knew this quite well.
The prime minister thought he could sagely steer his impetuous American friends away from actions they would later regret. It turns out they were just playing him for a patsy[.]
How these developments might come about and what they will mean for humanity seems far more important to probe than Isaacson’s preferred focus on explaining Musk’s abusive, erratic, impetuous behavior.
gloss: Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence.
pos: adj
examples: For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
[…]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]
He stands, and views in the faint rays
Far, far below, the torrent's rising surge,
And listens to the wild impetuous roar
After being two days the prey of impetuous, varying emotions, Maria began to reflect more calmly on her present situation, for she had actually been rendered incapable of sober reflection, by the discovery of the act of atrocity of which she was the victim.
"Oh! where, where is my uncle?" cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat as she finished the letter, in eagerness to follow him, with-out losing a moment of the time so precious; but as she reached the door, it was opened by a servant, and Mr. Darcy appeared. Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start […]
Rough and impetuous as a wild boar, where only earthly force was to be apprehended, he had all the characteristic terrors of a Saxon respecting fawns, forest-fiends, white women, and the whole of the superstitions which his ancestors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany.
When they were placed in position they thought it was time to begin,—and then did begin, too, and with a most impetuous energy, without waiting for anybody to give the word.
Having made a few vain attempts at engrossing my attention in my book, I was obliged to let myself be carried away by the impetuous torrent of the squire's eloquence.
1917, revised 1925, Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
Unsheathed the narrow sword,
I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead […]
Synonyms: impulsive
hasty
rash
hotheaded
heady
Derived words: impetuosity
impetuously
impetuousness
unimpetuous
Translations:
inconsequential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English consequential
English inconsequential
From in- + consequential.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsequential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inconsequential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inconsequentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
pos: adj
examples: You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential.
“[…]Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—” He broke off uneasily.
gloss: Not logically following from the premises.
pos: adj
gloss: Something unimportant; something that does not matter.
pos: noun
Derived words: inconsequentiality
inconsequentially
inconsequentialness
Translations:
incontrovertible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English controvert
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English controvertible
English incontrovertible
From in- + controvertible.
Inflected forms:
form: more incontrovertible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incontrovertible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
pos: adj
examples: incontrovertible evidence
Her statement that dogs are mammals is incontrovertible.
Just now he was wearing a suit of maple-syrup brown with faint but incontrovertible purple stripes.
There is incontrovertible evidence that electrification of itself has great publicity value, but this would be greatly enhanced if the public knew in more detail how it would transform their services.
All said that the incontrovertible evidence that climate change has already arrived—in the form of frighteningly extreme wildfires, drought, storms and floods afflicting every corner of the United States—has helped build political support.
Translations:
increment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
Base: increase
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: increments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: increments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incrementing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incremented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incremented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The action of increasing or becoming greater.
pos: noun
examples: the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage.
gloss: The amount of increase.
pos: noun
examples: In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.
gloss: An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
gloss: The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
pos: noun
gloss: A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
pos: noun
gloss: To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.
public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.
The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.
Synonyms: expansion
supplement
Antonyms: decrement
Related words: increase
Derived words: autoincrement
incremence
incremental
increment borer
in increment
microincrement
post-increment
pre-increment
unearned increment
Translations:
jubilant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin iubilans ("shouting for joy").
Inflected forms:
form: more jubilant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jubilant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a state of elation.
pos: adj
examples: be in jubilant mood
Translations:
longevity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Early 17th century, learned borrowing from Latin longaevitās, from longaevus (“ancient, aged”) + -itās. The first part is related to English long and this association led to the alternative pronunciation with /ŋ/.
Base: longaevus
Affixes: -itas
Inflected forms:
form: longevities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: longævity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Grandpa had incredible longevity: he lived to be 105 years old!
This 142-year-old tiny ex-LNWR SB [signal box, at Batley] is an amazing survivor, probably owing its longevity to its location alongside a level crossing. Indeed it started life as a gate box with the delightful name of Lady Ann's Crossing.
The longevity of spicy and swicy will depend on how committed consumers are to sticking with these flavors as they grow older.
gloss: Duration over time; persistence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A ‘postdating’ is an example of the use of a lexical item at a later date than currently recorded and these are important in establishing the longevity of use of a term and whether or not it has become obsolete.
Synonyms: long-livedness
permanence
Related words: longevous
Derived words: longevity noodle
longevity peach
longevity rice
prolongevity
shortgevity
Translations:
mollify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -ify.
Inflected forms:
form: mollifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mollifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mollified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mollified
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mollifie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
pos: verb
examples: mollify someone’s anger
attempt to mollify
mollify criticism
Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns.
Hovv impetrable hee vvas in mollyfying the adamantineſt tiranny of mankinde, […]
All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
gloss: To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
pos: verb
examples: He tried to mollify the angry customer.
Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
There were no honeyed words from Dr. Beeching to mollify Scottish feeling on rail service closures during his one-day visit in May.
But these answers did not mollify Grassley. Specifically, he objected to Abedin’s becoming an S.G.E., because he believed she provided no irreplaceable expertise and therefore her designation as one had violated Congress’s intent when it created the program, in 1962.
Earlier this year, amid the challenge to the public charge rule arising from the Covid-19 virus, Chief Justice John Roberts took the lead against immigrant interests yet mollified liberals poised to dissent publicly, CNN’s Joan Biskupic reported this week.
gloss: To soften; to make tender.
pos: verb
examples: Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.
By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire […]
Related words: emollient
mollification
Derived words: mollifiable
mollifiedly
mollifier
mollifyingly
unmollified
unmollifying
Translations:
ominous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from Old Latin osmen, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed (see ōmen).
Inflected forms:
form: more ominous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ominous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
pos: adj
examples: In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.
gloss: Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
pos: adj
examples: California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
After growing substantially in the 1990s and modestly in the 2000s, the total number of American kids fell from 2010 through 2019, an ominous milestone.
Synonyms: augurous
baleful
bodeful
boding
dire
disastrous
divine
fatal
foreboding
ill-boding
ill-fated
ill-omened
ill-starred
inauspicate
inauspicious
nefastous
omenic
ominous
brooding
portentous
presageful
presagious
prodigious
sinister
star-crossed
sullen
Antonyms: auspicious
omenless
unomened
Related words: omen
abomination
Derived words: ominosity
ominously
ominousness
unominous
Translations:
ponderous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ponderous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ponderous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Heavy, massive, weighty.
pos: adj
examples: [H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron.
The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push.
Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
gloss: Serious, onerous, oppressive.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: It was Dryden's opinion . . . that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes; and that it is necessary to mitigate, by alleviations of merriment, the pressure of ponderous events, and the fatigue of toilsome passions.
In its court-yard—worthy of the Castle of Otranto in its ponderous gloom—is a massive staircase.
For the time, her own body was the source of all the life in the world, which tried to burst forth here—there—and was repressed now by Mr. Bax, now by Evelyn, now by the imposition of ponderous stupidity.
gloss: Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
Slowly, through an increasing glow that lighted land and water alike, the leviathan of the deep made her ponderous progress to the hill-encircled harbor.
Following his steps . . . came two elderly women of the lower middle class, one stout and ponderous, the other rosy cheeked and nimble.
gloss: Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
pos: adj
examples: Over supper the minister did unbend a little into one or two ponderous jokes.
[A]s certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution.
gloss: Characterized by or associated with pondering.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Ponderous thoughts take hold of the heart; musing maketh the fire to burn, and steady sight hath the greatest influence upon us.
The acute and ponderous mind of Dr. Johnson was not always right in its decisions.
They are the pleasantest of all companions, and perhaps the most affluent in correct opinions of men and things generally, although little addicted to ponderous consideration or deep research.
gloss: Dense.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: equiponderous
nonponderous
overponderous
ponderously
ponderousness
unponderous
Translations:
procrastination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).
Inflected forms:
form: procrastinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.
Antonyms: precrastination
Translations:
pugnacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the stem of Latin pugnāx + -ous, from pugnō (“to fight”), from pugnus (“fist”). By surface analysis, Latin pugn- + -acious.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more pugnacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pugnacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.
pos: adj
examples: Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.
As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.
In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.
[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
Of course the Johnston swings around to engage the entire flotilla, and, despite taking several more hits, Johnston successfully forces away the first two ships, which leads to the entire squadron taking a detour to avoid the single pugnacious ship.
In a speech this weekend, Ms. Le Pen suggested that her “pugnacious” young protégé, Jordan Bardella, who is one of the most popular politicians in France, was ready to become prime minister.
Translations:
rancorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ranceō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin rancor
Old French rancorbor.
Middle English rancour
English rancor
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English rancorous
From rancor + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more rancorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rancorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rancourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.
pos: adj
examples: rancorous speech
Despite its attempt to provide what it saw as sober current-affairs programming in a sea of often-rancorous cable news channels, and winning some top awards in journalism, Al Jazeera America was unable to build an audience—it reached about 60 million households, compared to 100 million for other cable broadcasters—or draw advertisers.
Translations:
recuperate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
Inflected forms:
form: recuperates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recuperating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recuperated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recuperated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave!
gloss: To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.
[...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime.
gloss: To recover; to regain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]
gloss: To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
pos: verb
examples: Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity.
She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world.
[…] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […]
The fact that even many of the harshest critics of environmental thought have sought to somehow recuperate the concept reflects how deeply it has become embedded in our discourse.
Related words: recuperation
recuperable
Derived words: recuperator
unrecuperated
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: recuperar
repeal
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repellō (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pellō (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel.
Inflected forms:
form: repeals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repealed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repealed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: repeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cancel, invalidate, annul.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to repeal a law
[…] I here divorce myself
Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,
Until that act of parliament be repeal’d
Whereby my son is disinherited.
1776, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, p. 8,
As manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that altho’ laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non-repealing passes for consent.
Labour says it will repeal the legislation if it wins the next General Election.
gloss: To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
pos: verb
examples: There weepe, for till my Gaueston be repeald,
Assure thy selfe thou comst not in my sight.
The banish’d Bolingbroke repeals himself,
And with uplifted arms is safe arrived […]
gloss: To suppress; to repel.
pos: verb
examples: Whence Adam soon repeal’d
The doubts that in his heart arose.
gloss: An act or instance of repealing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.
Synonyms: annul
cancel
invalidate
revoke
veto
rescind
abrogate
Derived words: nonrepealed
repealability
repealable
repealer
repealism
repealist
repealment
rerepeal
unrepeal
unrepealed
Translations:
sedentary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sedentary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sedentary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sedentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
pos: adj
examples: The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
gloss: Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
pos: adj
gloss: Not moving much; sitting around.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: […]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]
[…]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…]
There is, however, a gap between the athletic games that were played by large groups of men and the sedentary games that are confined to a few players, which I find it difficult to bridge.
gloss: Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Such restless revolution day by day
 Repeated, while the sedentary earth
 That better might with far less compass move[…]
The Soul, considered abstractedly from its Passions, is of a remiss and sedentary Nature, slow in its Resolves, and languishing in its Executions.
gloss: Caused by long sitting.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: till length of years
 And sedentary numbness craze my limbs
 To a contemptible old age obscure.
gloss: a sedentary person
pos: noun
examples: Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.
The non-sedentaries rather do not without grain or rice, but the sedentaries have, in Wirth's table, not much less sheep and goats than the non-sedentaries. That is a reason to suppose that the sedentaries can cope without the non-sedentaries
With the decline and eventual downfall of the south, it was their relationship with the Arab sedentaries of the north which assumed greater importance;
Smiths are not nomadic among the nomads and sedentary among the sedentaries, nor half-nomadic among the nomads, half-sedentary among sedentaries.
"These baths are great both for active people like sportsmen, as well as for sedentaries who spend too much time behind their desks," explains Dicioni Lino
Synonyms: motionless
torpid
cessant
dormant
Antonyms: migratory
antonym(s) of
Derived words: endosedentary
nonsedentary
sedentarily
sedentariness
sedentarism
sedentarization
semisedentary
unsedentary
Translations:
simulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1652; Borrowed from Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from similis (“like”). See similar.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: simulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: simulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: simulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: simulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
pos: verb
examples: We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
This video game simulates a pinball machine.
Translations:
spurious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.
Inflected forms:
form: more spurious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spurious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: False, not authentic, not genuine.
pos: adj
examples: His argument was spurious and had no validity.
We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
[Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.
gloss: Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.
pos: adj
examples: I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.
Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.
gloss: Bastardly, illegitimate.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: […] who alſo in her prime of love,
Spouſal embraces, vitiated with Gold,
Though offer’d only, by the ſent conceiv’d
Her ſpurious firſt-born; Treaſon againſt me?
Antonyms: genuine
representative
Related words: specious
Derived words: nonspurious
spurion
spuriosity
spurious diphthong
spurious infection
spurious language
spuriously
spuriousness
unspurious
Translations:
ambiguous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin ambig(ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Italic *-wos
Latin -uus
Latin ambiguuslbor.
English ambiguous
From Latin ambiguus (“moving from side to side, of doubtful nature”), from ambigere (“to go about, wander, doubt”), from ambi- (“around, about, on both sides”) + agere (“to drive, move”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ambiguous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambiguous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Open to multiple interpretations.
pos: adj
examples: The politician was criticized for his ambiguous statements and lack of precision.
gloss: Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And forasmuch as in this same question I am ambiguous, and Simplicius is resolute....
Related words: ambages
ambiguate
ambiguation
ambiguity
disambiguation
situs ambiguous
contradictory
mistakable
confusing
Derived words: ambiguously
ambiguousness
inambiguous
nonambiguous
Translations:
adulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
Inflected forms:
form: adulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Flattery; fulsome praise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]
To law enforcement officers injured in the Jan. 6 mayhem, as well as members of Congress and others present in the Capitol that day who feared for their lives, such adulation for convicted rioters is not only misguided but also anathema to a civilized society.
Translations:
anachronistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
Proto-Hellenic *aná
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-)
Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)
Ancient Greek χρονῐ́ζω (khronĭ́zō)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐ́ζομαι (ănăkhronĭ́zomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός (ănăkhronĭsmós)der.
New Latin anachronismusder.
English anachronism
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English anachronistic
From anachronism + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more anachronistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anachronistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
pos: adj
examples: If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.
What could be more anachronistic than imposing contemporary concern over fragmentation, i.e. diversity, of the present on the past so that no sources of patriarchal power or hierarchy can be held responsible for collective oppression in any time period?
Among them, even the most lucid of 'one-nation' Tories had severe difficulties in seeing the anti-growth nature of some of the most anachronistic of traditional British institutions.
The 'liberalism' issue that perplexed Catholics in the 1880s was by 1914 increasingly anachronistic, as political liberalism won resoundingly (in France), or lost resoundingly (in Austria), or became fragmented and divided (in Germany).
In their daily practices, journalists often perpetuated ageing and increasingly anachronistic ideologies, but they were rarely, in fact, dominated by them.
The coronation of a British ruler is, of course, a political ritual and a religious ceremony. But it is also, as the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 established, a TV show. It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that, in the electronic era, even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance.
Antonyms: historical
historically accurate
period appropriate
Translations: