yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
trowel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.
Inflected forms:
form: trowels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trowels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: troweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: trowelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: troweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: troweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: trowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: trowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
pos: noun
gloss: A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
pos: noun
examples: I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?
gloss: A tool used for smoothing a mold.
pos: noun
gloss: To apply (a substance) with a trowel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.
gloss: To pass over with a trowel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Most finish coats are troweled smooth, but sometimes you will have to add cosmetic touches to make the patch match the surrounding plaster, texturing the surface randomly or uniformly with any of a variety of tools, ranging from sponges to special trowels.
gloss: To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.
Derived words: fish trowel
lay on with a trowel
pointing-trowel
power trowel
trowelful
troweller
trowel machine
trowelman
untroweled
untrowelled
Translations:
truculent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Inflected forms:
form: more truculent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most truculent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cruel or savage.
pos: adj
examples: The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.
She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
gloss: Defiant or uncompromising.
pos: adj
examples: In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan’s threats.
gloss: Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
pos: adj
examples: She might pity herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want any quarrel; she blamed him for wanting one, but she could not help assuming a truculent attitude.
If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.
It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that — speaking very generally — they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent.
These bitches is getting truculent.
gloss: Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh.
pos: adj
examples: Voltaire is never either gross or truculent.
[…] or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog.
Cahusac appeared to be having it all his own way, and he raised his harsh, querulous voice so that all might hear his truculent denunciation.
gloss: Destructive; deadly.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: More or less truculent Plagues.
Related words: truculence
truculency
truculently
belligerent
Translations:
trustee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trust
English -ee
English trustee
From trust + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: trustees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trustees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trusteeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trusteed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trusteed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.
pos: noun
examples: The trust property is now managed by a trustee who holds formal title to the asset; the trustee can sell it, but only for the benefit of the beneficiary, and he must replace it with like assets.
gloss: A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
pos: noun
gloss: To commit (property) to the care of a trustee.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to trustee an estate
gloss: To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: beneficiary
settlor
Derived words: board of trustees
cotrustee
estate trustee
executorial trustee
nontrustee
public trustee
trustee de son tort
trusteeism
trusteeship
trustee stock
Translations:
tumbleweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tumble
Proto-West Germanic *weud
Old English wēod
Middle English weed
English weed
English tumbleweed
From tumble + weed.
Inflected forms:
form: tumbleweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: Putting an ad in the local paper that Spock's Beard and Arena are in town will get you a tumbleweed response and some wasted revenue.
“Why do families argue?” may only induce the tumbleweed response. (Could you answer that question out of the blue?)
gloss: A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: tumble thistle
Derived words: monster tumbleweed
Palestinian tumbleweed
Russian tumbleweed
tumbleweed moment
Translations:
turbid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek τύρβη (túrbē)bor.?
Latin turba
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin turbidusbor.
Middle English turbide
English turbid
From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).
Inflected forms:
form: more turbid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most turbid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
pos: adj
examples: turbid water
turbid wine
On the 6th October, the 18th day of her illness, she presented the following phenomena: — pulse small and quick — urine yellow and turbid.
He seeks in vain to occupy his days with rural pursuits; he to whom the excitements of a metropolis, with all its corruption and its vices, were the sole sources of the turbid stream that he called "pleasure!"
He perceived more clearly the cruelty of Nature, to whom our refinement and piety are but as bubbles, hurrying downwards on the turbid waters.
This makes the estimation of the refractive index of the turbid liquid quite problematic.
The resulting impression filled with turbid mash liquor, which was hand-pumped through a tube into a separate kettle.
In the turbid state, the development of submerged vegetation is prevented by low underwater light levels.
gloss: Smoky or misty.
pos: adj
examples: Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity.
Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist.
The turbid air over major cities is often described as a dust dome.
gloss: Unclear; confused; obscure.
pos: adj
examples: Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo.
Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety.
In the aforementioned paragraph 406 of the Encyclopedia, magnetic ecstasy is described as a confused and turbid experience because its content does not present itself in rational form: for this reason the state of the somnambulist should not be considered as a possible path to cognition (Erkenntnis).
Related words: disturb
perturb
trouble
turbine
turbulence
turbulent
Derived words: inturbidate
turbidimeter
turbidimetric
turbidimetry
turbidite
turbidity
turbidly
turbidness
unturbid
Translations:
tutelage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin tūtēla (“a watching, guardianship, protection”) + -age, from tuērī (“to watch, guard”). See tuition.
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: tutelages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the king's right of seigniory and tutelage
The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy.
gloss: The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Taught from their cradle-bed to know
The bitter tutelage of wo,
No idle fears in their bosoms glow,
But pride and wrath in their dark eyes glance,
As they lift their martyr'd fathers' lance.
Kirk has attempted to write the definitive explanation of myth, but he too has overlooked von Dechend and, therefore, cannot make much sense concerning "Inanna's Descent into the Nether World." But when from von Dechend's tutelage we realize that Inanna is identified with the planet Venus, then we understand that there is more going on in the myth than a dramatization of the empty storehouse in winter.
But when asked which of his achievements he is most proud of, he says: “Actually those of others hypermilers behind the wheel, thanks to my tutelage or simply inspiration.”
The High Level station was quickly overwhelmed by the volume of traffic, and a full rebuild under the tutelage of architect James Miller was initiated just two years after opening.
Related words: tuition
tutee
tutelar
tutelary
tutor
tutorial
Derived words: cotutelage
Translations:
twofold
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two + -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig.
Base: two
Affixes: -fold
Inflected forms:
form: two-fold
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: two-fold
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The wheat produced a twofold harvest.
gloss: Having two parts, especially two different parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a twofold nature;  a twofold sense;  a twofold argument
1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Pythian Ode III, page 65.
Had I but landed there and brought unto him a twofold joy, first golden health and next this my song of triumph to be a splendour in his Pythian crown […]
It is the tale of Ixion's twofold guilt, unnatural murder and unlawful love.
"Wallace's suggestion for overcoming the epistemological and solipsistic effects of innate selfishness is twofold."
gloss: In a double degree; doubly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: duplicate
dual
duplex
duple
twissel
twofold
twosome
Antonyms: bisect
Derived words: twofoldness
Translations:
typo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of typographical error.
Inflected forms:
form: typos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: typoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: typos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: typoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: typoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: typoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: typo'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: typo'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A typographical error.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ
Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.
His 14 singles titles still look like a typo even for those like me who have watched him build that probably unbreakable record, red brick by red brick.
gloss: To make a typographical error.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tell your mother that that essay I wrote for THE WRITER, that mentions you, is now in print in the Aw-Ghost issue. But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist. I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.
Translations:
unbend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English unbenden, equivalent to un- + bend.
Base: bend
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unbends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unbending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unbent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unbent
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unbended
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: unbended
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
Senses:
gloss: To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
pos: verb
examples: to unbend a bow
He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.
gloss: To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
pos: verb
examples: to unbend the mind from study or care
You do unbend your noble strength.
gloss: To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use.
pos: verb
gloss: To cast loose or untie
pos: verb
examples: Unbend the rope.
gloss: To cease to be bent; to become straight.
pos: verb
gloss: To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like
pos: verb
examples: He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.
gloss: to enjoy oneself; to become affable and free from formality
pos: verb
tags: archaic
Translations:
unborn
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.
Base: born
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unborns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not yet born; yet to come; future.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.
gloss: Existing without birth or beginning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
gloss: Unborn offspring collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
Derived words: innocent as the babe unborn
innocent as the child unborn
unborn child
Translations:
uncanny
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919).
Base: canny
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncannier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uncanniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
pos: adj
examples: He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.
These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.
The new iPhone promises “next level” photography with push-button ease. But the results look odd and uncanny.
gloss: Careless.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
pos: noun
examples: This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.
As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.
In the preceding chapter, we saw that Freud linked the maternal body, death, and the afterlife with the uncanny in his famous essay "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").
The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced.
Freud argued that the uncanny was particularly associated with feelings of horror aroused by the figure of the paternal castrator, neglecting the tropes of woman and animal as a source of the uncanny.
[The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling′s definition of the uncanny as ‘something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.’ (Freud: 2003, 147 f)
Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down.
Derived words: uncanny valley
uncannily
uncanniness
Translations:
uncap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + cap. Piecewise doublet of uncape.
Base: cap
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uncapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uncapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uncapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove a physical cap or cover from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then, with an opener, she uncapped both drinks.
gloss: To remove a cap or limit from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to uncap the frame rate of a game console emulator
gloss: To take off one's cap.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отхлупвам
roman: othlupvam
lang: French
word: décapsuler
lang: Galician
word: destapar
lang: Polish
word: odkapslowywać
lang: Polish
word: odkapslować
underplay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English play
English underplay
From under- + play.
Inflected forms:
form: underplays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underplaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underplayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underplayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of underplaying.
pos: noun
gloss: To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make something seem less important than it really is.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As a working-class person I want to tell Tucker and any other gay and lesbian activists who call themselves socialists and so should certainly know better, that when they underplay survival issues and don't acknowledge the faultline under their feet that is class in this society, it hurts me right in the gut.
gloss: To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
unearth
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unherthen, equivalent to un- + earth.
Base: earth
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unearths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unearthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unearthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unearthed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drive or draw from the earth.
pos: verb
examples: to unearth a fox or a badger
gloss: To dig up.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: Modern archaeological excavations have unearthed the remains of a large number of ancient cities that lay buried deep under the sands for more than a thousand years, along the trade route from Bactria to China passing between the Tien Shan mountains in the north and the desert of Taklamakan in the south.
Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
gloss: To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonym: discover
to unearth a secret
He very soon discovered a Wynn Carrados living at Richmond, and, better still, further search failed to unearth another. There was, apparently, only one householder at all events of that name in the neighbourhood of London.
Translations:
unhand
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
English unhand
From un- + hand.
Inflected forms:
form: unhands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unhanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unhanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unhanded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To release from the hand; to let go.
pos: verb
examples: He holds him with his skinny hand,
"There was a ship," quoth he.
"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
“Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer
As he dried the last toe, she said, “Thank you. You may now unhand my feet”
Translations:
unicellular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Latin ūni-der.
English uni-
English cellular
English unicellular
From uni- + cellular.
Inflected forms:
form: unicellulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing any microorganism that has a single cell.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A single-celled organism; a unicell.
pos: noun
examples: Among unicellulars, the rate of increase is beyond belief.
In unicellulars the uncoupling of the various nutritional and energy sources is much more widely spread.
More or less distinct specialisation of reproductive elements in some unicellulars.
Translations:
uniformitarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more uniformitarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uniformitarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uniformitarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
pos: adj
gloss: One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.
pos: noun
Translations:
unkind
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English unkynde; equivalent to un- + kind.
Base: kind
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unkinder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unkind
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unkindest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unkind
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
pos: adj
examples: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,
Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;
Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find
A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind:
When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe,
Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow:
Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.
Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week′s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind / But you're the key to my peace of mind
We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
As a kid, I suffered the slings and arrows that most of us with such foreign names grow up with. I was called Pollock, Pockrock and worse. One unkind kid on the playground, perhaps sensing some need for attention, labeled me Peacock.
gloss: Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.
Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,
Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt
Them to be theirs;
gloss: Having no race or kindred; childless.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,
She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.
Related words: unkindly
unkindness
Derived words: unkindest cut
Translations:
unleash
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English leash
English unleash
From un- + leash.
Inflected forms:
form: unleashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unleashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unleashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unleashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To free from a leash, or as from a leash.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He unleashed his dog in the park.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
gloss: To let go; to release.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: He unleashed his fury.
It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.
In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its own version of freedom.
Storm Charlie had raged throught [sic] the night and was unleashing further gusts on the morning that RAIL was due to inspect a vegetation management project in Kent. Bit by bit, the train timetable unravelled. A trip beginning at Bradford-on-Avon belatedly reached Bath, but that turned out to be journey's end.
gloss: To precipitate; to bring about.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?
Derived words: unleash Chiang
Translations:
unlikely
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unlykely, unlikly, unlykly, unlicli, equivalent to un- + likely.
Base: likely
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unlikelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unlikely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unlikeliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unlikely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more unlikely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unlikely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: unlikelies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
pos: adj
examples: It is pretty unlikely that you'll win, but I will pray that at least you do well.
In the highly unlikely event of landing in water, lifejackets are stored under the seat.
Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor.
The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets.
Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.
Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.
gloss: Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.
pos: adj
examples: unlikely means
gloss: In an improbable manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Something or somebody considered unlikely.
pos: noun
examples: The molecular ion candidates are divided by the testing phase into three categories: rejects, unlikelies, and probables. Differences between each candidate and the prominent peaks in the spectrum are computed.
"Here is my every possible phone number, plus a few unlikelies. And I've also put down the numbers of Karin and Wade, in case you've lost them. Karin can come anytime; Wade, up until six in the morning."
Then the most unlikely of unlikelies happened. We got another phone call. Another woman wanted to give us a baby—a boy, born just that morning. We walked into a hospital, and he was placed into my arms.
Translations:
unnerve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
Proto-Germanic *anda-
Proto-West Germanic *anda-
Old English and-
Old English on-
Middle English on-
English un-
English nerve
English unnerve
From un- + nerve.
Inflected forms:
form: unnerves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unnerving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unnerved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unnerved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
pos: verb
examples: to unnerve the arm
gloss: To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.
pos: verb
examples: I was greatly unnerved by the news that my attacker was back in the country.
But new immigration is no longer the primary driver of the growing racial, ethnic and religious diversity that unnerves much of the GOP coalition.
Derived words: unnervingly
Translations:
unripe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old English unrīpe. Equivalent to un- + ripe.
Base: ripe
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unriper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unripest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not ripe.
pos: adj
examples: unripe fruit
gloss: Developing too early; premature.
pos: adj
Antonyms: ripe
Translations:
unseen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unsen, unseyn, unseien, from Old English unġesewen, from Proto-Germanic *unsewanaz, equivalent to un- + seen. Cognate with Dutch ongezien (“unseen”), German Low German unsehn (“unseen”), German ungesehen (“unseen”).
Base: seen
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unseens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not seen or discovered; invisible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
gloss: Unskilled; inexperienced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
The advent of COVID passports, so soon after increased check-in bureaucracy post-Brexit, brought major logistical ramifications to St Pancras International, of a kind unseen at any other major station in Britain.
gloss: An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
pos: noun
examples: I have French and Latin unseens this summer.
Derived words: sight unseen
unsight unseen
Translations:
unset
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English set
English unset
From un- + set.
Inflected forms:
form: unsets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unsetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unset
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unset
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not set; not fixed or appointed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not mounted or placed in a setting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not set.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unset broken bone
gloss: Not planted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And many maiden gardens, yet unset
With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers
gloss: uncongealed, unconsolidated
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unset concrete; unset cement
gloss: To make not set.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to unset a single bit in a binary pattern
Translations:
unsheathe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English sheathe
English unsheathe
From un- + sheathe.
Inflected forms:
form: unsheathes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unsheathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unsheathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unsheathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unsheath
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.
pos: verb
examples: When I unsheathe the blade, it makes such a satisfying sound that I do it again.
Yes, Europe shared many of the concerns that had prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to unsheathe the tariff sword and seek to reshape trade with China.
Translations:
unsound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English sound
English unsound
From un- + sound.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unsounder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsoundest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not sound
pos: adj
examples: unsound mind
In the ensuing financial panic, many persons sustained heavy losses, and large numbers of unsound schemes succumbed.
A striking example comes to mind, in which a scheme to improve the existing buildings finished up as virtually a complete reconstruction, owing to the unsound condition of the original structure!
While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.
gloss: Not sound
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: ... A horse labouring under a temporary injury, capable of being speedily cured, is not unsound within the meaning of a warranty of soundness ...
gloss: Not sound
pos: adj
tags: UK
especially
examples: You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
Antonyms: sound
Derived words: unsoundly
unsoundness
Translations:
untie
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.
Base: tie
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: untying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: untied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: untied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to untie a knot
Haſt thou the pretty vvorme of Nylus [an asp] there, / That killes and paines not? / […] / Come thou mortal vvretch, / VVith thy ſharpe teeth this knot intrinſicate, / Of life at once vntye: Poore venomous Foole, / Be angry, and diſpatch.
Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
gloss: To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
gloss: To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
pos: verb
examples: They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
gloss: To become untied or loosed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!
Synonyms: unfasten
Antonyms: tie
Translations:
untold
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate, tell”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion."
gloss: Not numbered or counted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
gloss: Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.
pos: adj
tags: literary
not-comparable
examples: The South propose to found a Government on servile labor, not as it originally was an accident and an incident, but as the degrading and disgraceful foundation of a Government, and to such a Government as this the Chicago platform offer an armistice, and ask the American men to beg to it for peace. He closed with an appeal to all -- to those at the loom and at the plow, in the army and in the navy, in the workshop and in the counting room to spurn forever from their recognition and their confidence the base men who would not only degrade and disgrace the party they pretend to represent, but would also bring untold disgrace and dishonor upon our country and our flag.
Trains are kept on the move in circumstances when, for example, a fifteen-minute hold-up to carry out a repair task at one attempt would cause untold upset to a service running at close intervals.
Shih Hung-pi was born a pauper at a poor household in Suichung County, Liaoning. He suffered untold misery in the old society. Then he joined the PLA.
Translations:
unwell
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English well
English unwell
From un- + well.
Inflected forms:
form: more unwell
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unwell
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill
pos: adj
examples: feel unwell
gloss: Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.
pos: adj
tags: dated
euphemistic
Translations:
unwilling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English willing
English unwilling
From un- + willing.
Inflected forms:
form: more unwilling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unwilling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not willing; reluctant
pos: adj
examples: an unwilling servant
We are unwilling to restore his previous privileges after his betrayal of our trust.
There was a prevailing fear of the effect of large undertakings becoming monopolistic, and Parliament showed itself unwilling to sanction any large groupings.
[...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, [...].
My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
Translations:
unwrap
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- + wrap.
Base: wrap
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unwraps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unwrapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unwrapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unwrapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unwraps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
“I like your glasses,” she says as she unwraps a platter of brownies. “They’re very hip. Retro, even.”
gloss: To become unwrapped.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To remove word wrap from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Use the SHIFT key to unwrap text.
gloss: To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An act of unwrapping.
pos: noun
examples: Each of us, content within / this yuletide season we begin, / the cheerfulness of eager voices, / at each unwrap, a child rejoices.
Translations:
urgency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From urgent + -ency or Latin urgentia.
Base: urgent
Affixes: -ency
Inflected forms:
form: urgencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: urgence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being urgent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the urgency of a demand
Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.
gloss: Insistence, pressure, urge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.
gloss: A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: exigency
clamancy
Translations: