yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sufferance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sufferaunce, from Anglo-Norman suffraunce, from Late Latin sufferentia. By surface analysis, suffer + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: sufferances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sufferaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: At length when as he ſaw her haſtie heat / Abate, and panting breath begin to fayle, / He through long ſufferãce growing now more great, / Roſe in his strength, and gan her freſh aſſayle, [...]
I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow.
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass. [...] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance; they were received with distance and suspicion.
gloss: Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [M]oſt wretched man, / That to affections does the bridle lend; / In their beginning they are weake and wan, / But ſoone through ſuff'rance growe to fearefull end; [...]
Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favour, they erected to themselves oratories.
When his talk trespasses beyond sufferance, I chastise him.
One of the benefits that Epic touts is its interoperability […] there's a large ecosystem of aftermarket add-ons that work with Epic. But Epic is a product, not a protocol, so its much-touted interop exists entirely on its terms, and at its sufferance. If Epic chooses, a doctor using its products can send files to a doctor using a rival product. But Epic can also veto that activity.
gloss: Suffering; pain, misery.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men [...].
Fortune, do diuorce / It from the bearer, 'tis a ſufferance, panging / As ſoule and bodies ſeuering.
[T]he streak / Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, / Where the blue veins look'd shadowy, shrunk, and weak; [...]
gloss: Loss; damage; injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete.
gloss: A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
historical
uncountable
Synonyms: acquiesce
Derived words: long-sufferance
nonsufferance
on sufferance
Translations:
unsuspecting
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 suspecting
English unsuspecting
From un- + suspecting.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsuspecting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsuspecting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not suspecting; without any suspicion.
pos: adj
examples: He easily shot the unsuspecting target.
One by one grotesque forms emerged from the jungle to creep stealthily upon the unsuspecting woman.
Before long, the unsuspecting salesman was earnestly pitching him "the quietest noisemaker on the market."
To unsuspecting eyes these mongoose relatives can seem eminently pettable.
Translations:
meteorological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meteorology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English meteorological
From meteorology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to meteorology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The trip was postponed because the meteorological conditions were so bad.
But from time to time, June throws up a curveball, in the shape of unusual and hard to predict meteorological events.
Translations:
uninjured
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English injured
English uninjured
From un- + injured.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That did not suffer injury.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Of the three, two were hurt and went to hospital, but the uninjured one made her way home.
gloss: One or many people or objects that have not suffered injury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The driver was hurt and went to hospital whilst the uninjured passengers went home.
Translations:
barrenness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bareynnesse; equivalent to barren + -ness.
Base: barren
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: barrennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: ‘She has come with a garment of sorrow and barrenness; she will return with a garment of twins.’
Translations:
sluggishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sluggish
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English sluggishness
From sluggish + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: sluggishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.
Antonyms: nimbleness
Translations:
incitement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.
Base: incite
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: incitements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: encitement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
pos: noun
examples: The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.
Another element in the incitement, however unwitting, was political.
In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist threats to the United States and cited past incitements of violence from its adherents.
Translations:
unhallowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unhalowyd; equivalent to un- + hallowed.
Base: hallowed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unhallowed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unhallowed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.
pos: adj
examples: The murderer was buried in unhallowed ground.
Gra[tiano]. O be thou damn’d, inexecrable dog, / And for thy life let iuſtice be accuſde; / Thou almoſt mak’ſt me wauer in my faith, / To hold opinion with Pythagoras, / That ſoules of Animals infuſe themſelues / Into the trunks of men: Thy curriſh ſpirit / Gouern’d a Wolfe, who, hang’d for humane ſlaughter, / Euen from the gallowes did his fell ſoule fleete, / And whilſt thou layeſt in thy vnhallowed dam, / Infuſde it ſelfe in thee: for thy deſires / Are woluiſh, bloody, ſtaru’d and rauenous.
It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […]
In the service of Venus ghastly and unhallowed crimes have been committed, men have braved tempestuous dangers, have renounced magnificence, power, and possessions, confirming the almost thaumaturgic virtue of ‘All for love.’
Translations:
petulance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pétulance, and its source, Latin petulantia.
Inflected forms:
form: petulances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rudeness, insolence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [W]ise men knew, that that, which looked like pride in some, and like petulance in others, would, by experience in affairs, and conversation amongst men, both of which most of them wanted, be in time wrought off […]
gloss: An insolent remark or act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I believe I was guilty of a petulance, which nothing but my uneasy situation can excuse; if that can.
gloss: Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She […] had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance, and yet unable to discontinue it.
Translations:
hereabout
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From here + about.
Compound parts: here
about
Inflected forms:
form: hereabouts
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: About this; concerning this.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
not-comparable
gloss: Close to; nearby.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I am sure my grandmother lived hereabout.
Related words: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
Translations:
untroubled
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 troubled
English untroubled
From un- + troubled.
Inflected forms:
form: more untroubled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most untroubled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without worries; free from care.
pos: adj
examples: Once the exams were over, she enjoyed untroubled sleep once more.
Translations:
disposer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dispose
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English disposer
From dispose + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: disposers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which disposes or disposes of something.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: (sentient agent type) decider, determiner
the disposer of all things [Allah]
Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.
Translations:
personify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French personnifier. By surface analysis, person + -ify or person(a) + -ify.
Base: persona
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: personifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: personifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: personified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: personified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
gloss: To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.
If ever any of the girls had taken a fancy to personify their good genius, they would certainly have given to his image all they remembered of "Uncle Frank."
Synonyms: embody
Related words: personification
Derived words: dispersonify
personifiable
personifier
unpersonified
Translations:
personifying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: personifyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Personification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] rejecting poetic pantheism and sentimental Romantic personifyings of inanimate things.
Translations:
guider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gider, gyder, equivalent to guide + -er. Compare Old French guidëor.
Base: guide
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: guiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who guides.
pos: noun
gloss: A person in charge of an almshouse.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: guidership
guidress
Translations:
conciliation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French conciliation.
Inflected forms:
form: conciliations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar to but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reconciliation
atonement
Derived words: conciliation cross
conciliationism
conciliationist
Translations:
insufficiency
Part of speech: 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 sufficiency
English insufficiency
From in- + sufficiency.
Inflected forms:
form: insufficiencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: deficiency (broadly synonymous), inadequacy
The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.
She may crowd her days with gaiety, variety, and what are called amusements; she will do so only to find their insufficiency.
On a recent trip down the Rhine many of the trains we saw were still steam-hauled, presumably through an insufficiency of electric locomotives, as yet, to deal with peak summer traffic.
Translations:
dermal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English derm
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dermal
From derm + -al. First attested in the early 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: dermals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to skin or integument (or other forms of tissue)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: epidermal, epidermo-
The dermal muscles in the face are used to form expressions.
gloss: A body piercing consisting of an object positioned partially below and partially above the skin.
pos: noun
examples: Anchors with holes in the heel and toe of the foot are for dermals that are meant to be permanent. As the piercing heals, the tissue attaches to the foot around the holes, anchoring it in.
Translations:
relaxant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: relaxants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drug or other agent that promotes relaxation.
pos: noun
Translations:
bad-tempered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: worse-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more bad-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: worst-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most bad-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.
pos: adj
examples: His bad-tempered outburst caught his friends by surprise.
Jack is the most bad-tempered and violent man I know.
Translations:
headpiece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From head + piece.
Compound parts: head
piece
Inflected forms:
form: headpieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The head; the brain; the head as the seat of intellect.
pos: noun
gloss: The head; the brain; the head as the seat of intellect.
pos: noun
examples: He was going about pondering deeply, but in vain, how he might get out of his dilemma, when it came into his head to ask the advice of the boy that kept his pigs, who was a great head-piece, and had often helped him before.
gloss: Something covering the head.
pos: noun
gloss: Something covering the head.
pos: noun
gloss: A headset.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: mouthpiece, earpiece
gloss: A headstall.
pos: noun
gloss: A headboard of a bed.
pos: noun
examples: Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in magohany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.
gloss: A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
pos: noun
examples: A view of a Wenford train headed by this locomotive forms the headpiece to the present article.
gloss: The top piece or part of any of various things.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: head
Translations:
teammate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English team
English -mate
English teammate
From team + -mate.
Inflected forms:
form: teammates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is on the same team.
pos: noun
examples: Pass the ball to your teammate.
Translations:
conservator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
law
Etymology: From Middle English conservatour, from Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin cōnservātor (“one who conserves”), agent noun from cōnservō (“to preserve”).
Inflected forms:
form: conservators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conservatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
pos: noun
examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.
the great Creator and Conservator of the world
gloss: A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
pos: noun
examples: The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
The Governor [of Missouri] is […] the conservator of the peace
gloss: An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
pos: noun
gloss: A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
pos: noun
gloss: A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
pos: noun
Related words: conservatee
conservation
conservative
Derived words: conservatorial
conservator of the peace
conservatorship
subconservator
Translations:
claimant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French and Anglo-Norman clamant, present participle of the verb clamer and its variants, from Latin clāmō (“to cry out”), equivalent to claim + -ant. Compare clamant.
Base: claim
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: claimants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who claims; one who makes a claim.
pos: noun
examples: “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]”
gloss: A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
pos: noun
Derived words: counterclaimant
non-claimant
nonclaimant
proclaimant
pro-claimant
Translations:
consignment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English consign
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English consignment
From consign + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: consignments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To E. M. McVicker and Co., Southampton, England. "We undertake no guarantee for goods damaged in transit. As soon as the consignment was taken on board we drew your captain's attention to the fact that the vessel was unsuitable for the transport of Robots, and we are therefore not responsible for spoiled freight. We beg to remain for Rossum's Universal Robots. Yours truly."
In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.
gloss: The act of consigning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sale of one's own goods (clothing, furniture, etc.) through a third-party vendor, in exchange for a portion of the sale price, and with the consigner retaining ownership of the goods until they are sold or abandoned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: consignee
consignor
Derived words: consignment note
consignment shop
nonconsignment
reconsignment
Translations:
colorist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English color
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English colorist
From color + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: colorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colourist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Canada
India
New-Zealand
Singapore
South-Africa
UK
Senses:
gloss: One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
pos: noun
examples: Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
gloss: A hairdresser who is a specialist in coloring and tinting hair.
pos: noun
gloss: One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
uncaring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English caring
English uncaring
From un- + caring.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncaring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncaring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by a lack of care; not caring.
pos: adj
examples: His uncaring attitude did not win him many friends.
gloss: Lack or absence of caring
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To accomplish this end, each of the three components contains two levels: verbal caring and uncaring, nonverbal caring and uncaring, and technically competent and incompetent behavior.
Translations:
neckline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From neck + line.
Compound parts: neck
line
Inflected forms:
form: necklines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The line formed by the edge of an article of clothing that surrounds the neck, especially as seen at the front.
pos: noun
Translations:
springy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spring
English -y
English springy
From spring + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: springier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: springiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.
pos: adj
examples: The soft peat was springy under her feet.
The hard woods were used for pegging, the soft woods for cradling the load and the springy woods for carrying it.
What returning director Genndy Tartakovsky reveres is animation—and not necessarily the wonders of photorealistic follicle creation or impeccably rendered water, but the kind of gloriously exaggerated movement, the stretchy and springy caricature, that enlivens many classic cartoons.
We had now reach'd the closest point of union; but when he backened to come on the fiercer, as if I had been actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury I twisted my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quiver'd again under the pressure
gloss: Lively; bouncy.
pos: adj
examples: Shangrila and Linda is an outstandingly uneven book -- sometimes it's fun and springy, and other times it's irritating and boring.
Every step—a light click of the heel and then a springy step, optimistic, perhaps a bit contemptuous.
gloss: Characteristic of the spring season.
pos: adj
examples: It was springy weather after Easter, and she wore a pale lavender silk dress with myriad little ruchings down the front, each edged with a narrow band of real lace.
We had a blizzard, a thaw, a spell of springy weather, and James baked me a heart-shaped white clam pizza for Valentine's Day.
After our few brief days of springy weather it surely is a sudden change.
gloss: Of land, having many springs (of water).
pos: adj
Antonyms: unspringy
Derived words: springily
springiness
unspringy
Translations:
springiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English springy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English springiness
From springy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the property of being springy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
picker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
government
graphical-user-interface
manufacturing
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
textiles
war
weaving
Etymology: From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.
Base: pick
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
pos: noun
examples: Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.
"Farmers can't get sufficient fruit pickers," he said. "It is the same pool of labour, agency staff [who are] largely eastern European [and] a huge number of them Polish."
gloss: Any user interface control that selects something.
pos: noun
examples: date picker
file picker
gloss: A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
pos: noun
gloss: The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
pos: noun
gloss: A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
pos: noun
gloss: A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A pilferer.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Derived words: berrypicker
bone-picker
bowpicker
G2P
goods-to-person
goods-to-picker
lockpicker
nutpicker
parts-to-picker
peckerhead
picker-to-goods
picker-to-parts
picker-up
picker-upper
picker upper
picker-upperer
ragpicker
shitpicker
sternpicker
stockpicker
toothpicker
winkle-picker
winkle picker
wool picker
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: берач
roman: berač
lang: Finnish
word: poimija
lang: French
word: cueilleur
lang: French
word: glaneur
lang: French
word: glaneuse
lang: Macedonian
word: бе́рач
roman: bérač
lang: Norman
word: tchilieux
lang: Ukrainian
word: збира́ч
roman: zbyráč
charnel
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.
Inflected forms:
form: charnels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more charnel
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most charnel
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A chapel attached to a mortuary.
pos: noun
gloss: A repository for dead bodies.
pos: noun
examples: When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d,
⁠Was this demanded—if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
gloss: Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
pos: adj
examples: He murmured to himself with dull despair,
Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.
Derived words: charnel house
uncharnel
Translations:
enchanter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant + -er.
Base: enchant
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: enchanters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enchantor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inchantor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: enchantour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: enchauntour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inchanter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: enchauntor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: One who enchants or delights.
pos: noun
examples: Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]
gloss: A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
pos: noun
examples: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:
He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.
[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
[…] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
Derived words: enchanter's nightshade
Translations:
repression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English press
English repress
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English repression
From repress + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: repressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.
gloss: The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: repress
suppression
Derived words: antirepression
autorepression
corepression
crossrepression
derepression
financial repression
hyperrepression
nonrepression
overrepression
repressionary
repressionism
repressionist
transnational repression
transrepression
Translations:
repressing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: repressings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent pressing.
pos: noun
examples: repressings of a vinyl record
Translations:
resale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English sale
English resale
From re- + sale.
Inflected forms:
form: resales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sale of something previously bought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They bought the contents of the locker for resale.
The resale value was high as the items were quite rare.
gloss: The sale by the original seller to another purchaser of goods due to non-payment by original purchaser, often with the original purchaser liable for any shortfall between the original sale price and the price realized by the original seller.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: nonresale
resaler
Translations:
unbeliever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + believer, perhaps a corruption of earlier wanbeliever (“unbeliever”).
Base: believer
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unbelievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe people who do not believe in the same deity or deities as themselves).
pos: noun
examples: `Well, I suppose that we must try it,' I said; and the others assented in their various ways - Leo, as though it were the best joke in the world; Job, in respectful disgust; and Mahomed, with an invocation to the Prophet, and a comprehensive curse upon all unbelievers and their ways of thought and travel.
I tried to persuade some of the men to come and save you, but they would not do it, saying: ‘Let the unbelievers kill one another if they wish. It is none of our affair, and if we go and interfere with Ali-ben-Ahmed’s plans we shall only stir up a fight with our own people.’
One of the emcees, going for a cheap laugh had said "classical musicians, we all know what they're like," and I heard several voices from the audience reply, "Oh yeah, what are they like?" But the classical concert certainly convinced the unbelievers.
Translations:
untilled
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 tilled
English untilled
From un- + tilled.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of land, having not been tilled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Spring was upon us and the ground remained untilled.
The Emerald City was soon left far behind. As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.
Translations:
outcrop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English crop
English outcrop
From out- + crop.
Inflected forms:
form: outcrops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outcrops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outcropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outcropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outcropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
pos: noun
gloss: A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: To come out to the surface of the ground.
pos: verb
Synonyms: outcropping
Derived words: outcropper
sub-outcrop
Translations:
reciprocally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin reciprocusder.
English reciprocal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English reciprocally
From reciprocal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more reciprocally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reciprocally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a reciprocal manner; by way of returning (e.g. a favour, insult, etc).
pos: adv
examples: In the process of production, human beings work not only upon nature, but also upon one another. They produce only by working together in a specified manner and reciprocally exchanging their activities.
When younger brother calls [his elder brother's wife] his "co-wife" and reciprocally, when she calls him co-husband," rights in sexuality are being satirized.
Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated. It is incarnated in real (not ideal) relations and actual (physical) terms, each of which exists in relation to each other, reciprocally determining each other.
Translations:
hardtack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From hard + tack.
Compound parts: hard
tack
Inflected forms:
form: hardtacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hard tack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: reefer's nut
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
Bread and fodder had to be brought up over longer and longer distances, it was more difficult all the time, transport was lacking, the army had already eaten two-thirds of its hardtack, exhausted men were marching in baking heat along sandy roads into emptiness!
Translations:
mannered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manered; equivalent to manner + -ed.
Base: manner
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more mannered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mannered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
often
examples: His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way.
ill-mannered.
I doubt in general whether highly mannered societies are necessarily more peaceful societies as assumed by Norbert Elias. Romeo and Juliet lived in a highly mannered, highly violent society; […]
Translations:
ill-mannered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Middle English ille-ymanerite.
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-mannered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-mannered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having bad manners; impolite.
pos: adj
examples: He was extremely ill-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.
Translations:
bad-mannered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bad-mannered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bad-mannered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having bad manners; impolite.
pos: adj
examples: He was extremely bad-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.
Translations:
imbalance
Part of speech: 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 im-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-
Latin lanx
Latin bilanx
Vulgar Latin *bilancia
Old French balancebor.
Middle English balaunce
English balance
English imbalance
From im- + balance.
Inflected forms:
form: imbalances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inbalance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The property of not being in balance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The growing imbalances between the rich and poor first lead to more crime.
Ross Barkley, a second-half substitute, almost marked his debut with a goal but by that stage England were playing at half-pace. A team can do that when the imbalance of talent is this considerable.
There are some stations which have literally 1,000-1,500 passengers a year, whereas Whitby has over 140,000, so there's a huge imbalance between the usage of some stations and others.
Translations:
barnyard
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From barn + yard.
Compound parts: barn
yard
Inflected forms:
form: barnyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more barnyard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most barnyard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The yard associated with or surrounding a barn.
pos: noun
examples: It has a coat of stiff hairs rather than the soft fleece of the barnyard animal, and it is much more agile.
gloss: Vulgar; scatological.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Henderson too barnyard for Casa Loma, so they are rejecting further arrangements by him.
The bad part was that Thor and Chief, with their vivid and clever imaginations, had made up a whole cast of characters, some of them with very barnyard names, and soap-opera lives.
They’ve come to be called "snout" houses, a label that sounds more barnyard than city street and, in any event, certainly doesn’t sound pretty.
gloss: Of food or drink, having an earthy flavor.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Mr. Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, has a quirky way of describing his creations. He refers to the more complex ones as “a little bit barnyard,” “having a funky nose” or “like a good sourdough bread.”
Cheeses made from goat’s milk tend to have a more barnyard and tangy taste than cow’s milk.
Synonyms: farmyardy
Translations:
insurer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
insurance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English insure
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English insurer
From insure + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: insurers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ensurer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who insures.
pos: noun
examples: After the accident I contacted the insurer who paid for the repairs.
Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
Translations:
pronouncement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French prononcement. By surface analysis, pronounce + -ment. Doublet of pronunciamento.
Inflected forms:
form: pronouncements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An official public announcement.
pos: noun
examples: The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.
gloss: An utterance.
pos: noun
examples: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
His pronouncements carried great authority, but his physical difficulties often caused them to be enigmatic in their brevity.
This grinchy pronouncement by the president had the value of being truthful.
Translations:
apportioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Assigned as somebody's portion; allotted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Here indeed was the witch wife's chance; and she was the more keen, for her master had warned her that this was her last chance. Either Ailie's soul would be his, or her auld wrunkled body and black heart would be flung from this pleasant world to their apportioned place.
Translations: