yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pointless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English pointles, poynteles, poyntlees. By surface analysis, point + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more pointless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pointless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pointlesse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
pos: adj
examples: a pointless sword
a pointless knife
gloss: Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
pos: adj
examples: a pointless remark
The sequel to the film was even more pointless than the original
Even the numerous drunkards and beggars seemed to be in a hurry, stumbling from one side of the street to the other with pointless resolution or, with businesslike expeditiousness, soliciting money and food from strangers.
gloss: Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
pos: adj
examples: Since the decision has already been made, further discussion seems pointless.
gloss: Having no points
pos: adj
examples: After four matches and four defeats, United remain pointless at the foot of the table.
gloss: Without points.
pos: adj
examples: a pointless topology
gloss: Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
Synonyms: blunt
dull
obtuse
point-free
Antonyms: pointed
sharp
worthwhile
useful
pointful
Derived words: pointless topology
pointlessly
pointlessness
Translations:
impolite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite.
Base: polite
Affixes: im-
Inflected forms:
form: impoliter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more impolite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: impolitest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most impolite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not polite; discourteous; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.
pos: adj
Antonyms: debonair
polite
suave
Translations:
bluntly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blunt
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English bluntly
From blunt + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more bluntly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bluntly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
pos: adv
examples: Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:
I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe
Haue to their names tytles of dignitie,
And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
To put it bluntly, they are going to have to start defending a heck of a lot better than they have been, otherwise their season - and top-flight status - could well be over before they know it.
Drivers' union ASLEF bluntly rebuffed the claim of unofficial action, calling it a lie. And Avanti West Coast was unable to provide any proof for its assertion, when questioned by RAIL.
Translations:
corrosive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French corrosif.
Inflected forms:
form: more corrosive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corrosive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: corrosives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
pos: adj
examples: Care is no cure, but corrosive.
gloss: Destroying or undermining something gradually.
pos: adj
gloss: That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
pos: noun
gloss: Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
pos: noun
Related words: corrode
corrosively
corrosiveness
corrosivity
Derived words: biocorrosive
corrosive sublimate
noncorrosive
photocorrosive
uncorrosive
Translations:
epenthesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Middle of 16th century: via Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ἐπένθεσις (epénthesis), from ἐπεντίθημι (epentíthēmi, “to insert”), from ἐπί (epí) + ἐντίθημι (entíthēmi, “to put in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”).
Inflected forms:
form: epentheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
Translations:
origin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
cartography
geography
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.
Inflected forms:
form: origins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The beginning of something.
pos: noun
examples: place of origin
trace the origin of something
unknown origin
The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.
Scientists are studying the origin of the universe.
gloss: The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
pos: noun
examples: It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
gloss: The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
pos: noun
gloss: The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
pos: noun
gloss: An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
pos: noun
gloss: Ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Antonyms: end
destination
insertion
Related words: orient
provenance
Derived words: cross-origin
interorigin
originable
original
originate
origination
originator
originless
origin myth
origin of coordinates
origin story
preorigin
same-origin policy
time of origin
Translations:
udal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Icelandic óðal. More at odal.
Inflected forms:
form: udals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Allodial, inalienable.
pos: adj
tags: Orkney
Shetland
not-comparable
gloss: A freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.
pos: noun
tags: Orkney
Shetland
countable
uncountable
Translations:
ulnar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uln-
English ar
English ulnar
From uln- + ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ulna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ulna (“elbow”). Doublet of ell.
Inflected forms:
form: ulnae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ulnas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.
pos: noun
Translations:
ultimately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultimate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ultimately
From ultimate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indicating the last item.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Firstly,… Secondly,… Ultimately,…
gloss: Indicating the most important action.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ultimately, he will have to make a decision before the end of the week.
gloss: In the end; finally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: That Wolves reached half-time on level terms had much to do with the ultimately luckless Hennessey, who was in action in the opening minute to tip away Samir Nasri's shot following a City corner.
gloss: Used to indicate the etymon at which a given etymological derivation terminates.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cognate to Gottscheerish boßər, bàsser. Ultimately cognate to standard High German Wasser.
Shortened from maxiature, ultimately from Latin maximus ("large").
Ultimately from Latin equus ("horse").
Translations:
conjunctivitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conjunctiva
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English conjunctivitis
From conjunctiva + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: conjunctivitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conjunctivitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conjunctivites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inflammation of the conjunctiva, often due to infection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
phony
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of fawny (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).
Inflected forms:
form: phonier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: phoniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phoney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: phonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phoney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: phonies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phonying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: phonied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: phonied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: phoney
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
[…] one wonders whether the function of statistical techniques in the social sciences is not primarily to provide a machinery for producing phoney corroborations and thereby a semblance of ‘scientific progress’ where, in fact, there is nothing but an increase in pseudo-intellectual garbage.
gloss: A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.
What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.
gloss: A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.
gloss: Anything fraudulent or fake.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.
gloss: To fake.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Antonyms: authentic
genuine
Derived words: Phony War
phony up
phoney up
Phoney War
Translations:
dissembler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A modification of earlier dissimuler (from Middle English dissimulour) after resemble and semblance; equivalent to dissemble + -er.
Base: dissemble
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dissemblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who dissembles.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he Earl vvas the vvorſe Philoſopher, being a great Reſenter and a vveak Diſſembler of the leaſt diſgrace: […]
[Winston] Churchill, in this telling, was not just a racist but a hypocrite, a dissembler, a narcissist, an opportunist, an imperialist, a drunk, a strategic bungler, a tax dodger, a neglectful father, a credit-hogging author, a terrible judge of character and, most of all, a masterful mythmaker.
Translations:
gargoyle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French gargouille, from Latin. Doublet of gargle. The Académie Française suggests the first attestation as gargoule in 1294.
Inflected forms:
form: gargoyles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
pos: noun
examples: As we went, however, I took the precaution of noting our route as well as I could; and this was not so very difficult, owing to the extraordinary and most fantastic shape of the rocks that were strewn about, many of which in that dim light looked more like the grim faces carven upon mediæval gargoyles than ordinary boulders.
From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
gloss: Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
pos: noun
examples: The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.
gloss: A fictional winged monster.
pos: noun
examples: Almost immediately one of the gargoyles swept down from the sky and attacked him. The gargoyle's momentum drove them both over the side.
gloss: An ugly woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Above all, in what reckless moment had she encouraged that person and her gargoyle of a mother to move to Mayfair, and set up house around the corner?
Derived words: gargoyled
gargoyle gecko
gargoyleish
gargoylelike
gargoylesque
gargoyley
gargoylish
gargoylism
Translations:
disassembler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disassemble
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 disassembler
From disassemble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: disassemblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A computer program that examines another computer program and attempts to generate assembly language source code that would, in theory, reproduce the target program.
pos: noun
Translations:
assembler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Medieval Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo-
Proto-Italic *semalis
Medieval Latin similis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin simulō
Medieval Latin assimulōder.
Old French assemblerbor.
Middle English assemblen
English assemble
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 assembler
From assemble + -er.
Base: assemble
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: assemblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
gloss: Assembly language.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: I wrote that program in assembler.
gloss: One who assembles items.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Our father worked as an assembler in a radio factory that would go out of business in the early 1960s, […]
gloss: A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Assembler (nanotechnology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Synonyms: ASM
assembly
assembly language
Related words: assemble
assembly
compiler
Derived words: absolute assembler
assembler language
cross assembler
disassembler
macroassembler
microassembler
molecular assembler
Translations:
desirably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English desire
English -ably
English desirably
From desire + -ably.
Inflected forms:
form: more desirably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most desirably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a manner likely to arouse desire
pos: adv
examples: How much funkiness makes a pinot taste desirably complex, and how much more really is too much? Is a pinot good if it does not taste more like fruit than stones?
The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps. I had only seen these desirably dressed men as moving watercolor images in Velvet Rose magazines.
Translations:
desireless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English desire
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English desireless
From desire + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more desireless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most desireless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free from desire.
pos: adj
Translations:
desirous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French desirrous, from desirrer + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more desirous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most desirous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
pos: adj
examples: His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of Siam, being desirous of maintaining and strengthening the relations of friendship which happily exist between them […]
More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
Translations:
desist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French desisterbor.
English desist
Borrowed from Middle French desister, from Latin dēsistō, from dē- + sistō (whence de-).
Base: sistō
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: desists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: desisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: desisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: desisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
formal
examples: Please desist from telephoning me at this number.
One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.
After hearing[,] an order was entered requiring respondent to cease and desist the practice complained of under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission act.
Desist the kind of thinking that gets you into trouble. Thinking is in itself fine, but grabbing onto thoughts and images of your self will bring you suffering. Once you learn how to desist, how to let go of your ego-grasping mind, then cease thinking ...
Antonyms: continue
persevere
persist
proceed
Translations:
desk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".
Inflected forms:
form: desks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: desking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: desked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: desked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To equip with a desk or desks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But also that the said Chapell be desked, and the windowes of our said Chapell be glased, with Stores, Ymagies, Armes, Bagies ami Cognossaunts, as is by us redily divised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmews besid Smythfel, maistre of the works of our said Chapell;
The teaching accommodation is to be as follows ;— Senior Mixed Department—Five rooms of equal area, four of which are each to be desked for forty scholars and one to be desked for thirty-two scholars
Each row of desked benches was stepped up a step from the other until the top row of desked benches seemed to hit its high ceiling.
gloss: To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
despond
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Latin dēspondeō (“give up, abandon”), from dē (“from”) + spondeō (“promise”).
Compound parts: dē
spondeō
Inflected forms:
form: desponds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: desponding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: desponded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: desponded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yet still despond not, but proceed
Along the path where fate may lead.
October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell
I should despair, or at least despond.
Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument
We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.
Translations:
despair
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dispeir, from Anglo-Norman despeir and Old French desperer (from Latin dēspērō, dēspērāre), or desesperer, from des- (“dis-”) + esperer (“hope”). See also desperate. Displaced native Old English ormōdnes (“despair”) and Old English ortrīewan (“to despair”).
Inflected forms:
form: despairs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: despairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: despaired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: despaired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: despairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men.
gloss: To cause to despair.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thinking of what I was despairing about despaired me further
gloss: To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We despaired even of life.
gloss: Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive.
My daughter's behavior drives me to despair.
gloss: That which causes despair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is despaired of.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: compare and despair
despairer
climate despair
counsel of despair
death of despair
despairful
disease of despair
pit of despair
self-despair
Translations:
desperately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English desperate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English desperately
From desperate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more desperately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most desperately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
pos: adv
examples: She desperately grabbed at the nearby branches as she heard the branch she was standing on start to snap.
I could desperately do with some coffee right now.
I just need you miserably
Broken man come to me
I just need you desperately
Just want to change your mind
The patient, who lumbers painfully, has a question: She desperately wants a knee replacement, but doesn’t understand why three doctors have rejected her. Ms. Purdie translates doctorspeak.
gloss: extremely
pos: adv
examples: The race for silver medal was desperately close, they needed a photo finish to separate the runners.
They would be surprised to discover that we're all actually fighting for the same thing; that is, the sacredness of human love. The trouble is, they have almost every one of their facts totally and desperately wrong. Those who would lecture us on the "immorality" of our lives don't know the first thing about how we actually live them.
Translations:
aconite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: From French aconit, from Latin aconītum, from Ancient Greek ἀκόνιτον (akóniton).
Inflected forms:
form: aconites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
Rampion grown in the cottage garden made the children of the house quarrelsome; breathing deeply into a handful of mint refreshed your senses, but aconite could cause your death.
gloss: An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: aconital
aconitic
aconitic acid
aconitine
Indian aconite
winter aconite
Translations:
despicably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English despicable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English despicably
From despicable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more despicably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most despicably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly
pos: adv
Translations:
onomasticon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Hellenic *ónomə
Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă)
Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō)
Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
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Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós)
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκόν (onomăstĭkón)
English onomasticon
From Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικόν (onomastikón), neuter form of ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós, “belonging to names”), from ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
The term onomastikón (collection of names, from ὄνομα/ónoma, ‘name’) describes learned works that are not arranged alphabetically but juxtapose synonyms and terms relating to the same semantic field. This principle of ordering is very old (it was already known in Near Eastern culture in the 2nd millennium BC; Lists) and undoubtedly was the most common one up to the Augustan period. Source: Onomastikon — Brill
Inflected forms:
form: onomasticons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onomastica
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
pos: noun
examples: We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.
Translations:
motel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin mōtorder.
Middle English motour
English motor
Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis
Latin hospitālis
Old French ostel
Middle French hostel
French hôtelbor.
English hotel
blend
English motel
Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).
Compound parts: motor
hotel
Inflected forms:
form: motels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
gloss: A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
pos: noun
gloss: To stay in a motel or motels.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
Related words: hotel
inn
motor court
tourist court
Derived words: graybar motel
hot-sheet motel
motelier
no-tell motel
roach motel
telly
Translations:
fried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fried
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fried
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cooked by frying.
pos: adj
gloss: Fried with the yolk unbroken.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
gloss: Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.
pos: adj
examples: a bucket of fried chicken
Innawong et al. (2006) conducted experiments to study the effect of using nitrogen gas on the quality of fried chicken nuggets during pressure frying in terms of moisture retention and reduction in fat […]
The level of seasoning is lower when the chicken is to be open kettle fried; this is because the open kettle-fried chicken has a thicker coating of breading than chicken to be pressure fried. […] Gently shake the fry baskets several times to prevent the sticking of chicken pieces to each other, which can cause raw breading spots on the fried chicken.
gloss: Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: It looks like your motherboard is fried.
Optics - totally fried. And let's not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?.
gloss: Stoned; under the influence of drugs.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.
gloss: Drunk; under the influence of alcohol.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The police had to send a squad car / When Daddy got fried on vodka
gloss: Extremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.
Derived words: American fried potatoes
chicken-fried
chicken-fried steak
combination fried rice
cottage fried potatoes
country-fried
country-fried steak
deep-fat-fried
deep fried
deep-fried
French-fried
french-fried potato
French-fried potato
French fried potato
french fried potato
french-fried potatoes
French fried potatoes
French-fried potatoes
french fried potatoes
frickle
fried bread
friedcake
fried chicken
fried chicken mushroom
fried dough
fried egg
fried-egg plant
fried pie
fried rice
fried rice syndrome
fried slice
German fried potatoes
nonfried
shallow-fried
Singapore fried noodles
Southern fried
Southern-fried
special fried rice
stir-fried
stir-fried ice cream
unfried
Yangzhou fried rice
Translations:
bored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.
Proto-Germanic *burōną
Proto-West Germanic *borōn
Old English borian
Middle English boren
English bore
English -ed
English bored
From bore + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more bored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: boreder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: boredest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
pos: adj
examples: He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.
The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
[Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.
gloss: Perforated by a hole or holes.
pos: adj
Related words: bore
bore out
boredom
boring
unbore
ennui
ennuyé
Derived words: be bored
boredly
boredness
smoothbored
unbored
bored out of one's brains
bored out of one's mind
bored out of one's tree
bored stiff
bored shitless
bored to tears
Translations:
boredom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bore + -dom.
Base: bore
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: boredoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being bored.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The House had just broke up, and the political members had just entered, and in clusters, some standing, and some yawning, some stretching their arms, and some stretching their legs, presented symptoms of an escape from boredom.
[O]nly last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
gloss: An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.
Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.
See more citations at boredoms.
gloss: The state of being a bore.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe to the destinies which presided over my fashioning.
The complete art of boredom.
My experience with Vorticella led me for a time into the false supposition that this sort of fungous disfiguration, which makes Self disagreeably larger, was most common to the female sex; but I presently found that here too the male could assert his superiority and show a more vigorous boredom. I have known a man with a single pamphlet containing an assurance that somebody else was wrong, together with a few approved quotations, produce a more powerful effect of shuddering at his approach than ever Vorticella did with her varied octavo volume, including notes and appendix.
Related words: bore
bored
boring
accidie
acedia
ennui
Derived words: microboredom
moredom
Translations:
singe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).
Inflected forms:
form: singes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: singeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: singed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: singed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: singes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To burn slightly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: made combustible by Flame They treat of, we have pretty Game, For they their own Tail Singe, to save Us
gloss: To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
pos: noun
Synonyms: scorch
Derived words: besinge
singeingly
singe one's wings
unsinged
Translations:
macaco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque.
Inflected forms:
form: macacos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: macacoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A macaque, or similar monkey.
pos: noun
Translations:
copyleft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A pun on copyright, which refers to using copyright laws for purposes that are in some ways contrary to copyright's original intent.
Inflected forms:
form: copylefts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: copylefts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copylefting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: copylefted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copylefted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.
gloss: A software license that follows this philosophy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I have placed my program under copyleft.
The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.
gloss: To license under a copyleft license.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.
Derived words: copyleftist
copyleft symbol
strong copyleft
weak copyleft
Translations:
lang: Basque
word: copyleft
lang: French
word: gauche d'auteur
lang: French
word: copyleft
lang: German
word: Copyleft
lang: Indonesian
word: hak tiru
lang: Russian
word: копилефт
roman: kopileft
lang: Russian
word: авторское ле́во
roman: avtorskoje lévo
lang: Spanish
word: copyleft
lang: Vietnamese
word: bản quyền ngược
Russophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Russo- + -phobia, c. 1836. See also Russian русофобия (rusofobija).
Base: Russo
Inflected forms:
form: russophobia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Contempt or hatred towards Russia or Russians, especially the political system, or the customs of the former Soviet Union.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
coprophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From copro- + -philia.
Base: copro
Inflected forms:
form: coprophilias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marked interest in excrement; especially the paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from feces and defecation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bibliophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1820. From biblio- + -phile (from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”)), probably after French bibliophile.
Base: biblio
Inflected forms:
form: bibliophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bibliophil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: One who loves books.
pos: noun
examples: A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.
[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...
gloss: One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
pos: noun
gloss: One who loves the Bible.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: So, just for fun, here are the versions of Romans 1:26-27. Now don't go assuming jsmith@epas.utoronto.ca must be some kind of great bibliophile because he got all these old versions together. They're all in one place, the _New Testament Octapla_ by Luther Weigle, and I added a few of my own texts from my library; took me only a few minutes to type them.
I dont^([sic]) consider myself a bibliophile....I just think it is God's word.
>HA HA here we have this Bastachs Fuckhead
>defending Christianity […]
Your name is as wrong as the rest of your idiotic notions: you're not a bibliophile, you're a bibliophobe.
Synonyms: book lover
Antonyms: bibliophobe
Related words: bibliophilia
bibliophilic
arctophile
audiophile
conspirophile
museophile
vexillophile
videophile
bookworm
why buy a book when you can join a library
Derived words: audiobibliophile
Translations:
Francophile
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Franco- + -phile.
Base: Franco
Inflected forms:
form: Francophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Francophile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Francophile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who loves France, the French people, or French culture.
pos: noun
examples: What respectable Francophile can resist a crêpe?
gloss: Loving France, the French people, or French culture.
pos: adj
Translations:
dork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears in the US c. 1961. The sense of a "silly person" is presumably from earlier use as a bowdlerization of dick (“penis”) in student slang, particularly the Midwest. Despite a common misconception, it has never referred specifically to a whale's penis, but penises in general. Alternative etymology derives from dialectal Norwegian dorg (“a mass; heap; a heavy, dimwitted, slovenly person”).
Inflected forms:
form: dorks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A quirky, silly or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies. (Overlaps conceptually with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.)
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks.
"You’re dead, Trashmouth," Vince “Boogers” Taliendo told him, pulling his jock up over a dork roughly the size and shape of an anemic peanut.
"There's that dork whose wife cut off his dork." And when people ask him for an autograph he writes, "Best of luck to Betsy. Signed, the guy whose wife cut off his penis."
Synonyms: dork
flabbergast
flabagast
flabaghast
gink
nerd
Nigel
nosebleed
Antonyms: cool kid
idol
people person
social butterfly
sparkler
Related words: dweeb
fool
milksop
outcast
Derived words: adorkable
dorkazoid
dorkdom
dorkery
dorkface
dorkify
dorkish
dorklike
dork out
dorktastic
dorkwad
dorkwear
dorky
orch dork
uberdork
Translations:
Kop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spion Kop, from Afrikaans kop (“hill”).
Inflected forms:
form: Kops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
pathogenicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pathogenic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English pathogenicity
From pathogenic + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: pathogenicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of causing, originating or producing disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
Translations:
cottontail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cotton + tail.
Compound parts: cotton
tail
Inflected forms:
form: cottontails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rabbit of any of various species in genus Sylvilagus.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with a tanned body and untanned buttocks, resembling a cottontail rabbit's dark fur and light tail.
pos: noun
Translations:
roboticist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by Isaac Asimov in 1940. robot + -ic + -ist. Coined in his short story "Robbie" (initially published under the title "Strange Playfellow").
Base: robot
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: roboticists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who conceptualizes, designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots.
pos: noun
examples: Johnson is an expert Roboticist.
Translations:
semi-professional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English professional
English semi-professional
From semi- + professional.
Inflected forms:
form: semiprofessional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: semi-professionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semiprofessional
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: playing for pay on a part-time basis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: composed of semi-professional players
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: a semi-professional sportsman or athlete
pos: noun
Synonyms: semi-pro
Translations:
anomia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From a- + Latin nōmen (“name”) + -ia.
Base: nōmen
Affixes: a-
-ia
Inflected forms:
form: anomias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inability to remember names.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difficulty in finding the right word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: anomic
anonymous
lethologica
on the tip of one's tongue
wordfinding
Translations: