yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
anarchistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ)
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek ἄναρχος (ánarkhos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ἀναρχία (anarkhía)bor.
French anarchie
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 -istabor.
French -iste
French anarchisteder.
English anarchist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English anarchistic
From anarchist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more anarchistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anarchistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to anarchism or anarchy.
pos: adj
examples: One of the commonest objections to Communism is that men are not good enough to live under a Communist state of things. They would not submit to a compulsory Communism, but they are not yet ripe for free, Anarchistic Communism. […]
I don't feel that discouraging people from exploring where they will is in line with anarchistic thought.
gloss: Anarchic; chaotic or free-spirited.
pos: adj
examples: With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.
Derived words: anarchistically
Translations:
wussy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: 1960s: probably an alteration of pussy, perhaps a blend of wimp + pussy, or short for pussy-wussy (reduplication of pussy). Compare later wuss.
Compound parts: wimp
pussy
Inflected forms:
form: wussier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wussiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wussies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Weak or timid.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: There was enough food for a soccer team and we were going to grill it. Our meatfest included no girly utensils, no wussy plates. Just our hands, mouths, and incisors.
gloss: A wuss; a person who refuses to perform a particular task due to an unreasonable fear.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
write-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Deverbal from write in. So called because anybody wishing to vote for such a candidate must explicitly write the candidate's name on the ballot.
Inflected forms:
form: write-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A candidate whose name is not listed on the ballot.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: He won a write-in campaign for Youngstown school board in 2015; he joined the Green Party last year.
gloss: A vote made for a candidate of this kind.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
gloss: A social event for authors, at which they meet up to work on their writing together.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: NaNoWriMo also provides free resources and curriculum globally to over 80,000 students and educators in 2,000 classrooms. In addition a host of volunteers provide write-ins and events in 500 regions.
If you have come to a point where you just don't know where to go next in the story, going to a write-in can be a huge help.
I do not think podcasting helps sell books, except for perhaps some of my non-fiction, but that boost is very slight. It does direct listeners to my author services (retreats and weekly write-ins), so in that way, I see some profit from it.
gloss: A clue or puzzle that is so easy that the answer is immediately obvious.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
derogatory
often
examples: Normally, when the first clue is a write-in, I think I am in for an easy time, but not here: there is enough misdirection to keep most of us on our toes, and the bottom half remained nearly empty for far too long.
Elsewhere there was a capital that crops up every now and then and which I never remember, and much that will have been a write-in for regular solvers.
Translations:
wafer-thin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Extremely marginal or tenuous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The President is struggling to maintain his government with only a wafer-thin majority in the lower house.
Derived words: wafer-thin mint
Translations:
inhumation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inhume
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 inhumation
From inhume + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: inhumations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of burial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
gloss: The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Arenation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: burial
entombment
interment
Antonyms: disinterment
exhumation
Derived words: inhumationist
Translations:
waffler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English waffle
English -er
English waffler
From waffle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: wafflers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who waffles, or changes sides or positions frequently.
pos: noun
gloss: One who waffles or rambles; a vague, unfocused speaker or writer.
pos: noun
gloss: A waffle iron.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tergiversator
vacillator
willow in the wind
Translations:
wardroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From ward + room.
Compound parts: ward
room
Inflected forms:
form: wardrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The living quarters of a ship designated for the commissioned officers other than the captain.
pos: noun
examples: There were only about a dozen officers in the great wardroom, six of them in the khaki gabardine working uniform of the U.S. Navy.
gloss: The commissioned officers of a ship, excluding the captain.
pos: noun
examples: The captain rarely referred to his wardroom for advice, and this resulted in their discontent.
[…] it having also reached the ears of the Ward-room that the work contained reflections somewhat derogatory to the dignity of the officers, the volume was seized by the master-at-arms, armed with a warrant from the Captain.
Related words: gunroom
Translations:
hellcat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From hell + cat.
Compound parts: hell
cat
Inflected forms:
form: hellcats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A witch.
pos: noun
gloss: A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman.
pos: noun
gloss: A demonic cat of hell.
pos: noun
examples: The hellfire abilities were reserved for special kinds of demons. Hellcats, demon princes, and—you guessed it—hellhounds. / Of the three, Vanessa would prefer to not deal with the hellhounds. Unlike hellcats and demon princes, they had the worst attitude, and they usually traveled in small groupings.
The Scourge was still a new concept to Logan, but hey, hellhounds and hellcats had to come from somewhere. / “Okay, so what does the ritual entail?” Esme asked. “If you need stuff for it, I’ve probably got it.” / “We’re going to need a Seal of Solomon drawn in blood,” Ceri said.
“These hellcats…they’re not the cute, fluffy kind that Caim and Seth played fetch with. They’e bigger and louder. Like dragons with lion heads.” / That was the second mention of hellcats that looked like lions.
Translations:
changeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English change
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 changeless
From change + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: unchanging
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lest men grow weary down on the great Worlds through gazing always at a changeless sky I will paint my pictures in the sky. And I will paint them twice in every day for so long as days shall be.
Antonyms: changeable
Translations:
niceness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nice
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English niceness
From nice + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: nicenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Silliness; folly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [translating mollesse].
gloss: Shyness; reserve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.
gloss: Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)
pos: noun
tags: Unix
countable
uncountable
Derived words: underniceness
Translations:
woobie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: From the 1983 film Mr. Mom, in which it is a child's word for his security blanket; perhaps from a childish diminutive of *woob (compare plushie, from plush), an alternative pronunciation of wub, from wuv, a baby talk form of love (cf. luv).
Inflected forms:
form: woobies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any object, typically a blanket, garment or stuffed animal, that is used simply for its comforting characteristics; a security blanket.
pos: noun
tags: US
childish
gloss: A term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: US
endearing
gloss: A fictional character, often morally grey or a villain, subjected to constant stress and angst, so as to create pathos within the narrative and increase the reader/viewer's emotional attachment to them.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The conflicted portrayal of the character reaches its zenith during the sixth episode where Logan’s relationship with his abusive and morally despicable father solidifies his character into the woobie.
In some instances, this characterisation then becomes part of a hurt/comfort fan narrative where the pleasure at the woobie's pain is transmuted into relief at their eventual recovery.
But the post also rejects Patroclus as woobie, drawing attention to his amorous complicity in Achilles's crimes.
gloss: A poncho liner.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Related words: baby girl
Draco in Leather Pants
poor little meow meow
Derived words: woobification
woobify
Translations:
vesture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vesture (noun) and vesturen (verb), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteüre, from Vulgar Latin vestītūra (“clothing”), from Latin vestītus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).
Inflected forms:
form: vestures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A covering of, or like, clothing.
pos: noun
examples: His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
The clock in the Warden’s drawing-room had just struck eight, and already the ducal feet were beautiful on the white bearskin hearthrug. So slim and long were they, of instep so nobly arched, that only with a pair of glazed ox-tongues on a breakfast-table were they comparable. Incomparable quite, the figure and face and vesture of him who ended in them.
Translations:
guarantor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guarantors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or company that provides a guarantee.
pos: noun
Translations:
photobiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
English photobiology
From photo- + biology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the effects of light on living organisms, and on biological processes
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: scotobiology
Translations:
photosynthetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English synthetic
English photosynthetic
From photo- + synthetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more photosynthetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most photosynthetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.
pos: adj
examples: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
Translations:
photobleaching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The destruction of a photochemical fluorescence by high-intensity light
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
waggon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: waggons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waggons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waggoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waggoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waggoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of wagon.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: We go on like one of those country waggons, creaking along in the old ruts […]
The first waggon was loaded, and moved a few yards along the quay, and the second took its place. There was an order and swiftness over the work that told of a careful preparation. The third waggon took the place of the second and the work of loading it went even faster. Then, at a shout from the Grocer, the loaders threw off their slings, took every man of them a cudgel from beneath his smock, and formed themselves as a guard about the waggons that went away quickly along the quay on their way inland.
The waggons are deep and square; wider at the top than at the bottom, and are fast at all sides. The bottom has hinges, and can be let down to discharge the coals, of which these waggons contain about three bolls each.
It was five miles or more from Maggot's lane to the Ferry. The hobbits wrapped themselves up, but their ears were strained for any sound above the creak of the wheels and the slow clop of the ponies' hoofs. The waggon seemed slower than a snail to Frodo.
On the sixteenth-century farm all the heavy hauling of lime or marl for the fields, gravel for the lanes, timber for the fences and 'coals or other necessary fuel fetched far off' had to be done as far as possible in the summer while the roads were still dry and firm. […] About the end of October the prudent farmer, like Best of Elmswell near Driffield, laid up his waggon, and sent his corn to market during the winter months on a string of eight pack-horses, tied head to tail, with a couple of men to 'guide the pokes'.
gloss: Dated spelling of wagon.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace.
Translations:
expressionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French expressionnisme, equivalent to expression + -ism.
Base: expression
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: expressionisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: expressionist
expressionistic
Derived words: Abstract Expressionism
abstract expressionism
neo-expressionism
Techspressionism
Translations:
subservience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From subservi(ent) + -ence.
Base: subservient
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: subserviences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subserviency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being subservient.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But bureaucracy, the lack of an obvious champion and the reluctance of the DfT to commit to anything because of its subservience to the Treasury all make life difficult for the group.
Translations:
clean-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more clean-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clean-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cleanhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: And how there was clearly no escape, no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve.
Translations:
crickets
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Sense 2 is derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases: absolute silence where meaningful sound is expected; lack of response; no communication.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
figuratively
humorous
often
singular
slang
examples: to hear crickets
Since then, I've received no response. Not a word. Just… crickets.
We asked for an explanation, but all we got was crickets.
"We have one exclusive one block from Bee on Fifth and Seventy-third. Prewar. White-glove. Top-notch." His Queen's English posh London accent made it sound extra-fabulous. […] / "Do you maybe have any listings that are less? Like ... four million less?" I asked, semi-blushing. / "Four million or less? Sure!" / "No, no, no," I said. "Not four million or less. Four million less than five point three million, i.e., something in the one-to-one-and-a-half range." / "Oh." / Crickets.
Maria Chapelle-Nadal, a Democratic state senator, said she feared that the commission's findings would be announced with great fanfare, "but then we're just going to hear crickets, crickets, crickets."
Stopping a group of teenage boys at a museum [in Bangladesh] devoted to the 1971 war, I asked them which American leaders had played an important role in the conflict. Henry A. Kissinger? They looked at me with blank faces. Richard M. Nixon? Crickets.
gloss: Expressing mild annoyance or surprise.
pos: intj
examples: Seraphina. You have more money, Betsy, than you will know how to spend; all your own. / Betsy. Oh, gracious! Won't I have as much dinner as I can eat every day! / Mrs. Green. Yes, my love, you can have everything you wish for. / Betsy. Oh, crickets!
"Oh Crickets! I seen you at the The-ayter one Night," she said. "I was there with Ollie Pozozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him come out just behind you. […]"
In the early hours of the morning, Arabelia was deep in thought as she looked over several scrolls. She worried she would never find any word of the missing snow globe even with all the fairies helping her to read. Everyone was getting very tired. / "Oh crickets! I need some rest!" Aurora said. / "Go on ahead, Aurora. But before you take a nap, can you put this scroll back up on the shelf?" Arabelia asked. Aurora responded with a light snoring sound.
Related words: stridulation
Translations:
forestay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English forstay, forstey, vorstey, equivalent to fore- + stay (“a stay, rope”).
Base: stay
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forestays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forstay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: forestays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forestaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forestayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forestayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: forstay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stay that extends from the top of the foremast to the bow or bowsprit of a sailing ship
pos: noun
gloss: To stay beforehand; secure or fasten with or as with a forestay.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Anna decided not to press that subject and forestayed her mind to change tack.
Translations:
mainmast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English main
English mast
English mainmast
From main + mast.
Inflected forms:
form: mainmasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: main-mast
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast; particularly a full-rigged ship.
pos: noun
examples: O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see ’em, and not to see ’em; now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you’ld thrust a cork into a hogshead.
Then turning to his first Minister, who waited behind him with a white Staff near as tall as the Main-mast of the Royal Soveraign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive Insects as I […]
When we were in the latitude of Martinico, and near making the land, one morning we had a brisk gale of wind, and, carrying too much sail, the main-mast went over the side.
The try-works are planted between the foremast and mainmast, the most roomy part of the deck.
[…] skating farther than their wont that day they reached that part of the river where the ships had anchored and been frozen in midstream. Among them was the ship of the Muscovite Embassy flying its double-headed black eagle from the main mast, which was hung with many-coloured icicles several yards in length.
gloss: The second-foremost mast of a non-sailing ship with more than one mast.
pos: noun
Related words: foremast
jiggermast
mizzenmast
spankermast
Derived words: mainmast head
mainmastman
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: грот-мачта
roman: grot-mačta
lang: Catalan
word: pal major
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 主桅
roman: zhǔwéi
lang: Danish
word: stormast
lang: Dutch
word: grote mast
lang: Esperanto
word: ĉefmasto
lang: Finnish
word: isomasto
lang: French
word: grand mât
lang: German
word: Großmast
lang: Hungarian
word: főárbóc
lang: Icelandic
word: stórsigla
lang: Italian
word: albero maestro
lang: Japanese
word: メインマスト
roman: meinmasuto
lang: Māori
word: turuturu matua
lang: Norman
word: grand mât
lang: Polish
word: grotmaszt
lang: Portuguese
word: grande
lang: Portuguese
word: mastro grande
lang: Russian
word: грот-ма́чта
roman: grot-máčta
lang: Spanish
word: palo mayor
lang: Swedish
word: stormast
lang: Welsh
word: hwylbren mawr
cytotoxic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos)lbor.
English cyto-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin toxicusbor.
French toxiquebor.
English toxic
English cytotoxic
From cyto- + toxic.
Inflected forms:
form: more cytotoxic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cytotoxic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cytotoxics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being a cytotoxin.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to cytotoxicity.
pos: adj
examples: A recent study focused on the enzymatic and cytotoxic functions of jellyfish metalloproteases and identified diverse proteolytic effects including gelatinolytic, caseinolytic, and fibrinolytic activities.
gloss: Any cytotoxic substance; a cytotoxin.
pos: noun
examples: Current chemotherapies for cancer are mostly cytotoxics with serious side effects and high incidence of drug resistance.
Antonyms: noncytotoxic
Derived words: anticytotoxic
autocytotoxic
cardiocytotoxic
cytotoxically
cytotoxicant
cytotoxicity
cytotoxic reaction
cytotoxic T cell
exocytotoxic
hepatocytotoxic
hypercytotoxic
hypocytotoxic
immunocytotoxic
lymphocytotoxic
melanocytotoxic
microcytotoxic
myocytotoxic
nanocytotoxic
neurocytotoxic
noncytotoxic
photocytotoxic
precytotoxic
subcytotoxic
Translations:
epitope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From epi- + -tope.
Base: epi
Inflected forms:
form: epitopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a biomolecule (such as a protein) which is the target of an immune response
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: idiotope
Translations:
cockscomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English cokkes comb; equivalent to cock + -s- + comb.
Base: cock
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: cockscombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cock's comb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cock's-comb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coxcomb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fleshy red crest of a rooster.
pos: noun
gloss: A red cap once worn by court jesters.
pos: noun
gloss: A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia).
pos: noun
gloss: An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers.
pos: noun
examples: She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.
gloss: A conceited dandy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed.
pos: noun
Derived words: cockscombed
common cockscomb
garden cockscomb
plumed cockscomb
silver cockscomb
yellow cockscomb
Translations:
kindergartner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From kindergarten + -er, with spelling influenced by German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”).
Base: kindergarten
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: kindergartners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kindergartener
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: Kindergärtner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: kindergärtner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A child who attends a kindergarten.
pos: noun
examples: I partnered the older kids with my kindergartners and let everyone get a taste of teaching or learning from someone different.
All 50 states have had school immunization requirements since the beginning of the 1980s, with incoming kindergartners needing shots to protect against diseases including measles, polio and tetanus. No states require a Covid-19 vaccine for schoolchildren.
Translations:
negus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.
Inflected forms:
form: neguses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.
Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.
‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.
Translations:
gossipy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gossip
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gossipy
From gossip + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gossipier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gossipiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prone to gossip.
pos: adj
examples: ‘Tell me who you saw and what they said,’ she says, in one of her gossipy moods.
gloss: Containing much gossip.
pos: adj
examples: In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life.
Derived words: gossipily
gossipiness
ungossipy
Translations:
mischaracterize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)
Ancient Greek χᾰρακτηρίζω (khăraktērízō)der.
Medieval Latin charactērizōder.
English characterize
English mischaracterize
From mis- + characterize.
Inflected forms:
form: mischaracterizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mischaracterizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mischaracterized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mischaracterized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mischaracterise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To characterize falsely or mistakenly
pos: verb
examples: Our small disagreement has been mischaracterized as a deep rift.
Translations:
naturalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: naturalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: naturalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: naturalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: naturalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: naturalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pakche was destroyed and five years later, Kokuryo was also swept away by T’ang and Silla. T’ang set up An-tontu-hu-fu (Government headquarters) at P’ing jang to rule the former territories of Pakche and Kokuryo. Many refugees from these destroyed states came to Japan and became naturalized as Japanese.
gloss: To acclimatize an animal or plant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
gloss: To make natural.
pos: verb
examples: Custom naturalizes labour or study.
gloss: To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized.
English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
English orthography often (but not invariably) drops the diacritics from words that it has naturalized from other languages.
gloss: To study nature.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."
Antonyms: denaturalize
exile
expatriate
other
supernaturalize
Related words: approximation
hyperforeignism
loanword
unadapted borrowing
Derived words: connaturalize
disnaturalize
naturalizable
naturalized
naturalization
naturalizer
renaturalize
Translations:
self-starter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English starter
English self-starter
From self- + starter.
Inflected forms:
form: self-starters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
pos: noun
examples: Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M^([sic]) (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.
gloss: A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
pos: noun
examples: The grey Bentley convertible, the 1933 4½-litre with the Amherst-Villiers supercharger, had been brought round a few minutes earlier from the garage where he kept it and the engine had kicked directly he pressed the self-starter.
gloss: An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
pos: noun
examples: His ancient Cadillac was one of the first self-starters.
Related words: self-starting
Translations:
photocatalysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English catalysis
English photocatalysis
From photo- + catalysis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: catalysis by a photocatalyst
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
photocatalyst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English catalysis
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 catalyst
English photocatalyst
From photo- + catalyst.
Inflected forms:
form: photocatalysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that absorbs light and, in doing so, catalyzes a reaction.
pos: noun
Translations:
advisement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English advisement, avisement, from Old French advisement, avisement, from adviser, aviser + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: advisements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: avisement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Consideration or deliberation.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.
gloss: Advice, counsel.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: Her wiſely comforted all, that ſhe might, / With goodly counſell and aduiſement right; […]
Derived words: take under advisement
Translations:
adversarial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Probably from adversary + -al
Base: adversary
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more adversarial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adversarial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of, or in the manner of, an adversary; combative, hostile, opposed.
pos: adj
examples: In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
The White Paper therefore aims to tackle complexity rather then ownership of the railways, and to eliminate "the adversarial relationships between operators, suppliers, NR and government".
gloss: In which issues are tried through the presentation of evidence and argument by adverse parties, with no or limited inquiry by the court's own initiative.
pos: adj
examples: Canada uses an adversarial system of criminal justice, whereas France uses an inquisitorial model.
Antonyms: cooperative
Derived words: adversarial collaboration
adversariality
adversarially
adversarialness
adversarial stylometry
adversarial system
generative adversarial network
nonadversarial
unadversarial
Translations:
adroitness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adroit
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 adroitness
From adroit + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: adroitnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Skillfulness or ease of ability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
skillfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English skylfulnesse, equivalent to skillful + -ness.
Base: skillful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: skillfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being adept or skillful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
adoptable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
games
gaming
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adopt
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English adoptable
From adopt + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more adoptable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adoptable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adoptables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be adopted.
pos: adj
examples: Only after reaching three weeks of age are the infants considered adoptable.
gloss: Desirable to adopt.
pos: adj
examples: Personability and youthful vigor make this puppy highly adoptable.
gloss: A person or animal that is eligible to be adopted.
pos: noun
gloss: A unique creature for a user to adopt.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A character designed by an artist that one can claim ownership of.
pos: noun
Derived words: adoptability
nonadoptable
unadoptable
Translations:
adman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ad
English -man
English adman
From ad + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: admen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.
pos: noun
Translations:
admissibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English admissible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English admissibility
From admissible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: admissibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: admissability
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being admissible or allowable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
Translations:
run-on
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rugby
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: run-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Continuing on where a rhetorical pause would be more appropriate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Placed or coming at the end of something, such as at the end of a dictionary entry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most dictionaries cover most adverbs with only run-on entries.
gloss: An amount of time spent playing on the field during a game, especially so as to evaluate a player's abilities.
pos: noun
tags: usually
gloss: A run-on sentence.
pos: noun
examples: She reads musically. No harsh stops, no broken-breathy run-ons, no ups and down soft and fast fluctuations.
gloss: Anything that runs on, such as a run-on entry in a dictionary.
pos: noun
gloss: The period when a power saw or other tool continues to run after being powered off.
pos: noun
Translations:
bacteriostatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactērium
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English bacterio-
English -static
English bacteriostatic
From bacterio- + -static.
Inflected forms:
form: more bacteriostatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bacteriostatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bacteristatic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bacteriostatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bacteristatic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to bacteriostasis or a bacteriostat; inhibiting the growth of bacteria without destroying them.
pos: adj
examples: All these compounds were bacteriostatic, affecting the bacterial metabolism and preventing its multiplication in the host, thereby permitting natural body defences to succeed against the invader.
gloss: An agent (drug or other substance) that is bacteriostatic.
pos: noun
Translations:
cabalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cabalist + -ic or cabal + -istic.
Base: cabalist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more cabalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cabalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cabbalistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kabbalistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: qabalistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a cabal; secretive and cliquish.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to Kabbalah.
pos: adj
examples: Aaron is the author of "Bet Aharon" (Aaron's House; Brody, 1875), which contains his cabalistic and ethical expositions of the Pentateuch.
Derived words: cabalistical
cabalistically
Translations:
cliquish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clique
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English cliquish
From clique + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more cliquish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cliquish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a clique.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to associate with a small and exclusive group.
pos: adj
examples: But Mr. Kleinzahler, 55, noted both for poems that jarringly marry the high and the low and for keeping his distance from the New York illuminati, has found himself late in his career in a rather awkward spot: the cusp of respectability in the cliquish world of poetry.
Derived words: cliquishly
cliquishness
uncliquish
Translations:
unadorned
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 adorned
English unadorned
From un- + adorned.
Inflected forms:
form: more unadorned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unadorned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple
pos: adj
examples: Her clothes were unadorned, yet her beauty was undiminished.
This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.
Though I wore only a plain somber gray Brunswick gown unadorned by ribbon or lace, and my uncle was dressed in black, the people knew aristocrats on sight.
Antonyms: gaudy
Translations:
puritanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: Borrowed from French puritanisme, equivalent to puritan + -ism.
Base: puritan
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: puritanisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Strict and austere religious conduct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Extreme strictness regarding moral scruples.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2016 October 17, Vicky Spratt, "Work Hard, Work Hard:Meet The Neo-Puritans", Graziadaily.cohttp://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/work-hard-work-hard-meet-neo-puritans
Some have argued that the closure of Fabric is symptomatic of a wider shift towards a new puritanism in Britain: a culture in which fun, hedonism and cultural experimentation are no longer valued.
Translations:
Puritanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Puritan
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Puritanism
From Puritan + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The beliefs and practices of the Puritans.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
philistinism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English philistine
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English philistinism
From philistine + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: philistinisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
Translations: