yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pathologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logie
French pathologiebor.
English pathology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English pathological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pathologically
From pathological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pathologically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pathologically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pathological manner.
pos: adv
examples: The early days of the epidemic had been a time of ebullition or ebullience, pathologically speaking, full of movements and tics, impulsions and impetuosities, manias and crises, ardencies and appetencies.
Based on palpatory findings, tissue samples were taken from myogelotic areas of 11 unfixed human cadavers (6 female, 5 male). In addition to the biopsies from the pathologically altered muscle areas, tissue samples from nonindurative areas of the muscle in question were taken for comparative purposes.
sometimes I was pettily in love, and sometimes — due to my OCD — I was even pathologically in love.
Translations:
patronizingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patronizing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English patronizingly
From patronizing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more patronizingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most patronizingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: patronisingly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a patronizing manner.
pos: adv
examples: `Anyway, Bob's on a good wicket!' said Cummings patronisingly. `I wouldn't mind taking on the job myself.'
Translations:
pedantically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pedantic + -ally and/or pedantical + -ly.
Base: pedantic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more pedantically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pedantically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: pedanticly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In a pedantic manner.
pos: adv
examples: ‘I think you might have warned me,’ returned the other with a touch of sullenness. ‘But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had a key; and what’s more, he has it still. I saw him use it, not a week ago.’
Translations:
penetratingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English penetrating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English penetratingly
From penetrating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more penetratingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most penetratingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a penetrating manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
penitently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English penitent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English penitently
From penitent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more penitently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most penitently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a penitent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
perceptively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perceptive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perceptively
From perceptive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perceptively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perceptively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perceptive manner.
pos: adv
examples: She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
Translations:
perceptually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin perceptus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English perceptual
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perceptually
From perceptual + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perceptually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perceptually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perceptual manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Regarding perception.
pos: adv
Derived words: perceptually blind
Translations:
perfidiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perfidious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perfidiously
From perfidious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perfidiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perfidiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perfidious manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
perilously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English perilously; equivalent to perilous + -ly.
Base: perilous
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more perilously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perilously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perilous manner.
pos: adv
examples: A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
A door flopped open, wobbling perilously on its one remaining hinge.
Translations:
peripherally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English peripheral
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English peripherally
From peripheral + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more peripherally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most peripherally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a peripheral manner.
pos: adv
gloss: At or towards a periphery.
pos: adv
Translations:
permissibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English permissible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English permissibly
From permissible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more permissibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most permissibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a permissible manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
permissively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English permissive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English permissively
From permissive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more permissively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most permissively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a permissive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
perniciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pernicious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perniciously
From pernicious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perniciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perniciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pernicious manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
pessimistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pessimistic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English pessimistically
From pessimistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more pessimistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pessimistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pessimistic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
pictorially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pictorial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pictorially
From pictorial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pictorially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pictorially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pictorial manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
picturesquely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English picturesque
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English picturesquely
From picturesque + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more picturesquely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most picturesquely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a picturesque manner.
pos: adv
examples: The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.
An athlete might picturesquely lament that his ankle had betrayed him or that his wrist had gone on strike; and if such modes of speech acquired a wide vogue, we might now and then fall into the trap of supposing that we and our limbs are related in the way in which employers are related to their employees. We might start to talk seriously of cricketers being well advised to dismiss their limbs and to try to get on without them.
Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
Translations:
piercingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English piercing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English piercingly
From piercing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more piercingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most piercingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a piercing manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
piously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewH-
Proto-Italic *pwījosder.
Latin piusbor.
English pious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English piously
From pious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more piously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most piously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a pious manner
pos: adv
examples: it is a marvel that any man, virtuously and piously disposed, should be so partially and zealously affected in a cause that has neither truth nor any honest usefulness in it.
...Balgruntie was bent on makin' the attempt, especially after he heard that the castle was well vittled, an' indeed he was meritoriously joined by his men, who piously licked their lips on hearin' of such glad tidin's.
The king seals his faith in Cranmer with what is piously not quite an oath (a more Henrician than Protestant one): 'God's blest mother, | I swear he is true-hearted' (154–5).
Translations:
pitifully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English petefully, petifullie, pyttyfully, pytyffully; equivalent to pitiful + -ly.
Base: pitiful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more pitifully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pitifully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pitiful manner.
pos: adv
examples: The coral faded even from her lips, till they were as white as Leo's face, and quivered pitifully.
Translations:
pitilessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pitiless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pitilessly
From pitiless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pitilessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pitilessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pitiless manner.
pos: adv
examples: The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent.
They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.
Translations:
placidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French placide
English placid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English placidly
From placid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more placidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most placidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a placid manner.
pos: adv
examples: We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.
“You act like you grew ten inches in the night! All right, what is it?”
Jem said placidly, “We are going to give a note to Boo Radley.”
Translations:
plaintively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plaintive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English plaintively
From plaintive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more plaintively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most plaintively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a plaintive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
practicably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English practicable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English practicably
From practicable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more practicably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most practicably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a practicable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
pragmatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pragmatic + -ally or pragmatical + -ly.
Base: pragmatic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more pragmatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pragmatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pragmatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: "Well, there's no use crying over spilt milk," she said pragmatically.
To be pragmatically determined, it must be the case that the expression does not contribute new information to the structure of the discourse except as an unremarkable scenesetter.
gloss: In terms of pragmatics.
pos: adv
examples: a pragmatically irrelevant proposition
Derived words: apragmatically
Translations:
prayerfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prayerful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prayerfully
From prayerful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more prayerfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prayerfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prayerful manner; with prayer and reverence.
pos: adv
examples: "Hear me, O king, whoever you may be, and save me from the anger of the sea-god Neptune, for I approach you prayerfully. […]
Translations:
preciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English preciously, equivalent to precious + -ly.
Base: precious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more preciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most preciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: pretiously
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In a precious manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
prehistorically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prehistoric
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English prehistorically
From prehistoric + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more prehistorically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prehistorically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prehistoric manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Regarding prehistory.
pos: adv
Translations:
preponderantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English preponderant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English preponderantly
From preponderant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more preponderantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most preponderantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a preponderant manner.
pos: adv
examples: But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own gratification.
Translations:
presciently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prescient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English presciently
From prescient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more presciently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most presciently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prescient manner.
pos: adv
examples: The desire to know definitely and presciently is also one of the most urgent of the instincts proper of man; it leads him on to the most mystical speculations as to the future, and is the orectic basis of all the arts of divination, as well as of scientific Proleptics or anticipation of the order of nature.
It was Sir Walter Raleigh who presciently said: 'Who commands the sea commands trade; who commands the trade of the world commands its riches, and so commands the world itself.'
But as the pandemic accelerated, EMR acted presciently and made changes before the Government put the country into lockdown.
Translations:
prescriptively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prescriptive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prescriptively
From prescriptive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more prescriptively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prescriptively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prescriptive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
problematically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English problematic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English problematically
From problematic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more problematically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most problematically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a problematic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
professedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English professed
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English professedly
From professed + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more professedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most professedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a professed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
proficiently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English proficient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English proficiently
From proficient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more proficiently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most proficiently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a proficient manner.
pos: adv
examples: The rudimentally trained drummer can apply himself to any musical unit—band, orchestra or drum corps—more proficiently than can the drummer trained only for one branch of drumming.
Those brought into use again were several forms of lutes, violins, and bagpipes, which were played upon proficiently by the "jongleurs," some of whom played also upon psalteries, organistrums, guitars, and tambours with great skill.
To operate the keyboard proficiently it is necessary to use a 'touch' system, that is, to use the fingers without looking at them or without moving them away from the keybuttons.
The elfin bodyguard stared for a moment with those cool eyes through the silver tinted razorbladed glasses before proficiently shifting his right hand toward the earphone comm.
Translations:
prohibitively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prohibitive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prohibitively
From prohibitive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more prohibitively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prohibitively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prohibitive manner.
pos: adv
examples: Ghostlily, motherlily, manlily, beastlily are all dictionary-approved but prohibitively awkward, as is, in another way, lily-liveredly, Likylikely, though . . . […] In American English, at least, there seems to be no way to say something along these lines: “For the nine months I carried you, growing inside me, no charge,” Tammy Wynette sang motherlily.
Running shops and specialist running kit barely existed before the 1970s, when Bill Bowerman, founder of Nike, simultaneously launched a concept – jogging – and a product – thick-heeled running-shoes – without which the jogger’s heel-striking action was prohibitively uncomfortable.
gloss: To a prohibitive extent.
pos: adv
examples: a prohibitively expensive gift
The war years proved encouraging to North Pomfret farmers, with additional demand and higher prices for their milk. With war’s end, farmers found it possible to mechanize and expand their herds to produce more milk. Prices for milk stagnated, however, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s dairymen found that they had to expand their operations continually in order to make even more milk for less money. The final straw for North Pomfret’s farmers was the imposition of bulk-tank requirements and additional barn renovations in order to keep operating. These proved prohibitively costly and led to the last of the dairymen quitting farming.
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: prohibitivamente
promiscuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English promiscuous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English promiscuously
From promiscuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more promiscuously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most promiscuously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a promiscuous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Even in one and the same line Hebrew and Arabic words are used promiscuously.
Their closest living relatives, deer mice, dwell in forests instead of open spaces, she learned, and they live promiscuously instead of monogamously.
Translations:
promisingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English promising
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English promisingly
From promising + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more promisingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most promisingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a promising manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
prophetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prophetic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English prophetically
From prophetic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more prophetically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prophetically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prophetic manner.
pos: adv
gloss: As a prophecy.
pos: adv
Translations:
prospectively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prospective
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prospectively
From prospective + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a prospective manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
protectively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin prōtēctīvusbor.
English protective
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English protectively
From protective + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more protectively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most protectively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a protective manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her smile froze. Her hands raised protectively, she crouched back. From her throat came a sound of pure terror.
Translations:
providentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English providential
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English providentially
From providential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more providentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most providentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a providential manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
provocatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English provocative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English provocatively
From provocative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more provocatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most provocatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a provocative manner.
pos: adv
examples: The two tables Peter approved of highly when they arrived next day and when Rita said provocatively to Peter's vanity, "Don't tell me you'll really be able to repeat that pattern as finely," Peter replied boastfully, "I'll do as good a job as the original, if not better."
Scottie, a precocious 10-year old,^([sic]) wears provocatively sloganed T-shirts and harasses her peers by text message.
Translations:
punctiliously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punctilious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English punctiliously
From punctilious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a punctilious manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Monsieur Thuran became a frequent visitor at the home of Hazel Strong’s uncle in Cape Town. His attentions were very marked, but they were so punctiliously arranged to meet the girl’s every wish that she came to depend upon him more and more. Did she or her mother or a cousin require an escort—was there a little friendly service to be rendered, the genial and ubiquitous Monsieur Thuran was always available.
Confused for the moment by Podson's impersonation of a genteel stranger making an afternoon call, she now recognized his gentle fluff of whiskers, and dived at Jasper to cover her embarrassment. With Jasper out of action, Podson was able to raise his hat punctiliously and say, "Good afternoon."
I imagine the Dreamward’s food being even more varied and punctiliously prepared, the ship’s Gift Shop less expensive and its casino less depressing and its stage entertainment less cheesy and its pillow mints bigger.
Translations:
pungently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pungent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pungently
From pungent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pungently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pungently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pungent manner.
pos: adv
examples: "It is being talked about, then—among the tenants?"
"You bet!" assented Mr. Elliott pungently.
Translations:
punitively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punitive
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English punitively
From punitive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more punitively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most punitively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a punitive manner.
pos: adv
examples: Hospital staff or caretaking relatives may find sexual concerns humorous, disgusting, embarrassing; they are bound to react punitively to any signs of homosexuality or affectational same-sex relationship.
Translations:
swizz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possible alteration of swindle, early 20th c.
Inflected forms:
form: swizzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swiz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: swizzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swizzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swizzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swizzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: swiz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A swindle, con.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: That packet only had ten sweets in it; what a swizz.
gloss: To swindle.
pos: verb
tags: UK
informal
intransitive
transitive
Translations:
drippy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drip
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English drippy
From drip + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: drippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: drippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dripping or tending to drip.
pos: adj
examples: We headed for Tommy's Joynt on the corner, placed our orders for drippy roast beef dip sandwiches with the meat carvers behind the sneezeproof glass, and sat at our usual table under the stairs.
gloss: Rainy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: In spite of the drippy weather, a small crowd of curious Whistlebrass residents explored the fairground eating cotton candy and roasted peanuts.
gloss: Maudlin; sentimental.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Julianne Moore’s Chanel was woefully drippy, Jennifer Aniston’s mermaid Versace was stale as five-day-old bread and Kerry Washington wore maid-of-honour chic.
gloss: Tiresome; annoying.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Extravagant, luxurious.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Wet (sexually aroused)
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: drippily
drippiness
Translations:
drollery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French drôlerie, from drôle + -erie; equivalent to droll + -ery.
Base: drôle
Affixes: -erie
Inflected forms:
form: drolleries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drolerie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Comical quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery.
You might be impressed by the simultaneous appearance of "Cardeans", "Clans" and North British Atlantics, or engaged by the drolleries of the three shunting engines, one from each company.
gloss: Amusing behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something humorous, funny or comical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I'm pregnant."
"No drolleries this morning please."
"Three months."
gloss: A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Sebastian: A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue
 That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia
 There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix
 At this houre reigning there.
gloss: A joke; a funny story.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
drop-in
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
ball-games
broadcasting
business
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
marketing
media
sports
surfing
Inflected forms:
form: drop-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Provided for short-term use.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fit to substitute for some element in a complex system without changes to the existing infrastructure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We need the ultimate drop-in biofuel to make use of our expensive oil-based infrastructure.
An alternative to cellulosic based second- generation biofuels are drop-in biofuels, that is, fuels such as synthetic gasoline that can be put into fuel tanks and pipelines with no modifications.
gloss: Allowing people to drop in; that is, to visit casually, without an appointment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a drop-in centre
gloss: Of the pitch: prepared away from the ground or venue, and dropped into place only when a match is to be played.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is drop-in, and the ground is also used for Australian rules football.
gloss: One who casually drops in (visits unannounced or without appointment).
pos: noun
examples: The office was efficient, but not well equipped to handle drop-ins.
gloss: An informal event that does not require booking in advance.
pos: noun
gloss: A place that can be visited casually, without an appointment.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of dropping in; that is, taking a wave that another surfer is already riding.
pos: noun
examples: Drop-ins can and often do happen accidentally. Sometimes you're so focussed on your take-off that you just don't see the other rider.
gloss: A pitch that is prepared away from the ground or venue, and dropped into place only when a match is to be played.
pos: noun
gloss: A message or advertisement inserted into other material.
pos: noun
Related words: plug-in
Translations:
drop-kicker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drop-kickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who dropkicks.
pos: noun
Translations:
overpopulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First recorded in 1828, predating overpopulate. From over- + populated. Compare earlier overpeopled and overpopulous.
Base: populated
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: more overpopulated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overpopulated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or consisting of a higher population than can be sustained.
pos: adj
Translations:
adland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ad + land.
Compound parts: ad
land
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The world of advertising.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations:
anandamide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda)
English -amide
English anandamide
From Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda, “bliss, happiness”) + English -amide.
Inflected forms:
form: anandamides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A derivative of arachidonic acid that occurs naturally in the brain and in some foods (such as chocolate) and that binds to the same brain receptors as the cannabinoids (such as tetrahydrocannabinol) derived from cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
boil-wash
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boil-washes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boil-washing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boil-washed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boil-washed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use the boil wash programme on a washing machine
pos: verb
Translations:
matchbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From match + book, since the 1890s. Paper matches were developed in the 1880s; folded books containing them, and the strike-on-cover concept, were developed in the 1890s; more in Wikipedia at matchbook.
Compound parts: match
book
Inflected forms:
form: matchbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small assemblage of cut and folded paperboard comprising a folded sheet (the matchcover) and some rows of matches (paperboard strips with the ends dipped to produce the matchheads), generally with a striker on the outside.
pos: noun
examples: My company had matchbooks printed with the corporate logo as giveaway promotional items.
Translations:
oversimplification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English simplification
English oversimplification
From over- + simplification.
Inflected forms:
form: oversimplifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: over-simplification
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of making such an explanation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
diagnostician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der.
Latin diagnōsisder.
English diagnosis
English -ician
English diagnostician
From diagnosis + -ician.
Inflected forms:
form: diagnosticians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who diagnoses, especially a medical doctor.
pos: noun
examples: Dr Smith was many things — a mentor, a friend, a helpful colleague — but his highest calling may have been as a diagnostician, in which role he undoubtedly saved lives by breaking a logjam in many a challenging differential diagnosis.
Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.
"More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."
Translations:
oversensitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English sensitive
English oversensitive
From over- + sensitive.
Inflected forms:
form: more oversensitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oversensitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: over-sensitive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.
pos: adj
Translations:
chicklet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chick
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English chicklet
From chick + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: chicklets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small or young chick.
pos: noun
gloss: A young woman.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
palely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin pallidus
Old French palebor.
Middle English pale
English pale
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English palely
From pale + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more palely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most palely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pale manner; lightly.
pos: adv
examples: O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.
The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.
It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.
Translations:
club-hop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: club-hops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: club-hopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: club-hopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: club-hopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To spend a short time in each of several nightclubs.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
club-hopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: club-hoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who club-hops
pos: noun
Translations:
club-hopping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The action of making a series of short visits to a series of nightclubs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: That club-hops.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2007: weary of Hilton's club-hopping ways, even celebrity gossip magazine Us Weekly will this month publish its first “100% Paris-Free” issue. — Laura Barton, The Guardian, G2, 28 Jun 2007
Translations:
comparison-shop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: comparison-shops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comparison-shopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: comparison-shopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: comparison-shopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To compare prices of something in advance before shopping for the best bargain.
pos: verb
Translations:
dethronement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dethrone
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English dethronement
From dethrone + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: dethronements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Removal from a superior place in a hierarchy.
pos: noun
examples: I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.
Translations:
aerostatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der.
English aero-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek στᾰτῐκός (stătĭkós)der.
Latin staticusder.
English static
English aerostatic
From aero- + static. Compare French aérostatique.
Base: static
Affixes: aero-
Inflected forms:
form: more aerostatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aerostatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.
pos: adj
examples: I have very much improved my mechanical combinations, for the navigation of the air and water by hydrostatic and aerostatic forces.
Atmospheric flight is dominated by the presence of atmospheric forces, which can be divided into aerostatic and aerodynamic categories.
Hydrostatic and aerostatic guides are widely applied to precision feed tables, since their motion is accurate due to the lack of friction and wearing.
gloss: Pertaining to aerial navigation or aeronautics.
pos: adj
examples: The general term for the machines used in this kind of navigation, is that of aërostats, or aërostatic machines; but those which are of a spherical figure, and filled with gas, are better known by the name of air-balloons.
Derived words: aerostatically
Translations:
devastator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: devastators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who devastates.
pos: noun
Translations:
devilment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From devil + -ment (suffix forming nouns indicating the actions or results of what is denoted by the words it is attached to).
Base: devil
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: devilments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He lived so long, and in his worldly matters prospered so much, there was so little sign of devilment in the accomplishment of his wishes, and the increase of his prosperity, that Simon, at the end of six years, began to doubt whether he had made any such bargain at all, as that which we have described at the commencement of this history.
It was just so with my Joe—always full of his devilment, and up to every kind of mischief, but he was just as unselfish and kind as he could be—and laws bless me, to think I went and whipped him for taking that cream, never once recollecting that I throwed it out myself because it was sour, and I never to see him again in this world, never, never, never, poor abused boy!
The stupid fellow hurriedly kissed the portrait, whipped out his knife, quick as lightning removed the miniatures, and substituted two photographs. Closing the case he deposited it carefully on a shelf containing a lot of girls' books and nicknacks. In a moment he was out of the room. Now what did all that mean? Some devilment, I'll be bound, for there was a wicked expression on the scoundrel's face all the while.
gloss: A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: Ah, why the divil, Puddock, do you keep them ould women's charrums and divilments, about you—you'll be the death of some one yet, so you will.
gloss: Something cleverly constructed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
humorous
often
uncountable
usually
Translations:
prizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: prizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of prizing something, valuing it highly.
pos: noun
Translations:
unplugging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unpluggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of a plug.
pos: noun
examples: To deprive a teenage girl of a phone is devastating. After a few “unpluggings,” a mere threat of it would get her immediate attention.
Translations:
tautologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tautological
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tautologically
From tautological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tautologically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tautologically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tautological manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
disempowerment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English empowerment
English disempowerment
From dis- + empowerment.
Inflected forms:
form: disempowerments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disempowering
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The condition of being disempowered; powerlessness
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
unsubstantiated
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 substantiated
English unsubstantiated
From un- + substantiated.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsubstantiated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsubstantiated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking substantiation; without evidence.
pos: adj
examples: Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
Translations:
fattoush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From North Levantine Arabic فَتُّوش (fattūš).
Inflected forms:
form: fattosh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fattush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A salad, from the Levant, made from toasted pitta bread with cucumber, tomato, mint etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: