yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
furor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English furour, from Middle French fureur, from Old French furor, from Latin furor, from furō (“To rage, to be out of one's mind”).
Inflected forms:
form: furors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: furore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: furour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A general uproar or commotion.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: This action created a furor in the broader medical community. It was considered undoctorly, unprofessional, illegal, and an infringement on the right to practice.
gloss: Violent anger or frenzy.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The verdict of not guilty created a true furor in the courtroom.
gloss: A state of intense excitement.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The story of the princess's affair caused a furor among journalists.
Related words: furor uterinus
fury
furious
Translations:
treatment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.
Base: treat
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: treatments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or manner of treating someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
gloss: Medical care for an illness or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
gloss: The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
gloss: A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: entertainment; treat
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
gloss: harsh punishment; retribution
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.
Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.
Related words: treat
Derived words: absent treatment
adjunct treatment
antitreatment
biotreatment
cold treatment
conservative treatment
cotreatment
definitive treatment
error treatment
exposure treatment
flour treatment agent
give the royal treatment
hairdryer treatment
heat treatment
hydrotreatment
ill treatment
ill-treatment
intensive treatment
intertreatment
medication assisted treatment
medication-assisted treatment
Nauheim treatment
nontreatment
overtreatment
phototreatment
phytotreatment
posttreatment
preferential treatment
pretreatment
residential treatment
re-treatment
retreatment
scriptment
self-treatment
shock treatment
silent treatment
special treatment
subtreatment
trauma-informed stabilization treatment
treatment-naïve
tweakment
undertreatment
wilderness treatment center
window treatment
Translations:
fecund
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
Inflected forms:
form: more fecund
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fecund
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fœcund
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
gloss: Leading to new ideas or innovation.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.
Related words: fecundity
Derived words: fecundability
fecundate
fecundation
fecundify
fecundist
fecundize
fecundly
infecund
superfecund
unfecund
Translations:
flab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from flabby.
Inflected forms:
form: flabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
Translations:
prominent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From obsolete French prominent (compare proéminent), from Latin prōminēns, present active participle of prōmineō (“jut out, to project”), from prō (“before, forward”) + mineō (in compounds, “jut, project”).
Inflected forms:
form: more prominent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prominent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prominents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant.
pos: adj
examples: The bird was perching on the prominent ledge at the top of the rocks
gloss: Likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous.
pos: adj
examples: Place the slogan in a more prominent position.
gloss: Eminent; distinguished above others.
pos: adj
examples: prominent members of the press
gloss: Any of various moths having a conspicuous projection on the inner margin of the wings.
pos: noun
gloss: In Nazi concentration camps, an inmate entrusted with minor supervisory duties and rewarded with perquisites.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: […] dynamics that replaced the erstwhile condemnation of all or most of the prominents in the camps by a more nuanced understanding.
Related words: prominence
imminent
eminent
Derived words: improminent
overprominent
prominently
prominent moth
ultra-prominent
lobster prominent
rough prominent
tawny prominent
white-dotted prominent
Translations:
facade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.
Inflected forms:
form: facades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: façade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
pos: noun
examples: In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were[…]ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.
Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.
The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.
gloss: The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
pos: noun
examples: Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.
Derived words: counterfacade
facadal
facadectomy
facaded
facade pattern
facading
facadism
Translations:
cultural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
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 cultural
From culture + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more cultural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cultural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to culture.
pos: adj
examples: Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.
gloss: Due to human activity.
pos: adj
examples: cultural lighting
Derived words: acculturalization
acultural
anticultural
bicultural
biocultural
chronocultural
cocultural
contracultural
countercultural
cross-cultural
cross-cultural communication
cultural anthropologist
cultural anthropology
cultural appropriation
cultural appropriator
cultural arbitrary
cultural barbiturate
cultural Bolshevism
cultural capital
cultural center
cultural centre
cultural Christian
cultural cringe
cultural diffusion
cultural divide
cultural ecology
cultural evolutionism
cultural genocide
cultural identity
cultural imperialism
culturalism
culturalist
culturality
culturalization
culturalize
cultural learning
cultural literacy
culturally
cultural Marxism
cultural marxism
cultural Marxist
cultural mosaic
culturalness
cultural patrimony
cultural pessimism
cultural phylogenetics
cultural practitioner
cultural script
cultural shock
cultural studies
cultural victory
cultural wealth
cybercultural
deculturalization
ecocultural
econocultural
ethnocultural
extracultural
geocultural
herpetocultural
historico-cultural
intangible cultural heritage
intercultural
intracultural
linguacultural
linguocultural
medicocultural
metacultural
monocultural
morphocultural
multicultural
neurocultural
noncultural
occultural
omnicultural
pancultural
phytocultural
pluricultural
polycultural
pop-cultural
precultural
pseudocultural
psychocultural
pyrocultural
religiocultural
sociocultural
socio-cultural anthropology
spacio-cultural
spatiocultural
subcultural
supercultural
supracultural
technocultural
transcultural
tricultural
uncultural
Translations:
fabulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti
Proto-Italic *fāōr
Latin for, fā-
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
Latin -bula
Latin fābula
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Latin fābulōsusder.
Middle English fabulous
English fabulous
From Late Middle English fabulous, fabulose, from Latin fābulōsus (“celebrated in fable”); Equivalent to fable + -ous.
Base: fable
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more fabulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fabulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to fable, myth or legend.
pos: adj
gloss: Characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible.
pos: adj
examples: [F]abulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: […]
gloss: Fictional or not believable; made up.
pos: adj
gloss: Known for telling fables or falsehoods; unreliable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Very good; outstanding, wonderful.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Camp, effeminate.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Fashionable, glamorous.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Synonyms: excellent
Related words: fable
Derived words: fab
FAB
F.A.B.
fabulicious
fabulize
fabulous invalid
fabulously
fabulousness
fantabulous
FOBulous
ghetto fabulous
nonfabulous
semifabulous
spectabulous
superfabulous
uber-fabulous
ultrafabulous
unfabulous
Translations:
weathering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English wederyng, equivalent to weather + -ing.
Base: weather
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: weatherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.
Furthermore, changes in continental weathering and riverine contributions to the oceans may also be linked with climate, and hydrothermal inputs vary with tectonism.
gloss: A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of weather on objects exposed to it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: frost weathering
space weathering
weathering pan
weathering steel
Translations:
chuffed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From dialectal (northern England, not Scotland) chuff, originally meaning “puffed with fat”. First attested in 1957.
Inflected forms:
form: more chuffed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chuffed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very pleased or satisfied; delighted.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Then when Karen got him on her morning show he was chuffed as a haemophiliac with a foolproof razor
Got to the video shop in a state / But chuffed it wouldn't be late
“I'm chuffed,” she said, putting the kettle on. He gave her that wonderful smile. “Why, exactly?” “Why do you suppose we drink so much strong tea?” “Habit. It's a drug within the bounds of the law.” “Very true!” “Why are you so chuffed, Edda?”
As he arrived on the red carpet Michael said: 'It is my first nomination and I could not be more chuffed.' Well, he could be more chuffed. And that was if he was to win the Olivier honour.
I sold a rug to someone on marketplace and they just sent me this picture with the message “little man is chuffed”
Translations:
helping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English helping, helpinge, helpynge, equivalent to help + -ing.
Base: help
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: helpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving aid or assistance (to).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She finds great joy in helping people.
gloss: A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.
gloss: An amount or quantity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: Wayne Rooney marked his England return with the goal that secured a place in Euro 2012's last eight - but it was a rough passage eased by helpings of good fortune and controversy against Ukraine.
Related words: help oneself
Derived words: double helping
helping profession
oath-helping
second helping
Translations:
initially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English initial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English initially
From initial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At the beginning.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Initially, I found city life incredibly difficult, but now I'm used to it.
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.
Antonyms: finally
medially
Translations:
controversial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin contrōversiālis, from contrōversia + -ālis. By surface analysis, controversy + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more controversial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most controversial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: controversional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.
pos: adj
examples: Whole libraries of controversial books.
MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about being a colorblind society. So, a new national anthem? Fine. I'll go for that. But not two. Because that leads down a road we don't wanna go. Applause.
KIMMEL: Do you feel like...
MAHER: Thank you.
KIMMEL: Hey there's a lot of fear in the air and generally, you don't want to be caught applauding something that might be controversial.
MAHER: I couldn't give a fuck.
KIMMEL: I wasn't talking about you.
gloss: Engaging in or given to controversy; disputatious, argumentative.
pos: adj
Synonyms: contentious
contested
Antonyms: incontrovertible
non-controversial
noncontroversial
uncontroversial
Related words: controversialist
controversiality
controversy
controvert
controverter
controvertible
Derived words: controversialism
controversialize
controversially
controversialness
postcontroversial
precontroversial
Translations:
officially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English official
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 officially
From official + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more officially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most officially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an official manner; according to official rules or regulations.
pos: adv
examples: [T]here was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.
Wearing his best suit and sunglasses, the sultan of Slowjamastan officially declared independence from the United States of America at 12:26 p.m. on December 1, 2021 as he broadcast the secession live from his open-air government “office” in Dublândia, the capital of the Republic of Slowjamastan.
gloss: Thoroughly, completely.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: That’s it! I’m officially outraged.
Related words: formally
Derived words: nonofficially
officially known as
Translations:
helpful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English helpful; equivalent to help + -ful.
Base: help
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more helpful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most helpful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: helpfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: helpefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
pos: adj
examples: a helpful clue
a helpful person
[…]inſtructe the yonge Chyrurgiane, becauſe that vvithout making any great delaye, he might be adiuvable & helpefull to the patient vvith theſe remedyes vvhich conſequently follovve.
Translations:
helpfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English helpful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English helpfully
From helpful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more helpfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most helpfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a helpful manner.
pos: adv
examples: The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
Antonyms: unhelpfully
Translations:
helpfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English helpful
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 helpfulness
From helpful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: helpfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being helpful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
titled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bearing a title.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Specifically, having a title of nobility; belonging to the peerage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a titled family
Derived words: nontitled
self-titled
untitled
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: титулуван
roman: tituluvan
lang: German
word: betitelt
lang: Hungarian
word: című
lang: Italian
word: nobile
lang: Italian
word: titolato
lang: Manx
word: ard-ennymagh
lang: Spanish
word: titulado
lang: Swedish
word: betitlad
lang: Swedish
word: titulerad
estimated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more estimated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most estimated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That is an estimate.
pos: adj
examples: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
Translations:
sounding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sound
English -ing
English sounding
From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: soundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to sound.
pos: noun
examples: And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
In the course of his soundings, Sir Herbert Walker had heard favourable reports of O.V.S. Bulleid, currently Principal Assistant to Gresley on the LNER.
gloss: Emitting a sound.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sounding bell woke me up.
gloss: Sonorous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: sounding words
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Derived words: soundingly
soundingness
unsounding
Translations:
retired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English tire
English retire
English -ed
English retired
From retire + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more retired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most retired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Secluded from society (of a lifestyle, activity etc.); private, quiet.
pos: adj
examples: I lead a retired lifestyle.
gloss: Of a place, far from civilization, not able to be easily seen or accessed; secluded.
pos: adj
examples: The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral.
gloss: Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. (of people)
pos: adj
examples: The retired workers are a major expense due to their pensions.
Although he is now freed from responsibility for the '390s', they are still fixtures of everyday life for the retired Hertfordshire resident living alongside the WCML. "If you stand on the end of the Up Fast platform at Berkhamsted, watching it go round that corner - the sharpest curve it takes anywhere - you just think, 'wow!'
gloss: No longer in use or production.
pos: adj
examples: Following Jackie Robinson's success, his uniform number, 42, became a retired number across all major league teams.
Derived words: nonretired
preretired
retired husband syndrome
retired list
retiredly
retiredness
semiretired
unretired
Translations:
retiring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: retirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
pos: adj
examples: I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.
My uncle, as I can remember, was retiring in his disposition, scarcely ever visiting any one and not more frequently receiving any visitors.
Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired.
gloss: retirement
pos: noun
examples: One day of those his retirings ^([sic]), giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.
Translations:
municipality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.
Base: municipal
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: municipalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
pos: noun
examples: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on May 29 that Louisville was one of more than 600 municipalities across the U.S. accused of obstructing immigration enforcement. The federal government called these locations “sanctuary jurisdictions,” alleging they were undermining the rule of law. Four Kentucky counties also made the list: Campbell, Franklin, Jefferson and Scott.
gloss: The governing body of such a district.
pos: noun
examples: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
gloss: In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.
pos: noun
Related words: municipal
munificence
munificent
remunerate
remuneration
Derived words: county-level municipality
ecomunicipality
federal municipality
prefecture-level municipality
province-level municipality
regional county municipality
regional municipality
specialized municipality
state-level municipality
submunicipality
supermunicipality
Translations:
cynical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Originated 1542, from Classical Latin cynicus (“Cynic/cynic”, adjective) + -al. By surface analysis, cynic + -al. In reference to dogs, with allusion to the ultimate etymology (Ancient Greek κυνικός (kunikós, “doglike”)).
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more cynical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cynical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
pos: adj
examples: I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
gloss: Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
pos: adj
gloss: Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
pos: adj
examples: He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark-for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
On any given day, those who get their news from the loudest voices on the right—Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News—are bombarded with partisan propaganda, conspiracy theories, and cynical rage-bait.
gloss: Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
pos: adj
examples: When he, at Neergard's cynical suggestion, had consented to exploit his own club[…]and had consented to resign from it to do so, he had every reason to believe that Neergard meant to either mulct them heavily or buy them out. In either case, having been useful to Neergard, his profits from the transaction would have been considerable.
gloss: Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Towards noon, he experienced convulsive movements; the extremities became stiff, the pulse extremely small, and he died during an attack of cynical spasm.
On the contrary, in woman, the cynical spasm, though felt with as much, or even more violence than the other sex, is not followed with the same deleterious effects, and may be repeated much oftener without any unfavorable consequences.
Demetrius Attalicus studied the symptomatologies due to strictura cerebri, characterized by a cynical spasm of the facial nerve.
Something of the same sort happened at Hensberg, Germany, where the nuns were afflicted and committed the sin they called “the silent sin.” In their ecstasies, their convulsions were very violent and interspersed with “cynical movements of the pelvis.”
Derived words: cynicality
cynically
cynicalness
cynicism
noncynical
semicynical
supercynical
uncynical
Translations:
paltry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Low German paltrig (“ragged, rubbishy, worthless”), from palter, palte (“cloth, rag, shred”), from Old Saxon *paltro, *palto (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô (“scrap, rag, patch”). Of uncertain ultimate origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *polto- (“cloth”), see also Proto-Slavic *poltьno (“linen”).
Cognate with Low German palterig (“ragged, torn”), dialectal German palterig (“paltry”). Compare also Low German palte (“rag”), West Frisian palt (“rag”), Saterland Frisian Palte (“strip; band; tape”), dialectal German Palter (“rag”), Danish pjalt (“rag, tatter”), Swedish palta (“rag”). See also palterly and pelting.
Inflected forms:
form: paltrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: paltriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paultry
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: paultrie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: palterey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Trashy, trivial, of little value.
pos: adj
examples: This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
She made some paltry excuse and left.
There are a great many languages, like Eskimo and Nootka and, aside from paltry exceptions, the Semitic languages, that cannot compound radical elements.
gloss: Of little monetary worth.
pos: adj
examples: Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz,
That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece,
Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings.
Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!
Meanwhile, the trade deal has left Britain’s fishing communities screaming betrayal, unhappy with their paltry gains and facing expensive barriers to export what they have caught.
gloss: Despicable; contemptibly unimportant.
pos: adj
examples: a paltry coward
"An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick"
Derived words: paltrily
paltriness
unpaltry
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بَخْس
roman: baḵs
lang: Bulgarian
word: жа́лък
roman: žálǎk
lang: Bulgarian
word: нищо́жен
roman: ništóžen
lang: Bulgarian
word: мизе́рен
roman: mizéren
lang: Czech
word: nicotný
lang: Czech
word: ubohý
lang: Czech
word: mizerný
lang: Dutch
word: armzalig
lang: Dutch
word: meelijwekkend
lang: Dutch
word: beklagenswaardig
lang: Dutch
word: waardeloos
lang: Finnish
word: mitätön
lang: French
word: misérable
lang: French
word: dérisoire
lang: German
word: mager
lang: German
word: armselig
lang: German
word: schäbig
lang: Greek
word: ισχνός
roman: ischnós
lang: Greek
word: μηδαμινός
roman: midaminós
lang: Japanese
word: 取るに足らぬ
roman: toruni taranu
lang: Polish
word: marny
lang: Portuguese
word: pífio
lang: Russian
word: жа́лкий
roman: žálkij
lang: Russian
word: презренный
roman: prezrennyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mizeran
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bijedan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bedan
lang: Spanish
word: mezquino
lang: Spanish
word: mesquino
lang: Spanish
word: exiguo
lang: Spanish
word: mísero
lang: Spanish
word: despreciable
lang: Swedish
word: ynklig
lang: Swedish
word: futtig
backlog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + log. 1680s; originally a large log at the back of a fire. Figurative sense from 1880s, meaning "something stored up for later use". Possibly influenced by logbook as well.
Compound parts: back
log
Inflected forms:
form: backlogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backlogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backlogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backlogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backlogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
pos: noun
examples: While she was preparing my breakfast, I chopped off a backlog and put it on the fire,[…]
He threw it on the fire for a back-log, first scraping the live coals and ashes to a heap for his damper.
gloss: A reserve source or supply.
pos: noun
gloss: An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
pos: noun
examples: He went to work on Saturday to try to work through the backlog of papers on his desk.
Kyle purchased a new one despite having a backlog of video games that he hasn't played.
With much of the building unrenovated since it was built in the 19th century, there is a significant backlog of repairs estimated to be in excess of £1bn.
gloss: A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
pos: noun
gloss: To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
tropical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tropic
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 tropical
From tropic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more tropical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tropical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trop.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: tropicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trop.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
pos: adj
gloss: From, or similar to, a hot, humid climate.
pos: adj
examples: We've had a lot of tropical nights this summer.
My favorite tropical fruits are pineapples and coconuts.
Whale sharks are found in all the tropical waters of the world. As with many tropical species, an occasional stray wanders into colder waters.
gloss: Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; figurative, metaphorical.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: But we, by the real spiritual presence of Christ, do understand Christ to be present, as the Spirit of God is present in the hearts of the faithful, by blessing and grace; and this is all which we mean besides the tropical and figurative presence.
The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.
gloss: Pertaining to tropical geometry.
pos: adj
gloss: A tropical plant.
pos: noun
examples: The potato, as a mountain tropical plant, is capable of growing in cooler weather than any other tropical except the Nasturtian.
Derived words: Afrotropical
amphitropical
antitropical
boreotropical
circumtropical
extratropical
ex-tropical cyclone
intertropical
intratropical
isotropical
juxtatropical
neotropical
non-tropical
non-tropical sprue
palaeotropical
paleotropical
pantropical
paratropical
post-tropical
semitropical
sub-tropical
subtropical
supertropical
tropical almond
tropical arc
tropical astrology
tropical cyclone
tropical depression
tropical dial
tropical disease
tropical disturbance
tropical fish
tropical fruit
tropical house
tropicalist
tropicality
tropicalization
tropicalize
tropically
tropical milkweed
tropical month
tropicalness
tropical rainforest
tropical reed
tropical rock
tropical splenomegaly syndrome
tropical sprue
tropical storm
tropical sweet potato
tropical theileriosis
tropical ulcer
tropical warehouse moth
tropical wave
tropical yam
tropical year
tropical zone
troppo
ultratropical
untropical
Translations:
harridan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps a modification of French haridelle (“old horse, nag”).
Inflected forms:
form: harridans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.
pos: noun
examples: Why is that tattling old harridan, Peggy O'Dowd, to make free with my name at her d—d supper-table, and advertise my engagement over the three kingdoms?
Well there was one old lady, and a drunken old harridan she was surely, that paid all her attention to me.
Translations:
conceptual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
▲
Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin conceptus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin conceptuālisbor.
English conceptual
Borrowed from Medieval Latin conceptuālis, from Latin conceptus, perfect passive participle of concipiō (“take hold of; conceive”); see concept and -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more conceptual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conceptual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception.
pos: adj
examples: The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
gloss: Existing only in the imagination.
pos: adj
examples: We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.
gloss: Of or relating to conceptualism.
pos: adj
Synonyms: conceptualistic
Related words: concept
conceptualism
Derived words: aconceptual
anticonceptual
biconceptual
conceptual analysis
conceptual art
conceptual definition
conceptual engineering
conceptual fallacy
conceptual graph
conceptual inverse
conceptualism
conceptualist
conceptuality
conceptualization
conceptualize
conceptually
conceptual metaphor
conceptual network
conceptual physics
conceptual schema
metaconceptual
multiconceptual
neoconceptual
nonconceptual
periconceptual
photoconceptual
postconceptual
preconceptual
subconceptual
uniconceptual
Translations:
heterocyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English heterocyclic
From hetero- + cyclic.
Inflected forms:
form: heterocyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having atoms of two or more different elements in at least one of its rings.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having one or more atoms other than carbon in at least one of its rings.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.
gloss: A heterocycle
pos: noun
Synonyms: heterocyclical
carboheterocyclic
Related words: heterocycle
Derived words: heterocyclically
nitroheterocyclic
non-heterocyclic
nonheterocyclic
polyheterocyclic
Translations:
cyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
biology
botany
business
chemistry
engineering
firearms
geometry
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
From French cyclique or its etymon Classical Latin cyclicus, from Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós). By surface analysis, cycle + -ic. Piecewise doublet of chakric.
Inflected forms:
form: more cyclic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cyclic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical
pos: adj
examples: The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.
Our recent article on the York-Knaresborough-Harrogate branch mentioned that the diesel multiple-units covering the passenger service did so in the course of complicated cyclic diagrams.
gloss: Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.
pos: adj
examples: Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
gloss: Having parts arranged in a whorl.
pos: adj
gloss: Being generated by only one element.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be inscribed in a circle.
pos: adj
gloss: Firing at its full cyclic rate.
pos: adj
examples: On it came, closer and closer, and as it did so it became clear that the pilot, if he was alive, had terminal intentions. Though the torpedo somehow missed, the plane itself did not. To those watching helplessly from other stations, the ship's antiaircraft gunners, in their final moments, were an inspiration: eyes focused through iron sights on the plane as it sped at them, weapons hot, going cyclic, hunched down and never flinching until the Betty struck high on the mainmast, killing them all.
gloss: The flight control used to control a helicopter's direction and rate of horizontal movement by tilting the lift vector of the helicopter's main rotor disk.
pos: noun
Antonyms: acyclic
Derived words: alicyclic
allocyclic
anticyclic
autocyclic
azacyclic
benzocyclic
bicyclic
carbocyclic
cocyclic
concyclic
constacyclic
cyclical
cyclically
cyclic chorus
cyclic group
cyclic-inscriptable
cyclicism
cyclicity
cyclicly
cyclic module
cyclic nucleotide
cyclic number
cyclic poet
cyclic quadrilateral
cyclic rate
cyclic redundancy check
cyclic vomiting syndrome
decacyclic
demicyclic
dicyclic
diskcyclic
electrocyclic
endocyclic
eucyclic
exocyclic
geocyclic
heptacyclic
heterocyclic
hexacyclic
holocyclic
homocyclic
hypercyclic
intracyclic
isocyclic
macrocyclic
mesocyclic
metacyclic
monocyclic
multicyclic
negacyclic
noncyclic
octacyclic
oligocyclic
ovulocyclic
oxacyclic
pancyclic
pentacyclic
pericyclic
photocyclic
pluricyclic
polycyclic
procyclic
pseudocyclic
quasicyclic
semicyclic
supercyclic
tetracyclic
tricyclic
unicyclic
Translations:
furan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin furfur
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 furfural
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English furan
From furfural + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: furans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₄O.
pos: noun
Translations:
pyrrole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Hellenic *-rós
Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós)
Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)der.
German Pyrrolbor.
English pyrrole
From German Pyrrol, corresponding to Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “reddish, fiery”) + -ole.
Affixes: -ole
Inflected forms:
form: pyrroles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₅N.
pos: noun
examples: The way the red crystals absorbed light suggested that the molecule might contain a porphyrin-like structure, a flat ring made up of four smaller rings called pyrroles […].
Translations:
thiophene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-der.?
Ancient Greek θέειον (théeion)
Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon)der.
English thio-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der.
French phèneder.
English phene
English thiophene
From thio- + phene ("benzene").
Base: phene
Affixes: thio-
Inflected forms:
form: thiophenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a sulfur atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₄S.
pos: noun
Translations:
pyridine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Pyridinbor.
English pyridine
From German Pyridin.
Inflected forms:
form: pyridines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₅H₅N.
pos: noun
Translations:
thiazole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-der.?
Ancient Greek θέειον (théeion)
Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon)der.
English thio-
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
English azo-
English -ole
English azole
English thiazole
From thio- + azole.
Inflected forms:
form: thiazoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of three carbon atoms, a sulphur and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₃H₃SN
pos: noun
examples: Many heterocyclic bodies prepared synthetically have been manufactured upon a technical scale, because of their coloring and therapeutic properties. This is true of the dyes of [...] the thiazole-group, and also of the important febrifuges, [...]
Translations: