yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
passionately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English passionate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English passionately
From passionate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more passionately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most passionately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a passionate manner.
pos: adv
examples: “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”
And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
Was the sorrow at Mrs. Inglethorp’s death so great? I realized that there was an emotional lack in the atmosphere. The dead woman had not the gift of commanding love. Her death was a shock and a distress, but she would not be passionately regretted.
Translations:
respectfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English respectful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English respectfully
From respectful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more respectfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most respectfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a respectful manner.
pos: adv
examples: York got down and said very respectfully, "I beg your pardon, my lady, but these horses have not been reined up for three years, and my lord said it would be safer to bring them to it by degrees; but if your ladyship pleases, I can take them up a little more."
There is something wonderful and sad about Ohio around Christmastime — maybe the reasons are the licentious, Yukon sleddog cold and the buildings on the main streets of college towns standing respectfully buttressed with graceful wings...
There are, here and there, scattered throughout the scherzo, uncouthnesses of harmony and false relationships which hypercritical ferreters-out of blemishes might perhaps carp at but which we pass by respectfully[…]
Fr. Greeley's specialty is robust, respectfully kinkless sex bathed in a rosy glow of soon-to-be-blessed romantic love.
“Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” Parton, 76, wrote in a statement posted to social media. “I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.”
Translations:
profoundly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English profoundly, profoundely, equivalent to profound + -ly.
Base: profound
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more profoundly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most profoundly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With depth, meaningfully.
pos: adv
examples: He thought and wrote profoundly.
gloss: Very importantly.
pos: adv
examples: More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
gloss: Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.
pos: adv
examples: From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.
Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.
In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
In 1997, Turkheimer, perhaps the preëminent behavior geneticist of his generation, published a short political meditation called “The Search for a Psychometric Left,” in which he called upon his fellow-liberals to accept that they had nothing to fear from genes. He proposed that “a psychometric left would recognize that human ability, individual differences in human ability, measures of human ability, and genetic influences on human ability are all real but profoundly complex, too complex for the imposition of biogenetic or political schemata.)
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday if the Supreme Court does not resolve the issue of presidential immunity “quickly and decisively,” it will have a “profoundly negative impact” on the country.
Translations:
neatly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neat
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English neatly
From neat + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: neatlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more neatly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: neatliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most neatly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a neat manner.
pos: adv
examples: I was delighted to see A Woman's Place take a stand against censorship. But I noted with some cynicism that the exhibit failed to include any of the numerous publications suppressed by institutions of the feminist community. It thus neatly avoided acknowledging the role being played by the women's movement as a force for censorship (and the rather sordid past of A Woman's Place itself).
Translations:
perpetually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English perpetuelly; equivalent to perpetual + -ly.
Base: perpetual
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.
pos: adv
examples: For whiche offence oure holy fader the pope enioyned hym to make hym to be prayed for perpetually / ⁊ lyke as he had done too be taken frome hym his naturall lyfe therfore he ſholde do foũde four tapers to brẽne perpetually about his body yͭ for yͤ extynccõn of his bodely lyf his ſoule may euer be remẽbred ⁊ lyf in heuẽ in ſpyrytuall lyfe
Now her work dropped on her knee, and her book fell from her hand; she was perpetually seeking excuses for change of place; and the change brought added discomfort.
But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.
Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.
Translations:
coldly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English coldliche, caldeliche, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse kaldliga (“coldly”); equivalent to cold + -ly. Displaced Middle English colde (“coldly”), from Old English cealde (“coldly”).
Base: cold
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more coldly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most coldly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently.
pos: adv
examples: 'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.
Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […].
Translations:
sweetly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).
Base: sweet
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: sweetlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more sweetly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: sweetliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most sweetly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a sweet taste or aroma.
pos: adv
gloss: In a sweet or pleasant manner.
pos: adv
examples: "No, Auntie," said Hardman, sweetly, seriously.
"Hey, Sis, do yah want a Hertz Donut?" one of them sweetly said as the other one held out a donut bag. She reached for it. Her step-sister snatched the bag away and socked her hard in the arm instead.
"Hurts, Don't it?" they chime, laughing at her pain.
gloss: Nicely; finely; excellently.
pos: adv
examples: Sitting in the seat with the engine off before that day, the gears slid in so sweetly, and double de-clutching was so easy, I had done it a million times.
Translations:
furiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English furiously; equivalent to furious + -ly.
Base: furious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more furiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most furiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a furious manner; angrily.
pos: adv
examples: He glared furiously at the offender.
Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the "hipster effect" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.
gloss: Quickly; frantically; with great effort or speed.
pos: adv
examples: He tried furiously to get it to work before the deadline.
Again we set to and bailed furiously. Fortunately the storm had now quite gone by[.]
“It was nonsense to pretend that he was afraid of the scandal, as no possible scandal could attach to him. This attitude of his gave me furiously to think, and I was slowly forced to the conclusion that Alfred Inglethorp wanted to be arrested.”
gloss: Intensely, as with embarrassment.
pos: adv
examples: Craig, who at twenty was taller than his father, blushed furiously as he practically threw two small boxes on the table in front of the twins. “Happy birthday”, he managed.
Translations:
cruelly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cruelly; equivalent to cruel + -ly.
Base: cruel
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more cruelly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cruelly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cruel manner; with cruelty.
pos: adv
examples: In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.
Unfortunately, if certain national leaders have their way and repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the American dreams of hundreds of thousands of young people will be cruelly ripped away.
gloss: To a degree that is cruel.
pos: adv
tags: rare
examples: Robert Audley chafed cruelly at this delay. Half a dozen vessels might sail for Australia while he roamed up and down the long platform, tumbling over trucks and porters, and swearing at his ill-luck.
Translations:
thoughtfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thoughtful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English thoughtfully
From thoughtful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more thoughtfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most thoughtfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a thoughtful or pensive manner.
pos: adv
examples: I opened my eyes, and the first thing they fell on was the venerable countenance of our old friend Billali, who was seated by the side of the improvised bed upon which I was sleeping, and thoughtfully stroking his long beard.
'That button, it suggests possibilities,' said Poirot thoughtfully.
gloss: In a way that shows kindness or consideration for others.
pos: adv
examples: 'You left your hat in the gorse, sir,' said Parkinson thoughtfully. 'I will get it while you are engaged.'
Translations:
thickly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick + -ly.
Base: thick
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: thicklier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more thickly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: thickliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most thickly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a thick manner.
pos: adv
examples: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.
Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.
Antonyms: thinly
Translations:
forcibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forceably, equivalent to forcible + -ly.
Base: forcible
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: forceably
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a forcible manner, by force, against one's will.
pos: adv
examples: And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures […]
“Now get out of here,” and he grabbed Rokoff and Paulvitch each by the scruff of the neck and thrust them forcibly through the doorway, giving each an added impetus down the corridor with the toe of his boot.
gloss: In a forcible manner, with force, with powerful effect, powerfully, strongly.
pos: adv
examples: It was now cold, winter weather: forcibly recalling to his mind under what circumstances he had first travelled that road, and how many vicissitudes and changes he had since undergone.
Related words: forcefully
Derived words: nonforcibly
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zorən
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zorla
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zorakı
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qəhrən
lang: Azerbaijani
word: icbarən
lang: Azerbaijani
word: cəbrən
lang: Azerbaijani
word: məcburən
lang: Belarusian
word: прымусо́ва
roman: prymusóva
lang: Bengali
word: জোর করে
roman: zor kôre
lang: Bulgarian
word: насила
roman: nasila
lang: Catalan
word: forçadament
lang: Esperanto
word: devigante
lang: Finnish
word: väkisin
lang: Finnish
word: väkivalloin
lang: Finnish
word: voimakeinoin
lang: French
word: de force
lang: Galician
word: á forza
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βιαίως
roman: biaíōs
lang: Gujarati
word: જબરદસ્તીથી
roman: jabardastīthī
lang: Hindi
word: ज़ोर
roman: zor
lang: Hindi
word: ज़बरदस्ती
roman: zabardastī
lang: Japanese
word: 有無を言わさず
roman: umu o iwasazu
lang: Korean
word: 강제로
roman: gangjero
lang: Polish
word: na siłę
lang: Polish
word: przemocą
lang: Polish
word: siłą
lang: Russian
word: принуди́тельно
roman: prinudítelʹno
lang: Russian
word: наси́льственно
roman: nasílʹstvenno
lang: Russian
word: наси́льно
roman: nasílʹno
lang: Russian
word: нево́лей
roman: nevólej
lang: Sanskrit
word: रभसा
roman: rabhasā
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: присилно
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prisilno
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: силом
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: silom
lang: Spanish
word: a fortiori
lang: Swedish
word: med våld
lang: Ukrainian
word: примусо́во
roman: prymusóvo
lang: Urdu
word: زور
roman: zor
lang: Urdu
word: زبردستی سے
roman: zabardastī se
sorely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sorely, from Old English sārlīċ (adjective), sārlīċe (adverb); equivalent to sore + -ly.
Base: sore
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more sorely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sorely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sore or desperate manner.
pos: adv
examples: But the decision to electrify north of Sheffield just months after the government 'paused' the Midland Main Line electrification scheme from Leicester to Sheffield illustrates the lack of clear vision or decision-making that the railways sorely need.
gloss: Very, extremely.
pos: adv
examples: He said he wanted it [the picture] for his study. I would not let him have it, and he went away sorely puzzled.
If Chelsea hoped this blow would have a detrimental effect on Arsenal, they were to be sorely mistaken as the Gunners surged forward after the restart.
Translations:
lastly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English last
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lastly
From last + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
sequence
examples: Firstly, that's illegal; secondly, it has serious disadvantages; thirdly, it's not necessary; and lastly, did I mention that it's illegal?
gloss: Used to signal that the speaker is about to yield control of the conversation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: last
last of all
at length
endly
lastly
Antonyms: firstly
Related words: :Category:English sequence adverbs
Translations:
intently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English intently
From intent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more intently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most intently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an intent or focused manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her back was toward the jungle, and so she did not see the grasses part, or the savage face that peered from between. Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself.
Translations:
coolly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cool
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English coolly
From cool + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more coolly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most coolly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At a moderately low temperature.
pos: adv
examples: The wind blew coolly.
gloss: In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
pos: adv
examples: "He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
Well, she looks at you so coolly / And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
gloss: With calm impudence.
pos: adv
examples: They walked in, not even wearing masks, and coolly robbed the bank of twelve thousand pounds.
Translations:
sternly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sternly, sternely, sterneliche, sturnely, sturneliche, from Old English stirnlīċe, styrnlīċe, stiernlīċe (“harshly; severely; sternly”), equivalent to stern + -ly.
Base: stern
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more sternly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: sternlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
poetic
rare
form: most sternly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: sternliest
pos: adv
tags: poetic
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stern manner.
pos: adv
examples: It was a historic night at Wembley Stadium that saw the European champions sternly tested by Copa America winners Brazil, but ended with the familiar sight of captain Leah Williamson lifting a trophy.
Translations:
eminently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eminent
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 eminently
From eminent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more eminently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most eminently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an eminent or prominent manner.
pos: adv
gloss: To a great degree; notably; highly.
pos: adv
examples: Everyone supported the nominee because she was eminently qualified.
Here Mr. Bandparts at once proceeded to put the position as between master and pupil on an eminently sound footing, clearly exulting in this opportunity of exercising some baritone oratory that had suffered a period of disuse.
So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable.
There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
Related words: preeminently
Translations:
reluctantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reluctant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English reluctantly
From reluctant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more reluctantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reluctantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
pos: adv
examples: Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.
Translations:
involuntarily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From involuntary + -ly or in- + voluntarily.
Base: involuntary
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more involuntarily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most involuntarily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
pos: adv
examples: Her leg twitched involuntarily.
He involuntarily overheard the conversation.
His eyes filled with tears, as he took up the glittering lengths. Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.
Kennedy’s vocal rasp is not caused by an infection or respiratory condition. Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.
Translations:
mechanically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor.
Latin mēchanicusder.
Old French mecaniquebor.
Middle English mechanic
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 mechanical
English mechanical
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 mechanically
From mechanical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mechanically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mechanically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: From a mechanical point of view.
pos: adv
examples: mechanically speaking
gloss: In a mechanical manner, mindlessly, thoughtlessly, automatically, without thinking.
pos: adv
examples: My fears, however, made me mechanically close my thighs; but the very touch of his hand insinuated between them, disclosed them and opened a way for the main attack.
"Of what avail," and her eyes wandered mechanically round, "is all the luxury by which I am surrounded, if it serve only as a barrier to all kindly feelings?"
Provided they stick to their legal priors, rather than voting mechanically as Republican appointees, the justices seem likely to split on some of these cases — with real consequences for Trump’s agenda.
Derived words: chemomechanically
cytomechanically
magnetomechanically
mechanically separated meat
nanomechanically
quantum-mechanically
Translations:
confidently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English confident
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English confidently
From confident + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more confidently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most confidently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.
pos: adv
examples: Alice confidently stepped up on the platform to give her maiden speech as CEO.
Translations:
incessantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incessant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incessantly
From incessant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.
We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.
There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
"You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.
gloss: Immediately.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Related words: incessant
Translations:
vividly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin vīviduslbor.
English vivid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English vividly
From vivid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more vividly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most vividly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a vivid manner.
pos: adv
examples: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
The Campbell family’s fascination with white supremacy was vividly expressed in the names of Adolf’s two siblings, “Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell,” an homage to Heinrich Himmler, and “JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell.”² In selecting their children’s peculiar names, the Campbells had exercised a right specifically recognized in New Jersey statutory law, which states, “The designation of a child’s name including the surname is the right of the child’s parent(s).”³
Translations:
intimately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intimate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English intimately
From intimate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more intimately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most intimately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an intimate manner.
pos: adv
examples: I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.
Translations:
resolutely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English resolute
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English resolutely
From resolute + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more resolutely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most resolutely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a determined, unyielding manner.
pos: adv
examples: Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.
Translations:
nicely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nycely; equivalent to nice + -ly.
Base: nice
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: nicelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more nicely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: niceliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most nicely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fastidiously; carefully.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
gloss: Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.
pos: adv
examples: All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.
An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
gloss: Pleasantly; satisfactorily.
pos: adv
examples: 1986-1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He was a sweet boy, but became the kind of man I can do nicely without.
Translations:
delicately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English delicate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English delicately
From delicate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more delicately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most delicately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a delicate manner; exquisitely.
pos: adv
examples: The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.
The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers.
gloss: Tactfully.
pos: adv
examples: He approached the main subject delicately.
Translations:
princely
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English princely, pryncely, equivalent to prince + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch prinselijk.
Base: prince
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: princelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: princeliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more princely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most princely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a prince.
pos: adj
examples: princely birth or character
And when the princely Perſean Diadem,
Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head,
And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death,
In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain
Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
She so bewitched the whole princely race that six different princes, although each was married to a young wife, remained childless.
gloss: Similar or comparable to a prince.
pos: adj
gloss: Befitting a prince.
pos: adj
examples: a princely sum
No expense was spared in making it a princely residence.
I have mentioned before how impressed I was when I used a Glasgow suburban train late one Saturday night, when I reached Queen Street the barriers were closed and I had to cough up a princely couple of quid before being allowed through.
gloss: In the manner of a royal prince's conduct.
pos: adv
examples: […] my appetite was not princely gote, […]
Oilman Hall and I tried to interest him in noticing Morgan Robertson, who was passing near the corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street, princely dressed in a frock coat and top hat.
“And if this Señor Regan be princely generous, he may give you and me the munificent sum that was mentioned, eh? Five times the sum, or ten times, with this Gringo tiger blowing down law and order and our good jail-walls, would be nearer the mark.”
Has the princely generous Dr. Townsend turned traitor to the old folks?
Ron was blithely standing at the window looking out. He was princely dressed in a black suit, and a cream-colored polo sweater. Ron turned around looking debonair as usual.
These are the accepted truths to all who encountered or knew of the princely dressed first sacker, whose three-piece suits and brown velvet derby defined him.
“Well, the sun was barely gone and the men had dispersed. It was just me and a small squad of men, about to do our rounds when this tall princely dressed man appeared out of nowhere. He was followed by a medium built man wearing the robes of a Caravan master.”
Harmeet was a 6 feet tall sardar, good sense of humor as all sardars do. He was also very princely dressed.
She moved her big, beautiful, well-diluted eyes up and down his slender princely dressed form.
The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps. I had only seen these desirably dressed men as moving watercolor images in Velvet Rose magazines.
Antonyms: unprincely
Derived words: princelihood
princelily
princeliness
princely state
princely sum
unprinceliness
unprincely
Translations:
doubly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.
Base: double
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
Losing a teenmover is doubly painful; so Black continues to make moves.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
gloss: In two ways
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
gloss: with duplicity
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Synonyms: twofold
Derived words: doubly even
doubly incontinent
doubly infinite
doubly labeled water
doubly-linked
doubly magic
doubly transitive
Translations:
jiggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jig
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English jiggy
From jig + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more jiggy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jiggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jiggy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jiggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or suggesting a jig.
pos: adj
examples: [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419134671&id=qU0TRF3GqzIC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=omSLlDSrnJuoz4MXcYZv4kmsWCM
“He likes jiggy tunes best—please sing him jiggy tunes.”
[1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0813109272&id=7zF6mDo_GJgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=Jp2rPhf8QBFjX6DvPObEbPJqmWg
We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm.
gloss: Crazy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He's gone completely jiggy.
gloss: Jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up.
gloss: Extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Get yourself some jiggy gear.
gloss: Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Just can't sit
Gotta get jiggy wit it
Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.
When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have […] Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby […]
Related words: get down
Derived words: get jiggy
jiggily
jigginess
jiggy-jiggy
jiggy jiggy
Translations:
five-by-five
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From radio communications phrase dating from the 1950s. The first five referred to a rating of signal clarity, the other to reception strength. See Signal strength and readability report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Inflected forms:
form: five by five
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: five-by-fives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: five by five
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Loud and clear.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
not-comparable
examples: "Hon, are you getting good data from us?" "Five-by-five." "Any sign of hostiles?" "Nope." "Can I get a few more syllables from you?"
McInnis nodded, and Carter keyed the mic. "CAONCI-Site-43 calling Overwatch Command," he intoned in his best radio voice. Veiksaar smirked. "CAONCI-Site-43, Overwatch Command. Do you read?"
The response came immediately, to the visible relief of all nine of them. Even Wettle. "Five by five, CAONCI-Site-43. Five by five."
gloss: Fine; OK.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
not-comparable
gloss: A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone whose body is roughly shaped like a square; a short and fat person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: "Yeah? No stuff? You, a date? Wad yuh know. What is she, a five-by-five?"
"The muscle was Oscar Huong, a real Mr. five-by-five. Father supposedly a black Marine boxing champion. The brains was Nguyen Trinh—or 'Nugey,' for short. He had no idea who his daddy was."
Translations:
hereafter
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Inflected forms:
form: hereafters
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From now on.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In time to come; in some future time or state.
pos: adv
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.
[…] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]
Synonyms: henceforward
then
Translations:
conspectus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin cōnspectus (“survey”).
Inflected forms:
form: conspectuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
pos: noun
examples: Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.
Translations:
welch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh.
Inflected forms:
form: welches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: welches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: welching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: welched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: welched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
pos: noun
examples: She's a welch. That watering-can isn't hers: I lent it to her three years ago.
gloss: To fail to repay a small debt.
pos: verb
gloss: To fail to fulfill an obligation.
pos: verb
examples: I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?
MICHAEL: Clemenza promised Rosato three territories in the Bronx after he died, and then you took over and welched.
Derived words: welcher
Translations:
lighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English -ing
English lighting
From light + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: lightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
gloss: The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
gloss: The process of annealing metals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Derived words: bias lighting
bisexual lighting
cameo lighting
candlelighting
downlighting
firelighting
gas-lighting
gas lighting
lift one's hand against
lighting engineer
lighting rig
lighting technician
mood lighting
neon lighting
Phong lighting
Rembrandt lighting
sidelighting
streetlighting
strip lighting
strobe lighting
sunlighting
toplighting
track lighting
underlighting
Translations:
blook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of blog + book.
Compound parts: blog
book
Inflected forms:
form: blooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book serialized on a blog (weblog) platform.
pos: noun
gloss: A book about blogging.
pos: noun
gloss: A printed book containing content which first appeared on a blog.
pos: noun
examples: 2006: "'Blooks are the new books, a hybrid literary form at the cutting edge of both literature and technology,' said Bob Young, founder of self-publishing site Lulu which organised and sponsored the prize." US cook wins blogging book prize BBC Online, 3 April 2006.
Translations:
militia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin mīlitia (“army, military force/service”), from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militsia.
The use of "militia" rather than "police" to refer to the police force (of Belarus and some other countries) originated in the USSR.
Inflected forms:
form: militias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: militiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.
pos: noun
examples: He coasts down to a dead stop in the middle of the channel, makes a scan for militia men and wireheads, and finds none.
gloss: Synonym of militsia: the national police force of certain countries (e.g. Belarus).
pos: noun
Derived words: antimilitia
militialike
militiaman
militiaperson
militiawoman
Translations:
camino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish camino.
Inflected forms:
form: caminos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The route followed on a pilgrimage through Spain.
pos: noun
Translations:
derogation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French derogacion (French dérogation), from Latin dērogātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: derogations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act which belittles; disparagement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Always have the greatest excesses and the most reprehensible practices been committed when backed up by or given the sanction of religion. But all this represents no derogation of the original phallic cult per se. It merely proves that the gods have always been what we have made them.
gloss: The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Two sets of Mk. 2 coaches hauled by Class 37s were introduced on peak Rhymney services during the summer. The coaches do not comply with the Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) standards and would therefore need a derogation to continue in passenger service after 31 December.
Related words: abrogation
Translations:
greave
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Back-formation from greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).
Inflected forms:
form: greaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: greaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: greaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: greaved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
monstrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more monstrous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monstrous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hideous or frightful.
pos: adj
examples: So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
gloss: Enormously large.
pos: adj
examples: a monstrous height
The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]
Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.
Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
gloss: Freakish or grotesque.
pos: adj
examples: The irregular and monstrous births
He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
gloss: Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
pos: adj
examples: Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
gloss: Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.
gloss: Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
offensive
Synonyms: monstrous
Related words: ghost
gigantic
Derived words: humongous
monstrocious
monstrous agreement
monstrously
monstrous moonshine
monstrousness
monstrous regiment
semimonstrous
supermonstrous
unmonstrous
Translations: