yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
self-sacrificing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English sacrificing
English self-sacrificing
From self- + sacrificing.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-sacrificing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-sacrificing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice.
pos: adj
examples: Mother Teresa's self-sacrificing nature made her world-famous.
It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
Translations:
self-serve
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English serve
English self-serve
From self- + serve.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a facility in which the customer performs the work rather than being waited on.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Self-serve gas stations are popular with owners because they need fewer attendants.
Translations:
self-willed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English selfe-willed, selwillyd, equivalent to self- + willed. Compare Middle English onwille, anewil (“selfwilled, stubborn”), from Old English ānwille (literally “one-willed, one's own-willed, self-willed”).
Base: willed
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-willed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-willed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others.
pos: adj
examples: Emma perceived that the nature of his gallantry was a little self-willed, and that he would rather oppose than lose the pleasure of dancing with her; but she took the compliment, and forgave the rest. Had she intended ever to marry him, it might have been worth while to pause and consider, and try to understand the value of his preference, and the character of his temper; but for all the purposes of their acquaintance, he was quite amiable enough.
But then Pen was different. Pen was a man. It seemed natural somehow that he should be self-willed and should have his own way.
He was so self-willed that he refused to do anything that did not grant instant satisfaction or direction.
gloss: Possessing self-will; determined to pursue one's own desires or adhere to one's own opinion..
pos: adj
examples: The idea of self-willed machines, which could decide to take over the world, scares all the people smart enough to create such devices.
Derived words: self-willedly
self-willedness
Translations:
self-consciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + consciousness.
Base: consciousness
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The awareness of the self as an entity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
gloss: Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
Synonyms: shyness
Derived words: unself-consciousness
Translations:
self-aggrandizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English aggrandizing
English self-aggrandizing
From self- + aggrandizing.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-aggrandizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-aggrandizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Boastful; intended to make oneself seem more important.
pos: adj
examples: His self-aggrandizing talk alienated his colleagues, who had done the work he claimed credit for.
Translations:
oscillating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more oscillating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oscillating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going.
pos: adj
examples: But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before.
In general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating.
When examining work on the history of sociology, however, one finds a more oscillating pattern: disciplinary marginality, followed by greater centrality, followed by a return to the margins.
gloss: Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values.
pos: adj
examples: Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means.
Derived words: nonoscillating
oscillatingly
oscillating tool
oscillating wave test system
superoscillating
unoscillating
Translations:
intervarsity
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English varsity
English intervarsity
From inter- + varsity.
Inflected forms:
form: intervarsities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: taking place between universities
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: Oxford stands for intra-varsity in addition to intervarsity sport.
Yet, while its Lillie Bridge ground staged the inter-varsity match and the national amateur championships ...
This intervarsity meet was held in the South China Athletic Association's new Caroline Hill Stadium ...
The fencers lunged and parried their way to a Western Canadian Intervarsity Athletic Union championship.
gloss: A competition taking place between universities.
pos: noun
examples: As a player Craven took part in seven Intervarsities with remarkable success[…]Asked which Intervarsities were special, he said they were all special.
I responded by saying that the intervarsity was a student affair and had to be taken up with the students.
Much the same could be said for the annual intervarsities between the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch
Translations:
campanella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin campānella, from campāna (“steeple bell”) + -ella (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: campanellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: campanellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
biphobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bi- + -phobia.
Base: bi
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Antipathy towards bisexuals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hawt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pronunciation or leetspeak spelling of hot (any sense).
pos: adj
examples: 1896, George Wharton Edwards, Break O’ Day, Ayer Publishing (1969), →ISBN, page 46,
“[…] Oh, ’t is, eh? Well, I waant to know — kind o’ hawt in here, ain’t it? Phew!” Again the orange silk handkerchief waved clouds of suffocating musk.
2005, Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber, Graphia Books, →ISBN, pages 86–87,
“Mistah,” I drawled, switching on the Texan twang I perfected not in Houston but as a child in New York watching Dallas reruns with my dad. “Ah’m tahrubly sawhruh, but won’t ya tell us what on er-yuhth we’re a-doin’ wrong?” ¶ […] “We were just having a nice cool refray-yush-munt, Officer—isn’t it so hawt?”
gloss: Hot (sexually attractive)
pos: adj
examples: 2006, Robert Eversz, Zero to the Bone: A Nina Zero Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24,
A few of the comments were marginally pervy, but most were touchingly supportive messages. Ur soooo Hawt!!! One comment read. I can’t believe ur not gonna be a ***.
Translations:
spital
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.
Inflected forms:
form: spitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spittle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]
Translations:
smocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Weaaring a smock.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
collabo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: collabos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: collabos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: collaboing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: collaboed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: collaboed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A collaboration with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A collaborator; a traitor.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Look, our doctor's been arrested. And the veterinarian, well, he's a collabo. It's too dangerous for him to stay here. We could all be killed."
gloss: To collaborate with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: The Yohimbe Brothers are DJ Logic (the jazz-influenced turntable wizard who had collaboed with Medeski Martin And Wood and Body Count) and guitarist Vernon Reid (the dreaded fret-monster behind Living Colour and various solo excursions) […]
Translations:
q-tof
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: q-tofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Q-TOF
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Q-ToF
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Q-Tof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer.
pos: noun
Translations:
ill-advisedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ill-advised
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ill-advisedly
From ill-advised + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-advisedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ill-advisedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ill-advised manner.
pos: adv
examples: Then somebody told him that much nearer Dublin was a seaport whence he could sooner and cheaplier embark for Italy, and in ill-advisedly trying to reach Queenstown he did indeed go helplessly astray.
Translations:
illegitimately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English illegitimate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English illegitimately
From illegitimate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more illegitimately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most illegitimately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an illegitimate manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
ill-naturedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ill-natured
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ill-naturedly
From ill-natured + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-naturedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ill-naturedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ill-natured manner.
pos: adv
examples: "I've seen it before," he said ill-naturedly.
Translations:
illustratively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English illustrative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English illustratively
From illustrative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more illustratively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most illustratively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an illustrative manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
immaculately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immaculate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immaculately
From immaculate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immaculately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immaculately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immaculate manner; in a manner free of stain or blemish; without being defiled.
pos: adv
gloss: In a manner free of error; in a perfect or flawless manner.
pos: adv
examples: He spoke immaculately, his enunciation terribly precise.
But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: inmaculadamente
immanently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immanent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immanently
From immanent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immanently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immanently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immanent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
immaturely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immature
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immaturely
From immature + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immaturely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immaturely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Giving an appearance of immaturity; childishly.
pos: adv
examples: They may be approaching 40, but after three beers they are behaving as immaturely as any teenager.
gloss: Without having attained maturity.
pos: adv
examples: […] birds which are hatched immaturely and fly immediately after leaving the nest.
Antonyms: maturely
Translations:
immemorially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immemorial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immemorially
From immemorial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immemorially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immemorially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
pos: adv
examples: […] by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters […]
Yet, O reader, the brave woman accepted the lot, and took up the cry which had been its sign immemorially, and which thenceforward was to be her salutation without change—“Unclean, unclean!”
[…] as for barbers, he had never liked those who cut his own hair; he thought too how it would disgust Pundit Jairam to learn that his former pupil had taken up barbering, a profession immemorially low.
Translations:
imminently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imminent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English imminently
From imminent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more imminently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most imminently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an imminent manner; liable to happen immediately or very soon.
pos: adv
examples: Work to electrify the East Kilbride line in Scotland will begin imminently, with foundations to be installed for the overhead line equipment.
Translations:
immoderately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; equivalent to immoderate + -ly.
Base: immoderate
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more immoderately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immoderately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immoderate manner.
pos: adv
examples: 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13,
From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination[…]
[…] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.
[…] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately
Translations:
immodestly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immodest
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immodestly
From immodest + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immodestly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immodestly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immodest manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
immortally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immortal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immortally
From immortal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immortally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immortally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immortal manner.
pos: adv
examples: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
Translations:
immovably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English in-moueabily; equivalent to immovable + -ly.
Base: immovable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more immovably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immovably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immovable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
immutably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immutable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immutably
From immutable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immutably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immutably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immutable manner. In a way that cannot be varied, or changed.
pos: adv
examples: My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved - as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property....they yielded at length.
Translations:
impassively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impassive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impassively
From impassive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impassively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impassively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impassive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
impeccably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impeccable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impeccably
From impeccable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impeccably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impeccably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perfect or flawless manner.
pos: adv
examples: Arley's ferry boat has been replaced by a single-span pedestrian bridge. This leads to the old Harbour Inn and the impeccably restored railway station, now part of the privately run steam-operated Severn Valley Railway.
The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano.
It is difficult to distinguish one bourgeois from another: the grande bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed at all times and don't speak to anyone outside their own class; the bonne bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak to everyone; the petite bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak only to complain[…]
In fact, even when I did make some small mistakes with grammar, people still said I spoke impeccably.
Translations:
impishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impishly
From impish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impish manner; mischievously.
pos: adv
examples: She was one of those elfin, rather precocious little girls, quick coloured, with dark hair, naturally curling dusky hair that was sometimes astray over her eyes, and eyes that were sometimes impishly dark, and sometimes a clear brown yellow.
Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
I looked at Josella. To my astonishment, she was grinning impishly. "What do you find funny about this?" I asked a trifle shortly.
In my favorite Meta A.I. ad, a woman tells her boyfriend that she’s excited to have him meet her parents — before impishly mentioning that her father is a thermodynamicist at NASA. […]
Translations:
inadequately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inadequate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inadequately
From inadequate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inadequately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inadequately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inadequate manner.
pos: adv
examples: Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.
Antonyms: adequately
Translations:
inalienably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inalienable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inalienably
From inalienable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inalienably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inalienably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inalienable manner.
pos: adv
examples: This was his intention to persuade their aged grandfather to transfer his own heirship to Arthur, which he considered it a fortunate circumstance was in his power, with the exception of a very small estate, tied inalienably to the heir of that ancient and distinguished family.
Translations:
inanely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inane
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inanely
From inane + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inanely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inanely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inane manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
inarticulately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inarticulate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inarticulately
From inarticulate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inarticulately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inarticulately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inarticulate manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
incalculably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incalculable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incalculably
From incalculable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incalculably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incalculably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incalculable manner.
pos: adv
examples: incalculably small
Antonyms: calculably
Translations:
incipiently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incipient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incipiently
From incipient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incipiently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incipiently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incipient manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
incomparably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incomparable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incomparably
From incomparable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incomparably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incomparably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incomparable manner.
pos: adv
examples: […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […]
[…] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater
After plowing through some names—including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, “the great Lou Dobbs” and the incomparably sequacious Steve Doocy... Trump caught himself...
It has been the most important traditional rôle of this country that it should act as a great uniter of the nations in that cultural fashion. We are the motherland of what is incomparably the most important language of the world and we have, to our glory, one of the greatest literatures of the world.
Translations:
incompetently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incompetent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incompetently
From incompetent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incompetently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incompetently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incompetent manner.
pos: adv
examples: He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
Translations:
incompletely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incomplete
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incompletely
From incomplete + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incompletely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incompletely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incomplete manner.
pos: adv
gloss: To an incomplete degree.
pos: adv
Antonyms: completely
Translations:
incomprehensibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti
Proto-Italic *hendō
Proto-Italic *praiɣendō
Latin prehendō
Latin comprehendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin comprehēnsibilis
Latin incomprehēnsibilisbor.
Middle French incomprehensibleder.
English incomprehensible
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 incomprehensibly
From incomprehensible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incomprehensibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incomprehensibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incomprehensible manner.
pos: adv
examples: There [in the new heaven] shall we, indissolubly, with all the choir of heaven pass our eviternity of bliss, in lauding and praising the incomprehensibly-glorious Majesty of our Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier; in perpetual Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the throne.
Nameless and formless the Spirit within shines forth, unconditioned and everlasting. What name is befitting the soul? How shall Infinite Effulgence be manifested? Too great a light blinds the senses. Too great a truth is too exhilarating for the student. The boundless, infinite Sentience, incomprehensibly dimensioned in Being and Intelligence, rests Unseen and Unthinkable in the shore of His Own omnipresent and superomnipresent consciousness.
She is "one of the most enwomaned women I've seen, a brunette of eternity incomprehensibly beautiful"
Antonyms: comprehensibly
understandably
Translations:
inconceivably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconceivable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconceivably
From inconceivable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconceivably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconceivably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconceivable manner, in a way not believable or understandable.
pos: adv
examples: Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.
Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
Translations:
inconclusively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconclusive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconclusively
From inconclusive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconclusively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconclusively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconclusive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
incongruously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incongruous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incongruously
From incongruous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incongruously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incongruously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incongruous manner.
pos: adv
examples: A burly Negro guard opened the door. Single file, past gleaming Cadillacs sitting incongruously in the low-ceilinged squat dusty garage, they followed him to a panel door in the rear.
It was a long, long list[of problems], but Mr. Stink listened to everything she said as jolly Christmas songs played incongruously in the background.
Translations:
inconsiderately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconsiderate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconsiderately
From inconsiderate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsiderately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconsiderately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconsiderate manner; without consideration for others.
pos: adv
examples: He inconsiderately let the twig snap back at her.
Inconsiderately, he pressed on when she paused.
Antonyms: considerately
Translations:
inconsistently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconsistent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconsistently
From inconsistent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsistently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconsistently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconsistent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
inconsolably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconsolable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconsolably
From inconsolable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsolably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconsolably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconsolable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
incontestably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incontestable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incontestably
From incontestable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incontestably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incontestably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incontestable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
incontrovertibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incontrovertible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incontrovertibly
From incontrovertible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incontrovertibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incontrovertibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incontrovertible manner; in a manner not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed.
pos: adv
examples: It is, incontrovertibly, our duty, if divine and civil laws have given us a rule whereby to regulate our conduct, and which may both promote the benefit of society and the good of the individual, we are obliged to act agreeably to that rule, let the conduct of others be what it may.
In such a case and under such proof the intent to kill and the deliberate and premeditated malice are incontrovertibly implied.
And if word did spread that he had withdrawn his money from the bank in cash, every man and his cousin in the county would be his threat and enemy until every one of them was incontrovertibly convinced that the actual money actually was somewhere else, and exactly where that somewhere else was.
Translations:
inconveniently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconvenient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconveniently
From inconvenient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconveniently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconveniently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconvenient manner.
pos: adv
examples: There are several reasons why the line's future is now dubious. With the exception of Horsmonden, the stations are most inconveniently sited. This is largely because the Wealden villages were built on ridges, and in fact most Wealden stations are badly placed.
Antonyms: conveniently
Translations:
incorrigibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incorrigible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incorrigibly
From incorrigible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incorrigibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incorrigibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incorrigible manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
Irredentist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian irredentista, from (Italia) irredenta (“unredeemed Italy”).
Inflected forms:
form: Irredentists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member or supporter of the Italian party after 1878 which called for the recovery of all Italian-speaking territories subject to other countries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
incurably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incurable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incurably
From incurable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incurably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incurably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incurable manner.
pos: adv
examples: "I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."
it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)
Central to his argument is the idea that cooperative killing of incurably violent individuals played a central role in our self-domestication. Much as the Russian scientists eliminated the fierce fox pups from the breeding pool, our ancestors killed men who were guilty of repeated acts of violence.
Translations:
indecently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indecent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indecently
From indecent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indecently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indecently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indecent manner.
pos: adv
gloss: To an extreme degree.
pos: adv
examples: Chloryl fluoride, ClO₂F, was first reported by Schmitz and Schumacher in 1942. It is indecently reactive, and the hardest to keep of all the Cl-O-F compounds, since it apparently dissolves the protective metal fluoride coatings that make the storage of ClF₃ comparatively simple.
She didn't actually swing around from the light bulbs, but she was indecently active for her years.
Translations:
indecisively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indecisive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indecisively
From indecisive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indecisively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indecisively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indecisive manner.
pos: adv
examples: I stood there indecisively for a few minutes. Then I turned east, Londonwards.
She stood indecisively in front of the drugstore, wanting a Coke icee. The heated aroma of warn donuts floated by on the damp air from the bakery next door, where they also had an icee machine, leaking crystal tendrils of cold condensation down its refrigerated front.
Amid criticism that it was acting too slowly and indecisively in the face of disaster, TEPCO flooded three of its unstable reactors with water. It continues to do so while efforts continue towards long-term recovery.
Translations:
indefensibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indefensible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indefensibly
From indefensible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indefensibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indefensibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indefensible manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
indelibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indelible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indelibly
From indelible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indelibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indelibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indelible manner.
pos: adv
examples: In 1979, Jennifer Dunning, writing in The New York Times, said that Ms. Wilson had “etched herself indelibly on the consciousness of the New York balletgoing public.”
She felt a melancholy satisfaction in gazing for the last time on a scene so indelibly impressed with Madame de Mercœur's image. How many instances of her sweet and gentle temper rose so touchingly to memory!
On some occasions, spiritualization is indelibly connected to mind, and is seen to be “the progress of consciousness.”
Translations:
indelicately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indelicate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indelicately
From indelicate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indelicately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indelicately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indelicate manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
indescribably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indescribable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indescribably
From indescribable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indescribably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indescribably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indescribable manner.
pos: adv
examples: The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.
There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."
“I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to lie anymore, and that I could start taking responsibility even though I felt indescribably bad.”
Translations:
indeterminately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indeterminate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indeterminately
From indeterminate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indeterminately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indeterminately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indeterminate manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
indiscreetly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indiscreet
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indiscreetly
From indiscreet + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indiscreetly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indiscreetly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indiscreet manner.
pos: adv
examples: If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.
Our body is as a well-set clock which keeps good time; if it be too much or indiscreetly tamper’d with, the larum runs out before the houre.
See there be no entrance into princes' courts, either of drunkenneſs, ill-ſpeaking, babling indiſcreetly, flattery, […]
Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…].
Sadly, all the German officers whom we met during these bloody years of world war, with rare exceptions, were as Armenophobic as the Turks, some expressing themselves indiscreetly, others being more diplomatic.
Translations:
indispensably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indispensable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indispensably
From indispensable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indispensably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indispensably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indispensable manner; such that one cannot do without it.
pos: adv
Translations:
indivisibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indivisible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indivisibly
From indivisible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indivisibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indivisibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indivisible manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
indolently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indolent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indolently
From indolent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indolently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indolently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indolent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
indulgently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indulgent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indulgently
From indulgent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indulgently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indulgently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indulgent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
industrially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English industrial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English industrially
From industrial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more industrially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most industrially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Concerning industry.
pos: adv
examples: […] agricultural production is an expensive and inefficient way of keeping the countryside well manicured for the delectation of the weekending or vacationing urban dweller; and the typical methods of subsidizing domestic farm production are very doubtful -- and in Europe largely unknown -- value in terms of promoting social objectives such as reduced income inequality, especially in these days of the stockbroker-landlord and the industrially employed part-time farmer.
The steelies were just balls of steel, industrially ugly and not part of most girls' collections. There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
What Interlune is trying to do [the startup aims to develop robotic lunar mining camps] is far from child’s play. Helium-3, an industrially prized cousin of the isotope of the gas we use to fill party balloons, is rare on Earth.
gloss: In an industrial manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
industriously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English industrious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English industriously
From industrious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more industriously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most industriously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an industrious manner.
pos: adv
examples: Robert had a friend at the Melbourne University, with whom he corresponded industriously.
Translations:
ineffably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ineffable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ineffably
From ineffable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ineffably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ineffably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: indescribably; to a very great degree or extent.
pos: adv
examples: His songs are ineffably sweet and touching.
"And," said Crabbe, "I know exactly how much brandy's in that cupboard. And whisky." The Chinese smiled ineffably.
gloss: unmentionably; unspeakably
pos: adv
examples: This is the Name which is most ineffably holy.
Translations:
ineffectively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Latin effectivusbor.
French effectifder.
English effective
English ineffective
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 ineffectively
From ineffective + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ineffectively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ineffectively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ineffective manner; not producing any significant or desired effect.
pos: adv
Translations:
ineffectually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ineffectual
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ineffectually
From ineffectual + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ineffectually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ineffectually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ineffectual manner.
pos: adv
examples: Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.
Translations: