yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bearish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
stock-market
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bear
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English bearish
From bear + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more bearish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bearish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by or expecting falling prices.
pos: adj
examples: At the start of the year, Bridgewater turned bearish on U.S. bonds and built up a short position.
gloss: Pessimistic about the future.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The Germans were downcast because of Eastern Europe and Helmut Schmidt's decline, the Arabs were depressed because of oil and Iraq, the French were bearish because of their government; only the British seemed a little upbeat, but that was before the Falkland Islands incident.
Antonyms: bullish
Derived words: bearishly
bearishness
unbearish
Translations:
beat-up
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English beat updeverb.
English beat-up
Deverbal from beat up.
Inflected forms:
form: more beat-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most beat-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: beat-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: 2009, Natasha Robinson, 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry', The Australian, Business section
“It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up."
2009, Michael Cook, 'Is Britain’s stem cell crisis a beat-up?', BioEdge
Few areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research.
Translations:
beautician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of beauty + technician, originally coined in Cleveland, Ohio, c. 1920s.
Compound parts: beauty
technician
Inflected forms:
form: beauticians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: hairstylist, hairdresser
He was struck by the number of barbers’ saloons and ‘beauticians’.
Translations:
gynoid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
literature
media
medicine
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From gyno- + android.
Base: android
Affixes: gyno-
Inflected forms:
form: gynoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An android (humanoid robot) in female form.
pos: noun
examples: She was obviously a skillful surgeon. She expertly cleaned and sterilized the gaping holes in the gynoid’s chest and back.
Purchased as sex toys, the gynoids are programmed to love and sexually serve male humans; the aberrant violence of one particular model, called "Hadaly," is a mystery to the company that manufactures them. They should not be able to kill humans, nor should they have any desire to commit suicide, since they should have no real sense of self.⁴⁴ Batõ and his new partner, Togusa (who was Kusanagi's partner in the previous film), spend the rest of the film trying to discover how the gynoids have acquired their faulty programming—is it the work of a terrorist hacker, for example, targeting prominent men?
She is embodied as a bright blue feminized robot, much like the mechanized gynoids in the classic film Metropolis (1928).
gloss: Gynaecoid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a gynoid fat distribution
gloss: Of, pertaining to or following the distribution pattern of the type of body fat, more prevalent in women, that forms around the hips, breasts and thighs and is relatively rich in the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which are important in the development of foetuses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The work intensity and duration was identical in android and gynoid obese women in this study, making it unlikely that energy expenditure in the training program was different in these two groups.
2008, Sharon Plowman, Denise Smith, Exercise Physiology for Health, Fitness, and Performance, Benjamin Cummings, Wolters Kluwer, 2nd Edition, page 219,
Alpha-receptors predominate in the lower body and are thus more abundant in the gynoid pattern.
As a result, measured ratios of estrogen to testosterone in women predict their ratios of gynoid fat to android fat (Singh, 1993, 1995, 2002a,b; Kirchengast et al., 1997). As should also be expected, women with higher ratios of gynoid to android fat are more fertile than their counterparts with lower ratios (Kirchengast et al., 1997; Singh, 1993, 1995, 2002a,b).
Derived words: gynoid pattern
Translations:
becloud
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English cloud
English becloud
From be- + cloud.
Inflected forms:
form: beclouds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beclouding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beclouded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beclouded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to become obscure or muddled.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] Intemperance and Superfluity beclouds the Mind, dulls the edge of the Apprehension, and brings upon it an unmanly Languor, bearing down all the noble Faculties of the Soul into Ignorance and Stupidity […]
[…] conscience was not to be perverted by the sophistry which had beclouded my reason.
[C]hildren of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water. Therefore, […] the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded.
She thought of Eleanor with her habit of giving spontaneous utterance to stray and irresponsible accusations. Caroline found the true facts everywhere beclouded.
gloss: To cover or surround with clouds.
pos: verb
tags: passive
transitive
usually
examples: And then while you're a cooking, they say, / Such a fogo beclouds all the room, / That the girls have to group out the way, / In search of the tongs or the broom.
Day light began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o’clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.
A long sun ray shot to the zenith from the beclouded west, crossing obliquely in a faint red bar the purple band of sky above the ravine.
gloss: To cast in a negative light, cast a pall over, darken.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: What Fury has possest thee? What strange fit
Usurps thy patience, and beclouds thy brow?
1856, Abraham Lincoln, speech given on 19 May, 1856 in Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, London: J.M. Dent, 1907, p. 46,
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
From the shrill triumph with which his name was dragged in, his crime must have been pilfering from a cathedral at least, but as both remembrancers were speaking at once it was difficult to distinguish his infamy from the scandal which beclouded the memory of Mrs. Saunders’ brother’s wife’s mother—who may have been a regicide, and was certainly not a nice person as Mrs. Crick painted her.
Derived words: beclouder
unbeclouded
Translations:
bedpost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bed + post.
Compound parts: bed
post
Inflected forms:
form: bedposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead.
pos: noun
Translations:
roundhouse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: archaeology
card-games
games
history
human-sciences
nautical
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: From round + house, a calque of Dutch rondhuis (“guardhouse”). First attested in the Mid-15th c.
Compound parts: round
house
Inflected forms:
form: roundhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: round house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: roundhouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roundhousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roundhoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roundhoused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: round house
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he gentlemen in the coffee room insisted upon the watch being called, or a constable. With considerable difficulty the two heroes were carried off to the round-house, and there lodged for the night.
gloss: A traditional circular dwelling elevated on stilts with a conical roof found in part of Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
examples: All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.
gloss: A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
pos: noun
examples: A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived.
gloss: The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A circular building in which locomotives are housed, sometimes with a turntable.
pos: noun
examples: Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
Archaeologists working on HS2 in Birmingham have uncovered the remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse at Curzon Street station.
gloss: A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
pos: noun
gloss: To punch or kick with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We focused on the nerve-agent feint, and got roundhoused by the insurgent hook.
I'm on my feet and my fist is roundhousing and I feel flesh. I hit again, and teeth crack under my fist. I hear voices and they're shouting and a light burns into my face.
Related words: engine shed
Derived words: Atlantic roundhouse
roundhouse kick
roundhouseman
Translations:
roundish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English round
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English roundish
From round + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more roundish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roundish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat round.
pos: adj
examples: Leaflets 9-11, roundish, of a firm texture, the lowest pair smaller than the rest, glaucous.
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
Translations:
roundly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English roundly, roundely, roundliche, equivalent to round + -ly.
Base: round
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more roundly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most roundly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Circularly.
pos: adv
gloss: Utterly or thoroughly.
pos: adv
examples: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed.
A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke. Now this shy South African with Asperger’s syndrome, who escaped a brutal childhood and overcame personal tragedy, bends governments and industry to the force of his ambition.
Weak management and a small team of civil servants who were out of their depth have been roundly blamed for the £4 billion overspend on London's Elizabeth line (Crossrail) and its opening four years late in May 2022.
gloss: Boldly; openly.
pos: adv
examples: Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos.
gloss: Briskly.
pos: adv
gloss: Generally.
pos: adv
Synonyms: completely
deeply
firmly
fully
perfectly
soundly
thoroughly
totally
Translations:
roundness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English roundnesse, equivalent to round + -ness.
Base: round
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: roundnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being round.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The quality or degree of being round.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I gazed at her arm. Where was its wonderful roundness and beauty? It was getting thin and angular.
Translations:
round-shouldered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more round-shouldered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most round-shouldered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a rounded upper back, and shoulders that bend forward.
pos: adj
Translations:
rowdiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rowdy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English rowdiness
From rowdy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: rowdinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being rowdy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Spectator rowdiness and movement during matches is considered part of the “modern era of tennis” and good for the game, attracting nonfans interested in the spectacle.
Translations:
rowdyism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rowdy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English rowdyism
From rowdy + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: rowdyisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being rowdy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ayah stops to one side and I dive into the tangle of limbs yelling for all I’m worth, contributing my mite of rowdyism to the general row.
Translations:
helminth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἕλμῐνς (hélmĭns)der.
English helminth
From Ancient Greek ἕλμινς (hélmins, “intestinal worm”).
Inflected forms:
form: helminths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A parasitic worm; a fluke, tapeworm, or nematode.
pos: noun
Translations:
suppressant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From suppress + -ant.
Base: suppress
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: suppressants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that suppresses.
pos: noun
Translations:
suppressor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From suppress + -or.
Base: suppress
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: suppressors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
pos: noun
gloss: A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
pos: noun
examples: Silencers, also called suppressors, are tube-shaped devices that, when screwed into the muzzle of a gun, slow the decompression of gases that propel a bullet forward, thus reducing the “pop” sound of gunfire. […] “I don’t think in real life, in practical applications, that there is that great of a tactical advantage to use a suppressor, especially for something like a mass shooting,” Gutowski said.
gloss: A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
pos: noun
gloss: A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.
pos: noun
Related words: suppressant
Derived words: contrasuppressor
flash suppressor
immunosuppressor
nonsuppressor
oncosuppressor
surge suppressor
Translations:
surliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English surly
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English surliness
From surly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: surlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being surly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There has been an escalation of police harassment in the gay community: five brutal busts at the Crystal Hotel; the closing of sex clubs without notice; beatings of women outside Amelia's Bar in January and surliness and assaults against lesbians by off duty officers at Peg's Club later.
Translations:
sureness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English surenes; equivalent to sure + -ness.
Base: sure
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: surenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sure, certainty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His sureness was born of having looked it up in a reputable reference book.
gloss: The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The surgeon's sureness was the result of long study in school and long practice in the operating room, never did he hesitate and never was there a mis-move.
gloss: The result or product of being sure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
Translations:
surgically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor.
Late Latin chīrurgicus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder.
Middle French cirurgicalbor.
Middle English cirurgicalder.
English surgical
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 surgically
From surgical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to surgery; by means of surgery.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: His cancer was treated surgically instead of with drugs or radiation.
When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
The cause of uroperitoneum often can be determined and the condition corrected surgically.
Translations:
drayman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dray
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English drayman
From dray + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: draymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dray-man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who drives drays.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A deliveryman for a brewery.
pos: noun
examples: I likewiſe delivered up my Watch, which the Emperor was very curious to ſee, and commanded two of his talleſt Yeomen of the Guards to bear it on a Pole upon their Shoulders, as Dray-Men in England do a Barrel of Ale.
Translations:
sublimity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sublimite, sublimitee, from Middle French sublimité and/or Latin sublīmitās. By surface analysis, sublime + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: sublimities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being sublime.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The frantic father struts the stage, / And swells with true sublimity of rage / Against his son, who leads a wanton life, / And scorns the offer of a dowried wife.
gloss: Something sublime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
unpalatable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder.
Latin palātumder.
Old French palatbor.
Middle English palate
English palate
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English palatable
English unpalatable
From un- + palatable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unpalatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpalatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unpalatables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unpleasant to the taste.
pos: adj
examples: In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.
She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.
Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to escape.
gloss: Unpleasant or disagreeable.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.
"This is very perplexing," said Duke Deodonato, and he knit his brows; for as he gazed upon the beauty of the damsel, it seemed to him a thing unnatural, undesirable, unpalatable, unpleasant, and unendurable, that she should wed Dr. Fusbius.
A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.
gloss: Anything distasteful.
pos: noun
examples: In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be.
Synonyms: distasteful
ill-flavored
rough
mawkish
undrinkable
uneatable
unpalatable
unsavory
unstomachable
yucky
Antonyms: delicious
insipid
Related words: inedible
Translations:
gabled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gable
English -ed
English gabled
From gable + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having one or more gables.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gainful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gain (“against, contrary”) + -ful.
Base: gain
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more gainful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gainful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gainfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Contrary.
pos: adj
gloss: Disposed to taking advantage of.
pos: adj
gloss: Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle.
pos: adj
Synonyms: advantageous
gainful
gainsome
lucrative
lucriferous
lucrific
paying
profitable
remunerative
Antonyms: disadvantageous
fruitless
gainless
improfitable
loss-making
nonlucrative
nonpaying
ungainful
unlucrative
unprofitable
unremunerative
Translations:
gainfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gainful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gainfully
From gainful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gainfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gainfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gainful manner; profitably.
pos: adv
Translations:
galleria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian galleria. Doublet of gallery.
Inflected forms:
form: gallerias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An indoor area, or covered courtyard, containing shops.
pos: noun
Translations:
misconstrued
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Interpreted erroneously, understood incorrectly; misunderstood.
pos: adj
Translations:
surveyor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English surveyour, from Anglo-Norman surveour, from Old French sorveor. By surface analysis, survey + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: surveyors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surveyour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.
pos: noun
examples: The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or to put an end to their operations by force."
gloss: One who carries out a survey or poll.
pos: noun
gloss: A person charged with inspecting something for the purpose of determining its condition, value, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Other costs associated with selling a home include surveyor's fees, legal fees, estate agent's commission, stamp duty and the VAT.
Derived words: immunosurveyor
land surveyor
quantity surveyor
surveyor general
surveyorship
tide surveyor
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: инспектор
roman: inspektor
lang: Finnish
word: tarkastaja
lang: German
word: Gutachterin
lang: German
word: Gutachter
lang: German
word: Inspektorin
lang: German
word: Inspektor
lang: Hindi
word: निरीक्षक
roman: nirīkṣak
lang: Hungarian
word: felügyelő
lang: Hungarian
word: ellenőr
lang: Italian
word: perito
lang: Italian
word: consulente
lang: Spanish
word: tasador
lang: Spanish
word: perito
suds
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud + -s. Related to seethe.
Base: sud
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: sud
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: sudses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sudsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sudsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sudsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
gloss: Beer.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
slang
examples: We went out for some pizza and suds.
gloss: To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We sudsed the car before washing it down until it gleamed like new.
Derived words: oversuds
soapsuds
soap suds
sudser
sudsless
suds up
sudsy
Translations:
sublimely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sublime
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sublimely
From sublime + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sublimely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sublimely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sublime manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
submissively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English submissive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English submissively
From submissive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more submissively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most submissively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a submissive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
subcontractor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English contractor
English subcontractor
From sub- + contractor.
Inflected forms:
form: subcontractors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A contractor hired by another contractor (often a general contractor) and thus employed by that contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.
pos: noun
Translations:
jugged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been cooked by jugging.
pos: adj
examples: jugged hare
gloss: Having a specified kind of breasts.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
slang
examples: a large-jugged babe
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
Translations:
commemorative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Etymology: First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif.
Inflected forms:
form: commemoratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to commemorate something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a commemorative plaque
The centenary of Britain's most famous train has called for a commemorative and descriptive work and in this 40-page illustrated booklet the author has tried—with some success, to pour a quart into a pint pot.
The plaza in front of San Francisco's City Hall was the scene Nov. 27 of two separate ceremonies commemorative of the assassinations one year ago of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
gloss: An object made to commemorate a person, mark an event, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A postage stamp issued to commemorate, usually a person or event; also commonly applied to thematic (topical) stamp issues.
pos: noun
examples: beautiful Pictorials, topicals, commemoratives, airmails. Introductory selection 40% discount. Ralph Rice, 15 Longlane, West Hartford 7, Conn.
Translations:
galoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Quranic Arabic جالُوت (jālūt, pronounced galūt in Egyptian Arabic), proper name equivalent to English Goliath, giant warrior of the ancient Philistine ethnicity; cf. connotations of derogatory uses of English Philistine. Doublet of goliath.
Inflected forms:
form: galoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clumsy or uncouth person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: “I talk like a galoot when I get talking to feemale^([sic]) girls and I can’t lay my tongue to anything that sounds right.”
“Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn’t worth mentioning.[…]”
On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper.
“So if someone does something I do not agree with, I could call him a galoot and it would be okay?”
“Something like that, if you were friends.”
“Are galoots always men?”
Translations:
gameness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *gamaną
Proto-West Germanic *gaman
Old English gamen
Middle English game
English game
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English gameness
From game + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being game; bravery, courage or pluck
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I mention gameness last, but it is the most important trait. It means that neither fatigue nor pain nor the psychology of being behind the entire time will cause the dog to lose his enthusiasm for fighting contact.
Translations:
gamester
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gambling
games
video-games
Etymology: Derived from game + -ster.
Base: game
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: gamesters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who plays games.
pos: noun
examples: And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, […] the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]
gloss: One who plays video games.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: Gamesters should know that Nintendo is considering a phone link that would allow players to compete via modem in nationwide competitions.
gloss: A gambler.
pos: noun
examples: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
gloss: A prostitute; one who is on the game.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: She's impudent my Lord, / And was a common gameſter to the Campe.
Derived words: gamestress
Translations:
gangland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gang
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
English gangland
From gang + land.
Inflected forms:
form: ganglands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The underworld of organized crime.
pos: noun
examples: Australia's reputation as the happy-go-lucky country was turned on its head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone.
The Irish gangland figure Gerry “the monk” Hutch has failed in his bid for a parliamentary seat in a Dublin byelection.
Translations:
uneventful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English eventful
English uneventful
From un- + eventful.
Inflected forms:
form: more uneventful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uneventful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: monotonous; lacking significant or noteworthy events
pos: adj
examples: There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.
Even in Austria, a largely uneventful democracy, the far right Freedom Party has achieved startling electoral success on the strength of its ability to play up people’s suspicions and anger that "everything is rigged" and that the system is weighted to discount the popular will.
Translations:
marathoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English marathon
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English marathoner
From marathon + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: marathoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
pos: noun
examples: She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
“I just go as long as I can before my legs get too heavy and my head gets in a haze,” said Chris Zablocki, the best marathoner most elite marathoners have never heard of.
Translations:
nosology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”).
Inflected forms:
form: nosologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A treatise or written classification of diseases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2003: Thomas Arnold … constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)
Related words: nosocomial
Derived words: nosological
nosologist
psychonosology
zoonosology
Translations:
ackers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Egyptian Arabic قرش (ʔerš, “piastre, Ottoman penny”). See also smackers, smackeroo, smackeroonies.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
slang
Translations:
knuckle-dragging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the habit of some primates of walking with the forelimbs dragging along the ground.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Holding beliefs or having attitudes that are primitive or uncivilised.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
examples: The furore over Penguin's wise and brave decision to “reflect the diversity of British society” in its publishing and hiring output seems to have awoken the usual knuckle-dragging, semi-blind suspects with their endlessly repeated terrors and fears.
Translations:
archtop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From arch + top.
Compound parts: arch
top
Inflected forms:
form: archtops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of large steel-stringed guitar having an arched belly, a neck at a slight angle to the body and a fretboard elevated above the soundboard.
pos: noun
Translations:
humbucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hum
English buck
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English humbucker
From hum (“noise”) + buck (“resist, overcome”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: humbuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency.
pos: noun
Translations:
humbucking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a pair of coils or reverse polarity connected in series.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ganglionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on)bor.
English ganglion
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ganglionic
From ganglion + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or composed of ganglia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus...
Translations:
gangplank
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) + plank (“board”).
Compound parts: gang
plank
Inflected forms:
form: gangplanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gang-plank
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gang plank
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
pos: noun
examples: Every since the age of six Troy Belknap of New York had embarked for Europe every June on the fastest steamer of one of the most expensive lines. With his family he had descended at the dock from a large noiseless motor, had kissed his father good-bye, turned back to shake hands with the chauffeur (a particular friend), and trotted up the gang-plank behind his mother's maid, [...]
Translations:
garfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English garfysche (“garfish”, literally “spear-fish”), from gor (“spear”) + fisch (“fish”). Cognate with Scots gairfish (“garfish”).
Inflected forms:
form: garfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gar-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
especially
gloss: Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
especially
Translations:
garishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English garish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English garishly
From garish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more garishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most garishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a garish manner.
pos: adv
examples: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
Euston: The vast main concourse screens displayed advertising again on March 2, on a two-week trial - but less garishly following public complaints.
Translations:
garishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English garish
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English garishness
From garish + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: garishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being garish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
garlicky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From garlic + -y.
Base: garlic
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more garlicky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: garlickier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most garlicky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: garlickiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tasting or smelling of garlic.
pos: adj
examples: "I had rather see an English beef-steak and horse-raddish than this eternal succession of greasy stews and garlicky ragouts," returned Grumpall.
Jersey lamb is sometimes garlicky early in the season. Avoid buying it; you can easily tell it by the garlicky smell. It can only be rendered eatable by stewing, or frying it with plenty of onions. To plain roast or boil garlicky meat is in vain.
My companion's Caesar salad, garlickier than most versions, featured homemade croutons.
It opened up a new world of taste and provided me with one of the keenest—and the garlickiest—gastronomic experiences of my life.
A burger with garlic aioli, caramelized onions, and garlicky mushrooms could be anyone's perfect meal, whether they're on GAPS [Gut and Psychology Syndrome] or not.
Currently, the Palestinian territories are being featured, and the menu boasts treats like maftoul (a garlicky chicken and couscous dish) and tamar Hindi (chilled tamarind juice with rose water).
Translations:
garnishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English garnish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English garnishment
From garnish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: garnishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tarnishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tarnishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is tarnished.
pos: noun
Translations:
tarnished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tarnished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tarnished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Discolored or blemished.
pos: adj
gloss: Sullied or dishonored.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
Derived words: tarnished plant bug
untarnished
Translations:
quetzalcoatlus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Quetzalcoatlus, based on Classical Nahuatl Quetzalcōātl.
Inflected forms:
form: quetzalcoatluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large toothless pterosaur of the genus Quetzalcoatlus.
pos: noun
Translations:
xenobiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From xeno- + biology. Sometimes attributed to science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein.
Base: biology
Affixes: xeno-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The speculative biology of extraterrestrial life forms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This massive skull is scored by deflected mass accelerator shots. The xenobiology files in your hardsuit computer can't identify the species. It must have been brought here from an unknown world.
gloss: The biology of life forms with nonstandard biochemistry or codes, including synthetic life and mirror life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sensitively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sensitive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sensitively
From sensitive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sensitively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sensitively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sensitive manner; with sensitivity.
pos: adv
Translations:
sentimentalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sentimental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English sentimentalist
From sentimental + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: sentimentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is sentimental.
pos: noun
examples: But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile. His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries.
Translations: