yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
MacGyver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the eponymous character in the television program MacGyver, a secret agent with an uncanny ability to construct weapons from seemingly useless bits of junk.
Inflected forms:
form: MacGyvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone capable of improvising an ingenious solution from everyday objects or unsuitable resources.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gordian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gordius + -an or Gordium + -an.
Base: Gordius
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Gordian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Gordian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Gordium (now Yassihüyük in Turkey), capital of Phrygia.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia
pos: adj
gloss: Of the Gordian knot.
pos: adj
gloss: Twisted; convoluted; tied as a knot.
pos: adj
examples: […] cloſe the Serpent ſly,
Inſinuating, wove with Gordian twine
His braided train, […]
[…] he found a palpitating snake, / Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. / She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, / Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; […]
When you put it that way it was so simple, so self-explanatory, so beautiful, so obvious that what had seemed the most Gordian problem was instantly almost mundane, and its elegance was its own proof.
Translations:
furrier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, from Old French forreor, from fourrer (“to line or trim with fur”).
Inflected forms:
form: furriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in pelts or in clothing made of fur.
pos: noun
examples: The furrier went on to say that he had a real beaute of a Canadian three-quarter squirrel just in.
Translations:
deindustrialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + industrialization or deindustrialize + -ation.
Base: industrialization
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: deindustrializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decrease in industrial activity or capacity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The U.K. is now an object lesson for other countries dealing with a dark triad of deindustrialization, degrowth, and denigration of foreigners.
Translations:
adjacently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin adiaceō
Latin adiacēnsder.
English adjacent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English adjacently
From adjacent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In such a way as to be adjacent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacently.
Translations:
adjectivally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adjectival
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English adjectivally
From adjectival + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more adjectivally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most adjectivally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As, or in the manner of, an adjective.
pos: adv
examples: In that sense, the word acts adjectivally, whereas in most cases it acts adverbially.
...it was observed that overt definite pronouns may also function adjectivally in various languages...
All attributive adjectives function adjectivally; an attributive adjective cannot function substantivally.
Translations:
adjudge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ajugen, adjugen, from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.
Inflected forms:
form: adjudges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjudging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjudged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjudged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To declare to be.
pos: verb
gloss: To deem or determine to be.
pos: verb
examples: City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.
gloss: To award judicially; to assign.
pos: verb
examples: 19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage
What doth the poor man's son inherit?
Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
Content that from employment springs
[…] who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case.
gloss: To sentence; to condemn.
pos: verb
examples: on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment
no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm
Related words: abjudge
adjudicate
judge
Derived words: adjudgeable
adjudger
unadjudged
Translations:
ranting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rant
English -ing
English ranting
From rant + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more ranting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ranting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: A long, angry, and impassioned speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act or process of delivering a rant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
WAG
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from WAGs (“wives and girlfriends”), mid-2000s.
Inflected forms:
form: WAGs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
informal
examples: The World Cup WAGs are a good example of this. The younger girls, nicknamed the ‘hen-night crowd’ and led by Colleen McLoughlin, dance on tables and drink until the early hours while No. 1 WAG Victoria Beckham remains aloof, dining sedately with Ashley Cole’s fiancee, Cheryl Tweedy.
In Wimbledon, the tennis WAGs and - just as excitingly - HABs (Husbands and Boyfriends) have been appearing courtside, enthusiastically cheering on their beloved other halves with a degree of style.
They looked her up online and soon began following Ms. Riddle on social media, where she shares her life as a tennis WAG — an acronym for “wives and girlfriends,” popularized in Britain in the mid-2000s to describe, disparagingly, a group of preening, partying women attached to soccer players.
WAGs have taken on a second life in the American sports world, linked to basketball, football and, more recently, Formula 1 and tennis.
Translations:
shinty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Unknown
Inflected forms:
form: shinties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.
To the city's large population of Highlanders, it was a portal to home, a place where you could speak Gaelic and sing it, buy tickets to the Glasgow Skye Association's annual dance, squabble about shinty arrange a lift to Ullapool, read the classifieds in the West Highland Free Press.
gloss: The stick used to strike the ball in this game, similar to a hockey stick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
chaebol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 재벌(財閥) (Jaebeol). Doublet of zaibatsu.
Inflected forms:
form: chaebols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chaebol
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chaebŏl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaebol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaebeol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, family-controlled, South Korean business conglomerate.
pos: noun
Translations:
endometrium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From endo- (“inner”) + Late Latin metrium (“womb”), from Ancient Greek μήτριον (mḗtrion, “of a mother”). Compare μήτρᾱ (mḗtrā, “womb”).
Affixes: endo-
Inflected forms:
form: endometria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The mucous membrane that lines the uterus in mammals and in which fertilized eggs are implanted.
pos: noun
Translations:
dermatome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From derma- + -tome (“instrument for cutting”).
Base: derma
Inflected forms:
form: dermatomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used surgically to remove a thin slice of skin for grafting
pos: noun
gloss: An area of skin which is innervated by afferent nerve fibers coming to a single posterior spinal root.
pos: noun
gloss: The dorsal part of an embryonic somite contributing in part to skin development.
pos: noun
Derived words: dermatomal
dermatomed
dermatomic
electrodermatome
nondermatomal
Translations:
desaturation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Late Latin saturatiobor.
English saturation
English desaturation
From de- + saturation.
Inflected forms:
form: desaturations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the conversion of a saturated compound to an unsaturated one by removing hydrogen or other atoms to form a double bond
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a decrease in the level of oxygen saturation in a patient's haemoglobin
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
diagenetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
English dia-
English genetic
English diagenetic
From dia- + genetic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to diagenesis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Semite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Sem, Shem + -ite, from Late Latin Sēm, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from Biblical Hebrew שם (šēm). Compare German Semit, New Latin Sēmīta, French sémite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Semites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shemite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, or Aksumites.
pos: noun
gloss: A descendant of any of these peoples.
pos: noun
gloss: A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
pos: noun
gloss: A Jew.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
Related words: Semitic
Semitism
Derived words: allosemitism
anti-Semite
prosemite
Semitist
Semitization
Semitize
Semitology
Translations:
dipterocarp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor.
Latin di-bor.
English di-
English ptero-
English -carp
English dipterocarp
From di- + ptero- + -carp.
Inflected forms:
form: dipterocarps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any member of the family Dipterocarpaceae of tropical rainforest trees having two-winged fruits
pos: noun
Translations:
dionysiac
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dionysiac
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dionysiac
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: wild and ecstatic
pos: adj
Translations:
dysgenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From dys- + -genic, produced from New Latin dys- from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and γένος (génos, “offspring”).
Affixes: dys-
-genic
Inflected forms:
form: more dysgenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dysgenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to, or causing degeneration or deterioration in offspring.
pos: adj
examples: The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
gloss: Of or relating to dysgenics.
pos: adj
Related words: dysgenesic
dysgenesis
dysgenetic
dysgenetically
dysgenetics
Derived words: dysgenically
dysgenicity
dysgenics
nondysgenic
Translations:
imputable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impute
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 imputable
From impute + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That may be imputed
pos: adj
examples: No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.
gloss: Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.
pos: adj
Related words: imputability
imputableness
imputably
imputation
impute
Derived words: unimputable
Translations:
impulsiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impulsive
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 impulsiveness
From impulsive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: impulsivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being impulsive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
impulsively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impulsive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impulsively
From impulsive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impulsively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impulsively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impulsive manner; with force; by impulse.
pos: adv
examples: "Of course, this wasn't part of some master plan. I impulsively used my vast power to do something nice without thinking it through. And then something I didn't expect happened. Even though I should have expected it."
Translations:
impulsion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English impulsioun, from Old French impulsion, from Latin impulsio, impulsionem.
Inflected forms:
form: impulsions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern. At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.
gloss: Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Farther, Chrisostome upon this place saith, that Paule when he thus writeth, doth in no wise denie the nature of the flesh, but exalteth it to a more higher dignitie, namelie, that it should rather obaie the impulsion of the spirite, than lust.
Once they sit to talk, the Pilgrims lose the impulsion that has brought them so far, their confidence in their own crude strength.
Related words: impulse
impulsive
impulsor
Translations:
inaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French inaction.
Morphologically in- + action.
Base: action
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of action or activity or labor
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hmm, yes, 'negotiations' is an interesting choice of words given that ministers have steadfastly refused to meet the unions for the past year; a clear case of industrial inaction.
Translations:
inertness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inert
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 inertness
From inert + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: inertnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: bioinertness
Translations:
inaccurately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inaccurate + -ly or in- + accurately.
Base: inaccurate
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more inaccurately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inaccurately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
pos: adv
examples: In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh.
Antonyms: accurately
Translations:
inaccessibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French inaccessibilité, from Latin inaccessibilitas.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: North Pole of inaccessibility
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əlçatmazlıq
lang: Bulgarian
word: недостъпност
roman: nedostǎpnost
lang: Catalan
word: inaccessibilitat
lang: Finnish
word: luoksepääsemättömyys
lang: French
word: inaccessibilité
lang: Galician
word: inaccesibilidade
lang: Greek
word: έλειψη προσβασιμότητας
roman: éleipsi prosvasimótitas
lang: Irish
word: neamh-inrochtaineacht
lang: Italian
word: inaccessibilità
lang: Manx
word: neuroshtynid
lang: Manx
word: neuventynys
lang: Portuguese
word: inacessibilidade
lang: Russian
word: недосту́пность
roman: nedostúpnostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: inaccesibilidad
unreachable
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-
English reach
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 unreachable
From un- + reach + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: unreachables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be reached; impossible to attain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] read-only attribute that lists the unreachable but uncollectable objects.
gloss: A person or thing that cannot be reached.
pos: noun
examples: “Brands want to be in front of this audience,” Ms. Bamford said. “Reaching these unreachables, these cord-cutters who don’t want to be fed an ad, is a huge concern.”
Translations:
impudently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impudent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impudently
From impudent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impudently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impudently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impudent manner; with unblushing effrontery; insolently.
pos: adv
examples: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
'Oh certainly,' retorted Tinette impudently, as she flounced out of the room.
Translations:
shamelessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skamō
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-Germanic *skamōlausaz
Proto-West Germanic *skamulaus
Old English sċamlēas
Middle English schameles
English shameless
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 shamelessly
From shameless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more shamelessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most shamelessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a shameless manner; without shame; impudently.
pos: adv
examples: Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.
Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians. With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.
Translations:
imprudently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imprudent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English imprudently
From imprudent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more imprudently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most imprudently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
pos: adv
examples: He imprudently invested all his savings into a shady scheme and lost.
She spoke imprudently during the meeting, criticizing her boss without evidence.
The thinker imprudently dismissed the ontological premises of the argument without engaging in dialectical scrutiny, thereby undermining the epistemic integrity of the discourse.
The minister imprudently disclosed classified information, thereby compromising national security.
The executive imprudently authorized the capital reallocation without conducting a due diligence audit, thereby exposing the firm to significant fiduciary risk.
Translations:
imprudence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From im- + prudence. From Middle French imprudence, from Latin imprudentia.
Base: prudence
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: imprudences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [Hamilton were to have said:] nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
gloss: An imprudent act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Ah: my dear—Madam there is the great mistake—'tis this very conscious Innocence that is of the greatest Prejudice to you—what is it makes you negligent of Forms and careless of the world's opinion—why the consciousness of your Innocence—what makes you thoughtless in your Conduct and apt to run into a thousand little imprudences—
At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.
Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences.
This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences.
He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.
Translations:
heedlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English heedless
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 heedlessness
From heedless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: heedlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or character of being heedless
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
inattention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French inattention.
Inflected forms:
form: inattentions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of attention, or failure to pay attention
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An act of neglect; failure of courtesy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: hemi-inattention
Translations:
rashness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rash
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 rashness
From rash + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: rashnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of state of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
unwarranted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English warranted
English unwarranted
From un- + warranted.
Inflected forms:
form: more unwarranted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unwarranted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
pos: adj
gloss: Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.
pos: adj
examples: The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.
This strike action by the RMT is completely unwarranted and unjustified.
Related words: unwarrantability
unwarrantable
unwarrantableness
unwarrantably
unwarrantedly
warrantless
Translations:
guaranty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French guarantie, from Old French guarantie (“protection, defense”), from Old French garantir, guarantir (“to warrant, vouch for something”), from Old French garant, guarant, warant (“a warrant; warranter, supporter, defender, protector”), from Frankish *warand, *warjand (“a warrant”), from Frankish *warjan (“to fend for, designate something as true, vouch for”), from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Cognate with Middle Low German warent, warend (“a warrant”), German gewähren (“to grant”). More at warrant. Doublet of guarantee and warranty.
Inflected forms:
form: guaranties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a warranty; a security.
pos: noun
gloss: Something serving as a security for such an undertaking.
pos: noun
examples: No doubt the city of New York and the State of California contain capital enough for the completion of the entire road,--would subscribe to it, too, upon sufficient guaranties.
gloss: An assurance or guarantee.
pos: noun
examples: ...He had contemplated the match as the fittest for the heir to England's throne, and one that offered the best guaranty for mutual happiness and a vigorous progeniture.
America has sent us guaranties She will demand that Maximilian Be held but as a prisoner of war.
The concept of God and immortality is for him a guaranty of this eternal difference between right and wrong.
Related words: guarantor
Translations:
unwarrantable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English warrant
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 warrantable
English unwarrantable
From un- + warrantable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unwarrantable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unwarrantable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable
pos: adj
examples: [W]hen men doe not iſhue out of a danger by a doore of Gods opening unto them, but breake through the vvall, (as Jerome by perjury) by violent and unvvarrantable vvayes, their minds are daily haunted vvith ſcruples and perplexities, even ſometimes to dolefull diſtraction; beſides, ſuch eſcapes never grovv proſperous, rather eaſing than curing, and the comfort got by them unraueleth againe, as it hapned in Jerome of Prague.
Another thing, that engageth our affections to unwarrantable conclusions, and is therefore fatal to Science; is our doting on Antiquity, and the opinions of our Fathers.
[T]he taking up arms, merely to enforce the repeal of a pecuniary law, seems as unwarrantable by the divine law, and as repugnant to human feelings, as the taking up arms to enforce the obedience thereto.
Don't persist, sir! or else I shall be obliged to inform my master of your designs; and he'll take measures to secure his house and its inmates from any such unwarrantable intrusions!
After this unwarrantable invasion, which not only filled every passage, but even intruded upon the space set apart for the Press, it is estimated that nearly five thousand people awaited the arrival of the travelers.
Translations:
indiscretion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French, from Late Latin indiscrētiō.
Inflected forms:
form: indiscretions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being indiscreet; lack of discretion
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: political indiscretion
minor indiscretion
He apologized for his youthful indiscretion.
The scandal was caused by a single indiscretion.
gloss: An indiscreet or imprudent act; indiscreet behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: forgive an indiscretion
gloss: A brief sexual liaison.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: indiscreet
discretion
Derived words: dietary indiscretion
indiscretional
youthful indiscretion
Translations:
circumspection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English circumspeccioun, from Middle French circonspection or its etymon Latin circumspectio. By surface analysis, circum- + Latin spect + -ion, "looking [all] around" (as compared with the opposite concept, embodied as tunnel vision or blinders).
Inflected forms:
form: circumspections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As if this were not enough, CAW has failed to utilize even his limited sources with diligence and circumspection; to demonstrate this point, I will briefly note inadequacies in the data adduced by CAW.
Translations:
improviser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English improvise
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 improviser
From improvise + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: improvisers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who improvises.
pos: noun
Translations:
improvidence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English providence
English improvidence
From im- + providence.
Inflected forms:
form: improvidences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
pos: noun
Translations:
improvidently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English improvident
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English improvidently
From improvident + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more improvidently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most improvidently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an improvident manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
improvable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English improve
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 improvable
From improve + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more improvable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most improvable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: improveable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being improved.
pos: adj
examples: Therefore, Humanitarians alone devote their present lives to create heavens within themselves and others, and a real paradise upon earth, because they do not waste their time with Pagan delusions, Sceptical doubts, and Atheistical selfishness, but live happily in the present by preparing for themselves and others happier future human lives upon our improveable globe.
gloss: Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.
pos: adj
Derived words: improvableness
unimprovable
improvably
Translations:
improbably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English improbable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English improbably
From improbable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more improbably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most improbably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an improbable manner; without probability.
pos: adv
examples: […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
Antonyms: probably
Translations:
improbability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English probability
English improbability
From im- + probability.
Inflected forms:
form: improbabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I really," returned the other with a sneer, "cannot agree about probabilities or improbabilities, but I know what the generality will think when they see a gentleman constantly with five very pretty girls, and I also know what they will say."
Translations:
unlikelihood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unlikelihoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Absence of likelihood; the state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
impressiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English impressive
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 impressiveness
From impressive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being impressive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
impressively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English impressive
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 impressively
From impressive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impressively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impressively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impressive manner; forcibly.
pos: adv
examples: The words written on the animal were next repeated impressively, and if the dog began to bark, it was a sign that the lover would gain his objective.
Antonyms: unimpressively
Translations:
impressionistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin impressiōnembor.
French impression
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 -istabor.
French -iste
French impressionnistebor.
English impressionist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
▲
Latin impressiōder.
Old French impressionder.
English impression
▲
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
▲
English -ic
English -istic
English impressionistic
From impressionist + -ic, or from impression + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more impressionistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impressionistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or characterized by impressionism.
pos: adj
gloss: Based on subjective reactions or feelings; not systematically researched or arrived at.
pos: adj
examples: Also, it must be remembered that claims made by Kindersley and Goffin were impressionistic, as opposed to being based on modern linguistic data collection and analysis methods.
gloss: Based on impression rather than reason or fact; based on trying to impress somebody rather than trying for accuracy.
pos: adj
gloss: Impressible.
pos: adj
Derived words: impressionistically
neoimpressionistic
Translations:
impressionable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin impressiōnembor.
French impression
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French impressionner
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -able
Middle French -able
French -able
French impressionnable
English impressionable
From French impressionnable, equivalent to impression + -able. See also impressible.
Base: impression
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more impressionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impressionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: impressionables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
pos: adj
examples: I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.
"Panbek is impressionable and full of emotion, with the temperament of the poet and all those little weaknesses, if we may call them so, which the poet pays as a ransom for his gifts."
Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
As a result, Miss Brodie calls on her authority over her "impressionable" students in order to urge them into roles she herself is too afraid to occupy.
Sages and mothers have long noted that humans, especially young humans, are impressionable. It is supposed that the environment that one inhabits plays a large role in a child's behavioral and moral development.
gloss: An impressionable person.
pos: noun
examples: They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.
Translations:
impressionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin impressiōnembor.
French impression
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 -istabor.
French -iste
French impressionnistebor.
English impressionist
Borrowed from French impressionniste.
Inflected forms:
form: impressionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism.
pos: noun
gloss: A performer who does impressions; a mimic.
pos: noun
examples: When impressionists (and especially lazy impressionists) delivered their comedic interpretation of [Bill] Clinton, the phrase they always used was “I feel your pain,” expressed with a sympathetic Southern drawl.
Derived words: impressionistic
neoimpressionist
nonimpressionist
postimpressionist
preimpressionist
Translations:
impregnability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being impregnable; invincibility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
invincibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French invincibilité, from Latin invincibilitas.
Inflected forms:
form: invincibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unconquerable
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-
English conquerable
English unconquerable
From un- + conquerable.
Inflected forms:
form: unconquerables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not conquerable; indomitable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man.
In computing, the unconquerable trilemma is embodied in the well-known CAP theorem for distributed systems, also called Brewer’s CAP theorem. This states that any distributed database can only attain two of three guarantees: consistency, availability and partition tolerance.
gloss: Someone or something that cannot be conquered.
pos: noun
Translations:
imprecision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English precision
English imprecision
From im- + precision.
Inflected forms:
form: imprecisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lack of precision or exactness; poor accuracy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The imprecision with which Classical authors grouped various peoples of North-Africa together under terms like Afri or Punici.
Translations:
imprecisely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imprecise
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English imprecisely
From imprecise + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more imprecisely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most imprecisely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an imprecise manner.
pos: adv
Antonyms: precisely
accurately
exactly
Translations:
impotently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impotent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impotently
From impotent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impotently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impotently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impotent manner.
pos: adv
examples: Yet in every such instance—and there are scores of them—the Justices can do nothing but impotently point toward future action after Yessing or Noing past action by men in a position to act.
Translations:
powerlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English powerless
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 powerlessness
From powerless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: powerlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonym: helplessness
In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.
Translations: