yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unfit
Part of speech: adj
verb
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 fit
English unfit
From un- + fit.
Inflected forms:
form: unfitter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unfit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unfittest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unfit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unfits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unfitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unfitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unfitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
pos: adj
examples: Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
The latter engine was found unfit to take its return working at 5.35 p.m. from Luton, and No. 45616, Malta G.C., was provided by Kentish Town as substitute.
On September 7, 1993, Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her own mother. A Virginia judge found that her sexual relationship with her lover was immoral and rendered her an unfit parent.
Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
gloss: Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
pos: adj
examples: I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
gloss: Unsuitable for a particular purpose.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: Sadly, the station that proves to be the busiest - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - is unfit for purpose. It possesses a tiny canopy back from the platform that offers little in the way of shelter or amenities, other than a couple of benches.
gloss: To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
pos: verb
examples: He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
This life entirely unfits you for general practice.
The Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area) of 1919 concluded the following: "Trains were crowded not merely to excess, but almost to danger point. The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties."
Derived words: unfitly
unfitness
Translations:
chitterlings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cheterlingis, chitterling, chitterlynge, chytyrlynge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kūtiz, *kut-, from Proto-Indo-European *gud-, *gewd- (“intestine, gut”), from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, camber, vault, distend”).
Compare Middle Low German kǖtel (“entrails, tripe”), German Kutteln (“tripe”) and Scots kyte (“belly, stomach”). Compare also Icelandic kviður (“stomach”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Small intestine, cleaned and defatted, usually of a pig. Sometimes prepared with hog maws.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: How fare I? troth for ſixpence a meale, wench, as well as heart can wiſh, with Calves chaldrons and chitterlings […]
Translations:
reckless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną
Proto-West Germanic *rōkijan
Old English rēċan
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English rēċelēas
Middle English rekles
English reckless
From Middle English rekles, reckeles, rekkeles, (also recheles), from Old English rēcelēas (“reckless, careless, negligent”), equivalent to reck + -less. Cognate with West Frisian roekeleas (“reckless”), Dutch roekeloos (“reckless”), German Low German ruuklos (“careless”), German ruchlos (“careless, notorious”).
Base: reck
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: recklesser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more reckless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: recklessest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most reckless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rechless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: retchless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
pos: adj
gloss: Indifferent or oblivious to danger or the consequences thereof.
pos: adj
examples: Escalation is the film’s nuclear energy source. It’s there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by [Tom] Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment.
Synonyms: daring
devil-may-care
headstrong
heedless
impetuous
imprudent
impulsive
precipitant
precipitate
precipitous
quick-and-dirty
rash
reckless
sudden
temeritous
Antonyms: reckful
attentive
audient
careful
cautious
heedful
Related words: brave
cavalier
hasty
hotheaded
self-destructive
uncaring
arrogance
cheeky
maverick
pride
Derived words: reckless endangerment
recklessly
recklessness
Translations:
derivable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English derive
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 derivable
From derive + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: able to be derived; deducible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Differentiable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: underivable
non-derivable
Related words: derivability
rederivable
Derived words: derivably
inderivable
Translations:
enunciate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ēnuntiātus, past participle of ēnuntiō (“to report, declare”), from ē- + nūntiō (“to report”). Doublet of enounce.
Inflected forms:
form: enunciates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enunciating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enunciated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enunciated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a definite or systematic statement of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To announce, proclaim.
pos: verb
examples: the terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel
gloss: To articulate, pronounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You must enunciate all the syllables.
gloss: To make sounds clearly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Enunciate when you speak.
Related words: enunciable
enunciation
enunciator
Derived words: misenunciate
overenunciate
Translations:
impeccable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French impeccable, from Latin impeccabilis (“not liable to sin”), from im- (“not”) + peccare (“to err, to sin”).
Inflected forms:
form: more impeccable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impeccable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
pos: adj
examples: He grew up in Norway, but he writes impeccable English.
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
gloss: Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
pos: adj
examples: It was easy for James V to imprison Lady Glamis, but actually convicting her was far more difficult; her character was impeccable and she was highly respected by all who knew her.
Synonyms: flawless
Related words: peccable
peccant
Derived words: impeccability
impeccableness
impeccably
Translations:
shirty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shirt + -y, probably based on the phrase get one's shirt out.
Base: shirt
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: shirtier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shirtiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ill-tempered or annoyed.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
informal
examples: "You ain't shirty 'cause I kissed yer last night?"
"I'm not shirty; but it was pretty cool, considerin' like as I didn't know yer."
"Well, so help me Bob, you are a shirty old cow, Mudgy."
Translations:
nostalgia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin nostalgia, coined by Johannes Hofer in 1688 from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”), calquing German Heimweh. Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested. Transferred sense probably influenced by French nostalgie, especially in literature.
Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and French nostalgie.
Inflected forms:
form: nostalgias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nostalgy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
examples: Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
gloss: A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an alumnus' feelings of nostalgia for his/her years in high school
I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.
[…]Rousteing asked: “Is my generation’s nostalgia for our turn-of-the-century childhood culture somehow less cool than fashion’s more familiar fixation on the 70s and 80s?” The answer was a firm “no”: in 2020 all nostalgia is good nostalgia. “The nostalgia economy”, as named by Quartz, is the most powerful trend in fashion since florals or trousers and is a reaction to what’s happening in the world.
Though there is nothing generationally unique in the desire to bask in the banalities of your past, these nostalgia communities have flourished on Facebook as its user base has grown ever older in the past decade.
Yet it continued to be treated as rather suspect. In the mid-20th century, a psychoanalyst called Nandor Fodor dismissed nostalgia, along with utopian politics and even the vogue for Tarzan films, as “the manifestation of a latent desire to return to the womb”.
Many of the stations, some of which are request stops, still have their original LSWR buildings. All are now private homes, but it oozes nostalgia (which I like).
[Mark] Carney, perhaps the most articulate of those giving voice to this sentiment, vowed he would no longer live in a state of nostalgia, waiting for an old world to return.
Antonyms: nostopathy
nostophobia
Related words: nostalgie de la boue
solastalgia
technostalgia
Eastalgia
fauxstalgia
halcyon days
hark back
memory lane
reminiscence
anemoia
Derived words: blinded by nostalgia
nostalgia goggles
nostalgic
nostalgically
nostalgise
nostalgism
nostalgist
nostalgize
nowstalgia
retro-nostalgia
Yugo-nostalgia
Translations:
sensual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin sensualis (“endowed with feeling, sensual”), from Latin sensus (“feeling, sense”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sensual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sensual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sensuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.
pos: adj
examples: That massage was a very sensual experience!
gloss: Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
pos: adj
examples: Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.
gloss: Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.
pos: adj
Related words: sense
sensible
sensuous
Derived words: antisensual
asensual
con-sensual
hypersensual
multisensual
nonsensual
pretersensual
sensualise
sensualize
sensualism
sensualist
sensualistic
sensuality
sensualization
sensually
sensualness
sensual play
supersensual
suprasensual
transsensual
ultrasensual
unisensual
unsensual
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: smyslový
lang: Polish
word: zmysłowy
sensuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin sensus (“sense”) + English -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more sensuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sensuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Appealing to the senses, or to sensual gratification.
pos: adj
examples: Although we rarely see Casanova himself on our tour of his sensuous world, we feel his presence as we look at paintings, sculpture, snuff boxes, embroidered vests, silk dresses, silver candy dishes, etc.
gloss: Of or relating to the senses; sensory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The antithetical features of atomist doctrine are no longer seen as undetermining the principle of the atom, or negating sensuous appearance, but rather as intrinsic to both. Nature is full of contradictions […]
gloss: Appreciative of stimulation
pos: adj
examples: I consider myself a sensuous lover.
Related words: sense
sensible
sensual
Derived words: antisensuous
extrasensuous
hypersensuous
insensuous
nonsensuous
semisensuous
sensuously
sensuousness
supersensuous
suprasensuous
unsensuous
Translations:
parchment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English parchemyn, parchement, from Old French parchemin, via Latin pergamīna, from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνός (Pergamēnós, “of Pergamon”), which is named for the ancient city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) in Asia Minor, where it was invented as an expensive alternative for papyrus. Cognate with Danish pergament, Dutch perkament, French parchemin, German Pergament, Greek περγαμηνή (pergaminí), Italian pergamena, Norwegian pergament, Portuguese pergaminho, Galician pergameo, Romanian pergament, Russian пергамент (pergament), Spanish pergamino, and Swedish pergament.
Inflected forms:
form: parchments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
Never found Hattie and they never found the shack
Never made the trip back in
There was a parchment note they found tacked to a stump
Said: Don't come lookin' again.
gloss: A document made on such material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Stiff paper imitating that material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: 📜
Derived words: baking parchment
parchmental
parchmented
parchmenter
parchmentization
parchmentize
parchmentless
parchmentlike
parchment paper
parchment worm
parchmenty
unparchmented
unparchmentized
vegetable parchment
virgin parchment
Translations:
wiener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Clipping of wienerwurst, from German Wienerwurst (“Vienna sausage”), from Wiener (“of Vienna, Viennese”) + Wurst (“sausage”), because these sausages were originally made in Vienna, Austria.
In Germany today this sausage is known as Wiener Würstchen (“small sausage from Vienna”), but in Vienna and the Netherlands it is called a Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstchen (“small sausage from Frankfurt”).
Compound parts: Wiener
Wurst
Inflected forms:
form: wieners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weiner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A hot dog or frankfurter.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
US
examples: Two figures crossing the windy park. Miss Martin taking Smith's arm over the street. And inside where wieners were being turned on a hot skillet behind the steamed glass. Always wanted to have the constitution to eat these fearlessly, perhaps with a glass of orange.
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
gloss: A person who is nervous or afraid to partake in certain activities.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
gloss: An irritating or disliked person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
colloquial
Synonyms: winky
worrywart
pain in the neck
nervous wreck
Related words: wiener schnitzel
wienerschnitzel
Derived words: cheese wiener
cocktail wiener
hot wiener
wiener breath
wiener dog
wiener roast
Translations:
langer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Suggestions include:
* from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
* from languor
* from lang, variant of long
* from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam
* from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.
Inflected forms:
form: langers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
derogatory
slang
gloss: An annoying person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
derogatory
offensive
slang
examples: "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer!"
And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".
Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy.
gloss: Penis.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
slang
vulgar
examples: Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.
He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.
Related words: scanger
Derived words: acting the langer
langered
langerload
langers
Translations:
holistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hol- + -istic. See holism.
Affixes: hol-
-istic
Inflected forms:
form: more holistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most holistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wholistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Related to holism.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts.
pos: adj
examples: Our holistic study of these modern-day traces suggests it to be a complex trace arising from domichnial, fodinichnial and possibly pascichnial behavior of polychaetes.
“Melania’s strong theatrical performance is a critical first moment that validates our holistic distribution strategy, building awareness, engagement and provides momentum ahead of the film’s eventual debut on Prime Video,” said Amazon MGM distribution chief Kevin Wilson.
Derived words: antiholistic
holistically
holisticness
nonholistic
unholistic
Translations:
feline
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fēlīnus, from fēlēs (“wildcat, marten”).
Inflected forms:
form: more feline
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feline
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: felines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to cats.
pos: adj
examples: feline behaviour
feline expert
The tiger is a feline predator.
gloss: catlike (resembling a cat); sleek, graceful, inscrutable, sensual, and/or cunning.
pos: adj
examples: feline character
feline movement
She moved with feline grace.
gloss: A cat: member of the cat family Felidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A cat: member of the cat family Felidae.
pos: noun
Synonyms: catly
feline
cat
felid
Related words: Felicia
Felicity
felid
feliform
felinely
felinity
felis
Felix
feloid
canine
cattus
catus
Felidae
gatus
:Category:en:Cats
:Category:en:Felids
:Category:mul:Cats
:Category:mul:Felids
Derived words: feline distemper
feline hyperesthesia syndrome
feline infectious peritonitis
felinekind
felinely
felineness
felinicide
felinize
felinoid
felinology
felinophile
felinophobe
felinophobia
nonfeline
unfeline
Translations:
pessary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English pessarie, from Old French pessaire, from Latin pessarium.
Inflected forms:
form: pessaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a displaced uterus; also called therapeutic pessary.
pos: noun
gloss: A diaphragm or cervical cap.
pos: noun
gloss: A vaginal suppository.
pos: noun
Translations:
fishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.
Base: fish
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: fishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of catching fish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
gloss: The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This is good news for the fishing industry.
gloss: A fishery, a place for catching fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the rent of the fishings
Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.
Synonyms: piscatology
piscation
piscicide
piscicapture
the gentle craft
fishery
the fish industry
the seafood industry
fishery
sportfishing
Related words: halieutically
halieutics
piscatology
piscatorious
piscatory
piscatorial
piscatorical
piscatorian
piscatorially
Derived words: antifishing
bottom-fishing
compliment fishing
cormorant fishing
cyanide fishing
drift fishing
electrofishing
fishing eagle
fishing frog
fishingly
fishing net
fishing owl
Fishing Point
fishing room
fishing-smack
fishing-tube
fishing worm
fly fishing
fly-fishing
gone fishing
gorge fishing
ice fishing
Jonah fishing
line fishing
mucus fishing syndrome
nonfishing
rodfishing
shellfishing
skishing
spearfishing
Translations:
confetti
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed (possibly via French) from Italian confetti (literally “confections”), used to describe sugar-coated almonds, and by extension things imitating them (like pellets of plaster), which were thrown in Italy during festivities like Carnival and weddings. (This practice is mentioned in English since at least the 1810s.) The French and the English adopted the practice of celebrating weddings and other festivities by throwing such candies, or (by the late 1800s) tiny pieces of colored paper symbolizing them, partially displacing their earlier practice of throwing rice.
Inflected forms:
form: confettis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confettiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confettied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confettied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Edible Italian sugar-coated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
examples: … a pale and fair devotee of fashion who has left off eating confetti, and recovered her bloom.
"Why, if you and Teresa, our own best man and maid of honor . . . oh, how wonderful that would be, to eat confetti at your wedding!"
Emilio and Roberto had pooled their resources in money and had arranged with the cafe keeper for steaming thick chocolate, a slow-pouring syrup-like drink, the richest boccotoni, cream-filled heavy sfogliate, and almond confetti.
There were large trays with assorted pastries and colored almond confetti for a wedding, and he remembered with a pang that this very day was the wedding anniversary, the day Pino and Maria had married (so long ago!) in Rome.
gloss: To scatter with confetti.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Belfast confetti
cakefetti
champagne confetti
confetti cake
confettilike
funfetti
Irish confetti
Translations:
weakness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wayknesse, weykenesse, replacing earlier Middle English wocnesse, wakenes, wacnesse (“weakness”), from Old English wācnes (“weakness”). Equivalent to weak + -ness.
Base: weak
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: weaknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weakenes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being weak.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: debility, frailty, vulnerability; vincibility
In a small number of horses, muscle weakness may progress to paralysis.
gloss: An inadequate quality; fault.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: His inability to speak in front of an audience was his weakness.
The only weakness in her plan was its reliance on the electricity being up and running.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.
The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
Such a male-dominated environment is also likely to contribute to the lingering presence of an outdated belief that expressing feelings and demonstrating emotion is a sign of weakness, deterring some men from discussing their problems.
gloss: A special fondness or obsessing desire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She is an athlete who has a weakness for chocolate.
Translations:
sleepover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sleep + over.
Compound parts: sleep
over
Inflected forms:
form: sleepovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
pos: noun
examples: Since it would be too late to notify the many people whom we hope are coming, we are really working hard to find other facilities — probably to rent a hall for the meetings; perhaps arrange sleep-overs at Israeli members' homes.
gloss: An overnight guest.
pos: noun
Derived words: wakeover
Translations:
reify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ify (English suffix).
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: reifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What I've always appreciated about this concept of coincidence ... is how it reifies our search for causality, our need to establish logical connections among disparate events.
Translations:
mammary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Renaissance Latin mammārius, from Classical Latin mamma (“breast”) + -ārius (adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, mamma + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: mammaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: mammary arteries and veins
It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
gloss: Synonym of mamma (“a milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal”).
pos: noun
Translations:
extant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1545, from Latin extantem, extāns, present participle of extō (“to stand out, exist, be extant”), from ex- (“out”) + stō (“stand”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Still in existence; not having disappeared.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: extant manuscripts of the Old Testament
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
This English Nation, will it get to know the meaning of its strange new Today? Is there sense enough extant, discoverable anywhere or anyhow, in our united twenty-seven million heads to discern the same; valour enough in our twenty-seven million hearts to dare and do the bidding thereof?
There are many narrow-gauge systems still extant.
Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.
Some have argued that no one moment and/or process of textual formation should be presumed for any of these texts, and that they were constantly in a state of becoming, but the extant evidence does not support such a position.
gloss: Still alive; not extinct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: birds are the only extant dinosaurs
I reckon that this one Duke of Weimar did more for the Culture of his Nation than all the English Dukes and Duces now extant, or that were extant since Henry the Eighth gave them the Church Lands to eat, have done for theirs![…]
gloss: Standing out, or above the rest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: [W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently extant above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Iſland, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts.
Related words: extance
extancy
Derived words: nonextant
then-extant
Translations:
littoral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin littoralis, from litoris (genitive of litus). The doubled 't' is a late medieval addition, and the more classical litoral is also sometimes found. Cognate to French littoral, Spanish litoral, Portuguese litoral, and more distantly to English lido (“outdoor pool”), via Italian lido (“beach, shore”).
Inflected forms:
form: litoral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: littorals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: litoral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The deep-sea fauna has probably been formed almost entirely from the littoral, not in the remotest antiquity, but only after food derived from the débris of the littoral and terrestrial faunas and floras became abundant.
gloss: A shore.
pos: noun
examples: […] these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea […]
The railway running along the littoral from Brighton westward to Portsmouth forms an important section of the L.B.S.C.R. (Central) secion of the Southern Railway.
Just beyond the locomotive depot is the junction of the Anecho line, which curves sharply eastwards. It runs for the whole way along the flat, sandy littoral among coconut plantations, usually a mile or so inland.
gloss: The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
pos: noun
examples: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
Translations:
ripper
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
computing
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From rip + -er; originated 1605–15.
Base: rip
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that rips something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who rips something.
pos: noun
gloss: A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
pos: noun
gloss: A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
pos: noun
examples: Jack the Ripper
gloss: A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
slang
examples: He [Rafael Nadal] didn't convert that but gained the advantage and launched another ripper of a forehand to force the error from Tsitsipas on the volley. (Thurston, E. November 15, 2019, Rafael Nadal digs deep to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas at ATP Finals. Sky UK https://www.skysports.com/tennis/news/12110/11862011/rafael-nadal-digs-deep-to-beat-stefanos-tsitsipas-at-atp-finals accessed August 29, 2020)
Martin walked around the vehicle, viewing it from all angles and giggling as he did so. “She's a ripper, Bert, a real ripper!”
Really, the Strauss Ball was in a category of its own, which is why we are making such a fuss about it; an absolute ripper of a ball whatever the hell it should be called in technical terms.
gloss: Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
pos: noun
gloss: A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
pos: noun
tags: New-Jersey
US
slang
gloss: A foghorn.
pos: noun
gloss: Very good; excellent; fantastic.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: 2019 Kobe Howard, Coaches Wrap Brisbane Lions, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019.
Not only did Lachie Neale have another stand out game with 28 disposals and a ripper goal from outside 50, but Lions debutant Noah Answerth slotted in nicely picking up 5 intercept marks.
Derived words: bodice ripper
bonnet ripper
double-ripper
radish ripper
Ripperologist
Ripperology
Translations:
bitrate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From bit + rate.
Compound parts: bit
rate
Inflected forms:
form: bitrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bit rate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The frequency at which bits (binary digits) pass a given physical or metaphorical point, measured in bps (bits per second).
pos: noun
Translations:
dood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is উট (uṭ).
Inflected forms:
form: doods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A riding camel or dromedary.
pos: noun
examples: The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin.
“I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.”
“What is a dood?”
“A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”
Translations:
kurtosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson c. 1895 (published 1899 in "On certain Properties of the Hypergeometrical Series, and so on the fitting of such series to Observation Polygons in the Theory of Chance", Phil. Mag.).
From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”).
Inflected forms:
form: kurtoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kurtosises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: excess kurtosis
heterokurtosis
homokurtosis
leptokurtic
leptokurtosis
mesokurtic
mesokurtosis
platykurtic
platykurtosis
Translations:
ley
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: See lea.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fallow; unseeded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lettuce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: food
lifestyle
vegetable
Etymology: From Middle English letuse, of uncertain precise origin, probably from the plural form Old French laitues, derived from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”), from lac (“milk”), because of the milky fluid in its stalks. Replaced Old English lēahtric.
(money): Likely from the green color of US banknotes.
Inflected forms:
form: lettuces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.
gloss: United States paper currency; dollars.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: To steady himself he counts the money left in his wallet. Seventy-three; today was payday. Fingering so much lettuce strengthens his nerves.
Twenty dollars an hour? That's a lot of lettuce!
gloss: A strong yellow-green color, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Long, curly hair, as worn by followers of bro culture.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Related words: cabbage
Derived words: asparagus lettuce
bibb lettuce
Bibb lettuce
Boston lettuce
butterhead lettuce
cabbage lettuce
celery lettuce
celtuce
chalk lettuce
Chinese lettuce
cos lettuce
devil's lettuce
frisée lettuce
green leaf lettuce
hare's lettuce
iceberg lettuce
lamb's lettuce
lettuce-bird
lettuce edge
lettuce edging
lettuce hem
lettuce keeper
lettuce leaf
lettuceless
lettucelike
lettuce opium
lettuce sea slug
lettuce trim
lettucey
miner's lettuce
nut lettuce
prickly lettuce
purple lettuce
Romaine lettuce
romaine lettuce
sand lettuce
sea lettuce
slender sea lettuce
stem lettuce
water lettuce
water-lettuce
white lettuce
wild lettuce
Translations:
commensurate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Base: mēnsūrātus
Affixes: com-
Inflected forms:
form: more commensurate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most commensurate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
pos: adj
examples: commensurate punishments
The rewards will be commensurate with the efforts made.
If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own.
The $100 settlement was hardly commensurate with the humiliation his client had experienced.
Kettering will become an important interchange for passengers making these journeys, and EMR is considering improvements to the station's facilities commensurate with this status.
Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.
gloss: Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
pos: adj
gloss: Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.
pos: adj
examples: Crucially, every positive surreal number is commensurate with exactly one ω-power, in the following sense.
Derived words: commensurately
commensurateness
uncommensurate
Translations:
outlaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utlaȝe, from Old English ūtlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- + law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”).
Base: law
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outlaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outlaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outlawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outlawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outlawed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fugitive from the law.
pos: noun
examples: “I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. […]"
gloss: A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who operates outside established norms.
pos: noun
examples: The main character in the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.
gloss: A wild or violent animal, such as a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: An in-law: a relative by marriage.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
gloss: One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
gloss: A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Without a pimp, she was an "outlaw," likely to be harassed, or threatened with assault or robbery on the street.
She was an outlaw. Chance is doing some double-checking to see if she had a pimp nobody knew about, but it doesn't look likely.
gloss: To declare illegal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place a ban upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The legal change in England and Wales will outlaw selling, manufacturing, renting or importing zombie knives.
And outlawing these AR-15s would not require confiscating them from people who already have them. Once you’ve made these weapons illegal, anyone found with one would be subject to arrest, since possession of these weapons would be a crime. I think it’s likely that you would see a lot of people opting to turn them in.
gloss: To make or declare (a person) an outlaw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Eirik and his people were outlawed at Thorsnes Thing.
AB has now gone beyond her original stance against gays as teachers and is now advocating a federal law to outlaw gays, a law which would override state law in the 19 states which have consenting adults sex laws.
gloss: To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to outlaw a debt or claim
gloss: To deprive of legal force.
pos: verb
examples: our English common law was outlawed in those parts.
Related words: scofflaw
criminalize
felonize
misdemeanorize
Derived words: outlaw country
outlawdom
outlawish
outlawism
outlawness
outlawry
outlaw state
Translations:
gullible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Either from gull (“to dupe, trick, fool”) + -ible; or alternatively from Middle English gole, goll, gol (“an unfledged bird, silly fellow”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr (“yellow, pale”), from the hue of its down.
Base: gull
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more gullible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gullible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gullibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
pos: adj
examples: Andrew is so gullible, the way he still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman at the age of fourteen.
gloss: A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.
pos: noun
examples: They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find.
Translations: