yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
opera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre, opus, and ure.
Inflected forms:
form: operas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: opere
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The score for such a work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
gloss: A company dedicated to performing such works.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Related words: operable
operand
operant
operate
operatic
operation
operational
operatist
operative
operatize
operator
opus
aria
ballet
masque
melodrama
musical comedy
oratorio
recitative
singspiel
Derived words: antiopera
ballad opera
Beijing opera
Cantonese opera
chamber opera
Chinese opera
comic opera
fairy opera
grand opera
hip hopera
horse opera
hoss opera
light opera
lyric opera
nonopera
oat opera
oil opera
opera bouffe
opera buffa
opera cake
opera cloak
opéra comique
operafication
operafy
opera glass
opera glasses
opera glove
operagoer
opera-goer
operagoing
opera hat
opera house
opera house trap
operalike
operameter
operaphile
operaphobe
opera seria
opera singer
opera slipper
opera window
operetta
Peking opera
popera
poperetta
rap opera
rock opera
Savoy opera
soap opera
space opera
time opera
Translations:
imitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English imitacioun, from Middle French imitacion, from Old French imitacion, from Latin imitatio.
Inflected forms:
form: imitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of imitating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a pale imitation
a realistic imitation
in imitation of
gloss: A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: imitation leather
Synonyms: copying
imitation
replication
Antonyms: creation
non-imitation
Derived words: autoimitation
counterimitation
imitational
imitation game
imitationism
imitationist
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
imitation lace
imitation vanilla
non-imitation
overimitation
self-imitation
Translations:
tiny
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tine, tyne (“very small”) + -y. Perhaps from tine.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: tinier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tiniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tyny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tinies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tyny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Very small.
pos: adj
examples: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
gloss: A small child; an infant.
pos: noun
examples: ‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny.’
The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).
gloss: Anything very small.
pos: noun
examples: Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.
Antonyms: huge
Translations:
logical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From logic + -al. Displaced native Old English flitcræftlīċ.
Base: logic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more logical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most logical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In agreement with the principles of logic; sequacious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To provide convincing arguments, we need to first address the issues of concern, list the facts, and then use logical reasoning to help people have a better understanding of the issue.
gloss: Reasonable.
pos: adj
examples: I won't lie about what I did
I cut her head off and threw it in a ditch
Why I only kept the body was a logical choice
I threw away the head because I hated the sound of her voice
gloss: Of or pertaining to logic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It's not logical, it's God!
gloss: Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression
pos: adj
examples: Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.
It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program[…]
Antonyms: illogical
confusing
dumb
Related words: rational
biological
neurological
physiological
Derived words: alogical
antilogical
equilogical
extralogical
horological
logical address
logical analysis
logical atomism
logical block address
logical block addressing
logical calculus
logical clock
logical complement
logical connective
logical constant
logical empiricism
logical fallacy
logicality
logicalize
logical language
logically
logical mechanical element
logicalness
logical objectivism
logical positivism
logical positivist
logical punctuation
logical quotation
logical realism
logical system
loglang
menological
metalogical
non-logical
nonlogical
overlogical
panlogical
paralogical
prelogical
semilogical
ultralogical
unlogical
Translations:
lassie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lass
English -ie
English lassie
From lass + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: lassies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
Northern-England
Northumbria
Scotland
examples: I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.
It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.
She was caught in this git-a-man, git-a-bairn, git-a-hoose shite that lassies git drummed intae them, and hud nae real chance ay defining hersel ootside ay they mashed-tattie-fir-brains terms ay reference.
Green grow the rushes, oh
Green grow the rushes, oh
The sweetest hours that e'er I spent
Are spent among the lassies, oh
Translations:
crispy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English crispy (“crisped, curly”), equivalent to crisp + -y.
Base: crisp
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: crispier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crispiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crispies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.
pos: adj
examples: These biscuits are very crispy.
Baked rolls should be crispy.
[…]on his Head a long and criſpy hair,[…]
gloss: Denoting something is impressive or desirable; cool, awesome; fresh.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: crispily
crispiness
crispy critter
crispy seaweed
crispy water
ultracrispy
Translations:
pooh-pooh
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a reduplication of pooh (“an utterance of the word pooh”).
Inflected forms:
form: pooh-poohs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pooh-poohing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pooh-poohed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pooh-poohed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: poohpooh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: poopoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [W]hen he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!
In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth.
Mr Macey, though he joined in the defence of Marner against all suspicions of deceit, also pooh-poohed the tinder-box; indeed, repudiated it as a rather impious suggestion, tending to imply that everything must be done by human hands, and that there was no power which could make away with the guineas without moving the bricks.
if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed, by pooh-pooh!
Pooh-poohing the IPCC's science has been one line of attack by [George W.] Bush's backers.
[Bill] Clinton haters will pooh-pooh all of these acknowledgements as the index of a compulsive sociability that knows no limits and upholds no standards, a psychic necessity we should not make into a moral virtue.
Translations:
eureka
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.
Inflected forms:
form: eureka!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
pos: intj
examples: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess.
"Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."
A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.
gloss: Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
darn
Part of speech: adj
adv
intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Inflected forms:
form: darns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: darning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: darned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: darned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: darns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Damn.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
gloss: Damned.
pos: adv
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
examples: But I ain't up to my baby tonight / 'Cause it's too darn hot
Of the two episodes, “Mortshall” is slightly weaker, while still being pretty darn good. I spent a lot of this season bemoaning the weaker entries, and like I said last time, it’s shit like this that makes me complain when stuff gets super dumb.
gloss: Damn.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Damn.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
gloss: Damn.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: His opinion isn't worth a darn.
Derived words: darn tootin'
Translations:
durn
Part of speech: adj
adv
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: darn; damn.
pos: adj
tags: US
euphemistic
informal
not-comparable
gloss: Darn; damned; extremely.
pos: adv
tags: US
euphemistic
informal
not-comparable
examples: The older man eyed him for a moment bale fully. "I'm goin' to set 'em again," he replied, "and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any."
These guys probably had a crudload of sand kicked in their faces in grade school, and now carry this primal sandbox grudge to the poli sci classroom, where they finally have the power over us durn bratty schoolkids.
gloss: darn; damn
pos: intj
tags: US
euphemistic
informal
gloss: Rhoticized pronunciation of doing.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: How ya durn?
Derived words: durn tootin'
Translations:
nosegay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Late Middle English nōsegai (?), from nōse (“nose”) (from Old English nosu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nas- (“nose”)) + gai (“a bright or gay object; an ornament”) (from Old French gai (“cheerful, gay, happy”)); equivalent to nose + gay.
Compound parts: nose
gay
Inflected forms:
form: nosegays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small bunch of fragrant flowers or herbs tied in a bundle, often presented as a gift; nosegays were originally intended to be put to the nose for the pleasant sensation or to mask unpleasant odours.
pos: noun
examples: [N]o more is Pierce Pennileſſe to be cald the Devils Orator for making a Supplication to the Devill, than hee is to bee helde for a Rhethoritian for ſetting foorth Gabrielis Scurvei Rhetor, wherein hee thought to have knockt out the braines of poore Tullies Orator, but in veritie did nothing elſe, but gather a flauntinge unſavory ſore-horſe noſegay out of his well furniſhed garland.
Mr. [John] White joins with the reſt of his fellow-voyagers, in vindicating the characters of the Portugueſe ladies from the indiſcriminate cenſure which is caſt on them in Dr. Hawkſworth's account of Captain [James] Cook's firſt voyage: we muſt therefore conclude, that Dr. [Daniel] Solander, and the two gentlemen who were with him, muſt have miſtaken the intent of the noſegays which were ſo plentifully beſtowed on them by the ladies, from their balconies, as they walked through the ſtreets of this place in the evening.
Late on this same day the trail crossed a bare, rocky hillside, at one point passing between masses of stone ruins; something like a tower to the right, and on the left a sort of walled enclosure. I had lingered behind to gather a nosegay of the small blue flowers that marked the day's march.
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
Tacked to Miss Trixie's desk was a large sign that said miss trixie with an old-fashioned nosegay drawn in crayon in one corner.
Brody (Damian Lewis): Will you go to the prom with me? / Carrie (Claire Danes): Do I get a corsage? / Brody: Wrist or pin-on? / Carrie: Actually, I'll take a nosegay. / Brody: I-I don't even know what that is. / Carrie: It's a kind of bouquet from medieval times. / Brody: Is that right? / Carrie: Yeah. Pre-shower, pre-soap, they would carry them around to mask the unpleasant smells of the time. To keep their, their "nose gay." I know these things.
gloss: An aroma, a scent.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The 80-year-old Government Opium and Alkaloid Works in Neemuch smells better than it looks. The turfy-chocolaty nosegay of raw opium wafts from hundreds of milk cans.
Derived words: nosegayed
Translations:
militate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1598; borrowed from Latin mīlitātus, perfect passive participle from mīlitō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Semantically from its cognate, French militer.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: militates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: militating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: militated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: militated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give force or effect toward; to influence.
pos: verb
examples: to militate in favor of a particular result
to militate against the possibility of his election
The 8-ft. singles were pre-eminently express engines, and were not satisfactory on secondary duties where frequent stops were called for, which militated against their being retained in service.
It has been at least an academic tradition, if no more, that mathematical studies militate against amatory inclinations.
There are no missing values for burglary victimization in the data, whereas there are ten missing values for robbery―and as many for physical assault. This fact would militate in favor of using burglary as the independent variable.
There are a number of theoretical concerns which might seem to militate against the successful creation of a dictionary of Indian English.
gloss: To serve as a soldier or participate in warfare.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland.
Derived words: militation
Translations:
narrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
human-sciences
linguistics
media
narratology
sciences
television
Etymology: From narrate + -or, from Latin narrātor. By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -or.
Base: narrate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: narrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who narrates or tells stories.
pos: noun
gloss: The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
pos: noun
gloss: The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.
pos: noun
examples: Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.
Related words: narratrix
narrate
narration
narrative
Derived words: multinarrator
narratorial
narratorless
narratorly
narratorship
narratress
omniscient narrator
unreliable narrator
Translations:
harbour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: harbours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harbours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: harbouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: harboured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: harboured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Standard spelling of harbor.
pos: noun
examples: In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
gloss: Standard spelling of harbor.
pos: verb
examples: The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
Nor let your gentle Breast harbor one Thought Of Outrage from the Kin.
Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break
Translations:
rosehip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rose + hip.
Compound parts: rose
hip
Inflected forms:
form: rosehips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rose hip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fleshy false fruit of a wild rose plant (e.g. sweetbrier, dog rose, burnet rose, etc.), containing the achenes or true fruits.
pos: noun
Translations:
Andy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originates from the live streams of IRL streamer Ice Poseidon on the live streaming service Twitch in early 2017; comedian and actor Andy Milonakis frequently appeared on Ice Poseidon's streams before being supplemented by one Andy Martin, who was given the byname "Mexican Andy" to distinguish him from Milonakis—himself dubbed "Sitting Andy" in June. Subsequently, Ice Poseidon and his audience began referring to people who appeared on his streams by the name Andy and the term spread to other channels on Twitch by late 2017 as a generic name for any Twitch streamer.
Inflected forms:
form: Andys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Andies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Andi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Andie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Endy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A streamer on live streaming service Twitch.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: trump is now a react andy like myself
dream stans pulling out the "he has adhd" card to hasan fucking piker the biggest adhd andy on twitch it's so funny
Why is this video going viral? 500k views almost on my Twitch channel 😂It's not even funny Oh hello LSF andy's 👋
gloss: A person of any particular kind.
pos: noun
examples: VS Code Andy
Translations:
indelible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin indēlēbilis (“indestructible”). By surface analysis, in- + delible.
Inflected forms:
form: more indelible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indelible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.
pos: adj
examples: This ink spot on the contract is indelible.
This stain on my shirt is indelible.
Written with indelible pen.
The brow was smooth and fair; no deep thought, born of deep feeling, had grown there—those indelible lines which stamp even youth with age.
gloss: Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
An indelible image from the Great Depression features a well-dressed family seated with their dog in a comfy car, smiling down from an oversize billboard on weary souls standing in line at a relief agency.
gloss: Incapable of being annulled.
pos: adj
examples: November 7, 1678, Thomas Sprat, a sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergymen in the Church of St Mary-le-Bow
They are […] endued with indelible power from above.
Antonyms: delible
Related words: indelibility
indelibly
Derived words: indelibleness
Translations:
exist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.
Inflected forms:
form: exists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: existing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: exist
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: exist
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: exist
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: existest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: existedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: exists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: existeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: exist
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: exist
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: exist
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: existing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: existed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: to be; have existence; have being or reality
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
examples: Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other
Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]
[…], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
[…], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.
While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
Antonyms: cease
unexist
void
Translations:
existent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin existens, from existere. By surface analysis, exist + -ent.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: existing; having life or being, current; occurring now
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: nonexistent
inexistent
Translations:
existentialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French existentiel
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French existentialismebor.
English existentialism
Borrowed from French existentialisme.
Inflected forms:
form: existentialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.
gloss: The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.
Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.
Antonyms: noumenalism
Related words: exist
existence
existential
existentialist
Translations:
existentialist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French existentialiste, equivalent to existential + -ist.
Base: existential
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: existentialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more existentialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most existentialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to existentialism.
pos: adj
Translations:
kuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian kúna/ку́на.
Inflected forms:
form: kunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kune
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The former (until 2023) currency of Croatia, divided into 100 lipa.
pos: noun
Translations:
circa
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Latin circum
Latin circālbor.
English circa
Learned borrowing from Latin circā.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)
pos: prep
examples: Julius Caesar visited this area circa 50 BC.
Political talent scouts have called South Dakota's John Thune "the Republican Obama" because his low profile, youth and presidential bearing recall the unknown Illinois Democrat circa January 2007.
Translations:
grinch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the main character in a children's book by Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957). Coined as early as 1953, the term was initially used for a fictitious bird named the "Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch" in Scrambled Eggs Super!; it became associated with the character in a poem published in the May 1955 issue of Redbook, "The Hoobub and the Grinch". Likely a corruption of grouch.
Inflected forms:
form: grinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grinches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grinching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grinched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grinched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A grouch or killjoy.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Here's what they would risk: appearing responsible for higher taxes next year after Obama offered them a deal to extend the Bush-era rates, coming off as grinches for failing to extend unemployment insurance during the holiday season, and the possibility that next year Obama and Democrats will actually hold more leverage in this debate.
gloss: A person who is aggressively intent on ruining the Christmas holidays for others.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
gloss: To act like a grinch; to be a killjoy towards someone.
pos: verb
tags: US
Translations:
deceptively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deceptive
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 deceptively
From deceptive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more deceptively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deceptively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a deceptive manner; misleadingly.
pos: adv
examples: those deceptively jaunty tunes that mask less-than- cheerful lyrics
2010, Australian Law Dictionarydeceptively similar, Oxford Reference
A trade mark is deceptively similar to another trade mark if it so nearly resembles that other trade mark that it is likely to deceive or cause confusion
President Trump sued CBS in a federal court alleging that the interview was deceptively “doctored” to help Harris beat Trump. CBS insisted that it was not doctored.
gloss: Actually but not apparently.
pos: adv
examples: We've rounded up 26 recipes that sound, look and taste difficult but are actually really easy. ... try one of these deceptively easy but wildly impressive recipes.
The “deceptively spacious” cliche is accurate in the case of this house near the corner of Castlepark Road and Hyde Road: from the front, it looks like a traditional 1930s home. But the current owners, who moved here 23 years ago, have extended it three times since then; now, with two levels at the back, it has 346sq m (3,725sq ft) of space.
what seems like a complex situation is actually deceptively simple
Over 20-25 minute episodes, A Teacher shows us what should seem to be a transparent case of grooming: Claire (Kate Mara), a quiet, deceptively self-destructive new high school English teacher in Austin, Texas, and her 17-year-old student-turned-lover, Eric (Love Simon’s Nick Robinson).
gloss: Apparently but not actually.
pos: adv
examples: The trial court found that the crewman who had spread the sawdust over the oil had made the situation more dangerous by creating a deceptively safe condition, resulting in a "trap" and an unseaworthy condition.
Mathematicians have long pondered a deceptively easy puzzle about the reach of a goat tied to a fence. Until now, they’ve only found approximate answers.
Derived words: deceptively misdescriptive
nondeceptively
Translations:
lasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The application of a laser beam.
pos: noun
Translations:
baryon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy”) + -on. Coined by Dutch-American physicist Abraham Pais in 1953. Equivalent to baryo- + -on.
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: baryons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons; a hadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thus fermions. This category includes the common proton and neutron of the atomic nucleus.
pos: noun
tags: particle
examples: Without prejudging on the actual nature of the relationship between the V₁ and the nucleon it seems practical to have a collective name for these particles and other which possibly may still be discovered and which may also have to be taken along in the conservation principle just mentioned. It is proposed to use the fitting name "baryon" for this purpose.
Translations:
yogurt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Turkic *yugur-
Proto-Turkic *-t
Proto-Turkic *yogrut
Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt)bor.
English yogurt
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yogrut.
Inflected forms:
form: yogurts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yoghurt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: yoghourt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: yogourt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
form: yoghurd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yaghourt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yahourt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yogurd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yohourth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yooghort
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yughard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yughurt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yaourt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Moroccan curried crab and streaks of minty, lemony yogurt add luxury to a supersimple zucchini soup ($14).
It makes up an estimated 73 percent of the U.S. food supply, and contains stereotypically “unhealthy” products like sodas, candies and hot dogs as well as seemingly “healthy” ones like whole grain breads, breakfast cereals, flavored yogurts and plant milks.
gloss: Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt).
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
in-compounds
uncountable
Related words: buttermilk
curd
kefir
whey
Derived words: AB-yogurt
frogurt
fro-yo
frozen yogurt
Greek yogurt
Icelandic yogurt
purple-headed yogurt slinger
soy yogurt
yogurt knitting
yogurt-knitting
yogurt maker
Translations:
surrogate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogō (“ask”); a variant of subrogō, from sub (“under”) + rogō (“ask”).
Inflected forms:
form: more surrogate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most surrogate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: surrogates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surrogating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surrogated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surrogated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
pos: adj
gloss: To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: surrogatum
Translations:
fervour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -our (“abstract noun suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: fervours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The early Americans, inheriting the Hebraist fervour of the English Puritans, had enjoyed a Great Awakening of religious joy.
Translations:
lavish
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some senses by Middle English laven (“to pour out”), equivalent to lave + -ish. Compare Scots lawage, lavisch, lavish (“unrestrained, excessively prodigal, extravagant”). Compare also English lavy (“lavish, liberal”), Dutch lafenis (“lavishness”).
Base: lave
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: lavisher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more lavish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lavishest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most lavish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lavis
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: laves
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lavas
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lavishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lavishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lavished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lavished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lavis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: laves
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lavas
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
pos: adj
examples: lavish of money; lavish of praise
The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
gloss: Superabundant; excessive.
pos: adj
examples: lavish spirits
lavish meal
Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes
The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.
Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers".
gloss: Unrestrained, impetuous.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Thou wilt repent theſe lauiſh words of thine
gloss: Rank or lush with vegetation.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
examples: […] Thro’ lands where not a leaf was dumb;
⁠But all the lavish hills would hum
The murmur of a happy Pan: […]
gloss: To give out extremely generously; to squander.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They lavished money on the dinner.
gloss: To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They lavished him with praise.
Related words: lavy
Translations:
unerring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English erring
English unerring
From un- + erring.
Inflected forms:
form: more unerring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unerring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: consistently accurate; not missing a target.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
often
examples: 1717: Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. -- John Dryden's 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717
One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]
As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
Debutant Mateo Retegui was the beneficiary of poor work from Harry Maguire, whose failed attempt to close down the danger on the edge of the box allowed the Italians to shift the ball to the 23-year-old to drill an unerring finish past Jordan Pickford after 56 minutes.
Translations:
necessarily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English necessary
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English necessarily
From necessary + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more necessarily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most necessarily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inevitably; of necessity.
pos: adv
examples: It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.
But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.
Oregon’s uptick in marijuana sales along the Idaho border doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s all Idahoans who are lighting up, Lehner said.
Translations:
unnecessarily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unnecessary + -ly or un- + necessarily.
Base: unnecessary
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unnecessarily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unnecessarily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unnecessary way; not by necessity.
pos: adv
examples: He unnecessarily repeated much of what others had covered.
There be […] lords that can prate
As amply and unnecessarily
As this Gonzalo;
Pray let not any-body unnecessarily be acquainted with this shocking affair;
“Wait a moment,” said he, quite unnecessarily, for she could not have stirred;
[…] they made good laws and kept the peace and saved good trees from being unnecessarily cut down,
gloss: To an extent beyond what is needed.
pos: adv
examples: The food provided was unnecessarily generous, especially for an event meant to raise money for the hungry.
In the days of their [the Roman armies’] grandeur, when no enemy appeared capable of opposing them, their heavy armour was laid aside as unnecessarily burdensome, their laborious exercises were neglected as unnecessarily toilsome.
His absence was unnecessarily long.
About the turn of the century, the company had several ambitious and costly plans in hand—including direct lines to the West Country, South Wales and Birmingham—and so had no wish to incur additional expenditure unnecessarily.
[…] it seemed that she used his name unnecessarily often,
The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
Antonyms: necessarily
Related words: unnecessary
necessarily
Translations:
unnecessary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English necessary
English unnecessary
From un- + necessary.
Inflected forms:
form: more unnecessary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unnecessary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not needed or necessary.
pos: adj
examples: The automatic child-frightener made clowns unnecessary.
Every possible economy was carefully investigated and unnecessary expense, however small, eliminated. The company had no money to spare on "frills."
Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
Yet some of the statin side effects mentioned in the study have not been proved in the scientific literature or are exaggerated and could cause unnecessary worry, he said.
gloss: Done in addition to requirements; unrequired.
pos: adj
Antonyms: necessary
needed
required
mandatory
Derived words: unnecessaries
unnecessarily
unnecessariness
Translations:
endemic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + -ic. Possibly via Ancient Greek ἔνδημος (éndēmos, “among one's people, at home, native”) and/or French endémique. By surface analysis, en- + demic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: endemick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: endemics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endemick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.
gloss: Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
examples: Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.
[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]
gloss: Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
examples: Malaria is endemic to the tropics.
1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”
These problems are endemic to the theory of thematic roles as currently conceived, because the classification it implies simply does not correspond to legitimate linguistic semantic definitions.
In a country where corruption is endemic, no evidence has been presented that Ms Yingluck took any money from the rice scheme, which in 2012 and 2013 cost Thailand billions of dollars. But a state-appointed committee last year ordered her to pay the fine, finding she was to blame, even though it was government policy.
gloss: An individual or species that is endemic to a region.
pos: noun
examples: The species that appeared as a consequence were endemics; that is, they were found nowhere else in the world.
gloss: A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.
pos: noun
Antonyms: alien
introduced
systemic
Related words: ecdemic
endemism
epidemic
pandemic
Derived words: Balkan endemic nephropathy
coendemic
endemical
endemically
endemicity
holoendemic
hyperendemic
hypoendemic
mesoendemic
microendemic
near-endemic
neoendemic
nonendemic
palaeoendemic
paleoendemic
stenoendemic
subendemic
synendemic
tripledemic
Translations:
enzootic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English zootic
English enzootic
From en- + zootic.
Inflected forms:
form: enzootics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease that is consistently prevalent in a population of non-human animals in a limited region, season, or climate.
pos: noun
gloss: Like or having to do with an enzootic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Prevalent in a given population or area.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Rabies is enzootic throughout North America.
Related words: enzoosis
zootic
Derived words: enzootically
Translations:
lase
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from laser, as if removing -er. Compare mase.
Inflected forms:
form: lases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use a laser beam on, as for cutting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The surgeon lased the elongated soft palate, cutting off the excess tissue and stopping the blood flow in one swipe.
The physical chemist lased the atoms as they passed between the electrodes to study their motion.
When a laser zaps an electron orbiting a proton, the electron undergoes what is called the Lamb shift, absorbing energy and jumping to a higher energy level. […] But instead of lasing electrons, Knowles examined protons with particles called muons, which he calls "the electron's fat cousin."
gloss: To use a laser beam on, as for targeting or rangefinding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The commander lased the target across the valley.
gloss: To operate as a laser; to release coherent light due to stimulation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Once enough of the gas particles are in a higher energy state, they will begin to lase and give off a coherent beam.
Charles Townes' comments that it turned out to be easy to make the first laser and that anything will lase if you hit it hard enough are incredible statements to me. If it was so easy, why didn't Columbia, Bell Labs, or TRG pull it off? They each had a head start, plenty of money, and heavy staffing.
Translations: