yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
calendar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French calendierbor.
Middle English kalender
English calendar
From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.
Inflected forms:
form: calendars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kalendar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: calender
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: calendars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calendaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calendared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: calendared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kalendar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: calender
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
pos: noun
examples: The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.
gloss: A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
pos: noun
examples: Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.
gloss: A list of planned events.
pos: noun
examples: The club has a busy calendar this year.
gloss: An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
pos: noun
examples: a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court
Shepherds of People, had need know the Kalenders of Tempeſts in State; which are commonly greateſt, when Things grow to Equality; As naturall Tempeſts are greateſt about the Æquinoctia.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
gloss: An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.
gloss: To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then Sinners dayes.
Derived words: calendar anomaly
calendar clock
calendar day
calendar effect
calendarer
calendar girl
calendarial
calendaric
calendarise
calendarist
calendaristic
calendarization
calendarize
calendarless
calendarlike
calendar method
calendar month
calendar spread
calendar versioning
calendar year
calendic
calendographer
calendric
calendrical
calendrics
calendry
extracalendar
miscalendar
Translations:
millennium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: millennia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: millenniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: millenium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.
Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
gloss: The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
pos: noun
tags: with-definite-article
examples: A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
gloss: Any long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Near-synonym: utopia
expecting a millennium
When rumour got afoot that in future mechanical power would be unlimited, the people expected a millennium.
Derived words: centimillennium
decamillennium
light millennium
megamillennium
millennial
millennialism
millennially
millenniarism
millennium bug
millennium egg
millionennium
postmillennium
yester-millennium
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: milénium
lang: Finnish
word: millennium
lang: Iranian Persian
word: هزارهی سوم
roman: hezâre-ye sevvom
lang: Tagalog
word: libuntaon
raptor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English raptour, from Latin raptor (“kidnapper, thief”).
Inflected forms:
form: raptors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raptour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: A bird of prey.
pos: noun
gloss: One who ravishes or plunders.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: oviraptor
raptorial
Derived words: raptorish
raptorlike
Translations:
abashed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more abashed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abashed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: abasht
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
pos: adj
examples: So spake the Lord Goldry Bluszco, standing in great pride and splendour beneath the starry canopy, and scowling terribly on the Ambassador from Witchland, so that the Ambassador was abashed and his knees smote together.
Translations:
nu
Part of speech: noun
intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû), name for the letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
Inflected forms:
form: nus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nu
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nu
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measure of constringence in lenses or prisms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt, etc.
pos: intj
tags: Jewish
gloss: Well? (Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.)
pos: intj
tags: Jewish
gloss: new
pos: adj
Derived words: ephelcystic nu
movable nu
nu movable
Translations:
watchlist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From watch + list.
Compound parts: watch
list
Inflected forms:
form: watchlists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: watch list
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: watchlists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: watchlisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: watchlisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: watchlisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: watch list
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.
pos: noun
examples: The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.
The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil aviation.
gloss: To add to a watchlist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lente
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
servant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English servaunt, from Old French servant, from the present participle of the verb servir. Doublet of sergeant and servient. Morphologically serve + -ant. Displaced native Old English þeġn.
Base: serve
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: servants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: servaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: servand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
pos: noun
examples: There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
In the great houses, servants out of livery help to the different plats, servants in livery holding the dishes, sauces, etc., and changing the plates.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
gloss: One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
pos: noun
examples: She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.
gloss: A person who dedicates themselves to God.
pos: noun
gloss: A professed lover.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A person of low condition or spirit.
pos: noun
Derived words: assigned servant
body servant
bondservant
captain's servant
civil servant
covenanted servant
domestic servant
even-servant
eyeservant
eye-servant
fellow servant
indentured servant
maidservant
maid-servant
manservant
nonservant
outservant
public servant
servantage
servantdom
servantess
servanthood
servantless
servantlike
servantly
servant out of livery
servantry
servantship
underservant
who was your servant last year
womanservant
woman servant
your servant
Translations:
robot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Robot, from a West Slavic language, ultimately related to Etymology 2, below.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: “I say again, down with the robot!—he is a dog who yields it!”
Although the robot varied from region to region, it was rarely less than burdensome.
Synonyms: bot
robo
robot
clanker
Related words: artificial intelligence
computer
domotics
pedipulator
-bot
robotic
robotics
robotization
robo-
robocall
robosexual
tin man
Translations:
absentee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *ezom~*som
Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom)
Old Latin esum
Latin sum
Latin absum
Latin absēnsder.
Old French ausentder.
Middle French absentbor.
▲
Latin absēnsbor.
Middle English absent
English absent
English -ee
English absentee
From absent + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: absentees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
pos: noun
examples: At roll-call there were three absentees.
gloss: A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: absentee father; absentee landlord; absentee freeholder
gloss: A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that is not present where it might be expected.
pos: noun
examples: The manufacturer's promised new model was a notable absentee at the car show.
gloss: Designating something whose owner, person responsible, etc. is absent.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: absentee ballot, absentee property
In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.
gloss: A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee!
gloss: A voter who is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
pos: noun
examples: In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City.
Related words: absenteeism
Derived words: absentee ballot
absenteeist
absentee ownership
absenteeship
absentee vote
absentee voting
absenteism
presentee
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: afwezige
lang: Finnish
word: poissaoleva
lang: French
word: absent
lang: Gallurese
word: assenti
lang: German
word: Abwesender
lang: German
word: Abwesende
lang: Greek
word: απών
roman: apón
lang: Italian
word: assente
lang: Māori
word: kaitakē
lang: Portuguese
word: ausente
lang: Portuguese
word: faltoso
lang: Russian
word: отсу́тствующий
roman: otsútstvujuščij
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: ausente
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: stesiau
lang: Sardinian
word: ausente
lang: Sassarese
word: assenti
lang: Spanish
word: ausente
lang: Spanish
word: ausentado
lang: Portuguese
word: absentista
lang: Finnish
word: poissaoleva
absenteeism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *ezom~*som
Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom)
Old Latin esum
Latin sum
Latin absum
Latin absēnsder.
Old French ausentder.
Middle French absentbor.
▲
Latin absēnsbor.
Middle English absent
English absent
English -ee
English absentee
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English absenteeism
From absentee + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: absenteeisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: absenteism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being absent, especially frequently or without good reason; the practice of an absentee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The value of having in-house medical expertise is that staff with poor attendance records who have difficulty accessing NHS services can receive support from their employer, to help reduce absenteeism brought about by medical conditions.
Chronic absenteeism, for example, continues to be a problem despite some improvements.
gloss: The practice of absenting oneself from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: absent
absentee
absence
leaveism
presenteeism
Translations:
absently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin absum
Latin absēnsder.
Old French ausentder.
Middle French absentbor.
▲
Latin absēnsbor.
Middle English absent
English absent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English absently
From absent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more absently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most absently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
pos: adv
examples: When he is in company he will sit absently muttering over a heap of Arabick, or in a Ciceronian attitude, declaim with all the vehemency of eloquence […]
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34,
[…] his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
Absently, he picked a dew-wet leaf from the hibiscus shrub, crushed it in his palm, put it in his mouth and came towards her, chewing.
The ordeal is a world away from Kira now as she plays games on her new iPad while absently talking about downloading more apps to play music, and voicing her excitement over reuniting soon with her grandfather’s girlfriend.
Translations:
absent-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From absent + minded.
Compound parts: absent
minded
Inflected forms:
form: more absent-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absent-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absentminded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted.
pos: adj
examples: It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."
Translations:
absinthium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English absinthium, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
gloss: The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: absinthe oil
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kuivattu koiruoho
absolutely
Part of speech: adv
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From late Middle English absolutly, equivalent to absolute + -ly.
First attested in 1425.
Base: absolute
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more absolutely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most absolutely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.
pos: adv
gloss: Independently; viewed without relation to other things or factors.
pos: adv
examples: Another characteristic of numbers, which does not concern their mutual relations so much as themselves absolutely, is their ability, according to the ideas of Nicomachus, to conform to geometrical arrangements.
gloss: As an intensive: extremely, very, indeed.
pos: adv
examples: But when it came to posing for publicity pictures they proved absolutely brilliant doing just what came naturally.
The strength of the mouse is absolutely spectacular for various kinds of issues, until you find out that the mouse has absolutely no extracellular matrix to speak of in his optic nerve head.
The people of the Song dynasty, when they weren’t busy singing, were absolutely obsessed with feet. No one knows why. Perhaps the constant singing drove everyone crazy.
The most absolutely terrifying creature lifted her head.
gloss: Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.
pos: intj
examples: Is Bob a good teacher?
Absolutely!
Do you want a free cookie with that coffee?
Absolutely!
Derived words: absatively
absitively
absobloodylutely
absofreakinglutely
absofreakinlutely
absofuckinglutely
absolutely cinematic
absolutely continuous
absolutely convergent
absolutely flat
absolutely summable
absotively
posilutely
positutely
posolutely
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
Translations:
absoluteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *s(w)é
Latin se-
Latin luō
Latin solvō
Latin absolvōder.
Latin absolūtusder.
Middle French absolutder.
Middle English absolut
English absolute
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English absoluteness
From absolute + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: absolutenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: the absoluteness of his sovereignty, the absoluteness of his convictions
gloss: Absolute authority, unlimited power; absolutism, despotism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I know no man that could produce more parts, both naturall and artificiall, fit to preserve his masterie, and to maintaine his absolutenesse, than he doth; yet is hee cleane falne from them like a childe.
gloss: The fact of being without qualifications or conditions; certainty, unconditionality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Independent autonomy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: unconditionality
unlimitedness
certainty
Antonyms: conditionality
limitedness
relativity
Translations:
absolution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English absolucion, absolucioun, from Old French absolution, from Latin absolūtiōnem, accusative singular of absolūtiō (“acquittal”), from absolvō (“absolve”). See also absolve.
Inflected forms:
form: absolutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Governments granting absolution to the nation.
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
gloss: An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Delivery, in speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: the words are chosen , their sound ample , the composition full , the absolution plenteous
Related words: indulgence
Derived words: absolutionary
Absolution Day
nonabsolution
Translations:
absolutism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
political-science
religion
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
sociology
theology
Etymology: First attested in 1753 (in the theological sense); attested in 1830 in the political sense. From absolute + -ism, based after French absolutisme.
Base: absolute
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: absolutisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.
gloss: Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
Related words: autocracy
dictatorship
strongman
Derived words: antiabsolutism
hyperabsolutism
nonabsolutism
Translations:
absolutist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste.
Base: absolute
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: absolutists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: absolutistic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more absolutist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absolutist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absolutistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
pos: noun
gloss: One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute.
pos: noun
examples: the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist
When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.
gloss: An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute.
pos: noun
examples: The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”
gloss: Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising.
pos: adj
examples: The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.
Derived words: antiabsolutist
nonabsolutist
Translations:
absorbable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
Proto-Italic *sorβeō
Latin sorbeō
Latin absorbeō
Old French assorbir
Middle French absorberder.
English absorb
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 absorbable
From absorb + -able. First attested in the late 18th century.
Inflected forms:
form: more absorbable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absorbable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absorbables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
pos: adj
gloss: A material that can be absorbed.
pos: noun
examples: There is general agreement that nonabsorbable materials are better than absorbables. The most popular materials are polypropylene mesh and PTFE produced as a patch.
Translations:
absorbing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
Proto-Italic *sorβeō
Latin sorbeō
Latin absorbeō
Old French assorbir
Middle French absorberder.
English absorb
English -ing
English absorbing
From absorb + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more absorbing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absorbing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absorbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest.
pos: adj
examples: an absorbing pursuit
It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
gloss: Allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it.
pos: adj
gloss: Absorption.
pos: noun
Synonyms: engrossing
fascinating
Derived words: absorbingly
nonabsorbing
unabsorbing
vibroabsorbing
Translations:
absorptive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
Proto-Italic *sorβeō
Latin sorbeō
Latin absorbeō
Old French assorbir
Middle French absorberder.
English absorb
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English -ative
English -tive
English absorptive
From absorb + -tive.
Inflected forms:
form: more absorptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absorptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absorptives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
pos: adj
examples: In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]
gloss: Any substance that absorbs.
pos: noun
Translations:
absorptivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin absorbeō
Old French assorbir
Middle French absorberder.
English absorb
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English -ative
English -tive
English absorptive
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English absorptivity
From absorptive + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: absorptivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
pos: noun
gloss: The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
pos: noun
gloss: The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
pos: noun
Synonyms: absorption coefficient
absorption factor
Translations:
abstainer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English absteyner, equivalent to abstain + -er.
Base: abstain
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: abstainers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who abstains; especially, one who abstains from something, such as the use of alcohol or drugs, or one who abstains for religious reasons; one who practices self-denial.
pos: noun
examples: To one of my very nervous patients, who was an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on his mother, and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence.
He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.
'Never himself touches a drop of the stuff, you understand. Having been an abstainer since the age of seven or something. A clerky figure even as a child.'
Translations:
abstemiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abstemious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English abstemiousness
From abstemious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He was temperate in his meals and diversions, but always kept a little on this side of abstemiousness. Only in the use of the Indian weed he might be thought a little excessive.
Translations:
abstinent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in the late 14th century as Middle English abstinent, abstynent, from Old French abstinent, from Latin abstinēns, present participle of abstineō. See abstain.
Inflected forms:
form: more abstinent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abstinent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite.
pos: adj
examples: Be abstinent; shew not the corruption of thy generation: he that feeds shall die
Translations:
abstracted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?
Latin trahō
Latin abstrahō
Latin abstractusbor.
Middle English abstract
English abstract
English -ed
English abstracted
From abstract + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more abstracted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abstracted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
pos: adj
examples: the evil abstracted stood
From his own evil,[…]
gloss: Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: I am not sure, that the best way of discussing any subject, except those, that concern the abstracted sciences, is not somewhat in the way of dialogue.
gloss: Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.
gloss: Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
pos: adj
examples: an abstracted scholar
I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?
Derived words: abstractedly
abstractedness
nonabstracted
unabstracted
Translations:
abstractionist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abstraction
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English abstractionist
From abstraction + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more abstractionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abstractionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: abstractionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
pos: adj
gloss: An idealist.
pos: noun
examples: She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.
If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain,—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme, built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
In this all-important respect I do not hesitate to say we theorists and abstractionists of the North, throughout that long anti-slavery discussion which ended with the 1861 dash of arms, were thoroughly wrong.
gloss: Someone who supports or creates abstract art.
pos: noun
Translations:
abstractly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English abstractly; equivalent to abstract + -ly.
Base: abstract
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more abstractly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most abstractly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an abstract way or manner
pos: adv
examples: Bernard Clark and Ethel were seated side by side on a costly sofa gazing abstractly at the parting guest.
gloss: separately; absolutely
pos: adv
examples: matter abstractly considered
Translations:
abstractness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin abstrahō
Latin abstractusbor.
Middle English abstract
English abstract
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English abstractness
From abstract + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: abstractnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being abstract.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The abstractness of the ideas.
Antonyms: concreteness
Translations:
absurdity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.
Affixes: -itas
Inflected forms:
form: absurdities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …
gloss: The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number
Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.
gloss: Dissonance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
rare
uncountable
Translations:
absurdly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English absurd
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English absurdly
From absurd + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more absurdly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most absurdly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an absurd fashion.
pos: adv
examples: He orated absurdly.
Absurdly, he concluded his oration with a song.
gloss: To an extreme degree.
pos: adv
examples: The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise.
By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]
Translations:
abuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
Inflected forms:
form: abunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
pos: noun
examples: Around these leaders are still numerous hereditary dynasties of non-monastic clergy who, over the centuries, might swarm in their thousands to seek ordination on the abun’s rare visits to their area.
Translations:
abundantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English abundantly, abundauntli, habundantly, habundauntliche, equivalent to abundant + -ly.
Base: abundant
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more abundantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most abundantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure.
pos: adv
examples: And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flie aboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.
Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe.
gloss: Extremely.
pos: adv
examples: The explosion, in other words, was unexpected, powerful, and politically diffuse; it vented sharp African frustrations with the colonial situation, but had no readily visible leadership or political goals; it made abundantly obvious the need to speed the pace of self-government
Translations:
abusable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abuse
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 abusable
From abuse + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more abusable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abusable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being abused.
pos: adj
Translations:
abuser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abuse
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English abuser
From abuse + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: abusers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who abuses someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: drug abuser
cocaine abuser
child abuser
abuser of my generosity
Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their befriending of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.
[The person] who was going to visit her with his wife had a physical resemblance to the abuser, so some of her inside children had a strong reaction of fear and revulsion to him. They were afraid to look at the face of the guest in case he was the abuser.
Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.
gloss: One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: child abuser
coabuser
drug abuser
nonabuser
polyabuser
self-abuser
solvent abuser
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: hyväksikäyttäjä
lang: Finnish
word: ongelmakäyttäjä
lang: Swedish
word: missbrukare
abusive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus, from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abuse + -ive.
Base: abuse
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more abusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
pos: adj
examples: All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me.
"Zero Tolerance. Aggressive and abusive behavior will not be tolerated. Our team are here to help, not hurt," the signs read.
gloss: Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: an abusive treaty
gloss: Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: […] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.
the abusive prerogatives of his see
gloss: Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
pos: adj
gloss: Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
pos: adj
examples: I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.
gloss: Catachrestic.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Antonyms: abuseless
nonabusive
unabusive
Derived words: abusively
abusiveness
abusivity
Translations:
abusively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abusive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English abusively
From abusive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more abusively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most abusively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
pos: adv
examples: Christ therfore mentions not here what Moses and the Law intended: for good men might know that by many other rules: and the scornfull Pharises were not fit to be told, untill they could imploy that knowledge they had, lesse abusively.
Whatever signs, shows, or gestures we shall make, or whatever our behaviour, carriage, or demeanour shall happen to be in their view and presence, they will interpret the whole in reference to the act of androgynation and the culbutizing exercise, by which means we shall be abusively disappointed of our designs, in regard that she will take all our signs for nothing else but tokens and representations of our desire to entice her unto the lists of a Cyprian combat or catsenconny skirmish.
the engineer, who had not expected to sail so soon, was terribly and abusively drunk. Every moment he could spare from his engines he thrust the upper part of his body through the small hatchway and rowed with his commander.
Translations:
abusiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abusive
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English abusiveness
From abusive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness
Translations:
abut
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English abutten, from Medieval Latin abuttare and Old French abuter, aboter, abouter (“to touch at one end, to come to an end, aim, reach”), from Old French but (“end, aim, purpose”); akin to Old Norse butr (“piece of wood”). Equivalent to a- (“to”) + butt (“boundary mark”).
Base: butt
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: abuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: abutt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
His land abuts on the road.
gloss: To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:abut.
Derived words: abutment
abuttal
abutter
Translations: