yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
smutty
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).
Base: smut
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: smuttier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smuttiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: smutties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smuttying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smuttied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smuttied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
pos: adj
examples: She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.
Yechiel Szeintuch, a professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University, rejects any link between the smutty Stalags and the writings of K. Tzetnik as “an original sin.” He insists K. Tzetnik’s work was based on reality.
gloss: Obscene, indecent.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.
Prayter said with a smile to the faces looking down, "Rilly—this train's a joke, isn't it!"
A wag yelled, "Yes—a smutty one!"
With raucous laughter in his ears, the parson turned and looked for Lace, feeling rather lonely.
Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.
gloss: Affected with the smut fungus.
pos: adj
gloss: To make dirty; to soil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] but went on smuttying her face and fingers at her little table, so littered with powder and blue and whitey-brown serpent cases that it looked like a Lilliputian arsenal.
Derived words: smuttily
smuttiness
unsmutty
Translations:
smoggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smog
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English smoggy
From smog + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: smoggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smoggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having smog.
pos: adj
examples: It was another smoggy day in Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, that means relatively cool with few temperature inversions that trap the gases that help make the region the smoggiest in the country.
She was all right. The abuse she was suffering wouldn't hurt her. The bright sun would forget all about it. The smoggy sky would turn brown studies to gold. (What crap.)
Even the clearest distinction between the two cities — climate — has been smoggier of late.
Translations:
sneeringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sneering
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sneeringly
From sneering + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sneeringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sneeringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sneering manner.
pos: adv
examples: On the 18th of January, 1856, Commodore Mervine sailed from San Francisco, by order of Mr. Secretary Dobbin, conveyed to him by Mr. G. W. Benson, agent of the American Guano Company, to take possession of Baker and Jarvis Islands, in the name of the United States. He was also to survey the islands, and bring home specimens of the guano. Commodore Mervine, believing this matter one of the first importance, instead of sending a sloop of war, went himself in the Independence, his own ship. His route ought to have been first to Jarvis Island; but he passed by that, and sailed directly to Baker’s Island. Having reached this island, he sailed around what he sneeringly calls “the El Dorado of mercantile and agricultural interests of our country.” “The delusion was transitory,” he writes the Secretary of the Navy, “for, on applying his eye to his telescope,” he made the most marvellous discovery of modern times, viz: that “the island was covered with birdlime in a state of decomposition.”
"You know what sort of portrait we want?" "Captain of Industry?" Roger said sneeringly.
The collapse in the legitimacy of what once was respectfully called middle-class morality but today is sneeringly referred to as "middle-class values"
Translations:
sneakily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sneaky
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sneakily
From sneaky + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sneakily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sneakily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sneaky manner.
pos: adv
examples: But on the occasions that he did do something actively nasty, he was satanically good at insinuating himself so sneakily into your most sensitive spots that if you did not know him well you could end up thinking you were being unfair to him when he annoyed you.
Translations:
unrelieved
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 relieved
English unrelieved
From un- + relieved.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrelieved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrelieved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Utter; complete; without relief.
pos: adj
examples: Stock is generally well maintained, and the locomotives and railcars are kept scrupulously clean. The former are painted an unrelieved black, and the latter blue and cream, while the coaches are grey.
Part of this movement was driven by a growing conviction among African Americans that they faced unrelieved discrimination.
Translations:
snobbishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snobbish
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 snobbishness
From snobbish + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: snobbishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being snobbish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result or product of being snobbish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: snobbiness
Translations:
sneakiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sneaky
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 sneakiness
From sneaky + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being sneaky.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
snappily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snappy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English snappily
From snappy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more snappily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most snappily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a snappy manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
snobbishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snobbish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English snobbishly
From snobbish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more snobbishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most snobbishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a snobbish manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
snidely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snide
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English snidely
From snide + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more snidely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most snidely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a snide manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
snooper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snoop
English -er
English snooper
From snoop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snoopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who snoops.
pos: noun
examples: Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.
Apps like WhatsApp currently prevent any snoopers from reading your messages using end-to-end encryption, jumbling it up in such a way that only the recipient can de-jumble it.
Translations:
snorkeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snorkel
English -er
English snorkeler
From snorkel + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snorkelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snorkeller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who uses a snorkel to do snorkeling.
pos: noun
Translations:
snorter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snort
English -er
English snorter
From snort + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snorters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who snorts.
pos: noun
gloss: Something extraordinary or remarkable.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.
gloss: Something that is extremely difficult.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: The maths problem is a real snorter, isn't it?
gloss: A punch on the nose.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Both ready, and on their guard; Burke evidently waiting for Byrne to commence; but incautiously putting down his hands to wipe them on his drawers, Byrne, as quick as lightning, popped in a snorter.
And thereupon, remembering that he had threatened to wring my nose, I gave him a snorter upon his own.
gloss: A powerful gale.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: short snorter
Translations:
snorer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snore
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 snorer
From snore + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snorers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who snores (or is snoring).
pos: noun
examples: One snorer can keep a whole room of sleepy people awake.
But there, Erskine was not a snorer. And yet to look at him, or hear him sing his song, you would have taken him for a snorer, a great snorer.
Translations:
stabber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stab
English -er
English stabber
From stab + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stabbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, stabs.
pos: noun
examples: Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.
gloss: A small marlinespike.
pos: noun
Derived words: backstabber
shit-stabber
stump stabber
Translations:
stably
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stable
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 stably
From stable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stable manner.
pos: adv
examples: [K]ing Edwarde [IV] returned, and wͭ much leſſe nũber thẽ [number then [than]] he had, at Barnet on theſtre daye felde [the Easter Day field], ſlewe the Erle of warwik [Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick] wͭ many other great eſtates of yͤ partie, ⁊ ſo ſtably attained the crowne againe, that he peaſſybly enioyed it vntil his dieng day: […]
The new procedures for money market operations continue to be in place until the consumer price index (excluding perishables, on a nationwide statistics) registers stably a zero percent or an increase year on year.
gloss: A medieval hunting practice in which a group of hunters and hounds are stationed around the perimeter of a wood during a hunt to prevent the escape of the game.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: As described in chapter three, classic bow and stably hunting in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance involved hunters waiting on foot at stands or stations for the driven quarry to appear within bowshot.
Additions to the present manuscript found in no other contemporary manuscripts include passages on blowing the "prise", an account of fox-hunting, and a section on hunting with bow and stably (in which deer are driven past ready bowmen).
Twiti's discussion of hunting deer with bow and a pack of greyhounds (or “stably”) to drive them past the waiting archers is similar, for example, to that in Gawain and the Green Knight, and such hunting practices are referred to in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The Franklin's Tale.
Translations:
staffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English staff
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 staffer
From staff + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: staffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a staff; an employee.
pos: noun
examples: The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.
But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.
But then around midday on Friday the post was taken down from Trump’s Truth Social account and the White House claimed that posting it had been a mistake by a staffer.
Translations:
stagecraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stage
Proto-Germanic *krafjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
Proto-West Germanic *kraftu
Old English cræft
Old English -cræft
Middle English -craft
English -craft
English stagecraft
From stage + -craft.
Inflected forms:
form: stagecrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skills of the theater.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: To be a professional actor you need to learn stagecraft.
For all the costume changes and the stagecraft – the gig starts with a camera crew following Murphy backstage – these are not the show’s most memorable takeaways. It’s the music
gloss: A specific skill of the theater.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Lighting is a very technical stagecraft.
Translations:
stagehand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stage + hand (“manual worker”).
Compound parts: stage
hand
Inflected forms:
form: stagehands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: stage crew
The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.
Translations:
staggeringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English staggering
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English staggeringly
From staggering + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more staggeringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most staggeringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To a breathtaking degree.
pos: adv
examples: The ancient city was staggeringly beautiful.
‘Yes,’ said Slartibartfast, ‘staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so.[…]’
Barely a bird and definitely none of my target species greeted the morning so I cut my losses and headed north through the staggeringly vast emptiness of the Outback.
As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
Green can be a double-edged sword. Does it make sense for an eco-warrior to arrive at (say) the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in his Tesla electric car, get out in his low-carbon vegan trainers, and then step into a 19th century means of transport that is staggeringly inefficient and pretty darn polluting?
Her fanbase is staggeringly large, with 53% of Americans saying they are fans and 16% identifying as “avid fans”, according to a March 2023 Morning Consult poll.
gloss: Moving with a stagger.
pos: adv
examples: He made his way staggeringly to the bar.
Translations:
staleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stale
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 staleness
From stale + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: stalenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being stale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result or product of being stale.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
Arabist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
government
human-sciences
linguistics
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Arab
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 Arabist
From Arab + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: Arabists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Arabist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Arabist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics, or language.
pos: noun
gloss: One who followed the Arabic system of medicine or (more broadly) scholarship.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One that wants to spread Arabic culture; an Arab nationalist.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to Arabism; medieval Arabic scholarship.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the study of Arabic language or culture.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to Arab nationalism; promoting Arab interests.
pos: adj
examples: Two of the most influential Arabist societies were established beyond the reach of Ottoman censors and police.
Translations:
staphylococcal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English staphylococcus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English staphylococcal
From staphylococcus + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more staphylococcal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most staphylococcal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to staphylococcus.
pos: adj
Translations:
starer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stare
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 starer
From stare + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: starers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who stares.
pos: noun
Translations:
starless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star + -less. Piecewise doublet of asterless.
Base: star
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without visible stars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The starless night was very dark.
A globe far off / It seemed, now seems a boundless continent / Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night / Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky;
The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
A searchlight wounded the starless dark.
1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15,
Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,
A hotel's enormous neon name challenged the starless sky.
[…] there is nothing to beat what the City can make of a nightsky. It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless.
Translations:
strenuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strenuous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English strenuously
From strenuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more strenuously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most strenuously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a strenuous manner.
pos: adv
examples: By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain'd a lodgement.
Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
Not only did I oppose President George H.W. Bush on his China policy, I strenuously disagreed with Democratic President Bill Clinton on his trade and human rights policies toward China and Tibet as well. This was difficult because I otherwise greatly supported and admired his leadership.
Journalists are strenuously objecting to the plan.
But when Chauvin’s trial for his alleged role in Floyd’s death begins, much of the argument will center instead on the autopsy details, most specifically whether fentanyl and underlying health conditions — not the police officer’s actions — stopped Floyd’s heart and lungs. Seven experts in toxicology, cardiology and illegal drug use consulted by The Washington Post largely disagreed with that idea, most of them strenuously.
Translations:
claymation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A blend of clay + animation. Originally registered as a trademark by American animator Will Vinton in 1978, then entered the English language as a genericized trademark.
Compound parts: clay
animation
Inflected forms:
form: claymations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Stop-motion animation where each animated piece is made from a deformable substance, typically Plasticine clay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As my friends deserted our weekend movie-making for more teenagerly pastimes, I had turned to the cold, clean world of claymation and animated LEGOs.
The fact that the Swedish artist undertakes these explorations in claymation – a medium one might assume to have reached its erotic climax with Gromit operating a sexy bunny marionette in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – adds a healthy dose of the ridiculous.
Translations:
streaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English streak
English -y
English streaky
From streak + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: streakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: streakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having streaks.
pos: adj
gloss: Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
pos: adj
examples: Although the two added thirteen important runs, including four byes let through by Mongia and a streaky outside edge cum late-cut by Pollock for four, one didn't need to be blessed with gifts of insight to realise that Pollock's days at the crease were numbered.
...rather than hitting it with the middle of the bat, I jagged it off the inside edge and French-cut it over the top of the stumps for another four. That was the only streaky shot I can remember.
Compton troubled Bradman with his Chinaman, and one streaky shot was edged past Crapp at slips.
gloss: Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
pos: adj
examples: […] to do his duty in the face of uncommonly streaky weather like a man.
[Nebraska] has a reputation for streaky weather, long stretches of drouth and long seasons of rain.
It was one of those streaky days you often find at the end of a Kerry winter, with little spurts of cold rain and puffs of chilling wind and now and then glimpses of weak sunshine.
gloss: Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
usually
examples: Jones has always been a streaky hitter
gloss: Having periods of irritation or bad temper.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
pos: adj
examples: Two goals from Alexis Sánchez, the second a little streakier than the first, were enough to send Arsenal into a second successive FA Cup final, once again following extra time after being held over 90 minutes by a Championship side.
Derived words: streakily
streakiness
streaky bacon
Translations:
subplot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + plot.
Base: plot
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subplots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subplots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subplotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subplotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subplotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.
pos: noun
examples: 1978, R.B. Lee & R. Misiorowski, Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer,
Subplot, a story line enclosed within the principal story to provide relief from the main plot's tension, add character dimension, etc.
Structurally, the two most variant scenes (outside of Scene ii) are Scenes 3 and 4 in which the compiler works out the variant subplot.
In a sense, Superman's romance with Lois Lane was a subplot and [...]
2001, Nancy Arbuthnot Johnson, Vic Neufield, Forging Links for Health Research,
But this story has a subplot — a subplot about fairness and how people have divergent levels of access to knowledge and resources.
gloss: A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.
pos: noun
examples: [...] on sixteen 8/10-acre plots (12.8 acres) well distributed over the area. [...] A 1/160-acre subplot was established in a randomly chosen corner of each [...]
1999, E. K. Sadanandan Nambiar, Christian Cossalter, Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forest,
There are 72 trees in each plot (6x12) and 36 trees in each subplot.
2002, M. Boya Edwards, Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference,
Hardwood and shrub stems (besides gallberry) were counted by species and measured for total height (if greater than 2 ft) on 3 strip plots per subplot that were 0.01 acre […]
gloss: To provide (a story) with a subplot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the pictures of places, too, an author uses economy; and for his plot, complicated and subplotted as it may seem, he cannot count on having vast stretches of eternity in which to elaborate forever.
Synonyms: underplot
Translations:
unknot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English knot
English unknot
From un- + knot.
Inflected forms:
form: unknots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unknots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unknotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unknotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unknotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In knot theory, a loop that is not knotted.
pos: noun
gloss: To unfasten (a knot).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
unhook
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English hook
English unhook
From un- + hook.
Inflected forms:
form: unhooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unhooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unhooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unhooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove from a hook.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
After Aulnoye the route lay through the colliery area and past Maubeuge to Jeumont, on the Belgian border. There Eùgene unhooked and we handed the train over to a Belgian diesel.
gloss: To unfasten by means of hooks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to unhook a bra
"She was standing in front of the mirror unhooking her frock. Mrs. P., I mean."
Subject apparently unhooks button, releases clasp, pulls zipper, draws string, unholes button, loosens band. Trousers fall to buttock, revealing white rubber panties.
gloss: To unfasten the bra of (its wearer).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
Translations:
unworn
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 worn
English unworn
From un- + worn.
Inflected forms:
form: more unworn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unworn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not having been worn, as clothing.
pos: adj
gloss: Not worn away or eroded.
pos: adj
Translations:
unwearable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
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 wearable
English unwearable
From un- + wearable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unwearable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unwearable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unwearables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be worn
pos: adj
gloss: Clothing that is unsuitable for wear in most circumstances because it is extreme, unusual, or uncomfortable.
pos: adj
examples: European designers entered into the nineties with fashion collections that were astonishingly unwearable.
gloss: Something, such as clothing, that cannot be worn
pos: noun
examples: He’s compensating you for an injury, not for purchasing your spattered unwearables.
Antonyms: wearable
Translations:
untwist
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English twist
English untwist
From un- + twist.
Inflected forms:
form: untwists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: untwisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: untwisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: untwisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: untwists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To remove a twist from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become untwisted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A twist in the opposite direction.
pos: noun
Translations:
untidily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From untidy + -ly or un- + tidily.
Base: untidy
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more untidily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most untidily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an untidy manner.
pos: adv
examples: when we entered Helen was greeted with a sharp reprimand, and told that tomorrow she should have half-a-dozen of untidily folded articles pinned to her shoulder.
When Marilla came up for the light various skimpy articles of raiment scattered most untidily over the floor and a certain tempestuous appearance of the bed were the only indications of any presence save her own.
She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
Translations:
untidiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English untidy
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 untidiness
From untidy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: untidinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being untidy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a slight air of untidiness—or rather, perhaps, an absence of spruceness in any detail—about his general appearance […]
Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour.
Antonyms: tidiness
Translations:
untested
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 tested
English untested
From un- + tested.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not previously tested.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If the promising but untested treatment would replace EET, the head-to-head comparison would be similar to the "placebo-controlled" trials I've already described, but with EET in place of the placebo.
The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.
Translations:
unsteadiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unsteady
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 unsteadiness
From unsteady + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: unsteadinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being unsteady.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Marsh rebuilding, with the higher-pitched and larger boiler and new standard boiler mountings, completely altered the appearance of the engine, which in its last guise was a very handsome machine; but unsteadiness in running at speeds over 50 m.p.h. resulted in no further such conversions being made.
Antonyms: steadiness
Translations:
unread
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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 read
English unread
From un- + read.
Inflected forms:
form: unreads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unreading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unread
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unread
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not having been read.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1700, Charles Hopkins, The Art of Love, (after Ovid’s Ars Amatoria), London: Joseph Wild, “The Muse,” p. 36,
At first, perhaps, unread your Note’s return’d,
Your Person slighted, and your Passion scorn’d.
‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.
The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
gloss: Not having read; uneducated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In fortune’s love […] the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
1796, Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Chapter 22, p. 111,
The only child of two doating parents, she never had been taught the necessity of resignation—untutored, unread, unused to reflect, but knowing how to feel […]
1890, Frances Willard, Address before the Seventeenth Convention of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Atlanta, Georgia, in William Jennings Bryan (editor), The World’s Famous Orations, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, Volume 10, p. 162,
[…] only those unread in the biography of genius imagine themselves to be original.
gloss: To undo the process of reading.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That book was terrible! I wish I could unread it.
gloss: To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An unread email or instant message.
pos: noun
examples: You will have fewer 'Unreads' staring at you from your Inbox, and will feel—and be—more productive.
I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.
Translations:
unplugged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
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 plugged
English unplugged
From un- + plugged.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not plugged in.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Using acoustic instruments, especially instead of electric ones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Without a plug or bung.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unplugged vessel containing liquid
gloss: Presented in a more low-key and intimate context than usual.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: I enjoyed watching "Miley Cyrus Unplugged" last night.
Translations:
unorganized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
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 organized
English unorganized
From un- + organized.
Inflected forms:
form: more unorganized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unorganized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unorganised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not organized: not having been organized.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Palmyra Atoll is an unorganized territory.
gloss: Not organized: not having been organized.
pos: adj
examples: Health care is one of Boston's largest industries. It is also one of the most unorganized. As in most service industries, many of the jobs are semi- or unskilled, offering low pay with little security.
Related words: Citizens liable for military service but not organized on a military basis
disorganized
Derived words: unorganized territory
Translations:
unmovable
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-
Old French movable
English movable
English unmovable
From un- + movable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unmovable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unmovable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not physically able to be moved.
pos: adj
gloss: Incapable of being emotionally moved or persuaded.
pos: adj
Related words: unmoveable
immovable
Translations:
unlatch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English latch
English unlatch
From un- + latch.
Inflected forms:
form: unlatches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unlatching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unlatched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unlatched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Remove from a latch
pos: verb
Translations:
uninsured
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English insured
English uninsured
From un- + insured.
Inflected forms:
form: uninsureds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not insured; not having insurance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who is not insured.
pos: noun
Translations:
unheard-of
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unheard-of
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unheard-of
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unheard of
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Previously unknown; unprecedented.
pos: adj
examples: He was […] none of your unconscionable blades, requiring impossible chops, and taking unheard-of pickles for granted.
Starvation in the uplands was not an unheard-of thing; […]
But then, it is not unheard-of for reviewers to berate a writer for writing a book according to his own taste, and not the book the reviewer would have written, if the reviewer were only capable of writing.
Prohibition produced the immense and previously unheard-of wealth that launched truly organized crime in America.
Translations:
unhatched
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 hatched
English unhatched
From un- + hatched.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not yet hatched.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unhatched egg
gloss: Not shaded with hatching.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
undying
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 dying
English undying
From un- + dying.
Inflected forms:
form: more undying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: permanent; never-ending; infinite
pos: adj
examples: My abandoned heart
Just doesn't understand
My undying love for you
Won't let me wait
Translations:
guy-wire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guy-wires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guy wire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A metal guy rope used to stabilize a tall structure (such as a radio mast).
pos: noun
Translations:
negritude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French négritude (coined by Aimé Césaire), from nègre (“Negro”) + -itude.
Inflected forms:
form: negritudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.
Long before Negritude had become a war-cry among the Black intellectuals of the Left Bank, Caribbean writers had been composing verses in French that were purely derivative, evoking the Parnassian and neo-Romantic influences of the end of the last century.
In order to explain this morality in action of negritude, I must go back a little.
Another important thing about “CLR,” as he was known in our little movement, was his disdainful opposition to any Third World fetishism or half-baked negritude.
Translations:
yuri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love. See Yuri (genre) § “Terminology and etymology” at Wikipedia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between women.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
especially
uncountable
examples: I wanna start a Marxist reading circle but I feel like if I did that it would just be a bunch of trans puppies barking and playing and like not reading at all and a bunch of yuri
Translations:
suppliant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant.
Inflected forms:
form: more suppliant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suppliant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: suppliants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Entreating with humility; supplicant.
pos: adj
examples: to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee
Some plaques formed part of a mosaic that covered human life with its varied scenes of peace and war. Here we have warriors, the Cretan erect, and his darker-skinned enemy prostrate and suppliant.
Oedipus, King of my country, you can see our ages who are before your door; some it may be too young for such a journey, and some too old, Priests of Zeus such as I, and these chosen young men; while the rest of the people crowd the market-places with their suppliant branches, for the city stumbles towards death, hardly able to raise up its head
gloss: Supplying; auxiliary.
pos: adj
examples: your levy Must be suppliant
gloss: One who pleads or requests earnestly.
pos: noun
examples: In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs.
[K]naves in office, partial in the vvork / Of diſtribution; lib'ral of their aid / To clam'rous importunity in rags, / But oft-times deaf to ſuppliants vvho vvould bluſh / To vvear a tatter'd garb hovvever coarſe, / VVhom famine cannot reconcile to filth; […]
You were not wont to turn young and beautiful suppliants from your office door. What is the real reason of this professional reluctance on your part?
I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness.
Translations:
renascence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English renascent
English -ence
English renascence
From renascent + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: renascences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A new beginning or rebirth; regeneration.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Although at first I was puzzles, I did not have to ponder long the mystery of this man's renascence.
gloss: Renewal, revival.
pos: noun
examples: Ignored by her own time, Dickinson was sentimentalized in her renascence.
gloss: The Renaissance.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
odori
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 踊り (odori).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An energetic Japanese style of folk dance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: