yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
inane
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inānis (“empty, vain, useless”), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: inaner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more inane
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: inanest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most inane
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.
pos: adj
examples: This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.
Francesca followed, reluctant enough in her secret; for though she would not have admitted it even to herself, she did shrink from the infliction of the inane solemnities with which her father garnished his discourse—to say nothing of the ungracious reflections which so often glanced at herself.
God, if she had to listen to another conversation about some kid she didnʼt know—how Tina J. stole the stage at the talent show or Bobby R. won the tee ball game or any other number of inane accomplishments.
gloss: Purposeless; pointless.
pos: adj
examples: Vague and inane instincts.
gloss: That which is void or empty.
pos: noun
examples: The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.
[…] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.
Derived words: inanely
inaneness
inanery
inanity
uninane
Translations:
broccoli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1699, Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, head”), diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”) (which is also the origin of brocade), from Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp, projecting; buck-toothed”), possibly of Gaulish origin, related to Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) or Proto-Celtic *brozdos (“tip, point”) (compare Scottish Gaelic brog (“pointed instrument, awl”), Welsh procio (“thrust, poke”), Old English brord (“point, spike”)). More at brochure, brad.
Inflected forms:
form: broccolis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broccoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broccolo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: brocoli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: brockely
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You can also get oriental broccolis such as kailaan and nabana, which are easy to grow and really tasty.
Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory.
gloss: Marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I be smokin' broccoli, mama told me eat my veggies
All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli
Related words: brocade
Derived words: Aztec broccoli
baby broccoli
broccoflower
broccoli cut
broccoli hair
broccoli haircut
broccolilike
broccolini
broccoli raab
broccoli rabe
broccoli rape
broccoloid
Chinese broccoli
superbroccoli
Translations:
unbutton
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English onbottonen, unbotonen; equivalent to un- + button.
Base: button
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unbuttons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unbuttoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unbuttoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unbuttoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Being now too high wound up to bear a delay, he unbutton'd, and drawing out the engine of love-assaults, drove it currently, as at a ready-made breach
"Mr Baxter, I think?" said the latter. He had laid aside his dripping umbrella and was unbuttoning overcoat and coat to reach an inner pocket.
gloss: To come open by having its buttons unfastened.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: He was so muscled and firm, and the canvas shirt under his jacket unbuttoned easily.
Related words: unbuttoned
Translations:
uncalled-for
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more uncalled-for
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncalled-for
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncalled for
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unwanted; not requested or required.
pos: adj
gloss: Unwarranted, disproportionate, or inappropriate; not deserved or justified, especially when rude or offensive.
pos: adj
examples: That nasty remark was uncalled-for.
Translations:
unceasing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English ceasing
English unceasing
From un- + ceasing.
Inflected forms:
form: more unceasing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unceasing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: continuous; continuing indefinitely without stopping
pos: adj
examples: The unceasing fatigue of my daily walks to and from Clapham, with my various trudgings from one Doctor Humbug to another Doctor Whimsical, combined with the before-mentioned causes to affect my health.
To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.
Translations:
uncertain
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English uncerteyn. By surface analysis, un- + certain.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncertain
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uncertainer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most uncertain
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncertainest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not certain; unsure.
pos: adj
examples: Conſider man without the protection and conduct of a ſuperior Being, and he is ſecure of nothing that he enjoys in this world, and uncertain of every thing that he hopes for.
gloss: Not known for certain; questionable.
pos: adj
examples: Tomorrow's weather is uncertain.
gloss: Not yet determined; undecided.
pos: adj
gloss: Variable and subject to change.
pos: adj
gloss: Fitful or unsteady.
pos: adj
examples: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
gloss: Unpredictable or capricious.
pos: adj
examples: O, woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade / By the light quivering aspen made; […]
gloss: Something uncertain.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
with-definite-article
examples: Thinking about the uncertain refines our perception of the certain, and generally this takes place in a framework in which the uncertain is the future and the certain is the present.
Antonyms: certain
Related words: uncertainly
uncertainty
Derived words: in no uncertain terms
Translations:
dashboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
video-games
Etymology: From dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.
Compound parts: dash
board
Inflected forms:
form: dashboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dashboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dashboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dashboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dashboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A panel beneath the windshield of a vehicle or aircraft containing indicator gauges, compartments, and sometimes controls and indicator lights.
pos: noun
examples: Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night / I can see paradise by the dashboard light
gloss: The float of a paddle wheel.
pos: noun
gloss: A graphical user interface for changing settings.
pos: noun
examples: Log in to the dashboard to change your account settings.
gloss: A data visualization that summarizes reports from multiple disparate sources at a glance.
pos: noun
gloss: The personalized feed of a user of a website, consisting of recent updates of pages the user has used or followed.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: It's so addictive, I all too often find myself just scrolling down my dashboard on Tumblr, finding things that other people have reblogged that appeal to me, reblogging, then continuing to scroll.
I began following other fat-positive Tumblrs, and soon my dashboard was filled with positive representations of fatness: pictures, stories, quotes, and links to articles and blogs.
Though I rarely use it anymore, absently scrolling through my dashboard acquainted me with many new people from all around the world, and it helped me understand myself in new ways.
gloss: To organize in a dashboard format.
pos: verb
examples: Dashboarding your work can enhance productivity.
Related words: control panel
gauge
instrument panel
Derived words: dash
dashcam
Translations:
unchallenged
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 challenged
English unchallenged
From un- + challenged.
Inflected forms:
form: more unchallenged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unchallenged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not having any challengers.
pos: adj
examples: Roman Sharonov rose unchallenged to head a corner wide, while diminutive winger Gokdeniz Karadeniz ghosted in with a diving header from the edge of the six-yard box that was acrobatically kept out by Gomes.
gloss: Lacking experience due to lack of challenges; untested.
pos: adj
gloss: Undisputed, not called into question.
pos: adj
examples: Many of his crazy ideas remained unchallenged.
The intruders went unchallenged.
Related words: challenge
challenged
unchallengeable
Translations:
unchallengeable
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 challengeable
English unchallengeable
From un- + challengeable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unchallengeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unchallengeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not open to challenge; indisputable
pos: adj
examples: A century ago, a very distinguished Swiss military writer, who saw much service throughout the Napoleonic period, who studied minutely many of the principal campaigns, and who reflected profoundly upon international relations as affecting war, and as affected by it, stated as a fundamental necessity of the European Balance of Power that no one State should be permitted to acquire an unchallengeable naval superiority.
With a solemn imprecation on the formality and absurdity of the writer, Lord Etherington let the letter of advice drop from his hand into the fire, and throwing himself into a chair, passed his hand across his eyes, as if their very power of sight bad been blighted by what he had read. His title, and his paternal fortune, which he thought but an instant before might be rendered unchallengeable by a single movement of his hand, seemed now on the verge of being lost for ever.
The Policies of Parties admitted to the "Second Class of Select Assurances" shall be subject to the existing Conditions of the Company as to residing or travelling beyond the limits of Europe, and as to Military or Naval Service; but with these exceptions, and subject to payment of the ordinary Premiums, shall also be absolutely unchallengeable.
Like most prisoners, Eddie Jones is serving an indeterminate sentence, meaning the time he actually spends behind bars depends on the decision of a parole board, a decision not subject to the due process requirements of the Constitution. And where he will spend that time, whether in a harsh maximum-security prison like Walpole or in the relative comfort of an institution like the Southeastern Correctional Center, depends on the equally unchallengable decisions of prison authorities.
Translations:
adherence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin haereō
Latin adhaereō
Latin adhaerēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Medieval Latin adhaerentiader.
Middle French adhérenceder.
English adherence
From Middle French adhérence, from Latin adhærentia.
Inflected forms:
form: adherences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adhærence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A close physical union of two objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Faithful support for some cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Strict adherence to the rules is required.
The project failed because of poor adherence to deadlines.
Religious adherence can shape a community’s culture.
gloss: An extent to which a patient continues an agreed treatment plan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fulfilment of the legal obligation of residing with wife or husband.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: compliance
Derived words: antiadherence
coadherence
cytoadherence
hyperadherence
immunoadherence
inadherence
maladherence
nonadherence
preadherence
underadherence
Translations:
reticulocyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From reticulo- + -cyte.
Base: reticulo
Inflected forms:
form: reticulocytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An immature red blood cell, having a reticular network of RNA
pos: noun
Translations:
intransigent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French intransigeant, from Spanish intransigente, from Latin in- (“un-, not”) + trānsigēns, present participle of trānsigō (“to come to an understanding”), from trāns (“across”) + agō (“to do”).
Base: trāns
Inflected forms:
form: more intransigent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intransigent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intransigeant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: intransigents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intransigeant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; stubborn.
pos: adj
examples: Don't waste your time trying to change his mind: he's completely intransigent.
Since I have been asked to do this in very brief compass, the harsh tone and terse style of my presentation will make my contentions appear more dogmatic and intransigent than I should wish them to be.
Much of the new integration will come in the school districts that have been the most intransigent since the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in its landmark 1954 decision.
On the Spanish side, the war increased the anti-Cuban animosity and distrust felt by the most intransigent peninsulares.
gloss: A person who is intransigent.
pos: noun
Translations:
stadtholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partial calque of Dutch (superseded) stadthouder, equivalent to Middle Dutch stat (“place”) + holder; itself calqued from Medieval Latin locum tenēns. Doublet of locum tenens and lieutenant.
Inflected forms:
form: stadtholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stadholder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stadhouder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The chief provincial magistrate, military commander, and, as a member of the House of Orange, highest-ranking noble in the Dutch Republic, who often served as a de facto head of state alongside the States General; the position became hereditary in 1747
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In keeping with the decentralization principe, each province had, in any case, to appoint its own Stadholder, who might not necessarily be the same prince of Orange, or stem from the dynastic trunk. (…) Sovereignty, it was affirmed, lay with the States General, whose bidding the Stadholder was to do as once he had done the king’s.
For decades, no stadtholder who would counterbalance the power of the Amsterdam regents had been appointed.
Early letters by the Malay rulers are addressed to the “king of Holland” whom they affectionately call their “brother”, in other words as their imagined royal counterpart. In practice such letters were received and read by the stadtholder, the States General, or both.
gloss: An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials, best translated as governor-general.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: antistadtholder
antistadtholderian
stadtholderate
stadtholderess
stadtholderian
stadtholdership
Translations:
unexpected
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 expected
English unexpected
From un- + expected.
Inflected forms:
form: more unexpected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unexpected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
pos: adj
examples: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
Certainly unexpected. The P[awn] is overprotected to the best taste of a Nimzowitsch devotee, and there seems to be no drastic weakness in White's camp to justify this intrusion.
But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.
The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.
Providing accommodation is a significant constraint, and an unexpected development from the restoration of services to Okehampton is demand from the Exeter student population to rent local properties.
Antonyms: expected
Translations:
unchanged
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 changed
English unchanged
From un- + changed.
Inflected forms:
form: more unchanged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unchanged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unch.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not changed or altered; remaining in an original state.
pos: adj
examples: "A first love is not easily extinguished, Mr. Allanson," said she. "You may guess from my appearance, that I have been fortunate in life; but, for all that, my first love for you has continued the same, unaltered and unchanged, and you must forgive the little freedoms I used to-day to try your affections, and the effects my appearance would have on you."
All seven cities saw an increase in air pollution during January-May. Readings assessed showed an average concentration of hazardous airborne particles - known as PM2.5 - up by as much as 14.8% in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and by 16.3% in Shuozhou.[…]
According to the latest data, average rates of PM2.5 in 337 cities nationwide stood at 44 micrograms per cubic meter in the first five months of the year, unchanged from 2018, with 118 cities reaching the national standard of 35 micrograms or below.
Adults disapprove of the way Trump is handling tariffs by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, unchanged from the poll in April, which was done days after Trump first announced far-reaching tariffs and promised they would soon force trade agreements that would boost the economy.
Translations:
unclean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unclene, from Old English unclǣne, equivalent to un- + clean.
Base: clean
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncleaner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uncleanest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dirty, soiled or foul.
pos: adj
examples: They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food. A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.
gloss: Not moral or chaste.
pos: adj
examples: I stand amazed in the presence / Of Jesus, the Nazarene, / And wonder how He could love me, / A sinner, condemend, unclean.
gloss: Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
pos: adj
Synonyms: befouled
besmirched
clarty
cruddy
dirtsome
dirty
foul
grotty
grubby
horry
icky
lousy
manky
nasty
seamy
soiled
sordid
squalid
sullied
unclean
unwashed
yucky
Antonyms: clean
Related words: corrupt
defiled
despicable
Derived words: unclean hands
Translations:
unclear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unclere, equivalent to un- + clear. Compare Saterland Frisian uunkloor (“unclear”), West Frisian ûnklear (“inoperative, broken”), Dutch onklaar (“out of order, defective, broken”), German unklar (“unclear”), Danish uklar (“unclear”), Swedish oklar (“unclear”).
Base: clear
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unclearer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unclear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unclearest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unclear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation.
pos: adj
examples: The remark she made comparing her life with that of a fish was unclear.
gloss: Not clearly or explicitly defined.
pos: adj
gloss: Not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable.
pos: adj
examples: From such a long distance away, the name on the signpost was unclear.
gloss: Not having a clear idea; uncertain.
pos: adj
examples: I'm still unclear about what she meant by that remark.
Derived words: unclear medicine
unclearly
Translations:
unclothed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unclothed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unclothed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncloathed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not wearing clothes; nude or naked; with the clothes removed; stripped.
pos: adj
Translations:
uncoil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English coil
English uncoil
From un- + coil.
Inflected forms:
form: uncoils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uncoiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uncoiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uncoiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To unwind or untwist (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you help me uncoil this rope?
I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah.
gloss: To unwind or untwist oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The snake uncoiled and prepared to strike.
gloss: To defecate.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
euphemistic
rare
slang
transitive
examples: Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, beside the railway tracks. But they also defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover ... the one thing we can and must learn from the West is the science of municipal sanitation.' They do uncoil anywhere and everywhere. It is a great mingling of cow, dog, goat and human feces. sh!t dust is in the air.
Ah the remittance power is slowly going to die a slow death, but the only impact will be that street shitter slumdogs will go up also. From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks. The rest 10% will either die of starvation or escape the paradise to live in Christian or a Muslim country. America has already cancelled H1 visas and is deporting illegal Hindus back to the Indian paradise. EU including UK must do the same so should the remaining Arab states.
Ugh, my brother used to say uncoil a butt snake
Translations:
uncompromising
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + compromising.
Base: compromising
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more uncompromising
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncompromising
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inflexible and unwilling to negotiate or make concessions.
pos: adj
examples: But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
THE WINDS CALL: Cruises Near and Far (Scribner’s, $8.95), and for over twenty years the winds have been calling Carleton Mitchell, and this is his grateful response—a collection of salty (or at any rate saline) autobiographical essays covering the peripatetic cruises of a man who lives on a boat and is an uncompromising sealubber.
The visitors, who surprisingly dropped their talismanic record goalscorer Robbie Keane from their starting line-up for a competitive game for the first time in 13 years, adopted a direct and uncompromising approach.
“Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean,” Anders Olsson of the Swedish Academy said on Thursday as he announced her accolade.
gloss: Principled.
pos: adj
Derived words: uncompromisingly
Translations:
unconcealed
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 concealed
English unconcealed
From un- + concealed.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconcealed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unconcealed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: open to view; not hidden or concealed
pos: adj
examples: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.
Translations:
unconcern
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + concern, around 1660–1670.
Base: concern
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unconcerns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of interest or care; indifference or apathy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. The perpetual commendations of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.
gloss: Freedom from worry or apprehensiveness; insouciance or nonchalance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Albert, about Bear asleep:] A soft smile of lovin' unconcern on his friendly face as he dozes on.
Related words: unconcerned
Translations:
unconcerned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + concerned or unconcern + -ed.
Base: concerned
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unconcerned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unconcerned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Indifferent and having no interest; aloof.
pos: adj
examples: [N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.
Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing, continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinising the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes.
You understand the things that I've taught you: not to drink alcohol, not to use drugs. Don't use that cocaine or marijuana, because that stuff is highly addictive. When people become weed-heads they become sluggish, lazy, stupid, and unconcerned. Sluggish, lazy, stupid, and unconcerned. That's all marijuana does to you, okay?
gloss: Not anxious, apprehensive, or worried.
pos: adj
examples: She is completely unconcerned about the upcoming exams.
gloss: Having no involvement.
pos: adj
examples: unconcerned in the business
Related words: unencumbered
unbothered
carefree
Derived words: unconcernedly
unconcernedness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: равнодушен
roman: ravnodušen
lang: Esperanto
word: nezorgema
lang: Finnish
word: välinpitämätön
lang: German
word: gleichgültig
lang: Hungarian
word: érdektelen
lang: Hungarian
word: közömbös
lang: Hungarian
word: közönyös
lang: Hungarian
word: nemtörődöm
lang: Hungarian
word: egykedvű
lang: Hungarian
word: szenvtelen
lang: Hungarian
word: részvétlen
lang: Latin
word: sēcūrus
lang: Latin
word: incūriōsus
lang: Latin
word: indifferens
lang: Plautdietsch
word: onbekjemmat
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ravnodušan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nezainteresiran
lang: Spanish
word: despreocupado
lang: Spanish
word: inconcernido
haemal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Inflected forms:
form: hemal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hæmal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
gloss: Ventral rather than neural.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: dermohaemal
haemal arch
haemal cavity
interhaemal
neurohaemal
pseudohaemal
Translations:
bulkhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aerospace
business
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Old Norse bálkr (“partition”) + head, anglicised as bulk + head.
Base: bulk
Inflected forms:
form: bulkheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
pos: noun
examples: Lastly, Lundberg went belowdecks to inspect the boat's bulkheads and hull—for what, it was not clear, since he had absolutely no knowledge of steamboat design.
gloss: A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft, or some rail vehicles.
pos: noun
examples: For rigidity, two bulkheads are provided which are welded to the sides and underframe and which separate the cabs from the engine room.
Folding blinds are fitted to the cab bulkhead windows and sunblinds at the driving windows.
gloss: A partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
pos: noun
gloss: A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
pos: noun
gloss: A retaining wall along a waterfront.
pos: noun
gloss: A cellar hatchway.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
examples: She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.
Derived words: bulkheaded
bulkheading
bulkhead line
collision bulkhead
forepeak bulkhead
nonbulkhead
Translations:
airmail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From air + mail.
Compound parts: air
mail
Inflected forms:
form: airmails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: air mail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: airmails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airmailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airmailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airmailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: air mail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The system of conveying mail using aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to send a letter by airmail
gloss: The items of mail so carried.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To send mail by air.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.
pos: verb
Derived words: airmail field
Translations:
breakdance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From break + dance, in reference to the instrumental break sections of music.
Base: break
Inflected forms:
form: breakdances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: break-dance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: break dance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: breakdances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breakdancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breakdanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breakdanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: break-dance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: break dance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The art, or an instance, of breakdancing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: B-boys -- or breakdance boys -- have been spotted in Coca-Cola and Sprite advertisements.
gloss: To dance in this style.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
breakdancing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From break + dancing.
Influenced by breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) -- breakdancers were originally those who danced to a breakdown.
Base: break
Inflected forms:
form: break dancing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: break-dancing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An urban style of acrobatic street dance that originated in the hip hop culture of New York City in the late 20th century.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Hollywood made movies about breakdancing, dancers performed at the White House and the sky seemed the limit.
Translations:
bartender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bar
English tender
English bartender
From bar + tender.
Inflected forms:
form: bartenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bar-tender
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
pos: noun
examples: He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers...
They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned.
Translations:
echolalia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From echo- + -lalia; echo- ultimately from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”), -lalia from λαλιά (laliá, “talk, chat”).
Affixes: echo-
-lalia
Inflected forms:
form: echolalias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their echolalic responses may be much more extensive than the single words or short phrases that are characteristic of normal echolalia. Thus, a pseudoverbal autistic child may respond to "Do you want a cookie, Jimmy?" with a replication of the very same words.
A child older than 24 months with echolalia as the only language is likely to receive a diagnosis of ASD[.]
gloss: An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
Derived words: autoecholalia
echolalic
Translations:
hypersphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor.
Latin sphaera
Late Latin sphērader.
Old French spherebor.
Middle English spere
English sphere
English hypersphere
From hyper- + sphere.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperspheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyper-sphere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The set of all points in a given hyperspace that are at a given distance from a given point; a generalization of a sphere in four or more dimensions.
pos: noun
examples: The timing and location of these battles have not been established. “Sphere” in this context is a hypersphere made up of complexes of two and three-D surfaces, or membranes, shortened in this translation to “branes,” extending into higher dimensions that combine vectors of transit, but also scalar tactical probabilities—a difficult concept to grasp, but essential to understanding Forerunner warfare.
To prove that the hypersphere is a manifold we wish to divide it into polyhedral solids.
gloss: A zorb; the act of zorbing, entering a zorbing ball, strapping into a harness, and rolling down a hill.
pos: noun
Related words: hyperball
n-sphere
Derived words: hyperspherical
Translations:
pyrrhic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pyrrhichius (“dibrach”), from πυρρίχη (purrhíkhē, “war dance”), from πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored, red”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Inflected forms:
form: pyrrhics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ancient Greek war dance.
pos: noun
gloss: A metric foot with two short or unaccented syllables.
pos: noun
Translations:
hyperspace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
mathematics
media
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
Latin spatiumbor.
Old French espace
Anglo-Norman spacebor.
Middle English space
English space
English hyperspace
From hyper- + space.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperspaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyper space
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hyper-space
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hyperspaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hyperspacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hyperspaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hyperspaced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hyper space
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hyper-space
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Euclidian space of unspecified dimension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We can only get to the Nimrodian Galaxy if we go through hyperspace.
I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days.
gloss: To travel or transport into hyperspace.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: If she hyperspaced out to Tionisla or Lave the Courier would simply follow through her witchspace wormhole.
Related words: hyperspace drive
hyperspatial
off in hyperspace
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: hiperespai
lang: French
word: hyperespace
lang: German
word: euklidischer Raum
lang: Greek
word: Ευκλείδειος χώρος
roman: Efkleídeios chóros
lang: Italian
word: iperspazio
lang: Polish
word: hiperprzestrzeń
lang: Portuguese
word: hiperespaço
lang: Romanian
word: hiperspațiu
lang: Spanish
word: hiperespacio
umbral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an umbra.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to umbral calculus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: umbral algebra
umbral calculus
umbral moonshine
Translations:
fiddlesticks
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Circa 1600, England. From fiddlestick, from the late Middle English fidillstyk (“violin bow”).
Inflected forms:
form: fiddlestick
pos: intj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Nonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
examples: Fiddlesticks! It's nothing but smoke and mirrors!
Golden pleasures! golden fiddlesticks!—What d'ye tell me of your canting stuff?
"Taken the veil—taken fiddlesticks!" said the old man, merrily; "why she lives near Lincoln, is married to a substantial man, the junior partner of one of the wealthiest bankers in the county […]
'Safe? Fiddlesticks! There is no safe. Mr Lavington is an intelligent man. You will see, he will have devised a hiding-place much more intelligent than a safe. A safe is the first thing everyone looks for.'
“Fiddlesticks,” Miss Jenny said. “The war just gave John a good excuse to get himself killed. If it hadn’t been that, it would have been some other way that would have been a bother to everybody around.”
gloss: Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
examples: Oh, fiddlesticks! I locked my keys in the car.
Translations:
layperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A lay (“non-clergy, nonclergy”) + person, along the lines of layman.
Compound parts: lay#Etymology 3
person
Inflected forms:
form: laypeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laypersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lay person
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is not a cleric.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: laity; see also Thesaurus:laity
We should not underestimate European laypeople. They were perfectly capable of thinking for themselves, particularly about death, a religious theme in which everyone had an investment and about which everyone was likely to have an opinion. There is no need to invoke the idea of systematic pagan survival to account for this: Europe’s mass Christianization had been a steady if piecemeal process from the sixth century through to the fourteenth.
gloss: One who is not intimately familiar with a given subject or activity.
pos: noun
examples: The book was written for professionals, but an intelligent layperson could understand most of it.
Synonyms: laic
layperson
parishioner
Antonyms: cleric
nonparishioner
Related words: lay
amateur
Translations:
anvil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
climatology
medicine
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.
Inflected forms:
form: anvils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anvils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: anviling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: anvilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: anviled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: anviled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: anvilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: anvilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
pos: noun
examples: My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow,
Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers […]
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a tailor’s news […]
1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16,
What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
Thus at the flaming forge of life / Our fortunes must be wrought; / Thus on its sounding anvil shaped / Each burning deed and thought!
With an anvil-ding / And with fire in him forge thy will / Or rather, rather then, stealing as Spring / Through him, melt him but master him still: [...]
gloss: The incus bone in the middle ear.
pos: noun
gloss: A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
pos: noun
gloss: The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
pos: noun
gloss: A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
pos: noun
gloss: To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
transitive
examples: I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age,
Which I commit, not to your patronage,
But skill and Art […]
The Family Tang caus’d an Iron Pillar to be erected there of three Rods high, and of a proportionable thickness, Anvil’d out of an intire Piece.
I never started a roguery, that did not come out of thy forge in a manner ready anvilled and hammered for execution […]
Synonyms: stithy
Derived words: anvil cloud
anvilicious
anvillike
anvilsmith
between the hammer and the anvil
diamond anvil cell
hammer and anvil
on the anvil
Translations:
cohabit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Latin cohabitō; co- + habitō (“to dwell, to live in”).
Inflected forms:
form: cohabits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cohabiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cohabited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cohabited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To coexist in common environs with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have sex; see coition.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To cooperate with an opposing political party.
pos: verb
examples: An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to “cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege
Synonyms: fornicate
have sex
make love
Related words: cohabitation
Derived words: cohabitee
cohabitor
noncohabiting
Translations:
unconditional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
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 conditional
English unconditional
From un- + conditional.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconditional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unconditional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inconditional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: unconditionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inconditional
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Absolute; without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications.
pos: adj
examples: We demand your unconditional surrender.
So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.
gloss: That which is not conditional.
pos: noun
examples: The me, the world, and God, are the three unconditionals, the three absolutes […]
gloss: A conditional-like structure expressing that the consequent holds true regardless of the particular value of the antecedent.
pos: noun
Translations: