yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
reformist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
lifestyle
politics
religion
Etymology: From reform + -ist. Originated around the end of the 16th century.
Base: reform
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more reformist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reformist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reformists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Advocating reform of an institution or body.
pos: adj
examples: [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.
gloss: Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
pos: adj
gloss: One who advocates reform (of an institution).
pos: noun
gloss: Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
pos: noun
gloss: An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
pos: noun
tags: dated
obsolete
gloss: A member of a reformed religious denomination.
pos: noun
Antonyms: revolutionary
Derived words: antireformist
nonreformist
spelling reformist
Translations:
Watergate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the Watergate Hotel; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965.
Inflected forms:
form: Watergates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Watergating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Watergated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Watergated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: watergate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To treat in a manner reminiscent of the Watergate scandal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To engage in activities associated with the Watergate scandal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
Translations:
uh-huh
Part of speech: particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of non-verbal sounds used to indicate agreement or to allow the speaker to continue talking. Compare synonymous mhm.
Inflected forms:
form: uhhuh
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: uh huh
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: uhuh
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Yes; yeah.
pos: particle
examples: "So? Lived there long?" "Uh-huh, I--" began Mr. Wrenn.
Antonyms: uh-uh
Translations:
ufology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English UFO
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English ufology
From UFO + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: ufologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: UFOlogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: UFO-logy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The study of UFOs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'm an expert in my field
Ufology, yes, it's all real
Ancient aliens, it's all true
I'm an expert just like you
Translations:
uh-uh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Likely imitative of non-verbal sounds used to indicate disagreement or discomfort. Compare nope, wherein the -p may represent closure often uttered at the end of the word no. Compare also um used to indicate hesitation. Attested from 1888.
Inflected forms:
form: huh-uh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: uhuh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: nuh-uh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: no
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: "Have you eaten yet?" "Uh-uh..." "No way!"
Antonyms: uh-huh
Translations:
ufologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ufolog(y) + -ist. By surface analysis, UFO + -logist.
Base: ufology
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: ufologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: UFOlogist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: UFO-logist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies UFOs.
pos: noun
examples: Still, something strange was afoot in Rendlesham, and even if the file is unlikely to satisfy either ufologists or debunkers, it suggests that the truth is still out there.
But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
Translations:
greenhorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English grene horn, which is attested for “horn of a recently killed animal” and as the name of a horse. It may also have been used of young horned animals. In all cases “green” refers to the idea of “fresh, young, recent”, taken from plants and used in Middle English for all kinds of things irrespective of their colour, e.g. wounds, leather, fish, cheese (see green cheese). Figurative use for people dates from the 17th century. Compare semantically German Grünschnabel (literally “green-beak”). By surface analysis, green + horn.
Inflected forms:
form: greenhorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: green-horn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: green horn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner, or newcomer.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The powers of the Canadian voyageurs and hunters in the consumption of meat strike the greenhorn with wonder and astonishment; and are only equalled by the gastronomical capabilities exhibited by Indian dogs, both following the same plan in their epicurean gorgings.
All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close...this is gonna be your lucky day.
gloss: A Portuguese person.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn,
Derived words: greenhornish
greenhornism
Translations:
shambolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Possibly from shambles + -o- + -ic (adjective), in which the interconsonantal -o- avoids the /mbl/ consonant cluster. Possibly influenced by symbolic.
Alternatively, possibly a blend of shambles + symbolic.
Base: shambles
Affixes: -o-
-ic
Inflected forms:
form: more shambolic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shambolic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Chaotic, disorganised or mismanaged.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: [O]ne must admit there were those among us who were somewhat on the shambolic side.
He said his club had coined a new word 'Shambolic,' which meant spending more time watching the weather than playing.
The precautionary principle is a culturally framed concept that takes its cue from changing social conceptions about the appropriate roles of science, economics, ethics, politics and the law in pro-active environmental protection and management. As this book will reveal, it is a rather shambolic concept, muddled in policy advice and subject to the whims of international diplomacy and the unpredictable public mood over the true cost of sustainable living.
The pub was empty of all but the most dedicated drinkers, shambolic figures huddled over bottles.
The shabby subterfuge surrounding Suez [the Suez Crisis], as much as its shambolic aftermath, have made it a symbol of the collapse of British global power in the post-war era.
During normal times, distribution of goods or services to over 7,000 islands [in the Philippines] is difficult, and the reality is that on a day-to-day basis, it's shambolic. There are too many examples of corruption and inefficiency.
New train introduction had become shambolic with extended delays - mainly due to repeated software issues, seriously late deliveries, and gauging problems.
Donald Trump’s tax returns illustrate the profound inequities of the tax code and the shambolic state of federal enforcement.
Translations:
samey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English same
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English samey
From same + -y.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
not-comparable
examples: Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine.
This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.
Of course, there are only so many formerly blind people you can watch being given the gift of sight before it starts getting a little samey.
Translations:
rapprochement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French rapprochement (“act or process of getting closer together; link (between two things)”).
Inflected forms:
form: rapprochements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rapproachment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.
pos: noun
examples: It was the Nixon administration that saw the rapprochement between the United States and China.
The inauguration of a liberal order of things, a rapprochement of the [First French] Empire with constitutionalism and Parliamentary government, had been expected from the Speech from the Throne now just given. This expectation is completely disappointed by the speech. …
Not forever, however, was the animal world to suffer this indignity at the hands of man. Thinkers themselves prepared the way for a rapprochement between the two. More particularly the English philosophers from [John] Locke onward, together with their French followers, […] may be said by a sort of leveling-down process to have favored the idea of a mental kinship between man and brute.
M. [Aristide] Briand, in a statement on the French foreign policy said a lasting European peace was impossible without a Franco-German rapprochement.
Attempts at a Hungarian–Yugoslavian rapprochement are not a recent matter, and Italy has always approved of them. But in the past these attempts had been made with the idea of breaking up the Little Entente and isolating Yugoslavia.
Moreover, the reactionary economic and political forces in south Korea show little sympathy with the commission meetings now being held in an effort to achieve American-Russian rapprochement. Instead, their program calls for American pressure to dislodge Russia and the Communists from north Korea, by force if necessary.
Further, I argue that [Robin George] Collingwood's final work is in fact the culmination of his persistent endeavour to bring about rapprochements between philosophy and history, and between theory and practice.
“These norms were laid in the early 2000s, when Seoul’s so-called sunshine policy took off,” Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korea expert at Tufts University, told The Washington Post last week, referring to a rapprochement policy adopted by South Korea.
The fighting[…] threatens to upend recent efforts to de-escalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, have made steps toward rapprochement in recent days after years of turmoil.
Critics, including many veterans of the diplomatic corps, have been alarmed by Mr. Trump’s apparent rapprochement with Russia.
Translations:
ludic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ludique, from Latin ludo (“to play”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ludic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ludic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Playful.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to play or games.
pos: adj
examples: What I have tried to do here is to draw a consistent frame which could explain most characteristics of both Xiangqi and Chess ludic structures.
Related words: ludenic
ludography
ludolect
ludology
Derived words: ludically
ludic fallacy
Translations:
underarm
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From under- + arm. The armpit sense is not old, historically speaking (1920s), and it is believed to have arisen as a euphemism in advertising.
Base: arm
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underarms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: underarms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underarming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underarmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underarmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The armpit.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: underarm deodorant
gloss: Old-fashioned and now outlawed style of bowling in which the arm is not swung over the shoulder.
pos: noun
gloss: For use under the arm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A 1997 study found that about 104 million American women were using underarm deodorant products.
gloss: To supply with insufficient weaponry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: overarm
sidearm
Translations:
undiscovered
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 discovered
English undiscovered
From un- + discovered.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has not been discovered; unknown, unexplored.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ⁠But thou and I have shaken hands,
⁠Till growing winters lay me low;
⁠My paths are in the fields I know,
And thine in undiscover’d lands.
Translations:
unrest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unreste, equivalent to un- + rest. Cognate with West Frisian ûnrêst (“unrest”), Dutch onrust (“unrest”), German Low German Unrüst (“unrest”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Uunraue (“unrest”), German Unruhe (“unrest”), Danish uro (“unrest”), Swedish oro (“unrest”), Icelandic órói (“unrest”). Compare also Old English orrest (“battle”), Old Norse orrosta, orresta (“battle”).
Base: rest
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unrests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: What words are these have fall’n from me?
⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest
⁠Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
Few expect the unrest to stop anytime soon. The government may hope to outflank the protest movement by painting them as unwilling to accept compromise, but even some of Lam’s allies have publicly said that the withdrawal was too little, too late.
gloss: Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In her pyjamas, Sadie turned back the bedclothes to a single sheet, and settled down under it with a sigh of content; the languors of a body untroubled by mental unrests were a reward for the day's exertions.
Derived words: civil unrest
Translations:
tzaddik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew צַדִּיק (tsadík, “righteous person”). Many pronunciations have come under the influence of Yiddish צדיק (tsadek).
Inflected forms:
form: tzaddiks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tzaddikim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zaddik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tsadik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tsadiq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tsaddik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tzadik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaddick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tsaddiq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tzaddiq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: saddik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
examples: For in dreams one thinks with the eyes and the ears; speech has no nouns, just verbs; only in dreams is every person a zaddik, never a murderer….
Translations:
tsardom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tsar + -dom. Piecewise doublet of Caesardom.
Base: tsar
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: tsardoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: czardom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tzardom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The territory ruled by a tsar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The role or status of tsar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: Tsardom of Bulgaria
Tsardom of Russia
Translations:
ectopia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin ectopia, derived from Ancient Greek ἔκτοπος (éktopos, “away from a place”), from ἐκ- (ek-) + τόπος (tópos). By surface analysis, ec- + -topia.
Inflected forms:
form: ectopias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition where an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ectopic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cardiology
medicine
obstetrics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ectopia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ectopic
From ectopia + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more ectopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ectopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ectopics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to ectopia.
pos: adj
gloss: Being out of place; having an abnormal position.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
gloss: Ectopic beat.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: An ectopic pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Antonyms: entopic
Derived words: ectopically
ectopicity
ectopic pregnancy
nonectopic
Translations:
tsarism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tsar + -ism. Piecewise doublet of Caesarism.
Base: tsar
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: tsarisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: czarism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tzarism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A system of government ruled by a tsar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A supporter of monarchy ruled by a tsar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: tsarist
Translations:
worshipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: worshippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: worshiping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act of worship.
pos: noun
examples: […] some will think they are religious enough, if their worshippings have in them the prevailing ingredient […]
Translations:
organdy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French organdi, possibly derived from the French name of the city Urgench.
Inflected forms:
form: organdies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: organdie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I took it to garden-parties after I came out, with my hair curled and an organdie hat on top of the whole thing […].”
Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.
Translations:
Malayan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Malaya
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Malayan
From Malaya + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Malayans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Malayan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Malayan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person of whatever ethnicity from the former Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia
pos: noun
examples: The third class is intended to provide cheap travel for the poorest Malayans; wooden seats are the rule, the compensation lying in the fare of four cents a mile (about 1d).
gloss: Either of two lycaenid butterflies of the genus Megisba of Asia and Australasia.
pos: noun
gloss: of, or relating to the former Malaya; Malay
pos: adj
Translations:
Nazism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tisder.
Proto-Italic *gnātiō
Latin nātiō
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
New Latin nātionālisbor.
German national
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
▲
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisder.
French socialbor.
German sozial
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 -istabor.
▲
French -isteinflu.
German -ist
German Sozialist
German Nationalsozialist
▲
German Soziinflu.
German Nazibor.
English Nazi
▲
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Nazism
From Nazi + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: Naziism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Naziïsm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nazism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The ideology of derived, copycat or other neo-Nazi groups that support most or all of that ideology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
scholastic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
Inflected forms:
form: scholastics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Scholastic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scholastick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more scholastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scholastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Scholastic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: scholastick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to school; academic
pos: adj
examples: This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
gloss: Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
pos: adj
examples: And hence it is that men, even when they are baffled and silenced in this scholastic way, are seldom or never convinced , and so brought over to the conquering side
gloss: Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
pos: adj
Related words: scholar
academic
Derived words: neo-scholastic
scholastically
scholasticide
scholasticism
scholastic Latin
unscholastic
Translations:
scholasticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scholastic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English scholasticism
From scholastic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: scholasticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tradition or school of philosophy, originating in the Middle Ages, that combines classical philosophy with Catholic theology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Once more, the work exhibits the characteristics which are typical of scholasticism at its best: the appeal to reason, the logical marshaling of arguments, the relentless exploration of the implications of ideas, and the fundamental conviction that, at its heart, the Christian gospel is rational and can be shown to be rational.
Translations:
preppy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prep
English -y
English preppy
From prep + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: preppier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more preppy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: preppiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most preppy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: preppie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preppies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preppie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Being or relating to something (such as clothing) that is typical of students at prep schools.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
often
examples: I'll pick you up after the party. Let's see, there'll be all that deep preppy conversation, preppy dancing, piles of preppy fun. Party starts at nine, I'll pick you up at nine fifteen.
So, Jam, who did your wardrobe, Tad the preppie sailboat captain?
Take off all your preppy clothes / You know, you're not foolin' / Anyone when you become / Somebody else 'round everyone else / You're watchin' your back like you can't relax / You're tryna be cool / You look like a fool to me
gloss: A student of a prep school.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
constructive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin cōnstrūctīvus. By surface analysis, construct + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more constructive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most constructive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or causing construction.
pos: adj
gloss: Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
pos: adj
gloss: Serving a useful purpose.
pos: adj
gloss: Deemed after the fact to exist or to have occurred, despite the formal process not having been followed; often when there was no intention to do so at the time.
pos: adj
examples: constructive dismissal
constructive notice
constructive trust
gloss: Not direct or expressed, but inferred.
pos: adj
examples: A President's power begins slipping away the moment it is known that he is going to leave: I had seen that in 1952, in 1960, in 1968. On the eve of my resignation I knew that my role was already a symbolic one, and that Gerald Ford's was now the constructive one. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings, and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.
Derived words: coconstructive
constructive criticism
constructive dismissal
constructive eviction
constructive force
constructive fraud
constructive interference
constructive logic
constructively
constructive malice
constructive memory
constructiveness
constructive notice
constructive treason
constructive trust
constructivism
constructivist
constructivization
constructivize
deconstructive
inconstructive
misconstructive
nonconstructive
preconstructive
superconstructive
unconstructive
visuoconstructive
Translations:
shrift
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English shrift (“confession to a priest; act or instance of this; sacrament of penance; penance assigned by a priest; penitence, repentance; punishment for sin”) [and other forms], from Old English sċrift (“penance, shrift; something prescribed as punishment, penalty; one who passes sentence, a judge”), from sċrīfan (“of a priest: to prescribe absolution or penance; to pass judgment, ordain, prescribe; to appoint, decree”) (whence shrive), from Proto-Germanic *skrībaną (“to write”), from Latin scrībō (“to write”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- (“to scratch, tear”). Equivalent to shrive + -t.
Base: shrive
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: shrifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, / And seldom felt she any hunger-pain; [...]
gloss: Confession to a priest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
Related words: shrive
Derived words: earshrift
short shrift
shrift father
shriftfather
Translations:
Tsonga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A large group of people who live in northern South Africa and southern Mozambique.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
arthroscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ρθρον (ắrthron)der.
New Latinder.
English arthro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English arthroscopy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English arthroscopic
From arthroscopy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to arthroscopy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sonata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”). Doublet of sounded.
Inflected forms:
form: sonatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.
pos: noun
Translations:
scurrilous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin scurrīlis (“buffoon-like”) + -ous, from scurra (“a buffoon”).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more scurrilous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scurrilous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.
pos: adj
gloss: Of language:
pos: adj
gloss: Of language:
pos: adj
examples: She said Johnson was “a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand”, adding that it was “so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition”.
gloss: Gross, vulgar.
pos: adj
gloss: Unscrupulous, evil.
pos: adj
examples: We have had our address used by scurrilous crooks in the past to gain assets by fraud.
"Instead, another dangerous killer now roams our streets, thanks to that scurrilous, sinister super-heel!"
"Some days, I try to imagine how scurrilous it would be for a left-leaning government in Canada to embark on such a costly political agenda for, say, a 10-year period, and still find itself unable to convince Canadians that the majority have benefited from this."
Related words: scurrile
scurrilously
scurrilousness
scurrility
Translations:
seraphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin seraphicus, from Late Latin seraphīm, seraphīn, from Hebrew שָׂרָף (saráf, “seraph”). By surface analysis, seraph + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more seraphic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seraphic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: seraphical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: seraphicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a seraph or the seraphim.
pos: adj
examples: the Seraphic Doctor
Who forthwith from the glittering Staff unfurld / Th’ imperial Enſign, which full high advanc’t / Shon like a Meteor ſtreaming to the Wind / With Gemms and Golden luſtre rich imblaz’d, / Seraphic arms and Trophies : all the while / Sonorous metal blowing Martial ſounds[…]
Ye Hoſts that to his Courts belong, / Cherubic Quires, Seraphic Flames, / Awake the everlaſting Song.
gloss: Pure and sublime; angelic.
pos: adj
examples: a seraphic smile
A thousand times he was like to have denyed all, but durst not defame the most sacred Idol of his Soul: Sometimes he thought his Uncle would be generous, and think it fit to give him Silvia; but that Thought was too Seraphick to remain a Moment in his Heart.
Their passion seems to have been of the seraphic kind. She devoted herself to religion, and persuaded him to do the same.
Then, Mr Brass left off writing entirely, and, with his pen in his hand, hummed his very loudest; shaking his head meanwhile from side to side, like a man whose whole soul was in the music, and smiling in a manner quite seraphic.
Too white, for the flower of life is red;
 Her flesh was the soft, seraphic screen
 Of a soul that is meant (her parents said)
 To just see earth, and hardly be seen,
 And blossom in Heaven instead.
She had a seraphic smile on her face.
So instead of Tesfaye’s seraphic warble, Hanley offers earthier, gruffer tones: you get the impression, considering the casual sexism and more conventional machismo on display here, that the rarefied, stylised and feminised would be unacceptable in his world.
Derived words: seraphically
seraphicness
unseraphic
Translations:
cenotaph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French cénotaphe, from Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”). By surface analysis ceno- + -taph.
Affixes: ceno-
-taph
Inflected forms:
form: cenotaphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
pos: noun
examples: A cenotaph was erected for him in Gaul, while his body was taken to Rome and inclosed in a magnificent tomb.
[…] tombs and cenotaphs were strewed thick around adorned by every renewing vegetation; […]
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
 And the nursling of the Sky;
 I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
 I change, but I cannot die.
 For after the rain when with never a stain
 The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
 And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
 Build up the blue dome of air,
 I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
 And out of the caverns of rain,
 Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
 I arise and unbuild it again.
But age is heart-wearied and tempest-torn: it is the crumbling cenotaph of fear and hope!
A tomb from which the body is absent, living elsewhere. The grave whose headstone bore the famous inscription,
 Here lies me two children dear
 One in ould Ireland, t'other one here.
was a cenotaph, so far as regarded the "One in ould Ireland".
On Remembrance Sunday (November 14), [...]. A special service was held at Ayr station that afternoon, to allow people to pay their respects after attending the Ayr cenotaph that morning.
Translations:
T-square
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From its shape, resembling a capital letter T.
Inflected forms:
form: T-squares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rule with a short perpendicular crosspiece at one end, used by draughtsmen to draw parallel lines.
pos: noun
gloss: A sex position whereby the receiving partner lies on the back with knees up and legs apart while the penetrating partner lies on either side perpendicular to the receiver, with the penetrating partner's hips under the arch formed by receiver's legs.
pos: noun
Translations:
draughtsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From draught + -s- + -man.
Base: draught
Affixes: -s-
-man
Inflected forms:
form: draughtsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: draftman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: draftsman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: draughtman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans.
pos: noun
examples: It was after the building and successful trials of the "Lord Nelson" engine on the Southern Railway that Sir Henry Fowler, then C.M.E. of the L.M.S.R., sent his chief draughtsman, Herbert Chambers, to Waterloo with the proposed weight diagram of a new 4-6-0 engine (to be known as a "Royal Scot" class), and to discuss the proposal with Mr. Clayton.
gloss: A book illustrator.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: One who drinks drams; a tippler.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I have used my interest in several wards of the city , that the wholesome restorative above - mentioned may be given in tavern - kitchens to all the morning's draughtsmen within
Synonyms: drafter
drawer
Derived words: draughtsmanly
draughtsmanship
Translations:
crosspiece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English piece
English crosspiece
From cross- + piece.
Inflected forms:
form: crosspieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
pos: noun
gloss: A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts; a timber over the windlass, with pins for belaying the running rigging.
pos: noun
Translations:
tsubo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 坪 (tsubo, unit of area).
Inflected forms:
form: tsubos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tsubo
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese unit of areal measure, roughly 3.3 m² or 35.5 ft², equivalent to the area of two rectangular tatami mats placed side-by-side to form a square.
pos: noun
Translations:
tatami
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).
Inflected forms:
form: tatamis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tatami
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
pos: noun
examples: Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,
Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.
gloss: A unit of area equal to a standard-sized tatami mat, approximately 1.65 square metres.
pos: noun
Derived words: tatamied
Translations:
approximant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin approximāns. In the phonetics sense first used by Peter Ladefoged, the mathematical concept is attributed to Paul Halmos.
Inflected forms:
form: approximants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A consonant sound made by slightly narrowing the vocal tract, while still allowing a smooth flow of air. Liquids and glides are approximants.
pos: noun
gloss: An approximation to the solution of a function, series, etc.
pos: noun
Related words: consonant
Derived words: Padé approximant
Translations:
depress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin dēpressus, perfect participle of dēprimō (“to press down, to weigh down”), from dē- (“off, away, down, out”) + premō (“to press”).
Base: premō
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: depresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: depressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: depressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: depressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To press down.
pos: verb
examples: Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
As to the fireman, the sight of him at work, swinging round with his shovelful of coal and at the same moment lightly depressing his right heel and so working the pedal which causes the steam-operated firedoors to open like magic in front of the shovel, was always a pleasure.
gloss: To make depressed, sad or bored.
pos: verb
examples: Winter depresses me.
gloss: To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
pos: verb
examples: Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
Russia claims the proportion of the grain that went to the very poorest countries was less than 4%, but this ignores the fact that even if wealthier countries were buying the wheat, the extra supply was depressing the general price all countries were paying.
gloss: To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
pos: verb
gloss: To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
pos: verb
Derived words: depressable
depressible
depressant
depressed
depressing
depression
depressive
depressogenic
depressoid
depressomotor
depressor
depress the pole
immunodepress
overdepress
prodepressant
Translations:
subscriber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin subscrīberebor.
Middle English subscriben
English subscribe
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 subscriber
From subscribe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: subscribers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
pos: noun
examples: Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.
The aim is to better appeal to the varied interests of Netflix’s sprawling subscriber base. […] “All signs point to Netflix having reached escape velocity, with subscribers scaling far faster than investors expected,” Mr. Greenfield said.
gloss: A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
pos: noun
examples: An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.
gloss: A person undersigned.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: signatory, signer
Derived words: asymmetric digital subscriber line
digital subscriber line
nonsubscriber
oversubscriber
subscriber bell
subscribership
subscriber trunk dialling
unsubscriber
Translations:
phyllo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Greek φύλλο (fýllo, “leaf”). Doublet of phyllon, distantly also with foil, folio, and folium.
Inflected forms:
form: phyllos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fillo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: filo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fyllo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
suprarenal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Proto-Italic *superos
Proto-Italic *superād
Old Latin suprād
Latin suprā
Latin supra-lbor.
English supra-
Late Latin rēn
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin rēnālislbor.
English renal
English suprarenal
From supra- + renal.
Inflected forms:
form: suprarenals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), their secretions, or the function derived therefrom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: On or above the kidney.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A suprarenal capsule.
pos: noun
Related words: postrenal
prerenal
Derived words: suprarenal artery
suprarenal gland
suprarenal impression
suprarenal plexus
suprarenal vein
Translations:
youngin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduced form of young one.
Inflected forms:
form: youngins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: youngen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: youngon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: young'un
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: youngun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young one: a youth, a child, a kid, young person.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Southern-US
UK
West-Country
informal
examples: 1996, Mary Lee Settle, The Killing Ground http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1570031185&id=NuC208Sm3hYC&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&sig=nrGak4rpTJXj0jA5UreToSTbyTo
I swear to God, Hannah, Haley had entered that youngin in an open jumper class for children.
He is my youngin, yes he is; I raised him, I did.
1999, Silver RavenWolf, Halloween http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1567187196&id=asYSfOp1kdcC&pg=RA1-PA39&lpg=RA1-PA39&sig=OX_vV-IRIn0wqfIu5si8vYisHLE
He wasn’t an unlikable fellow, no he wasn’t, but he was the sort of fella that would run from honest work faster than a youngin’ can run from bath water.
2000, Gene S Ladnier, Fame's Eternal Camping Ground http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0738808210&id=W-05dJIwk5EC&pg=PA297&lpg=PA297&sig=CT5T_3DS-GSixo_NJCONKqUShVE
If I was a youngin looking for my sweetheart, I reckon I’d hook up with Barteau’s bunch and try to cut them Yankee wagons off.
Youngins, no respect for sammiches these days!
Translations:
thiol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-der.?
Ancient Greek θέειον (théeion)
Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon)der.
English thio-
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
English -ol
English thiol
From thio- + -ol.
Inflected forms:
form: thiols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A univalent organic radical (-SH) containing a sulphur and a hydrogen atom; a compound containing such a radical.
pos: noun
Translations:
cellophane
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Genericized trademark. Blend of cellulose + diaphane.
Compound parts: cellulose
diaphane
Inflected forms:
form: cellophanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cellophanes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cellophaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cellophaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cellophaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head
gloss: To wrap or package in cellophane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
attaboy
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant pronunciation of That's the boy!, a cry of encouragement, especially to children and pet dogs.
Inflected forms:
form: atta boy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ataboy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: thatta boy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: thattaboy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: attaboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: atta boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ataboy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thatta boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thattaboy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to show encouragement or approval to a boy, man, or male animal.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
idiomatic
examples: Attaboy! That's the way to hit a home run!
[Steve] Bannon responded: “They went for an hour instead of 30 minutes--- showing the entire hour over multiple platforms.” [Jeffrey] Epstein shot back “atta boy”.
gloss: A cry of encouragement; an accolade.
pos: noun
examples: LOS ANGELES, June 29 — Drink in hand, attaboys coming at him from every direction, Tom DeSanto was living the fanboy dream.
Translations: