yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
stalking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stalkynge, stalkyng, from Old English stealcung, from Proto-West Germanic *stalkungu, equivalent to stalk + -ing.
Base: stalk
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: stalkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of going stealthily.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems. A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright. The short clip makes for a delightful watch.
gloss: Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The crime of following or harassing another person, causing that person to fear death or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antistalking
deer stalking
face-stalking
stalking horse
stalking-horse
Translations:
commencer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English commence
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 commencer
From commence + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: commencers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who commences.
pos: noun
Translations:
disregard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dis- + regard. Compare misregard.
Base: regard
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disregards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disregards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disregarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disregarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disregarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The government's blithe disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.
The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
The Trump administration’s disregard for due process has been a pattern in the legal disputes over his immigration policies.
gloss: To ignore; to pay no attention to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you break the law, they will send you a letter. You disregard that they will send someone with a suit to your house. If you disregard Suit-Boy, you will be sent a subpoena. You disregard that they will send men with guns and dogs to your house.
Half of the mock jurors that were told he had insurance were told to disregard that information. Mock jurors who were instructed to disregard the information awarded the defendant more money than participants who did not know the defendant had insurance, or knew that he had insurance but were not told to disregard this information.
Translations:
outrageous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage + -ous.
Base: outrage
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more outrageous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outrageous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: outragious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
pos: adj
examples: To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].
The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.
gloss: Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
pos: adj
examples: "Now, the Lord have mercy upon me!" exclaimed Sir Robert, sinking back in his chair; "there is nothing in the world so unreasonable as a pretty woman. Well, let me hear what outrageous proposition is about to come from two at once!"
Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.
gloss: Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.
pos: adj
examples: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."
gloss: Fierce, violent.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].
For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]
Synonyms: preposterous
Related words: outrage
Derived words: outrageously
outrageousness
unoutrageous
Translations:
violate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English violaten (“to defile, render impure”), from violat(e) (“defiled, desecrated”, also used as the past participle of violaten) + -en, borrowed from Latin violātus, perfect passive participle of violō (“to treat with violence (whether bodily or mental)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Ultimately from vīs (“strength, power, force, violence”).
Base: violat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: violates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: violating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: violate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: violate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: violate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: violatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: violatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: violates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: violateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: violate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: violate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: violate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: violating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: violated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.
gloss: To rape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher!
Bulgarian soldiers in the meantime entered Turkish houses, violated the women and girls and stole everything they could lay their hands on.
gloss: To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.
Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.
Related words: violable
violation
Derived words: violative
violatory
Translations:
diastema
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek διάστημα (diástēma, “interval, space between”). Compare diastasis.
Inflected forms:
form: diastemas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diastemata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gap or space between two adjacent teeth, especially the upper front incisors (in humans).
pos: noun
examples: A gormless-looking boy, thin and exhibiting diastemata in the shop-front lights, offered him English newspapers.
gloss: A gap between teeth of different types, e.g. incisors and molars, which is a feature of some rodents and ungulates.
pos: noun
gloss: Any abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in an organ or other part of the body.
pos: noun
gloss: The modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division.
pos: noun
Derived words: diastemal
diastematic
Translations:
inutile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French inutile, from Latin inutilis. Philippine usage is likely from Tagalog inutil, from Spanish inútil, from the same source. By surface analysis, in- + utile.
Inflected forms:
form: more inutile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inutile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: useless; unprofitable.
pos: adj
examples: wormwood, and the like, […]dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh
The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation.
He had already demanded the attention of the manager, Professor Bulge, Draycott and two underlings to his case and they were now involved in a babel of inutile reiteration.
Senator Hontiveros does not strike me as a naive politician. I am certain she knows that lifestyle checks are inutile. Yet, she responded favorably to this drollery, with the proviso that the President includes himself in the farcical charade, which (in sham fashion) Marcos has obliged.
gloss: useless (of a person); inept.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
examples: Is President Duterte so inutile that his Cabinet members and other appointees do not consult him on very important matters? Harry Roque said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not consult the President regarding the termination of the UP-DND Accord.
Translations:
facelift
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From face + lift.
Compound parts: face
lift
Inflected forms:
form: facelifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: face-lift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: face lift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: facelifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: facelifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: facelifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: facelifted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: face-lift
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: face lift
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.
pos: noun
examples: You thought face-lifts were over? Killed off by a combination of Botox, and fear of winding up looking somewhat bride-of-Wildenstein? No! On the contrary, the face-lift is enjoying a renaissance, following the introduction of newer and newer techniques involving smaller scars and shorter recuperation periods.
gloss: Any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The old building will get a facelift with new paint, carpet, and decoration.
Early in September the “gift box” that has hidden Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue entrance since March is due to come off, revealing the results of a six-month facelift.
Using the right sites, you can give Google a face-lift, promote your products or bloviate about your blog, publish a novel, write a business plan, scan your PC for spies, and get free tech help.
But, after years of legal-wrangling and architectural debate, the modernist Les Halles complex in central Paris is finally on course for a facelift.
gloss: To perform a facelift upon.
pos: verb
examples: With Four Years' Soot Swept Up, Face-Lifted Brooklyn Bridge Is Ready for Public [subheading]
It's a mere block from the junction of the Boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail, still one of the liveliest spots in town with its legendary cafe-restaurants, Le Select, Le Dome and La Coupole, the latter recently facelifted from its old seediness.
Derived words: Croydon facelift
faith-lift
voice lift
Translations:
facetious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”).
Inflected forms:
form: more facetious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most facetious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
pos: adj
examples: Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious.
Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in,” Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.
gloss: Pleasantly humorous; jocular.
pos: adj
gloss: humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
pos: adj
Derived words: facetiously
facetiousness
nonfacetious
semifacetious
unfacetious
Translations:
facilitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: facilitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: facilitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: facilitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: facilitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make easy or easier.
pos: verb
examples: Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
gloss: To help bring about.
pos: verb
examples: But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.
Last week, the Justice Department said it would comply with a federal judge’s order to “facilitate” the return of O.C.G., a gay man who was sent to Mexico this year despite having told American authorities that he had experienced violence there and was afraid to go back.
gloss: To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
pos: verb
Related words: facile
facilitation
facilitative
facilitator
facilitatory
facility
Derived words: cofacilitate
disfacilitate
nonfacilitating
refacilitate
Translations:
narc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of narcotics (control) officer.
Inflected forms:
form: narcs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narco
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A police officer or federal agent assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
informal
Translations:
fallacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fallacious; equivalent to fallacy + -ous.
Base: fallacy
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more fallacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fallacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
pos: adj
examples: There is a widely diffused notion that among all specimens of animal creation man alone possesses any glimmering of reason. This notion is largely fallacious. It is one of those ideas, based upon superficial knowledge, which appeal to the sophisticated modern public.
gloss: Deceptive or misleading.
pos: adj
Related words: fail
failure
fallacy
fallibilism
fallibilist
fallibility
fallible
false
falsifiable
falsification
falsificator
falsifier
falsify
falsity
deluded
delusive
faulty
illogical
illusive
illusory
Derived words: fallaciously
fallaciousness
nonfallacious
unfallacious
Translations:
fallible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err, also deceitful”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”).
Inflected forms:
form: more fallible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fallible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
pos: adj
examples: prove fallible
recognize as fallible
Even the best doctors are fallible.
He admitted he was fallible like anyone else.
gloss: Capable of failure.
pos: adj
Synonyms: defective
faulty
faultful
imperfect
Antonyms: perfect
infallible
Related words: fail
fallacious
fallacy
fallibilism
fallibilist
fallibility
Derived words: fallibleness
fallibly
nonfallible
unfallible
Translations:
firefighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + fighting.
Compound parts: fire
fighting
Inflected forms:
form: fire fighting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The extinguishing of a fire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The profession of being a firefighter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Solving an urgent problem.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
uncountable
Derived words: nonfirefighting
Translations:
falsify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
finance
sciences
Etymology: From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.
Base: false
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: falsifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: falsifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: falsified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: falsified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to falsify a record or document
The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
gloss: To misrepresent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To counterfeit; to forge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to falsify money
gloss: To prove to be false.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
Hovv much greater confirmation of his faith vvould he have received, had he ſeen our Saviour's prophecy ſtand good in the deſtruction of the temple, and the diſſolution of the Jevviſh œconomy, vvhen Jevvs and Pagans united all their endeavours under Julian the Apoſtate, to baffle and falſify the prediction?
gloss: To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it
The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.
gloss: To baffle or escape.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]
gloss: To violate; to break by falsehood.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to falsify one's faith or word
he would not falsify his promise to Philanax
Related words: false
falsehood
falseness
falsity
Derived words: falsifiability
falsifiable
falsification
falsificationism
falsifier
Translations:
fashionable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fashion
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English fashionable
From fashion + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more fashionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fashionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fashionables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.
pos: adj
examples: a fashionable dress
a fashionable man
gloss: Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
pos: adj
examples: the fashionable philosophy
fashionable opinions
gloss: genteel; well-bred
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: fashionable society
For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;
gloss: A fashionable person; a fop.
pos: noun
examples: Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]
We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom.
In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes.
A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor.
Synonyms: a la mode/à la mode
all the rage
chic
sassy
cool
dapper
done
elegant
fashionable
groovy
happening
hep
hip
in
in fashion
jaunty
modish
natty
on fleek
on trend
pizazzy
spiffing
spiffy
styleworthy
stylish
smart
snazzy
tasteful
tippy
trendy
voguish
up-to-the-minute
with-it
zhoosh
Antonyms: unfashionable
Related words: dandy
foppish
Derived words: antifashionable
fashionability
fashionable lateness
fashionableness
fashionably
infashionable
nonfashionable
prefashionable
superfashionable
ultrafashionable
unfashionable
Translations:
wherein
Part of speech: adv
conj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wherin; equivalent to where- + in.
Base: in
Affixes: where-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: How, or in what way.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wherein did I misspeak myself?
Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
gloss: Where, or in which location.
pos: conj
examples: Defile not therefoꝛe the lande which yee ſhall inhabite, wherein I dwell: foꝛ I the Lord dwell among the childꝛen of Iſrael.
As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees.
gloss: During which.
pos: conj
examples: [T]here is a time wherein one man ruleth ouer another to his owne hurt.
gloss: How, or in what way.
pos: conj
examples: In order to show them wherein they were wrong, Samuel was instructed to bear witness against them […]
Translations:
faulty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fault
English -y
English faulty
From fault + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: faultier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: faultiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
pos: adj
examples: They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.
gloss: At fault, to blame; guilty.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
Antonyms: faultless
Derived words: faultily
faultiness
nonfaulty
unfaulty
Translations:
backdraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: Etymology tree
English back
English draft
English backdraft
From back + draft.
Inflected forms:
form: backdrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back draft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back draught
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: backdraught
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sudden, dangerous recombustion that occurs when there is a rapid reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed space containing a fire.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
fearsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fear + -some. Compare German furchtsam (“fearful”, obsolete also “fearsome”); this is more closely equivalent to English frightsome, however.
Base: fear
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more fearsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fearsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: frightening, especially in appearance.
pos: adj
examples: fearsome reputation
fearsome weapon
truly fearsome
The warriors faced a fearsome enemy.
She gave him a fearsome glare.
gloss: fearful, frightened
pos: adj
tags: archaic
rare
Related words: fear
fearful
Derived words: fearsome critter
fearsomely
fearsomeness
Translations:
fecal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French fecal, from Latin faex, equivalent to feces + -al.
Base: feces
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: faecal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: fæcal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to feces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Differential biochemical or physiological characteristics which correlate with aerogenesis at elevated incubation temperatures will be adapted towards a fecal coliform procedure and towards converting a total coliform procedure under development to give a fecal coliform count as well.
Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.
Translations:
fiesta
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of festum (“feast”). Doublet of feast, fest, and fete.
Inflected forms:
form: fiestas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fiestas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fiestaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fiestaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fiestaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A religious festival.
pos: noun
gloss: A festive occasion.
pos: noun
examples: Runners being chased by bulls during the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona: But long working hours mean it's not all fiestas in Spain.
The police arrived swiftly, deciding it would be safer to keep watch over the fiesta rather than forcefully evict thousands of revellers.
gloss: To take part in a festive celebration; to party.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: fiesta dress
fiesta salad
Translations:
filthy
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English filthy, filthi, equivalent to filth + -y.
Base: filth
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: filthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: filthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: filthies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: filthying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: filthied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: filthied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Covered with filth; very dirty.
pos: adj
examples: The coaches were filthy outside and did not appear to have been painted or washed for years. Inside there were uncomfortable seats covered with a cane-like material.
gloss: Obscene or offensive.
pos: adj
examples: Filthy smirking Pat Robertson has come in second in the Iowa Republican caucuses.
gloss: Very unpleasant or disagreeable.
pos: adj
examples: Oh, that filthy dream again. Nightmares are bad enough but when it comes to night-toads—!
gloss: Angry; upset; severely annoyed.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: Terrific fun it was. My best mate saved me, and the teacher was filthy.
gloss: To make very dirty; to saturate something with dirt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the years following World War Two, Americans cut down vast forests, built thousands of factories, assembled millions of atmospherically toxic automobiles, and filthied the water throughout North America.
gloss: To cover in filth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.
Antonyms: pristine
holy
venerable
Derived words: filthily
filthiness
filthy casual
filthy dirty
filthy lucre
filthy rich
unfilthy
Translations:
cermet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of ceramic + metal.
Compound parts: ceramic
metal
Inflected forms:
form: cermets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A composite material composed of ceramic and metal materials, used in such applications as industrial saws and turbine blades.
pos: noun
examples: 2003, Stephen F. Krar, Arthur Gill, Exploring Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, page 3-2-14,
The multi-component alloy cermets, made up of different hard materials and binder elements, have high wear-resistance qualities that result in long tool life.
Cutting performance of cermets was improved after development of titanium-molybdenum-carbon-nitrogen and titanium-tungsten-carbon-nitrogen compounds with binders containing nickel, molybdenum, cobalt, or a combination thereof (Ref 3, p.91).
Among various tribological materials, cermets are known for their excellent wear resistance under unlubricated conditions.
Translations:
terminological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English terminology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English terminological
From terminology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: terminologic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to terminology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In earlier works, what is here called S-structure was frequently referred to as ‘Surface Structureʼ; but in more recent work a crucial terminological distinction has been drawn between S-structure ( = the output of the Syntactic Component of our Grammar) and Surface Structure ( = the output of the Phonological Component).
Translations:
summary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).
Inflected forms:
form: more summary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most summary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: summaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: abstractive
A summary review is in the appendix.
gloss: Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: extrajudicial
They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
gloss: Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
pos: adj
examples: The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.
The summary executions caused outrage.
gloss: An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
pos: noun
examples: I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.
make a summary of the events
Derived words: summarily
summariness
summary court-martial
summary dismissal
Translations:
malfunction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mal- (“bad, incorrect”) + function.
Base: function
Affixes: mal-
Inflected forms:
form: malfunctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: malfunctions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: malfunctioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: malfunctioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: malfunctioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Faulty functioning.
pos: noun
examples: This weekend, as videos of robotaxi malfunctions began appearing on social media, opponents say they are seeing their fears realized.
A former OceanGate scientific director said the Titan submersible suffered a malfunction six days before imploding in June 2023, killing all five people on board.
gloss: Failure to function.
pos: noun
gloss: To function improperly.
pos: verb
examples: She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned.
Due to a communications error, according to gaming officials, the slot machine malfunctioned and didn’t notify Taylor or casino personnel that he was a winner.
The group has started collecting reports of malfunctioning, crashing, or dangerous self-driving cars on its website.
A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.
gloss: To fail to function.
pos: verb
Derived words: malfunction routine
malfunction junction
wardrobe malfunction
malfunctional
malfunctioner
Translations:
summery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer + -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).
Base: summer
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: summerier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: summeriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the summer.
pos: adj
examples: She wore a light summery dress.
gloss: Of weather, typical of summer.
pos: adj
Derived words: summerily
summeriness
unsummery
Translations:
grassroots
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-West Germanic *gras
Old English græs
Middle English gras
English grass
English roots
English grassroots
From grass + roots.
Inflected forms:
form: more grassroots
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grassroots
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grass-roots
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grassroot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.
pos: adj
examples: If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.
Translations:
obedience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English obedience, from Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Displaced native Old English hīersumnes (compare modern English hearsomeness). Cognate with obeisance.
Inflected forms:
form: obediences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oboedience
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being obedient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Obedience is essential in any army.
February 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Edward Everett
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...
gloss: The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: submission
hearsomeness
Antonyms: disobedience
defiance
rebellion
violation
control
dominance
Related words: obedient
obeisance
obey
Derived words: anticipatory obedience
canonical obedience
misobedience
nonobedience
overobedience
superobedience
unobedience
Translations:
impresa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti
Proto-Italic *hendō
Proto-Italic *praiɣendō
Latin prehendere
Vulgar Latin *imprehendere
Italian imprenderedeverb.
Italian impresabor.
English impresa
Borrowed from Italian impresa.
Inflected forms:
form: impresas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imprese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: impress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate etc.
pos: noun
examples: 1613, John Webster, “A Monumental Column, A Funeral Elegy” in Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henrie, London: William Welbie,
My impresa to your lordship; a swan
Flying to a laurel for shelter.
[…] or to describe Races and Games,
Or tilting Furniture, emblazon’d Shields,
Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds;
Translations:
faultless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fault
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English faultless
From fault + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more faultless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most faultless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without fault; free from defect or error.
pos: adj
examples: faultless effort
faultless performance
Antonyms: defective
faulty
faultful
fallible
Translations:
skew-whiff
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From skew + weft.
The expression 'skew weft' dates at least from the 18th century as a term used by handloom weavers, typically in northern England. It was used originally to describe fabric which was out of alignment, and the term survives today in the manufacture of glass fiber cloth.
The word weft does not derive from 'whiff' as in a puff of air (as suggested elsewhere). The modern spelling comes from a corruption of 'skew-wift' whose sound developed colloquially in spoken English from the original. Bow weft also exists.
Base: skew
Inflected forms:
form: more skew-whiff
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skew-whiff
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skew-wift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skew wift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skew wiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skew-wiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: scew-whiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skew whift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skew-whift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skew whiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skewiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ski whiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: squewiff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skewquieff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Askew; lopsided, not straight.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
colloquial
examples: I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.
“[…]I′ve just been looking up at them and it seems to me that Cassiopeia′s Chair is a bit more skew-whiff than usual. Either it′s been moved or we′re heading the wrong way.”
I nudged him to remember what was surely the best day of his life—when he had walked serenely through the milling throng, moist-eyed, and sheepish grin more skew-whiff than ever, in the starling-shrieking, jabbering cockpit of that tumbledown stadium at Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1981.
His genially skew-whiff posture for the camera may be intended to deflect easy attempts to get an angle on him.
Johnson replied, with a shake of his massive head so vigorous that his ill-fitting wig became even more skew-whiff:[…].
He wasn′t wearing shoes or a jacket and tie, and his front stud was undone, so that the white collar stood up skew-whiff.
In a gorgeous old stone-fronted house at a skew-whiff angle to the road, this main-street, mainstream eatery serves big breakfasts, pizzas, burgers, lasagne, focaccias, bruschetta and salads.
The Cat is a large, comfortable space with a great atmosphere and skew-whiff 1950s decor (a Melbourne trademark).
Translations:
askew
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
English skew
English askew
From a- + skew.
Inflected forms:
form: askue
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ascue
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: askoye
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: a skew
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more askew
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most askew
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: askue
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ascue
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: askoye
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: a skew
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Turned or twisted to one side.
pos: adj
examples: Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of "Stonewall Jackson’s Way."
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o'er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.
gloss: Untoward, unfavourable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Tilted to one side.
pos: adv
examples: He wore his hat askew
Synonyms: agley
akilter
antigoglin
awry
askew
cattywampus
cockeyed
crooked
lopsided
off-kilter
tipsy
skewampus
skew-whiff
squiffy
whomperjawed
wry
Antonyms: straight
true
Related words: skewly
Derived words: askewness
Translations:
squiffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown; possibly coined in the 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: squiffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squiffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: In the Palace bar. I'd been there an hour or so with two or three other chaps. I was a bit squiffy.
His champagne glass was constantly refilled by the man who might or might not have been a butler, so that by the time they actually sat down to play, Ramsay was decidedly squiffy.
gloss: Crooked, askew; awry
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: To this day I cannot and will not wear a tie properly. On the one or two occasions I have worn them since I left school, I've worn them squiffy, on purpose.
The graphics make your eyes go squiffy.
Synonyms: merry
muzzy
squiffed
cockeyed
skew-whiff
Derived words: squiffily
squiffiness
Translations:
furry
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fur
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English furry
From fur + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: furrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
pos: adj
examples: His treatment of our furry friends was nothing short of appalling.
There were certain cages you felt you had to pass on tiptoe, noting some aged Fellow whispering endearments into a snow-leopardess’s furry ear.
Hard to believe that, until recently, this furriest of floor coverings had been written off as the ultimate home-furnishing faux pas.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of fur.
pos: adj
examples: a furry texture
a furry smell
gloss: Of or related to the furry fandom, a subculture defined by an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Someone who identifies with or as an animal character with human-like characteristics (an anthropomorphic animal character).
pos: noun
gloss: An anthropomorphic animal character of this kind.
pos: noun
examples: What percentage of furries are wolves?
gloss: Any member of the furry fandom or subculture (including those without fursonas).
pos: noun
examples: The furry had designed an elaborate costume.
Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.
While members of the fandom seem to use "fandom" in a formal capacity explicitly to describe particular interest in forms of art, it is also used less formally to refer to all members of the furry community regardless of artistic involvement and commitment to a fursona.
24 per cent of respondents of the 1,011 results did not have a fursona at all. This shows that having a fursona is still in the majority but it opens up questions as to why a significant minority do not have them but still consider themselves a Furry.
Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity. Some niche communities, such as furries, anime fans, and fetish groups, who were once mocked on social media, have since amassed cultural power that has launched them into the mainstream.
Related words: befurred
furdom
furfag
furfan
furmeet
furrification
furrydom
fursecution
fursona
furvert
therianthrope
kemonomimi
nahualism
anthropomorphism
zoomorphism
Derived words: anti-furry
drink from the furry cup
furgot
furrily
furriness
furryism
furry lobster
furry muff
furry triangle
furspeech
hurry-furry merger
nonfurry
popufur
unfurry
furry number
Translations: