yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
antecedently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English antecedent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English antecedently
From antecedent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more antecedently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most antecedently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: antecedentally
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At an earlier time.
pos: adv
examples: The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.
[…] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.
[…] nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and […] all ideas are deriv’d from something antecedently present to the mind;
She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.
The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.
Translations:
Uniate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Uniat.
Inflected forms:
form: Uniat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Uniates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Uniat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
pejorative
sometimes
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
gloss: Of or pertaining to Uniates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
pejorative
sometimes
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
gloss: A member of a Uniate Church.
pos: noun
tags: pejorative
sometimes
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
Translations:
oligomerization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oligomer
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English oligomerization
From oligomer + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: oligomerizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formation of an oligomer from a monomer
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
goodhearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English gode herted; equivalent to good + hearted.
Compound parts: good
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more goodhearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most goodhearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: good-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: kind, generous and altruistic
pos: adj
examples: She saw that Velvin, if a stubborn man, was a very simple and very goodhearted one, and she prided herself on her skill in sweetly reasonable persuasion of the lower classes.
Translations:
good-humored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-humored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more good-humored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-humored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most good-humored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goodhumored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goodhumoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: good-humoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Happy, cheerful, amiable.
pos: adj
examples: Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.
Translations:
good-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more good-sized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most good-sized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goodsized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a reasonably large size.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Gas and electric bills take a good-sized chunk of my salary.
So, when they came to a good sized farm house, Dorothy walked boldly up to the door and knocked.
Have a good-sized pitcher of water nearby, and bring the fire extinguisher in from the kitchen, just in case.
Translations:
good-tempered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From good + tempered.
Compound parts: good
tempered
Inflected forms:
form: better-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more good-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most good-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goodtempered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not easily irritated; affable.
pos: adj
Translations:
goody-goody
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goody-goodier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: goody-goodiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goodygoody
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goody goody
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goody-goodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goodygoody
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: goody goody
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
gloss: A well-behaved person with no obvious human failings, with the possible exception of smugness and self-satisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: I hate being such a goody-goody sometimes.
Translations:
gorgeously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gorgeous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gorgeously
From gorgeous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gorgeously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gorgeously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gorgeous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."
What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
Translations:
gossiper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gossip
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 gossiper
From gossip + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gossipers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who gossips.
pos: noun
examples: The gossiper, Emma wishes to control her receiver's of gossip (Harriet) opinion about Emma's marriage through setting Miss Bates, the gossipee, as a bad example to be followed in pursuing a dream of marriage.
Translations:
unsought
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 sought
English unsought
From un- + sought.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not sought.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
slamming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more slamming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slamming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slammings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Great; awesome.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: First off, how could I ever be a totally slamming, hot French expert on free-running. But, that technicality aside, I honestly don't want to be Henri.
You could play while driving if wanted to. "Man, you have no idea how slammin' we would be driving into my neighborhood with these wheels. Just slammin'...."
It was totally slamming and reminded Sofi of an MTV spring break show.
gloss: The act of something being slammed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
gloss: A form of fraud in which a customer's telephone service, Internet domain registration or credit card processor is changed without their consent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of slam dance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unofficially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unofficial + -ly or un- + officially.
Base: unofficial
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unofficially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unofficially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way that is not official; in an unofficial manner.
pos: adv
examples: A one-pot meal, cachupa, is unofficially the national dish of Cape Verde, a drought-stricken archipelago off the western bulge of Africa. The dish is chock-full of cassava, seasoned sausages, corn and potatoes.
Translations:
gracelessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gracelessly; equivalent to graceless + -ly.
Base: graceless
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more gracelessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gracelessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a graceless manner
pos: adv
examples: The French, in his whole language, hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable, saving two, called antepenultima; and little more, hath the Spanish, and therefore very gracelessly may they use dactiles.
Barabbas jumped down the eroded slope towards the water and slipped the last few feet gracelessly on his arse.
As he finished he heard the footsteps of the woman who daily came to work for him. They were slow, dragging footsteps implying the bulk they gracelessly shifted.
Translations:
grandiosely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grandiose
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grandiosely
From grandiose + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grandiosely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grandiosely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grandiose manner
pos: adv
Translations:
graphically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English graphic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English graphically
From graphic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more graphically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most graphically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a graphic manner
pos: adv
examples: England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
Translations:
gratuitously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gratuitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gratuitously
From gratuitous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gratuitously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gratuitously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Freely; in the manner of a gift, without being earned.
pos: adv
examples: We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.
gloss: In a manner not demanded by the circumstances, without reason, justification, cause, or proof.
pos: adv
examples: Secondly, Mr. Browne concludes, apparently rather gratuitously, on page 441 as follows[…]
Translations:
gravelly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English gravelli (“covered with gravel or sand; (pathology) containing sand-like matter”), from gravel (“sand; grain of stand; gravel, pebbles; (pathology) sand-like matter in the urine, calculus”) + -lī (suffix forming adjectives). Gravel is derived from Old French gravel, gravele, gravelle (“gravel; (pathology) calculus”) (modern French gravelle (“(pathology) calculus”)), from grave (“coarse sand, gravel; seashore”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”); modern French grève (“riverbank; shore, strand”)) + -ele (diminutive suffix). The English word is analysable as gravel + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Base: gravel
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more gravelly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gravelly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gravely
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
pos: adj
examples: The dung which men make […] is greatly miſlyked, for that by nature it is hoter and burneth the ſeedes ſowne in that earth: ſo that this is not to bee uſed, unleſſe the ground be a barren, grauelly or verie louſe ſand, lacking ſtrength in it, which being on ſuche wiſe, requyreth the more helpe of nouriſhment and fatning, through this kinde of dung: […]
This earth, however, is not to be ſuppoſed entirely pure, but is mixed with much ſtony and gravelly matter, from the layers lying immediately beneath it. It generally happens, that the ſoil is fertile in proportion to the quantity that this putrified mold bears to the gravelly mixture; and as the former predominates, ſo far is the vegetation upon it more luxuriant.
gloss: Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
pos: adj
examples: […] currently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]
gloss: Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
pos: adj
gloss: Full of or covered with sand; sandy.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: As the goeing vp a grauelie way in the feete of the aged, ſo a woman ful of tongue to a quiet man.
Related words: gravel
graveled
gravelled
graveler
graveller
graveling
gravelling
gravel pit
gravel walk
gravel-walk
Derived words: gravelliness
Gravelly Hill
ungravelly
Translations:
greenly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English greenly
From green + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more greenly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most greenly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more greenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most greenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by greenness or lushness; verdant.
pos: adj
examples: How then is it possible that Methodism, that is, a religion of the heart, though it flourishes now as a greenly tree, should continue in this state?
gloss: With a green color.
pos: adv
examples: But within this swarded circle, into which the lime-walk brings us —
Whence the beeches rounded greenly, stand away in reverent fear;
I will let no music enter, saving what the fountain sings us […]
Sylvia loved dancing, and knew "wall flowers" only by sight; therefore she was busy; her lover's gift shone greenly in bosom, hair, and fleecy skirts[…]
What was that gleaming greenly on Mother's hand? A ring . . . Dad's present.
gloss: In a naive or immature manner.
pos: adv
examples: They […] proposed that we should join them in a plan to drench the president next morning with freezing water. We consented greenly enough.
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: verde
lang: French
word: vertment
lang: Italian
word: verdemente
lang: Portuguese
word: verdemente
lang: Spanish
word: verdemente
gregariously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gregarious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gregariously
From gregarious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gregariously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gregariously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gregarious manner
pos: adv
Translations:
gristly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gristle
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gristly
From gristle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gristlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gristliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grisly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or containing gristle.
pos: adj
Translations:
groggily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English groggy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English groggily
From groggy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more groggily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most groggily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a groggy manner
pos: adv
Translations:
gruesomely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gruesome
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gruesomely
From gruesome + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gruesomely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gruesomely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gruesome manner.
pos: adv
examples: The trailer for the documentary about killer Luka Magnotta doesn’t show anything graphic, but it contains clips of him handling kittens. The trailer goes on to explain that Magnotta gruesomely abuses these kittens.
Somewhere near the end of “Resurrection,” a sleek, hurtling, ridiculously entertaining horror movie from Andrew Semans, there’s a scene of such gruesomely bonkers intent that I actually gasped.
Translations:
graciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gracious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English graciousness
From gracious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: graciousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being gracious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
grandiosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grandiose
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English grandiosity
From grandiose + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: grandiosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the narcissistic leader does not use his narcissistic charisma only as a means for political success; he needs success and applause for the sake of his own mental equilibrium. The idea of his greatness and infallibility is essentially based on his narcissistic grandiosity, not on his real achievements as a human being.
U2 have never been a band noted for their love of shy understatement, but even by their standards, their arrival in Las Vegas represents a hitherto-unimagined degree of grandiosity.
Translations:
grandness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English grandness
From grand + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: grandnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being grand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
gratefulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grateful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English gratefulness
From grateful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: gratefulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being grateful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: ungratefulness
ingratitude
unthankfulness
Translations:
graveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grave
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English graveness
From grave + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being grave; gravity
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
greasiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English greasy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English greasiness
From greasy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: greasinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being greasy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
greenness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grennesse, from Old English grennes; equivalent to green + -ness.
Base: green
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: greennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being green; green colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
gloss: Vitality, freshness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: Inexperience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The chances were that, sooner or later, such greenness would inevitably lead to a graver disaster.
gloss: The fact of being environmentally or ecologically conscious; commitment to environmental conservation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
gregariousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gregarious
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English gregariousness
From gregarious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being gregarious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gradate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from gradation.
Inflected forms:
form: gradates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gradating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gradated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gradated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To change imperceptibly from one gradation of tone etc. to another.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To arrange in order of grades.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to gradate a saline solution
Translations:
grained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grain + -ed. Piecewise doublet of corned.
Base: grain
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a grain or grains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Stained with an imitation wood grain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a specified type of grain.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: close-grained
long-grained rice
Derived words: nanograined
ungrained
Translations:
granddaddy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand-
English daddy
English granddaddy
From grand- + daddy.
Inflected forms:
form: granddaddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grandaddy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grand-daddy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A grandfather.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The nature of this gas enables it to absorb the majority of the sun's ultraviolet rays, thus saving the human race from the granddaddy of all sunburns.
In the far corner, representing the twentieth century, is the granddaddy of all common stocks, AT&T. Here is a company that earned its place in the pantheon of great stocks simply by increasing its dividend for an absurdly long period of time.
The region, with its twenty-two hours of summer daylight, is now known for its giant vegetables that include six-foot-wide cauliflower, eighteen-pound carrots, fifty-pound celery, and the granddaddy of all giant vegetables, the Alaskan cabbage ...
A hundred years from now or two-hundred years from now they will speak of this tsunami of all tsunami's— the granddaddy of all tsunami's.
Derived words: granddaddiest
Translations:
grandfatherly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grandfather
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grandfatherly
From grandfather + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grandfatherly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grandfatherly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a grandfather.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the characteristics of a grandfather.
pos: adj
examples: No one among the 25 wealthiest avoided as much tax as Buffett, the grandfatherly centibillionaire.
Derived words: grandfatherliness
ungrandfatherly
Translations:
grandmotherly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grandmother
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grandmotherly
From grandmother + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grandmotherly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grandmotherly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a grandmother.
pos: adj
examples: “Mr. Norton, your head!” he cried, a strange grandmotherly concern in his voice.
gloss: Having the characteristics of a grandmother.
pos: adj
examples: One of the maids introduced me to Miss Clifford, the housekeeper, a grandmotherly yet somehow youthful woman who offered me a cup of tea I was too nervous to accept. She gave it to me anyway, calling me “love.”
Then grandmotherly, trust-inspiring 63-year-old Gertrude Pruett stopped sending out the lovely checks and it became harder and harder to get in touch with her or her son Harold.
Derived words: grandmotherliness
ungrandmotherly
Translations:
grandly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grandly
From grand + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grandly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grandly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grand manner.
pos: adv
examples: This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]
“Take the Concorde. Spend a lot of money. Get yourself there in the most expensive way possible, take pictures over ten times if you need to. Do it all grandly!”
gloss: To the greatest extent.
pos: adv
tags: rare
examples: But whether or not Sumner was the most typical man of his native commonwealth, he certainly does take a representative place on the bede-roll of her great sons. And on a wider field he does especially and grandly represent the Puritan spirit and the Pilgrim idea, and so the peculiar ethical and political idea of our whole nation.
The world had appreciated what he had done, and had put much to his credit, and he was prepared to draw upon this grandly.
Thus happily unfolding his plans, his work enlarged grandly. He was living in high hopes of spending uninterruptedly the greater part of his life in China.
Synonyms: regally
Translations:
grandniece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand-
English niece
English grandniece
From grand- + niece.
Inflected forms:
form: grandnieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A granddaughter of one's sibling; a daughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's granddaughter: fraternal grandniece. Sister's granddaughter: sororal grandniece.)
pos: noun
examples: Then come […] the Duchess’s grandnieces Zwile and her little sister Gloria.
Translations:
granter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English graunter, grauntar, from Anglo-French grantour.
Inflected forms:
form: granters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who grants.
pos: noun
Translations:
grantsmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grantsman
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English grantsmanship
From grantsman + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: grantsmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of obtaining grants-in-aid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
granulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more granulated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most granulated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Formed into, or composed of granules
pos: adj
Translations:
graphologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English graphology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English graphologist
From graphology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: graphologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practitioner of graphology.
pos: noun
examples: While one can find lots of individual astrologers and graphologists, as well as an occasional palmist, psycho metrist or those astute in the reading of tarot cards or I Ching—Psychic Dimensions, Inc., has got it all together.
Dorothy Sara, a graphologist, author, former editor and faculty member for many years of the Henry George School of Social Science, died Tuesday in Columbus Hospital in New York City after a heart attack.
Translations:
graspable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grasp
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 graspable
From grasp + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more graspable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most graspable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be grasped
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be understood or comprehended; understandable
pos: adj
examples: After one clears away all the rhetoric theorizing, politics ultimately concern people, and Vogl never loses sight of this. Eschewing the abstract and intangible slogan, she writes songs about believable people, breaking the political down into a graspable, digestible form.
Antonyms: unintelligible
Derived words: ungraspable
Translations:
gratingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gratingly
From grating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gratingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gratingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a grating sound.
pos: adv
gloss: So as to grate or jar; in a tiresome or irritating manner.
pos: adv
examples: User pages in general tend to be gratingly cute.
Translations:
graveside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grave
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -side
English graveside
From grave + -side.
Inflected forms:
form: gravesides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area immediately around a grave.
pos: noun
Translations:
grazer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *grasōną
Proto-West Germanic *grasōn
Old English grasian
Middle English grasen
English graze
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 grazer
From graze + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: grazers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which grazes, in any sense.
pos: noun
examples: It seems likely that parents are free to respond in these different ways because they have no fear of their child growing into a chronic, adult knee-grazer.
gloss: An animal that grazes.
pos: noun
examples: There were large hippolike grazers (Teleoceras, Brachypotherium, and Peraceras superciliosum)[…]
For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.
gloss: A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
pos: noun
examples: Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when "something is happening."
Derived words: Earth-grazer
macrograzer
mesograzer
micrograzer
sungrazer
Translations:
NOx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From N (“nitrogen”) + O (“oxygen”) + x (“x substitution value”).
Compound parts: N
O
x
Inflected forms:
form: NOₓ
pos: noun
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: Any of the various nitrogen oxides produced during combustion.
pos: noun
examples: "The NOx and particulate reductions provide clean air in the cities and communities we serve. [...]"
Translations:
greeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
Etymology: From Middle English greter, gretter, equivalent to greet + -er.
Base: greet
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: greeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who greets people on their arrival.
pos: noun
examples: Walmart greeter
The greeter is standing most or all of the time, and the weather may be unpleasant at that time of the year. If the greeter can bring a folding chair to sit on in slow periods, so much the better.
Plaintiff testified that the store greeter was talking in a loud and rude manner.
The greeter makes immediate eye contact with customers, making them feel important, and unknown guests can be addressed as they enter to determine their purpose, which also discourages robbers.
At the beginning of the test, the greeter welcomes the test user to the test facility and carries out all the necessary pretest activities, which include ice-breaking, explaining the purpose and format of the test, obtaining informed consent, and perhaps administering a pre-test questionnaire.
What do I do if someone faints during the worship service? It's only natural as an usher or greeter to have questions like these.
But it is the combination of the self-consciously vintage HMV sign – with all its vinyl associations – and the bowler-hatted man at the kerbside (a now redundant Oxford Street “greeter”) that properly opens up those possibilities.
gloss: A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free.
pos: noun
examples: Visitors are matched with a volunteer Greeter according to shared interests and languages spoken, and their 3-4 hours together is a combination of what the Greeter has to offer and the visitor wants to know.
The greeter system — a free service provided by volunteers — is popular in several cities throughout the world.
This tourism is based on tourists' quest for an 'authentic experience', by spreading throughout the entire city (admittedly with a predilection for gentrifying neighbourhoods), seeking 'off the beaten track' (but always secure) itineraries (Djament-Tran and Guinand, 2014; Maitland, 2013; Maitland and Newman, 2014), going for a walk with a local 'greeter' and, above all, staying in a local's home.
Many greeter associations now exist across the world.
Translations:
gridlocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gridlocked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gridlocked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stationary in a gridlock.
pos: adj
gloss: In a state of gridlock or paralysis.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
griever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grieve
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 griever
From grieve + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: grievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who grieves.
pos: noun
Translations:
groomsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English groom
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
English man
English groomsman
From groom + -s- + man.
Inflected forms:
form: groomsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who serves as one of a number of attendants to a bridegroom at a wedding, one of whom is the best man.
pos: noun
examples: The Scotchman, who assisted as groomsman, was of course the only one present, beyond the chief actors, who knew the true situation of the contracting parties.
1888, Horatio Alger, The Errand Boy, Chapter XIV: Consulting the Oracle,
"Philip," said Mr. Wilbur, "when I marry, I want you to stand up with me--to be my groomsman."
There were eight bridesmaids and groomsmen, and I asked McClellan and Franklin to be of the number, but distant service prevented them from coming, and Burnside and Reno, of the Ordnance, took their places.
Translations:
grooved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more grooved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grooved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having one or more grooves.
pos: adj
examples: The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.
Translations:
groper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grope
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 groper
From grope + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gropers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: groyper
sandgroper
Translations:
grosbeak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A partial calque of French gros-bec, gros (“big”) + bec (“beak”).
Inflected forms:
form: grosbeaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill
pos: noun
Translations:
grudging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more grudging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grudging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grudgings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling or with reluctance.
pos: adj
examples: her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award
A terse account, with no further explanation or detail, an indication perhaps of a grudging heart behind the offering.
gloss: The state of bearing a grudge.
pos: noun
examples: Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of […]
Translations:
cephalon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). Probably influenced by compounds like encephalon.
Inflected forms:
form: cephalons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cephala
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The head of a trilobite.
pos: noun
Translations:
pygidial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pygidium
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English pygidial
From pygidium + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the pygidium
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
imperviousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impervious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English imperviousness
From impervious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being impervious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The state of being impervious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
globe-trotting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From globe + trotting.
Compound parts: globe
trotting
Inflected forms:
form: more globe-trotting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most globe-trotting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That globetrots.
pos: adj
Translations:
go-getting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more go-getting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most go-getting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: enterprising, like a go-getter
pos: adj
examples: What matters is what is happening now, with worldwide communications, new trains, and go-getting, on-the-ball private enterprise.
Translations:
good-naturedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English good-natured
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English good-naturedly
From good-natured + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more good-naturedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most good-naturedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: goodnaturedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a good-natured manner.
pos: adv
examples: [H]ere the woman ſav’d me: I pretended a violent diſorder of my head, and a feveriſh heat, that indiſpos’d me too much to receive his embraces. He gave into this, and good-naturedly deſiſted.
Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
Later [Edwin] Meese, virtual seconds before he resigned, purported to take the whole T-shirt episode—you are not hallucinating—good-naturedly. “I take it as the joke I hope it was meant to be,” the then attorney general said.
Translations:
tillerman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tiller
English -man
English tillerman
From tiller + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: tillermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who steers the rear wheels of a fire truck (a tiller truck) or controls its ladder
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: That function was reserved for the tillerman (the man that sits at the top steering position at the rear of the aerial ladder).
The driver in the back is called the tillerman. The tillerman steers the rear wheels, allowing the truck to turn onto narrow streets and alleys.
Translations:
theophylline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual Thea
Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English theophylline
From Translingual Thea (“former genus name for the tea plant”) + Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) + English -ine.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A bitter crystalline compound present in small quantities in tea leaves, isomeric with theobromine; used as a drug in therapy for respiratory diseases.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
retardant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French retardant, equivalent to retard (“to slow down”) + -ant.
Base: retard
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: more retardant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most retardant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: retardants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to impede (slow down) the action of something
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
often
gloss: Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
often
examples: It took until last year for mattresses and furniture containing the highly toxic retardant deca-BDE to be banned, under European law, from sale. […] To make matters worse, far from saving us from fires, flame retardants appear to increase the risk.
Translations:
theanine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Thea (“genus of tea”) + -anine
Affixes: -anine
Inflected forms:
form: theanines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: amino acid commonly found in tea
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: