yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
amicable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English amicable (“agreeable; pleasant”), from Late Latin amīcābilis (“friendly”). Doublet of amiable.
Inflected forms:
form: more amicable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amicable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing friendliness or goodwill.
pos: adj
examples: They hoped to reach an amicable agreement.
He was an amicable fellow with an easy smile.
Antonyms: inimical
Translations:
menial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
Inflected forms:
form: more menial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most menial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: menials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
pos: adj
examples: She hung round him, watching his every look as if she grudged the veriest menial offices from the servants; and she almost scolded him for not eating, when he had done justice enough to the good things set before him to have satisfied even the cook herself.
She was not proposing to go out again, so he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.
gloss: Of or relating to unskilled work.
pos: adj
examples: menial job
Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life.
I didn't see how sweeping and scrubbing a building was any preparation for the trade of electrician; but I did know that in the books all the boys started with the most menial tasks and by making good ultimately won to the ownership of the whole concern.
For instance, controlling for the above-mentioned variables, migrants to Tangerang or Samarinda (rather than Medan) have a significantly greater chance of getting a craft (as opposed to menial) job.
gloss: Servile; low; mean.
pos: adj
examples: a menial wretch
gloss: A servant, especially a domestic servant.
pos: noun
examples: “Nay, Dame Mary,” answered the Knight, “it is enough you desire such an attendant.—Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials—a lady's page—it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall, fan them when they slumber, and touch the lute for them when they please to listen; […]”
But the young man was conscious, at the same moment, that it had ceased to be a matter of serious regret to him that the little American flirt should be “talked about” by low-minded menials.
Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best?
He told me that princes, jeds, and even jeddaks of the outer world, were among the menials who served the yellow race; […]
The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
gloss: A person who has a subservient nature.
pos: noun
Related words: mansion
maison
maisonette
menage
Derived words: menialism
meniality
menialize
menially
nonmenial
unmenial
Translations:
claptrap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Theater slang, c. 1730, from clap + trap, referring to theatrical techniques or gags used to incite applause.
Compound parts: clap#Verb
trap#Noun
Inflected forms:
form: claptraps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clap trap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clap-trap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Empty verbiage or nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.
gloss: A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. "It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that."
Derived words: claptrappery
claptrappy
Translations:
ichthyology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -logy.
Base: ichthyo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A branch of zoology that studies fish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ichthyological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ichthyologic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English ichthyological
From ichthyologic + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ichthyology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
college-ruled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a notebook with 10½" × 8" paper size with thirty-two evenly spaced lines with enough space to write reasonably neatly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
condyle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French condyle, from Latin condylus, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”).
Inflected forms:
form: condyles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
pos: noun
examples: “It's the upper condyle of a human femur,” said I.
Translations:
tragic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
Inflected forms:
form: more tragic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tragic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tragick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tragics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tragick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing great sadness or suffering.
pos: adj
examples: Her father's early death was tragic.
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
gloss: Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
pos: adj
gloss: Having been the victim of a tragedy.
pos: adj
gloss: Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.
pos: adj
tags: informal
predicative
examples: That dress is tragic.
He's pretty tragic these days, hanging out with people half his age.
gloss: An obsessive fan, a superfan
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
examples: Within the club itself, Crowe is regarded not only as a benefactor but as a fanatic -- a Rabbitohs tragic.
I'm a fan of rugby league. I'm a tragic of rugby league.
Damian was/is a football tragic, the rest of us just like it to varying degrees.
2015 March 29. Jermaine, Wharf Hotel website WE DON'T LIKE FOOTBALL - WE LOVE IT!
Footy's back and as I'm a footy tragic it means I'm one very happy man.
gloss: A writer of tragedy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A tragedy; a tragic drama.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: tragicomic
tragical
tragically
Derived words: antitragic
nontragic
semitragic
supertragic
tragicaster
tragic carpet
tragic flaw
tragic hero
tragic heroine
tragicize
tragicness
tragicofarcical
untragic
Translations:
revolver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
engineering
finance
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From revolve + -er, coined by American inventor Samuel Colt in 1835.
Base: revolve
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: revolvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
pos: noun
gloss: Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
pos: noun
examples: The debt is split between $6.5bn of term loans, as well as $6bn of senior and junior bonds and a $500mn revolver.
Derived words: revolver flower
service revolver
snubnosed revolver
Translations:
prizefighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From prize + fighter or prizefight + -er (“person, agent”). See prizefight for sense development.
Base: prize
Inflected forms:
form: prizefighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A professional boxer.
pos: noun
examples: “Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.
The Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, the Brooklyn gym that is the center of Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's wrenching documentary "On the Ropes," is much more than a neighborhood training facility for aspiring prizefighters.
Translations:
superorder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English order
English superorder
From super- + order.
Inflected forms:
form: superorders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A taxonomic category below subclass and above order.
pos: noun
Translations:
toon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Abbreviation of cartoon.
Inflected forms:
form: toons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'toon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?
gloss: A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.
gloss: An animated cartoon character.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars.
Derived words: libertoon
porntoon
toon force
toonification
toonophile
toonophilia
toon shading
toon-shaded
toony
webtoon
Translations:
lang: French
word: BD
lang: French
word: bande dessinée
lang: Hindi
word: कार्टून
roman: kārṭūn
lang: Portuguese
word: desenho
hangman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hangman, hongman, hangeman, equivalent to hang + -man.
Base: hang
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: hangmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: One cried, "God bless us!" and "Amen" the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
gloss: Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I also asked some Royal Academicians to view it, viz. Northcote, Cosway, &c. who approved of it much: it is well composed, and beautifully coloured; but the hangmen at the Exhibition have not hung it in a conspicuous situation; it is placed in an ante-room, and pretty high […].
gloss: A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: hanging
hangman's noose
Derived words: cheat the hangman
hangman paradox
hangman's fracture
hangmanship
hangman's jig
hangman's noose
hangman's wages
hangwoman
underhangman
Translations:
proselytism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English proselyte
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English proselytism
From proselyte + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: proselytisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of proselytizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being a proselyte.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:proselytism.
Related words: proselyte
proselytic
proselytisation
proselytization
proselytise
proselytize
proselytiser
proselytizer
Derived words: antiproselytism
Translations:
criterium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From French critérium (“competition”), from Latin critērium, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion).
Inflected forms:
form: criteriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mass-start road-cycle race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 1 km to 2 km (1/2 mile to just over 1 mile).
pos: noun
Translations:
belle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
Inflected forms:
form: belles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An attractive woman.
pos: noun
examples: In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
Another style of necklace among these Papuan belles is to wear two, each hanging on one side of the neck and under the opposite arm, so as to cross each other.
gloss: A fellow gay man.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: bad belle
belle assemblée
Belle Creek
belle dame
Belle Époque
belle laide
belle passion
belles-lettres
Southern belle
Derived words: aquabelle
belle dame sans merci
belledom
Belle Époque
bellehood
cagebelle
croshabell
southern belle
volleybelle
Translations:
pigsty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pig + sty.
Compound parts: pig
sty
Inflected forms:
form: pigsties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.
pos: noun
examples: The lower pasture also contains a pigsty.
gloss: A dirty or very untidy place.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: This room is a pigsty. When are you going to clean it?
"It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.
Translations:
macaroni
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian maccaroni (plural of maccarone (archaic variant of maccheroni (“fool”))), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed; favored by the gods”), or from maccare (archaic variant of ammaccare (“to bruise; to crush”)), from Latin maccāre of the same meaning. Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”).
* As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins.
* As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino (18th-century colonial slang for a similarly clipped coin).
Inflected forms:
form: more macaroni
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most macaroni
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maccaroni
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: maccheroni
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mac
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.
pos: adj
tags: historical
Translations:
quad
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.
Inflected forms:
form: quads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quadding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quadded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quadded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Quadruple, four times the usual size or quantity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Printing Plant Machinery, Type, Material, Fittings, Stock-in-Trade, Paper, &c., including QUAD-CROWN CYLINDER MACHINE, With Flyers, Riders, &c., by Miller & Richard.
Around the corner waits a Quad Damage rune, which you can activate before returning to the Teleporter and heading for the Gold Key.
With Mali-400 MP4 GPU, 2GB of RAM and a quad-core Cortex-A9 processor, this tablet is more than capable to handle even the latest graphics intense games
SeaStar Solutions, which makes systems for twin- and triple-outboard powered boats, now offers its Optimus electronic power steering (EPS) for single- and quad-powered boats.
gloss: Quadrille, marked with squares.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you "quad" the cable?
The star quadding of the wires ensures a reduction in the diameters of cables and their weight […]
The conductors in quadded cables are tinned and may also be enameled.
gloss: To ride a quad bike.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: visibility was perfect and mud was plentiful for our quadding adventure.
Related words: quadr-
quadri-
quadru-
quin
Derived words: quad paper
quad out
Translations:
nebulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French nebuleus, from Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”).
Cognates
*Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”)
*German Nebel
**Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”)
*Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”)
by surface analysis, nebula + -ous. More at neveling, nuel.
Inflected forms:
form: more nebulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nebulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
pos: adj
examples: An electric lantern flashed out and centred its circle of brilliance on the stairs opposite. Its radiance pierced the nebulous balloon of violet smoke that was rising to the roof and brought out every detail of the wall beyond.
gloss: Vague or ill-defined.
pos: adj
examples: The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.
The mothers in NaturalMoms discussed nebulous fears about potential harms from vaccines and their distrust of the medical professionals who promoted a universal immunization schedule.
gloss: Relating to a nebula or nebulae.
pos: adj
Synonyms: cloudish
cloudlike
cloudly
cloudy
foggy
foglike
fumid
hazed
hazy
infumated
mistlike
misty
nebulose
nebulous
roky
smokelike
smoky
turbid
vaporous
Antonyms: clear
noncloudy
unclouded
uncloudy
unnebulous
Related words: nebula
nebular
nebulosity
inenubilable
insubstantial
obscure
cloud
Derived words: nebulously
nebulousness
unnebulous
Translations:
recanting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: recantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who recants; a retraction.
pos: noun
examples: Its victim focus and child centeredness, in the program's opinion, accounted for the significant numbers of client disclosures and four offender confessions and very few victim recantings.
Translations:
multiplex
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
biology
botany
broadcasting
computing
engineering
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
mathematics
media
medicine
natural-sciences
performing-arts
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multi-
Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.?
Latin -plex
Latin multiplexlbor.
English multiplex
Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex.
Inflected forms:
form: multiplexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: multiplexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: multiplexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: multiplexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: multiplexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Comprising several interleaved parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having petals lying in folds over each other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having multiple members with a particular condition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Supporting an additive model, simplex families […] have less impairment than multiplex families (those with two or more individuals affected) in language processing.
gloss: A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
pos: noun
gloss: A cineplex.
pos: noun
gloss: A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
pos: noun
gloss: A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.
pos: noun
gloss: To interleave several activities.
pos: verb
gloss: To combine several signals into one.
pos: verb
gloss: To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a multiplex throw.
pos: verb
Related words: complex
duplex
hexaplex
monoplex
octuplex
pentaplex
plex
quadruplex
simplex
triplex
uniplex
Derived words: arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
demultiplex
mononeuritis multiplex
multiplexability
multiplexable
multiplexation
multiplexer
multiplexity
multiplexor
nonmultiplex
remultiplex
Translations:
multiplexer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multi-
Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.?
Latin -plex
Latin multiplexlbor.
English multiplex
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 multiplexer
From multiplex + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: multiplexers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: multiplexor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device that interleaves several activities; a switching device.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that combines several input signals into a single output signal.
pos: noun
Translations:
mendacity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendāx (“deceitful, deceptive, lying”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being). Mendāx is derived from mentior (“to deceive, lie”) (from mēns, mentis (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”)) + -āx (suffix forming adjectives expressing a tendency or inclination), or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”). By surface analysis, Latin mendāc- + -ity.
Base: mendāx
Affixes: -itās
Inflected forms:
form: mendacities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mendacity is not a uniform offence: it changes its colour according to the nature and substance of the offence to which it is rendered or endeavoured to be rendered subservient. Mendacity, employed in drawing down upon an innocent head the destroying sword of justice, is murder: murder, encompassed with all its correspondent terror. Mendacity, employed in the obtainment of money, is but depredation. Yet, while predatory mendacity is punished with death, the punishment for the murderous mendacity is in comparison but a flea-bite.
[…] Treating the assertion of the witness as the effect, he [Pierre-Simon Laplace] considers as its two possible causes, the veracity or mendacity of the witness on the particular occasion, that is, the truth or falsity of the fact.
Big Daddy: […] Think of all the lies I got to put up with!—Pretenses! Ain't that mendacity? Having to pretend stuff you don't think or feel or have any idea of?
So now the hard Brexiters say, with astonishingly cynical mendacity, that Britain would be better off going it alone.
A shifty or unreliable politician may hide their mendacity behind deceit, fabrication on confabulation, or by rehearsed counter-attack that simply ignores the questions but makes imputations against the other.
And when presidential counsellor Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” a few days after Trump’s inauguration in early 2017, the mendacity of the incoming administration appeared to be all but official.
gloss: A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The scandalous bronze-lacker age, of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotencies and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the Pit swallow it.
Though the rebels had utterly failed in their purposes, having accomplished nothing but the temporary disabling of two lightly armed vessels, and had retreated before the approach of the only formidable vessel there, they formally, and with a mendacity equalled only by some of their own efforts in that direction, proclaimed that they had "driven out of sight, for a time, the entire hostile fleet," and that the blockade of the port of Charleston was raised.
He would have you believe that every error we make is deliberate, that journalists have somehow ginned up a unified conspiracy of lies and mendacities against him.
Related words: mendacious
mendaciously
mendaciousness
Translations:
exonerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English exoneraten (attested in past participle exonerated), from Latin exonerātus, past perfect participle of exonerō (“to discharge, unload; to exonerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exonerō is from ex- (“out, from”) + onerō (“to burden, lade; to load”) further from onus (oner-) (“a burden, load”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os (“burden, load”), from *h₃enh₂- (“to charge, onerate”). Compare French exonérer.
Base: onerō
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: exonerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exonerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exonerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exonerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
reflexive
examples: I would examine the Caſpian Sea, and ſee where and how it exonerates it ſelfe, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxares, Oxus, and thoſe great rivers; at the mouth of Oby, or where?
gloss: To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: exoneration
exonerator
Derived words: exonerable
exonerated
exonerative
exoneree
Translations:
yiff
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudolanguage called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof.
Inflected forms:
form: yiffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yiffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yiffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yiffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yiffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
pos: intj
gloss: Used to express happiness or to state that something is sexually appealing.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: The bark of a fox.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: Sexual intercourse, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters or members of the community surrounding their celebration).
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: FurryMuck yiffs are like real-life yiffs - there is a time and place for everything.
gloss: Pornography of or involving furries.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Do you draw yiff?
gloss: To bark as or similar to a fox.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
slang
gloss: Of animals, especially foxes, to mate
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
informal
rare
vulgar
examples: Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.
And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.
Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!
gloss: Of furries, To have sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
informal
slang
vulgar
examples: I mean, the urge to yiff is a pretty weird thing to admit to. Not something you can just drop into conversation. But look at them, hundreds of them, all gathered together in a Vegas hotel, exchanging information and experiences, the knowledge of their rare urges ever growing.
We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits.
gloss: To propose cybersex to someone.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
slang
transitive
Derived words: yiffer
yiffy
yiffpile
yiffsuit
yiffable
yiffless
Translations:
simplified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more simplified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most simplified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made more simple; having its complexity reduced.
pos: adj
examples: With punctuality nosediving and both overcrowding and cancellations on the rise, a new simplified timetable was introduced in December amid threats from the Mayor that he would ask the Secretary of State for Transport to strip Abellio of the franchise.
gloss: Relating to simplified Chinese.
pos: adj
examples: The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.
Derived words: eigensimplified
oversimplified
Simplified Chinese
simplified expression
simplifiedly
simplified sewerage
ultrasimplified
unsimplified
Translations:
ember
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, from Proto-West Germanic *aimuʀjā, from Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ, a compound of *aimaz + *uzjǭ. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”). The b is intrusive and was added in English for ease of pronunciation when the vowel of the second syllable (y) disappeared.
See also Old High German eimuria (“pyre”), Danish emmer, Swedish mörja (“embers”).
Inflected forms:
form: embers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
pos: noun
gloss: Smoldering ash.
pos: noun
gloss: Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ember fasts
ember days
ember weeks
Related words: embers
Derived words: ember attack
ember-goose
emberless
emberlike
Translations:
ancillary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ancillāris (“ancillary; relating to female slaves”), from ancilla (“slave-woman”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ancillary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ancillary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ancillaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary.
pos: adj
examples: […] how easily he took all things along with him,—the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man.
[E]very organ of the body, whatever function it may perform, must also perform the other four functions in an ancillary manner.
The cafeteria is primarily used by students and staff (academic, administrative, and ancillary).
gloss: Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
pos: noun
examples: Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.
gloss: An auxiliary.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: apuväline
lang: French
word: accessoire
lang: Polish
word: środek m pomocniczy
lang: Polish
word: pomoce
lang: Russian
word: вспомогательная дета́ль
roman: vspomogatelʹnaja
lang: Spanish
word: auxiliar
lang: Spanish
word: accesorio
lang: Spanish
word: apoyo
uggo
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ugly
English -o
English uggo
From ugly + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: more uggo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uggo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uggos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ugly.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Kids Ways to Say it Better: This category includes stuff like... yuck, icky, uggo, cranky, whiney.etc.
(STAR has on an ugly hospital gown.) Mondo-uggo.
... bald, bespectacled, young, uggo... Chong loved ‘em all!
gloss: An ugly person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
gullibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gullible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English gullibility
From gullible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: gullibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What distinguishes the core of the rightwing populist electorate is its gullibility to idiocy-promoting rhetoric against climate science.
Translations:
hopefully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder.
Old English tōhopa
Old English hopa
Middle English hope
English hope
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
English -ful
English hopeful
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 hopefully
From hopeful + -ly. The use as a sentence adverb first gained currency in the United States and has been explained as a possible calque of German hoffentlich.
Inflected forms:
form: more hopefully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hopefully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a hopeful manner.
pos: adv
examples: ‘In fifteen minutes I will be at the carpark, sitting hopefully inside a puce Reliant Scimitar.’
gloss: It is hoped that; I hope; we hope.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hopefully, my father will arrive in time for the show.
She was buried with her mom and hopefully they are together now.
Derived words: it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
Translations:
simplify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the French simplifier, equivalent to simple + -ify.
Base: simple
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: simplifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: simplifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: simplified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: simplified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In ancient times there existed in the region of the Tung-chia River 佟佳江 in present Liaoning a people called Kao-chü-li 高句驪. In the fifth century they moved their capital to P’ing-jang. The name of the country was simplified to Kao-li 高麗 (Korea).
Quizzed on simplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want to simplify them".
gloss: To become simpler.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
Synonyms: decomplexify
decomplicate
uncomplicate
Derived words: desimplify
oversimplify
simplifiable
simplification
simplificatory
simplifier
supersimplify
ultrasimplify
unsimplify
Translations:
emaciated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more emaciated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emaciated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
pos: adj
examples: The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.
She arrived at a resort in December 2024, extremely emaciated — staff described her as “so weak she couldn’t walk on her own,” with sunken eyes, protruding bones, yellow fingernails and decaying teeth.
Translations:
Caroline
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Carolus + -ine.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: Carolines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For that poem, though in certain ‘strange and high’ qualities it is the inferior of the best jets of the Caroline genius, is one of the most faultless and perfect things in this or indeed in any period of English poetry, and may be said to impart the Caroline essence in a form that can be (in the medical sense) ‘borne’ by all who have any feeling for poetry at all, as hardly anything else does.
gloss: Synonym of Carolean.
pos: noun
examples: The shooting star, which dissolved on reaching earth into dew or ‘jelly’, is very common with Carolines.
Translations:
hedonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡδονικός (hēdonikós, “pleasant”), equivalent to Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more hedonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hedonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to pleasure
pos: adj
gloss: Pursuing pleasure in a devoted manner
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism
pos: adj
Related words: hedonism
hedonist
hedonics
eudaemonic
Derived words: contrahedonic
hedonic adaptation
hedonically
hedonic calculus
hedonic damages
hedonic treadmill
isohedonic
nonhedonic
prohedonic
Translations:
steerage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English steer
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English steerage
From steer + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: steerages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of steering.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep
Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It was Maud's and mine. I thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast.
“I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”
gloss: The effect of the helm on a ship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: steerageway
Translations:
holystone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Uncertain, but equivalent to holy + stone. As an amulet, probably from holey (“having a hole”). As a scouring stone, variously derived from holey, from the amulet, from its association with Sunday cleaning, from its users' adoption of a kneeling position similar to prayer, and (least likely) from their original provision by raiding graveyards for tombstones.
Compound parts: holy
stone
Inflected forms:
form: holystones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: holystones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: holystoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: holystoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: holystoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of soft sandstone used for scouring the wooden decks of ships, usually with sand and seawater.
pos: noun
gloss: A stone with a naturally-formed hole, used by Yorkshiremen for good luck.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a holystone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Six days shalt thou labour and do all thou art able,
And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.
The boils called sand boils, which form on the front of the knee, are generally produced by small particles of sand being rubbed beneath the skin when the men are kneeling to holystone the decks. Very troublesome sores are thus produced. Great care should, therefore, be taken never to kneel with the bare knees upon a sanded deck.
Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able, / And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable.
Related words: sharpening stone
whetstone
Translations:
emmet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English emete, from Old English ǣmete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.
Inflected forms:
form: emmets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ant.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
dialectal
examples: He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]
1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c
What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.
[A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.
gloss: A tourist.
pos: noun
tags: Cornwall
derogatory
Derived words: four-legged emmet
Translations:
buntline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From bunt + line.
Compound parts: bunt
line
Inflected forms:
form: buntlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel.
pos: noun
gloss: Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard.
pos: noun
examples: The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.
“Cast off the topsail sheets, clew garnets, leechlines and buntlines!” The order came thinly through the roar of the wind.
Derived words: buntline hitch
Translations: