yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cadaver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.
Inflected forms:
form: cadavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cadavera
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.
“Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.”
Translations:
agenda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agendader.
English agenda
From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”).
Inflected forms:
form: agendas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agendae
pos: noun
tags: plural
proscribed
rare
Senses:
gloss: A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
pos: noun
examples: Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
gloss: A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
pos: noun
gloss: A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
pos: noun
examples: A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas.
gloss: An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: These plans are the complete opposite of the path pursued by Emmanuel Macron since 2017. His agenda has exacerbated both income and wealth inequality, while there has been no change in investment, job creation or growth.
I haven't got an agenda / I haven't еven got a gender
By invoking a wartime authority in service of a peacetime deportation agenda, he has gone beyond what even this draconian power permits.
gloss: A ritual.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: agendaless
agendapost
agenda-setting
fungenda
hidden agenda
non-agenda
sunshine agenda
vagenda
Translations:
aggravated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more aggravated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aggravated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry.
pos: adj
gloss: Having become worse, more severe, or more dangerous.
pos: adj
examples: The cruel fallacy, long acted upon, that the insane were insensible to cold, and to other modifications of pain, is exploded; and under the new system, they are treated with the tenderest care, and ample provision is made for their every physical want. The old system inculcated that insane minds could not be stungby insult or shame, dishonor or injustice; the new teaches that “harshness and abuse fall with tenfold force upon minds impaired and enervated by disease; that in most cases of insanity enough of intelligence and feeling are retained to render the patient fully sensible of the import and the cruelty of what is said; and that in many cases the mind, instead of becoming obluse, or deadened, is endowed with an unusual sensitiveness, with an acuteness of perception, upon which the insults and insinuations of the rude, or the indelicate, or the cruel, must produce the most aggravated pain.”
The cough seems to come from the depths of the abdomen, and causes pain in muscles and the chest: this remains a short time after the cough, which is followed by great exhaustion; cough especially aggravated at night and on lying down; sputum composed of thick yellow mucus.
While lying on the right side in bed, and at the moment of becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocating attacks, from suspended respiration , causing a quick effort to prevent suffocation, by changing position. On full inspiration, pleuritic pain; aggravated pain in side.
gloss: Having become worse, more severe, or more dangerous.
pos: adj
Synonyms: aggro
Derived words: aggravated assault
aggravatedly
nonaggravated
unaggravated
Translations:
aggravate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + gravō (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. By surface analysis, ag- + grave (“heavy”) + -ate (“verb suffix”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: aggravates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aggravating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aggravated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aggravated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
pos: verb
examples: Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,
With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte,
And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue,
What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
gloss: To make (any bad thing) worse.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: to aggravate my woes.
[…] to aggravate the horrors of the scene
gloss: To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: He aggravated the story.
gloss: To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state.
gloss: To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
often
proscribed
examples: If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.
Synonyms: adulterate
aggravate
alloy
canker
contaminate
corrupt
debase
debauch
defile
deflower
degrade
deteriorate
downgrade
envenom
exasperate
exacerbate
infect
impair
leaven
pejorate
set back
stain
sophisticate
uplift
vitiate
weaken
Antonyms: ameliorate
improve
mitigate
repair
restore
Related words: aggravation
worsen
make matters worse
Derived words: aggravatable
aggravative
aggravator
aggro
overaggravate
reaggravate
Translations:
aggressively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
Latin gradior
Latin aggredior
Latin aggressuslbor.
English aggress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English aggressive
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 aggressively
From aggressive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more aggressively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most aggressively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an aggressive manner.
pos: adv
examples: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue - including a recording of one of the calls with a senior MI5 officer.
Translations:
aggrieved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: more aggrieved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aggrieved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Angry or resentful due to unjust treatment.
pos: adj
examples: I am aggrieved at the conditions which have been forced upon me.
Steven Fletcher headed in for Wolves late on, who were denied a penalty and what appeared to be a legitimate equaliser in stoppage time.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions.
gloss: Having one's rights denied or curtailed.
pos: adj
examples: The aggrieved person may present their petition to the court for review.
Derived words: aggrievedly
aggrievedness
aggrieved party
nonaggrieved
unaggrieved
Translations:
aggrieve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, injure”), from Latin gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate.
Inflected forms:
form: aggrieves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aggrieving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aggrieved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aggrieved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Right is positive; wrong is negative—is merely the negation of right; as cold is the negation of heat—darkness of light. That a thing may be wrong, it is necessary that there be some other thing in relation to which it is wrong—some condition which it fails to satisfy; some law which it violates; some being whom it aggrieves.
gloss: To grieve; to lament.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Derived words: aggrievement
aggriever
Translations:
aghast
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English agast, agasted, past participle of agasten (“to terrify”), from Old English a- (compare with Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-), German er-, originally meaning "out") + gæstan (“to terrify, torment”): compare Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”, literally “to fix, to root to the spot with terror”); akin to Latin haerere (“to stick fast, cling”). By surface analysis, a- + ghast/gast. See gaze.
Inflected forms:
form: more aghast
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aghast
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
pos: adj
examples: I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.
Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue,
Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: […]
And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
1985, Les Misérables, the song "Red and Black"
I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last?
We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.
Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.
For months, Democrats have watched aghast as President Donald Trump has unleashed his head-spinning, all-of-government brand of disruption.
Translations:
agile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent.
Inflected forms:
form: agiler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more agile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: agilest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most agile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Agile
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Agile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; loose-jointed.
pos: adj
examples: an agile creature
an agile wit
The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennæ of an insect.
gloss: Characterised by quick motion.
pos: adj
examples: agile movements
gloss: Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
pos: adj
examples: agile methods
gloss: Agile software development.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: active
alert
nimble
brisk
lively
quick
Antonyms: unagile
Derived words: agile gibbon
agilely
agileness
agile wallaby
agilist
agility
nonagile
superagile
Translations:
agility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis (“nimble, fleet, quick”), equivalent to agile + -ity.
Base: agile
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: agilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His superior agility countered his lack of strength.
gloss: A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: superagility
unagility
Translations:
agitated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more agitated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agitated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
pos: adj
examples: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
gloss: Of a solution or substance, violently and chaotically moving around, such as due to being shaken.
pos: adj
Derived words: agitated delirium
agitatedly
agitatedness
nonagitated
unagitated
Translations:
agitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English agitat(e) (“set in motion”), borrowed from Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (“to put in motion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of agō (“to drive, move, push”), see -tō. Cognate with French agiter. See also act and agent.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: agitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: agitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: agitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: agitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was greatly agitated by the news.
gloss: To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to agitate water in a vessel
The wind agitates the sea.
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
gloss: To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
pos: verb
examples: NAMBLA is working to build a coalition of gay, lesbian, progressive and civil liberties groups to agitate against the increasing state attacks on gay men who associate with boys.
gloss: To set in motion; to actuate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To discuss or debate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.
gloss: To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Politicians agitate desperate designs.
Related words: agitable
agitant
agitatee
agitation
agitational
agitative
agitator
agitatory
agitatrix
inagitable
Derived words: agitate the communicator
circumagitate
counteragitate
overagitate
reagitate
Translations:
agitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō (“movement, agitation”).
Inflected forms:
form: agitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During a storm the sea is in agitation.
gloss: A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind; an emotion combining irritation, restlessness and aggravation; a feeling of being riled up or bothered to the point of experiencing distress and tension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She causes great agitation within me.
gloss: Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the antislavery agitation
labor agitation
After this conflict pro-independence agitation temporarily died down.
[…] religious agitations […]
gloss: Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: […] a logical agitation of the matter […]
[…] the project now in agitation […]
gloss: Putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: emotion
commotion
excitement
trepidation
tremor
perturbation
Derived words: agitational
agitationist
agitprop
counteragitation
microagitation
overagitation
underagitation
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 攪動 /搅动
roman: gaau² dong⁶
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 搖動 /摇动
roman: jiu⁴ dong⁶
lang: Esperanto
word: agitiĝo
lang: Hebrew
word: תסיסה
roman: tsisá
lang: Irish
word: suaitheadh
lang: Latin
word: trepidatio
lang: Malayalam
word: ക്ഷോഭം
roman: kṣōbhaṁ
lang: Norwegian
word: sinnsbevegelse, uro
lang: Portuguese
word: agitação
lang: Russian
word: волне́ние
roman: volnénije
lang: Russian
word: возбужде́ние
roman: vozbuždénije
lang: Russian
word: смяте́ние
roman: smjaténije
lang: Russian
word: беспоко́йство
roman: bespokójstvo
lang: Sanskrit
word: त्विष्
roman: tviṣ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mì-shuaimhneas
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: docair
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gailc
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: troimh-a-chèile
lang: Spanish
word: inquietud
lang: Tibetan
word: རྙོག་སློང
roman: rnyog slong
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اضطراب
roman: ıztırâb
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قلق
roman: kalak
ago
Part of speech: postp
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-?
Proto-Germanic *uz-
Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *gāną
Proto-West Germanic *gān
Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān
Old English āgān
Middle English agon
English ago
From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”).
Base: gone
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: agoe
pos: postp
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: agon
pos: postp
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: agone
pos: postp
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ygo
pos: postp
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ygoe
pos: postp
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Before now, before the present time
pos: postp
examples: I got married ten years ago.
When they first met in 2000, my dad told my mom how he had gotten the money. The story begins 20 years ago.
It was two weeks ago that I saw her last.
Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus.
Translations:
agony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: 14th century, via Old French and Latin from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”). Specifically of the struggle that precedes death (mortal agony) from the 1540s. By surface analysis, agon + -y.
The sense of "extreme pain" from c. 1600.
Inflected forms:
form: agonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extreme pain or anguish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.
gloss: The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And being in an agonie, he prayed more earneſtly,[…].
gloss: Violent contest or striving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.
gloss: Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: With cries and agonies of wild delight.
gloss: The last struggle of life; death struggle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: anguish
torment
throe
distress
pang
suffering
agony
anguishment
bereavement
living death
torture
Antonyms: ecstasy
analgesia
bliss
pleasure
Related words: agon
agonal
agonise
agonist
antagonist
protagonist
agonistes
agonize
agonizing
agonized
sad
Derived words: agonious
agony aunt
agony auntie
agony aunty
agony box
agony column
agony-pipe
agony uncle
Translations:
agonizing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more agonizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agonizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agonising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: agonizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agonising
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing physical or mental agony.
pos: adj
examples: It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
gloss: The act of one who agonizes.
pos: noun
examples: I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.
Antonyms: pleasant
pleasing
Translations:
agonize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French agoniser, from Late Latin agonizare, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνίζομαι (agōnízomai, “to fight, contend”). See agony. By surface analysis, agon + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: agonizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: agonizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: agonized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: agonized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: agonise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His Touch, if tremblingly alive all o’er, / To smart, and agonize at ev’ry pore?
gloss: To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
examples: So I took a last stare round, agonizing to see if there was any way of escape; but the stone walls and roof were solid enough to crush me, and the stack of casks too closely packed to hide more than a rat.
gloss: To cause agony or anguish in someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That dreadful bill […] was one of the chief torments of her life. At all hours of the night or day it was waiting just round the corner of her consciousness, ready to spring upon her and agonise her […]
gloss: To act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: agonize
lament
bereave
fret
torture
Antonyms: chill
relax
take it easy
Related words: agon
agony
agonization
deagonize
agonizing
Derived words: agonizer
overagonize
Translations:
presto
Part of speech: adv
intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
poker
Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very fast or quickly; a directive for the musician(s) to play in a very quick tempo.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used by magicians when performing a trick; ta-da; voilà.
pos: intj
examples: So I put my hand into the hat and presto! Out comes a rabbit!
You know the old man's ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it ; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
Then comes the chance to become a governess, first in St. John’s Wood, then, in a Sussex country house. And presto! Bronwen is transformed into “a wild tornado” hotly pursued by two Messrs. Right.
gloss: A pair of fives as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
allegro
Part of speech: noun
adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian allegrobor.
English allegro
Borrowed from Italian allegro.
Inflected forms:
form: allegros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
pos: noun
gloss: An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
pos: noun
gloss: A passage having this mark.
pos: noun
examples: And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
gloss: played in a quick, lively tempo
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: in a quick and lively manner
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
agreed
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more agreed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agreed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In harmony.
pos: adj
examples: We are much more agreed on goals than on methods.
Grammarians are agreed that contact clauses are a paratactic construction of two independent clauses.
gloss: Indicates agreement on the part of the speaker.
pos: intj
examples: Totally agreed!
Translations:
agreeable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.
Base: agree
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more agreeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agreeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agreable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: agreeables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agreable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Able to agree; possible to be agreed.
pos: adj
examples: an agreeable contract
gloss: Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.
pos: adj
examples: a man with agreeable manners
not completely agreeable remarks
She’s quite an agreeable person.
This fruit has an agreeable taste.
the train of agreeable reveries.
gloss: Willing; ready to agree or consent.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: If the committee is agreeable, we'll make an arrangement agreeable to both sides.
These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
gloss: Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
pos: adj
examples: That which is Agreeable to the Nature of one thing, is many times Contrary to the Nature of another.
gloss: Pursuant, conformant, accordant.
pos: adj
tags: adverbial
examples: Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation
gloss: Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
pos: noun
examples: The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
Synonyms: accordant
agreeable
agreeing
concordant
conformable
congruent
congruous
consonant
corresponding
harmonious
like-minded
of like mind
Antonyms: disagreeable
incongruous
strange
unharmonious
Related words: great minds think alike
agree
agreement
normal
correspondent
friendly
Derived words: agreeableness
agreeably
nonagreeable
unagreeable
Translations:
agricultural
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French agriculturebor.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros
Proto-Italic *agros
Latin ager
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūra
Latin agricultūrabor.
Middle English agriculture
English agriculture
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 agricultural
From agriculture + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more agricultural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agricultural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agriculturals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to agriculture.
pos: adj
examples: the agricultural class
an agricultural tool
agricultural show
Mr. Weldon is considered to have a very good knowledge of animals, but to be somewhat ignorant or careless of the agricultural aspect of farming.
The Neolithic Revolution (about 8000-3000 B.C.E.) was characterized by people moving from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles.
gloss: As if played with a scythe.
pos: adj
gloss: Coarse or uncultured.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
euphemistic
gloss: Clumsy or tactless.
pos: adj
tags: UK
euphemistic
gloss: A product or commodity from agriculture.
pos: noun
examples: In what follows we divide commodities into three group—energy, metals, and agriculturals—and use equity indexes that are sensible for each commodity group.
Related words: agriculturally
agriculture
Derived words: agflation
aggie
agricultural ant
agricultural biodiversity
agricultural density
agricultural extension
agricultural holder
agriculturalise
agriculturalism
agriculturalist
agriculturalization
agriculturalize
agricultural lien
agriculturally
agricultural pipe
agricultural revolution
agricultural shot
agricultural surplus
agrimation
agripreneur
antiagricultural
astroagricultural
full agricultural tenancy
hydroagricultural
non-agricultural
nonagricultural
postagricultural
preagricultural
unagricultural
Translations:
ague
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”).
Doublet of acute.
Inflected forms:
form: agues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: agued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: agued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An acute fever.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
 “I think you have got the ague,” said I.
 “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he.
“It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.”
Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.
’Twere hard to say who fared the best:
 Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
 He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I’ve the ague
gloss: The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: fever and ague
gloss: A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart
I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague
gloss: Malaria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.
gloss: To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: acute
fainaigue
Derived words: ague cake
aguelike
agueproof
ague tree
agueweed
aguey
aguish
buck ague
Covent Garden ague
duck ague
dumb ague
face ague
fever and ague
Translations:
ahead
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- + head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, beyond the head (of a ship), then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being in front of.
Base: head
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The island was directly ahead.
Just ahead you can see the cliffs.
Keep going straight ahead.
gloss: So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He finished two laps ahead of me.
In all of his classes Jack was ahead.
gloss: In or for the future.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: There may be tough times ahead.
You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared.
gloss: To a later time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Set the clock ahead an hour.
Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st.
Then the customer would set a rebidding deadline ahead a month - for example from September 1 to October 1 - and give everybody four weeks to submit […]
When we saw that wasn't working in 1976, we moved the deadline ahead to 1978.
gloss: At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He paid his rent ahead.
gloss: To an earlier time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th.
[…] committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their "views and estimates" to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadline ahead to March 1 for Senate committees.
[…] the Department is responding to the statutory requirement in the USA Patriot Act that moved the deadline ahead to 2003 from 2007.
Antonyms: astern
behind
Related words: ahead of
Derived words: aheadness
ahead of time
bound ahead
call ahead
draw ahead
epub ahead of print
freeze-ahead
go-ahead
have one's whole life ahead of one
leap ahead
lie ahead
line ahead
loom ahead
nudge ahead
one jump ahead
phone ahead
plan ahead
power ahead
prepare ahead
quit when one is ahead
radio ahead
readahead
roar ahead
set ahead
spoiler ahead
typeahead
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: etuajassa
lang: Hebrew
word: מֵרֹאשׁ
roman: merósh
lang: Italian
word: antecedentemente
lang: Italian
word: in anticipo
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forskuddsvis
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: på forskudd
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: på forhånd
lang: Portuguese
word: ahdiantado
aid
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”, verb).
Inflected forms:
form: aids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You speedy helpers […] Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
gloss: To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
pos: verb
examples: Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.
Synonyms: assist
befriend
bestand
cooperate
help
promote
relieve
succor
succour
support
sustain
serve
Related words: aidant
aide-de-camp
Derived words: aidable
aidance
aid and abet
aider
nonaided
unaided
unaiding
underaid
Translations:
duration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: durations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amount of time or a particular time interval.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
an intermission of 15 minutes' duration
To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.
gloss: The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
uncountable
examples: Rationing will last at least for the duration.
gloss: A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: in
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Derived words: durational
durationless
durative
Translations:
aimless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aim
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English aimless
From aim + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more aimless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aimless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without aim, purpose, or direction.
pos: adj
examples: an aimless life
In the first few days of the fourth stage the lobsterlings are good swimmers — this is their "redeeming vice" — but the swimming is strong and bears no comparison to the aimless drifting movement characteristic of larval stages.
Translations:
airily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English airy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English airily
From airy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more airily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most airily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an airy manner.
pos: adv
gloss: lightly
pos: adv
examples: In both those cases, the conservative majority operated similarly to how it behaved in J.G.G.—airily ignoring the danger posed by Trump’s actions to the republic and the people he has harmed.
Related words: air
Translations:
airs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Affected manners intended to impress others.
pos: noun
examples: She put on airs, pretending to be more sophisticated than she was.
He walked into the room with an air of confidence, though it seemed like just airs.
Stop giving yourself such airs—we all know you.
Related words: airs and graces
put on airs
Translations:
airy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor.
Latin āēr
Old French airbor.
Middle English aire
English air
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English airy
From air + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: airier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: airiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of air.
pos: adj
examples: an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies
gloss: Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
pos: adj
examples: an airy flight
gloss: Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
pos: adj
examples: It was a good solid house, fanless but airy.
an airy situation
gloss: Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
pos: adj
examples: Neither diamond-hardness nor airy intangibility can save you from this, the searing agony of death!
gloss: Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
pos: adj
examples: airy music
gloss: Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
pos: adj
examples: Ah me, ah me! No other ghost has haunted the boy’s room, my friends, since I have occupied it, than the ghost of my own childhood, the ghost of my own innocence, the ghost of my own airy belief.
One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
gloss: Light-hearted; vivacious
pos: adj
gloss: Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
pos: adj
gloss: Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
pos: adj
examples: The station has a bright and airy feel and the refurbishment works have provided a modern and inviting station environment for passengers.
Synonyms: gaseous
sprightly
superficial
carefree
Derived words: airily
airiness
airy fairy
Mount Airy
nonairy
Translations:
ajar
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ċierr, cyrr (“turn”), from ċierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- + char. Akin to Scots char, chare (“to turn, cause to turn”), Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.
Base: char
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: achar
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: more ajar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ajar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: achar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: Slightly turned or opened.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The door was standing ajar.
gloss: Slightly turned or opened.
pos: adj
examples: The door is ajar.
I know—for Death, who comes for me
From regions of the blest afar,
Where there is nothing to deceive,
Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
Translations:
akimbo
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English in kenebowe, in kene bowe (“in a keen bow”, i.e. “in a sharp bend or angle”), from in (“in”) + keen, kene (“brave, keen, sharp”) + bowe (“bow, bend”). Alternately, possibly from Old Norse kengr (“bent”) + bogi (“a bow”), compare Icelandic kengboginn (“bow-bent”).
Inflected forms:
form: akembo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: a kimbow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kimbo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: akembo
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: a kimbow
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: kimbo
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: akimbos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: akimboing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: akimboed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: akimboed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: akembo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: a kimbow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kimbo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now."
Girls take hold of the skirts; boys place the hands akimbo, bend forward from the waist, and bow.
She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight. We knew she wore a grin of the uttermost wickedness.
Men preferred one pose above all others, namely, the elbow akimbo.
gloss: With legs spread and the knees bent in an outward or awkward way, sometimes with the feet touching.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The man was standing akimbo.
Otherwise, it is likely that she may be accosted as "dear" or "Sally,"—invited to take "a drop o' tea," or otherwise chaffed by rough women standing akimbo at street doors.
...and the other end window bearing the figure of a woman standing akimbo with her right hand touching her right temple.
gloss: Of weapons, especially firearms: one held in each hand.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although it was a little impractical, Elmer held his revolvers akimbo because to him it looked cool.
gloss: To wield (two weapons), one in each hand.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Translations:
akin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a corruption of of kin, from Middle English of kyn (“related, of kin”), equivalent to a- + kin (1550s). Compare Old English cyn, cynn (“akin, proper, suitable”, adj.).
Base: kin
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more akin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most akin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: a kin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: a-kin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of persons, of the same kin; related by blood.
pos: adj
examples: [W]e are too near a kin to lye together, tho' vve may Lodge near one another; […]
The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.
gloss: Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
pos: adj
tags: often
with-to
examples: Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.
After all, that would be akin to a self-coup. Apart from the traditional vision of a coup requiring a military takeover of the government, self-coups occur when governments depart from typical norms of democracy by altering election laws, calling into question election results or seeking to suspend their constitutions in order to stay in power.
Picking up speed with each passing second, the rod would then penetrate the ground and generate an explosion akin to a small nuclear weapon using nothing but gravity for its propulsion.
Synonyms: akin
cognate
connate
kindred
Related words: consanguine
similar
Derived words: akinness
nonakin
unakin
Translations: