yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
biffy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain etymology, but perhaps an alteration of privy: p gaining voicing to become b, and v losing voicing to become f. Attested since 1935 (see first quotation).
Inflected forms:
form: biffies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A toilet.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: An outhouse.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: By a clever staggering of seats in each story, this model may be used either as a two-family biffie, or in place of the conventional set of two, without danger to either user.
[…]
Constructed to withstand hard usage, this biffy is a three-holer on a nine-hole chassis and combines the utmost in sanitation […]
Translations:
pageantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pageant
English -ry
English pageantry
From pageant + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: pageantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: pomp and pageantry
That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry, what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry, with silken streamers flying, ...
Anfield had been the usual portable pageantry of flags and banners and songs before kick-off. With the sky still blue above the away end the Barcelona fans stood and watched and took pictures and joined in the pre-match round of You’ll Never Walk Alone.
But Harry, in his civilian suit, was also a reminder of the schism between the traditional and the modern in the royal family that can’t be drowned out by pageantry.
Translations:
pamphleteer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pamphlet
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English pamphleteer
From pamphlet + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: pamphleteers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pamphleteers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pamphleteering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pamphleteered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pamphleteered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.
pos: noun
examples: The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.
but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.
"It's kind of unfortunate that it depends on spectacular violence by somebody, or whoever it is, to get it into print," said that man, John Zerzan, a leading pamphleteer and self-described anarchist and technophobe who has become a guru of sorts for anti-technology leftists.
gloss: To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
parapsychology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Hellenic *pərai
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.
English para-
English psychology
English parapsychology
From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + psychology.
Inflected forms:
form: parapsychologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of alleged paranormal phenomena; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pardoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pardon
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 pardoner
From pardon + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pardoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who pardons.
pos: noun
gloss: In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: […] old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.
1917, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Collections" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04104b.htm
These grants of Indulgence were often entrusted to preachers of note ("Pardoners") who carried them from town to town, collecting money and using their eloquence to recommend the good work in question and to enhance the spiritual privileges attached to it.
Translations:
centeredness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English centered
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English centeredness
From centered + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: centredness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being centered.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The state of being centered on the thing specified.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
uncountable
examples: Third World feminist discussions of the history of women-centeredness and female bonding in Third World communities.
Related words: self-centeredness
Translations:
offscreen
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From off + screen.
Compound parts: off
screen
Inflected forms:
form: off-screen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: off-screen
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: offscreens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: offscreening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: offscreened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: offscreened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: off-screen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.
gloss: Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To kill a character offscreen.
pos: verb
examples: Yeah, I also hate her. I hope she gets offscreened in the third act low-key.
Antonyms: onscreen
Translations:
unexamined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English examined
English unexamined
From un- + examined.
Inflected forms:
form: more unexamined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unexamined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has not been examined
pos: adj
examples: If, as Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living," then we should also consider a corollary to this axiom about life in school: "The unexamined lesson is not worth learning!"
Translations:
classist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English class
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English classist
From class + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more classist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most classist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: classists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to classism.
pos: adj
examples: Please and thank you were not in her vocabulary, and she would sometimes say things that were “Not racist,” Neff said, “but classist.” (“What are you bitches, broke?” Anna asked her and another hotel employee.)
gloss: An advocate of classism.
pos: noun
Translations:
hysteroscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From hystero- + -scopy.
Base: hystero
Inflected forms:
form: hysteroscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
pos: noun
Translations:
unaccountably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unaccountable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unaccountably
From unaccountable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unaccountably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unaccountably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.
pos: adv
examples: After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.
The jury was unaccountably slow to reach a verdict. He was clearly innocent.
The number 392, very unaccountably, was never filled, and two of the sets of parts never appear to have been assembled at all, and were presumably kept as spares.
Translations:
unacceptably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unacceptable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unacceptably
From unacceptable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unacceptably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unacceptably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not within the limits of what is generally considered to be acceptable.
pos: adv
examples: The levels of lead in marine hull paints are still unacceptably high.
Your comments are unacceptably provocative.
Network Rail has started an 18-month recovery plan from "unacceptably poor" performance on its Western route between London Paddington and Reading.
Translations:
unaccredited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English accredited
English unaccredited
From un- + accredited.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not accredited; lacking accreditation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tentativeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tentative
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English tentativeness
From tentative + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tentativenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being tentative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There are also some delightful love scenes between Jean and Esther. Russ does an excellent job of capturing the blend of excitement, tentativeness and panic present in the culmination of something so lusted after and so feared.
Translations:
tenaciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tenacious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English tenaciousness
From tenacious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being tenacious; tenacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
heelies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English hele
English heel
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
English -ie
English wheelie
blend
English heelies
Blend of heel + wheelie. Heelys, the original, are a branded version.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Trainers with one or more wheels fitted to the heel, allowing the wearer to walk normally then skate by shifting the weight to the rear.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
edger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English edge
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 edger
From edge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: edgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tool that is used to trim the edges of a lawn.
pos: noun
gloss: A woodworking tool for straightening the edges of wood and cutting it into boards.
pos: noun
gloss: One who practises the sexual technique of edging.
pos: noun
Related words: feather edger
straight-edger
Derived words: edgerman
Edgerton
Translations:
edgeways
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English edge
English -ways
English edgeways
From edge + -ways.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With the edge facing in the direction of movement.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: With the edge uppermost.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: With the edge facing in the direction of movement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an edgeways motion
gloss: With the edge uppermost.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: edgewise
Derived words: get a word in edgeways
Translations:
edgewise
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From edge + -wise. Compare English edgeling (“edgeways”) and edgelong.
Base: edge
Affixes: -wise
Inflected forms:
form: more edgewise
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most edgewise
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Edgeways.
pos: adv
examples: By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
gloss: As if by an edge.
pos: adv
examples: Once his boss got started, Jim just couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
gloss: Edgeways.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: get a word in edgewise
Translations:
effeminately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English effeminate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English effeminately
From effeminate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more effeminately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most effeminately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an effeminate manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
efficaciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English efficacious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English efficaciously
From efficacious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more efficaciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most efficaciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in an efficacious manner
pos: adv
examples: […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […]
There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life and quell the lower tendencies forever.
The only minister who openly upheld the railway scheme without exhibiting any fear of undue American influence was General Gonzalez, minister of war, who later became the successor of General Diaz in the executive office, and efficaciously aided him in removing the prejudices of his colleagues.
The same is at any time produced by superadding a little wine or opium to our common meals; or by taking these separately in considerable quantity; and this more efficaciously after fatigue or inanition; because a less quantity of any stimulating material will excite an organ into energetic action, after it has lately been torpid from defect of stimulus
Translations:
elastically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁elh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₂-tósder.
Ancient Greek ἐλᾰστός (elăstós)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
New Latin -icus
New Latin elasticusbor.
French élastiquebor.
English elastic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English elastically
From elastic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more elastically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most elastically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an elastic manner
pos: adv
Translations:
elusively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elusive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English elusively
From elusive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more elusively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most elusively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an elusive manner
pos: adv
Translations:
embarrassingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English embarrassing
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 embarrassingly
From embarrassing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more embarrassingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most embarrassingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an embarrassing manner.
pos: adv
examples: He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
gloss: To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
pos: adv
examples: He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.
He was presented with an embarrassingly long list of options.
This is the first Christmas, her mother reports, that Shirley Temple has been sure there isn’t a real Santa Claus. Last season she was embarrassingly curious about the numerous Messrs. Claus she saw on the streets and in department stores.
gloss: Causing embarrassment.
pos: adv
examples: Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.
Derived words: embarrassingly parallel
Translations:
enchantingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enchanting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English enchantingly
From enchanting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more enchantingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most enchantingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an enchanting manner
pos: adv
examples: And Music;—hast thou felt that howsoe’er / Her mastering preludes march upon the air,— / With whatso gladness her full stream she flings / Tumultuous thro’ the swirl of terrene things,— / Though she awhile, when the airy notes have flown, / Encompass all men’s passion in her own, / Till ‘ye who know what thing Love is’ can see / His wings in the air vibrate enchantingly[…]
Across a black-and-white Spain combining the modern (car dumps, shopping streets) with the historical (castles, windmills medieval hilltop towns), Quixote and Sancha trek and tilt and chatter and grandiloquise, enchantingly incarnated by Francisco Rigueira and Akim Tamiroff and dubbed, in both cases, by Welles himself (!)
Translations:
encouragingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English encouraging
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English encouragingly
From encouraging + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more encouragingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most encouragingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an encouraging manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
endearingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endearing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English endearingly
From endearing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more endearingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most endearingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an endearing manner
pos: adv
Translations:
endemically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endemic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English endemically
From endemic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more endemically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most endemically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an endemic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Malaria occurs endemically, epidemically, pandemically, or sporadically.
[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
Translations:
endogenously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endogenous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English endogenously
From endogenous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more endogenously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most endogenously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an endogenous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
energetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English energetic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English energetically
From energetic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more energetically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most energetically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an energetic manner; with great energy.
pos: adv
examples: With a stride, the doctor reached the bed, and seizing her arms worked them energetically, applying what I knew to be artificial respiration.
gloss: By means of energy.
pos: adv
examples: Reiki attempts to heal the body energetically.
Derived words: isoenergetically
unenergetically
Translations:
engagingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English engaging
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English engagingly
From engaging + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more engagingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most engagingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an engaging manner.
pos: adv
examples: Carrados smiled engagingly. He knew exactly what constituted the great attraction of his services.
Translations:
enjoyably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enjoy
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English enjoyable
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 enjoyably
From enjoyable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more enjoyably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most enjoyably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an enjoyable manner
pos: adv
Translations:
entertainingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entertaining
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English entertainingly
From entertaining + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more entertainingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most entertainingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an entertaining manner
pos: adv
Translations:
enticingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enticing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English enticingly
From enticing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more enticingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most enticingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an enticing manner
pos: adv
Translations:
enviably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French enviebor.
Middle English envie
English envy
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English enviable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English enviably
From enviable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more enviably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most enviably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an enviable manner or to an enviable degree
pos: adv
examples: The tea-planters’ houses of Ceylon […] were often surrounded by admirable lawns of coarse mountain grass, upon which the planters’ ladies enviably sat
Body count, for those readers who have enjoyed an enviably sheltered life, is the contemporary term for the number of men with whom she has shared physical intimacy. These women seem to experience considerable discomfort when asked about their "body count."
Translations:
enviously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English envious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English enviously
From envious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more enviously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most enviously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in an envious manner or to an envious degree
pos: adv
examples: “We quarrelled long ago, did we not, and many years have passed since we met, but Time heals all wounds and—welcome, son of my father. I need not ask if you are well,” and he glanced enviously at the great-framed man who knelt before him.
Patricia Florca, wearing black market Levis and a dark blue, collarless shirt, snapped open a Ronson lighter and put flame to a black market Marlboro. Lidia Cozma looked enviously at the cigarette's glowing tip.
"Want one?" Patricia whispered. Lidia nodded and Patricia offered the pack. Lidia removed a Marlboro, and moments later both women were sending exhaled smoke toward a cloudless sky.
Translations:
equably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English equably
From equable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more equably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most equably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an equable manner.
pos: adv
examples: "Don't be a fool, Nickle," replied Joolby, glancing equably over the top of the paper as he considered it.
Translations:
equidistantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Late Latin aiquos
Late Latin aequus
Late Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Late Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *staēōder.
Late Latin stō
Late Latin distō
Late Latin aequidistō
Late Latin aequidistānsder.
Middle French équidistantder.
English equidistant
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 equidistantly
From equidistant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
equitably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equitable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English equitably
From equitable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more equitably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most equitably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an equitable manner
pos: adv
examples: […] land titled, or equitably owned under color of title from the sovereignty of the state, evidence of the unappropriation of which is on the county records or in the general land-office, or when the appropriation is evidenced by the occupation of the owner, or of some person holding for him.
[E]ven if it were a fact that separate schools could only be equitably got rid of through the entire secularisation of our public school system, much as this end is to be desired, I could not consent to purchase it at such a cost.
They share opportunities, rewards, and responsibilities equitably, without regard to gender, ethnicity, social, status, or any other falsely restrictive characteristic.
Translations:
equivocally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equivocal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English equivocally
From equivocal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more equivocally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most equivocally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With ambiguity; with uncertainty.
pos: adv
examples: Wits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching
Translations:
excitingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exciting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English excitingly
From exciting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more excitingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most excitingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exciting manner
pos: adv
Translations:
excruciatingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excruciating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English excruciatingly
From excruciating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more excruciatingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most excruciatingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great anguish or pain.
pos: adv
examples: The gunshot wound was excruciatingly painful.
My hunger was now tormenting me excruciatingly, and gave me no rest.
gloss: In a very intense or extreme manner.
pos: adv
Related words: cruciate
excruciate
excruciating
Translations:
exhaustively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider.
Proto-Italic *auzjō
Latin hauriō
Latin exhauriō
Latin exhaustus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Medieval Latin exhaustīvusbor.
English exhaustive
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 exhaustively
From exhaustive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more exhaustively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exhaustively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exhaustive manner.
pos: adv
examples: While dictionaries might aspire to be exhaustively comprehensive, or even completist, it is doubtful whether any dictionary ever truly attempts to cover the entirety of the flora and fauna of a living language due to the overwhelming number of entries this would necessitate.
Translations:
existentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English existential
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English existentially
From existential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more existentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most existentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an existential manner.
pos: adv
examples: In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values.
Although I might have experienced being existentially out of place, the systems at work in my life have never sought to unhome me.
Translations:
exotically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exotic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English exotically
From exotic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more exotically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exotically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exotic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
expansively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expansive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English expansively
From expansive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more expansively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most expansively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an expansive manner.
pos: adv
examples: 'Sad business, isn't it?' remarked the manager expansively. 'Patient any better today, sir?'
Translations:
expectantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expectant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English expectantly
From expectant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more expectantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most expectantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an expectant manner.
pos: adv
examples: The cat looked expectantly at the mouse.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.[…]She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid[…]Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.
Professor Challenger was on his feet. His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.
So he went, uneconomically but expectantly, to the emergency room.
Larissa felt “pulled” to Rachel, who was standing expectantly on Larissa’s doorstep.
Translations:
expediently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expedient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English expediently
From expedient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more expediently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most expediently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an expedient manner.
pos: adv
examples: Call it expediently located irony, or convenient rationalization, but I was keeping the money.
Translations:
expeditiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expeditious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English expeditiously
From expeditious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more expeditiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most expeditiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an expeditious manner, quickly.
pos: adv
examples: For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.
With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.
Translations:
expensively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expensive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English expensively
From expensive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more expensively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most expensively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an expensive manner.
pos: adv
examples: Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war.
The room was expensively furnished.
Antonyms: cheaply
Translations:
explosively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English explosive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English explosively
From explosive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more explosively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most explosively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an explosive manner.
pos: adv
examples: An unaspected planet bides its time and then emerges, often explosively and seemingly out of character. These potent loners are a hidden influence within the chart.
Translations:
expressively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expressive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English expressively
From expressive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more expressively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most expressively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an expressive manner.
pos: adv
examples: You can play the exercises pretty well on piano, fair enough, but can you play the movement expressively?
"I apprehend that my French is not equal to your letter, Monsieur," said Elizabeth, glancing her eye expressively at her companion; "will you favour us with its substance in English?"
A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in[…]
There was quite a bewildering succession of drives, dances, picnics and boating parties, all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of “jamborees”
Translations:
extortionately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extortionate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English extortionately
From extortionate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more extortionately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most extortionately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
pos: adv
Translations:
extrinsically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extrinsic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English extrinsically
From extrinsic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more extrinsically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most extrinsically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an extrinsic manner
pos: adv
Translations:
exuberantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exuberant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English exuberantly
From exuberant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more exuberantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exuberantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exuberant manner
pos: adv
Translations:
entablature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Italian intavolatura, from in + tavola (“table”).
Inflected forms:
form: entablatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
pos: noun
examples: In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.
Such a distinctive and pleasing feature did this become that it was widely adapted to brick construction, the outward projection of pilasters and engaged columns, often both, supporting pediments and entablatures which had the effect of increasing the depth of brick walls.
Translations:
undemocratically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English undemocratic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English undemocratically
From undemocratic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more undemocratically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most undemocratically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an undemocratic manner; not democratically.
pos: adv
examples: Amnesty's International Executive Committee (IEC), an undemocratically elected half-a dozen individuals who have the power to make major decisions within the organisation.
Translations:
edginess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English edgy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English edginess
From edgy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: edginesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being edgy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
edibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English edible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English edibility
From edible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: edibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: suitability for use as food
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
educable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin educabilis, from Latin ēducō (“to educate”) + -ābilis; see educate.
Inflected forms:
form: more educable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most educable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: educables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being educated.
pos: adj
gloss: A person capable of being educated.
pos: noun
Translations:
effortlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English effortless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English effortlessness
From effortless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being effortless; facility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
electable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elect
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English electable
From elect + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more electable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most electable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: electables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be elected to office.
pos: adj
examples: Since he entered the race more than a week ago, Joe Biden has been citing his connection with middle-class, Rust Belt voters to cast himself as the most electable Democrat in the field — a theory that seems to have gotten some traction with voters.
So where are you supposed to find a comfortably electable, qualified candidate who won’t turn 80 while in office?
gloss: A person who is able or fit to be elected to office.
pos: noun
Translations:
elfish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *albʰósder.
Proto-Germanic *albiz
Proto-West Germanic *albi
Old English ielf
Middle English elf
English elf
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English elfish
From elf + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more elfish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most elfish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: elvish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of an elf; elfin, elven.
pos: adj
examples: GWM, elfish, thin fem wants bad white street boy, black-haired, thick together eye brows, long chin, long boned, wide/long nose, hight ^([sic]) skin.
gloss: Mischievous.
pos: adj
Synonyms: list in elven
Derived words: elfishly
elfishness
Translations:
elocutionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elocution
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English elocutionist
From elocution + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: elocutionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
pos: noun
examples: Melville Bell's father, Alexander Bell, had been a famous elocutionist and stage reciter.
Her ability as a recitalist or elocutionist, as she was sometimes called, indicated a possible career on the stage.
Translations:
elopement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elope
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English elopement
From elope + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: elopements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of running away from home with a paramour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You may not have heard of the last blow—Julia's elopement; she is gone to Scotland with Yates.
[…] Jo […] was already deep in the concoction of her story, being unable to decide whether the duel should come before the elopement or after the murder.
gloss: The act of running away secretly for the purpose of getting married.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of running away from home (for any reason).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of a person with dementia or other mental illness wandering away from the area where they are safe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: karkaaminen
lang: French
word: élopement
lang: German
word: Durchbrennen
lang: Polish
word: ucieczka z kochankiem
lang: Spanish
word: fuga amorosa
lang: Spanish
word: huida por amor
elusiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elusive
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English elusiveness
From elusive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: elusivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being elusive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
Translations: