yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unpopular
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-
Proto-Italic *poplos
Old Latin populus
Latin populus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin populārislbor.
Old French populairebor.
▲
Latin populārisbor.
Middle English populer
English popular
English unpopular
From un- + popular.
Inflected forms:
form: more unpopular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpopular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking popularity.
pos: adj
examples: an unpopular opinion
gloss: Not liked or popular; disliked or ignored by the public.
pos: adj
examples: And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
Antonyms: popular
Derived words: unpopularity
unpopularize
unpopularly
Translations:
astrologer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English astrologer, astrologier, astrologere, formed from Middle English astrologie or Latin astrologus + Middle English -ere, equivalent to astrology + -er. Ousted imported Middle English astrologien (“astrologer”), borrowed from Old French astrologien. Displaced Old English tungolwītga (literally “star prophet”).
Base: astrology
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: astrologers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who studies or practices astrology.
pos: noun
examples: Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler both made a living as astrologers.
When witchcraft became a statutory offence again in 1563, astrologers reincurred the risk of prosecution […]
Astrologers, when they observe this pattern, insist that it corresponds to the zodiacal progression. I am not an astrologer and I hold no brief for it, but I do believe the origins of astrology are not with the Chaldeans of Mesopotamia but with the hunters and gatherers of the Stone Age.
Translations:
pirogue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pirogue, in turn from Spanish piragua, from Kari'na piraua. Doublet of periagua.
Inflected forms:
form: pirogues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.
pos: noun
gloss: A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft.
pos: noun
gloss: A boat-shaped food that is stuffed with seafood.
pos: noun
examples: There are even more elaborately prepared Cajun specialties, such as Bayou Bouillabaisse and pirogue of pasta and seafood.
The eggplant pirogue, a regional specialty, is especially good here.
Diners love the pirogue bread with crawfish tails, the barbecue shrimp with fiery tasso and the banana bread pudding.
She had ordered eggplant pirogue — a hollowed out eggplant, breaded, fried, and stuffed with shrimp, crawfish, and crab.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: piragua
lang: Czech
word: piroga
lang: Greek
word: πιρόγα
roman: piróga
lang: Polish
word: piroga
lang: Slovak
word: piroga
lang: Spanish
word: piragua
quantifiable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quantify
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 quantifiable
From quantify + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more quantifiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quantifiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: quantifiables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being quantified.
pos: adj
examples: If the human factor in production is reduced through automation, the process becomes more quantifiable.
gloss: Something that can be quantified; a measurable.
pos: noun
Translations:
literacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From literate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: literacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to read and write.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday (September 8, 2025) declared Himachal as a “fully literate State” on the occasion of International Literary Day. […] Journey from 7% to 99.30%: The Chief Minister said Himachal Pradesh had reached this goal well before the scheduled timeframe, adding that the journey from minimal literacy rate of around 7% to full literacy had been full of challenges, yet the State had consistently moved forward with the aim of providing quality education. […] Mr. Sukhu said the literacy rate in Himachal Pradesh had reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95% […] Union Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar, in a video message, congratulated Himachal Pradesh on this achievement and emphasised the importance of providing skill-based education to the newly literate.
gloss: The ability to understand and evaluate something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: computer literacy
media literacy
Prof Alan McKee, who led the project, argues that young adults should be taught “porn literacy” to help them “read porn well” and look for healthy and ethical depictions of sex.
Returning to the school years later, Diakabana discovered it was a school guard. She wanted to repay him. "He told me to help others when I could, so I launched a scholarship program," says Diakabana, who now lives in Switzerland and is co-founder of The Luminous Agency, which focuses on digital literacy.
Antonyms: illiteracy
Related words: graphicacy
letter
literal
literary
literate
literature
numeracy
Derived words: aliteracy
antiliteracy
biliteracy
carbon literacy
cineliteracy
computeracy
computer literacy
cultural literacy
cyberliteracy
data literacy
disciplinary literacy
ecoliteracy
electracy
e-literacy
emergent literacy
food literacy
health literacy
hyperliteracy
information literacy
mediacy
media literacy
metaliteracy
multiliteracy
pluriliteracy
preliteracy
protoliteracy
quasiliteracy
semiliteracy
sexual literacy
subliteracy
technoliteracy
transliteracy
triliteracy
Translations:
literate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English litterate, borrowed from Latin lītterātus, līterātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of literato and literatus.
Displaced native Old English stæfwīs.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more literate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most literate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: litterate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: literates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: litterate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Able to read and write; having literacy.
pos: adj
examples: Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday (September 8, 2025) declared Himachal as a “fully literate State” on the occasion of International Literary Day. […] Journey from 7% to 99.30%: The Chief Minister said Himachal Pradesh had reached this goal well before the scheduled timeframe, adding that the journey from minimal literacy rate of around 7% to full literacy had been full of challenges, yet the State had consistently moved forward with the aim of providing quality education. […] Mr. Sukhu said the literacy rate in Himachal Pradesh had reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95% […] Union Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar, in a video message, congratulated Himachal Pradesh on this achievement and emphasised the importance of providing skill-based education to the newly literate.
gloss: Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
pos: adj
examples: The reason literature plays a unique role in any literate culture is its longevity.
gloss: Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
pos: adj
examples: The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan even commissioned an alphabetic script for his empire, to be used officially for all its literate languages, Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic and Persian.
gloss: Able to understand and evaluate something.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: I don’t have a college degree. I was never a standout student. And yet, I became financially literate—not just in my personal life, but in running a small company.
gloss: A person who is able to read and write.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: illiterate
letter
literacy
literal
literary
literature
Derived words: aliterate
antiliterate
biliterate
cineliterate
computerate
computer literate
cyberliterate
ecoliterate
e-literate
food-literate
graphicate
hyperliterate
literately
literateness
literate programming
literatesque
literatize
metaliterate
monoliterate
multiliterate
nonliterate
pluriliterate
postliterate
preliterate
protoliterate
quasiliterate
semiliterate
subliterate
superliterate
technoliterate
triliterate
unliterate
Translations:
litterbug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From litter + bug. Coined in 1947 by New York copywriter Paul B. Gioni for The American Ad Council, perhaps punning on jitterbug.
Base: litter
Inflected forms:
form: litterbugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: litter bug
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: litter-bug
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: […] I mean I'm sittin' here, on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug
Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.
Mr. Doherty was known to publicly berate litterbugs and upbraid motorists whose stranded cars prevented plows from clearing snow.
Translations:
monocultural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
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 cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
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 monocultural
From mono- + culture + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having only one (single) culture; of or relating to a monoculture (of microorganisms, people, or otherwise).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: monocultured; axenic
A false idea has taken hold in MAGAdom about the movement’s supposed monocultural superiority.
Translations:
memorization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English memorize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English memorization
From memorize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: memorizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: memorisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of committing something to memory or memorizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
merciful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English merciful, mercyful, equivalent to mercy + -ful. Displaced native Old English mildheort.
Base: mercy
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more merciful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most merciful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing mercy.
pos: adj
examples: `Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'
The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
Antonyms: cruel
inclement
merciless
relentless
unclement
unlenient
unmercied
unmerciful
Translations:
mesmeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mesmeric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mesmeric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization.
pos: adj
examples: Even were he to write a lie, he could not meet her and maintain it, with her eyes upon his face: they had uttermost power over him—power as of life and death,—those fine grey sweet mesmeric eyes !
Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
Then suddenly he remembered something Differ had often talked about, what he called the Suggestive Power of the Written Word, the making, by means of arrangements of word and phrase, of mesmeric passes as it were before the reader's mind in order to convince—that was Differ's word, Convince!—Convince Against All Reason.
She was a firm believer in mesmeric healing, from which she claimed to have benefited greatly, and she was also very much involved in the spiritualist experiments of those days […]
Translations:
mesmerist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mesmerists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who mesmerizes.
pos: noun
Translations:
opprobrious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English opprobrious, from Middle French opprobrieux and its etymon Late Latin opprobriōsus.
Inflected forms:
form: more opprobrious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most opprobrious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing opprobrium; offensive and shameful.
pos: adj
examples: "Don’t speak of my painting before Naumann," said Will. "He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!"
KLAUS: You're so much nicer than the other one. He was a complete asshole!
 REGINALD: Such opprobrious language for your father!
 KLAUS: Yeah, I… I don't know what that means.
Translations:
objectively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English objective
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English objectively
From objective + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more objectively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most objectively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impartial, objective manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Without question, without a doubt, definitely, indisputably, not meriting discussion or argument.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: Struggling with objectively awful English accents, the two actors spend their time on screen dragging out terrible jokes, as though trapped in the improv-exercise equivalent of eternal damnation.
Translations:
oppressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more oppressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oppressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subject to oppression.
pos: adj
examples: The novel tells the story of an oppressed community.
She felt oppressed by the rigid atmosphere of the office.
politically oppressed
feel oppressed
Translations:
plausibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plausible
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 plausibly
From plausible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more plausibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most plausibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a plausible manner.
pos: adv
examples: She lied plausibly, but the police suspected her anyway.
gloss: Probably; not falsifiably, based on available facts and general knowledge.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: Plausibly, she said she'd been working at the time.
Related words: plausible deniability
deniably
undeniably
Translations:
rationally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rational
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 rationally
From rational + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more rationally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most rationally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a rational manner
pos: adv
examples: Concerning the lenity of God, upon which you have most rationally dilated, the 10th chapt. of the 1 booke of Proclus would extreamely delight you.
[…] inasmuch as nothing was really and rationally to be hoped for but a long continuance of the siege and wearying out of the English, they were naturally a little afraid of Joan's impetuous notions. He said— “You see, we are sure that the waiting game is the best, whereas you would carry everything by storm.”
Although computers are a twentieth-century invention, computationism is much older, descending from Newton's contemporary Leibniz (and, arguably, more remotely from the Pythagoreans). It holds that everything is rationally intelligible only so far as it instantiates mathematical rules and ratios. As understood by Leibniz and his followers, computationism was explicitly hostile to all versions of materialism.
The conflict is rationally resolvable either by correcting the mistaken belief or by bringing the wayward desire under rational control.
Antonyms: irrationally
Translations:
randomly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From random + -ly.
Base: random
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more randomly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most randomly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a random manner.
pos: adv
examples: I just randomly remembered this dream from 2 years ago.
It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.
Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.
gloss: By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.
pos: adv
examples: When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.
Derived words: nonrandomly
pseudorandomly
quasirandomly
semirandomly
Translations:
rapidity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From rapid + -ity, from French rapidité, from Latin rapiditas.
Base: rapid
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: rapidities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although appreciating the rapidity and frequency of the Southern electric services I was now to use on short journeys, I became more than ever convinced that electric traction offers very little of interest to the dyed-in-the-wool railwayist.
In clinical practice, the generation of diagnostic hypotheses occurs especially readily and rapidly in subdisciplines such as dermatology, where gross appearance of lesions is of particular importance diagnostically[…]. The primacy of macroscopy in paleopathology means that the activation of skeletal disease scripts occurs with similar facility and rapidity when skeletal remains are examined.
gloss: A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light; defined as artanh(v), where artanh is the hyperbolic arctangent, and v = speed (with c = speed of light = 1).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: midrapidity
pseudorapidity
Translations:
sacrilegious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + legō (“steal something sacred”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sacrilegious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sacrilegious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
pos: adj
examples: At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.
Translations:
restorer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English restore
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 restorer
From restore + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: restorers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone that restores.
pos: noun
examples: Slightly mesmerized by this accomplishment, Rita asked, "Are you a chair mender?" "I'm the best carver, joiner, and expert furniture restorer in this country. So what about it?" "If you really are a good restorer - you'll have to wait a minute, though. I'm only looking after the place for the owner at present. I'll have to consult her."
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.
Translations:
reproductive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From re- + productive.
Base: productive
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: more reproductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reproductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reproductives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to reproduction.
pos: adj
examples: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, […]. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
According to her projections, about 42 percent of U.S. women of reproductive age will experience a change in distance to the closest abortion clinic.
Furthermore, he says, “in this #MeToo and post-Roe era [with the rollback of reproductive rights]^([sic]) we find ourselves in, the perceived risks associated with sex are higher, particularly for women.[…]
gloss: That reproduces.
pos: adj
gloss: A reproductive organism (especially such as in an insect).
pos: noun
Derived words: assisted reproductive technology
basic reproductive number
basic reproductive rate
basic reproductive ratio
nonreproductive
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
postreproductive
prereproductive
reproductive cell
reproductive cloning
reproductive division
reproductive health
reproductive justice
reproductively
reproductive medicine
reproductiveness
reproductive right
reproductive system
unreproductive
Translations:
rudely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rudely, rudeliche, equivalent to rude + -ly.
Base: rude
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more rudely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most rudely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a rude manner.
pos: adv
examples: Accompanying the article was a drawing: a chambermaid gripped the long wooden handle of a warming pan that projected rudely from between a tailcoated gentleman’s legs.
Translations:
rudimentary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rudiment
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English rudimentary
From rudiment + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: more rudimentary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rudimentary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rudimentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to one or more rudiments.
pos: adj
examples: I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.
gloss: Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
pos: adj
examples: His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.
His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road.
Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
Safdar, in his rudimentary ambulance, has been at the frontline of the shifting conflicts consuming his city, placing himself at huge personal risk for very little money.
gloss: One of the rudimentary mammae of boars.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
Related words: rudiment
Derived words: rudimentarily
rudimentariness
Translations:
scientifically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.
Latin sciō
Latin sciēns
Latin -ia
Latin scientia
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Medieval Latin scientificusder.
Middle French scientifiquebor.
English scientific
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 scientifically
From scientific + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more scientifically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most scientifically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using science or methods of science.
pos: adv
gloss: Using the scientific method.
pos: adv
gloss: Methodically.
pos: adv
examples: He tried to approach his bad habits scientifically.
gloss: With regard to science.
pos: adv
examples: Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: how scientifically grounded the book is; whether there are guidelines for self-diagnosis, […]
gloss: From a scientific perspective.
pos: adv
examples: Scientifically, there's nothing special about the year 2012.
I remembered the old doctor, - ‘It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.’ I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
Synonyms: systemwise
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: wetenskaplik
lang: Albanian
word: shkencërisht
lang: Catalan
word: científicament
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 科学地
roman: kēxué de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 系统地
roman: xìtǒng de
lang: Estonian
word: teaduslikult
lang: Finnish
word: tieteellisesti
lang: French
word: scientifiquement
lang: Hungarian
word: tudományosan
lang: Italian
word: scientificamente
lang: Maltese
word: xjentifikament
lang: Occitan
word: scientificament
lang: Portuguese
word: cientificamente
lang: Slovene
word: znánstveno
lang: Spanish
word: científicamente
lang: Vietnamese
word: một cách khoa học
stabilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stable
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English stabilize
From stable + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: stabilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stabilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stabilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stabilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stabilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To make stable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jody stabilized the table by putting a book under the short leg.
gloss: To become stable.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The country will stabilize after the next election ends.
Related words: stabilizer
stabilization
Derived words: destabilize
gyrostabilize
hyperstabilize
mesostabilizing
nonstabilized
overstabilize
photostabilize
phytostabilize
prestabilize
restabilize
stabilizability
stabilizable
superstabilizing
thermostabilize
thermostabilized
thermostabilizing
unstabilized
Translations:
skanky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skank
English -y
English skanky
From skank + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: skankier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skankiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: dirty; smutty or scabby
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a skank (disreputable woman).
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of the skank dance.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Heavy Metal, Music from the Motion Picture (1981, Elektra): This movie is pretty lousy if you're sober and/or an adult, and the soundtrack should be either glammier or skankier, or maybe both.
Derived words: skankiness
Translations:
unsympathetic
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 sympathetic
English unsympathetic
From un- + sympathetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsympathetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsympathetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not sympathetic; ill-disposed
pos: adj
examples: His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.
After years of unsympathetic commercial use and dereliction, nothing of note remained inside, which accordingly has been reconfigured with modern amenities such as underfloor heating.
Translations:
utilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French utilisation or from utilize + -ation.
Base: utilize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: utilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: utilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of utilisation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
Translations:
compartmentalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
human-sciences
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
psychology
sciences
software
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.?
Proto-Italic *partis
Latin pars
Latin partiō
Latin partior
Latin compartīrībor.
Italian compartire
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Italian -mento
Italian compartimentobor.
Middle French compartimentder.
English compartment
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 compartmental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English compartmentalize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English compartmentalization
From compartmentalize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: compartmentalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compartmentalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Division into compartments or parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation.
gloss: The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Apart from language, the most sophisticated thing that almost all human beings do every day is compartmentalisation: the selective blocking-out of bad events, whether current or historic, whether personal or global.
gloss: The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Antonyms: decompartmentalization
Derived words: microcompartmentalization
miscompartmentalization
overcompartmentalization
recompartmentalization
subcompartmentalization
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: compartimentació
lang: Dutch
word: compartimentering
lang: French
word: compartimentation
lang: German
word: Unterteilung
lang: German
word: Untergliederung
lang: Italian
word: compartimentalizzazione
lang: Spanish
word: compartimentación
lang: Spanish
word: compartimentaje
presently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English presently; equivalent to present + -ly.
Base: present
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more presently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most presently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: præsently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Immediately, at once; quickly.
pos: adv
tags: UK
archaic
examples: Polonius: My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.
And presently the fig tree withered away.
the butler supposing the Wine had beene so carefully commended unto him for the goodnesse of it, imediately presented some unto the Pope, who whilest he was drinking, his sonne came in and never imagining his bottles had beene toucht, tooke the cup and pledged his father, so that the Pope died presently; and the sonne, after he had long time beene tormented with sicknesse, recovered to another worse fortune.
gloss: Before long; soon.
pos: adv
examples: Presently all was quiet again.
It[…]is the greatest example of lenity in our Saviour, when he desired of God forgiveness unto those, who having one day brought him into the City in triumph, did presently after, act all dishonour upon him, and nothing could be heard but, Crucifige, in their Courts.
But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
I shall forget you presently, my dear, / So make the most of this, your little day, / Your little month, your little half a year, / Ere I forget, or die, or move away,
‘I shall presently be getting a call to tell me of that.’
gloss: At present; now; currently.
pos: adv
tags: proscribed
rare
examples: The towns and forts you presently have.
To all of you, therefore, who call Wales your motherland, whether you presently inhabit some other portion of the globe or breathe the air of your cloud-kissed country […].
gloss: With actual presence; in actuality.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: March 27 1545, Stephen Gardiner, letter to Thomas Smith and MAtthew PArker
if they perceyve not presently, it shal be wel doon to bringe them to conformite
Translations:
rabble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested since 1300s, from Middle English rablen (“to ramble; rave; speak in a confused manner”), cognate with Middle Dutch rabbelen (“to talk; chatter; trifle”), Low German rabbeln, robbeln (“to chatter; prattle”).
Inflected forms:
form: rabbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rabbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rabbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rabbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ravel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rabbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A bewildered or meaningless string of words.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A pack of animals; or any confused collection of things.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A mob; a disorderly crowd.
pos: noun
gloss: The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]
Derived words: rabblement
rabble rouser
rabble-rousing
rabblesome
rabbly
ribble-rabble
Translations:
antislavery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From anti- + slavery.
Base: slavery
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more antislavery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antislavery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to the practice of slavery.
pos: adj
examples: Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content.
Translations:
cellist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cello
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 cellist
From cello + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: cellists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays the cello.
pos: noun
examples: And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
Though relative newcomers to classical music, they seemed closely attuned to the eight cellists onstage, raising their heads abruptly as the piece’s languid strains gave way to rapid-fire bow strokes.
Translations:
scattered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more scattered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scattered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
pos: adj
examples: scattered applause
And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:
And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,
Share equally the gold that bought their liues,
And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
gloss: Seemingly randomly distributed.
pos: adj
examples: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
gloss: Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
pos: adj
gloss: Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
pos: adj
examples: Scattered showers.
Derived words: nonscattered
overscattered
rescattered
scattered disc
scatteredly
scatteredness
scattered shower
unscattered
upscattered
Translations:
midst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English middes, midst, myddest (“middle”), from Old English midde, reshaped in Middle English phrases like in middes (“in the middle”) by analogy with adverbs in -(e)s; also compare Old English on middan, tōmiddes. Forms in -(e)st are probably due to influence of superlatives.
Inflected forms:
form: midsts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: midest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: middest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: middis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: middst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: myddest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mydest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: myddis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: myddst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mydst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
pos: noun
tags: literary
often
examples: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.
As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."
Translations:
quietly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English quietely, quyetly, equivalent to quiet + -ly.
Base: quiet
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more quietly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most quietly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a quiet manner.
pos: adv
examples: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
Antonyms: loudly
Translations:
trembling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tremblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tremble.
pos: noun
examples: There were tremblings, flashings, coruscatings of sparks which were dying as they were born.
Translations:
dressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Wearing a dress.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
Synonyms: raimented
Derived words: all dressed
all-dressed
brain-dressed
cladly dressed
dressed to kill
dressed to the nines
dressed up
evening-dressed
full-dressed
get dressed
halfdressed
hammer-dressed
morning-dressed
mutton dressed as lamb
mutton dressed up as lamb
nondressed
overdressed
power-dressed
rough-dressed
underdressed
well-dressed
Translations:
lifted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lift
English -ed
English lifted
From lift + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more lifted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lifted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Raised up; held aloft.
pos: adj
gloss: Stolen.
pos: adj
examples: Here, it is said, MacDonalds of Glencoe hid their lifted beasts when retribution threatened.
Antonyms: non-lifted
Derived words: unlifted
Translations:
liked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more liked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
anticoagulant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English coagulant
English anticoagulant
From anti- + coagulant.
Inflected forms:
form: anticoagulants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more anticoagulant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anticoagulant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A substance that prevents coagulation (stops blood from clotting); especially, any of a group of pharmaceutical drugs that reduce the clotting speed or affinity of the blood by any of several mechanisms (e.g., inhibiting platelet function, inhibiting clotting factor (protein) production or function, increasing antithrombin function).
pos: noun
examples: If you are taking an anticoagulant (blood-thinning medication ) and have been given a new prescription for Equagesic, be sure that your doctor is aware that there is Aspirin in Equagesic.
In the case of pathological hypercoagulative conditions such as thrombosis and embolism, 4-hydroxycoumarin based oral anticoagulants, including warfarin as a well-known example, are administered to block the enzymatic function of VKORC1, effectively diminishing turnover of the vitamin K cycle.
gloss: That prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting.
pos: adj
examples: The posologies employed require careful clinical and electrical supervision, and the same anticoagulant measures as for electrical cardioversion are necessary.
Translations:
anticonvulsant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English convulsant
English anticonvulsant
From anti- + convulsant.
Inflected forms:
form: anticonvulsants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agent that prevents, stops, or lessens convulsions.
pos: noun
gloss: Acting as an anticonvulsant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
anticorrosive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anticorrosives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more anticorrosive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anticorrosive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An agent that prevents or stops corrosion.
pos: noun
gloss: Preventing or counteracting corrosion.
pos: adj
Translations:
antidepressant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English depressant
English antidepressant
From anti- + depressant.
Inflected forms:
form: antidepressants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more antidepressant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antidepressant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
pos: noun
examples: Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
She had a history of depression and was taking phenelzine, an antidepressant.
Dr. Melanie met with Annabelle and delivered her diagnosis: Benny was in the prodromal phase of schizoaffective disorder, and she was recommending that they stop the Ritalin and start him on an antidepressant for the mood disorder and an antipsychotic to treat the auditory hallucinations.
gloss: Preventing or counteracting depression.
pos: adj
Antonyms: depressogenic
Translations: