yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
prone
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
video-games
war
Etymology: From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from prō (“forward”).
Inflected forms:
form: proner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more prone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pronest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most prone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: proning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: proned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: proned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Lying face-down.
pos: adj
examples: prone position
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.
gloss: Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
pos: adj
examples: The hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.
gloss: Having a downward inclination or slope.
pos: adj
gloss: Shooting from a position while lying down.
pos: adj
gloss: Predisposed, liable, inclined, given (to something) (most often, specifically to being befallen by an unsought bad outcome, rather than to undertaking a willful behavior or to having a happy accident).
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: prone to failure
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: […]
gloss: To place in a prone position, to place face down.
pos: verb
Synonyms: neveling
nuel
Antonyms: supine
Derived words: accident-prone
atheroprone
error-prone
fault-prone
flood-prone
floodprone
gossip-prone
injury-prone
overprone
pronate
pronation
-prone
prone-bone
proned
proneness
prone position
prone positioning
prone to
proning
semiprone
unprone
Translations:
condign
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English condigne, from Old French condigne, from Latin condignus, from con- + dignus (“worthy”). Compare deign.
Base: dignus
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: more condign
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most condign
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment.
pos: adj
examples: Vnlesse it were a bloody Murtherer,
Or foule felonious Theefe, that fleec'd poore passengers,
I neuer gaue them condigne punishment.
Consider, then, who is your best friend: he that would have brought him to condign punishment, or he that has saved him?
When our Mahmouds or Selims of Baker Street or Belgrave Square visit their Fatimas with condign punishment, their mothers sew up Fatima’s sack for her, and her sisters and sisters-in-law see her well under water.
Pooh-bah. […] And so, / Although / I wish to go, / And greatly pine / To brightly shine, / And take the line / Of a hero fine, / With grief condign / I must decline—
For a Christian, no Beyond is acceptable or imaginable without the participation of God in our eternal destiny, and this in turn implies a condign punishment for every sin, great and small.
Can liberals accept that an undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or it reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference?
Antonyms: excessive
inappropriate
undeserved
Translations:
funda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contraction of fundamental, originating in Indian English.
Inflected forms:
form: fundas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fundae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fundaes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
examples: Get your funda correct before you submit the paper.
What is the funda behind relativity?
1992 http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.invest/msg/0fe47958fa1d469a
In my opinion, the funda is as follows:
gloss: Understanding.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
examples: You did not have the funda to realize that the statistics is an ass.
But then, your funda is weak.
Related words: fundu
Translations:
supercilious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin superciliōsus (“haughty”).
Inflected forms:
form: more supercilious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supercilious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
pos: adj
examples: [H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]
"I've tried to be a good man, sir, and do my duty honest, and if it wasn't for the supercilus^([sic]) kind of way in which father carried on last night - a sort of sniffing at me as it were, as though he hadn't no opinion of my references and testimonials - I should feel easy enough in my mind."
Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
Translations:
fir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English firre, from Old English fyrh, furh, as in furhwudu (“pinewood”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhu, from Proto-Germanic *furhō, *furhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥kʷeh₂, from *pérkʷus (“oak”). Possibly conflated during Middle English with Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr (“pine-wood”).
Germanic cognates include Dutch vuren, Low German Fuhr, German Föhre (“pine”), Danish fyr). Outside of Germanic, compare Italian (Trentino) porca (“fir”), Latin quercus (“oak”), Albanian shpardh, shparr (“Italian oak”), Punjabi ਪਰਗਾਇ (pargāī, “holm oak, Quercus baloot”)). Related to frith.
Inflected forms:
form: firs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A conifer of the genus Abies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
gloss: Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly.
I can almost smell the fir scent… resinous, pungent.
gloss: Wood of such trees.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: fir-tree
Derived words: Algerian fir
alpine fir
amabilis fir
American silver fir
balsam fir
balsam of fir
Bhutan fir
big-cone Douglas fir)
bristlecone fir
Bulgarian fir
Cascade fir
Caucasian fir
China fir
Chinese fir
cluster fir
Colorado fir
corkbark fir
cork fir
Corsican fir
Danzig fir
Douglas fir
Douglas-fir
Doug fir
fir adelgid
firbound
fir clubmoss
fir-cone
firleaf beardtongue
firless
firlike
fir mistletoe
firmoss
firry
flaky fir
Fraser fir
giant fir
golden fir
grand fir
great silver fir
Grecian fir
Greek fir
ground fit
Guatemalan fir
hemlock fir
Himalayan fir
jointfir
joint fir
Korean fir
lovely fir
lowland fir
lowland white fir
momi fir
Moroccan fir
mountain clubmoss
mountain fir clubmoss
needle fir
Nikko fir
noble fir
Nordmann's fir
Oregon fir
Pacific silver fir
parasol fir
pitch fir
plum fir
Prince Albert's fir
red fir
red silver fir
Riga fir
Rocky Nountain fir
sacred fir
Santa Lucia fir
Scotch fir
Scots fir
sea fir
Shasta fir
Shasta red fir
Siberian fir
Sikkim fir
silver fir
silvertip fir
sprucefir fleabane
spruce fir
subalpine fir
true fir
Turkish fir
Vancouver fir
western white fir
white fir
yellow fir
Translations:
agreeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English agree
English -ing
English agreeing
From agree + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: agreeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agreement.
pos: noun
examples: He had many wars; inextricable coil of claimings, quarrellings and agreeings […]
Translations:
scurf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From scurf (“skin disease causing scabs or scales; flakes of skin that fall off due to a skin disease, etc.”), from Old English scurf, from Proto-Germanic *skurf- (“to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”). Cognate with Dutch schurft, German Schorf, Danish skurv, Swedish skorv.
Inflected forms:
form: scurfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A skin disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There ſtood a Hill not far whoſe frieſly top / Belch'd fire and rowling ſmoak; the reſt entire / Shon with a gloſſie ſcurff, undoubted ſign / That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,
gloss: The foul remains of anything adherent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The Scurf is worn away, of each committed Crime
gloss: Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A low, mean person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
Related words: scarf
scarf
Derived words: silver scurf
scurvy
sea scurf
Translations:
ingrate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English ingrat, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Cognate with French ingrat.
Base: grātus
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: ingrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ungrateful or unpleasant person.
pos: noun
examples: But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods.
"Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.”
Out of my sight, ingrate!
The consensus—certainly among the great and the good of Cambridge, Massachusetts—was that he was an ultranationalist, a reactionary, and, above all, an ingrate.
Translations:
showy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From show (noun) + -y.
Base: show#Noun
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: showier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: showiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shewey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shewy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
sometimes
gloss: Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
pos: adj
examples: showy flowers
gloss: Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I think my problem with it is that it's
a) a little "telly" not "showy" in comparison to the rest […]
There's a way to make this more showy and less telly. It's like you're in a hurry to get on with the rest of the story.
story is too, too telly; need at least 3 showy scenes to improve showing:telling ratio
Six of Crows is very telly and little showy. You are constantly getting info dumps and mini-flashbacks to the characters past.
The ending felt rushed to me, and I wish it would have been more showy and less telly.
Synonyms: gaudy
Derived words: nonshowy
showily
showiness
showy goatsbeard
showy mistletoe
showy orchis
showy sundew
unshowy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: показен
roman: pokazen
lang: Bulgarian
word: ефектен
roman: efekten
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 浮華 /浮华
roman: fúhuá, fúhua
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 繁华
roman: fánhuá
lang: Czech
word: nápadný
lang: Dutch
word: opzichtig
lang: Finnish
word: näyttävä
lang: Finnish
word: pramea
lang: French
word: tape-à-l’œil
lang: Galician
word: ostentoso
lang: German
word: protzig
lang: German
word: auffällig
lang: German
word: schreiend
lang: German
word: grell
lang: Irish
word: éagsúil
lang: Irish
word: taibhseach
lang: Japanese
word: 派手な
roman: hade na
lang: Japanese
word: けばけばしい
roman: kebakebashii
lang: Macedonian
word: впе́чатлив
roman: vpéčatliv
lang: Macedonian
word: е́фектен
roman: éfekten
lang: Macedonian
word: све́тол
roman: svétol
lang: Macedonian
word: бе́звкусен
roman: bézvkusen
lang: Macedonian
word: јарк
roman: jark
lang: Macedonian
word: дре́члив
roman: dréčliv
lang: Persian
word: خودنما
roman: xodnamâ
lang: Polish
word: na pokaz
lang: Portuguese
word: mirabolante
lang: Portuguese
word: exibido
lang: Russian
word: я́ркий
roman: járkij
lang: Russian
word: эффе́ктный
roman: efféktnyj
lang: Russian
word: впечатля́ющий
roman: vpečatljájuščij
lang: Russian
word: безвку́сный
roman: bezvkúsnyj
lang: Russian
word: пёстрый
roman: pjóstryj
lang: Russian
word: крича́щий
roman: kričáščij
lang: Russian
word: показно́й
roman: pokaznój
lang: Russian
word: на пока́з
roman: na pokáz
lang: Russian
word: напы́щенный
roman: napýščennyj
lang: Spanish
word: ostentoso
lang: Spanish
word: jactancioso
lang: Spanish
word: aparatoso
lang: Spanish
word: fardón
lang: Spanish
word: de relumbrón
lang: Tagalog
word: mapagyabang
lang: Tagalog
word: hambog
ungrateful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English grateful
English ungrateful
From un- + grateful.
Inflected forms:
form: more ungrateful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ungrateful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ungratefuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not grateful; not expressing gratitude.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: unappreciative, unthankful
“It seems to delight you to think that you are to leave Paris, and that we shall not see each other for months, perhaps. Tarzan, you are a most ungrateful beast!” and D’Arnot laughed.
gloss: Disagreeable, repellent, unpleasant.
pos: adj
examples: If any care for what is here
⁠Survive in spirits render’d free,
⁠Then are these songs I sing of thee
Not all ungrateful to thine ear.
gloss: A person who fails to show gratitude; an ingrate.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ingrate
Related words: ingrateful
Translations:
worthless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *worthles, from Old English weorþlēas (“worthless”), equivalent to worth + -less. Cognate with Dutch waardeloos (“worthless”), German wertlos (“worthless”), Swedish värdelös (“worthless”).
Base: worth
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more worthless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: worthlesser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most worthless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worthlessest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worthlesse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wuffless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: Having no worth or use; without value.
pos: adj
examples: Don’t be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job.
Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
The committee’s decision is worthless and not going to be acted upon.
Antonyms: valuable
precious
priceless
Translations:
hexameter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- + meter. Piecewise doublet of sexameter.
Base: meter
Affixes: hexa-
Inflected forms:
form: hexameters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hexametre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.
gloss: A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: sexameter
Related words: hexametral
hexametric
hexametrize
Derived words: hexametrist
Translations:
pentameter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.
Inflected forms:
form: pentameters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pentametre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The best verses, more especially pentameters, are written on the principle of attracting and fixing the attention to their close.
gloss: Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pentametric
Derived words: elegiac pentameter
iambic pentameter
Translations:
tetrameter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores
Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρες (téssăres)
Ancient Greek τετρᾰ- (tetră-)bor.
English tetra-
English meter
English tetrameter
From tetra- + meter.
Inflected forms:
form: tetrameters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tetrametre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: iambic tetrameter
Translations:
trimeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tri-
English meter
English trimeter
From tri- + meter.
Inflected forms:
form: trimeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trimetre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
pos: noun
gloss: a poetic metre in which each line has three feet.
pos: noun
examples: All the rest of Aeschylus’ significant innovations are as nothing in comparison, […] the installation of the iambic trimeter as the appropriate verse of dialogue.
Related words: trimetric
trimetrical
Translations:
poetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French poetique, from Latin poeticus, from Ancient Greek ποιητικός (poiētikós) from ποιέω (poiéō, “make”). Doublet of poietic.
Inflected forms:
form: more poetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: poetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: poëtic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: poetical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to poetry.
pos: adj
examples: Iambics are one form of poetic meter.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
gloss: Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Connecting to the soul of the beholder.
pos: adj
Antonyms: prosaic
Related words: poem
poet
poetics
poetry
Derived words: antipoetic
ecopoetic
ethnopoetic
extrapoetic
impoetic
musicopoetic
mythopoetic
nonpoetic
poetically
poetic bent
poeticise
poeticism
poeticity
poeticization
poeticize
poetic justice
poeticky
poetic licence
poeticness
protopoetic
pseudopoetic
semipoetic
sociopoetic
theopoetic
unpoetic
wax poetic
Translations:
poem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French poème, from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”). widely Displaced native English leed.
Inflected forms:
form: poems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poëm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
form: poeme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
Senses:
gloss: A literary piece written in verse.
pos: noun
examples: Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
gloss: A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
pos: noun
Related words: poet
poetic
poetics
poetry
Derived words: altar poem
antipoem
blackout poem
concrete poem
cyberpoem
diamante poem
diamond poem
echo poem
ecopoem
erasure poem
figure poem
holopoem
hyperpoem
metapoem
micropoem
mythopoem
piem
poemette
poemless
poemlet
poemlike
prose poem
rune poem
shape poem
slam poem
story-poem
symphonic poem
tone poem
ur-poem
visual poem
Translations:
merits
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Intrinsic advantages, as opposed to political or procedural advantages.
pos: noun
examples: I was the boss's pet project, but was rejected on the merits.
gloss: Substance, distinguished from form or procedure.
pos: noun
examples: The merits of the case favored the plaintiffs, but their procedural blunders set them back.
Derived words: on its merits
Translations:
intensity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From intense + -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.
Base: intense
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: intensities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being intense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The degree of strength.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The painting’s dislocated, unformed features are the very opposite of the hard, painted dolls of the other portrait, and, where they are dead and ready to topple, this unknown man’s eyes are full of intensity and life.
Fagus sylvatica (European beech) and Acer saccharum (sugar maple, from North America) are very tolerant of deep shade, while Betula spp. (birches) and Populus spp. (poplars) grow best under high light intensities.
gloss: Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of radiance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: intense
Derived words: archaeointensity
high-intensity
high-intensity interval training
high intensity training
hyperintensity
hypointensity
immunointensity
isointensity
light intensity
luminous intensity
magnetic field intensity
Mercalli intensity
overintensity
palaeointensity
paleointensity
photointensity
serointensity
superintensity
Translations:
poetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.
Inflected forms:
form: poetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poëtry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
Senses:
gloss: Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: More people write poetry than read it.
gloss: A poet's literary production.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.
Related words: poet
poetess
poetic
poeticize
poetics
poetize
Derived words: antipoetry
blackout poetry
concrete poetry
cyberpoetry
dub poetry
ecopoetry
epic poetry
erasure poetry
found poetry
graveyard poetry
hyperpoetry
Instapoetry
jazzetry
jazz poetry
lyric poetry
magnetic poetry
Martian poetry
metapoetry
micropoetry
mythopoetry
nonpoetry
onomatopoetry
performance poetry
poetry in motion
poetryless
poetrylike
poetry reading
poetry slam
shape poetry
slam poetry
sound poetry
spoetry
visual poetry
Translations:
deserving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more deserving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deserving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deservings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.
pos: adj
examples: the deserving poor
gloss: Meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
pos: adj
examples: In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record.
gloss: desert, merit
pos: noun
examples: I here understand that value which every man puts upon his own deservings from the publick
Antonyms: undeserving
Derived words: deservingly
deservingness
nondeserving
undeserving
Translations:
poet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English poete, from Old French poete, from Latin poēta (“poet, author”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “creator, maker, author, poet”), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, compose”). Displaced native Old English sċop. Doublet of piyyut.
Inflected forms:
form: poets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poët
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
form: poete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
form: poëte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes poems.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with a creative or romantic imagination.
pos: noun
Derived words: antipoet
arch-poet
be a poet and not know it
concrete poet
cyberpoet
cyclic poet
ecopoet
I'm a poet and I didn't even know it
Instapoet
jazz poet
Lake poet
metapoet
mythopoet
nonpoet
parcel-poet
poetaster
poet blouse
poetcraft
poetdom
poetese
poetesque
poetess
poetette
poethood
poetical
poeticule
poetise
poetism
poetist
poetize
poet laureate
poetless
poetlike
poetling
poetly
poetolatry
poetress
poetship
poet shirt
poet sleeve
poetwise
pylon poet
sacrificial poet
slam poet
Translations:
centime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French centime. By surface analysis, cent- + -ime. Doublet of centim, centimo, and santim.
Inflected forms:
form: centimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A coin having face value of one centime.
pos: noun
Derived words: Algerian centime
Haitian centime
Translations:
metrical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin metricus + -al.
For sense 4: Compare Russian метри́ческий (metríčeskij).
Base: metricus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more metrical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metrical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to poetic meter.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a regular rhythm.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to measurement.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to birth certificates.
pos: adj
tags: Eastern
Europe
examples: metrical records / metrical books
Related words: metric
Derived words: allometrical
chemometrical
extrametrical
extrametricality
hexametrical
immetrical
metrical foot
metrically
metrical structure
monometrical
multimetrical
nanometrical
nonmetrical
osteometrical
prosimetrical
trimetrical
unmetrical
Translations:
literature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin littera
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin litterātūrader.
Old French littératurebor.
Middle English literature
English literature
From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English bōccræft.
Inflected forms:
form: literatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lit.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: literatuer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The body of all written works.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He’s studying English literature at university.
There’s a vast body of scientific literature on the subject.
classical literature
scientific literature
world literature
gloss: All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?ʼ The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
In fact, information on when each of the terms first appeared in English, and if obsolete, how long they persisted, is entirely absent from the literature.
gloss: Written fiction of a high standard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 2008, Adam Cadre
However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories.
gloss: Literacy; ability to read and write.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
Synonyms: literature
Related words: letter
literal
literacy
literate
literary
title
subtitle
abstract
part
chapter
section
subsection
preface
prologue
epilogue
footnote
sidenote
heading
body text
paragraph
verse
bibliography
canto
Derived words: antiliterature
Clementine literature
comparative literature
cyberliterature
DDLC
e-literature
escape literature
found literature
global literature
gray literature
grey literature
hyperliterature
illiterature
literatize
literatured
literature review
literature search
literaturology
literotica
loiterature
medieval literature
metaliterature
microliterature
mirror literature
nonliterature
obliterature
orature
paraliterature
polite literature
preliterature
secondary literature
speculum-literature
speculum literature
Speculum literature
subliterature
Twitterature
world literature
Translations:
behoove
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See behove.
Inflected forms:
form: behooves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: behooving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: behooved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: behooved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: behooven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
Senses:
gloss: To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: It ill behooves my mother to complain.
Straighter he stood, and had achieved some praise / In other exercise, much more behooving / A soldier's taste than merely dirt removing.
I think it ill behooves the Government of Canada, let alone all the people like us in Canada, to pretend that there are not these distinctions in how each of us approaches questions of security.
“Behooves”? said Danny. / “Becomes necessary, Mr. Hupfer,” said Mrs. Baker, “as in ‘It behooves us to raise our hands before we ask a question’. Now, can anyone tell me what the adjectival form would be?”
[…] Thor and Iron Man pushed the [Avengers] Mansion back roughly 35 feet from Fifth Avenue in order to give the Mansion a front yard (and the privacy that comes along with it). Let's face it—it wouldn't behoove Earth's Mightiest Heroes to have to put those ugly wrought-iron bars on their ground-floor windows in order to prevent petty theft.
gloss: To be fitting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It behooved that the Sonne of God suld descend unto us, and tak himselfe a bodie of our bodie, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones, and so become the Mediator betwixt God and man, giving power to so many as beleeve in him, to be the sonnes of God; […]
Now, while discoursing of sperm, it behooves to speak of other things akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the try-works.
Derived words: behoovable
Translations:
befit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English fit
English befit
From be- + fit.
Inflected forms:
form: befits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: befitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: befitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: befitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: befit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: befit
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to be fit for
pos: verb
examples: His conduct was not befitting an officer of his station.
Clarke's side roared back with courage and belief befitting a team who had held their nerve in two shootouts to get here.
Fine or arrogant speech does not befit [an empty-headed] fool—much less do lying lips befit a prince
Translations:
decorative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin decorātus + -ive. Cognate with French décoratif.
Inflected forms:
form: more decorative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most decorative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: decoratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That serves to decorate
pos: adj
examples: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
And I’ll be honest. I’ll be honest, seeing stories like that is enough to make me glad that the Queen of England is mostly decorative now. In fact, the most relevant thing she’s done recently was announced that this week, she’s going to visit the Game of Thrones set.
gloss: A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
pos: noun
examples: Analysts said the company’s results were in line, but noted that organic growth at the decoratives business was slightly weaker than expected.
Translations:
decorate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English decorat (“adorned”), from Latin decorātus, perfect passive participle of decorō (“to adorn, distinguish, honor”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from decus (“ornament, grace, dignity, honor”, decor- in compounds), akin to decor (“elegance, grace, beauty, ornament”), from decet (“adorn, befit”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: decorates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decorating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decorated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decorated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish with decorations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We decorated the Christmas tree with tinsel and baubles.
gloss: To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: There's some paint left over from when we decorated the guest bedroom.
We moved in over a month ago but we still haven't gotten started on decorating.
gloss: To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: People tend to decorate for the holidays or special events.
gloss: To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was a decorated soldier who served in three wars.
gloss: To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.
Synonyms: adore
adorn
apparel
array
invest
detail
beautify
bedeck
betrim
commend
decorate
decore
deck
deck out
do up
dress up
dub
embellish
enrich
garnish
grace
mangonize
ornament
prettify
pretty up
Antonyms: deface
disfigure
defigure
distort
Related words: decoration
beautiful
Derived words: decoratable
decorative
decorator
decoratress
decoratrix
decorin
immunodecorate
misdecorate
overdecorate
redecorate
undecorate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ремонтирам
roman: remontiram
lang: Bulgarian
word: реновирам
roman: renoviram
lang: Czech
word: zdobit
lang: Finnish
word: somistaa
lang: French
word: décorer
lang: German
word: tapezieren
lang: German
word: streichen
lang: German
word: ausschmücken
lang: Hebrew
word: עיטר
roman: itér
lang: Hebrew
word: קישט
roman: kishét
lang: Japanese
word: 模様替えをする
roman: moyōgae o suru
lang: Māori
word: whakarārakei
lang: Māori
word: nakonako
lang: Nheengatu
word: mupuranga
lang: Nheengatu
word: mpuranga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: innrede
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: innreie
lang: Occitan
word: decorar
lang: Persian
word: آراستن
roman: ârâstan
lang: Portuguese
word: decorar
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sgeadaich
lang: Swedish
word: inreda
lang: Telugu
word: అలంకరించు
roman: alaṅkariñcu
striking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more striking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most striking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: strikings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Making a strong impression.
pos: adj
examples: He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
A striking view is obtained from the train of the ruins of the ancient castle, which stands at the western end of the town on a mass of limestone rock rising precipitously from the tidal waters of the estuary of Pembroke River, a branch of Milford Haven.
This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.
gloss: On strike, taking part in industrial action.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a striking employee
gloss: The act by which something strikes or is struck.
pos: noun
examples: We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
Derived words: strikingly
strikingness
Translations:
capote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.
Inflected forms:
form: capotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A long coat or cloak with a hood.
pos: noun
examples: […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
The little shepherd in his white capote
Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,
It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.
gloss: A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.
gloss: A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.
Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.
Synonyms: cappo
Derived words: capoted
Translations:
Baroque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Via French (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape) from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco and Sicilian baroccu, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verruca (“wart”), or possibly from the technical construction of scholastic logic, Baroco.
Inflected forms:
form: more Baroque
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Baroque
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: From or characteristic of the Baroque period.
pos: adj
Translations:
denominational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English denomination
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 denominational
From denomination + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a denomination.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If there is a Protestant denomination that typifies the apparent death of denominational history, it has to be the Presbyterians.
Translations:
allegation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French allégation, from Latin allegatio, from allegare. By surface analysis, allege + -ation, see allege.
Inflected forms:
form: allegations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.
pos: noun
examples: She put forth several allegations regarding her partner in hopes of discrediting his actions.
A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."
gloss: The act of alleging.
pos: noun
Synonyms: accusation
assertion
censure
charge
crimination
impeachment
Related words: allegator
allege
Derived words: misallegation
reallegation
Translations:
haughty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”).
Inflected forms:
form: haughtier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: haughtiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hautie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hauty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
pos: adj
examples: How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].
Translations:
cis
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cis (“on this side (of), on the near or same side”). Doublet of he, it, here, hither, and hence.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
examples: 9 is thought to survive longer when the CH = CH bond is cis and to favour the formation of another cis double bond in a propagation reaction involving its displacement by monomer. 10, on the other hand, is more likely to yield a trans double bond […]
However, a cis double bond causes a kink in the chain. (A cis double bond introduces a bend of about 42 into the linear hydrocarbon chain.)
A cis double bond is one where the hydrogen atoms are both on the same side. In contrast, a trans double bond has them on the opposite side.
gloss: In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are adjacent to each other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
examples: The cis effect is the labilization of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands.
Antonyms: trans
Related words: cis-
cisalpine
cis-gender
cis-trans isomerism
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: cis
lang: Bulgarian
word: цис-
roman: cis-
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 順式 /顺式
roman: seon⁶ sik¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 順式 /顺式
roman: shùnshì
lang: French
word: cis
lang: Japanese
word: シス
lang: Polish
word: cis
lang: Russian
word: цис-
roman: cis-
tut
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: tuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tut tut; an expression of disapproval.
pos: intj
gloss: Hush; be silent.
pos: intj
gloss: To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.
pos: verb
gloss: A tutorial.
pos: noun
Translations: