yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
strident
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō.
Inflected forms:
form: more strident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most strident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stridents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
pos: adj
examples: The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
But as they were upon going forth, a trumpet was sounded without, three strident blasts.
gloss: Grating or obnoxious.
pos: adj
examples: The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
gloss: Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
pos: adj
examples: The impact of [Jimmy Carter's] anger [at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan] on his attitude is confirmed by the moderation in his attitude that occurred. Once the president's anger began to subside, he became less strident in his pronouncements and more uncertain of Soviet motives.
gloss: Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.
gloss: One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
pos: noun
Related words: stridor
stridulous
Derived words: overstrident
stridency
stridently
unstrident
Translations:
disjointed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more disjointed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disjointed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not connected, coherent, or continuous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The hours of his illness were disjointed and confusing as he drifted in and out of consciousness.
England can look forward to a quarter-final next weekend against a similarly struggling France, a reward they scarcely deserve on the evidence of this disjointed display.
gloss: Having the paws and head (but not the tail) detached from the body.
pos: adj
examples: a lion disjointed
Synonyms: disconnected
fragmented
discontiguous
disunited
divided
split
unconnected
scattered
Related words: disjoin
disjoined
Derived words: disjointedly
disjointedness
nondisjointed
undisjointed
Translations:
sweetness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swetnes, swetnesse, from Old English swētnes (“sweetness”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtinassī (“sweetness”), equivalent to sweet + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian swietens (“sweetness”), obsolete Dutch zoetenis (“sweetness”), Old High German swuoznessi, suoznessi (“sweetness”).
Base: sweet
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: sweetnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sweetnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being sweet (all senses).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds.
gloss: A pleasant disposition; kindness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
gloss: The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
gloss: A term of address for one's sweetheart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.
"Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?"
Synonyms: dulceness
dulciness
dulcitude
saccharinity
sugariness
sweetness
Antonyms: bitterness
sourness
Related words: sweet
Derived words: sweetness and light
Translations:
incongruous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in- + congruous.
Base: congruous
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more incongruous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incongruous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
pos: adj
examples: [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.
For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
gloss: Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
pos: adj
examples: 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.
Synonyms: incongruitous
Related words: incongruence
incongruent
incongruity
Derived words: incongruously
incongruousness
Translations:
flowering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: flowerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The period of time during which a plant is in flower.
pos: noun
gloss: The period of time during which someone or something is at its peak.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Of a plant, that produces flowers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Azaleas are flowering plants.
gloss: aflower, in bloom
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: flowering currant
flowering maple
flowering quince
orange flowering jessamine
red-flowering banana
autoflowering
coflowering
nonflowering
postflowering
preflowering
unflowering
well flowering
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: floració
lang: Cebuano
word: pagpamulak
lang: Cebuano
word: pagpamuwak
lang: Finnish
word: kukinta
lang: French
word: floraison
lang: French
word: fleuraison
lang: Galician
word: floración
lang: Italian
word: fioritura
lang: Occitan
word: floracion
lang: Spanish
word: brotación
lang: Spanish
word: florescencia
lang: Spanish
word: florecimiento
lang: Spanish
word: floración
lang: Telugu
word: పుష్పించుట
roman: puṣpiñcuṭa
lang: Cebuano
word: pagpamulak
lang: Cebuano
word: pagpamuwak
lang: Danish
word: blomstringstid
lang: Finnish
word: kukinta
lang: Spanish
word: florescencia
lang: Spanish
word: floración
lang: Swedish
word: blomstringstid
flattering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing.
Base: flatter
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more flattering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flattering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flatterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Attractive or good-looking; that makes one look good.
pos: adj
examples: The dress really did not look very flattering on her figure.
gloss: Gratifying to one's self-esteem; complimentary.
pos: adj
gloss: That which represents too favorably.
pos: adj
gloss: The action of the verb to flatter.
pos: noun
gloss: Instances of flattery.
pos: noun
Synonyms: flattery
soft sawder
Derived words: flatteringness
Translations:
scorned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scorned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scorned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hated, despised, or avoided.
pos: adj
examples: Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.
Translations:
discontinued
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Permanently no longer available for sale
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Permanently no longer in production
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: retired
defunct
obsolete
superannuated
superseded
disused
Derived words: undiscontinued
Translations:
exasperate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: exasperates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exasperating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exasperated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exasperated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And this report
Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
Prepares for some attempt of war.
The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
[S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
Translations:
blender
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
entertainment
lifestyle
manufacturing
quilting
textiles
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blend
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 blender
From blend + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blenders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blendering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blendered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blendered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of fabric sewn into the front of a theatrical wig to make it blend in with the performer's natural hair.
pos: noun
examples: A blender is added to a wig in the same way that a quick front is added. It can be added at the same time as the fronting lace is added or after the wig is completed.
gloss: A subtly patterned fabric printed in different shades of a single color, often used in place of a solid to create visual texture.
pos: noun
gloss: To mix in a blender
pos: verb
Derived words: blenderization
blenderize
microblenderbeauty blender
Translations:
Mixer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English (Little) Mix
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 Mixer
From (Little) Mix + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Mixers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the British girl group Little Mix.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Mixers, what do you think of the new song?
Jade Thirlwall tells us about sharing a heritage with her Middle Eastern Mixers, fearing fame and inspiring young girls […] You’ve got a lot of Middle Eastern Mixers (the name given to their fans); […]
To all my best friends, you know who you are. You are all ‘Mixers’. […] I will be exploring Little Mix because I believe there was a reason I went to that concert of yours, Little Mix.
Global pop superstars Little Mix broadcast the final concert of their huge Confetti Tour, from London's O2. It’s going to be an incredible evening that no Mixers will want to miss!
Six months later, Leigh-Anne Pinnock opened her Twitter account and even made her first interactions with Mixers.
gloss: A member of the British girl group Little Mix.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Mixer Jesy Nelson was bowled over that a rap diva of the highest order like Elliott would want to work with them.
Leigh-Anne from the band confessed to thinking Austin Mahone was a cutie. He later told me he would love to take her for dinner and on the London Eye – bless him. […] Sadly for Austin, the Mixer is spoken for, and currently in Jamaica with her long-term boyfriend.
Meanwhile Mixer Jesy Nelson, 22, says the group have recorded a “Wings number two” for their next album.
Translations:
mixer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
finance
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mix
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 mixer
From mix + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: mixers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
pos: noun
gloss: One who mixes or socializes.
pos: noun
examples: I had seen so many people all my life—I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny with those of all classes that I came in contact with.
Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether.
gloss: A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
pos: noun
gloss: A nonalcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails.
pos: noun
examples: Do we have any mixers? I don't want to drink this vodka neat.
gloss: A mixing console.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450.
gloss: Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
pos: noun
gloss: A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
pos: noun
gloss: A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of tumbler.
pos: noun
Related words: mix
mixologist
mixology
mixture
Derived words: Banbury mixer
cement mixer
concrete mixer
cyclomixer
dough mixer
dough-mixer
food mixer
matrix mixer
micromixer
mixer-settler
mixer tap
multimixer
nanomixer
race-mixer
race mixer
thermomixer
vision mixer
vortex mixer
whirlimixer
whirlmixer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смеси́тел
roman: smesítel
lang: Bulgarian
word: бърка́лка
roman: bǎrkálka
lang: Finnish
word: sekoitin
lang: Indonesian
word: pengaduk
lang: Indonesian
word: pengocok
lang: Māori
word: pūwhakaranu
lang: Russian
word: смеси́тель
roman: smesítelʹ
lang: Russian
word: сме́шиватель
roman: sméšivatelʹ
lang: Russian
word: ми́кшер
roman: míkšer
zoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: zonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Legislative action for the purpose of regulating the use of property and the construction of buildings within the area under the jurisdiction of the legislative body concerned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These towers are not only the product of advances in construction technology – and a global surfeit of super-rich buyers – but a zoning policy that allows a developer to acquire unused airspace nearby, add it to their own lot, and erect a vast structure without any kind of public review process taking place.
gloss: The use of zones, such as fare zones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The system of zoning would lead logically to the introduction of the modern ticket barriers from 1987 (the Underground Ticketing System, or UTS), in that it allowed the software in the ticket gates to be relatively simple.
Derived words: cluster zoning
inclusionary zoning
seismic zoning
Translations:
zoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more zoned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zoned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Included in a zone.
pos: adj
examples: non-zoned land
gloss: Synonym of zoned out (“intoxicated by drugs”).
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
zoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zone
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 zoner
From zone + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: zoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who zones things.
pos: noun
Translations:
zodiacal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin zōdiacus + -al. By surface analysis, zodiac + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more zodiacal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zodiacal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the zodiac.
pos: adj
examples: […] in some passages of the Old Testament they think they discover the Zodiacal course of the Sun […]
For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set.
She knew by heart everyone’s Zodiacal sign.
In the zodiacal procession of the poles, the 25,920-year cycle, Lascaux is the time of Virgo, and Virgo is associated with artistic excellence and discrimination.
Translations:
zingy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zing
English -y
English zingy
From zing + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: zingier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: zingiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of zest.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: There's not overmuch depth here, but Chambers does have a zingy wit and the one-liners fly fast and furious.
In the early drafts of the zingy script (by Charles Lederer), the visitor was to have been considerably more outre, but apparently the special effects folks weren't up to the job […]
They relocated to Los Angeles, where Dabito revived a lackluster 1950s bungalow with a zingy palette of purples and greens, replete with tricks (vintage-furniture makeovers, artful gallery walls) that propelled him into Instagram stardom and landed him collaborations with brands like Mitzi, Brooklinen, and York Wall coverings.
Translations:
tum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: shortened form of tummy
pos: noun
examples: For here am I without a crumb
To satisfy a raging tum--
O what an oversight!"
As he was indulging in these melancholy reflexions he came round a bend in the road, and discovered two people in the very act of having lunch.
We left the telephone, walked up two small flights of stairs, and opened the front door as, believe it or not, the car with three policemen in it was just pulling up. I mention this amazing promptitude hoping that it will be a comfort to timorous souls whose tums turn over when things go bump in the night.
Translations:
reprobate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more reprobate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reprobate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reprobates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reprobates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reprobating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reprobated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reprobated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Rejected; cast off as worthless.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
gloss: Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
pos: adj
gloss: Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
pos: adj
examples: The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.
gloss: One rejected by God; a sinful person.
pos: noun
examples: And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel.
gloss: A person with low morals or principles.
pos: noun
examples: I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
[T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.
"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
West of here, it ascends to its viaduct where, 20 feet above the ground, the Westway seeks to emulate it; two scruffy reprobates shouldering their way through a not very pretty streetscape; the one a railway built by corporate buccaneers, the other a road constructed as part of a discredited plan to girdle London with motorways.
gloss: To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
pos: verb
examples: Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...
gloss: Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
pos: verb
gloss: To refuse, set aside.
pos: verb
Related words: depraved
Derived words: reprobateness
approbate and reprobate
reprobater
unreprobated
Translations:
touchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A variant of earlier tetchy (“cranky, easily annoyed, difficult to handle”), under influence from some senses of touch (“affect, disturb”) and simulating touch + -y.
Base: touch
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: touchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: touchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
pos: adj
examples: It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
Eminent Americans are to be invited to direct by will their interment there; and in the case of Americans not so eminent as to be invited, but who have nevertheless expressed a wish to join the others, a committee will decide. It seems a touchy business all along...
gloss: Easily offended, oversensitive.
pos: adj
examples: He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.
I can assure you, Mr Hosier, that other people are much more touchy about my blindness than I am.
Ashley: Look at the size of that ship!
Kaidan: The Ascension. Flagship of the Citadel fleet.
Joker: Well, size isn't everything.
Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?
Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too.
gloss: Inclined to engage in physical touch.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Related words: touchy-feely
Derived words: touchily
touchiness
Translations:
restlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *rastō
Proto-West Germanic *rastu
Old English ræst
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English ræstlēas
Middle English restles
English restless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English restlessness
From restless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: restlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable; a feeling of discomfort with stillness causes by anxiety, boredom or other emotions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited.
With nothing to occupy his attention, Mr Enniscorthy began to manifest an unhappy restlessness that increased until the play had been proceeding for some few minutes.
A feeling of restlessness and an urge to move in your arms, legs or torso is a state of hyperarousal and can keep you from a good night’s sleep, she said.
Translations:
ossified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ossified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ossified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
pos: adj
examples: ossified cartilage
gloss: Inflexible, old-fashioned.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Launching a new platform, he said, was like starting a new country: Getting users to move from an established network that had an ossified economy and social classes to a new network requires the possibility of success — the lure of the American Dream.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
US
slang
examples: "Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."
At Wanda's house, two nights before the wedding, she, Jenny, and two other girls were doing shots with beer chasers while Tom and I and another guy watched as they all got ossified.
Derived words: coossified
hyperossified
nonossified
underossified
unossified
Translations:
audiophile
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From audio- + -phile.
Base: audio
Inflected forms:
form: audiophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more audiophile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most audiophile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology.
pos: noun
examples: However, almost every serious audiophile or electronics hobbyist already knows that bar/graph displays are close to useless for the application they are most commonly used for, which is the attempt to indicate output power levels of audio power amplifiers.
gloss: Relating to high fidelity sound reproduction or an interest in it.
pos: adj
examples: Fortunately, I abandoned the cheap record player and moved into more audiophile equipment once I got into high school.
Translations:
intrusive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
geography
geology
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from intrusion, + -ive.
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more intrusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intrusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intrusives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
pos: adj
examples: Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive?
gloss: Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
pos: adj
gloss: epenthetic
pos: adj
gloss: Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of a collection keeping track of what items it contains. An intrusive collection does not "own" its contents and a single item can be part of multiple intrusive collections.
pos: adj
examples: an intrusive linked list
gloss: An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
pos: noun
Synonyms: unwelcome
uninvited
disturbing
interrupting
Antonyms: unintrusive
Derived words: intrusively
intrusiveness
intrusive r
intrusive thought
nonintrusive
Translations:
certainty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English certeynte (“surety”), from Anglo-Norman certeinte, from Old French certeinete, from Vulgar Latin *certānitās, from Latin certus.
Inflected forms:
form: certainties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: certainity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
India
Senses:
gloss: The state of being certain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: with certainty
moral certainty
absolute certainty
She spoke with complete certainty.
There is no certainty that the plan will succeed.
That there may be Certainty upon an infallible Evidence in Matters of Science, I readily grant you. But since there once were Scepticks in Philosophy as well as Religion, such as doubted of every thing, I very much question, whether the whole World be agreed in this Point; unless you could assure me, that Race of Seekers is now extinct.
The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.
gloss: An instance of being certain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fact or truth unquestionably established.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
There is a certainty attainable. A certainty of feeling will arise through the very contemplation of Jesus. But there is also attainable a certainty of Reason.
Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
Related words: certain
Derived words: certainty equivalent
legal certainty
moral certainty
noncertainty
of a certainty
racing certainty
Translations:
successive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Coming one after the other in a series.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They had won the title for five successive years.
A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor.
Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.
gloss: Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a successive title
a successive empire
gloss: Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: in a series
Related words: succeed
success
succession
Derived words: nonsuccessive
successively
successiveness
successivity
unsuccessive
Translations:
slaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed (around 1861) from Dutch sla, shortened from salade (“salad, lettuce”).
Inflected forms:
form: slaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Coleslaw.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Barbecue is always served with slaw in North Carolina and always has been.
My boss, whose daughter was a working chef, told me that I made the best slaws that she had ever tasted. The secret is that slaws deserve as much care in their preparation as any other good meal.
Slaws go well with grilled lean protein items and sandwiches.
Translations:
brocard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French brocard, cognate with Medieval Latin brocarda, brocardicorum opus, a collection of canonical laws written by the bishop Burchard of Worms.
Inflected forms:
form: brocards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.
pos: noun
examples: The other question was as to the proper legal meaning of the brocard, “heres heredis mei est heres meus.”
Blackstone, with a like tenderness of conscience, endeavors to withdraw a single case, a sale of provisions, from the old brocard caveat emptor, and tells us that in such a contract there is a warranty that the provisions are wholesome.
Translations:
seisin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English seisin, seysen, from Old French seisin, from the verb seisir, from Early Medieval Latin sacīre, from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan) and Old English settan. More at seize, seise.
Inflected forms:
form: seisins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seizin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The act of taking possession.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The thing possessed; property.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Diſſeiſin is a large Title, and is an unlawful Entry and Ouſter of him that has an actual Seiſin and Freehold.
Related words: sasine
livery of seisin
Translations:
headnote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From head + note.
Compound parts: head
note
Inflected forms:
form: headnotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: head-note
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: head note
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A note at the head of a page, chapter, dictionary entry, or other document element.
pos: noun
gloss: A summary of the relevant aspects of a legal case, usually found at the beginning of a case report.
pos: noun
Related words: heading
headline
Translations:
longshore
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Aphesis of alongshore.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or living along a seacoast.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a longshore fisherman
gloss: Flowing parallel to the shoreline, or diagonal to it, rather than perpendicular to it. (of a current)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a dangerous longshore current
Derived words: longshore drift
longshoreman
longshoreperson
longshorewoman
Translations:
seacoast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”).
Compound parts: sea
coast
Inflected forms:
form: seacoasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.
pos: noun
examples: Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.
Translations:
seashore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + shore.
Compound parts: sea
shore
Inflected forms:
form: seashores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea-shore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
pos: noun
gloss: The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.
pos: noun
Translations:
foreshore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fore- + shore.
Base: shore
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: foreshores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a shore between high water and low water.
pos: noun
examples: The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75.
It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore.
Translations:
blockquote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the name of an HTML element for this purpose, from block + quote.
Compound parts: block
quote
Inflected forms:
form: blockquotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage, as by italicization and indentation
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
ming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.
Inflected forms:
form: mings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: meng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mixture.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
gloss: The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: 17 September 1811, [Description of] Counterpart of Demise from John Thorold to John Wilson of Grantham, Lincolnshire Archives, Ref. Thor 1/2/ZA25/4 Published by The National Archives, Accessed 19 June 2022.
Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of Grayingham.
Translations:
minging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots mingin (“stinking”), present participle of ming (“to stink”), from Middle English mengen (“to mix”), from Old English mengan (“to mix”).
Inflected forms:
form: more minging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most minging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very unattractive; ugly.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Once, Cookie even tried to get me to give it a go with Jez – can you believe the nerve of that? 'Why would I want to do that? He's minging.' 'Why not? It won't hurt. He never gets a shag.' 'No, Cookie. Bloody hell.' He hasn't got a clue. 'Wouldn't you be jealous?' 'No.' 'You're an idiot. Why do you think he never gets a shag?' 'Why?' 'Because he's minging!' 'So? I'm minging. We're all minging. None of us are exactly page three, are we, Billie?'
gloss: Unclean or dirty; disgusting and foul-smelling.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Cleaners are always prime suspects for office thefts but in my long experience it's nearly all employees, with a tiny remainder down to traditional burglary. My advice is to presume the Nike-clad cleaner innocent and take personal stuff home, especially minging sportswear.
How can you shag bare lads? / Is your fanny not stinging? / I bet your fanny's fucking minging
Translations:
terabyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tera-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt
Proto-Germanic *bītaną
Proto-West Germanic *bītan
Old English bītan
Middle English biten
English bite
English byte
English terabyte
From tera- + byte.
Inflected forms:
form: terabytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.
pos: noun
gloss: A tebibyte.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: TB
Related words: tebibit
tebibyte
terabit
Derived words: multiterabyte
subterabyte
Translations:
weirdo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”). First attested in the early 1950s, in American English. The similar word weirdie (“odd, unconventional person”) is attested from earlier, in 1887; in Scottish English.
Base: weird
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: weirdoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weirdos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strange, odd, eccentric person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
gloss: An insane, possibly dangerous person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
gloss: Weird.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What's going on in this weirdo town?
Related words: oddball
wingnut
Derived words: geardo
queerdo
Weirdo
Translations:
cero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Corruption of Spanish sierra (“sawfish”).
Inflected forms:
form: ceros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ceroes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.
pos: noun
Translations:
Tupperware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tupper + -ware. Named after American businessman Earl Tupper (1907–1983), who invented the product in 1942 and founded the company that produced it. Thus it is a genericised trademark.
Base: Tupper
Affixes: -ware
Inflected forms:
form: Tupperware
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tupperwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tupperware
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tupperware.
Translations:
diacetylmorphine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From diacetyl + morphine; 1870-75.
Compound parts: diacetyl
morphine
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of heroin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
microphone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + -phone.
Base: micro
Inflected forms:
form: microphones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 🎙
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 🎙️
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 🎤
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: microphones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: microphoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: microphoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: microphoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
pos: noun
examples: Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
It rained hard through most of Roosevelt's Second Inaugural. Audio tape recordings of the speech feature the tattoo of the rain on Roosevelt's microphone[…]
gloss: A speaking trumpet or hearing trumpet; an acoustic device to concentrate or amplify sound.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To put one or more microphones on or in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: carbon microphone
hot microphone
human microphone
lavalier microphone
microphonics
microphonograph
minimicrophone
multimicrophone
nonmicrophone
people's microphone
ribbon microphone
seismomicrophone
shotgun microphone
throat microphone
Translations:
inquest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English enquest, from Old French enqueste (Modern French enquête), from Vulgar Latin inquirere, or from Medieval Latin inquesta < in + Latin quaesita.
Inflected forms:
form: inquests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enquest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
pos: noun
examples: The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.
gloss: An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
pos: noun
gloss: The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
pos: noun
gloss: enquiry; quest; search
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: the laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science
Hauing of late by diligent inquest,
Prouided him a sword of meanest sort
gloss: Prosecutorial proceeding on whether or not a warrantless arrestee is charged with an offense.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
broadly
Synonyms: inquisition
Related words: inquisitor
inquisition
Derived words: mental inquest warrant
inquest of office
Translations:
inquisition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French inquisicion, from Latin inquisitio, from inquirere. The sense implying persecution is influenced by the name of the Spanish Inquisition, which is a cardinal exemplar of government inquisitions that give inquisitions a bad name.
Inflected forms:
form: inquisitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But as farrefoorth as I coulde learne, through earneſt inquiſition I thoughte in my conſcience the woman was not gilty, all the circumſtances well conſydered.
Let not search and inquisition quail / To bring again these foolish runaways.
gloss: An inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: An inquest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A questioning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.
Derived words: inquisitional
inquisitionist
inquisition post mortem
literary inquisition
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разследване
roman: razsledvane
lang: Esperanto
word: enketo
lang: Esperanto
word: inkvizicio
lang: Finnish
word: inkvisitio
lang: Spanish
word: inquisición
lang: Turkish
word: engizisyon