yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dormy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dormies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dormitory.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: She called to Julian as he went to the boys' dormitory. 'Julian! See if Patrick is in your dormy.'
Translations:
Rawlsian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Rawls + -ian.
Base: Rawls
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Rawlsian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Rawlsian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Rawlsians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or influenced by John Rawls (1921–2002), American moral and political philosopher.
pos: adj
examples: People differ on whether they care about fairness at all, and when they do care about fairness the notion of fairness they employ differes widely, ranging from Rawlsian (Leontief) to Utilitarian (perfect substitutes).
From behind the Rawlsian veil, consumption and leisure interact with mortality to determine expected utility.
After my first paper on Rawlsian justice—modeling what that justice would look like in an extremely simple kind of economy—a large part of my work took up for some time questions about a Rawlsian economy with capital, overlapping generations, and some principle for determining the national saving.
gloss: A follower of the theories of John Rawls.
pos: noun
Translations:
right-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From right-minded + -ness.
Base: right-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: right-mindednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being right-minded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck
Translations:
right-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From right-minded + -ly.
Base: right-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more right-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most right-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a right-minded manner; sanely or virtuously.
pos: adv
examples: That a down-to-date precisian may right-mindedly label us frumps, I am not denying; that we are even those odd obsolescent creatures such as used to be called ladies and gentlemen, I concede with blushes
Understanding ethical theory is important in figuring out in full and subtle detail how to treat others right-mindedly and not settle for the expedient, or what a sportscaster might call “a near miss.”
Translations:
simple-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From simple-minded + -ly.
Base: simple-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more simple-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most simple-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a simple-minded manner. Lacking sophistication or intelligence.
pos: adv
examples: The essay is governed by a kind of primitive historicism that single-mindedly and even simple-mindedly strives to identify Hamlet with James.
Translations:
lilliput
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.
Inflected forms:
form: lilliputs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
pos: noun
Translations:
tac-au-tac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From French riposter du tac au tac (“to parry”), where tac imitates the sound made by the steel.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The parry which is connected with a riposte.
pos: noun
gloss: A rapid series of attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
pos: noun
Translations:
tres-tine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tres-tines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The third tine above the base of a stag's antler.
pos: noun
Translations:
small-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From small-minded + -ly.
Base: small-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more small-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most small-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a small-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: Like many of us, philosophers (and writers) can be small-mindedly unkind to their partners and friends.
Translations:
two-throw
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch
gloss: Having two cranks set near together and opposite to one another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a two-throw crankshaft
Translations:
bloody-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bloody-minded + -ly.
Base: bloody-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more bloody-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bloody-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bloody-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: ...some agents can anticipate the predictions which observers make about them sufficiently well to bloody-mindedly falsify them.
Translations:
tough-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tough-minded + -ness.
Base: tough-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being tough-minded; lack of sentimentality and unswerving conviction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Subsequently turning the new insight into action—embodying the idea, producing the revolutionary behavior—requires tough-mindedness, the willingness to try out behavior and allow his or her ideas to die in his or her stead...
Translations:
tough-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tough-minded + -ly.
Base: tough-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more tough-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tough-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tough-minded manner; lacking sentimentality.
pos: adv
examples: We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance.
Translations:
double-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From double + mind + -ed.
Base: double
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more double-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most double-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of two minds; indecisive, vacillating, or ambivalent.
pos: adj
examples: Although I am usually very decisive, I have been known to be double-minded about little things, like what to wear or where to go and eat.
Translations:
double-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From double-minded + -ness.
Base: double-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being double-minded; vacillation, indecisiveness, or ambivalence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Such a double-minded person is perhaps hardly recognizable in this world, because his double-mindedness not evident inside the world.
Translations:
double-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From double-minded + -ly.
Base: double-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more double-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most double-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a double-minded manner; ambivalently or indecisively
pos: adv
examples: His own insecurities drive him to double-mindedly worship his wife, while at the same time, loathing her.
Translations:
low-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From low-minded + -ness.
Base: low-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being low-minded; vulgarity or lack of honor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I miss her when we aren't working together, and for her part, she's been know to enjoy jokes of mine, proving that she has her human share of low-mindedness.'
The injustice, she was thinking, the low-mindedness of people, to think Roger could do anything wrong.
Translations:
low-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From low-minded + -ly.
Base: low-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more low-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most low-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a low-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: The first animals made were men. Some, acting low-mindedly, were turned into women; and so on, all the way down the full array of species to the lowest life.
Translations:
soft-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From soft + minded.
Compound parts: soft
minded
Inflected forms:
form: more soft-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soft-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: softminded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated.
pos: adj
examples: The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself.
gloss: Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality.
pos: adj
examples: The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions.
Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age.
Derived words: soft-mindedly
soft-mindedness
Translations:
soft-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From soft-minded + -ness.
Base: soft-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the state or quality of being soft-minded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Building on the case for tough-mindedness, King identifies the dangers of soft-mindedness. He writes that the soft-minded are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions.
The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
Translations:
soft-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From soft-minded + -ly.
Base: soft-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more soft-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most soft-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a soft-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: However, I do not see the policy effectively and consistently applied by a soft-mindedly liberal policymaker aspiring to a world free of conflict and a future cleansed of past aberrations.
Translations:
strong-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From strong-minded + -ness.
Base: strong-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the state or quality of being strong-minded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Nan, troubled by the pleasure she finds in ordinary social activities of the charming young people she meets, has occasional doubts about the wisdom of her commitment, and it is only when she has to defend herself from the dreaded accusations of "strong-mindedness" on the part of some women that she begins to understand the strength of her feeling for her profession.
Archbishop Cranmer thought them deceptive, and when James I refused to allow an inauspicious dream of his wife's to deter him from a proposed journey to Scotland his subjects were impressed by his strong-mindedness.
Translations:
strong-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From strong-minded + -ly.
Base: strong-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more strong-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most strong-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a strong-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: To complicate matters, father and sons changed their names to 'Bigg-Wither', while the girls strong-mindedly kept to their simple original 'Bigg'.
Translations:
fair-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fair-minded + -ness.
Base: fair-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being fair-minded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Although they did not want to risk wasting money, faster-climbing managers did value generosity and fair-mindedness.
Translations:
fair-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fair-minded + -ly.
Base: fair-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more fair-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fair-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fair-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: The goal is to teach students how to take a position and defend it strongly and with passion, and yet fair-mindedly.
Translations:
weak-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From weak-minded + -ness.
Base: weak-minded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being weak-minded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That same model can be invoked to explain how Isotta and Christine reconciled Eve's purported ignorance and weak-mindedness with their own clear intellectual resolve and considerable learning.
Translations:
weak-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From weak-minded + -ly.
Base: weak-minded
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more weak-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most weak-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a weak-minded manner.
pos: adv
examples: I know you, too, are concerned with the basic question: How could one, at that time, surrender so weak-mindedly to those holding power and commit crimes for them?
Translations:
chicken-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chicken-hearted + -ly.
Base: chicken-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more chicken-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chicken-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully
pos: adv
tags: derogatory
examples: You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field.
Translations:
cruel-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cruel-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crueler-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: most cruel-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cruelest-hearted
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cruel; lacking kindness and compassion.
pos: adj
examples: I thinke Crab my dog, be the ſowreſt natured dogge that liues: My Mother weeping: my Father wayling: my Siſter crying: our Maid howling: our Catte wringing her hands, and all our houſe in a great perplexitie, yet did not this cruell-hearted Curre ſhedde one teare: he is a ſtone, a very pibble ſtone, and has no more pitty in him then a dogge: […]
Leave hold of my hand. I’m not crying: / And if ever I were, John, what then? / Would my tears not prove you had acted / Like the cruelest-hearted of men?
Said he [William M. Stewart]: “John Sherman is the wickedest man ever born of woman, and Grover Cleveland is the coldest and cruelest-hearted human of this age. Sherman went to London in 1867 and deliberately sold the United States out to the Rothschilds, and has been their agent ever since. He is the brains of the Cleveland Administration, with Carlisle as the intermediary between him and the President.[…]”
Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is for ever buried.
Although he provided his wife with a tent for a home during the winter, and the mud floor was saoked^([sic]) most of the time, yet the cruelest-hearted man in Wayne county censured his wife because she did not keep their abade in good condition.
Mothers descended en masse on the school, beseeching Mr. Elly to release their boys from peril. “I told them that their boys were free to leave, but that an unexcused absence would be marked against them. They called me the cruelest-hearted man they had ever known.”
She's cruel-hearted, Judith. Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure.
Translations:
cruel-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cruel-hearted + -ness.
Base: cruel-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: cruelheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy.
Translations:
cruel-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cruel-hearted + -ly.
Base: cruel-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more cruel-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cruel-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cruel-hearted manner; coldly and cruelly.
pos: adv
examples: The moral universe of Doctor Who is not taken seriously, but cruel-heartedly mocked instead.
Translations:
woman-born-woman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.
Inflected forms:
form: women-born-women
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: womyn-born-womyn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: WBW
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cisgender woman; a cis woman.
pos: noun
examples: To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.
Translations:
otosclerosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From oto- + sclerosis.
Base: sclerosis
Affixes: oto-
Inflected forms:
form: otoscleroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sclerosis of the tissues of the labyrinth and middle ear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Loss of hearing due to injury of the auditory nerve by certain drugs and poisons, such as quinine and tobacco.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Loss of the ability to understand the spoken word, although the sound is heard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: otosclerotic
Translations:
doppel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: A clipping of doppelganger; however, the words are not synonyms.
Inflected forms:
form: doppels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An identical copy of a person (such as a clone, virtual reality representation, etc.).
pos: noun
Translations:
Witness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Witnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Jehovah's Witness.
pos: noun
Translations:
playpark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + park.
Compound parts: play
park
Inflected forms:
form: playparks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: play park
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of playground (“open space for playing”).
pos: noun
examples: A playpark may embrace the whole range of children's recreational facilities or only a restricted number. The age group using these may range between five and 15 and the size from perhaps less than an acre to several acres.
The perils of my blanking out were brought home to me particularly harshly one night when we were at the playpark quite late, again.
Translations:
four-cycle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: four-cycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any four-stroke cycle, such as the Otto cycle, for an internal combustion engine.
pos: noun
examples: […] well-known automobiles will be fitted with two-cycle engines, whereas they are now equipped with four-cycles.
Translations:
heavy-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heavy-hearted + -ness.
Base: heavy-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: sadness, depression, or melancholy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After a month or two of heavy-heartedness, I told myself, Time out, David. When your car breaks down, you see a mechanic, when you need money, you go to the bank; so when you can't figure out what's going on in your head, go find a shrink.
Translations:
foot-ton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foot-tons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.
pos: noun
Translations:
heavy-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heavy-hearted + -ly.
Base: heavy-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more heavy-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most heavy-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a heavy-hearted manner; sadly, morosely.
pos: adv
examples: I watched them depart, heavy-heartedly. Would I ever see them again?
Translations:
high-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From high-hearted + -ness.
Base: high-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Courage or nobility; heroism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was the high-heartedness of people which had won the war. It would be the high-heartedness of men and women which would bring sanity and serenity to a troubled world.
gloss: Liveliness, passion, or vivacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In the four months following his review of The Homilies, we have a detailed record of Wesley's unremitting diligence, his intermittent anxieties and only occasional moments of joy and high-heartedness.
“I do not know, unless it is for your charms and high-heartedness, which draw people to you.
Translations:
high-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From high-hearted + -ly.
Base: high-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more high-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most high-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Nobly or courageously.
pos: adv
examples: "O, they wont shoot you," expostulated his friend, high-heartedly.
So he continues high-heartedly at the search, and the years have in no way dimmed his ardor.
gloss: Vivaciously, full of passion or energy.
pos: adv
examples: I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly! I love you so much that I could laugh and sing!
For the lady tired of them or, else, was smitten with convenient repentance: and these gay blades passed on high-heartedly to the embraces of yet other technically beautiful and accomplished and chaste playfellows.
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: heroicznie
humble-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From humble + hearted.
Compound parts: humble
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more humble-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humble-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: humblehearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Meek; humble; unassuming.
pos: adj
examples: Old hags many of them were, dried and brown and wrinkled, kerchiefed and short-petticoated, with thick wool stockings on their bony shanks, stumping through the glittering thoroughfares, looking neither to the right nor the left, bent on duty, envying nothing, humble-hearted, remote;
Or perhaps 'I am overawed by your undistinguished, humble-spirited, humble-minded, humble-hearted, humble-looking humility, which humbly shines . . .'?"
Too slick for what Phil liked to call Andy's "humble-hearted" style. "We'll make a suit-and-tie man out of you yet," the senator had said once, half in jest.
Translations:
humble-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From humble-hearted + -ness.
Base: humble-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: humbleheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Humility; meekness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Whereupon, willing to use that occasion, he kneeled down, and, with humble-heartedness and hearty earnestness printed in his graces.
The thought still stays with me of the humble-heartedness in the innermost, that I seemed to see in that skilled artificer of song.
Translations:
punt-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
Etymology: From punt + out.
Compound parts: punt
out
Inflected forms:
form: punt-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one of his own side for a fair catch, from which an attempt to kick a goal may be made.
pos: noun
gloss: A kick back into play from the touch line, after the ball had gone into touch. It has been replaced by the lineout/line-out
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A method of returning the ball into play, similar to a goal kick
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
lonely-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lonely + hearted.
Compound parts: lonely
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more lonely-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lonely-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lonelyhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Yearning for affection and companionship.
pos: adj
examples: The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.
But, instead, she only took him up and kissed him, which was not quite pleasant, for her chin was very bristly indeed; but he was so lonely-hearted, he thought that rough kissing was better than none.
Translations:
lonely-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lonely-hearted + -ness.
Base: lonely-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being lonely-hearted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I tried to believe that tenderness of affection was incompatible with strength of intellect, and that my lonely-heartedness was only the price which I paid for my genius.
Some traces of lonely-heartedness we find in all his poems, and shall probably find them to the end, although less intensely saddening than in his " Threnody" of " Night and Morning."
Translations:
low-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From low + hearted.
Compound parts: low
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more low-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Depressed, despondent, or dispirited
pos: adj
examples: Weary, slack-jointed, low-hearted as they were, the deadly Coast-fever fell upon them, and they shivered, and burned,and groaned,and raved, and leaped into holes, or rolled into campfires.
The afternoon Bonita an' I were married, when Gene an' the padre had gone, I was happy one minute an' low-hearted the next.
A dull, sulky, low-hearted state has always been natural to me, relieved only by quick bursts of excitement (not happiness) over my own art, other men's art, sex & sport.
gloss: Morally reprehensible, cowardly, or untrustworthy.
pos: adj
examples: A base, low-hearted wretch, as you justly call him, with all his pride of ancestry; and more an enemy to himself with regard to his present and future happiness, than to you, in the barbarous and ungrateful wrongs he has done you; […]
I would not find myself at thirty brigaded with a set of low-hearted priests and seminarists, who have no other weapons than treachery, nor any strategy but lies.
Now they harm the people, and the malign influence behind this lies with low-hearted officials who put all their efforts into catching them.
gloss: Modest and unassuming.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: His poor countrymen, seeing his boldness, began to fetch deep sighs and groan like so many chained lions, speaking so loud that the khan as well as the four low-hearted chiefs, could hear them.
He was an aged man, with a withered countenance, down-looking, and low-hearted, probably (I hope it was so) the outcome of remorse.
I was low-hearted in my ways, and she was hoping in hers, like her father was.
Derived words: low-heartedly
low-heartedness
Translations:
low-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From low-hearted + -ness.
Base: low-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: lowheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being low-hearted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Low-heartedness, exhaustion, all were forgotten ; a deep sense of happiness thrilled through me;
Translations:
low-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From low-hearted + -ly.
Base: low-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more low-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most low-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a low-hearted manner.
pos: adv
examples: Seaton was careful not to say that he honestly agreed, which he did, low-heartedly.
Translations:
open-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From open-hearted + -ness.
Base: open-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: openheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Frankness; candor and sincerity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Open-heartedness is another type of openness. Participants in, for instance, paradigm dialogues should be open-hearted with regard to their reasons and motives, and also regarding the psychological, social and educational factors that may have influenced their thinking.
Be sincere and open-hearted with the trusting open-heartedness of a child.
gloss: Generosity and kindness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A theme of hospitality runs through the Book — a design for open-heartedness to all people. We are to share what we have with those in need.
gloss: Receptivity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Where open-mindedness signals intellectual receptivity, open-heartedness emphasizes emotional receptivity. Both qualities augment human connection and understanding...
Translations:
open-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From open-hearted + -ly.
Base: open-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more open-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most open-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: openheartedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Frankly, honestly and sincerely.
pos: adv
examples: Yetta Zimmerman's house may have been the most open-heartedly monochromatic structure in Brooklyn, if not in all of New York.
He writes open-heartedly of his admiration of the local villagers' endurance.
gloss: Kindly and generously.
pos: adv
examples: When you generously, open-heartedly bless someone who has hurt or harmed you, incredible divine alchemy takes place.
gloss: Without defensiveness, receptively.
pos: adv
examples: Imposition tends to generate opposition, and life is better, I find, if you approach it with open eyes and open-heartedly.
Translations:
Continental
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Continent + -al.
Base: Continent
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: Continentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of European (a denizen of Europe)
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of European (a denizen of Europe)
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Synonym of European (a denizen of Europe)
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A denizen of the colonies of British North America covered by the Continental Congress.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
historical
Translations:
simple-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From simple-hearted + -ness.
Base: simple-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: simpleheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: ... my slight intercourse with him added to the respect which I feel to those of his class, in whom generous feeling, sound practical sense, and shrewd judgment, are often found united with unassuming manners and simple-heartedness.
Translations:
simple-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From simple-hearted + -ly.
Base: simple-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more simple-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most simple-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: simpleheartedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a simple-hearted manner; without guile, unsophisticatedly.
pos: adv
examples: "There wasn't," Alford protested, simple-heartedly. Then he recollected his sophistication to say: "Unless its being of that particular shade between brown and red was wrong."
Translations:
single-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From single-hearted + -ness.
Base: single-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: singleheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Just as Augustine notes that a true virgin must be a virgin physically and spiritually, so too a monk's single-heartedness of purpose in Christ cannot be left to an ethereal realm.
gloss: Straightforwardness; lack of duplicity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: ...the result of which congress was an unanimous declaration of their forgiveness of a piece of thoughtless levity on the part of the giddy girl ; and every allowance being pleaded for her single-heartedness and ingenuousness, it was determined that no allusion whatever should again be made to the disagreeable subject;
Translations:
single-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From single-hearted + -ly.
Base: single-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more single-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most single-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: singleheartedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a single-hearted manner; devotedly and whole-heartedly.
pos: adv
examples: All my doubts and depressions of the evening before had fled, and I was single-heartedly delighted with the world and everything in it.
Translations:
green-on-green
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the pairing of a new or green captain or pilot with a new or green first officer or co-pilot as the cockpit crew of a flight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fly-by-wire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface, especially on airliners.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
stony-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stony-hearted + -ly.
Base: stony-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more stony-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stony-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stonyhearted manner; pitilessly.
pos: adv
examples: ...their women refused to let their newly-born daughters have access to their milk, and do put them in any way to death: but this practice is not general through all the subdivisions of their tribe, though in several places they do thus stony-heartedly kill them.
Translations:
warm-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From warm-hearted + -ness.
Base: warm-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: warmheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being warm-hearted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gentle-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gentle + hearted.
Compound parts: gentle
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more gentle-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gentle-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gentlehearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Kind and compassionate.
pos: adj
examples: I am not sure how our "gentle-hearted" little girl will take the sight of the sheep's death, but when it happens she seems as matter-of-fact as the other two children.
gloss: Meek and mild.
pos: adj
examples: Were these that worshipped here more reverential of the dead? or more affectionate in attachments unsevered by the grave? or more abundant in resources to procure what gentle-hearted poverty might sigh for in vain, a monument, or tablet, or grave stone;
The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, "Is there anyone afraid or gentle-hearted? Let him go back to his home, lest he melt the heart of his brothers, like his heart!"
gloss: Refined and cultivated, high-born
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: And here's to right our gentle-hearted King!
Derived words: gentle-heartedly
gentle-heartedness
Translations:
gentle-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gentle-hearted + -ness.
Base: gentle-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: gentleheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Kindness and compassion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There was a halo about everything that Uncle John did, the radiance that goes with great kindness, the jovial gentle-heartedness of a humane man.
gloss: Meekness, mildness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Gentle-heartedness follows from humble-heartedness. When I know my proper place, and am therefore free to appreciate and affirm the invaluable goodness of my neighbor, I can afford to be gentle.
gloss: Refinement; high-born graciousness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: And she was deserving of this love, because of her graciousness, her refinement, her gentle-heartedness and her piety.
Translations:
gentle-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gentle-hearted + -ly.
Base: gentle-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more gentle-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gentle-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: gentleheartedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a gentle-hearted manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
hollow-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hollow-hearted + -ness.
Base: hollow-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: hollowheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being hollow-hearted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hollow-heartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hollow-hearted + -ly.
Base: hollow-hearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more hollow-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hollow-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: hollowheartedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a hollow-hearted manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
shallow-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shallow + hearted.
Compound parts: shallow
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more shallow-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shallow-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shallowhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Frivolous, incapable of deep feeling.
pos: adj
examples: What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
Translations:
shallow-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shallow-hearted + -ness.
Base: shallow-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: shallowheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being shallow-hearted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
solid-drawn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; said of a weldless tube.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cordy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cord + -y.
Base: cord
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more cordy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cordy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or like, cord; having cords or cord-like parts.
pos: adj
Translations:
Basuto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sotho Basotho.
Inflected forms:
form: Basutos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Basuto
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Basutho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Basotho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Basoto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Basotho people.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bucephalus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Būcephalus, from Ancient Greek Βουκέφαλος, Βουκεφάλας (Bouképhalos, Boukephálas), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + κεφᾰλή (kephălḗ, “head”) + -ᾱς (-ās).
Compound parts: βοῦς
κεφᾰλή
-ᾱς
Inflected forms:
form: Bucephaluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bucephalas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any horse used for riding.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: the Bucephalus which he bestrode
gloss: That which is the greatest of its kind.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
examples: It will suffice to say that when I started on my journey into the realms of lexicography, I regarded Kʻang Hsi as a Bucephalus on whose tail — 蠅附龭尾 — a foreign fly might safely get an advantageous lift.
Translations:
Barnburner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: Barnburners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, around the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
slang
Antonyms: Hunker
Translations:
spoonflower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spoon + flower.
Compound parts: spoon
flower
Inflected forms:
form: spoonflowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant, the yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).
pos: noun
gloss: A plant, white arrow arum (Peltandra sagittifolia)
pos: noun
Translations:
Hoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Vietnamese Hoa, from Chinese 華 /华.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A minority ethnic group of Vietnam, regarded as Chinese.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
bloody-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bloody + handed.
Compound parts: bloody
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more bloody-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bloody-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bloodyhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having hands that have blood on them.
pos: adj
examples: Secondly there would have been blood transferred to Dr. Sheppard's hand and fingers by the bloody-handed killer as he removed Dr. Sheppard's wristwatch and ring.
gloss: Murderous, guilty of or prone to violence or atrocities.
pos: adj
examples: Here, student, some man or woman kills living beings and is murderous, bloody-handed, given to blows and violence, merciless to living beings.
Then taking Congè of that virgin pure, The bloody-handed babe unto her truth Did earnestly committ, and her conjure, In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth, And all that gentle noriture ensueth
Derived words: bloody-handedly
bloody-handedness
Translations:
bloody-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bloody-handed + -ness.
Base: bloody-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: bloodyhandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being bloody-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Japanese military was manifest in the bloody-handedness with which it crushed the movement.
Translations:
bloody-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bloody-handed + -ly.
Base: bloody-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more bloody-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bloody-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bloodyhandedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a bloody-handed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
naib
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Urdu نائب (nāib) / Hindi नाइब (nāib), नायब (nāyab), from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib).
Inflected forms:
form: naibs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nayab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A deputy.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
Translations:
narrow-gauge
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
gloss: Limited or petty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It seems to the editors that this is somehow curiously reminiscent of Whorf's defense of Native American languages and cultures in the face of narrow-gauge views on language and culture at the time, without going so far as to take a strict Sapir-Whorfian stance that might posit unbridgeable gaps in translation theory and practice from one culture to the next.
Translations:
wait-a-while
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally after South African Dutch wacht-en-beetje; compare wait-a-bit.
Inflected forms:
form: wait-a-whiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of wait-a-bit.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.
Translations:
Sulu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿 /苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).
Inflected forms:
form: Sulus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sulu
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.
pos: noun
examples: That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.
At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.
If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.
Translations: