yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cyclamate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyclamic
English -ate
English cyclamate
From cyclamic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: cyclamates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any salt or ester of cyclamic acid, especially the sodium and calcium salts, which have been used as artificial sweeteners
pos: noun
Translations:
superhero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + hero. First attested in 1917.
Base: hero
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superheroes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fictional crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature; a fictional hero who does great things.
pos: noun
examples: Hobbes: Super heroes wear snow pants?
Stupendous Man: When there's snow out, they do!
gloss: A particularly renowned real-world hero, or one who has seemingly impossible abilities.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The power is out but you're watching TV? You must be a superhero.
Thanks for driving out here and towing me out of the ditch. You're a superhero!
Did you know your community has many invisible superheroes? Each day they perform hundreds of amazing feats that make the community a better place in which to live.
Antonyms: supervillain
Related words: superheroic
superheroine
superhuman
superman
🦸♂️
Derived words: antisuperhero
nonsuperhero
real superhero
superhero chin
superherodom
superheroics
superhero insurance
superheroism
superhero landing
superqueero
supershero
Translations:
craven
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
Inflected forms:
form: more craven
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most craven
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
pos: adj
examples: The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.
Prime Minister Abe's fumbling and craven performance took place on a national holiday in Korea, marking the countrywide uprising against the Japanese colonial rule that began on March 1, 1919. March 1 is also the day in 1932 that Japan chose to inaugurate Manchukuo (after seizing northeastern China).
“But they’ve made some big carve-outs that are just absolute nonsense. There’s no perfect approach to content moderation, but they could at least try to look less transparently craven and incoherent.”
The PP has seized on the possibility of an amnesty to rally support and to portray the PSOE leader as craven, dependent on Catalan separatists and hellbent on remaining in office.
Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.
To abet Trump’s fake reality, the craven House Republicans refused to put up a plaque honoring the police officers and others who defended the Capitol that awful day.
Translations:
humorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.
Base: humor
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more humorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
pos: adj
examples: The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
gloss: Showing humor; witty, jocular.
pos: adj
gloss: Damp or watery.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [S]uch is now the Duke's condition
That he misconstrues all that you have done.
The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed,
More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
It is a melancholy humor[…]that firſt put this humorous conceipt [translating resverie] of writing into my head.
I felt at this time as if I could have been fond of him too, if he would have let me; but I was timid from my childhood, and before long my dread of his displeasure […] conquered my humorous inclination to love one who was so handsome, so accomplished, so indulgent and devoted.
Related words: humor
humour
Derived words: humorously
humorousness
nonhumorous
semihumorous
unhumorous
Translations:
flattery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English flaterye, flaterie, from Old French flaterie, from the verb flater (“to flatter”). By surface analysis, flatter + -y (forming abstract nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: flatteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
gloss: An instance of excessive praise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.
Synonyms: carny
flattery
incense
adulation
ass-kissing
ass-licking
blandishment
gloze
hoomalimali
soft sawder
sooth
sycophancy
Related words: flatter
flattered
flattering
Derived words: Cape Flattery
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
self-flattery
Translations:
omnivorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der.
Proto-Italic *opnis
Latin omnisder.
English omni-
English -vorous
English omnivorous
From omni- + -vorous.
Inflected forms:
form: more omnivorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most omnivorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.
He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]
gloss: All-consuming.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Of a parasite: attacking many species; not confined to a single host plant.
pos: adj
Related words: devouring
omnivore
voracious
Derived words: omnivorously
omnivorousness
Translations:
herbivorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of New Latin herbivorus + -ous, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to devour”).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more herbivorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most herbivorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeding chiefly on plants.
pos: adj
examples: One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments
Translations:
insectivorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin insectum (“insect”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to eat”), equivalent to insectivore + -ous or insect + -i- + -vorous.
Base: insectivore
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more insectivorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insectivorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeding on insects.
pos: adj
examples: Researchers in the Netherlands have linked neonicotinoids found in surface water to declines in insectivorous birds and there is widespread scientific evidence that neonicotinoids harm bees – reducing their ability to pollinate plants, for instance.
gloss: Capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.
pos: adj
Synonyms: entomophagous
insectivorian
Related words: Insectivora
insectivore
insectivory
Translations:
macromolecule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
English macromolecule
From macro- + molecule.
Inflected forms:
form: macromolecules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very large molecule, especially used in reference to large biological polymers (e.g. nucleic acids and proteins).
pos: noun
examples: Beadle discovered that genes carried instructions to build proteins—complex, multidimensional macromolecules that were the workhorses of the cell.
Translations:
sundew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + dew. Cognate with Dutch zonnedauw, Icelandic sóldögg, German Sonnentau.
Compound parts: sun
dew
Inflected forms:
form: sundews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
pos: noun
Translations:
statistical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English statistic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English statistical
From statistic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more statistical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most statistical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to statistics.
pos: adj
examples: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
Translations:
spiny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spine
English -y
English spiny
From spine + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: spinier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spiniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in spines or thorns.
pos: adj
gloss: Troublesome; difficult or vexing.
pos: adj
examples: The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy
gloss: Like a spine in shape; slender.
pos: adj
examples: And, as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold ſpinie Graſhoppers / Sit chirping, […]
Derived words: aspiny
graphic spiny lizard
medium spiny neuron
Neotropical spiny rat
nonspiny
Solomon Island spiny monitor
spinily
spininess
spiny anteater
spiny bamboo
spiny bear's breech
spiny broom
spiny-cheeked honeyeater
spiny-cheek sleeper
spiny cocklebur
spiny coriander
spiny dogfish
spiny eel
spinyhead
spiny-headed worm
spiny hopsage
spiny lizard
spiny lobster
spiny mouse
spiny murex
spiny oyster
spiny pocket mouse
spiny projection neuron
spiny rat
spiny seahorse
spiny shark
spiny softshell turtle
spiny spider crab
spiny-tailed lizard
spiny tubeworm
subspiny
Texas spiny lizard
unspiny
Translations:
heady
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hedi, hevedi, equivalent to head + -y.
Base: head
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: headier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: headiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intoxicating or stupefying.
pos: adj
examples: The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love / Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
gloss: Tending to upset the mind or senses.
pos: adj
examples: We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
gloss: Exhilarating.
pos: adj
examples: The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
gloss: Intellectual.
pos: adj
examples: Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
gloss: Rash or impetuous.
pos: adj
examples: He made such heady promises that when the time came, he was never able to fulfill them.
Derived words: headily
headiness
overheady
unheady
Translations:
blindside
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rail-transport
railways
rugby
sports
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blind
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English blindside
From blind + side.
Inflected forms:
form: blindsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blind side
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blind-side
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blindsides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blindsiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blindsided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blindsided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blind side
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: blind-side
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
pos: noun
gloss: A tram/train driver's field of blindness around a tram (trolley/streetcar) or a train; the side areas behind the tram/train driver.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's weak point.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
pos: noun
examples: Showing no ill-effects from her lay-off, the full-back had already beaten three defenders on a jagging kick return, when she was sprung down the blindside a minute later.
gloss: The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6.
pos: noun
examples: The blindside packs down at the scrum on the blindside.
However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.
gloss: To attack (a person) on his or her blind side.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.
What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.
gloss: To catch off guard; to take by surprise.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
informal
transitive
examples: He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.
Mr. Hassan offered Ms. Huynh $20 million in Google stock — less than 10 percent of his shares — and half of three Bay Area real estate properties: houses in Palo Alto and San Francisco, and a commercial building in Menlo Park. She felt blindsided and hurt. She refused.
But when they did arrive at 9am on Thursday, they were still able to blindside the Chelsea hierarchy. On Wednesday, they had certainly not anticipated the imposition of them the following morning.
The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog.
Derived words: blindsider
Translations:
loanword
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð.
Compound parts: loan
word
Inflected forms:
form: loanwords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loan word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A word directly taken into one language from another one.
pos: noun
examples: "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.
New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers, and asphalte has lost its final e, and manœuvre has become maneuver, and pyjamas has become pajamas.
This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.
Indeed, in 1957 Xenophon Zolotas, the then governor of the Bank of Greece, gave two speeches to the IMF that contained just Greek loanwords apart from the inevitable basic English. (Example: “Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria.”)
Translations:
determinate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English determinate, determynat, determinat, from Latin dēterminātus, perfect passive participle of dēterminō (“to limit, set bounds”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: determinates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Distinct, clearly defined.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
[…] on account of his responsibility to Norman and Marigold, and on account of his now determinate age, he considered himself ineligible for more dangerous service.
gloss: Fixed, determined, set, unvarying.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] hym have ye taken by the hondes of vnrightewes perſones / after he was delivered by the determinat counſell and fore knoweledge of God / and have crucified and ſlayne hym / […]
[S]he watched impatiently for the dawn of day, with that determinate purpoſe which generally inſures ſucceſs.
gloss: Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Conclusive; decisive; positive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Determined or resolved upon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: My determinate voyage.
Francesca saw the danger of allowing this apathy to increase, and would fain have laid down some determinate scheme, and sought some fixed home and employment, which must have brought its occupations, its habits, and, finally, its interests.
gloss: Of determined purpose; resolute.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: More determinate to do than skilfull how to do.
gloss: A single state of a particular determinable attribute.
pos: noun
examples: And since being negatively-charged and being positively-charged are determinates of the same determinable, [D5] will not permit us to infer worlds where anything negatively-charged is also positively-charged.
Antonyms: indeterminate
nondeterminate
antonym(s) of
Related words: determinacy
determination
determine
deterministic
Derived words: determinately
determinateness
determinate state
determinate verb
undeterminate
Translations:
propound
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle English proponen (“to put forward”), from Latin prōpōnere (“to put forward”), from prō- (“before”) + pōnere (“to put”). Doublet of propose. Compare expound.
Inflected forms:
form: propounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: propounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: propounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: propounded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Today I'll expound at length the theory that I propounded last year.
“Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
A Mormon tribunal will try a woman whose national campaign in support of the Equal Rights Amendment is said to be undermining the church. Mormon officials declared that the woman, Sonia Johnson, is propounding "false doctrine."
Each school propounds its own theory without having given any thought to whether we are following what they say or getting left behind.
Summarizing the history of the immigration debates in the U.S., Kaufmann sees in Bourne and his followers many of the same arguments advanced today by proponents of liberal immigration laws, who, he says, encourage racial minorities to celebrate their culture while propounding anti-racist norms that discourage whites from doing the same.
Translations:
malcontent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French malcontent, from mal- + content; compare Late Latin malecontentus.
Base: content
Affixes: mal-
Inflected forms:
form: more malcontent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most malcontent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: malcontents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dissatisfied with current conditions; disaffected, discontented, rebellious.
pos: adj
examples: [Alban] Butler also commends the piety of Simon Montfort, the persecutor of the Albigenses, and the father of the famous malcontent earl of Leicester, who flourished in the reign of king Henry III.
The duke of Gloucester was a sickly child […] he died of a sore throat, and rash fever, occasioned by an imprudent participation in the festivities of his birthday. The famous humourist, Dr. [John] Radcliffe, the Abernethy of his day, who was malcontent with the government, was called in too late, he declared, to save his royal patient.
Sir, I will stake any thing short of my salvation, that those who are malcontent now, will be more malcontent three years hence, than they are at this day. I have no favor for this Constitution.
To cap everything, yet another war waged by malcontent generals did further widespread damage to the railways.
The stress created by all of the changes seemed to be more than she could handle. Initially, she thought her husband was malcontent on purpose and felt he was aware of the arguments he seemed to be starting.
gloss: A person who is not satisfied with current conditions; a discontented person, a rebel.
pos: noun
examples: The diſcord rather than the muſick is heard from the malcontent Malevole's chamber.
For is it not eaſy to ſee, that a Prince made odious and contemptible, will ſoon be removed from his Throne, when it is in the Power of the Malecontents to bring about ſuch a fatal Revolution?
He is the victim of circumstances, and their martyr. His asseverations of the facts are so frequent and so earnest, that it is impossible to dispute it. […] Everywhere confronted by implacable circumstance, what remained for the malcontent but to flee from his enemy, and endeavour to retrieve his broken fortunes in a new world! […] So the malcontent took passage for Australia, and blessed us with his presence.
gloss: A state of discontentment or dissatisfaction; something that causes discontent.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: If there was malcontent on his part, it did not spring from economic limitations alone, but also from the effect of these economic limitations upon his social and legal status as a small farmer. The state of constant indebtdness in which the contadino found himself contributed to his malcontent.
Related words: content
discontent
Derived words: malcontentism
Translations:
curving
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: curvings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more curving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most curving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A shape or motion that curves.
pos: noun
examples: the curvings of a mountain road
gloss: That curves or curve.
pos: adj
examples: a curving path
Translations:
cursory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cursoire (“rapid”), from Latin cursorius (“hasty, of a race or running”).
Inflected forms:
form: more cursory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cursory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hasty or superficial.
pos: adj
examples: cursory glance
A cursory view of the report revealed his egregious errors.
Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.
But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
She accepted these terms, and slid off on the near side, though not till he had stolen a cursory kiss.
I may say that that single cursory examination of this awful travesty on Nature would have proved quite sufficient to my desires had I been a free agent.
gloss: Careless or desultory.
pos: adj
examples: The cursory inspection missed several irregularities.
gloss: Running about; not stationary.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: cursor
course
perfunctory
Derived words: cursorily
cursoriness
Translations:
misstep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Germanic *stapjaną
Proto-West Germanic *stappjan
Old English stæppan
Middle English steppen
English step
English misstep
From mis- + step.
Inflected forms:
form: missteps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mis-step
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: missteps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misstepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misstepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misstepped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mis-step
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A step that is wrong, a false step.
pos: noun
examples: On a high ledge, a misstep could be fatal.
[…] burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. He remembered only to avoid a misstep and to keep his direction.
gloss: An error or mistake.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: His comment was a misstep that could cost him dearly.
Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.
gloss: To step badly or incorrectly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My dance partner misstepped and landed on my toe.
Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.
gloss: To make an error or mistake.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I don't want to misstep by offending them.
Related words: overstep
Translations:
charming
Part of speech: adj
noun
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English charmynge; equivalent to charm + -ing.
Base: charm
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more charming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: charminger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
form: most charming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: charmingest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
form: charmest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
form: charmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pleasant, charismatic.
pos: adj
examples: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
gloss: Delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm.
pos: adj
gloss: The casting of a magical charm.
pos: noun
examples: They denied me often flour, barm and milk, / Goose-grease and tar, when I ne'er hurt their charmings, / Their brewlocks, nor their batches, nor forespoke / Any of their breedings.
gloss: Used in response to behaviour or language considered offensive or uncouth.
pos: intj
tags: British
ironic
examples: The other murderer is sadistically hacked to pieces, while the proceedings are being videoed – and the DVD is sent to Nick's home so that his daughter can see it. Oh, charming.
Derived words: charmingly
charmingness
Prince Charming
ultracharming
uncharming
Translations:
precisely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English precise
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English precisely
From precise + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more precisely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most precisely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a precise manner; exactly.
pos: adv
examples: I always try to express myself precisely.
"To be sure. Mr Carlyle, the private detective——"
"Inquiry agent," corrected Mr Carlyle precisely.
He says he will vote against Donald Trump “precisely because I’m conservative.”
Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.”
gloss: Used to provide emphasis.
pos: adv
tags: focus
Derived words: perxactly
perzackly
perzactly
precisely unless
prexactly
prezackly
prezactly
Translations:
customer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English custumer, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adjective), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom. By surface analysis, custom + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: customers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
pos: noun
examples: Every person who passes by is a potential customer.
Airlines are the chief customers of the commercial divisions of large-aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer.
gloss: A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
Pug could just see Slote's pale face under his fur hat. "I don't agree with you on that. He's a pretty tough customer, Hopkins."
This switch led to Philip Hammond becoming the Transport Secretary and he quickly proved to be a tricky customer, asking questions about rail spending and reining it back whenever possible.
gloss: A native official who exacted customs duties.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
examples: His houses […] are seized on by the Customer.
The Customer should come and visit them.
The several affronts, insolences, and abuses dayly put upon us by Boolchund, our chief Customer
Related words: consuetude
costumal
costume
custom
customary
customization
customize
customs
Derived words: custie
customer account
customer base
customer car
customer care
customercentric
customer experience
customerize
customerless
customerlike
customer-oriented
customer relationship
customer research
customer resistance
customer service
customership
customer site
customer success
customer success manager
customer support
customer-to-customer
entrepreneurial customer
investomer
multicustomer
noncustomer
promote to customer
pure customer
the customer is always right
ugly customer
Translations:
insignificant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + significant.
Base: significant
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more insignificant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insignificant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: insignificants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.
pos: adj
examples: Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.
gloss: Without meaning; not signifying anything.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone or something that is insignificant.
pos: noun
examples: Methinks I feel all the Woman riſe in me when I reflect upon the nauſeous Rogues that pretend to deceive us. Wretches! that can never have it in their Power to over-reach any Thing living but their Miſtreſſes! In the Name of Goodneſs, if we are deſigned by Nature as ſuitable Companions to the other Sex, why are we not treated accordingly? If we have Merit, as ſome allow, why is it not as baſe in Men to injure us, as one another? If we are the Inſignificants, that others call us, where is the Triumph in deceiving us?
The whole forenoon generally ſpent amidſt a ſucceſſion of viſitants, a mob of idlers; the reſt of the day in dinners, public places, and evening-parties. Although in my own mind I deſpiſed the giddy reſtleſs inſignificants that figured in this perpetual drama; yet as I conſidered myſelf as a paſſenger only for the time, I ſubmitted to be carried along with the ſtream, and partook of the flying amuſements, as they occurred.
An interesting series of advertisements is now being run by Henry W. Peabody & Company, of New York, makers of Domes of Silence, for the purpose of glorifying the insignificants of retailing. The keynote of this advertising is a broad-gauged attempt to sell dealers the idea of grouping small wares in such a way that they will gain strength by union.
Sometimes, they lunch-called you between 12:45 and 2:00, knowing you wouldn’t be there. It’s an art form, passed down generation to generation. I tried to one-up them by early-calling them, usually from home, say at 8:30 a.m., their poor assistants knowing that was one more return call they’d have to do that night when they were still at the office at 10 p.m. late-calling the insignificants of the 310 area code.
Synonyms: base
contemptible
floccinaucinihilipilificatious
foolish
for the birds
futile
frivolous
idle
ignorable
immaterial
inconsequential
inconsiderable
indifferent
insignificant
like a fart in a windstorm
meager
mean
minor
miserable
negligible
nothingburger
nondescript
null
paltry
petty
picayune
picayunish
piddling
piddly
pissant
pissass
piteous
pitiful
pointless
silly
simple
slight
ticky-tacky
tin-pot
trifling
trivial
two-bit
unimportant
unweighty
vain
worthless
wretched
Antonyms: significant
important
weighty
noteworthy
consequential
Related words: small
tiny
nothing
nonentity
Derived words: insignificance
insignificancy
insignificantly
Translations:
restrict
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: restricts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: restricting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: restricted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: restricted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
pos: verb
examples: After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.
In its lawsuit, the Times said the policy unlawfully restricts essential newsgathering techniques and gives the Pentagon “unfettered” discretion to revoke passes, permitting it to impose the type of “viewpoint-based” press restrictions forbidden by the constitution.
gloss: To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
examples: If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.
Related words: restriction
restraint
restrain
Derived words: derestrict
overrestrict
restrictable
restrictase
restrictee
restrictive
restrictor
restrictory
unrestrict
Translations:
efficient
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative efficiēns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English.
Inflected forms:
form: more efficient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most efficient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
pos: adj
examples: An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
gloss: Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
pos: adj
examples: The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.
gloss: Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
pos: adj
examples: Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained
It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
gloss: effective, efficacious
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
examples: Ye wake no more to anguish;‥ ye have borne
The Chosen, the Destroyer!‥ soon his hand
Shall strike the efficient blow;
Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye,
With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves,
Hymn the Deliverer’s praise!
The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect
Synonyms: economical
efficacious
efficient
potent
Antonyms: inefficient
prodigal
uneconomical
Related words: effect
effective
effectiveness
effectivity
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
subefficiency
potency
one fell swoop
kill two birds with one stone
skill
skillful
excellent
Derived words: cost-efficient
ecoefficient
efficient cause
efficient frontier
efficiently
efficient market hypothesis
efficientness
energy-efficient
energy efficient
equiefficient
hyperefficient
Kaldor-Hicks efficient
nonefficient
subefficient
superefficient
tax-efficient
ultraefficient
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ефикасен
roman: efikasen
lang: Catalan
word: eficient
lang: Czech
word: účinný
lang: Dutch
word: efficiënt
lang: Finnish
word: hyötysuhde
lang: French
word: efficace
lang: Hungarian
word: gazdaságos
lang: Hungarian
word: hatékony
lang: Irish
word: éifeachtúil
lang: Italian
word: efficiente
lang: Polish
word: sprawny
lang: Portuguese
word: eficaz
lang: Romanian
word: but see randament
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: èifeachdach
lang: Tagalog
word: episyente
exalt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English exalten, from Old French exalter, from Latin exaltō.
Inflected forms:
form: exalts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exalting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exalted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exalted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high.
They exalted their queen.
gloss: To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.
gloss: To elate, or fill with the joy of success.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To refine or subtilize.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Related words: exult
Derived words: exaltation
exaltment
self-exalting
superexalt
Translations:
conflicted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more conflicted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conflicted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a state of personal or emotional conflict.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
informal
examples: I felt conflicted about whether he liked me or not.
She has always been conflicted about her relationship with my family.
He sees a pretty woman in a pod and decides to make her his, subsuming her lifetime of hopes and dreams (not to mention her bodily autonomy) to his own desire for companionship, and lies to her in order to fulfill that desire. But he’s a nice guy, and he felt conflicted about it before he did it, so it’s… understandable? Or at least forgivable? Apparently?)
gloss: Having a conflict of interest.
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
Synonyms: ambivalent
Derived words: conflicted avoidant
conflictedly
conflictedness
nonconflicted
unconflicted
Translations:
respects
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: regards or respect expressed for a deceased person, usually at the same time as offering condolences to other mourners.
pos: noun
tags: often
examples: Please come to the funeral service and pay your last respects to her grandmother.
Synonyms: devoirs
Translations:
formate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English formic
English -ate
English formate
From formic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: formates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: formates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: formating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: formated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: formated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of formic acid.
pos: noun
examples: But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
gloss: To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation.
pos: verb
examples: Tiger Moths from the Reserve Flying Schools at Rochester and Cambridge competed with each other at formating in the gusty conditions, Rochester just winning.
Formating with Patty Wagstaff' s modified Baron, flown by Dale Snodgrass, was fun on a beautiful morning, though all you learn about an airplane while formating is the power response (very smooth) and the response to control pressures.
Actually, the leader of the formation was supposed to maintain the eagle-eyed vigil necessary to ensure that his formation kept out of harm's way, because the pilots formating on him had to keep all their attention riveted on his aircraft; but the Air Force recognized that with inexperienced pilots leading formations it was wise to splash extra lookouts around liberally.
Translations:
self-possessed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English possessed
English self-possessed
From self- + possessed.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-possessed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-possessed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised.
pos: adj
Translations:
intoxicating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more intoxicating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intoxicating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to intoxicate; an intoxicant.
pos: adj
examples: intoxicating liquor
intoxicating product
gloss: Very exciting and stimulating, like alcohol or some other stimulant.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: intoxicating speech
Derived words: intoxicatingly
nonintoxicating
unintoxicating
Translations:
pricker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From prick + -er.
Base: prick
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: prickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who pricks.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool for pricking.
pos: noun
examples: The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that.
gloss: A prickle or thorn.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
pos: noun
gloss: One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
pos: noun
examples: The prickers, who rode foremost, […] halted.
gloss: A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.
pos: noun
gloss: A small marlinespike used in sailmaking.
pos: noun
Related words: prick
prickle
prickly
Translations:
glacial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French glacial, from Latin glaciālis, from glaciēs (“ice”). The sense "slow" refers to the speed of actual glaciers, typically around 1 meter per day.
Inflected forms:
form: more glacial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most glacial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: glacials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to glaciers.
pos: adj
examples: We examined the glacial deposits.
Wang Shijin is a glacier expert and director of the Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Research Station.
Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.
gloss: Very slow.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He could remember a day that he had spent the whole of (he couldn't have been more than ten) running one of the great, creaking freight elevators at a glacial speed, answering the calls of the bell—one ring, five rings, three rings—with an almost unbearable sense of responsibility.
I understand that you commented that the Japanese are moving at glacial speed. This is not the only area where they are moving at glacial speed. They are moving at glacial speed in terms of trade barriers, and it is one thing that the American people recognize.
Paradoxically, then, the electronic speed offered by computer-based decision-making is often overwhelmed by the glacial speed of data reformatting and checking.
By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.
Progress on judicial reform has been glacial, meeting enormous resistance.
Lower-level people added front-line information that ordinarily wouldn't have made it up the hierarchy to the executive committee (or would have made it at glacial speed).
The Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are modernizing but at a glacial speed in a world moving at digital speed.
gloss: Cold and icy.
pos: adj
examples: After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial.
gloss: Having the appearance of ice.
pos: adj
examples: On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle.
gloss: Cool and unfriendly.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He gave me a glacial stare.
gloss: A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age).
pos: noun
Derived words: deglacial
equiglacial
fluvioglacial
glacial acetic acid
glacial acid
glacial buzz saw
glacial drift
glacial erratic
glacial flour
glacial humour
glacialism
glacialist
glaciality
glacialize
glacial lake
glacial lake outburst flood
glacially
glacial maximum
glacial milk
glacial period
glacial polish
glacial till
glacial trough
intraglacial
mediglacial
neoglacial
nonglacial
paraglacial
pleniglacial
polyglacial
superglacial
Translations: