yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
authentic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (authentikós, “authentic, genuine”), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “perpetrator, murderer, absolute ruler”). Doublet of effendi.
Inflected forms:
form: more authentic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most authentic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: authentical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: authentick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: authenticke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: authentique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
pos: adj
examples: The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
gloss: Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
pos: adj
examples: an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information
The report was completely authentic.
gloss: Designating a mode having the final as the lowest note.
pos: adj
gloss: Designating a cadence in which the dominant chord precedes the tonic.
pos: adj
gloss: Authoritative.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgement vvhich they might ſafely learne from him.
Antonyms: non-authentic
nonauthentic
phony
fake
ingenuine
inauthentic
unauthentic
Derived words: authentically
authentic assessment
authenticate
authentication
authentic cadence
authenticism
authenticist
authenticity
authenticize
authentic learning
authenticly
authenticness
fauxthentic
hyperauthentic
superauthentic
Translations:
submissive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Inflected forms:
form: more submissive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most submissive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: submissives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.
pos: adj
examples: The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court.
If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive.
gloss: Desiring or engaging in sexual submission.
pos: adj
gloss: One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
pos: noun
gloss: One who submits.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.
Synonyms: biddable
docile
meek
slavish
timid
obedient
subservient
cowed
Antonyms: dominant
domineering
defiant
rebellious
Related words: submit
Derived words: finsub
insubmissive
nonsubmissive
submissively
submissiveness
unsubmissive
Translations:
forty-two
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Forty plus two; the cardinal number following forty-one and preceding forty-three.
pos: num
examples: "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
Translations:
strumpet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).
Inflected forms:
form: strumpets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female prostitute.
pos: noun
examples: Em[ilia]. Fie, fie vpon thee ſtrumpet. / Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.
gloss: A woman who is promiscuous.
pos: noun
gloss: A female adulterer.
pos: noun
gloss: A mistress.
pos: noun
gloss: A trollop; a whore.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat; Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on!
However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
Synonyms: prostitute
promiscuous woman
sexual partner
Derived words: crumpet
strumpetlike
strumpetry
Translations:
amenable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).
Base: amener
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more amenable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amenable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: amesnable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
pos: adj
gloss: Willing to comply; easily led.
pos: adj
examples: The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.
gloss: Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
pos: adj
gloss: Liable to the legal authority of (something).
pos: adj
examples: Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.
gloss: Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
pos: adj
Antonyms: unamenable
Derived words: amenableness
amenably
nonamenable
supramenable
unamenable
Translations:
chucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chuck
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English chucker
From chuck + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: chuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who chucks; a thrower.
pos: noun
gloss: A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowling it.
pos: noun
Derived words: chucker-out
motherchucker
pie-chucker
spearchucker
Translations:
athletics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From athletic: see -ics. Probably formed on the model of gymnastics.
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
pos: noun
tags: UK
especially
plural
plural-only
gloss: Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
pos: noun
tags: US
especially
plural
plural-only
examples: The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence.
Related words: athleticism
Derived words: athleisurewear
cyberathletics
Mathletics
para-athletics
Translations:
drabble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English drabelan
English drabble
Inherited from Middle English drabelan.
Inflected forms:
form: drabbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drabbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drabbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drabbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drabbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.
gloss: To fish with a long line and rod.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to drabble for barbels
gloss: A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.
pos: noun
Derived words: bedrabble
drabbler
drabble-tail
Translations:
savanna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish sabana, from Taíno.
Inflected forms:
form: savannas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: savannah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unfreeze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English freeze
English unfreeze
From un- + freeze.
Inflected forms:
form: unfreezes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unfreezing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unfroze
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unfrozen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To defrost something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To thaw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To resume movement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He lowered the gun, and we unfroze.
gloss: To release from a previously locked or frozen state.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To release previously suspended financial assets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The indictment said that after Mr. Bankman-Fried received confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, the rest of the bribe money was paid.
Synonyms: defrost
Antonyms: freeze
Translations:
establish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”).
Inflected forms:
form: establishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: establishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: established
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: established
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make stable or firm; to confirm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
gloss: To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
gloss: To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
gloss: To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to establish a fact   to establish a pattern
Related words: stable
Derived words: disestablish
establishable
established church
establisher
establishing shot
establishment
long-established
preestablish
re-establish
reestablish
unestablish
Translations:
fundamentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fundamental
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fundamentally
From fundamental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fundamentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fundamentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.
pos: adv
examples: What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.
Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.
Translations:
mister
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.
Inflected forms:
form: misters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: misters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mistering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mistered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mistered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
pos: noun
examples: You may sit here, mister.
You keep away from my wife, mister.
Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.
There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.
Liara: We have to hurry. The whole place is caving in!
Shepard: Joker! Get the Normandy airbone and lock in on my signal. On the double, mister!
Asterix: What? And only now you tell us?
Obelix: I was talking to the future queen, mister Asterix!
Asterix: And I advise you to change your tone, mister Obelix!
Obelix: The future queen and I don't need your advice, mister Asterix! Mister Asterix gives too much advice anyway!
gloss: A man.
pos: noun
examples: There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.
gloss: To address by the title of "mister".
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!”
“None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”
Related words: Mister Man
mister man
Derived words: hey mister
misteress
misters before sisters
sisters before misters
sister from another mister
Translations:
kitty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From kitt(en) + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch katje (“kitty”).
Etymology 1 sense 2 (“vulva and/or vagina”) is probably modelled after the use of pussy to refer to the body part, from the appearance of an unshaven vulva.
Base: kitten
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: kitties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kittie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kbity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kibty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young cat; a kitten.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.
A pretty young Kitty, / She had that could Purr; / 'Tvvas gameſome and handſome, / And had a rare Furr; […]
Grandma-cats don't very often care for their grand-kittens. But I know two little Maltese kittens that have the nicest grandma that ever any little kittens had. […] The kitties are named "Bill" and "May." They are good names. […] Of the kitties, you can't tell which is the prettier, however hard you try; and they are good kitties, as they ought to be, with a mamma and a grandma to take care of them.
Warm kitty, soft kitty, / Little ball of fur, / Sleepy kitty, happy kitty, / Purr! Purr! Purr!
To a child, a cat may look like a moving toy, so it's important to explain how delicate and sensitive a cat's body is from the very start. […] Even how a child picks up and handles the cat can make the kitty begin to fear the very sight of the youngster.
gloss: An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty!
gloss: Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”).
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
examples: Looking at Lynn's naked body one last time, Mia decided to try something else. She waited for Lynn to bend down to grab her underwear and then came up behind her and began licking her kitty with long, wet strokes.
The way Tariq was licking her kitty had her clutching the sheets.
Evan's tongue was magic. She'd heard most men didn't have the skills to make a girl lose her mind by licking her kitty. But Evan …
Related words: kit
kitten
kittenish
kittenlike
Derived words: dust kitty
kitteh
kitty bar the door
kitty-cat
kitty cat
kitty-cornered
kitty-corner
kitty corner
kitty crack
kitty cruise
kitty door
kitty flip
kitty flipping
kitty kiss
kitty litter
kitty's titties
kitty wants a corner
kitty witty
pet the kitty
titty
tough titty said the kitty
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: mirri
clearly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English clerli, clerely, clerelych, cleerliche, clerliche.
By surface analysis, clear + (adverbial) -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more clearly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: clearlier
pos: adv
tags: archaic
comparative
form: most clearly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: clearliest
pos: adv
tags: archaic
superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a clear manner.
pos: adv
examples: He enunciated every syllable clearly.
gloss: Without a doubt; obviously.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion.
While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.
gloss: To a degree clearly discernible.
pos: adv
examples: He was clearly wrong on all points but one.
Synonyms: unambiguously
obviously
Translations:
noxious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent.
Inflected forms:
form: more noxious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most noxious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: noctious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Harmful; injurious.
pos: adj
examples: In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; [...]
[...] many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
Immediately upon joining, Ms. Yaccarino had her work cut out for her. Mr. Musk quickly made changes that tore up much of the good will Twitter had with users, employees and advertisers, including changing speech policies that allowed noxious content to circulate on the platform. Many advertisers left.
Translations:
mysticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From mystic + -ism, from Old French mistique (“mysterious, full of mystery”), from Latin mysticus (“mystical, mystic, of secret rites”), from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated, initiate”) from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “to close one's lips or eyes; initiate into the mysteries”). Compare Asturian misticismu, Catalan misticisme, French mysticisme, German Mystizismus, Italian misticismo, Portuguese misticismo, Sicilian misticisimu, Spanish misticismo.
Base: mystic
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: mysticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the history of Christian mysticism the problem how to discriminate between such messages and experiences as were really divine miracles, and such others as the demon in his malice was able to counterfeit, thus making the religious person twofold more the child of hell he was before, has always been a difficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience.
gloss: A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Obscure thoughts and speculations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: rationalism
Derived words: quantum mysticism
synchromysticism
Translations:
misinform
Part of speech: 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-
English inform
English misinform
From mis- + inform.
Inflected forms:
form: misinforms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misinforming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misinformed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misinformed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is clear that the politician misinformed the public on the issue.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
Absences and silences can misinform readers just as effectively as more obvious devices.
Translations:
reuse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Italic *oissos
Latin ūsus
Old French usbor.
Middle English use
English use
English reuse
From re- + use.
Inflected forms:
form: reuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-use
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-use
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of using again, or in another place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Code reuse can save programmers a lot of typing.
gloss: To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).
pos: verb
examples: The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.
gloss: To use again, or in another place.
pos: verb
examples: The estimated 2.7 million cubic metres of chalk and flint excavated from each tunnel (and then mixed with water to create slurry) will be treated and then reused to landscape the site and create a 127-hectare chalk grassland habitat.
Derived words: adaptive reuse
composite reuse principle
reusability
reusable
reuser
Translations:
maximize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin maximus + English -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: maximizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maximizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maximized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maximized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: maximise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make as large as possible.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I need to maximize performance.
Strive to maximize your potential.
gloss: To expand (a window) to fill the main display area.
pos: verb
examples: Since I only have one window open, I maximized the window so that the desktop is not visible.
Antonyms: minimize
Related words: max out
Derived words: maximand
maximizable
maximization
maximizer
-maxx
unmaximize
unmaximized
Translations:
non-threatening
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more non-threatening
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most non-threatening
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not posing a threat.
pos: adj
Translations:
circumflex
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”).
Inflected forms:
form: circumflexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: circumflexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circumflexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circumflexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circumflexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
pos: noun
gloss: Having a circumflex mark.
pos: adj
examples: ê is e circumflex.
gloss: Curving around.
pos: adj
examples: The circumflex coronary artery
gloss: To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
pos: verb
examples: to circumflex a syllable
those words […]circumflexed on the last syllabe
gloss: To arch.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: A venerable old man sitting in a chaire, with a severe aspect, wrinkled forehead, circumflex't eie-browes, great white curled beard.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: circumflex
lang: Finnish
word: sirkumfleksi-
lang: French
word: circonflexe
lang: Ido
word: circuflexio
lang: Italian
word: circonflesso
lang: Ligurian
word: circonflèsso
lang: Portuguese
word: circunflexo
lang: Spanish
word: circunflejo
lang: Vietnamese
word: mũ
lang: Volapük
word: sirkumflegik
argonaut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Generalised use of Argonaut.
Inflected forms:
form: argonauts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
pos: noun
examples: Amazingly, it wasn’t until 2010 that scientists experimentally understood how argonauts use their shell constructions to float in the water column and control buoyancy.
gloss: An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
pos: noun
gloss: A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
pos: noun
tags: historical
specifically
Derived words: greater argonaut
jargonaut
Translations:
pelagic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). By surface analysis, -pelag + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more pelagic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pelagic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pelagics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
pos: adj
examples: Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.
The main fish species in freshwater ponds in China are silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella), etc. According to their live habitat, they can be divided relatively into pelagic and benthic fish.
gloss: Of or pertaining to oceans.
pos: adj
examples: Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.
gloss: Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
pos: noun
Derived words: abyssalpelagic
abyssopelagic
allopelagic
archipelagic
bathypelagic
benthopelagic
biopelagic
chimopelagic
cryopelagic
epipelagic
eupelagic
hadalpelagic
hadopelagic
hemipelagic
holopelagic
mesopelagic
micropelagic
nonpelagic
nyctipelagic
pelagically
pelagic trawl
pelagic zone
semipelagic
Translations:
arena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin arēna (“sand, arena”), from an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan.
Inflected forms:
form: arenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arenae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arenæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America).
pos: noun
examples: A large crowd filled the seats of the arena.
gloss: The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.
pos: noun
examples: The arena is grey with white beams.
gloss: The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The gladiators entered the arena.
gloss: A realm in which events take place; an area of interest, study, behaviour, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The company was a player in the maritime insurance arena.
But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds, determining levels of anti-rabies vaccinations in village dogs, and examining ecological factors under the canopy of trees growing in agricultural areas.
To Musk, his vast fortune is a mere side effect of his ability not just to see but to do things others cannot, in arenas where the stakes are existential.
Derived words: arena football
arenaful
arena ice
arenalike
arena rock
arenic
arenulous
descend into the arena
Point Arena
subarena
Translations:
amphitheatre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin amphitheatrum, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον (amphithéatron) from ἀμφί (amphí, “on both sides”) + θέᾱτρον (théātron, “theatre”).
Compound parts: ἀμφί
θέᾱτρον
Inflected forms:
form: amphitheatres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amphitheater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: An open, outdoor theatre (which may be a theatre in the round, or have a stage with seating on only one side), especially one from the classical period of ancient Greece or Rome, or a modern venue of similar design.
pos: noun
examples: Ancient Roman amphitheatres were mostly oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium.
We had previously visited the building prepared for the assemblage, which was a vast pentagonal semicircular amphitheatre of painted wood and canvas work, ...
The dry quarry in Shrewsbury [was] in use from at least 1445-6 [...until] 1568-9 (and perhaps beyond)[. ...] Location of this as the site of a semicircular amphitheatre [used in the 1400s and 1500s] is confirmed by the evidence, published in total for the first time in the present volume.
gloss: A natural formation of a similar shape, where a steep mountain or slope or particular rock formation forms a partial or complete bowl, especially one used as a performance space (and possibly modified by carving out seats, etc) because the slopes naturally amplify or echo sound.
pos: noun
examples: The difference between the approach to Baylen from the west and from the east, is that on the former side the traveller reaches the town through a semicircular amphitheatre of upland, while by the latter he comes up a V-shaped valley ...
Brecon or Aberhonddu, a typical Welsh town of 5,350 inhabitants, stands in a grand amphitheatre of hills and mountains at the confluence of the rivers Usk, Honddu, and Tarell.
Derived words: amphitheatred
amphitheatric
amphitheatrical
Translations:
oval
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.
Inflected forms:
form: ovals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more oval
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oval
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: ellipse
gloss: An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg.
pos: noun
gloss: A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
pos: noun
examples: At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level.
gloss: A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
pos: noun
gloss: Having the shape of an oval.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ovum.
pos: adj
examples: oval conceptions
Every congenital abnormality is doubtless due to a peculiarity in the sperm or oval elements or in their mingling, or to some disturbance in their early development.
Synonyms: ovular
ovate
ovoid
ovaline
elliptical
egg-shaped
Related words: ovoid
ovum
Derived words: Cassinian oval
Cassini oval
flat oval
hyperoval
oval of Cassini
oval squid
oval window
roval
tri-oval
bioval
circumoval
monoval
nonoval
oboval
ovalescent
ovaliform
ovaline
ovalisation
ovalish
ovality
ovalization
ovalize
ovallike
ovalling
ovally
ovalness
ovalocyte
ovaloid
oval-shaped
perioval
plurioval
semioval
squoval
suboval
trioval
unioval
Translations:
anemone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”).
Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).
Inflected forms:
form: anemones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
pos: noun
examples: Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.
Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all […]
Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.
The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.
gloss: A sea anemone.
pos: noun
Related words: Actiniaria
buttercup
cnidarian
coral
Ranunculaceae
Derived words: alpine anemone
ANDRILL anemone
anemonefish
anemone fish
anemonin
anemonol
buttercup anemone
Chinese anemone
clown anemone
false plum anemone
hell's fire anemone
Japanese anemone
jewel anemone
narcissus-flowered anemone
rue anemone
sea anemone
sun anemone shrimp
tree anemone
wood anemone
yellow anemone
yellow wood anemone
yellow woodland anemone
Translations:
begonia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Begonia (genus of plants), named after Michel Bégon (1638–1710), French governor of Saint-Domingue.
Inflected forms:
form: begonias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the large genus of Begonia.
pos: noun
Translations:
polity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
lifestyle
political-science
politics
religion
social-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”). Doublet of police, policy, and polis (“police”).
Inflected forms:
form: polities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.
Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire.
The utopian community at Ephrata flourished for forty years, and the last celibates at Ephrata died after the turn of the century. It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology.
Of course, other visions of Buddhist polity and its relationship to monastic life have occurred throughout the Buddhist world. For example in the seventeenth century Tibetan Buddhists successfully established a theocracy under the guidance of monks […]
gloss: A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Related words: police
policy
politic
political
politician
politicize
politics
Derived words: divine polity
interpolity
subpolity
Translations:
camellia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Camellia, named after Moravian botanist Joseph Kamel (‘Camellus’) (1661–1706). The Czech surname Kamel is a variant of Kamil.
Inflected forms:
form: camellias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.
pos: noun
examples: Palms towered majestically over the heads of the lower shrubs, and camellias, stephanotis, and many other semi-tropical flowers were growing luxuriantly in the open air.
Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.
I already hinted at the problem of sea eutrophication (where excess nutrients cause algae to flourish) due to the phosphates that used to be added to washing powder, and, surely, it is not pleasant for plants to find underfoot (or, better, "underroot") those surfactants we use daily at home (please, never pour your dishwater on the roots of a magnificent camellia, even if it is blooming in the garden of a next-door neighbor you cannot stand).
Translations:
chrysanthemum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin chrȳsanthemum from Ancient Greek χρῡσάνθεμον (khrūsánthemon, “Persian buttercup”).
Inflected forms:
form: chrysanthemums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chrysanthema
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads.
pos: noun
Translations:
clematis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Clematis, from Latin clēmatis, from Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís), from κλῆμα (klêma, “vine, branch with vines”).
Inflected forms:
form: clematises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clematis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.
pos: noun
examples: He came slowly up to the open door, which was all hung round with clematis and roses; and then peeped in, half afraid.
Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.
Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.
Translations:
columbine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.
Inflected forms:
form: columbines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
pos: noun
Related words: Colombian
Columba
columbarium
columbary
Columbian
Columbus
Translations:
crocus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”), from an ancient Semitic language.
Inflected forms:
form: crocuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: croci
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crocus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crocusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
pos: noun
examples: Other foreign terms have become so thoroughly Anglicised as to adopt English plurals, and it is sometimes difficult to decide whether the English or the original foreign form is the more correct. None but a pedant would speak of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of the church;’ […]
Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
gloss: Any of various similar flowering plants, such as autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
pos: noun
gloss: A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: autumn crocus
crocin
crocused
crocuslike
crocus of Mars
crocus of Venus
prairie crocus
saffron crocus
sand crocus
Translations:
dahlia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.
Inflected forms:
form: dahlias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
pos: noun
Translations:
daisy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.
Inflected forms:
form: daisies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daisie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daysie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
pos: noun
gloss: Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
pos: noun
gloss: A boot or other footwear.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
gloss: Something splendid; a doozy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Then Dan drew the sheath-knife and tested the edge of it on the gunwale.
"That's a daisy," said Harvey. "How did you get it so cheap?"
Translations:
digitalis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital.
Inflected forms:
form: digitalises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 11. Delphiniums and digitalises.
At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […]
gloss: A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
Related words: digitalize
Derived words: digitalin
digitaloid
digitoxin
Translations:
bluebell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blue + bell.
Compound parts: blue
bell
Inflected forms:
form: bluebells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
examples: The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
pos: noun
Derived words: bluebell creeper
bluebelled
bluebell of Scotland
English bluebell
Riverina bluebell
sea bluebell
Translations:
lang: Avar
word: цӏункӏулукӏал
roman: cʼunkʼulukʼal
lang: Bulgarian
word: див зюмбюл
roman: div zjumbjul
lang: Catalan
word: jacint dels boscos
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藍鈴花 /蓝铃花
roman: lánlínghuā
lang: Dutch
word: wilde hyacint
lang: French
word: jacinthe des bois
lang: Irish
word: coinnle corra
lang: Irish
word: coinnle corra Spáinneacha
lang: Occitan
word: jacint dels bòsques
lang: Polish
word: dzwonek
lang: Russian
word: колоко́льчик
roman: kolokólʹčik
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bròg na cuthaige
lang: Spanish
word: jacinto de los bosques
lang: Swedish
word: klockhyacint
lang: Welsh
word: bwtsiasen y gog
opulence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French opulence, from Latin opulentia.
Inflected forms:
form: opulences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wealth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Abundance, bounty, profusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ostentatious display of wealth and luxury; plushness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.
The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence.
Related words: opulent
Translations: