yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lasciviously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lascivious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lasciviously
From lascivious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lasciviously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lasciviously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lascivious manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
lastingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lasting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lastingly
From lasting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lastingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lastingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lasting manner, in a way that persists.
pos: adv
examples: Only by good diplomacy will we lastingly establish peace.
Antonyms: forever
temporarily
Translations:
lashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lash
English -ing
English lashing
From lash + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: lashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.
gloss: The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the lashings out of his luxur
gloss: The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [It] came from the sea, that wind, and soon enough, it would bring lashings of rain. The captain opened the door just as the first patters of rain began to fall.
gloss: Lots; a great amount.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
in-plural
informal
uncountable
examples: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
You bring happiness to my heart
Like a freshly baked apple tart
With lashings of piping-hot custard
Derived words: tongue lashing
Translations:
perfunctorily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perfunctory
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perfunctorily
From perfunctory + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perfunctorily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perfunctorily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.
pos: adv
examples: And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
Lim Cheng Po said an Anglican prayer or two, not too perfunctorily.
Tibor was circling the table and asking each of us how our entrée was, and we all regarded this as just one of those perfunctory waiter-questions and all perfunctorily smiled and cleared our mouths and said Fine, Fine—and Tibor finally stopped and looked down at us all with a pained expression and changed his timbre slightly so it was clear he was addressing the whole table: “Please. I ask each: is excellent? […]”
Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
Translations:
routinely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English routine
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English routinely
From routine + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more routinely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most routinely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected.
pos: adv
examples: The risk of going out of business was very real, they had suffered disastrous presidents, routinely lost their best players, and were effectively owned by a bailed-out bank, so Lim was welcomed as their saviour.
gloss: Done by rote or habit, as part of a routine, without attention or concern.
pos: adv
examples: We routinely test the fire extinguishers but no one ever expects them to fail.
Synonyms: ordinarily
Translations:
flavone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin flāvus
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English flavone
From Latin flāvus (“yellow”) + -one, as many are yellow in nature.
Inflected forms:
form: flavones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
largish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English large
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English largish
From large + -ish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat large.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […]in Ford Prefect's satchel were a few ballpoints, a notepad and a largish bath towel from Marks and Spencer.
Humans, buffered by cultural and behavioral options, can often tolerate largish changes in climatic conditions.
Translations:
largeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English large
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English largeness
From large + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: largenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Liberality; generosity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The property of being physically large.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lavishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lavausly, equivalent to lavish + -ly.
Base: lavish
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more lavishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lavishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lavish manner, expending profusely.
pos: adv
examples: He was noted to entertain lavishly, throwing the biggest and best parties in town.
At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.
I suspect fruity language is lavishly used on building sites and in 10 Downing Street, but not so much in middle-ranking jobs. Iain Duncan Smith once told a Treasury mandarin on the phone "If you ever speak to my officials like that again I'll bite your balls off and send them to you in a box."
Translations:
legalese
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.?
Proto-Italic *lēks
Latin lex
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin lēgālislbor.
English legal
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English legalese
From legal + -ese.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Technical jargon common in the legal profession; the argot of lawyers.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
uncountable
examples: It is also his considered opinion that a condition precedent to any legislative action is that those best qualified to pronounce on the merits of a popular demand examine it in all its aspects. That is good Menzian legalese, as pompous as parody permits.
gloss: Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople; bureaucratese; officialese.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
uncountable
Synonyms: lawspeak
legalspeak
Translations:
forwards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English forward
English -s
English forwards
From forward + -s (adverbial suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: further forwards
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther forwards
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest forwards
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest forwards
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: forrads
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: forrards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of forward in most senses.
pos: adv
Translations:
unfeeling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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 feeling
English unfeeling
From un- + feeling.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfeeling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfeeling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without emotion or sympathy.
pos: adj
Antonyms: sympathetic
Translations:
shipwreck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English shipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (“jetsam”), equivalent to ship + wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (“to shipwreck”, verb), Dutch scheepswrak (“shipwreck”), German Schiffswrack (“shipwreck”), Swedish skeppsvrak (“shipwreck”), Danish skibsvrag (“shipwreck”). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.
Base: ship
Inflected forms:
form: shipwrecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shipwrack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shipwrecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shipwrecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shipwrecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shipwrecked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shipwrack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich
Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.
The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.
gloss: An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck
But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.
gloss: Destruction; disaster; failure; ruin; irretrievable loss.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
Then you will have played your part and earned my gratitude completely. Five minutes, afterwards, if you insist upon an explanation, you will have understood that these arrangements are of capital importance; and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic as they must appear, you might have charged your conscience with my death or the shipwreck of my reason.
gloss: To wreck a boat through a collision or other mishap.
pos: verb
Derived words: shipwrecked
shipwreckee
shipwrecky
Uluburun shipwreck
Translations:
neutralize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: From French neutraliser (first attested in 1642). By surface analysis, neutral + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: neutralizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: neutralizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: neutralized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: neutralized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: neutralise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The antidote neutralized the toxin.
It’s possible that some microbes don’t just take up residence in tumors but help them grow. They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body.
gloss: To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All the powers involved are committed not only to stay out of a given territory, but also to reenter it if any one of them violates the independence of the neutralized country.
gloss: To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
examples: At the beginning of the opening game, Shepard becomes the first human Spectre, an elite operative given broad authority to neutralize threats to galactic order in the galaxy.
“We managed to neutralise the guilty person. So there was no longer any imminent threat,” De Croo said, […]
Derived words: bioneutralize
deneutralize
electroneutralize
gender-neutralize
immunoneutralize
immunoneutralized
neutralizable
neutralization
neutralizer
nonneutralizing
overneutralize
preneutralize
reneutralize
seroneutralize
seroneutralizing
subneutralizing
underneutralize
unneutralized
Translations:
inexplicable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inexplicable, from Middle French inexplicable, from Latin inexplicābilis, from in- (“not”) + explicābilis (“explicable”). By surface analysis, in- + explicable.
Base: explicābilis
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inexplicable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inexplicable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unexplicable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: inexplicables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unexplicable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.
pos: adj
examples: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
“No,” replied the girl, “it would not be strange, of course; but for some inexplicable reason I have one of those foolish feminine presentiments that all is not right with Mr. Caldwell. It is the strangest feeling—it is as though I knew that he was not on board the ship.”
gloss: Something that is impossible to explain.
pos: noun
examples: HEE [Cleanthes] left behind him (ſaith [Diogenes] Laertius) theſe excellent Books. […] Of Inexplicables.
The premature passing of Bob Collins and the sadness it begets leave us in wonder. A man of vigor and vitality, compassion and concern, and a joyous contributor enhancing each new day is suddenly no more. Or is that also conjecture or gospel? Could it be that his departure is but a chapter in the imponderable mystery we long to comprehend? An inexplicable that cannot be perceived?
Each clone acts as a huge, undivided tree, with its own time of flushing spring leaves, of turning yellow, and its own shade of yellow that can vary from lemon to salmon to an occasional sandy red, the color change defining the margins of each clone. The contrasting colors depend on variations in soil chemistry, slope exposure, genetic makeup, and a grab bag of inexplicables that bless trees, growing so closely that their upper branches may touch, with smartly different colors.
Her proposition was that at the heart of each of the great tragedies were unanswerable questions about love, and, to make sense of the plays, we must each attempt to explicate these inexplicables in our own way.
Translations:
stinging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
Base: sting
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more stinging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stinging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stingings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the capacity to sting.
pos: adj
examples: stinging nettles
gloss: Precise and hurtful.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.
gloss: The act by which someone receives a sting.
pos: noun
examples: the stingings of scorpions
stingings of remorse
Derived words: stinging catfish
stingingly
stingingness
Translations:
inflated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more inflated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inflated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Filled with air or fluid
pos: adj
examples: The inflated balloons danced in the breeze.
gloss: Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc.
pos: adj
examples: His inflated belly looked uncomfortable.
gloss: In a state of higher cost.
pos: adj
examples: His inflated prices made the vendor unpopular.
Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
gloss: Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The inflated speech did not impress the audience.
gloss: Higher that the true figure
pos: adj
examples: inflated incidence figures
Synonyms: bloated
bulging
expanded
filled
swelled
swollen
tumid
turgid
bombastic
pompous
Antonyms: deflated
Derived words: hyperinflated
inflatedly
inflatedness
noninflated
overinflated
underinflated
uninflated
Translations:
strangeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English straungenesse; equivalent to strange + -ness.
Base: strange
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: strangenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The product or result of being strange.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.
pos: noun
tags: particle
uncountable
usually
examples: Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.
Synonyms: abnormalcy
abnormalism
abnormality
abnormity
anomalousness
atypicality
crotchet
deviancy
eccentricity
enormity
extraordinariness
freakishness
irregularity
nonnormality
oddity
oddness
peculiarness
queerhood
queerness
quirk
quirkiness
rumness
strangeness
unusuality
unusualness
weirdness
Antonyms: normality
Related words: strange
stranger
strangely
Derived words: high strangeness
multistrangeness
Translations:
distasteful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.
Base: distaste
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more distasteful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distasteful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: distastefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad or foul taste.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: unpalatable
The food had very distasteful flavour.
gloss: Unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Near-synonym: unpalatable
Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
gloss: Offensive.
pos: adj
examples: distasteful language
AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.
Antonyms: pleasant
pleasing
Related words: bad taste in one's mouth
untasteful
disgusting
Derived words: distastefully
distastefulness
undistasteful
Translations:
enlist
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English list
English enlist
From en- + list.
Inflected forms:
form: enlists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enlisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enlisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enlisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inlist
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: enlists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inlist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The army wants potential soldiers to enlist.
gloss: To recruit the aid or membership of others.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We enlisted fifty new members.
“The Emperor visited east-central China (江與京洛), and enlisted 400,000 soldiers and 500 Wu ships to cross the seas and go to P’ing-jang, (the Kao-li capital).”
gloss: To secure; to obtain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They enlisted the government's support.
“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. […]”
gloss: One who is enlisted, usually in a military service.
pos: noun
examples: […] 19.17% are enlisted officers (including cadets and midshipmen with BA degrees and associate degrees, officers Designated Military Occupational Specialty, the enlists converting into conscripts], officers from ROTCs) ; 0.31% are conscripted […]
Synonyms: catalogue
enlist
enroll
induct
put down
put on
register
tabulate
Antonyms: delist
deregister
disenroll
score off
uniquify
unlist
unregister
Related words: list
Derived words: enlistee
enlister
enlistment
reenlist
Translations:
hitting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The batter's hitting improved with practice.
The right hand of Curtis was open too much; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.
Translations:
harshly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harsh
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English harshly
From harsh + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: harshlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more harshly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: harshliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most harshly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a harsh manner; severely.
pos: adv
examples: Yet, if I name my guilt, 't is not to boast, / None can deem harshlier of me than I deem [...].
The traveller hears me now and then,
⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak:
⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak,
And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
Oh, those cruel and blitheless asses! Did they know my thoughts, my dreams, as I searched the sweet mystery of myself for the hidden meaning of my life? They did not. They judged me harshly for a few paltry actions.
Clinton said she is has grown “very disappointed and sorry that Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemned so quickly and judge so harshly when I think part of the message that I certainly have tried to understand and live with is to look at yourself first.”
Translations:
catecholamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English catechol
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English amine
English -amine
English catecholamine
From catechol + -amine.
Inflected forms:
form: catecholamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
pos: noun
examples: Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.
The catecholamines are used in several motivational and emotional systems of the brain, and their concentration is regulated by proteins that break them down or recycle them.
Translations:
chloramine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From chlor- + -amine.
Base: chlor
Inflected forms:
form: chloramines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any of a class of unstable compounds of nitrogen and chlorine R₁R₂NCl; also the parent compound NH₂Cl (monochloramine), used to manufacture hydrazine, and as the antiseptic chloramine-T
pos: noun
Translations:
chloramine-T
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: chloramine when used as an antiseptic
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hydrazine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Hydrazinbor.
English hydrazine
Borrowed from German Hydrazin, coined by Emile Fischer in 1875 as a derivative from Diazin, an obsolete name for diimide, of which hydrazine is a hydrogenated analog. By surface analysis, hydr- + azo (“nitrogen”) + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: hydrazines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH₂-NH₂, used as a rocket fuel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH₂-NH₂ by replacing one of the hydrogen atoms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
Synonyms: diamidogen
Derived words: arylhydrazine
benzoylhydrazine
dimethylhydrazine
hydrazination
hydrazinium
hydrazinolysis
isonicotinoylhydrazine
methylhydrazine
monomethylhydrazine
nonhydrazine
phenelzine
phenylhydrazine
picrylhydrazine
zinoconazole
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: hidrazina
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 聯氨 /联氨
roman: lyun⁴ on¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 聯氨 /联氨
roman: lián'ān
lang: Czech
word: hydrazin
lang: Finnish
word: hydratsiini
lang: French
word: hydrazine
lang: Hungarian
word: hidrazin
lang: Japanese
word: ヒドラジン
roman: hidorajin
lang: Kazakh
word: гидразин
roman: gidrazin
lang: Korean
word: 하이드라진
roman: haideurajin
lang: Māori
word: haitarahini
lang: Māori
word: hauwaiota
lang: Portuguese
word: hidrazina
lang: Russian
word: гидрази́н
roman: gidrazín
lang: Spanish
word: hidracina
lang: Swedish
word: hydrazin
fuming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fuming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fuming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fumings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which fumes.
pos: adj
examples: fuming nitric acid
gloss: Very angry.
pos: adj
examples: The first Premier League hat-trick by a Fulham player was taken in fine style, but it also exposed a slack defensive display which left QPR manager Neil Warnock fuming on the sidelines.
Then Rublev was left fuming when the opening point of the next game had to be replayed after his shot was called wide.
gloss: The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
pos: noun
examples: He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.
And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
Derived words: frumious
fumingly
Translations:
lamely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lame
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lamely
From lame + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lamely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lamely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of one who is lame.
pos: adv
gloss: In a foolish or ineffective way.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: He lamely tried to lie his way out of the situation, but he wasn't really trying and no-one believed him.
"I quite admire cats," he said. "There is something about them," he added, "which..." He could not find the words. "Which is quite admirable," he ended lamely.
Translations:
sulfuric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French sulfurique. See sulfur + -ic.
Base: sulfur
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: sulphuric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its higher oxidation state
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
Translations:
lamppost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lamp
English post
English lamppost
From lamp + post.
Inflected forms:
form: lampposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lamp post
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight.
pos: noun
examples: Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.
"What is really good is they haven't just painted the station building, they've done all the lampposts to match as well, right down to the end of the platform.
gloss: A tall, thin person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
informal
examples: You big skinny lamppost. And you're going grey!
Translations:
landowning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From land + owning.
Compound parts: land
owning
Inflected forms:
form: landownings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In possession of real estate (i.e. land).
pos: adj
examples: The landowning citizens of the county will object to the increased property tax, but those who rent won't care.
By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the ownership of land.
pos: adj
examples: landowning rights
gloss: A portion of land belonging to a landowner; a smallholding.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonlandowning
Translations:
sulfurous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin sulphurōsus. By surface analysis, sulfur + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more sulfurous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sulfurous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sulphurous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Containing sulfur.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: It must be so—I will arise and waken
The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill,
Which on a sudden from its snows had shaken
The swoon of ages, it shall burst, and fill
The world with cleansing fire; it must, it will—
It may not be restrained!
The miners slowly walked up the steep crater walls, stopping frequently while clouds of sulfurous gas blanketed the crater in the background.
gloss: Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its lower oxidation state.
pos: adj
Synonyms: sulfureous
Related words: sulfuric
Derived words: hydrosulfurous
hyposulfurous
nonsulfurous
sulfurous acid
sulphurous acid
sulfurous chloride
sulphurous chloride
sulfurously
sulfurousness
Translations:
languidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin languidusder.
Middle French languidebor.
Latin languidusbor.
English languid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English languidly
From languid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more languidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most languidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.
pos: adv
examples: He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that.
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
“It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry, languidly.
Miss Gimblet, who seemed to feel that the presence of her friend called for something extra professional in the way of attitude, reclined on the bed and languidly smoked a cigarette.
Translations:
latecomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From late + comer.
Compound parts: late
comer
Inflected forms:
form: latecomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has arrived comparatively recently.
pos: noun
examples: The old families in the neighborhood look down on him as a latecomer, his family only arrived in the 18th century, too nouveau for them.
gloss: One who arrived late.
pos: noun
examples: At the party the host made a point of greeting all the latecomers he missed in the first pass.
Antonyms: earlycomer
Related words: Johnny-come-lately
late to the party
Translations:
lateness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English late
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lateness
From late + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: latenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being late.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His chronic lateness will cost him a promotion if not his job.
A 40 m.p.h. slack at West Ruislip, quickly followed by a 30 m.p.h. slack at Gerrards Cross, increased our lateness to four minutes at High Wycombe.
Antonyms: earliness
punctuality
Translations:
lavishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lavish + -ness. Compare Dutch lafenis (“refreshment, lavishness”).
Base: lavish
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: lavishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being lavish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: No one could question the lavishness of his parties; good taste was a different matter.
Translations:
laxness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lax
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English laxness
From lax + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: laxnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a certain laxness in safety preparations that made the fire worse.
Translations:
strictness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strict
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English strictness
From strict + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: strictnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being strict.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
gloss: The result or product of being strict.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: surowość
lang: Polish
word: rygor
lang: Spanish
word: estrictez
leanness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lenenesse, equivalent to lean + -ness.
Base: lean
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of being lean, without excess or fat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: plumpness
fattiness
Translations:
lasciviousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lascivious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lasciviousness
From lascivious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic or state of being lascivious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.
Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness.
Translations:
legibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English legible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English legibly
From legible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more legibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most legibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is legible, in a manner that is readable, readably.
pos: adv
examples: Consignment Notes should be legibly printed in type or written in ink, with the destination station shown in block letters and the responsibility for charges clearly indicated. This will help the Railways in their efforts to assist Traders.
To be sure, the average American can sign his name more or less legibly, and can make out the sports headlines—but how many nonelitist Americans can, without undue difficulty, read as many as a thousand consecutive words of small print, some of which may be trisyllabic?
Translations:
lyrically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lyrical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lyrically
From lyrical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lyrically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lyrically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is pleasing to hear, as singing or speaking; in a lyrical manner.
pos: adv
examples: "There are no women like the Arab women," said Haji Zainal Abidin dreamily, lyrically.
gloss: In terms of the lyrics.
pos: adv
examples: a lyrically unimaginative song
Related words: lyre
lyric
lyrical
Translations:
naming
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: namings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of giving names to things.
pos: noun
gloss: A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.
pos: noun
gloss: Giving a name to a person or thing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: dead-naming
naming collision
naming convention
naming rights
naming word
rapid automatized naming
Translations:
lymphoid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lymph
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English lymphoid
From lymph + -oid.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or found within the lymphatic system of the body
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
luxuriate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1621; borrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, perfect passive participle of lūxuriō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: luxuriates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: luxuriating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: luxuriated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: luxuriated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To enjoy luxury, to indulge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Luxuriate in the wonderful service of our five-star hotel.
He luxuriated in anger, and he kept accounts.
But where the stage version luxuriated in the amount of time it could take to tell its story — in three one-act plays — its big-screen counterpart benefits from the need to economize in order to keep things moving.
But fundamentally I think it’s a sound framework, and it creates the right sense of urgency in that we can kind of luxuriate in a debate over what the right gear might be to do carbon targets, but scientifically the right time to do it was yesterday.
gloss: To be luxuriant; to grow exuberantly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lutenist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lutanista, from lutana (“lute”), from Middle French lut. By surface analysis, lute + -n- + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: lutenists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lutanist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who plays the lute, a lutist.
pos: noun
examples: A group of composers, variously known as the madrigalists, the lutenists, or the virginalists (depending on the medium for which they were writing), produced vast quantities of attractive music, mostly for amateur consumption.
And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
Translations:
lusty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lusty (“mirthful, pleasant, delicious, delightful”), equivalent to lust + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian lustich (“amusing”),
West Frisian lustich (“amusing, funny”), Dutch lustig (“cheerful”), German lustig (“amusing”), Danish lystig (“merry”), Swedish lustig (“funny”).
Base: lust
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: lustier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lustiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lustie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality.
pos: adj
examples: How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ?
I ſaw him [Ferdinand] beare the ſurges vnder him, / And ride vpon their backes ; he trod the water / Whoſe enmity he flung aſide : and breſted / The ſurge moſt ſwolne that met him : his bold head / 'Bove the contentious waues he kept, and oared / Himſelfe with his good armes in luſty ſtroke / To th'ſhore ; that ore his waue-worne baſis bowed / As ſtooping to releeue him[…]
gloss: Hearty, merry, gleesome, enthusiastic, lively, stirring.
pos: adj
gloss: Given to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations; lustful.
pos: adj
tags: informal
obsolete
examples: Before the flood thou with thy lusty crew
Looking for some hot, hard and hunky fun or a lusty lost weekend at the beach?
gloss: Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: So louedſt thou the luſty Hyacinct,
So louedſt thou the faire Coronis deare: […]
gloss: Of large size; big.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And a speake any thing against me, Ile take him downe, & a were lustier then he is, and twentie such Iacks: […]
I thought to have embarked in the evening, but, for fear of pirates plying near the coast, I durst not trust our small vessel, and stayed till Monday following, when two or three lusty vessels were to depart.
gloss: Of large size; big.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
rare
Related words: lustful
lustuous
Derived words: luscious
lustihead
lustihood
lustily
lustiness
lustious
overlusty
unlusty
Translations:
lustily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lusty
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lustily
From lusty + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lustily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lustily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lusty manner: vigorously, loudly, enthusiastically.
pos: adv
examples: […] I walked lustily in the park by moonshine till eight, to shake off my dinner and wine; […]
As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room[.]
Then, while some of the others gathered around the girl played "Waiting for the Wagon," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party," and a number of other favorites, and these the crowd sang lustily.
Momma, Monique, and Paula retreat to a corner of the kitchen while the main party, including old Johnny who has winked lustily at Momma's backside all night long, stays behind in the living room…
Translations: