yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
aloof
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English loof (“weather gage, windward direction”), probably from Middle Dutch (Compare Dutch loef (“the weather side of a ship”)), originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter, hence the figurative sense of "at a distance, apart".
Inflected forms:
form: more aloof
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most aloof
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more aloof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aloof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
pos: adv
examples: Sisyphus also I saw, with unwelcomest taskage tormented, / Toilsomely hoisting aloof, unassisted, a ponderous round stone.
The noise approaches, tho' our palace stood
 Aloof from streets, encompass'd with a wood
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
gloss: Without sympathy; unfavorably.
pos: adv
examples: But to open the Bible in this spirit — to take the Book as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof, and with caution, as if throughout it were illusory and enigmatical, is the worst of all impieties.
gloss: Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.
pos: adj
examples: None may ever hear the speech of the poets of that city, to whom the gods have spoken. It stands a city aloof. There hath been no rumour of it—I alone have dreamed of it, and I may not be sure that my dreams are true.
Antonyms: friendly
hostile
nonaloof
Translations:
aloud
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).
Base: loud
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
gloss: Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
gloss: Spoken out loud.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When you are meditating with sound, it can be aloud or it can be silent
Derived words: read-aloud
talk-aloud protocol
talk aloud protocol
think aloud
Translations:
alpine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin Alpīnus, from Alpēs (“the Alps”). Cognates include French alpin.
Inflected forms:
form: alpines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens.
pos: noun
examples: There can be little doubt that the autumn-flowering gentians are the elite of late-flowering alpines, but alas they can only be enjoyed by those gardeners with an acid soil, unless they can be grown in containers.
Translations:
alteration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō. Morphologically alter + -ation.
Base: alter
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: alterations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of altering or making different.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: …alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
gloss: The act of altering or making different.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The doctors don't see any alteration in the patient's condition.
…and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
Derived words: alterationist
microalteration
realteration
unalteration
Translations:
lang: Amharic
word: ለውጥ
roman: läwṭ
lang: Arabic
word: تَغْيِيْر
roman: taḡyiyr
lang: Asturian
word: alteración
lang: Bashkir
word: үҙгәртеү
roman: üźgərtew
lang: Bulgarian
word: промяна
roman: promjana
lang: Bulgarian
word: изменение
roman: izmenenie
lang: Catalan
word: alteració
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 異動 /异动
roman: yìdòng
lang: Danish
word: forandring
lang: Danish
word: ændring
lang: Dutch
word: verandering
lang: Finnish
word: muutos
lang: French
word: altération
lang: French
word: altérer
lang: Galician
word: alteración
lang: German
word: Änderung
lang: German
word: Veränderung
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐξαλλαγή
roman: exallagḗ
lang: Ido
word: altero
lang: Italian
word: alterazione
lang: Latin
word: alterātiō
lang: Macedonian
word: промена
roman: promena
lang: Māori
word: panonitanga
lang: Māori
word: whakarerekētanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: endring
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forandring
lang: Odia
word: ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ
roman: paribarttana
lang: Portuguese
word: alteração
lang: Romanian
word: alterare
lang: Romanian
word: modificare
lang: Romanian
word: schimbare
lang: Russian
word: измене́ние
roman: izmenénije
lang: Russian
word: переде́лка
roman: peredélka
lang: Russian
word: переде́лывание
roman: peredélyvanije
lang: Russian
word: перестро́йка
roman: perestrójka
lang: Russian
word: преобразова́ние
roman: preobrazovánije
lang: Russian
word: переме́на
roman: pereména
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mùthadh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: atharrachadh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: caochladh
lang: Spanish
word: alteración
ghostwriter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ghost + writer.
Compound parts: ghost
writer
Inflected forms:
form: ghostwriters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghost writer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.
pos: noun
examples: Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.
Ghostwriters, typically the faceless forces behind many books by famous non-writers, are now becoming more visible, with celebrities openly teaming up with high-profile professionals.
But “Unhumans,” an anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.
Translations:
KIA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: KIAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: K.I.A.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: K. I. A.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is killed in action.
pos: noun
Translations:
alterative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin alterativum, noun use of alterativus.
Inflected forms:
form: alteratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more alterative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alterative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Amongst this number of cordials and alteratives I do not find a more present remedy than a cup of wine or strong drink, if it be soberly and opportunely used.
gloss: Causing alteration.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing alteration.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: French
word: altérateur
lang: Italian
word: alterativo
lang: Portuguese
word: alterativo
lang: Portuguese
word: alterante
lang: Portuguese
word: alterador
alternately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alternate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English alternately
From alternate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Driving downtown is restricted to bikes with odd and even license plate numbers alternately by day of the month.
All night Katerina and I watched alternately, though, I shame to say, I slept more than I watched; and, having first ascertained that there was no change, I came directly hither.
Tired with the heat and my walk, I threw myself down on the grass in the shadow of the house, where I lay half-asleep enjoying a quiet rest, when I was startled by an unpleasant clamour, the jarring voice of a woman, who was trying by alternately scolding and using pet names to pacify a litter of grunting pigs on the farm.
Well, I can't help noticing that you insult me and then you're polite to me alternately.
The 2025 timetable would feature two trains per hour, alternately routed via Kirkcaldy (with 11 intermediate stops) and Dunfermline (14 stops), with journey times ranging between 65 and 81 minutes.
gloss: By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Alternatively.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
proscribed
sometimes
examples: Downstairs, he was informed. That is, down the escalators, where there is both a women’s room (often with a line) and a men’s room (almost never with a line). Or alternately, he could ask the station master to buzz him into the “family” bathroom. He opted to go downstairs.
Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae.
Translations:
alternation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
geometry
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
phonology
physical-sciences
religion
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin alternatio; compare French alternation. By surface analysis, alternate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: alternations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reciprocal succession of (normally two) things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the alternation of day and night
alternation of summer and winter
alternation between night shifts and day shifts
alternation of feelings between hope and fear
gloss: The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are Anthems to be found amongst them , where every syllable has its just length ; each part of a sentence its proper pause : where the words are not confused by perplexing alternations, or rendered tedious by unnecessary repetitions
gloss: Ablaut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pattern by which more than one construct is possible, as with "Alice cooked Bob dinner" and "Alice cooked dinner for Bob".
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: dative alternation; locative alternation
gloss: The "inclusive or" truth function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A permutation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
uncountable
gloss: A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of partial truncation of a polygon, polyhedron or tiling in which alternate vertices are removed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1932, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, The densities of the regular polytopes, part 2, reprinted in 1995, F. Arthur Sherk, Peter Mcmullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivić Weiss (editors), Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, page 54,
This case suggests that the alternation of a polyhedron should be bounded by actual vertex figures and alternated faces. The case of the cube is in agreement with this notion, since the alternated square is nothing.
Derived words: alternational
alternation of generations
dative alternation
grammatical alternation
nonalternation
Verner alternation
Translations:
altogether
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English altogeder, altogedere, equivalent to al- (“all”) + together. Cognate with Scots awthegither (“altogether”), Middle High German alzegater (“altogether”), Dutch altegaar. Compare also Old English ealġeador, eallġeador (“altogether”), West Frisian allegearre (“altogether”). More at together.
The noun sense (nakedness): was popularized in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.
Base: together
Affixes: al-#Etymology_1
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Completely, wholly, or without exception.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
gloss: On the whole; with everything considered.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After FIFA’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
gloss: With everything included.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
gloss: An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: It was a great game altogether.
That took altogether too much time.
Derived words: altogetherness
Translations:
sundial
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sun + dial, a clarification of dial after it was used for other objects as well.
Base: sun
Inflected forms:
form: sundials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.
pos: noun
examples: The birdbath includes a small gnomon that acts as a sundial with markings on the basin if it's aligned correctly with the sun.
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there.
"I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The shop carries more than a dozen sundials, mostly of bronze, plus an astrolabe ($650) of wrought iron.
It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.
gloss: A sea snail of the genus Heliacus.
pos: noun
Synonyms: dial
horologe
horologium
Translations:
cacophony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κᾰκός (kăkós)
Ancient Greek κακο- (kako-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek κᾰκόφωνος (kăkóphōnos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ (kăkophōnĭ́ā)bor.
French cacophonieder.
English cacophony
From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek κακοφωνία (kakophōnía), from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), equivalent to caco- + -phony.
Affixes: caco-
-phony
Inflected forms:
form: cacophonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator,
Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.
The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same[…]
A blistering start from the Scots served to steady the ship amid a cacophony that defied the quarter-full national stadium.
Antonyms: euphony
harmony
Translations:
migratory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate + -ory.
Base: migrate
Affixes: -ory
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Migrating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).
Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.
gloss: Roving; wandering; nomadic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: migratory habits; a migratory life
Antonyms: sedentary
Related words: migration
Derived words: antimigratory
comigratory
electromigratory
endomigratory
hypermigratory
migratorily
migratory bird
migratory divorce
migratory grasshopper
migratory locust
migratory restlessness
migratory thrush
nonmigratory
non-migratory
postmigratory
premigratory
promigratory
Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy
Translations:
migrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin migrātus, perfect passive participle of migrō (“to migrate, change, transport”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: migrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: migrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: migrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: migrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again.
Twice a year the Minnesotans migrate from their state to the Gulf of Mexico.
gloss: To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.
gloss: To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
Little is more extraordinary than the decision to migrate, little more extraordinary than the accumulation of emotions and thoughts which finally leads a family to say farewell to a community where it has lived for centuries, to abandon old ties and familiar landmarks, and to sail across dark seas to a strange land.
gloss: To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.
gloss: To move gradually, especially from an intended to an unintended position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Oil was able to migrate from the accessory gearbox into the magneto housing through the improperly installed gland seals.
It is very common for the position of the placenta to change as the uterus stretches and grows. An anterior placenta can migrate toward the top, sides, or back of the uterus as the weeks go on.
gloss: To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.
gloss: To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.
Related words: migrant
Derived words: abmigrate
comigrate
demigrate
electromigrated
emigrate
immigrate
migratable
migration
migrative
migrator
migratory
mismigrate
mismigrated
nonmigrated
nonmigrating
outmigrate
overmigrate
remigrate
transmigrate
unmigrate
unmigrated
Translations:
migration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“to migrate”). Morphologically migrate + -ion.
Base: migrate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: migrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
gloss: Movement in general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.
gloss: Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: emigration
immigration
inmigration
in-migration
migrant
migrate
migratory
outmigration
out-migration
porting
Derived words: abmigration
antimigration
chain migration
chemomigration
climigration
comigration
countermigration
cybermigration
ecomigration
eco-migration
electromigration
e-migration
endomigration
hypermigration
intermigration
internal migration
interregional migration
intraregional migration
Lessepsian migration
loop migration
mass migration
migrational
migrationism
migrationist
mismigration
net migration
neuromigration
nonmigration
overmigration
palaeomigration
postmigration
premigration
relay migration
remigration
stepwise migration
time migration
Translations:
valuable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English value
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English valuable
From value + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more valuable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most valuable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: valuables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a great value.
pos: adj
examples: valuable gemstones
gloss: Estimable; deserving esteem.
pos: adj
examples: a valuable friend; a valuable companion
Truly valuable things have no price and cannot be bought.
gloss: A personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: One particular valuable is a gemstone mosaic.
Synonyms: estimable
valuable
worthy
worthly
prizable
treasurous
worth every penny
Antonyms: worthless
nonvaluable
Related words: high-value
precious
priceless
invaluable
inestimable
very valuable
extremely valuable
of great value
beyond price
without price
unpriced
worth one's weight in gold
cherished
treasured
appreciated
dear
beloved
expensive
worthwhile
necessary
productive
useful
instrumental
helpful
beneficial
purposeful
meaningful
significant
usable
profitable
fertile
venerable
crucial
vital
marketable
fit for purpose
worth
value
price
use
utility
benefit
profit
quality
excellence
treasure
gold
silver
bronze
platinum
diamond
jewel
gem
money
capital
asset
all the tea in China
important person
expert
genius
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 812a. Value
Derived words: most valuable player
valuable consideration
valuably
Translations:
glutton
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluttō, gluttōnis (“glutton”).
The use for the wolverine is a semantic loan from German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse *fjallfress (literally “mountain cat”). The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.
Inflected forms:
form: more glutton
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most glutton
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gluttons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
pos: adj
examples: A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?
gloss: One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
pos: noun
examples: Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
gloss: One who consumes anything voraciously, obsessively, or to excess.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
"A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton."
Hope is a subtle glutton; / He feeds upon the fair;
gloss: The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: [A] civil establishment […] is the animal called a glutton, which falling from a tree (in which it generally conceals itself) upon some noble animal, immediately begins to tear it, and suck its blood […].
gloss: A giant petrel.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Synonyms: belly-god
buzgut
cormorant
epicure
gannet
glutton
gorger
gourmand
gormandizer
greedyguts
guttle
hog
Homer Simpson
helluo
pig
slow belly
trencherman
Related words: glut
glutton for punishment
drunkard
libertine
greed
greedy
voracious
gluttonous
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: mässäilijä
lang: German
word: Unersättlicher
lang: German
word: Unersättliche
lang: Greek
word: αχόρταγος
roman: achórtagos
lang: Irish
word: amplóir
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fråtser
lang: Swahili
word: walafi
lang: Swedish
word: matvrak
amass
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.
Inflected forms:
form: amasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: amassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: amassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: amassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To collect into a mass or heap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to amass a treasure or a fortune
to amass words or phrases
[…] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.
gloss: To accumulate; to assemble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: mound
pile
pile up
stack up
amound
collect
gather
hoard
amass
engross
get up
intreasure
niggard
packrat
rathole
squirrel away
uphoard
Antonyms: declutter
distribute
unhoard
Related words: accumulate
lot
Derived words: amassable
amasser
amassment
reamass
Translations:
amateur
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French amateur, from Latin amātor (“lover”), from amāre (“to love”).
Inflected forms:
form: amateurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more amateur
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amateur
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A lover of something.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: he conducted extensive correspondence on wines with European suppliers, employing a wine vocabulary familiar to any modern amateur of wines.
gloss: A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally.
pos: noun
examples: The contest is only open to amateurs.
You see, I'm not an official in any sense so I can't plead privilege and invoke the powers to back me. In the eyes of a jury I should be merely an interfering amateur—and there's such a thing as defamation.
gloss: Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
pos: noun
examples: The entire thing was built by some amateurs with screwdrivers and plywood.
gloss: Non-professional.
pos: adj
gloss: Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
pos: adj
examples: amateur sports
gloss: Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.
pos: adj
examples: Duct tape is a sure sign of amateur workmanship.
Related words: amateuse
amatrice
Derived words: amateurish
amateurism
amateurization
amateurize
amateurship
Ammie
radio amateur
shamateur
amateur press association
amateur radio
amateurly
amateur hour
amateur night
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սիրողական
roman: siroġakan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 業餘 /业余
roman: yèyú
lang: Finnish
word: amatööri-
lang: Finnish
word: harrastaja-
lang: Māori
word: runaruna
lang: Polish
word: amatorski
lang: Portuguese
word: amador
lang: Thai
word: สมัครเล่น
roman: sà-màk-lên
amazement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From amaze + -ment.
Base: amaze
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: amazements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; a feeling of intense astonishment or awe, as from witnessing something incredible and impressive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We stared in amazement at the skills on display.
The amazement that painting sparked in me lasted until the tour guide jolted me out of it.
Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
gloss: A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
In the midst of ill rumours and amazements, his countenance changeth not.
Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements, when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
gloss: Something which amazes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
examples: So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
gloss: Madness, frenzy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
amazingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amazing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English amazingly
From amazing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more amazingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most amazingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully.
pos: adv
examples: That violin solo was played amazingly.
While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way.
gloss: Difficult to believe; strange but true.
pos: adv
examples: Amazingly, no one was injured in the crash.
Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
gloss: To a wonder-inspiring extent.
pos: adv
examples: The car has amazingly low fuel consumption.
The disease AIDS is wiping out a significant portion of the Gay Community and concerns about it are well-justified. But there is another disease that strikes an amazingly high percentage in our community. This disease is Chemical Dependency.
Translations:
ambassadorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ambassador
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English ambassadorial
From ambassador + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more ambassadorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambassadorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
pos: adj
examples: Hull has gained significant investment in recent years, and Hull Trains Managing Director Louise Cheeseman is passionate about her company's ambassadorial role.
Translations:
ambitious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ambitious, from Middle French ambitieus, from Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio; see ambition. Compare with French ambitieux. By surface analysis, ambit + -ious.
Inflected forms:
form: ambitiouser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more ambitious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ambitiousest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most ambitious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
pos: adj
examples: an ambitious person
someone's ambitious nature
I was ambitious—have you known
The passion, father? You have not:
A cottager, I mark’d a throne
Of half the world as all my own,
And murmur’d at such lowly lot— […]
As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a suspicion as to my real occupation.
gloss: Very desirous.
pos: adj
examples: 30 June 2019, Sam Wallace in The Telegraph, Manchester United must shape Aaron Wan-Bissaka into a £50m all-rounder - but there is no hiding place at Old Trafford
Now he is joining a club ambitious to return to a model of dominating games and attacking opposition.
We were soon in the midst of the rapids, which were more swift and tumultuous than any we had poled up, and had turned to the side of the stream for the purpose of warping, when the boatmen, who felt some pride in their skill, and were ambitious to do something more than usual
gloss: Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition.
pos: adj
examples: an ambitious project
an ambitious style
an ambitious attempt to take power
an ambitious plan
gloss: Hard to achieve.
pos: adj
examples: an ambitious goal
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
Antonyms: nonambitious
unambitious
Related words: ambition
Derived words: ambitiously
ambitiousness
hyperambitious
overambitious
superambitious
underambitious
Translations:
ambuscade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.
Inflected forms:
form: ambuscades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade […]
The yellow cat deliberately stretched himself, yawned, and followed; and proceeded to carry out a wonderful scheme of feints and ambuscades in regard to a ping-pong ball which was kept for his proper diversion.
Accordingly an army was sent into Corea. It met the Japanese before the walls of Pʻing Jang (平壤), where it was annihilated and its commander, Tsu Chʻêng-hsun, (祖承訓), barely escaped with his life. The next Chinese army under the command of Li Ju-sung (李如松), fresh from a successful campaign against a Mongol rebel in Ning Hsia (甯夏), gained a victory over the Japanese in Pʻing Jang; but, elated by this success, the Chinese general allowed himself to be led into an ambuscade near Seoul and overthrown (1593).
De Metz: An ambuscade! There are Burgundian soldiers everywhere! Hurry west to the river, where we can made^([sic]) our escape!
gloss: The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
pos: noun
examples: I went so far with it in my Imagination, that I employed my self several days to find out proper Places to put my self in Ambuscade
gloss: The body of troops lying in ambush.
pos: noun
Derived words: ambuscader
Translations:
exclude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).
Inflected forms:
form: excludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: excluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: excluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: excluded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.
gloss: To expel; to put out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
gloss: To omit from consideration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
gloss: To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: forbar
turn away
throw out
turf out
Antonyms: include
Derived words: excludable
excludee
excluder
excludingly
unexcluding
Translations:
expel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).
Base: pellere
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: expels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eject.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.
gloss: To remove from membership.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.
She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
gloss: To deport.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: fordrive
turf out
Antonyms: impel
Related words: expulsion
Derived words: expellable
expellee
expeller
reexpel
unexpelled
Translations:
impel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English impellen, borrowed from Latin impellō.
Inflected forms:
form: impels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
I feel impelled to reply to Roger Henry's letter about my article on being denied an apartment. I truly resent any insinuation that I "slunk back into that rotting old closet."
Concern for the common good should impel us to find ways to overcome the devilish impact of these disastrous policies […]
gloss: To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The wind impelled the kayaks toward the shore.
Synonyms: propel
Antonyms: expel
Related words: impellent
impeller
impetus
impulse
Derived words: reimpel
unimpelled
Translations:
impeller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impel
English er
English impeller
From impel + er.
Inflected forms:
form: impellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which or someone who impels.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which or someone who impels.
pos: noun
examples: screw impeller
gloss: Something which or someone who impels.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: torque converter
Related words: expel
expeller
impel
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: yllyttäjä
Asturian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Asturia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Asturian
From Asturia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Asturian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Asturian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Asturians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to Asturias, Spain.
pos: adj
examples: This gave time to many families to escape; and Bermudo even carried away the bodies of his predecessors to the old refuge in the Asturian hills.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Asturian language.
pos: adj
examples: The winning entry was a poem written in Asturian, one of the first such in Asturian literature.
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Asturias, Spain.
pos: noun
examples: To this day the Asturians say to each other "Have a care. Asturias is Spain. The rest is Araby."
Translations:
Aymara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aymara, possibly from Aymara or Quechua. Written attestations beginning with missionary grammars in the 1600s.
Inflected forms:
form: Aimara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous people of South America.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Because the Aymara are hungry for a good contemporary dictionary, and because there are so many non-Aymara needing a good dictionary (as shown by the active international participation), this dictionary attracted a lot of attention.
Translations:
Bemba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bembas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bemba
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an African tribe inhabiting parts of Zambia, Zaire, Tanzania and Malawi.
pos: noun
Translations:
Blackfoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Calque of Blackfoot Siksiká (literally “black foot”).
Inflected forms:
form: Blackfoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Blackfoot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Blackfeet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.
pos: noun
examples: Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers.
Meanwhile, its original inhabitants were kept out by dint of force, their earlier uses of the land redefined as inappropriate or even illegal. To this day, for instance, the Blackfeet continue to be accused of “poaching” on the lands of Glacier National Park that originally belonged to them and that were ceded by treaty only with the proviso that they be permitted to hunt there.
Translations:
Chamorro
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Chamorro Chamorrobor.
English Chamorro
Borrowed from Chamorro Chamorro.
Inflected forms:
form: Chamorros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chamorro
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: CHamoru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: CHamoru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous native islander of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to the indigenous native islanders of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fussy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fuss
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English fussy
From fuss + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: fussier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fussiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
pos: adj
examples: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
gloss: Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies).
pos: adj
gloss: Having much unnecessary detail or decoration.
pos: adj
examples: The internal decor of the SR-built Bulleid corridor stock was noticeably cleaner and less fussy than that of prewar coaches.
Related words: fuss
pedantic
picky
Derived words: fussily
fussiness
fussy cut
nonfussy
overfussy
prissy
unfussy
Translations: