yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dramatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)lbor.
English dramatic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English dramatically
From dramatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more dramatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dramatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dramatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
Far from it: direct military intervention by a Western state – even if Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is requesting it – would dramatically worsen the situation, and ISIS, contrary to what pro-interventionists might say, would inevitably come out on top.
But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
Translations:
popularly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English popular
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English popularly
From popular + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more popularly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most popularly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a popular manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In a popular manner.
pos: adv
examples: They were popularly known as "the Kings of California"
Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called.
[T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.
gloss: In a popular manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: популярно
roman: populjarno
lang: Catalan
word: popularment
lang: Finnish
word: suositusti
lang: Greek
word: ευρέως
roman: evréos
lang: Italian
word: popolarmente
lang: Polish
word: popularnie
lang: Portuguese
word: popularmente
lang: Spanish
word: popularmente
coffered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having coffers.
pos: adj
examples: coffered ceiling
[…] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended ⁠/ In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Translations:
ironwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ironwerk, irynwerk, equivalent to iron + -work.
Base: iron
Affixes: -work
Inflected forms:
form: ironworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything made wholly or largely of iron, especially when used for decoration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons.
The gate itself has sideposts of rustic stonework, each topped by a large Baroque vase; these sideposts are joined by elaborate floral ironwork with a coat of arms and a coronet in the centre[…]
But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […].
gloss: An ironworks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
Related words: ironworks
Translations:
ironstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From iron + stone.
Compound parts: iron
stone
Inflected forms:
form: ironstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During my stay at Kamalia there was a smelting furnace at a short distance from the hut where I lodged, and the owner and his workmen made no secret about the manner of conducting the operation, and readily allowed me to examine the furnace, and assist them in breaking the ironstone.
The trees like this barren ironstone formation. It's well they do, for nothing else does.
While I listen I sniff in the cordite fumes. Ironstone chipped against ironstone invokes a spark and a wisp of the same heady smoke.
Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.
Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.
gloss: A type of vitreous pottery similar to stoneware.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: More than 50 percent of the collection from Hall’s brothel is ironstone and porcelain. White ironstone tablewares became popular in the late 1850s, and the high percentage of this ware suggests attention to fashion.
Derived words: blackband ironstone
carbonaceous ironstone
pisolitic ironstone
Translations:
ironware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English iron
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English ironware
From iron + -ware.
Inflected forms:
form: ironwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ironical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ironic + -al. Attested since the 1570s.
Base: ironic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more ironical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ironical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
pos: adj
examples: “So, ultimately, I realized I have been completely ruining my life and my face. What is ironical is that I was only doing this to make myself look better for my wife Marwa. This was for her, not for me.”
gloss: Given to the use of irony; sarcastic.
pos: adj
examples: His tone was cold and ironical; its bitterness but reflecting the terrible disappointment he had suffered.
gloss: Feigning ignorance; simulating lack of instruction or knowledge; exhibiting Socratic irony.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: ironic
Derived words: ironically
ironicalness
unironical
Translations:
tediously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tedyously; equivalent to tedious + -ly.
Base: tedious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more tediously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tediously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tedious or wearisome manner.
pos: adv
examples: And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode.
I can look back over the years of Down Home On The Farm and say that regardless of whether I wrote a column, I would be hammering and painting, enjoying the challenge of gardening and tediously feeding and caring for poultry.
Translations:
tediousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tediosenes, tediousenesse, tediousnesse, tedusnes, teduysnes, tedyousnes; equivalent to tedious + -ness.
Base: tedious
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: tediousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being tedious; tedium.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [B]revity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
I am the worst person in the world for formal dinners, but I shall be thankful to have a resting-place whereon to bestow my tediousness in an evening.
Translations:
slowness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slow
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 slowness
From slow + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: slownesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being slow.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult.
gloss: A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
newsroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + room.
Compound parts: news
room
Inflected forms:
form: newsrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office of a news organisation, especially that part of it where the journalists work and news stories are processed.
pos: noun
gloss: A room where newspapers and magazines are available for reading.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: newsroomwide
Translations:
YOP
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: YOPs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
yop
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From YOP.
Inflected forms:
form: yops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.
pos: noun
gloss: Yes; affirmative.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
informal
Translations:
tiresomely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tiresome
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tiresomely
From tiresome + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tiresomely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tiresomely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tiresome manner; wearisomely.
pos: adv
Translations:
servent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of server + client. Introduced by the Gnutella network technology.
Compound parts: server
client
Inflected forms:
form: servents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A peer-to-peer network node which has the functionality of both server and client.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
Becky
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Beckies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Beckys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker because she is basic or unaware of, or is taking advantage of, her social privilege (white privilege).
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
derogatory
examples: We were smoking weed in the park, but then some Becky called the cops on us.
He only want me when I'm not there
He better call Becky with the good hair
Last year, native Hawaiian activists grew angry after news that Aloha Poke’s attorneys were sending cease and desist letters to poke shop owners who used the word “aloha” in their restaurants’s names. Native Hawaiians felt the Chicago company was trying to regulate their language and culture. Boycotters have taken to calling Aloha Poke food “Becky Bowls.”
gloss: An average-looking woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Incels scoff at Beckys, hoping to score exclusively with Stacys because Stacys alone are the sexual currency that will lead to admiration.
She was the hottest Becky to hit the gaming circuit in years.
Incels feel entitled to love, pleasure, and power and they don't want it from Beckys.
Translations:
racer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.
Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.
Proto-West Germanic *rās
Old English rǣs
▲
Proto-Germanic *rēsō
Old Norse rásbor.
Middle English race
English race
English -er
English racer
From race + -er. First attested in 1648.
Inflected forms:
form: racers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing.
pos: noun
examples: He was a [motorcycle] racer as a teenager, and a frequent visitor to the Isle of Man, where he had many friends.
gloss: Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing.
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of race: one that races or is used for racing.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several genera of colubrid snakes.
pos: noun
gloss: A video game involving racing of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: For our kart racer, we will start by investigating common elements in similar games that we will need to bring to life, […]
gloss: A racist.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
Derived words: barrel racer
black racer
blue racer
boy racer
bracket racer
drag racer
footracer
girl racer
gravity racer
green racer
racerback
racerlike
rat racer
sim racer
snow racer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: бегач
roman: begač
lang: Bulgarian
word: състезател
roman: sǎstezatel
lang: Catalan
word: corrent
lang: Czech
word: závodník
lang: Esperanto
word: kuranto
lang: Finnish
word: kilpailija
lang: French
word: coureur
lang: French
word: coureuse
lang: German
word: Rennfahrer
lang: German
word: Rennfahrerin
lang: Hindi
word: धावक
roman: dhāvak
lang: Irish
word: rásaí
lang: Italian
word: concorrente
lang: Japanese
word: レーサー
roman: rēsā
lang: Korean
word: 레이서
roman: reiseo
lang: Latin
word: cursor
lang: Malay
word: pelumba
lang: Polish
word: zawodnik
lang: Polish
word: zawodniczka
lang: Portuguese
word: corrente
lang: Russian
word: го́нщик
roman: gónščik
lang: Russian
word: го́нщица
roman: gónščica
lang: Sanskrit
word: रघु
roman: raghu
lang: Southern Altai
word: јарышчы
roman: ǰarïščï
lang: Spanish
word: corredor
lang: Spanish
word: carrerista
lang: Spanish
word: velocista
lang: Swedish
word: racerförare
lang: Turkish
word: yarışçı
lang: Ukrainian
word: го́нщик
roman: hónščyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: го́нщиця
roman: hónščycja
lang: Finnish
word: kilpa-auto, kilpa-ajoneuvo
lang: Finnish
word: kilpuri
lang: French
word: racer
lang: French
word: vélo de course
lang: French
word: bicyclette de course
lang: German
word: Rennwagen
lang: German
word: Rennjacht
lang: German
word: Rennrad
lang: Swedish
word: racerbil
lang: Swedish
word: racer
movant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin movēre
Old Northern French moverbor.
Middle English moven
English move
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English movant
From move + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: movants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: movent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The party who moves for the judge to rule in favor of a motion.
pos: noun
Translations:
iridescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: iridescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: iridescent
iridescently
iridesce
luminescence
fluorescence
Translations:
poesy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English poesie (Middle English po(esie) + -esy), from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis.
Affixes: -esy
Inflected forms:
form: poesies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poesie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poësy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A poem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The art or composition of poetry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The class of literature comprising poems.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: I know not well how to excuse him, in that hee deemed his Poesie worthy to be published.
We know a poetical young gentleman—a very poetical young gentleman. We do not mean to say that he is troubled with the gift of poesy in any remarkable degree, but his countenance is of a plaintive and melancholy cast, his manner is abstracted and bespeaks affliction of soul:[…]
Derived words: poesiless
posy
Translations:
shimmer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
Inflected forms:
form: shimmers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shimmering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shimmered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shimmered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shimmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135,
With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
The shimmering glimpses of a stream
I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.
Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.
gloss: Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
pos: verb
gloss: A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
pos: noun
examples: I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.
He’d aimed film lamps at the rectangular pools, which sent reflections up the gallery wall in veined and fractured shimmers.
gloss: A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
pos: noun
examples: As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
Derived words: ashimmer
shimmerer
shimmer stick
shimmery
Translations:
prismatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French prismatique.
Inflected forms:
form: more prismatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prismatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prismatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.
pos: adj
gloss: Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.
pos: adj
Synonyms: multicolored
polychromatic
Derived words: antiprismatic
aprismatic
diprismatic
gigantoprismatic
interprismatic
intraprismatic
microprismatic
nacroprismatic
nanoprismatic
nonprismatic
pentaprismatic
prismatical
prismatically
prismatic coefficient
prismatic colors
prismatic colours
prismatic compass
prismatic powder
subprismatic
triprismatic
unprismatic
Translations:
drafter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English draft
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English drafter
From draft + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: drafters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who prepares technical drawings and plans.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who prepares drafts.
pos: noun
examples: It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.
Departmental drafters have done their best to explain in the June report what's happened, but obviously can't write about the politics that led to Golborne being dropped. Instead, they refer to the Government's Union Connectivity Review [...].
gloss: A person who writes a legislative bill.
pos: noun
tags: US
Synonyms: draughtsman
Translations:
stair-step
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stair-steps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stair-stepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stair-stepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stair-stepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To walk up a set of stairs as exercise.
pos: verb
gloss: A strategy for big city walking to avoid staying on the same street; it involves turning at a corner, walking to the end of the block, crossing the street, then repeating
pos: verb
examples: I'm going to stair-step from East 3rd and 50th down to West 44th and Seventh Avenue.
Translations:
irascibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin īrāscor (“to be angry, to be enraged”) + -ibility. See also irascible.
Affixes: -ibility
Inflected forms:
form: irascibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being irascible; irritability of temper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One valid response to all this “you kids off my lawn” irascibility is that the questions in economics are hard – really, really hard.
Translations:
invulnerable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French invulnérable, from Latin invulnerābilis, from vulnerābilis, from vulnerō (“to wound”), from vulnus (“wound”), equivalent to in- + vulnerable.
Base: vulnerable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.
gloss: Unanswerable; irrefutable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an invulnerable argument
Related words: invulnerability
invulnerably
Derived words: invulnerableness
Translations:
invulnerability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French invulnérabilité.
Inflected forms:
form: invulnerabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being invulnerable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unanswerable
Part of speech: adj
noun
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 answer
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 answerable
English unanswerable
From un- + answerable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unanswerable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unanswerable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unaunswerable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: unanswerables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unaunswerable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: Not answerable; impossible to answer.
pos: adj
gloss: Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
pos: adj
examples: If I have not said much about it before, it was, of course, that the Professor's earnest desire was that no possible rumor of the unanswerable argument which we carried should be allowed to leak out until the moment came when his enemies were to be confuted.
The map is never an unanswerable argument in transportation.
gloss: Something that cannot be answered.
pos: noun
examples: These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.
Related words: answerless
unanswerability
unanswerableness
unanswerably
Translations:
inwards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Germanic *in
Proto-West Germanic *in
Old English in
Middle English in
English in
English -wards
English inwards
From in + -wards.
Inflected forms:
form: more inwards
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inwards
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Towards the inside.
pos: adv
examples: The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
As well as their obvious novelty value, the Class 313s offered fast acceleration, those power-operated sliding doors, non-opening passenger windows, closed ventilators to prevent any body part, head or limbs reaching out, drivers' and guards' doors opening inwards, and end doors for emergency exit.
Antonyms: outwards
Translations:
invitingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inviting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English invitingly
From inviting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more invitingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most invitingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inviting manner; so as to attract; attractively.
pos: adv
Translations:
attractively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English attractive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English attractively
From attractive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more attractively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most attractively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
pos: adv
examples: For the typophiles reading this, the book is attractively designed. It is set in Classic Aldine, a handsome face akin to the more popular Palatino. The designer's work is unfortunately marred by indifferent printing.
Translations:
enticing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enticing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enticing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: enticings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
pos: adj
examples: The opportunity to extinguish MAGAdom is so enticing that it has purged one of the most self-sabotaging inclinations in the American liberal’s coalition: the fractious adjudication of identity that can too often become a priority over winning elections.
gloss: enticement; temptation
pos: noun
examples: On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.
Translations:
enticement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French enticement.
Inflected forms:
form: enticements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suddenly on the far side of the street Rozsi and her sister passed, with little baskets on their arms. He started up, and at that moment Rozsi looked round--her face was the incarnation of enticement, the chin tilted, the lower lip thrust a little forward, her round neck curving back over her shoulder. Swithin muttered, "Make your own arrangements--leave me out!" and hurried from the room, leaving James beside himself with interest and alarm.
gloss: That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
Translations:
inviolate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inviolat, inviolate, from Latin inviolātus. By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + violate (adjective).
Inflected forms:
form: more inviolate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inviolate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
pos: adj
examples: His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
A partner can also, hopefully, be trusted more fully than any other person in our lives. Our courts recognize this by refusing to allow a person to testify against his or her spouse. The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.
gloss: Incorruptible.
pos: adj
examples: inviolate truth
There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.
Related words: inviolacy
inviolately
inviolateness
Translations:
volubility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin volūbilitās. By surface analysis, voluble + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: volubilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being voluble
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.
But there is no help for him — or for us, his readers — no way for him to stop the chattering by which he means to make his meaning clear […] Freddie Greenfield is doomed, then, and we are doomed along with him, victims of his volubility.
gloss: the degree to which someone is voluble
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
shorthanded
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From short + handed.
Compound parts: short
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more shorthanded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shorthanded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more shorthanded
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most shorthanded
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
pos: adj
examples: The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
"What are you doing out here?" I asked Iris. “We shorthanded?” She smiled. “We're always shorthanded, Miss Lois.
gloss: Having less than a quorum.
pos: adj
examples: Neither the code nor the case law discuss whether or how the power of a shorthanded school board should be curtailed
gloss: Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty.
pos: adj
examples: “Scoring a shorthanded goal gives the team a lift,” Lefley said. “We've been picking our spots and making the most of them.
gloss: Having fewer than the standard number of players.
pos: adj
examples: Some of the ideas discussed in the Omaha eight-or-better section include general concepts, position, low hands, high hands, your starting hand, play on the flop, multi-way versus shorthanded play, scare cards, getting counterfeited, and your playing style.
gloss: In a shorthanded manner.
pos: adv
examples: "They were working shorthanded," said one PMA official, "this company's got a policy of releasing gangs working shorthanded."
A player may receive a red card any time without the player first receiving a yellow card. When a player gets a red card, they must leave the game and their team must play shorthanded.
Because most pots are played shorthanded, medium pocket pairs, as well as AK, AQ, and AJ, go up in value.
Translations:
Singlish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Blend of Singaporean + English.
Compound parts: Singaporean
English
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A highly colloquial or basilectal variety of Singapore English incorporating much Hokkien and Malay lexis.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
uncountable
Translations:
ravelin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ravelin, from Italian rivellino, of unclear origin: perhaps from Latin re- + vallum.
Inflected forms:
form: ravelins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An outwork. A fortification outside a castle used to split an attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon
pos: noun
examples: It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
Translations:
brownout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
firefighting
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: A deverbal from brown out, by analogy with blackout.
Inflected forms:
form: brownouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brown out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brown-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination.
pos: noun
examples: The ancient elevator begins its descent. ... Its motor whines, its cables grind, but between the tenth and ninth stories a gatta-gatta-gatta detonantes then dies with a phzzz-zzz-zz-z.
...
Luisa manages a smile, just. “We might be here some time. Last month’s brownout lasted seven hours.” Well, at least I’m not confined with a psychopath, a claustrophobe, or Richard Ganga.
When demand for electricity exceeds the available supply, a brownout occurs.
gloss: A temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
pos: noun
examples: On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly.
gloss: A temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
pos: noun
examples: Fire departments across the country have been forced to rely on rolling brownouts because of the recession.
gloss: A power outage during the day; distinguished from a blackout, which occurs at night.
pos: noun
gloss: A moment or period where something is weakened, diminished or less effective.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncommon
gloss: A blackout, regardless of time of day.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Hong-Kong
Philippines
examples: Remember that you can't send or receive a fax if there is a brownout. ... Due to blackouts (the Philippine term is brownout), especially during the dry season, be prepared with a flashlight and don't forget to save your data in your PC.
Related words: whiteout
Derived words: rolling brownout
Translations:
self-righteous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English righteous
English self-righteous
From self- + righteous.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-righteous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-righteous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
And is it not possible, Mr. Hier, that people are reacting (in a contemptible way, certainly) against your self-righteous bawling?
“God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”
gloss: Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.
pos: adj
Synonyms: holier-than-thou
Related words: virtue signalling
Derived words: self-righteously
self-righteousness
Translations:
sightseeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sight + seeing.
Compound parts: sight
seeing
Inflected forms:
form: sightseeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sight-seeing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.
Translations:
crip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Clipping of cripple.
Inflected forms:
form: crips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cripped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cripple.
pos: noun
tags: offensive
examples: Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it."
gloss: A person with a disability.
pos: noun
gloss: To do a Crip Walk.
pos: verb
gloss: To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
pos: verb
examples: In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.
In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.
Related words: crip up
Derived words: crippunk
cripqueer
queercrip
supercrip
Translations:
Crip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally from crib, reflecting the young age of most gang members; later influenced by cripple, referring to the canes they used to carry.
Inflected forms:
form: Crips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of Crips, a violent Los Angeles criminal gang who typically wear blue and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.
pos: noun
examples: My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.
Translations:
granularity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English granular
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English granularity
From granular + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: granularities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being granular.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: By granularity we mean the length of time to execute a multitaskable segment of the original program on a single CPU. Granularity is measured in time units, rather than floating point operations, […]
gloss: The extent to which something is granular.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: granulate
granulation
granule
Derived words: equigranularity
hypergranularity
microgranularity
multigranularity
Translations:
footman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fotman, footman, foteman (“foot soldier, running footman”), from Old English *fōtman, *fōtmann (attested only as Old English fēþman, fēþemann (“footman”), equivalent to foot + man.
Base: foot
Inflected forms:
form: footmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
pos: noun
examples: […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
Reading their accounts, you can't help feeling they got a more thrilling frisson from sharing a pot of home-made stew without a footman than they took in any of their convoluted couplings.
gloss: A servant who runs in front of his master's carriage.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: When he travelled by coach the vehicle was accompanied by his liveried footmen running alongside to ensure its smooth passage (footmen would not be indoor servants until a century later).
gloss: A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
pos: noun
gloss: A moth of the family Arctiidae (or subfamily Arctiinae); so called from its livery-like colors.
pos: noun
gloss: A moth of the family Arctiidae (or subfamily Arctiinae); so called from its livery-like colors.
pos: noun
gloss: A bar that connects the treadle of a spinning wheel to the wheel.
pos: noun
Derived words: footmanhood
footmanly
footmanry
footmanship
speckled footman
underfootman
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: aitosiilikäs
lang: German
word: Bärenspinner
lang: Welsh
word: troedwas
philosophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English philosophik, phylosophyk, from Old French filosofique and Latin philosophicus; equivalent to philosophy + -ic.
Base: philosophy
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more philosophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most philosophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: philosophick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: phylosophic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: phylosophick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of philosophical.
pos: adj
examples: ’Tis certain, that, while we aſpire to the magnanimous Firmneſs of the philoſophic Sage, and endeavour to confine our Pleaſures altogether within our own Minds, we may, at laſt, render our Philoſophy, like that of Epictetus and other Stoics, only a more refin’d Syſtem of Selfiſhneſs, and reaſon ourſelves out of all Virtue, as well as ſocial Enjoyment.
Translations:
inmost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English inmost, from Old English innemest, a double superlative form from inne (“within”), from in (“in”). The modern form is due to confusion with most.
Inflected forms:
form: inmosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: innermost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That which is inmost; the core.
pos: noun
Translations:
emphatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English emphatic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English emphatically
From emphatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more emphatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most emphatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
pos: adv
examples: The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.
Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph’s obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment’s hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word.
Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.
gloss: Most definitely; truly.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
gloss: Not really, but apparently.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expreſſed their velocity by incurvity
Translations:
hillside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hill
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English hillside
From hill + side.
Inflected forms:
form: hillsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of a hill.
pos: noun
examples: Snowsheds and snow fences protect the line on either side of Semskfjell, but the country soon begins to lose some of its bleakness, and the tree line is regained at Lønsdal (1,680 ft. above sea-level), where the line is high on a hillside, commanding widespread views of the mountains.
Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Translations:
bravest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Firefighters.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-only
examples: New York's bravest
Translations:
teaspoonful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From teaspoon + -ful.
Base: teaspoon
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: teaspoonfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: teaspoonsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tea spoonful
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tea-spoonful
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
pos: noun
examples: “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”
Translations:
Anglophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phobia.
Base: Anglo
Inflected forms:
form: anglophobia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The hatred or fear of England and anything English (or British).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: Anglophilia
Translations:
teflon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericization of trademark Teflon.
Inflected forms:
form: more teflon
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most teflon
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: ...tweeting in defiance at all those horrendous scandals that were meant to destroy his campaign. He made teflon look sticky.
gloss: Non-stick, slick.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Able to easily shrug off or deflect criticism or blame.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: the teflon Prime Minister
Translations: