yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
stiffly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English stifly
English stiffly
From Middle English stifly, styfly; equivalent to stiff + -ly.
Base: stiff
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more stiffly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stiffly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stiff manner.
pos: adv
examples: 'Twas Mr. Glennie who first moved to seek me; for when the second day came that I was not at school, he thought that I was ill, and went to my aunt's to ask how I did, as was his wont when any ailed. But Aunt Jane answered him stiffly that she could not say how I did.
'Very well, Clara,' she said stiffly, 'but I shall also speak to your father.'
It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts.
Translations:
smilingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smiling
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English smilingly
From smiling + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more smilingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most smilingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a smiling manner; with a smile.
pos: adv
examples: But me thinks at these words I heare some smilingly say, I would be loath to lacke liuing of my own till the Prince gaue me a maner of new Elme for my riming […]
But his flaw’d heart,
Alack, too weak the conflict to support!
’Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.
1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters, London: William Miller, 1811, Volume II, Letter 28, p. 279,
He looked smilingly serious.
Lo! how they murmur, laugh, and smile, and weep:
Some with upholden hand and mouth severe;
Some with their faces muffled to the ear
Between their arms; some, clear in youthful bloom,
Go glad and smilingly athwart the gloom;
Some looking back, and some with upward gaze;
Yes, thousands in a thousand different ways
Flit onward […]
So Amelia gave Dobbin her little hand as she got out of the carriage, and rebuked him smilingly for not having taken any notice of her all night.
[…] Thorndyke, having unstrapped the hamper with as much care as if it contained a collection of priceless porcelain, bore it tenderly up to his bedroom; whence he appeared, after a considerable interval, smilingly apologetic for the delay.
"Don't tell me, Daddy, that you with all your complex brain and wonderful self are a thing with no more life hereafter than a broken clock!" "Four buckets of water and a bagful of salts," said Challenger as he smilingly detached his daughter's grip.
Translations:
nonsteroidal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́
Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
French cholestérine
French cholestérolbor.
English cholesterol
English sterol
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English steroid
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English steroidal
English nonsteroidal
From non- + steroidal.
Inflected forms:
form: nonsteroidals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That does not consist of or contain steroids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Finerenone, a nonsteroidal MRA, was among the drugs in the trials.
gloss: Any drug not containing steroids.
pos: noun
Translations:
strikingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English striking
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English strikingly
From striking + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more strikingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most strikingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a striking way.
pos: adv
examples: He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.
Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.
gloss: To a remarkable degree or extent.
pos: adv
examples: He was strikingly deficient in good sense.
Each mate nursed his fellow, and some strikingly pathetic touches of devotion were shown here and there amongst them.
Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
Patterns of evolution in the two families, however, are strikingly different.
And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
gloss: Remarkably, surprisingly.
pos: adv
examples: Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.
Then, they looked up which lawyers in these various lawsuits won their cases, and those who didn’t. Most strikingly, the researchers found that if the legal teams more closely mirrored a judge’s preferred writing style in documents such as past legal opinions, their chances of winning could more than double.
Translations:
obliterated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From obliterate + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and past tenses and past participles of regular verbs).
Base: obliterate
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more obliterated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obliterated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Destroyed; (loosely) broken beyond repair.
pos: adj
examples: […] Huck’s confidence in the human race was wellnigh obliterated.
[A]s however the sutures between this epimeron and the adjoining pieces are very obliterated, it easily escapes observation even when really exposed.
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."
Bearing in mind that the veins have more compressible walls than the arteries, it is intelligible how they are more obliterated than the former when an organ becomes dislocated.
Had he succeeded in awakening in 1966, he would no doubt have been fascinated to find the site of his obliterated house the subject of lively interest and debate as archaeologists and architects attempted a hypothetical reconstruction.
On the ground in Berlin, they would search for the axle of an obliterated car and hope that it bore a serial number; they would probe the crater at the Brandenburg's foot, shifting stones made ancient by blood and grief.
A vindictive little kitten who is still angry about an obliterated car, more like.
gloss: Forgotten.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: This thought gave life to her diction, her soul flowed into it, and she soon found the task of recollecting almost obliterated impressions very interesting.
Her husband was obliterated, she was with her father again, who was so fresh and free and all daylight. Her husband, with his intensity and his darkness, was obliterated. She left him, she forgot him, she accepted her father.
gloss: Very drunk or intoxicated; wasted.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The right of men to get obliterated and do stupid stuff—the fun men have getting obliterated and doing stupid stuff—is so culturally accepted that it's a cornerstone of best man speeches and bro comedies.
Derived words: unobliterated
Translations:
fainter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English faint
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 fainter
From faint (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fainters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who faints.
pos: noun
examples: As an adult and the wife of the minister, I was always armed with vials of smelling salts, furnished by funeral directors, for fainters at church funerals.
Translations:
excitedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excited
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English excitedly
From excited + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more excitedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most excitedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an excited manner.
pos: adv
examples: Everybody crowded around very excitedly and talked about the Australian crawl, a stroke I cannot do because there is something wrong with my flutter kick.
Translations:
dryly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dry
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dryly
From dry + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dryly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dryly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: drily
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a dry manner.
pos: adv
examples: “Are you going?” said Mr. Chester, rising with a graceful indolence. “Let me light you down the stairs.”
“Pray keep your seat,” returned the other dryly, “I know the way.” So, waving his hand slightly, and putting on his hat as he turned upon his heel, he went clanking out as he had come, shut the door behind him, and tramped down the echoing stairs.
“Pah! A very coarse animal, indeed!” said Mr. Chester, composing himself in the easy chair again. “A rough brute. Quite a human badger!”
The company were convulsed with laughter, all except the host himself, who dryly remarked: ‘Very amusing, Mr. Robert, very amusing, truly; ye're a clever lad, very clever; but just let me tell you, […]’
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
"Accident, Suicide, Murder?"
"Undoubtedly neither accident nor suicide," he said dryly.
[…]
"You incline to the idea, then, that Mrs. Owen was murdered. Do you know by whom?"
He laughed, and drew forth the piece of string he always fidgeted with when unravelling some mystery.
"You would like to know who murdered that old woman?" he asked at last.
"I would like to hear your views on the subject," Polly replied.
"I have no views," he said dryly. "No one can know who murdered the woman, since no one ever saw the person who did it. No one can give the faintest description of the mysterious man who alone could have committed that clever deed, and the police are playing a game of blind man's buff."
"Wasn't his father in steamships or something?" asked Charlotte.
"Aye! Steamships and railroads and banks and trust companies, and nubbody knows what all! But when he died two years ago, mark ye now, he couldn't take a penny of it with him. So his boy Perry come in for it all."
"Was that his wife I met on the veranda?" asked Charlotte.
"Perry's wife? Not likely! He isna married."
"I wonder why."
"Courted to death, I'm thinking," said Mr. Ogilvie dryly.
"Poor thing!" said Charlotte, more dryly than he.
Then at the last minute Harris was brought aboard as Dr. Zachary Smith, initially an authentic, lip-curling nogoodnik who, it was presently discovered, could be better used for laughs played off Mumy and a sober-sided robot (“You bubbleheaded booby,” sneers Harris. “That does not compute,” returns the robot dryly).
And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly.
Translations:
doubtfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dowtfully, doutefulli, equivalent to doubtful + -ly.
Base: doubtful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more doubtfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most doubtfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably.
pos: adv
examples: He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark. "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."
Translations:
devoutly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Ecclesiastical Latin -tus
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor.
Old French devotbor.
Middle English devout
English devout
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English devoutly
From devout + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more devoutly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most devoutly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a devout manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
decently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decent
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English decently
From decent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more decently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most decently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a decent manner.
pos: adv
examples: You need to be decently attired to enter the restaurant.
gloss: To a reasonable or acceptable degree.
pos: adv
examples: a decently high salary
Derived words: carry me out and bury me decently
Translations:
confiding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: By surface analysis, confide + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more confiding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confiding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: confidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
pos: adj
examples: Effingham was by nature indolent, confiding, and, at times, impetuous and indiscreet; but Marmaduke was uniformly equable, penetrating, and full of activity and enterprise.
Those eyes especially struck Eugene, and when he thought of Liza he always saw those clear, mild, confiding eyes.
Not having a confiding relationship with one's husband was, however, associated with elevated risk for symptoms of anxiety.
gloss: In confidence; as if with trust.
pos: adj
examples: Sir, they must surely entertain a higher opinion of the credulity of this house, than -- even their recent experience can justify, if they think that their confiding talent will be carried to this length.
It might be sufficient, perhaps, to refer only to that trait of frank, confiding generosity, which could overlook all injuries and embrace even former enemies as friends ; as in the case of Saul above referred to ;
Juliet raised her eyes with confiding tenderness ; there was no interrogation in their glance, yet Montague wished to speak ; his heart was too full for words.
He defines tie strength in a fairly intuitive way as the amount of time as well as the emotional intensity and intimacy (in a confiding sense, rather than a sexual one, although I don't think he rules out the latter) devoted to our relationships, as well as the mutual benefits characterizing our dealings with other people.
gloss: Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.
pos: adj
gloss: The telling of something in confidence.
pos: noun
examples: We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings, and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist[…]
Derived words: confidingly
confidingness
self-confiding
unconfiding
Translations:
rareness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rare
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 rareness
From rare + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: rarenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being rare; rarity
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We discussed the rareness of the coin and decided it was actually pretty common.
The patron sent back the steak because he objected to its rareness.
Antonyms: commonness
Translations:
summoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English summon
English -ing
English summoning
From summon + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: summonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is summoned.
pos: noun
examples: spirit summonings
Translations:
winterize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English winter
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English winterize
From winter + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: winterizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: winterizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: winterized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: winterized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: winterise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To prepare (something) for winter weather.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Temperatures are expected to plummet over the weekend, and aside from grabbing a coat, experts say there’s some things you should do to winterize your home.
gloss: To remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not become cloudy in the winter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some oils which are frequently winterized to produce salad oil are: refined and lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil and some varieties of rapeseed oil.
The continuous miscella winterizing process takes from 45 min to 1 hr to produce +15 hr cold test oil.
Derived words: winterization
winterized
winterizer
winterizing
Translations:
rejecting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rejectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of rejection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] selectings and rejectings of a few founders.
Translations:
reiterated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more reiterated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reiterated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
rascally
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rascal
English -y
English rascally
From rascal + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: rascallier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rascalliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more rascally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most rascally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a rascal.
pos: adj
examples: He was speedily reassured, and with a large, white, rascally grin, and a glance at his charge, seemed to take me into partnership in his exalted trust.
My chief creditor is, unhappily, my most bitter enemy—a rascally fellow, Sam Brewer, whom I was once compelled to horse-whip on Newmarket Heath.
gloss: In the manner of a rascal.
pos: adv
examples: “I hope,” said Jones, “you don’t intend to leave me in this condition.” “Indeed but I shall,” said the other. “Then,” said Jones, “you have used me rascally, and I will not pay you a farthing.”
Translations:
prying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: The act of one who pries.
pos: noun
examples: That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.
Translations:
mutilated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mut.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone mutilation
pos: adj
Translations:
win-win
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That benefits both or all parties, or that has two distinct benefits.
pos: adj
examples: win-win outcome
win-win situation
In zero-sum games, every win for one side is a loss for the other ; there can be no such thing as a "win-win" outcome
Has the shifting policy of win-win to win-hold-win and back to win-win had an impact on your munitions requirements determinations?
2. Win-Win The best partnership
A Win/Win Approach to Conflict / An integrative approach to conflict has such obvious merit for a group that it is worth spending some time looking at how it works
At the time of writing, I have not seen the finished product, but I nevertheless think this is a win-win situation for Network Rail, operators, Fabrik and, of course, others.
Translations:
Duesenberg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Duesenbergs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car produced by Duesenberg.
pos: noun
Translations:
wire-haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having coarse, stiff hair.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: smooth-haired
Translations:
wiretap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Back-formation from wiretapper; or else wire + tap
Compound parts: wire
tap
Inflected forms:
form: wiretaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wiretaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wiretapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wiretapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wiretapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
pos: noun
gloss: To install or to use such a connection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
wiretapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wiretappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The installation or monitoring of wiretaps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
dangly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dangle
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English dangly
From dangle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: danglier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dangliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dangling; tending to dangle.
pos: adj
Translations:
foreseeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English foreseing, forseying, equivalent to foresee + -ing.
Base: foresee
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: foreseeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is foreseen; a prophetic vision.
pos: noun
examples: But at other times my magic is a true magic, and my looking runs very lightly over all the days which are to come before my client has quite done with earth's daylight; and at these times I must tell, will I or will I not, the truth about my foreseeings […]
Translations:
competently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English competent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English competently
From competent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more competently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most competently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a competent manner.
pos: adv
examples: And on the end of the big table sat a pot of chicken and dumplings, the sad but tasty end of a tough red bird who had competently done his roosterly duty all his life, yet through no fault of his own had ended up a criminal.
Translations:
hesitantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin haereō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
▲
Latin -tō
Latin -itō
Latin -titō
Latin haesitō
Latin haesitānsbor.
English hesitant
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English hesitantly
From hesitant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more hesitantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hesitantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With hesitation.
pos: adv
examples: The sounds from Barb's clarinet began to take the shape of a melody, played quietly at first, hesitantly, with a misblown note here and there.
It approaches irrefusably, hesitantly, terrible as fate, the great task and question: how shall the earth as a whole be managed? (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885)
Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows.
'They'll see!'
'Let them!'
'I'd be ashamed—'
A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”
The teenager stared down the barrel of Petr's gun for a few seconds, then asked hesitantly, “What kind of questions?”
“Something's going on,” Petr began.
The pimply deadlingshrugged. “This is Brno, there's always something going on.”
gloss: With reluctance.
pos: adv
Translations:
tetraplegic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tetra- and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
Affixes: tetra-
Inflected forms:
form: tetraplegics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A quadriplegic.
pos: noun
Translations:
raring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From rare (verb), a variant of rear (“to raise, rouse”). More at rear.
Inflected forms:
form: more raring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most raring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Eager.
pos: adj
examples: raring to go
I'm ready and raring to go. I can hardly wait to get there.
Tonight's a boogie-oogie time / And you know I'm raring to go / I'm gonna celebrate / Tonight's mine, all mine, yeah
Translations:
reconvene
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English convene
English reconvene
From re- + convene.
Inflected forms:
form: reconvenes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reconvening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reconvened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reconvened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To resume something that has been convened and then paused.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: dividing into a finite number of parts and then reconvening them,
gloss: To come together again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We will reconvene after lunch to discuss the outstanding points on the agenda.
Translations:
regally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English regali; equivalent to regal + -ly.
Base: regal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more regally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most regally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
pos: adv
examples: Mrs. Mountstuart seated herself regally "Ah, Mr. Dale!" she said, inclining to him. "Yes, dear Lady Busshe, there is a particle."
His wife is very pretty. Not exactly regally lovely, of course—it wouldn’t do, I suppose, for a minister to have a regally lovely wife, because it might set a bad example.
But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away
In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska.
[…]she has remained successful and beloved for the last half century, collecting a Lifetime Award Grammy, an honorary doctorate from Harvard and the icon’s prerogative to appear—regally chinoed—in a Gap ad.
Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.
Translations:
wisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wyssher, wisscher, wyshere, equivalent to wish + -er.
Base: wish
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who makes a wish
pos: noun
Translations:
ramjet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From ram + jet.
Compound parts: ram
jet
Inflected forms:
form: ramjets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic.
pos: noun
Translations:
wistfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wistful + -ness.
Base: wistful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: wistfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being wistful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She was no longer the alert, vivacious American beauty who had charmed and delighted all who came in contact with her. Instead she was a very quiet and sad little girl—with an expression of hopeless wistfulness that none but Hazel Strong could interpret.
It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver.
Translations:
witchery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English wiċċe
Proto-Germanic *wikkōną
Proto-West Germanic *wikkōn
Proto-West Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *wikkō
Old English wiċċa
Middle English wicche
English witch
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English witchery
From witch + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: witcheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Witchcraft.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You are right to some extent in what you say. In the olden days people had a stronger belief in all kinds of witchery; now they pretend not to believe in it, that they may be looked upon as sensible and educated people, as you say.
They are determined that I shall be burnt as a witch; and they sent their doctor to cure me; but he was forbidden to bleed me because the silly people believe that a witch’s witchery leaves her if she is bled; so he only called me filthy names.
gloss: An act of witchcraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It may be they know something of the witcheries of this woman.
gloss: Allure, charm, magic.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: At noon, when by the forest's edge / He lay beneath the branches high, / The soft blue sky did never melt / Into his heart,—he never felt / The witchery of the soft blue sky!
I am influenced—conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win.
He beheld the scene in his mind’s eye, through the witchery of many intervening years, and faintly illuminated it as if with starlight instead of this broad glow of moonshine.
The witchery of the dawn turned the grey river-reaches to purple, gold, and opal; and it was as though the lumbering dhoni crept across the splendors of a new heaven.
[A]lready his imagination, leaping ahead of the engagement ring, the betrothal kiss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old European witchery.
Translations:
withholding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: withholdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: payroll tax
Derived words: w/h
withholding tax
Translations:
witted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English witted, ywitted, equivalent to wit + -ed. Compare Old English witod (“appointed, ordained, assured, certain”).
Base: wit
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having a specified form of wit (intellectual ability)
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
Translations:
wittiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wittynesse, equivalent to witty + -ness.
Base: witty
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: wittinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the quality of being witty
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
wive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wiven, iwiven, from Old English wīfian, wīfiġan, ġewīfian (“to take a wife; marry”).
Inflected forms:
form: wives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To marry (a woman).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.
gloss: To provide (someone) with a wife.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
womenfolk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of women + folk.
Inflected forms:
form: womenfolks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Women collectively.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: The adult female members of a community.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: “Ain’t she a splendid specimen of Southern womanhood?” Rufus asked. “Down yonder, they teach their womenfolks to serve.”
Synonyms: ladyfolk
Translations:
woodbine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English wodebynd, wodebynde, from Old English wudubind, wudubinde (“woodbine”), equivalent to wood + bine.
Compound parts: wood
bine
Inflected forms:
form: woodbines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
examples: URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
So angle we for Beatrice; who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
Bob gave the man fair warning. Told him if he ever prowled around his home again he'd better come a–fogging; the man took a chance and now he's where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate.
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
pos: noun
Derived words: American woodbine
Carolina wild woodbine
Dutch woodbine
Italian woodbine
small woodbine
wild woodbine
Translations:
Woodbine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: (British soldier): From the British troops being issued with Woodbine cigarettes.
Inflected forms:
form: Woodbines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cigarette of this brand.
pos: noun
examples: Dot handed me a small white tablet of Beechnut chewing gum as we sat on the top deck of the bus on our way home from work one Friday evening. She had also offered me one of her Woodbines.
Translations:
bursa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
lifestyle
medicine
religion
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin bursa (“purse”), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa); compare purse and bourse, which are doublets.
Inflected forms:
form: bursae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bursæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.
pos: noun
examples: A bursa over the anterior aspect of the upper end of the tibia, between the patellar tendon and the tubercle of the tibia, is sometimes enlarged, and may be mistaken for synovitis of the joint.
Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa, which results in pain, tenderness, and stiffness and in some cases, swelling and redness.
A bursa may be present deep to coracobrachialis tendon.
gloss: A diverticulum on the cloaca of young birds, which serves as a lymphatic organ and as part of the immune system, but which atrophies as the bird ages.
pos: noun
examples: The general relations of the bursa to the cloaca are shown in the two accompanying figures.
The dark, crescentic area is the opening of the bursa, from which the covering membrane is temporarily withdrawn.
The bursa is located near the terminal portion of the cloaca and, like the thymus, is a lymphoepithelial organ.
gloss: Any of various pouchlike organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
pos: noun
examples: That portion of the dilated vas deferens which lies outside the cavity of the genital bursa is called the external seminal vesicle .
In other groups, all members of each clade lack a bursa copulatrix. Conversely, some taxa such as many Dendronotina may lack a receptaculum but possess a bursa.
The vagina extends anteriorly over the dorsal side of seminal vesicle to the sperm-filled seminal bursa.
gloss: A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
pos: noun
examples: In solemn mass the deacon brings the book of the Missal to the side of the epistle, then goes backward behind the celebrant; the sub-deacon, indeed, goes to the gospel side, where he cleanses the chalice, fits it with the purifacatory, covers it with the paten and pall, folds the corporal, replaces it in the bursa, and puts it in the chalice covered with a veil, which he places on the altar or over the credentia, as before.
It is forbidden to leave the corporal, when not in use, exposed upon the altar, or to carry it in one's hands without a covering. A bursa is always to be used for that purpose .
Just like relics, the Eucharist was taken, enclosed in a bursa or pendula as a means of protection not only on journeys overland but - and especially - when travellers ventured onto the whimsical sea.
Related words: bursar
bursary
disburse
reimburse
Derived words: bursal
bursaless
bursalogy
bursa of Fabricius
bursectomy
bursiform
bursitis
bursocentesis
bursography
bursopathy
gastrocnemiosemimembranosus bursa
gastrocnemio-semimembranosus bursa
omental bursa
Translations:
hypertrichosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English trichosis
English hypertrichosis
From hyper- + trichosis.
Inflected forms:
form: hypertrichoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medical condition of excessive body hair, either affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized to an area of skin. It may be mild or severe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
trichome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From French trichome, from New Latin trichoma, from Ancient Greek τρίχωμα (tríkhōma), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) or independently from tricho- + -ome. Doublet of trichoma.
Affixes: tricho-
-ome
Inflected forms:
form: trichomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hair- or scale-like extension of the epidermis of a plant.
pos: noun
gloss: Hairlike structures found in some microscopic organisms and algae.
pos: noun
gloss: A row of cells formed by successive cell divisions.
pos: noun
Related words: trichology
trichomic
trichomics
seta
trichoma
trichomatous
Derived words: microtrichome
pseudotrichome
trichomeless
Translations:
big-ticket
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Costly or expensive; having a high price.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Doing careful research before purchasing big-ticket items such as electronics, appliances, and automobiles can ensure that an investment lasts for many years.
Other big-ticket projects are the Northern Powerhouse Rail proposed infrastructure upgrade, for which a budget of £39bn over 20 years has been sought, [...].
For [Grant] Robertson, that means investing significantly in the worn-out health system and pumping money into climate change solutions – big-ticket concerns he says he “owes to people”.
Translations:
pruritic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, prurit(us) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more pruritic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pruritic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Itchy; especially, intensely so.
pos: adj
Translations:
stouthearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stout
English hearted
English stouthearted
From stout + hearted.
Inflected forms:
form: more stouthearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stouthearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stout-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Brave, courageous and plucky.
pos: adj
gloss: Stubborn, resolute.
pos: adj
Derived words: stoutheartedly
stoutheartedness
Translations:
underperform
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English perform
English underperform
From under- + perform.
Inflected forms:
form: underperforms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underperforming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underperformed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underperformed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Even outside the Anglo-Saxon world, underperforming public companies have become vulnerable to hostile takeover.
She inhabits the prose’s terrible serenity and glacial horror — the translator’s hand never overwhelms or underperforms.
Jesus' finishing has been one of the main concerns - since the start of last season the 23-year-old has underperformed his Premier League expected goals tally by 6.97goals (in short, he has scored seven fewer goals than would be expected from the chances presented to him).
Former HS2 Ltd chairman Sir David Higgins provided a timely reminder of why Britain needs HS2 in a letter to The Times on September 25, in which he asked: "Why are so few FTSE 100 companies based outside the South East? Why is there such a brain drain of graduates from the North? Why do northern cities underperform compared with their European counterparts?
Antonyms: overperform
Translations:
neurocognitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English cognitive
English neurocognitive
From neuro- + cognitive.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: pertaining to cognitive functions that are linked to a particular area, pathway or network of the brain
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Islamofascism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama)
Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor.
English Islam
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English Islamo-
Latin fascis
Italian fascio
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismus
Italian -ismo
Italian fascismolbor.
English fascism
English Islamofascism
From Islamo- + fascism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Socially repressive or nationalistic Islamic fundamentalism.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
offensive
uncountable
examples: It braces the talk not only of pundits, but of all the major Republican candidates - from the tough guy at one end, Rudy Giuliani, who lambastes Democrats for not using the word or its equivalent, to the "nice" candidate at the other end, Mike Huckabee, who defines Islamofascism as "the greatest threat this country [has] ever faced."
Translations:
antegrade
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ante
English -grade
English antegrade
From ante (“anterior”) + -grade (“direction”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: moving or directed forward
pos: adj
Antonyms: retrograde
Translations:
unsupportable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unsupportable, equivalent to un- + supportable.
Base: supportable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unsupportable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsupportable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be supported or endured.
pos: adj
examples: Robert told Tunstall-Pedoe that this must be a "completely unsupportable conclusion."
Translations: