yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gear
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
engineering
finance
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Germanic *ga-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der.
Proto-Germanic *arwaz
Proto-Germanic *garwaz
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *garwijanąder.
Old Norse gervibor.
Middle English gere
English gear
From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
Inflected forms:
form: gears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: geared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: geared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more gear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be in gear, come into gear.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
pos: verb
gloss: To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
pos: verb
tags: usually
examples: This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
gloss: To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
pos: verb
gloss: great or fantastic
pos: adj
Derived words: gear to
gear towards
gear up
regear
re-gear
Translations:
polymath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”), first attested in 1624. From πολύς (polús, “much”) (for more, see poly-) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Compare opsimath, philomath, polyhistor, polymathic, polymathist, and polymathy.
Inflected forms:
form: polymaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polumathe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: polymathe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
pos: noun
examples: To be thought and held Polumathes and Polihistors.
A bit of a polymath, he was crucial in the early development of the railways in this country.
Translations:
hallowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English halwed (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), from Old English ġehālgod (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), past participle of hālgian (“to hallow, make holy”). Equivalent to hallow + -ed. More at hallow.
Base: hallow#Etymology_2
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more hallowed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hallowed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
pos: adj
examples: When ye praye / ſaye: Oure father which arte in hevẽ / halowed be thy name.
Translations:
pyramid
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
finance
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin pȳramis, pȳramidis, from Ancient Greek πῡραμίς (pūramís), possibly from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic *ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲙ (*piram) or *ⲫⲣⲁⲙ (*phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of πῡραμίς (pūramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic هَرَم (haram) although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.
Inflected forms:
form: pyramids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pyramiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pyramided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pyramided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: piramis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pyramis
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid.
pos: verb
examples: The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.
Once there was an enormous jukebox; the then-Harlettes (her three-woman back-up vocalists/dancers/mimes) pyramided to drop a huge coin, and around the bend of the big record would spin the diva.
gloss: To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To engage in pyramid trading.
pos: verb
examples: Multiply this by the number of shares you traded, and add other positions if you pyramided.
gloss: To increase to or towards a peak.
pos: verb
tags: dated
Derived words: pyramid down
pyramid up
Translations:
illicit
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from French illicite, from Latin illicitus, from in- (“not”) + licitus (“allowed, permitted”), from licet (“it is allowed”). By surface analysis, il- + licit.
Inflected forms:
form: more illicit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illicit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: illicits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not approved by law, but not invalid.
pos: adj
examples: The bigamous marriage, while illicit, was not invalid.
Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals.
gloss: Breaking social norms.
pos: adj
examples: I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation.
gloss: Unlawful.
pos: adj
examples: Ayşe Erkoç learned long ago that the secret of doing anything illicit in Istanbul is to do it in full public gaze in the clear light of day. No one ever questions the legitimacy of the blatant.
gloss: A banned or unlawful item.
pos: noun
examples: A large number of studies, however, have reported that it is rare for the user of 'hard' drugs not to have initiated cannabis use prior to the other illicits.
Related words: elicit
Derived words: illicitly
illicitness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: забранен
roman: zabranen
lang: Catalan
word: il·lícit
lang: Czech
word: nezákonný
lang: Czech
word: nedovolený
lang: Czech
word: zakázaný
lang: Finnish
word: luvaton
lang: French
word: illicite
lang: Greek
word: παράνομος
roman: paránomos
lang: Greek
word: έκνομος
roman: éknomos
lang: Hindi
word: अवैध
roman: avaidh
lang: Latin
word: illicitus
lang: Polish
word: niedozwolony
lang: Portuguese
word: ilícito
lang: Russian
word: недозволенный
roman: nedozvolennyj
lang: Spanish
word: ilícito
Guernsey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, from Old Norse, compound of Grani (“Grani's”) and ey (“island”). Folk etymology points to a dialectal root for green.
Inflected forms:
form: Guernseys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cow of a breed of dairy cattle originally bred in Guernsey.
pos: noun
gloss: A knitted fisherman’s sweater of a type made on the island.
pos: noun
gloss: A long-sleeved shirt worn by sportsmen, especially in rugby codes (historically).
pos: noun
gloss: A team-liveried shirt; a jersey.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: Selection or election to a position.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
rectangular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rectangular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rectangular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a shape like a rectangle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: rectangular bench
rectangular grid
rectangular object
rectangular table
gloss: Having axes that meet each other with right angles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
Derived words: birectangular
equirectangular
hyperrectangular
nonrectangular
rectangular coordinates
rectangular cuboid
rectangular hyperbola
rectangularise
rectangularity
rectangularization
rectangularly
rectangularness
rectangular number
rectangularwise
subrectangular
sub-rectangular
trirectangular
unrectangular
Translations:
Havana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (cacique) who controlled the area, the name derived from Taíno sabana (“savannah”). The letter h may be an anthroponymic inflection.
Inflected forms:
form: Havanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of large cigar produced in Cuba.
pos: noun
examples: Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana.
Translations:
briskly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brisk
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English briskly
From brisk + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more briskly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most briskly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fast, quickly, swiftly.
pos: adv
examples: `Now,' she said briksly, `you've heard all about the business. What type of personal service have you got in mind?'
As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".
Translations:
investor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *wéstis
Proto-Italic *westis
Latin vestis
Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
Latin -iō
Latin vestiō
Latin investioder.
Middle French investirbor.
▲
Latin investioder.
Medieval Latin investirebor.
English invest
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English investor
From invest + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: investors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
pos: noun
examples: […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
So investors buy stablecoins not to make a profit but instead as a place to store money within the cryptocurrency infrastructure and to use when buying and selling other crypto assets. […] For example, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asserted that for nearly four years Tether did not fully back its stablecoin with US dollars, meaning it did not have enough US dollars on hand to pay back every investor who potentially might cash out their Tether stablecoins.
Translations:
ecology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Calque of German Ökologie (coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: ecologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oecology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: œcology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
gloss: Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: social ecology
linguistic ecology
gloss: The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ecology block
Derived words: aeroecology
agroecology
anthecology
arcology
astroecology
autecology
bioecology
chemical ecology
chemoecology
chronoecology
cultural ecology
deep ecology
dendroecology
eco-
ecological
ecologism
ecologist
ecology block
ecosophy
ecosystem
ecotribe
ethnoecology
geoecology
human ecology
hydroecology
immunoecology
macroecology
microecology
myrmecology
neuroecology
paleoecology
pedoecology
photoecology
physioecology
psychoecology
radioecology
restoration ecology
socioecology
synecology
zooecology
Translations:
juggernaut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed in the 17th century into British English in India, either through Hindustani جَگَنَّاتھ (jagannāth) / जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) or directly from Odia ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ (jagannātha), ultimately from Sanskrit ज॒ग॒न्ना॒थ (jagannāthá, “lord of universe”) (Jagannatha), a title for the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna. The sense comes from witnessing the Rath Yatra (chariot parade) at Puri, Odisha, a huge annual procession which features a wagon of the idol of Jagannath; pulled with ropes by hundreds of devotees, the wagon develops considerable momentum and becomes unstoppable. The r was not originally pronounced: for non-rhotic dialects of British English, the spelling with -er- accurately suggests the Hindi pronunciation of the second vowel (a schwa); compare e.g. gorm. The spelling of the ending was influenced by the suffix -naut (“traveller, voyager”). Doublet of Jagannath.
Inflected forms:
form: juggernauts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.
pos: noun
examples: […] poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments.
Anon Mr. Hoopdriver found himself riding out of the darkness of non-existence, pedalling Ezekiel's Wheels across the Weald of Surrey, jolting over the hills and smashing villages in his course, while the other man in brown cursed and swore at him and shouted to stop his career. There was the Putney heath-keeper, too, and the man in drab raging at him. He felt an awful fool, a- -what was it?--a juggins, ah!--a Juggernaut.
McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
In contrast, the Newcastle juggernaut rolls on.
The fact that the juggernaut of Indian English rolls inexorably on, largely unconcerned by the academic arguments taking place about it, is in itself an indicator of an endonormative force in the variety, and this can be traced historically.
It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.
gloss: A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an articulated lorry.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
sometimes
examples: Silently and gracefully I free-wheeled across the path of three juggernauts, [...] glided across the hard shoulder and came to rest halfway up a grass bank.
I know I swing me Volvo all around you market square. I know you think that lorry drivers, we just don't care. But the streets are so narrow, built so many years ago. They were built for horses' carts, not juggernauts you know.
gloss: An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.
pos: noun
Translations:
morose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
Inflected forms:
form: more morose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: moroser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most morose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: morosest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
pos: adj
examples: If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.
My skin is cold / Transfusion with somebody / Morose and old / Drop into fruitless dying / It was tempting and bared / The whoring angel rising / Now burning prayers / My silent time of losing / My foes, they can't destroy my body / Colliding slow, like life itself
Translations:
jest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.
Inflected forms:
form: jests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
pos: verb
examples: Surely you jest!
Derived words: jestee
jesty
outjest
Translations:
kleptomania
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “to steal”) + -mania, analyzed as klepto- + -mania.
Affixes: klepto-
-mania
Inflected forms:
form: kleptomanias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cleptomania
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
xenophobe
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Base: xeno
Inflected forms:
form: xenophobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
pos: noun
gloss: One who hates or fears extraterrestial life.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
rare
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Synonyms: xenophobiac
xenophobian
xenophobic
xenophobist
Antonyms: xenophile
Related words: xenophobia
xenophobic
xenophobical
xenophobically
bigot
racist
Translations:
hilarious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ious, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more hilarious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hilarious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
pos: adj
examples: a hilarious joke
Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.
gloss: Full of hilarity; merry.
pos: adj
examples: Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.
In order to turn the minds of hilarious guests to seriousness, they would start singing a responsive song, the subject of which was death and the earnestness of life.
Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."
Related words: exhilarate
exhilaration
Hilary
Derived words: hilariously
hilariousness
hilarity
howlarious
sadlarious
unhilarious
Translations:
damage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño.
Inflected forms:
form: damages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: damages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: damaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: damaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: damaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the damage is already done
The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
Great errors and absurdities many […]commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
gloss: Cost or expense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
gloss: To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
He […] came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
gloss: To undergo damage; to take damage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?
Related words: damn
indemnity
Derived words: attrition damage
brain damage
collateral damage
country damage
cryodamage
damage boost
damage control
damage feasant
damageful
damageless
damageous
loss and damage
microdamage
nanodamage
neurodamage
photodamage
radiation damage
splash damage
the damage is done
what's someone's damage
what's the damage
damageability
damageable
damager
redamage
undamaged
Translations:
Latvian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latvian Latvijabor.
English Latvia
Middle English -n
English -n
English Latvian
From Latvia + -n.
Inflected forms:
form: Latvians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Latvia, the Latvian people or the Latvian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The official language of Latvia; Lettish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person from Latvia or of Latvian descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
yearly
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
Base: year
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: yearlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happening once every year.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Christmas is a yearly celebration.
We deep-clean the kitchen lustrally, on a five-yearly basis.
all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.
gloss: Over the course of one year
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a yearly income
gloss: Once a year.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Every year.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: With a scanty supply of laws in Hellenic commonwealths or city states what an immense vista for an Aristotle, of that grand, complex, efficient machinery of law, turning out yearly thousands of laws and taboos for the paternalistic control and alleged welfare of the citizen!
gloss: Something that is published once a year.
pos: noun
Synonyms: annual
per annum
perennial
annually
perennially
Derived words: half-yearly
quarter-yearly
semiyearly
twice-yearly
Translations:
transcendence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transcend
English -ence
English transcendence
From transcend + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: transcendences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of surpassing usual limits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Superior excellence; supereminence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity as its controlling principle
gloss: The property of being a transcendental number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: immanence
Related words: transcend
transcendency
transcendent
transcendental
transcendently
Derived words: hypertranscendence
supertranscendence
transcendence degree
Translations:
feckless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.
Base: effect
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more feckless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feckless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking purpose.
pos: adj
examples: It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman.
gloss: Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
pos: adj
examples: This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.
“Lana, when I want you to talk, I will tell you. And until then, zip it.” “Wha-- what did I do?” “Nothing.” “Yeah, Lana.” “Which is why these feckless idiots lost 200 kilos of cocaine.” “Yeah, Lan-- oh. OK. Technically. But then we stole a plane loaded with, like, twice as much cocaine.” “Is this the part where you tell me to look under my seat?”
Across the country, Democratic voters who have been reeling from Mr. Trump’s sweeping and possibly illegal cuts to government, his head-spinning policy moves, and his politicization of federal law enforcement are growing more and more incensed at their own party’s seemingly feckless response.
gloss: Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
pos: adj
examples: China is “proving to be a feckless friend for its authoritarian allies,” Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China under President Joe Biden, wrote on X.
gloss: Lacking vitality.
pos: adj
tags: UK
archaic
Antonyms: effective
efficient
meaningful
useful
purposeful
careful
responsible
Related words: fecklessly
fecklessness
Translations:
grandee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish grande (adjective), from Latin grandis (“large, great”). Doublet of grand and grande.
Inflected forms:
form: grandees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grande
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
pos: noun
examples: Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they which marry the Heiress of a Family of a Grandee of Spain, that is such hereditarily, become Grandees in right of their Wives.
gloss: A person of high rank.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.
Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference.
For some DSA grandees, like NYC chapter co-chair Bianca Cunningham, socialism means a planned economy that replaces market capitalism.
It is hard to see a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship.
Derived words: grandeeism
grandeeship
Translations:
querulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French querelos, from Late Latin querulōsus, from Latin querulus, from queror (“to complain”).
Inflected forms:
form: more querulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most querulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
pos: adj
examples: “Nay, you said as much before,” said the querulous old man, “and yet I was put forth from Kinross, and pillaged by troopers on the road.—[…]”
"But how am I to obtain such treaty?" asked Monsieur, in a querulous tone.
The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves.
In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
Translations:
equanimity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French équanimité, from Latin aequanimitās (“calmness, equanimity”), from aequus (“even; calm; fair”) + animus (“mind, soul”) + -itās. By surface analysis, equ- + anim(us) + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: equanimities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquanimity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
In the very heart of the herd the din was terrific. It was almost dizzying in its effect. I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I had recovered my equanimity sooner than she.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
We find Hudson himself, a vision of unwavering equanimity, admitting that as a child he didn’t dare mention his acting dreams for fear they would be dismissed as “sissy stuff”.
Translations:
draconian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ian, from Ancient Greek Δράκων (Drákōn), after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws. See δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”).
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more draconian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most draconian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Draconian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: draconians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very severe, cruel, or harsh.
pos: adj
examples: The mayor announced draconian budget cuts today.
The conflict in the countryside resulted in a far more draconian punishment. The Southern Cross flag flew over the camps of striking shearers, who in revenge for their victimisation burned grass, fences, buildings and even riverboats[…]
Perhaps lessons had already been learned from the Draconian infrastructure cuts on the Waterloo-Exeter route.
And that movement, while it was eventually crushed through the extensive use of the draconian lese majeste law, shattered the taboo, by calling openly, for the first time, for the powers and financing of the monarchy to be accountable.
gloss: A creature resembling a dragon.
pos: noun
examples: ... Draconians are fast. They'll fly to meet us no doubt. I remember after a few moments that the human queen is here as well. I call out to her, “Human queen, you are rescued by the Draconians. Come forth and know that you are safe under[…]
... Draconians keep for pets . Vithacan - Symbionts that attach themselves to other creatures and survive off their emotional energy . Soul suckers is a disrespectful term for their race . Zelerians Race of squid like creatures with few[…]
... draconians lifted the webbed bodies of the kender's friends and bore them away . Other draconians followed behind , carrying the companions ' packs and their weapons . As the draconians marched along a path very near the hidden kender[…]
Translations:
execrable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more execrable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most execrable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of the poorest quality.
pos: adj
examples: As execrable as the Supreme Court’s decisions have been, they are of a piece with the conservative rulings from lower court judges who see no issue with laundering a revanchist policy agenda through contorted rulings.
gloss: Hateful, disgusting.
pos: adj
examples: But is an enemy so execrable, that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
The arcanely evil words of that despicable, loathsome, suppressed, vile, pululating ^([sic]), odious, nictating, repellent, repugnant, noxious, abhorrent, abominable, tory, execrable, nauseous work, Ye Boke of Guts, moved as if on a conveyor belt before his eyes.
Synonyms: abhorrent
abominable
atrocious
deplorable
despicable
detestable
disgusting
foul
heinous
horrific
loathsome
low
monstrous
repulsive
revolting
sickening
vile
wretched
Related words: execrableness
execrably
execration
execrate
Derived words: inexecrable
Translations:
rigmarole
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”). Recorded since c1736.
Inflected forms:
form: rigmaroles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rigamarole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rigamarole
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long and complicated formal procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
gloss: Confused and incoherent talk; nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: If you are alluding to Dostoevski’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Karamazov Brothers and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigmarole.
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
While you are planting the seed, he cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster.
His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked.
"Stuff and nonsense, and lying rigmaroles!" he growled, as I vanished through the door[.]
In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush.
"Quite so," said Adèle comfortably. "Now let us be sensible and dine. We can amuse ourselves with mademoiselle's rigmaroles afterwards."
He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole.
gloss: Characterized by rigmarole; prolix; tedious.
pos: adj
examples: This is a most rigmarole letter, for after each sentence, I take breath[…]
"This officer has ended at last," said the Prime Minister. "Another story of calamity, and told in a very rigmarole way, I must confess; but he never can shorten his reports by only inserting the weighty matter. 'Reports annexed,' indeed!—yes, six of them; and underneath sixteen other reports—all, no doubt, much in the same strain."
Synonyms: carry-on
circus act
palaver
riddle me ree
rigmarole
song and dance
Derived words: rigmarolery
rigmarolic
rigmarolish
Translations:
prosaic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).
Inflected forms:
form: more prosaic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prosaic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
pos: adj
examples: The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
gloss: Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
pos: adj
examples: I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
gloss: Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
She lived a prosaic life.
Our people are the most prosaic in the world, but the most faithful; and with curious reverence we keep up and transmit, from generation to generation, the superstition of what we call the education of a gentleman.
Their steepness and abruptness were even greater than I had imagined from hearsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know.
Ultimately, though, the more prosaic goals carried the greater significance in this contest. Madrid have managed only one clean sheet on their way to winning this competition.
Related words: prosaically
prosaicness
prose
Derived words: prosaicism
unprosaic
Translations:
malfeasance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“to do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“to do, make”).
Inflected forms:
form: malfeasances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wrongdoing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
gloss: Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.
Related words: feasance
malefactor
maleficence
maleficent
malfeasant
Translations:
Java
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Inflected forms:
form: Javas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
pos: noun
Translations:
hallmark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1721. From hall + mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of “mark of quality” first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.
Base: hall
Inflected forms:
form: hallmarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hallmarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hallmarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hallmarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hallmarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A distinguishing characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: You know what a university is, and a university degree? It is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching.
The inference appears to be that there is some subtle connection between immorality and art, as if the handling of the lewd, or the depicting of it, were in some sort the hallmark of the true artist.
A man needs only to be careful—and lucky—to live a long time in the Solomons; but he must also be of the right sort. He must have the hall-mark of the inevitable white man stamped upon his soul.
In everything Brent said and did and wore, in all his movements, gestures, expressions, there was the unmistakable hallmark of the man worth while.
Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.
And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.
gloss: An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
pos: noun
examples: It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.
gloss: To provide or stamp with a hallmark.
pos: verb
examples: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
[…]everything on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have slipped a couple into my muff when I was playing with them[…]
Translations:
Mountie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mounted
English -ie
English Mountie
From mounted + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: Mounties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
informal
gloss: A member of the North West Mounted Police
pos: noun
tags: Canada
historical
informal
gloss: A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
Translations:
solstice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥
Latin sōl
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Italic *sistō
Latin sistō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sōlstitiumlbor.
Old French solsticebor.
Middle English solstice
English solstice
From Middle English solstice, from Old French solstice, from Latin sōlstitium.
Inflected forms:
form: solstices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
pos: noun
examples: The point at which the sun is nearest to the south pole we call the winter solstice, and the opposite point, the summer solstice.
Antonyms: equinox
Translations:
Lisbon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Paleo-Hispanicbor.?
Tartessianbor.?
Phoeniciander.?
Latin Olisīpō
Vulgar Latin Olisiponabor.
Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna)bor.
French Lisbonnebor.
English Lisbon
As the capital of Portugal, from French Lisbonne, from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include Ulixbona and Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn) or Ὀλισσιπόνα (Olissipóna) (by Greek writers), Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the Phoenician 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀 (ʿlyṣ ʿbʾ /⁠ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ⁠/, “safe harbour”), but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronymy of the area, derives the name from Paleo-Hispanic's appellation for the Tagus, Lisso or Lucio.
In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal.
pos: noun
examples: We had plenty of port wine and Lisbon, which, with uninterrupted good humour, made the hours glide rapidly away.
Translations:
Marseilles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French Marseilles (nominative of Marseille), from Latin Massilia, Marsilia, from Ancient Greek Μασσαλία (Massalía), probably from a pre-Latin language of Italy, perhaps Ancient Ligurian mas (“spring”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of fabric made from two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming a double cloth, quilted in the loom.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Nassau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: gambling
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nassau, from German nass (“wet”). The Bahamian city is named after the German one.
Inflected forms:
form: Nassaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wager consisting essentially of three separate bets, for the best score on each of the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.
pos: noun
Translations:
stressor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *streyg-der.
Latin stringō
Latin distringōder.
Old French destrecierbor.
Middle English destresse
English stress
English -or
English stressor
From stress + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: stressors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
pos: noun
examples: These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.
These paradoxical pleasures […] are acquired by controlling one's exposure to the stressor in gradually increasing doses.
Plenty of people see hosting a large group as a stressor.
Translations:
cruciform
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin crux (“cross”) + -iform.
Affixes: -iform
Inflected forms:
form: cruciforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the shape of a cross.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: X-shaped (not always differentiable)
gloss: A cross shape in DNA; a Holliday junction.
pos: noun
gloss: Any emblem in the shape of a cross.
pos: noun
examples: Michael Eaton has discovered that if you visit its websites you will be warned: "Royal Mail, the Royal Mail Cruciform and the colour red are registered trademarks of Royal Mail Group plc."
Translations: