yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
axiological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English axiology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English axiological
From axiology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to value theory, the philosophical field of axiology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Students of psychology and epistemology are familiar with the axiological literature of the last forty years, and are here reminded of the great diversity of opinions on this topic.
gloss: Of or relating to values themselves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It might now be thought that the object of this judgment is the validity of value or an axiological validity (as distinct from a theoretical validity).
Derived words: axiologically
Translations:
decoratively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decorative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English decoratively
From decorative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more decoratively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most decoratively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a decorative manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
decadently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decadent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English decadently
From decadent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more decadently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most decadently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a decadent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
demonstratively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English demonstrative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English demonstratively
From demonstrative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more demonstratively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most demonstratively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a demonstrative manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
demoralize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French démoraliser.
Inflected forms:
form: demoralizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demoralizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demoralized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demoralized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: demoralise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To destroy the morale of; to dishearten.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
gloss: To erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
dated
transitive
examples: [I]f you convert a man brought up in another creed, you inevitably demoralize him.
The election of a man like Mr. Blaine would be such an encouragement to the base and rapacious impulses apt to govern the conduct of politicians, it would so demoralize the public mind and open the floodgates of corruption so wide, that it is no exaggeration to say the success of our free institutions is at stake.
Derived words: demoralization
demoralizer
Translations:
demoralizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more demoralizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most demoralizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: demoralising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Disheartening.
pos: adj
Translations:
demoralized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more demoralized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most demoralized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: disheartened.
pos: adj
examples: The state uses universal testing to identify and elevate meritocrats, leaving most of England’s citizens poor and demoralized, without even a legitimate grievance, since, after all, who could argue that the wise should not rule?
Translations:
drafty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier draughty, equivalent to draft + -y.
Base: draft
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: draftier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more drafty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: draftiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most drafty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: draughty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by gusts of wind; windy.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts).
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: It's really drafty (draughty) in here.
Derived words: draftily
draftiness
Translations:
deplorably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deplorable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English deplorably
From deplorable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more deplorably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deplorably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a deplorable manner
pos: adv
examples: As it is, the miner is one of the most overworked and deplorably underpaid men in the country. […] I know very well that if your supply of coal depended on my walking several miles to a pithead, descending in a cage for half a mile, walking again to the dwindling tunnel where I had to work, then slogging away for about seven hours in that hell, all for something like two pounds a week, your grates would be empty.
But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.
Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
Jezebel, though she bent the knee to Baal, was pleasing in Ahab’s sight; and he saw that her father’s army, though deplorably pagan, wielded heavy swords.
Translations:
educationally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English educational
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English educationally
From educational + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more educationally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most educationally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an educational manner.
pos: adv
examples: From 1940 to the mid-1970s, the tendency for men to marry down educationally became more pronounced and the cultural ideal of hypergamy — that women must marry up — became more insistent.
Translations:
elaborately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elaborate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English elaborately
From elaborate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more elaborately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most elaborately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an elaborate manner.
pos: adv
examples: Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in," Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.
Translations:
exultantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exultant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English exultantly
From exultant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more exultantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exultantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exultant manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
Arawak
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Kari'na Aruwako, from the name in Lokono.
Inflected forms:
form: Arawaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Arawak
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.
pos: noun
examples: Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
gloss: A member of an Arawak indigenous group.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to the Arawak peoples
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
snowmobiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos
Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz
Proto-West Germanic *snaiw
Old English snāw
Middle English snow
English snow
English -mobile
English snowmobile
English -ing
English snowmobiling
From snowmobile + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of a snowmobile for amusement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hypotonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *tónos
Proto-Hellenic *tónos
Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek τονῐκός (tonĭkós)
English tonic
English hypotonic
From hypo- + tonic.
Inflected forms:
form: more hypotonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypotonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a lower osmotic pressure than another.
pos: adj
gloss: Showing less than normal tension in the muscles or muscle tissue.
pos: adj
examples: But always he went the full length, crying until he was completely exhausted, worn out, hypotonic.
Antonyms: hypertonic
Related words: isotonic
Derived words: hypotonically
hypotonicity
Translations:
bluey
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blue
English -y
English bluey
From blue + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bluier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bluiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blueys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a colour similar to blue.
pos: adj
gloss: The metal lead.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A bushman's blanket.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Then we had to wring our blueys which were rotting in the swags, /And we saw the sugar leaking through the bottoms of the bags […]
gloss: A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: ‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.
gloss: A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A bluebottle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A disposable underpad.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A blue film.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A person with ginger hair.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
colloquial
countable
derogatory
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: He confessed: "You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on."
Translations:
blondish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blond
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English blondish
From blond + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more blondish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blondish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat blond in colour.
pos: adj
gloss: Similar to a stereotypical dumb blonde.
pos: adj
examples: I had a blondish moment earlier: I accidentally locked my keys inside my hotel room.
Translations:
blinder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blind
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 blinder
From blind + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blinders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blindering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blindered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blindered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
plural-only
examples: From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
gloss: Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
examples: Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.
As it was, innocence was his blinder.
I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders
gloss: Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
gloss: Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.
gloss: Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
examples: When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]
gloss: To fit (a horse) with blinders.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To obstruct the vision of.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.
Derived words: peaky blinder
Translations:
blackmailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blackmail
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 blackmailer
From blackmail + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blackmailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who blackmails.
pos: noun
examples: "It’s a crime crueller and infinitely worse in its results than murder. As a lawyer, I can only say that I have consistently refused to defend a blackmailer or to prosecute any poor devil who does away with his tormentor.”
This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).
Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.
Translations:
blow-dry
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blow-dries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blow-drying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blow-dried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blow-dried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blow dry
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: blowdry
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: blow-dries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blow-drys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blow dry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blowdry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To dry with a hair dryer.
pos: verb
gloss: An instance of blow-drying.
pos: noun
examples: She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry.
After we had our hair cut, we had to wait a few minutes for blow-drys.
gloss: A blow-dried hairdo.
pos: noun
examples: A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like. There’s no point doing something big and fabulous like a huge blow-dry if she hasn’t even got a hairdryer at home; she can never recreate it.
She rests her blow-dry against his belly as Ollie stands there helplessly.
Within minutes they had annexed a couple suits, and were soon halfway down a bottle of champagne, laughing and tossing their blow-dries and generally acting like they were absolutely thrilled to be in precisely that stuffy bar with its lame DJ and lamer floating candles in ice troughs, with precisely those fascinatingly witty men, while their luckier colleagues were doing bad Russian coke on the Riviera.
Translations:
bookmobile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English -mobile
English bookmobile
From book + -mobile.
Inflected forms:
form: bookmobiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mobile library; especially, a large van designed to transport a portion of some library's collection.
pos: noun
Translations:
boozy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English booze
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English boozy
From booze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: boozier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: booziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intoxicated by alcohol.
pos: adj
gloss: Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
pos: adj
examples: Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]
gloss: Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
pos: adj
examples: We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.
gloss: Containing or cooked with alcohol.
pos: adj
examples: For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.
You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.
Now both sitting, we shoveled into the whorls of the boozy ice cream peach orchard, sweet, tart and cold, filling while it offered the same medicinal stomach coating as a shot glass of Pepto Bismal, only much more to my taste.
Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce.
Derived words: boozily
booziness
Translations:
brambly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bramble
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English brambly
From bramble + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bramblier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brambliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in brambles
pos: adj
gloss: Rough; harsh or grating.
pos: adj
examples: December 2004, "500 Greatest Songs of All Time - Bob Dylan, 'Blowin' in the Wind'", in The Rolling Stone
everyone knew the song belonged to the burning-eyed young man who ruled New York's folk scene, and whose recording of it — just his brambly voice and fleet-fingered acoustic-guitar playing — was definitive
Translations:
monthlong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English month
English -long
English monthlong
From month + -long.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Which lasts a month, or approximately so.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.
The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.
Translations:
weeklong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *wikǭ
Proto-West Germanic *wikā
Old English wiċe
Middle English wyke
English week
English long
English -long
English weeklong
From week + -long.
Inflected forms:
form: week-long
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lasting for (approximately) one week.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One of those daughters, Jordyn Wilson Peppin, runs the Purely Woman School of Grace, a weeklong program where “ladies” can learn a godly path to “etiquette, grace and hosting.”
They felt confident that the weeklong artillery bombardment of the German lines had weakened the enemy and that they would encounter little resistance once the "big push" began.
Translations:
majestically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English majestic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English majestically
From majestic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more majestically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most majestically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a majestic manner.
pos: adv
examples: When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
Translations:
daylong
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old English dæġ
Middle English day
English day
English -long
English daylong
From day + -long.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
gloss: Throughout the day.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....
...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...
Translations:
nightlong
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *nihtlong, from Old English nihtlang (“lasting through the night, night-long, a night in length”), equivalent to night + -long.
Base: night
Affixes: -long
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lasting a night (i.e. the duration of one night); lasting all night.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Through the night.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
melodramatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English melodramatic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English melodramatically
From melodramatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more melodramatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most melodramatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a melodramatic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
monogamously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monogamous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English monogamously
From monogamous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more monogamously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most monogamously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a monogamous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Their closest living relatives, deer mice, dwell in forests instead of open spaces, she learned, and they live promiscuously instead of monogamously.
Translations:
undersexed
Part of speech: adj
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 sexed
English undersexed
From under- + sexed.
Inflected forms:
form: more undersexed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undersexed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking sufficient sexual desire or activity; sexually unfulfilled; sexually frustrated.
pos: adj
Translations:
unfulfilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English fulfilled
English unfulfilled
From un- + fulfilled.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfulfilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfulfilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking fulfillment; marked by a feeling of failure to achieve goals or desires.
pos: adj
examples: Drag this neurotic to hysterics, leave him balked and unfulfilled;
holding inside, outwardly patient 'til the time he'll call it.
gloss: Not yet provided as promised, particularly with respect to a contract or an order for a supply of something.
pos: adj
Translations:
deferment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defer
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English deferment
From defer + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: deferments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
pos: noun
gloss: Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
pos: noun
Synonyms: delay
adjournment
deferment
demurral
procrastination
prolongation
protraction
Antonyms: precrastination
Related words: delay
procrastinate
wait
Translations:
groundlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English groundless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English groundlessly
From groundless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more groundlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most groundlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a groundless manner; without justification.
pos: adv
examples: Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart; a constant apprehension of being overtaken, or met—for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going—oppressed him heavily.
For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced Elon Musk, a powerful libertarian voice, as an antisemite in a baldfaced effort to drain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. Yet, when now-Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) came to the defense of his uncle for antisemitic remarks he made in the ’90s, the organization refused to condemn him.
Translations:
hourlong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hour
English -long
English hourlong
From hour + -long.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Which lasts an hour, or approximately so.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The band’s hourlong set inspired arcs of flying bodies; before it was another excellent performance by a sludgy and curious punk band with another unpublishable name, this one from Allentown, Pa.
gloss: Of or relating to an hourlong period of time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: half-hourlong
hourslong
Translations:
half-hourlong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-hour
English -long
English half-hourlong
From half-hour + -long.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: which lasts half an hour, or approximately so.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bellicosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin bellicosusder.
Middle English bellicose
English bellicose
English -osity
English bellicosity
From bellicose + -osity.
Inflected forms:
form: bellicosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being bellicose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster.
Translations:
hair-tidy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hair-tidies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)
Translations:
stay-button
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stay-buttons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A button on a corset.
pos: noun
examples: In the servant girl's room there was a stay-button stuck in a crack of the floor, and in another crack some beads and a long needle.
Translations:
billable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bill
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English billable
From bill + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: billables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being billed for.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Something that is billed for.
pos: noun
examples: […] time spent building and encoding a Web site and similar billables should be calculated as services and so noted in all contracts and invoice terms.
Translations:
bucktoothed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From buck + toothed.
Compound parts: buck
toothed
Inflected forms:
form: more bucktoothed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bucktoothed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having buckteeth.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
Translations:
nebulously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nebulous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English nebulously
From nebulous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more nebulously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most nebulously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner like that of a cloud or haze.
pos: adv
examples: The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.
gloss: As if viewed through a cloud or haze.
pos: adv
gloss: Vaguely, without clear purpose or specific intention.
pos: adv
examples: He waved his hand nebulously in the direction he intended to go.
'I see, nebulously as yet, a certain explanation that would cover the facts as we know them.'
Related words: nebulosity
nebulous
nebulousness
Translations:
ethicist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethics + -ist, changing /ks/ to /θ/ for ease of pronunciation and dropping the -s.
Base: ethics
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: ethicists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially a philosopher, who studies ethics (principles governing right and wrong conduct).
pos: noun
gloss: A person who advocates a particular set of principles governing right and wrong conduct.
pos: noun
Related words: ethics
bioethicist
Derived words: neuroethicist
virtue ethicist
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 倫理學者 /伦理学者
roman: lúnlǐ xuézhě
lang: Czech
word: etik
lang: French
word: éthicien
lang: German
word: Ethiker
lang: Irish
word: eiticí
lang: Polish
word: etyk
lang: Swedish
word: etiker
faunistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fauna
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English faunistic
From fauna + -istic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the distribution of animals
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
manoeuvrability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English manoeuvre
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English manoeuvrability
From manoeuvre + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: manoeuvrabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being manoeuvrable; ability to be manoeuvred.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Articulated buses were invented to improve the manoeuvrability of long buses capable of carrying a large number of passengers.
She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.
gloss: Ability to manoeuvre; ability to carry out a manoeuvre or strategic plan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My manoeuvrability is limited. I don't have many options left.
The prohibit[ed] zone cuts across the isthmus about 200 yards north of the runway; the pilot's manoeuvrability, approaching from the has been reduced by about half. The ban was announced 01 April 12, days before the Anglo-Spanish talks on ...
The desire to break away from this, to develop Zambia's economic character and increase Lusaka's manoeuvrability, thus became a guiding light of Zambian foreign policy (Anglin and Shaw, 1979; Shaw, 1976; Burdette, 1984) and has been termed 'the politics of disengagement' (Tordoff, 1977).
This might be due to the nature of the work done, to the motivation to work or to the total burden that women in the lower socioeconomic group bear in comparison with those who are better off and have greater 'manoeuvrability'.
Some hated him for his attitude while others, including Shirmin, fancied his manoeuvrability and stark mannerism.
Derived words: supermanoeuvrability
unmanoeuvrability
Translations:
warehousing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ware
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
English warehouse
English -ing
English warehousing
From warehouse + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: warehousings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of storing goods in a warehouse.
pos: noun
examples: 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
[…] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
Warehousing was vital in a time when storms, poor harvests and wars made supplies unreliable.
Translations:
panderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pander
English -er
English panderer
From pander + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: panderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who panders.
pos: noun
examples: As a politician he was a well known panderer to the lowest of public opinions.
Translations:
Tiberian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tiberias, Tiberius, or Tiber + -ian.
Base: Tiber
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Tiberian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tiberian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Tiberias or the Sea of Tiberias.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to Tiberius.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the Tiber.
pos: adj
Translations:
industrial-strength
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more industrial-strength
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most industrial-strength
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a level of potency, concentration, or durability suitable for industrial tasks, as opposed to merely household tasks.
pos: adj
Translations:
multifocal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English focal
English multifocal
From multi- + focal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Arising from or occurring in more than one focus or location.
pos: adj
gloss: having several focusing areas that correct for both nearsightedness and farsightedness.
pos: adj
Derived words: multifocally
progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Translations:
capriccio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Italic *kaput
Latin caput
Vulgar Latin capus
Old Italian capo
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗrder.
Latin ērīcius
Old Italian riccio
Old Italian caporiccio
Italian capricciobor.
English capriccio
Borrowed from Italian capriccio. Doublet of caprice.
Inflected forms:
form: capriccios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capricci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper; a gambol; a prank, a trick.
pos: noun
examples: She used to smile at my capriccios; and once she kissed me—actually.
gloss: A fantastical thing or work.
pos: noun
examples: Will this Capricio hold in thee, art ſure?
If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
“Poor fellow!” thought Vivian, “I fear, with all thy wit and pleasantry, thou art, after all, but one of those capriccios which Nature sometimes indulges in, merely to show how superior is her accustomed order to eccentricities, even accompanied with rare powers.”
gloss: A type of Renaissance landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual and often fictional setting.
pos: noun
examples: Above the drawing-room fireplace there was a painting by Guardi, a capriccio of Venice in a gilt rococo frame […]
Capricci, far from being decorative images without meaning, probably express the sensation that the world, even though built by man with pretensions of eternity, is instead subjugated to the dominance of time […]
gloss: A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.
pos: noun
examples: The friar and Matilda had often sung duets together, and had been accustomed to the baron’s chiming in with a stormy capriccio, which was usually charmed into silence by some sudden turn in the witching melodies of Matilda.
The stillness returned, save for the little voices of the night—the owl's recitative, the capriccio of the crickets, the concerto of the frogs in the grass.
Related words: a capriccio
capriccietto
Translations:
querida
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish queridabor.
English querida
Borrowed from Spanish querida.
Inflected forms:
form: queridas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: darling
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: She's my querida.
Translations:
anthropomorphization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anthropomorphizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: endowing with human qualities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: ascribing or attributing human characteristics and behaviors to entities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
anthropomorphism
anthropomorphize
Translations:
briefness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English breffnes, brevenesse, equivalent to brief + -ness.
Base: brief
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: briefnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being brief.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Quakerism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Quaker
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 -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Quakerism
From Quaker + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: Quakerisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The belief system of the members of the Religious Society of Friends, an ostensibly Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Rorem befuddled Robert J. by proclaiming himself a devout Quaker who "does not believe in God," explaining that his Quakerism lies in his devotion to humanity and that he "envies" those who are able to believe in God.
gloss: A behaviour, belief, etc. that is characteristic of Quakers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
Translations:
renascent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English nascent
English renascent
From re- + nascent.
Inflected forms:
form: more renascent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most renascent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing renewed vigor; being reborn.
pos: adj
gloss: Revived, brought back.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Mr. Evan's results are not obtained from mere stylistic comparisons; there is no danger that he has confused the renascent or derived with the original, the archaistic with the archaic.
Derived words: renascence
Translations:
beggarly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From beggar + -ly; adverb via Middle English beggarly, beggerly.
Base: beggar
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: beggarlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: beggarliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more beggarly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most beggarly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
pos: adj
examples: beggarly fellow
gloss: Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
pos: adj
examples: beggarly rags
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.
gloss: inadequate or meagre.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
pos: adv
Derived words: beggarliness
unbeggarly
Translations:
despotically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English despotic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English despotically
From despotic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more despotically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most despotically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a despotic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
despondently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English despondent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English despondently
From despondent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more despondently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most despondently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a despondent manner.
pos: adv
examples: Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle.
Translations:
despairingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English despairing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English despairingly
From despairing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more despairingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most despairingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a despairing manner.
pos: adv
examples: It was raining. She was over there, crouched despairingly beneath the awning of that shop. She wanted to be elsewhere, but the moisture lay in wait to damage her hat.
Translations:
deservedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deserved
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English deservedly
From deserved + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more deservedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deservedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.
pos: adv
examples: 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 2008, Digireads.com Publishing, page 437,
Emmy, he remembered, was at one time cruelly and deservedly jealous of Rebecca, […] .
THE Jesuits have been condemned, and deservedly condemned, by the unanimous consent of the whole of Christendom.
1986, Facts on File, Editorials on File, Volume 17, Part 2, Infobase Publishing, page 949,
The vote for Scalia was unanimous, and deservedly so.
Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
Translations:
descriptively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English descriptive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English descriptively
From descriptive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more descriptively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most descriptively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a descriptive manner.
pos: adv
examples: He snapped his fingers descriptively.
Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.
Translations:
derogatorily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English derogatory
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English derogatorily
From derogatory + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more derogatorily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most derogatorily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a derogatory manner.
pos: adv
examples: White differentiates her personal experiences as a trans woman from what she sees as the “victim mentality” of the groups she derogatorily calls “SJWs.” In contrast, she positions her own coming out and transitioning experiences in terms of the conservative ideals of individualism and personal betterment. She even says that before her transition, she was herself an SJW and adopted the victim mentality, but that through her personal experiences, she was able to take control of her life and eschew that “toxic” approach: […]
Translations: