yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
wholly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English holly, holeliche, holliche (also as halely, hallich, etc.). Doublet of earlier holy. By surface analysis, whol(e) + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: wholely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: wholy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: wholly wrong
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
The explosion rocked the Riteng Computer Accessory Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegatron, in Shanghai’s Songjiang district.
The conservative justices appear wholly unbothered by the howls that the court is no more than a partisan institution, turning their destructive attention next to what remains of the Voting Rights Act.
gloss: Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.
pos: adv
tags: dialectal
excessive
informal
not-comparable
examples: ‘You ain't very strong, are you?’ said a neighbour with sympathetic intent, and ‘You don't have very good health, I expect?’ asked another. Mr Colville said, ‘He do look wholly pale, that's a fact.’ The word ‘wholly’ thus used puzzled me for some time. In Suffolk it is used for ‘very’ or ‘really’, and crops up in almost every sentence. But at first I thought Mr Colville was ascribing to me an air of sanctity.
gloss: Exclusively and solely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: A creature wholly given to brawls and wine.
Synonyms: completely
totally
solely
Antonyms: partly
Translations:
whopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whop + -er.
Base: whop
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: whoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something remarkably large.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I’d gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn’t quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound.
I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.
There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester—a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry.
gloss: An outrageous or blatant lie.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]
Coming out with a whopper now. Rhapsodies about damn all. Believes his own lies. Does really. Wonderful liar. But want a good memory.
Isuzu Inc. hit pay dirt in the late '80s with its series of “Joe Isuzu” spots, featuring an oily, Satanic-looking salesman who told whoppers about Isuzu's genuine llama-skin upholstery and ability to run on tapwater.
Related words: belly whopper
whopperjawed
Translations:
whopping
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: whop (verb) + -ing.
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: whoppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exceptionally great or large.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full.
[H]e went his way rejoicing—an eccentric, sun-browned, good-natured, athletic man, with no strong affection for anything except his rifle, and a predilection for relating "whopping" stories of his travels, and incidents of adventure which no mortal since the days of Baron Munchausen could have experienced under any possible circumstances.
There are runners in abundance who intercept strangers, strongly recommending certain lodgings as being desirable on account of location and economy, for which they get a handsome percentage. Abraham told a whopping lie to secure our patronage, by saying, our countryman, a gentleman who had preceded us by about a week, had left special directions for him to wait upon us. Such politeness led at once to an engagement. However, he was subsequently dismissed in disgrace.
Because of its great length, the snake [a pit viper, Lachesis muta] has a long striking range and is alleged to, on occasion, strike without any warning (unlike a rattlesnake, whose audible vibrating tail signals that the animal is agitated). Long hypodermic fangs deliver a whopping dose of venom.
Weight is actually a measurement of the gravitational pull on an object. If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, Earth's gravity is pulling you down with 100 pounds of force. […] On our massive Sun, you'd weigh a whopping 2,800 pounds!
Defence spending, as promised last week, is headed for a $54bn boost. Now Mr [Donald] Trump has revealed the size of his planned infrastructure programme, and it's a whopping $1 trillion.
Stay on the balance lift until the rope breaks, and score a whopping 1000 points! Be prepared to jump at the last moment to save your life.
gloss: Exceedingly, extremely, very.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital.
Doss and I run the house, cooking dinner—whopping great pots of stew and rice, sewing and darning clothes, ironing, bathing the kids, blacking the grate, scrubbing the doorstep, running errands.
gloss: A beating.
pos: noun
examples: When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in taking anything from a legal power.
At least this taught me to hate violence which to me translated into thick ears or sound whoppings on the behind.
Translations:
whosoever
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English whosoever. By surface analysis, who + so + ever.
Inflected forms:
form: whomsoever
pos: pron
tags: objective
form: whosesoever
pos: pron
tags: possessive
form: whosoëver
pos: pron
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Whatever person or persons: emphasised or elaborated form of whoever.
pos: pron
tags: formal
examples: Whosoever partakes of this elixir shall have eternal life.
If thou do pardon whoſoeuer pray, / More ſinnes for this forgiueneſs proſper may: […]
Whoſoeuer commeth to me, and heareth my ſayings, and doeth them, I will ſhew you to whom he is like.
His mercy is a panacea, a balſome for an afflicted ſoule, a Soveraigne medicine, an alexipharmacum for all ſinne, a charme for the Divell, his mercy was great to Solomon, to Manaſſes, to Peter, great to all offenders, and whoſoever thou art, it may be ſo to thee.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell
Translations:
booth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.
Inflected forms:
form: booths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beeth
pos: noun
tags: humorous
nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head.
gloss: A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
pos: noun
gloss: An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
pos: noun
examples: Sitting in one of the booths (with table and comfy seats) in the open plan ground floor reception, Network Rail Business Change Manager Sarah Newman explains how NR had been eyeing up the building in late 2024, with work starting on site in August 2025.
gloss: An enclosure for keeping animals.
pos: noun
gloss: A recording studio.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: kiosk
stall
stand
Derived words: booth babe
boother
boothette
boothless
boothlike
boothman
boothmate
bothy
buddy booth
confession booth
control booth
forebooth
kissing booth
phone booth
photo booth
polling booth
recording booth
sound booth
suicide booth
telebooth
telephone booth
ticket booth
ticketbooth
toll booth
voting booth
Translations:
cubicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English cubicle, from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubiculum.
Inflected forms:
form: cubicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: carrel (sometimes synonymous), carol
Most libraries provide cubicles for quiet study.
Two men who were in the baths at the time of the fire, who preferred to remain anonymous, told GCN that they were asleep in a cubicle on the fourth floor when they awoke to the smell of smoke.
I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
gloss: A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
pos: noun
gloss: A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: With more urinals than cubicles, men - unlike women - rarely queue, a Royal Society for Public Health report says.
The toilets will have weight-sensitive floors to make sure only one person is using each cubicle at a time.
Related words: closet
partition
roomlet
sociofugal
Derived words: coffice
cubicled
cubicle farm
cubiclelike
cubiclize
multicubicle
Translations:
unattended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English attended
English unattended
From un- + attended.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not attended; without persons present.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The meeting went largely unattended, since it took place on Christmas Eve.
System administrators may schedule an unattended installation of the software.
Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.
gloss: Not attended to; not receiving attention.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fire was caused by an unattended electric blanket.
I have been attempting to persuade gay organizations and leaders to take this approach, without concrete results. It is a serious failure of gay leadership not to have organized open defiance of sodomy laws, and my own attitude is not to wait for leaders when there is an unattended need.
Derived words: unattended installation
Translations:
recline
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.
Inflected forms:
form: reclines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reclining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: recline
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: recline
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: recline
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: reclinest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: reclinedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: reclines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reclineth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: recline
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: recline
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: recline
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: reclining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reclined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reclines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause to lean back; to bend back.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put in a resting position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.
gloss: To lean back.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to recline against a wall
gloss: To put oneself in a resting position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to recline on a couch
gloss: A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering the back using such a mechanism.
pos: noun
examples: To gain a little more space, airlines are turning to a new generation of seats that use lighter materials and less padding, moving the magazine pocket above the tray table and even reducing or eliminating the recline in seats.
Related words: decline
incline
lie down
lie back
Derived words: reclinable
recliner
Translations:
sousaphone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Named after American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa + -phone.
Affixes: -phone
Inflected forms:
form: sousaphones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder.
pos: noun
examples: One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
Translations:
ha-ha
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: ]
Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: ha ha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: haha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ha-has
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ha-has
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ha-ha's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ha-haing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ha-ha'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ha-ha-ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ha-haed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ha-haed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ha-ha'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ha-ha'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ha-ha'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ha-ha'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ha-ha-ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ha-ha-ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An approximation of the sound of laughter.
pos: intj
gloss: A laugh.
pos: noun
examples: His ha-ha grated on our ears as he fled down the stairs three steps at a time with us in hot pursuit.
Ha-has from both sides of the door.
We had a fine dinner, punctuated with Heidi's loud ha-has and lots of wine.
Not just giggles or a few ha-has, but the paralyzing kind of laughter, when the eyes tear and the nose runs and one gasps seemingly unto apoplexy.
gloss: Something funny; a joke.
pos: noun
examples: Durty Nelly's, […] You'll catch a few ha-has and even a golden memory or two singing along with the house piano player.
She is not rewarded until she learns to reduce her expectations, and surprises (the ha-has of this novel) are the educational tool.
If Kathy had been with us, she'd have countered with a few ha-has of her own, thus guaranteeing a laugh at his expense.
gloss: To laugh.
pos: verb
examples: He was much affected, said it was his lullaby when he was a baby, that she must stop or she would have him boo-hoo-ing right out. But he was ha-ha-ing a few moments after, and begging her “To take him for her lover, and let all those inconstant swains glide, they were not worth one of those invaluable pearls he saw in her eyes, when he met her.”
Out with the fashion that will let a man smile, but pronounces him vulgar if he ha-ha’s.
She ha-ha’d like a boy over the sport.
Though somewhat worn and excited, with several respectable swellings as a reminder of his experience with the new bait the boys had provided, he ha-ha-ed at the practical joke and carried it home with him that evening as the most enjoyable part of the afternoon’s trip.
Charlie had tipped back his chair, thrown back his head and was ha-haing at some pleasantry uttered by the man with the hay-colored hair.
“I’ve missed you, Bunny!” she said. I started laughing and Winnalee looked up and grinned. “What? I did!” She looked at Aunt Verdella, who was ha-ha’ing, and suddenly Winnalee’s eyes narrowed and her lips parted, as though she just realized it wasn’t 1961 anymore, and, in spite of still having the oomph of a shaken can of soda pop, Aunt Verdella had aged to old.
Arturo ha-ha’ed though his face showed no upturned mouth.
Translations:
wickedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wikkednesse, wikkednes, equivalent to wicked + -ness.
Base: wicked
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: wickednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
We speak of wickedness as something in the soul different from virtue.
Derived from the Latin words "scelero" — which means crime or wickedness — and "phobos" meaning fear — scelerophobia is coined by both criminologists and psychologists as the fear of burglars, according to Ayla Faisal, a clinical psychologist and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Clinical Psychology at the University of Karachi.
gloss: A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wickiup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Wickiup-like structures were built by many Native American peoples throughout the Southwestern United States, and terms similar to wickiup are present "among Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, and California", but the source of the word appears to be Fox wîkiyâpi (“house”). Alternatively, it may be a variant of wikiwam (“wigwam”). Either way, its ultimate origin is the Proto-Algonquian root *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wigwam.
Inflected forms:
form: wickiups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wakiup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wikiup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some seminomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
pos: noun
examples: They say his real name is Cimarron Seven, of the Choctaw Indian family of Sevens; he was raised in a tepee; a wickiup had been his bedroom, a blanket his robe.
At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.
Translations:
immobility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French immobilité, equivalent to immobile + -ity.
Base: immobile
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: immobilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of not moving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Common to all Regions were frozen points, which were troublesome not only because of immobility, but because failure to close prevented operation of detector circuits.
See how he still covers his face with his hands when he sees me and his immobility and fixed stare are often evident.
gloss: The state or condition of being unable to change one's location, move or be moved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Immobility is a big problem for many people who can't afford a car.
Antonyms: mobility
Derived words: immobile
mobility
mobile
tonic immobility
Translations:
wide-angle
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
broadcasting
cinematography
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
Inflected forms:
form: wider-angle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: widest-angle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a short focal length lens that has an angle of view greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to an image produced with such a lens.
pos: adj
Translations:
widen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From wide + -en (verbal suffix).
Base: wide
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: widens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: widening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: widened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: widened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To become wide or wider.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
gloss: To make wide or wider.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].
But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
gloss: To let out clothes to a larger size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She widened his trousers for him.
gloss: To broaden or extend in scope or range.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police widened their enquiries.
While the primary focus of the Sexual Orientation Committee had been to lobby for gay rights legislation, the new Task Force hopes to widen its activities. The Task Force ― in addition to lobbying — hopes to function as an "umbrella organization," facilitating communication between the state's many gay groups.
Correspondent Gerardo Arreola interviewed Castro Espín for the Jan. 9, 2006, issue of La Jornada about the move to widen rights for transsexuals.
gloss: To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to widen a short variable to an int variable
Synonyms: breadthen
broaden
enwiden
thicken
widen
widthen
Antonyms: lengthen
shorten
straiten
Related words: dilate
Derived words: widen up
widenable
Translations:
robe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”).
cognates and related terms
Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.
Inflected forms:
form: robes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: robes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: robing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: robed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: robed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
pos: noun
examples: Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.
gloss: The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
pos: noun
gloss: The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.
pos: noun
gloss: To clothe; to dress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: robed in glory
gloss: To put on official vestments.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: don
put on
Related words: robe à la française
robe à la polonaise
robe battante
robe de gaulle
robe de style
robe volante
Derived words: bathrobe
bedrobe
buffalo robe
dayrobe
derobe
disrobe
enrobe
Holy Robe
laprobe
lap robe
long robe
nightrobe
overrobe
riding robe
riding-robe
robeclad
robe decollete
robeless
robelike
robemaker
robemaking
robe montante
touch someone's robe
touch the hem of someone's robe
underrobe
unrobe
berobed
Translations:
earring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English erering, from Old English ēarhring (“ear-ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀahring, equivalent to ear + ring. Cognate with West Frisian earring (“earring”), Dutch oorring (“earring”), German Low German Ohrring (“earring”), German Ohrring (“earring”), Danish ørering (“earring”), Swedish örring (“earring”).
Compound parts: ear
ring
Inflected forms:
form: earrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ear-ring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: earing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.
pos: noun
Translations:
erstwhile
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English erst
English while
English erstwhile
From erst (“first, formerly”) + while.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Formerly; in the past.
pos: adv
tags: formal
literary
not-comparable
gloss: Former, previous.
pos: adj
tags: India
literary
not-comparable
examples: “Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée^([sic]) his formal congé.[…]”
As an aftermath of the erstwhile competition between companies, 41 goods depots served the Liverpool and Birkenhead docks in 1923.
Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke’s winning goal in Southampton’s last outing.
gloss: Respected, honourable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
examples: If you're for one of my erstwhile opponents, that's O.K. Just don't work too hard.
Translations:
protuberant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin protuberans, protuberantis, present participle of protuberare. See protuberate.
Inflected forms:
form: more protuberant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most protuberant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Swelling or bulging outward.
pos: adj
Antonyms: concave
improminent
incurved
inflected
intruse
nonprojecting
nonprominent
unprotruding
Translations:
widower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English widwer, equivalent to widow + -er.
Base: widow
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: widowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow.
pos: noun
examples: Tears of the widower, when he sees
⁠A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
⁠And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
Her place is empty, fall like these; […]
What happens to the lovers of people with AIDS? How do they experience the passage from lover to caregiver to "widower"?
Translations:
widowhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wydowhood, widewehad, equivalent to widow + -hood. Compare widowerhood.
Base: widow
Affixes: -hood
Inflected forms:
form: widowhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or period of being a widow or widower.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wilco
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
radio
radio-communications
Etymology: Blend of will + comply.
Compound parts: will
comply
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indicates agreement and compliance.
pos: intj
examples: Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.
Translations:
stile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti
Proto-Germanic *stīganą
Proto-West Germanic *stīgan
Proto-West Germanic *-i
Proto-West Germanic *stigi
Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.?
Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-Germanic *ilō
Proto-West Germanic *-ilu
Proto-West Germanic *stigilu
Old English stiġel
Middle English stile
English stile
From Middle English stile, style, stiȝele, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-West Germanic *stigilu, from Proto-Germanic *stigilō (“entry, entrance, overpass, device for climbing, stile”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”) + -le. Cognate with Dutch stegel (“stirrup”), Low German Stegel (“stile”), German Stiegel (“stile”).
Base: sty
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: stiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: style
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
pos: noun
examples: 'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave a greeting.
gloss: A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.
pos: noun
Related words: stair
sty
kissing gate
Derived words: help a lame dog over a stile
rail and stile
Translations:
contrivance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English contrive
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English contrivance
From contrive + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: contrivances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
pos: noun
gloss: A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
pos: noun
examples: I mean to give something as slight and inexpensive as possible; but I have been so long out of the way of these things, that I am really quite at a loss, and must throw myself on your kindness, as I hope you will be with me, and also Mr. and Mrs. Gooch. You must arrange in such a manner as not to blush for your own contrivances.
And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance.
gloss: Something overly artful or artificial.
pos: noun
examples: When the stamens of a flower suddenly spring towards the pistil, or slowly move one after the other towards it, the contrivance seems adapted solely to ensure self-fertilisation; and no doubt it is useful for this end: but, the agency of insects is often required to cause the stamens to spring forward, as Kölreuter has shown to be the case with the barberry; and curiously in this very genus, which seems to have a special contrivance for self-fertilisation, it is well known that if very closely-allied forms or varieties are planted near each other, it is hardly possible to raise pure seedlings, so largely do they naturally cross.
The Harry Hamlin character is a bit of a hypochondriac, a contrivance that exists for the sole purpose of bringing him into contact with the confused young doctor at the clinic.
The retrospective emphasis on these two specific stories—even their mention here, in the previous paragraph—has become a contrivance.
Related words: contrive
Derived words: noncontrivance
Translations:
surmount
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”), equivalent to sur- + mount.
Base: mount
Affixes: sur-
Inflected forms:
form: surmounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surmounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surmounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surmounted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art
There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine.¹ Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations.
Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".
gloss: To cap; to sit on top of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.
The ovolo surmounting the dentil course generally turns the corner by means of a carved acanthus leaf, the decorated cyma and cyma reversa being similarly treated at the corner.
Related words: surmountable
insurmountable
Derived words: surmountability
surmounter
unsurmountability
unsurmounted
Translations:
exclusivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exclusive
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 exclusivism
From exclusive + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: exclusivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of being exclusive; a mentality or policy that excludes others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The doctrine that one religion is the only true religion, or that one religious sect is the only true version of a larger religion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
patience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced Old English ġeþyld.
Inflected forms:
form: patiences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being patient.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.
I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.
The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
gloss: Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
Related words: passion
passionate
passive
passivity
patient
clock patience
garden patience
Derived words: lose patience
patience dock
patience is a virtue
patience of an angel
patience of a saint
patience of Job
patience of Mother Teresa
test someone's patience
try someone's patience
unpatience
Translations:
anemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναιμία (anaimía), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) -ία (-ía). By surface analysis, an- + -emia.
Inflected forms:
form: anemias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anemiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anemiæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anaemia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: anæmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Pernicious anemia and sickle-cell anemia are two anemias.
gloss: Ischemia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: ischemia
Derived words: achlorhydric anemia
acquired hemolytic anemia
Addison's anemia
anemial
anemic
anemious
antianemia
aplastic anemia
autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Biermer's anemia
Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Fanconi anemia
hemolytic anemia
hyperchromic anemia
hypochromic anemia
Mediterranean anemia
miner's anemia
pernicious anemia
pseudoanemia
sickle-cell anemia
Translations:
constrain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin cōn-
Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *streyg-der.
Latin stringō
Latin cōnstringōder.
Old French constreindrebor.
Middle English constreinen
English constrain
From Middle English constreinen, from Old French constreindre, from Latin cōnstringō, from cōn- (“with, together”) + stringō (“to draw, bind or tie tight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).
Base: stringō
Affixes: cōn-
Inflected forms:
form: constrains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: constraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: constrained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: constrained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To keep within close bounds; to confine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But it's not just Castlefield Corridor capacity that constrains services. All the junctions on the lines feeding into the corridor are flat, so they create conflict points as trains pass.
gloss: To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: constraint
constrict
restrain
strain
Derived words: coconstrain
constrainable
constrainer
constrainingly
constrainment
constraintive
overconstrain
unconstrain
unconstraining
Translations:
lucrative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“to gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.
Inflected forms:
form: more lucrative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lucrative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Producing a surplus; profitable.
pos: adj
examples: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
In a given recent year, Celine has earned $40-$50 million from her various endeavors, though the majority of that income was thanks to a lucrative Las Vegas residency deal.
gloss: Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
pos: adj
examples: Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.
Its troops can be widely dispersed as light infantry, using light anti-ship, anti-air and anti-land missiles and weapons to defenda given area or facility without presenting lucrative targets for air, missile, and artillery fire.
Antonyms: nonlucrative
Related words: lucre
Lucretia
Lucretius
lucriferous
lucrific
Derived words: lucratively
lucrativeness
unlucrative
Translations:
profitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French profitable, equivalent to profit + -able.
Base: profit
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more profitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most profitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Producing a profit.
pos: adj
examples: Profitable operation is being made possible by the widespread introduction of capacious diesel railcars, which for their comfort and speed are very popular with the travelling public.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board, despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive.”
gloss: Beneficial, serviceable, of use.
pos: adj
examples: I wylbe ferme and ſtabyll
And to yow ſeruyceabyll
And also prophytabyll
Yf ye be agreabyll
My propyr Beſſe
To turne a gayne to me
Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Synonyms: beneficial
lucrative
Antonyms: unprofitable
Derived words: disprofitable
hyperprofitable
improfitable
nonprofitable
profitability
profitableness
profitably
ramen profitable
subprofitable
superprofitable
unprofitable
Translations:
numerical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nem-
Proto-Italic *nomezos
Latin numerus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
French numériquebor.
English numeric
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English numerical
From numeric + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more numerical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most numerical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to numbers.
pos: adj
tags: relational
examples: They propose that the brain manages numerical systems with circuitry that is equipped for action related to "more than-less than", "faster-slower", "nearer-farther", "bigger-smaller", computations of "any kind of stuff in the external world". This neural activity allows us to successfully reach, grasp, throw or point. Bueti and Walsh argue further that, "it is on these abilities that discrete numerical abilities hitched an evolutionary ride," given the primitive need to make these kinds of judgments of space and time. Number then, as a measure, is not primary — what comes first is our need to move accurately.
Harry Kane broke the deadlock from the spot eight minutes after half-time, the captain's superb pass releasing Jude Bellingham, who was fouled by Liam Scales, earning the defender a second yellow card and a dismissal.
England capitalised on the numerical advantage ruthlessly, Anthony Gordon scoring his first England goal two minutes later, pouncing at the far post after the Republic defence failed to clear debutant Tino Livramento's cross.
gloss: The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: But would to God that all my fellow-brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, with me might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes!
For who ever was yet seen by them, after a total consumption into dust and ashes, to rise again, and to resume the same numerical body?
Synonyms: numeral
numerical
Antonyms: nonnumerical
unnumerical
anumerical
Related words: number
numeric
numerically
Derived words: alphamerical
alphanumerical
anumerical
bionumerical
numerical adjective
numerical analysis
numerical control
numerical derivative
numerical differentiation
numerical grid
numerical integration
numericalize
numerical linear algebra
numerically
numericalness
numerical noun
numerical stability
numerical taxonomist
numerical taxonomy
pseudonumerical
quasinumerical
seminumerical
Translations:
remedial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more remedial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most remedial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: remedials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: curative; providing a remedy
pos: adj
gloss: intended to remediate (i.e., correct or improve) deficient skills in some subject
pos: adj
gloss: A pupil enrolled in special classes to improve deficient skills.
pos: noun
Related words: remediable
remediation
remedy
Derived words: bioremedial
nonremedial
phytoremedial
postremedial
remedially
remedialness
Translations:
croup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.
Inflected forms:
form: croups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
pos: noun
examples: So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.
Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills.
Derived words: croupal
Translations: