yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
incapacitating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more incapacitating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incapacitating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To make incapable (of doing something).
pos: adj
Translations:
phantasmal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: From phantasm or phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
Base: phantasma
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more phantasmal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phantasmal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fantasmal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
pos: adj
examples: The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
[H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.
Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
pos: adj
Related words: fantasmatic
phantasmatic
phantasm
phantasma
phantasmagoria
phantasmatical
phantasmic
phantasmical
phantasmically
phantastic
phantastical
phantastically
phantasy
phantom
phantomatic
Derived words: phantasmalian
phantasmality
phantasmally
Translations:
pharisaic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Latin Pharisaicus, from Ancient Greek Φαρισαϊκός (Pharisaïkós), equivalent to Pharisee + -ic.
Base: Pharisee
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more pharisaic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pharisaic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Pharisaic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
pos: adj
gloss: Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning.
pos: adj
examples: The church clock strikes the second quarter. / higgins [hearing in it the voice of God, rebuking him for his Pharisaic want of charity for the poor girl] A reminder.
gloss: Self-righteous.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving the total excision of the foreskin (posthetomy), including all or most of the penile frenulum, in addition to milah, periah, and occasionally metzitza.
pos: adj
Synonyms: pharisaical
Related words: Pharisee
pharisaically
pharisaicalness
pharisaism
Derived words: antipharisaic
Translations:
pharisaical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Late Latin Pharisaicus + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more pharisaical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pharisaical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Pharisaical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
pos: adj
gloss: Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning; self-righteous, hypocritical.
pos: adj
examples: Perhaps no man in the world had less than Douglas the pharisaical precision of Methodism; he was totally averse to their sudden and evanescent flights of enthusiasm, their frantic ravings of intemperate zeal in devotion, as if invoking a vindictive and implacable Deity;[…]
Thus Aurobindo Ghose stated that the puritanical, pharisaical British conquered in the name of liberty and usurped under the cloak of altruism.
Synonyms: pharisaic
Related words: pharisaically
pharisaicalness
pharisaism
Pharisee
Derived words: unpharisaical
Translations:
ligated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ligated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ligated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
amazingness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amazing
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English amazingness
From amazing + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality, of being amazing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
turnabout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From turn + about.
Compound parts: turn
about
Inflected forms:
form: turnabouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turn-about
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: turn about
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of turning about so as to face in the opposite direction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is a fine dance, fast and intricate, with many turnabouts. The women's long black hair swirls as they turn; […]
gloss: A change from one thing to its opposite, or from a situation to the reverse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Any idea of how many transsexuals there are in America? About 10,000, some 1500 of whom have changed their sex by surgery. The male-to-female turnabout costs $3000-$5000, while the female-to-male process runs up to $12,000.
gloss: A reversal of a decision or opinion etc; a change of mind or flip-flop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A three-point turn or any similar act of turning around, with the same outcome, regardless of how many repeated forward-reverse maneuvers it takes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A merry-go-round.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: turnabout dance
turnabout is fair play
Translations:
Pharisee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Pharisaeus, from Ancient Greek Φαρισαῖος (Pharisaîos), a transliteration of Aramaic פְּרִישַׁיָּא (pərîšayyâ’), emphatic plural of פְּרִישׁ (pərîš, “separatist”, literally “separated”), related to Hebrew פרוש (parush), qal passive participle of the verb פָּרַשׁ (pāraš), meaning one who is separated for a life of purity.
Inflected forms:
form: Pharisees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ancient Jewish political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era (536 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). The movement was ultimately the basis for most contemporary forms of Judaism.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
I cannot tell. They [Jews]are always doing it. The Pharisees, for instance, say that there are angels, and the Sadducees declare that angels do not exist.
gloss: A person who values the letter of the law over its spirit or intention.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
figuratively
examples: He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape.
Derived words: Pharisaic
pharisaic
pharisaical
pharisaically
pharisaicalness
pharisaism
Pharisaism
Phariseeism
Pharisee-like
Translations:
tempter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tempter, temptere, temptour, temptoure, from Old French tempter, temptere, tenteor, Anglo-Norman tempteour, temptur and Middle English tempten (“to tempt”); equivalent to tempt + -er.
Base: tempt
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tempters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that tempts.
pos: noun
gloss: A seducer, especially a man who seduces.
pos: noun
examples: He is a tempter of married women.
Related words: temptress
Translations:
bludgeoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bludgeonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assault with a club or similar weapon.
pos: noun
examples: In the fell clutch of circumstance / I have not winced nor cried aloud. / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.
There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning.
Translations:
demoness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English demon
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English demoness
From demon + -ess.
Inflected forms:
form: demonesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daemoness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dæmoness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female demon.
pos: noun
examples: In Judaism, Lilith abandoned heaven and became the first demoness on Earth.
Translations:
ameliorated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ameliorated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ameliorated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having had problem(s) improved upon; having been the subject of amelioration.
pos: adj
Translations:
anonymized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having had identifying information stripped, such that it cannot be linked to the person who owned or made it
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
classing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: classings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of classification.
pos: noun
examples: Grades 41 and higher comprised 76 percent of classings.
Translations:
conducing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more conducing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conducing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That conduces to a given purpose or end result.
pos: adj
gloss: That conduces to a desired purpose; beneficial, helpful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: As it is acceptable and conducing to most, so especially to a melancholy man […]
Derived words: unconducing
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: conducente
lang: Spanish
word: conduciente
philological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English philology
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 philological
From philology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to historical linguistics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: philologic
Related words: philologist
philology
Derived words: nonphilological
philologically
unphilological
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: բանասիրական
roman: banasirakan
lang: Asturian
word: filolóxicu
lang: Belarusian
word: філалагі́чны
roman: filalahíčny
lang: Catalan
word: filològic
lang: Danish
word: filologisk
lang: Dutch
word: filologisch
lang: Finnish
word: filologinen
lang: French
word: philologique
lang: Galician
word: filolóxico
lang: German
word: philologisch
lang: Hungarian
word: filológiai
lang: Italian
word: filologico
lang: Latvian
word: filoloģisks
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: filologisk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: filologisk
lang: Occitan
word: filologic
lang: Polish
word: filologiczny
lang: Portuguese
word: filológico
lang: Portuguese
word: filologista
lang: Romanian
word: filologic
lang: Russian
word: филологи́ческий
roman: filologíčeskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: filòloškī
lang: Spanish
word: filológico
lang: Swedish
word: filologisk
lang: Tagalog
word: palawikain
lang: Ukrainian
word: філологі́чний
roman: filolohíčnyj
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿילאָלאָגיש
roman: filologish
phenomenally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
Late Latin phaenomenonder.
English phenomenon
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
▲
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
French phénomène
▲
Old French -al
Middle French -al
French -al
French phénoménalbor.
English phenomenal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English phenomenally
From phenomenal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more phenomenally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most phenomenally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: phænomenally
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is extraordinary or amazing.
pos: adv
examples: The tennis player's serve was phenomenally fast.
The police department lobbies phenomenally strongly against any civilian review board.
Network Rail developed and delivered the new crossover in just ten months - "phenomenally quickly", Mands says - and the work is included in the £20m build cost.
gloss: In terms of phenomena.
pos: adv
examples: The 'old-look' and the 'bald-pink-and-wrinkled-look' are, in this context at least, one and the same. Phenomenally speaking, that is, the predicates 'old' and 'bald, pink, and wrinkled' here are equivalent […]
Synonyms: extraordinarily
prodigiously
remarkably
Related words: phenomenal
phenomenalism
phenomenalistic
phenomenology
phenomenon
Derived words: superphenomenally
Translations:
antifungal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English fungus
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 fungal
English antifungal
From anti- + fungal.
Inflected forms:
form: more antifungal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antifungal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antifungals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That inhibits the growth of fungi; antimycotic.
pos: adj
gloss: A drug that inhibits the growth of fungi.
pos: noun
Translations:
phonologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phonology
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 phonological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English phonologically
From phonological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more phonologically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most phonologically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with phonology.
pos: adv
Translations:
pharmacopoeia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From French pharmacopée and post-classical Latin pharmacopoeia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek φαρμακοποιία (pharmakopoiía, “preparation of drugs”).
Inflected forms:
form: pharmacopoeias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pharmacopoeiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pharmacopœia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pharmacopeia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A text describing medicines and pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.
pos: noun
examples: [K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries' lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemists, wizards, and occultists.
gloss: A collection of drugs.
pos: noun
Derived words: pharmacopoeial
pharmacopoeic
pharmacopoeist
Translations:
phaseout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phase outdeverb.
English phaseout
Deverbal from phase out.
Inflected forms:
form: phaseouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phase-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.
pos: noun
Translations:
phrenologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phrenology
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
English phrenologist
From phrenology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: phrenologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adherent or practitioner of phrenology.
pos: noun
examples: The phrenologist, who regulates heart and mind by undulations of the skull, has another system.
One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.
During a skull reading, a phrenologist would measure and carefully feel a person’s head.
Translations:
physiologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti
Ancient Greek φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek φῠ́σῐς (phŭ́sĭs)
English physio-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
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 -logical
Latin physiologicus
▲
Middle English -al
English -al
English physiological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English physiologically
From physiological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with the science of physiology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The third, and most grievous of all the wrongthinks, is suggesting that men and women are, in general, physiologically and psychologically different from each other, and thus they tend to excel at different things.
gloss: In a manner pertaining to an organism's physiology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: biophysiologically
morphophysiologically
nonphysiologically
photophysiologically
supraphysiologically
Translations:
physiologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: physiologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies or specializes in physiology.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bluebeard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).
Inflected forms:
form: Bluebeards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.
pos: noun
examples: Henry never lived down his reputation as a Bluebeard, and only a few years before his death sporting gentlemen in Antwerp were laying bets that the English Lothario would divorce and marry once again.
Translations:
athetosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi), + -osis.
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: athetoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
athetoid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: characterised by athetosis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: athetoid cerebral palsy
Translations:
phoniness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phony
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English phoniness
From phony + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: phoninesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phonyness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being phony or fake.
pos: noun
examples: The phoniness of his plea could not be concealed.
Antonyms: authenticity
Translations:
physiography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From physio- + -graphy.
Base: physio
Inflected forms:
form: physiographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Questions that bewilder the globe student of seasons are easily answered by pupils who have been taught seasons by the globeless method, as the writer knows from experience with three classes, two in astronomy and one in physiography.
gloss: The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished from the explanatory or theoretical part.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: mineral physiography
Synonyms: geosystems
physical geography
Derived words: biophysiography
ecophysiography
physiographer
physiographically
physiographic
physiographical
physiographist
Translations:
pharmaceutics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pharmaceutic + -s; see -ics.
Base: pharmaceutic
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The art and science of dispensing medical drugs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: medicines, drugs, or other pharmaceutical compounds.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: ‘One day, I expect pharmaceutics will offer a cure for even the severest mental illnesses.’
Derived words: biopharmaceutics
Translations:
personalty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English personal
English personal
English -ty
English personalty
From personal + -ty.
Inflected forms:
form: personalties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any property that is movable; that is, not real estate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The property that goes to the executor or administrator of the deceased, as distinguished from the realty, which goes to the heirs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being a person; personality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: movable
movable property
personal property
Antonyms: real estate
Translations:
pertly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pert
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pertly
From pert + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pertly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pertly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is lively or high-spirited
pos: adv
examples: "Dearie, you aren't going to go and get peevish, are you?" She spoke pertly. He wanted to spank her.
TA pretty girl passed him on her way to work and he greeted her indulgently. She winked pertly back at him, proving for all time that she was not a watcher.
Translations:
pervasively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pervasive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pervasively
From pervasive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a pervasive manner, such that a thing is present in all parts.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: This demand, the reddendum, pervasively bepowers all human cognition.
Translations:
pervasiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pervasive
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English pervasiveness
From pervasive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being present in all parts of a particular thing or place.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.
Translations:
petaled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pétalos
Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor.
English petal
English -ed
English petaled
From petal + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: petalled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having or with petals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The petaled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.
Antonyms: apetalous
Translations:
petalled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pétalos
Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor.
English petal
English -ed
English petalled
From petal + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: petaled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having petals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The petalled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.
Antonyms: apetalous
Translations:
petulantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English petulant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English petulantly
From petulant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more petulantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most petulantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a petulant manner.
pos: adv
examples: `She loves the man, and he has been pleased to accept her love: where, then, is her sin?' `Truly, oh Holly, thou art foolish,' she answered, almost petulantly.
A wayward hen, too proud to roost with the other hens on the village church, had come to our coconut palm and was cluck-clucking petulantly, for halfway up the tree she had spied us occupying her roost.
Her tone was resentful, rejecting a burst of generous emotion on her behalf. She stood twisting and untwisting her bag, making the money jink petulantly, while her dark eyes and vermilion pout repudiated the painted replicas of herself tacked to the wall.
Translations:
grudgingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grudging
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grudgingly
From grudging + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grudgingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grudgingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire.
pos: adv
examples: "This is just a cover story," Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. "It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance."
"Clay, lose the piece," says the O5.
Grudgingly, Clay does so.
I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’
Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.
Translations:
persecutor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English persecutour, from Old French persecutor and Latin persecūtor. Displaced native Old English ēhtere.
Inflected forms:
form: persecutors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: persecutour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: persecuter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
pos: noun
examples: Live a persecutor, likely die a persecutor.
Translations:
persuadable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English persuade
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English persuadable
From persuade + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more persuadable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most persuadable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: persuadables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be persuaded (convinced).
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: amenable; movable; reachable
‘Once Lady Anna is here, the bridegroom will be mellow, persuadable, and you will press your advantage.’
gloss: Someone or something that can be persuaded.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: The survey vindicated the politician's assertion that there were few persuadables among his constituents.
So when you're thinking about how does this affect the persuadables, which may be a small percentage of people out there, I think the most effective elements that we saw in this first hour for the persuadables were: William Barr and Ivanka Trump and that video of what really did happen in that attack on the Capitol, the viciousness of it, the violence of it, the planning of it, the relentlessness of it, and that, that is what Donald Trump refused to stop.
Translations:
persuasively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English persuasive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English persuasively
From persuasive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more persuasively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most persuasively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner intended to convince or persuade.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonym: convincingly
The eloquent speaker persuasively stated her argument.
Translations:
persuasiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * persuasive + -ness
Base: persuasive
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: By using the utmost tact and persuasiveness, he was inducing his uncle to cough up very grudgingly a small quarterly allowance.
Translations:
heartsick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd
Proto-Germanic *hertô
Proto-West Germanic *hertā
Old English heorte
Middle English herte
English heart
English sick
English heartsick
From heart + sick.
Inflected forms:
form: more heartsick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heartsick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
pos: adj
examples: I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.
Translations:
perpetuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: perpetuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of prolonging existence, of keeping something alive or active.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
percussionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English percussion
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
English percussionist
From percussion + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: percussionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.
pos: noun
examples: Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
Translations:
Manxman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Manx
English -man
English Manxman
From Manx + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: Manxmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man from the Isle of Man
pos: noun
examples: "Potatoes and herrings, Mr. Christian; just a Manxman’s supper.”
The Manxman is never wise until the day after the fair. (Traditional Manx saying).
Translations:
bhangra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Punjabi ਭੰਗੜਾ (bhaṅgṛā) / بَھن٘گْڑا (bhaṉgṛā), from ਭੰਗ / بَھن٘گ (bhaṉg, “hemp”) + ـڑا (-ṛā).
Base: ਭੰਗ / بَھن٘گ
Affixes: -ڑا
Inflected forms:
form: bhangras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lively style of music originating from India.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A traditional Punjabi folk dance, originally a celebration of the harvest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various modern Punjabi dance styles of the 1950s and 1990s.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any style of electronic dance music (EDM) influenced by the musics of the Indian subcontinent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A false daisy (Eclipta prostrata).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bhangramuffin
Translations:
materialist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English material
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
English materialist
From material + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: materialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more materialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most materialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
pos: noun
examples: Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.
gloss: A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
pos: noun
examples: It is weary work enough to argue with an ordinary materialist, who hurls statistics and whole strata of geological facts at your head, whilst you can only buffet him with deductions and instincts and the snowflakes of faith, that are, alas! so apt to melt in the hot embers of our troubles.
gloss: Of or concerning materialism.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.
pos: adj
Synonyms: hylic
hyloist
hylist
hylicist
materialistic
hylozoic
Derived words: antimaterialist
nonmaterialist
postmaterialist
unmaterialist
Translations:
grumpiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grumpy + -ness.
Base: grumpy
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: grumpinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state, or act, of being grumpy; a feeling of irritation or annoyance, resulting in sulkiness and complaints.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To my partner, thank you for putting up with my grumpiness, my impecuniousness and my constant need for validation while researching this dark topic.
Translations:
unspent
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 spent
English unspent
From un- + spent.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not spent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
Translations:
unasked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English un asked, unaskyd, uneasket; equivalent to un- + asked.
Base: asked
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unaskt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not having been asked; unspoken, as a question.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unasked question
gloss: Not asked or invited to an event.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unasked guest
gloss: Not asked for; unrequested.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Love comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.
Translations:
alala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻalalā (ʻalalā).
Inflected forms:
form: alalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crow native to Hawaii, of species Corvus hawaiiensis.
pos: noun
Translations:
cuddling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cuddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a cuddle.
pos: noun
examples: Una envied all children their mothers. She had been only six when her mother died, but she had some very precious memories, treasured in her soul like jewels, of twilight cuddlings and morning frolics […]
Translations:
canoodling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: canoodlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Amorous pettings or caresses.
pos: noun
examples: Admittedly one is spared the nauseating canoodlings of lovers whose lungs are manifestly greater than their love, which are so common in Wagner evenings[…]
Sure enough, with dark wood walls, thatched overhangs and a formidable totem at the front desk, the Tonga Room has also been the site of more than a few clandestine canoodlings, some of which were immortalized by Herb Caen, the famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist, who trumpeted the room’s happy hour and its famously strong mai tai.
Translations:
shagging
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shaggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act (or acts) of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: Well, you'll do what you want,
but I'll tell you this:
one of the best shaggings I ever had
was with an overweight housepainter
who bought me a beer and a hamburger and,
the next week, painted my kitchen for free.
gloss: Used to express dislike of or annoyance towards the thing mentioned.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
vulgar
examples: I'm sick of this shagging job.
Translations:
frolicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frolic
English -ing
English frolicking
From frolic + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: frolickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who frolics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He resolutely set his beard against their boyish frolickings, and often held forth like an oracle concerning the vanity thereof.
“So, so beautiful. I'm gonna do one last roly-poly before we go. [snorting, squealing] At least I had one moment of joy in a life of drudgery. Where will the truffle hunt take us next?” “Nowhere. You're free, Jambone. I'm releasing you from nose jail.” “Really? I can stay here in this paradise and prance and frolic?” “Just stick to frolicking.” “[emotional] Thank you, Mr. Bender. You're the kindest person I've ever met.” “Really? [crying] That's horrible.”
Translations:
gobbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gobblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of eating greedily and noisily.
pos: noun
examples: Likewise, when Nell's grandfather badgers Nell to say publicly that she knows he loves her, Kit grotesquely announces his affirmation of their filial bond of affection in between gluttonous gobblings […]
gloss: The sound of a turkey vocalising.
pos: noun
examples: The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle.
The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.
Translations:
bonking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bonkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A session of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Couples still have plenty of sex when conception is out of the question either because of the time of the woman's cycle, or because she is already pregnant or breastfeeding. But now the mystery of these fruitless bonkings might be solved.
Translations:
governorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From governor + -ship.
Base: governor
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: governorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: governourship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The office or term of a governor; the state or condition of being a governor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He conducted what he calls “a separate but equal kind of governorship.”
Translations:
zhun
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 準 /准 (chún) or Mandarin 準 /准 (zhǔn).
Inflected forms:
form: more zhun
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zhun
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exact, precise, spot-on.
pos: adj
tags: Singapore
Singlish
Translations:
xun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 塤 /埙 (xūn).
Inflected forms:
form: xuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clay or ceramic globular vessel flute originating in China.
pos: noun
Translations:
dao
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chinese 刀 (dāo, literally “single-edged blade”). Possibly a doublet of dah.
Inflected forms:
form: daos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping.
pos: noun
Translations:
bao
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1). Cognate of Vietnamese bánh bao.
Inflected forms:
form: baos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bao
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pao
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sandwich or stuffed bun made with this bread
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: dim sum
Related words: baozi
char siu bao
dan bau
gua bao
hum bow
tangbao
Translations:
liao
Part of speech: particle
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 了 (liáu) and Teochew 了 (liao²), with tone and spelling influenced by Mandarin 了 (liǎo) and its romanization in Hanyu Pinyin.
Inflected forms:
form: leow
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: lo
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: loh
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Indicates action completion, or more generally, perfective aspect.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: I run 4 laps liao.
You decorate the cake liao?
I’ve been working for six months liao.
gloss: Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect (see usage notes).
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: It’s going to rain liao.
Reach liao, give me a call.
Damn shag liao, need to go back and sleep.
It was a weekday and I asked for a bowl of hokkien mee. The old lady told me “No more liao, you came too late”. Ok fine, it was my fault on getting here too late.
“Of course I’m sympathetic […] But you’re dead liao mah. Your parents also were suffering. Angry for what now?”
McKing then asks, “Will there be a tree of sadness?”
“No?” I utter, begrudgingly and slightly confused.
“Cured liao lor,” he says.
gloss: Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect (see usage notes).
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: Go liao!
gloss: Meats, vegetables, and other ingredients added to an otherwise plain dish.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
colloquial
uncountable
examples: Bak Chor Mee, less mee, Auntie. No extra liao today.
Had this hearty bowl of bak chor mee today at Blk 58 New Upper Changi Road market. […] This is the $5 bowl with extra liao. […]
But for all the eggs and liao (ingredients) you have, it isn’t gao (strong).
Related words: die liao
mai tu liao
si liao
win liao lor
what
lah1–14
lor2–3
lor1
ah6
leh1–2
mah
leh3–6
one1–3
hor1
know
nia
only
sia
hor2
ah1–3
hah1–3
meh
ba2
leh7–11
ba1
already
Gupta
A. F. (1992)
in
volume 18
number 1
→DOI
bo liao
Translations:
pao
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 炮 (pào).
Inflected forms:
form: paos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi cannon, moving orthogonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.
pos: noun
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