yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
top-flight
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: As the search continued, I developed five criteria for the selection process. The next Chief Justice must have a top-flight legal mind; he must be young enough to serve at least ten years; he should, if possible, have experience both as a practicing lawyer and as an appeals court judge; he must generally share my view that the Court should interpret the Constitution rather than amend it by judicial fiat; and he must have a special quality of leadership that would enable him to resolve differences among his colleagues so that, as often as possible, the Court would speak decisively on major cases with one voice or at least with a strong voice for the majority opinion.
Whether the band might have developed into a top-flight act is unknown, for in 1972 most of the group's original core members departed.
It was Kenny Gamble's idea to sign these top-flight musicians to a recording contract and call them " MFSB" (which he and Leon Huff then copyrighted).
gloss: In the highest division.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: However, despite their wretched record of not having won a top-flight away game in their last 26 attempts, Fulham showed no signs of travel sickness against Stoke.
Related words: top flight
Translations:
seigniorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seignior
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English seigniorial
From seignior + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more seigniorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seigniorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a seignior.
pos: adj
examples: And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Right and Title of the said Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, in and to all and singular the said Fiefs and Seigniories of the Island of Montreal, of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and of Saint Sulpice, and their several Dependencies, and in and to all Seigniorial and Feudal Rights, Privileges, Dues, and Duties arising out of and from the same, and in and to all and every the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, […] shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law; […]
Translations:
seismically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seismic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English seismically
From seismic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more seismically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most seismically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a seismic manner; with the qualities of an earthquake.
pos: adv
examples: Nabby Adams crumpled and crashed off his chair. The house rumbled seismically at the heavy fall.
Translations:
self-confidently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English self-confident
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English self-confidently
From self-confident + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-confidently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most self-confidently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a self-confident manner
pos: adv
Translations:
self-consciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English self-conscious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English self-consciously
From self-conscious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-consciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most self-consciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a self-conscious manner.
pos: adv
examples: That’s why self-consciously Anglo-catholic churches which are a mile high up the paschal candle can do reasonably well in the current climate.
Translations:
self-evidently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English self-evident
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English self-evidently
From self-evident + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-evidently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most self-evidently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a self-evident manner.
pos: adv
examples: When explicated in Augustine’s On Christian Teaching or in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the ordo amoris emerges as a concept that is both cogent on its own terms—reciprocal obligations incurred through birth and upbringing are, after all, self-evidently stronger than those we freely undertake through choice or circumstance—and entirely consistent with the moral grammar of the scriptural witness.
Translations:
self-righteously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English self-righteous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English self-righteously
From self-righteous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-righteously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most self-righteously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a self-righteous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
signally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English signal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English signally
From signal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more signally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most signally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a signal manner; conspicuously
pos: adv
examples: She would have given anything to have kept her colour, but the more she tried to do so the more signally she failed.
In another direction Mr Nogg has found what I imagine has been signally lacking in his life hereto—amusement.
Translations:
incomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: incomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who comes in.
pos: noun
gloss: An outsider who moves to a community or a place; (used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants).
pos: noun
Synonyms: newling
offcomer
Translations:
sentimentalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sentiment
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 sentimental
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 sentimentalism
From sentimental + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: sentimentalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A liking for sentimental things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
separatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English separate
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 separatism
From separate + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: separatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.
gloss: The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Apartheid was a government-enforced form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.
Related words: separatist
apartheid
secessionism
segregation
Derived words: antiseparatism
Translations:
postocular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English ocular
English postocular
From post- + ocular.
Inflected forms:
form: postoculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Situated behind the eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the scales lying directly behind and in contact with the eye of a reptile.
pos: noun
Translations:
disdainfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disdainful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English disdainfully
From disdainful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more disdainfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most disdainfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a disdainful manner.
pos: adv
examples: "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.
In what the antistock Carbon County Journal referred to disdainfully as "another of those farcical cattle cases," he was charged with running his own Staircase brand over a neighboring L 7 […], a charge which if true was not farcical at all.
Instructor George Breathitt asked an audience of 300 computer enthusiasts in Louisville, Kentucky, how many seniors in the group would like to teach other seniors about computers. A younger member of the audience quipped disdainfully, "Wouldn't that be the blind leading the blind?"
Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’
‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’
Translations:
discursively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discursive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discursively
From discursive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discursively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discursively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discursive manner.
pos: adv
examples: If then I seem to step somewhat too discursively from point to point of my topic, let me suggest that I do so in the hope of thus the better keeping unbroken that chain of graduated impression by which alone the intellect of Man can expect to encompass the grandeurs of which I speak, and, in their majestic totality, to comprehend them.
There were certain things […] that pricked him to talk discursively and incautiously; but now he realized that he had only been talking like a character in a novel, and not a very good novel.
We are dealing in the Iliad with a commanding vision of man, articulate in every detail, not with a tale of adventure automatically or discursively carried forward.
In that realm, which was discursively constructed and called the Orient, certain kinds of assertions could be made, all of them possessing the same powerful generality and cultural validity.
Translations:
discourteously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discourteous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discourteously
From discourteous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discourteously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discourteously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discourteous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Alas my loue, ye do me wrong,
to cast me off discurteously:
And I haue loued you so long,
Delighting in your companie.
Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .
Translations:
discouragingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discouraging
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discouragingly
From discouraging + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discouragingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discouragingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discouraging manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
dazzlingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dazzling
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dazzlingly
From dazzling + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dazzlingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dazzlingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dazzling manner.
pos: adv
examples: Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
The sun was almost at zenith and the glare was dazzlingly intense.
1963, Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (1927), translated by Basil Creighton, revised by Walter Sorell, Penguin, 1964, p. 55,
And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and dazzlingly over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment.
Translations:
discordantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discordant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discordantly
From discordant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discordantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discordantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discordant manner.
pos: adv
examples: Taking old William and Benny with me, I was soon camped in a little hut on the west point of Frigate Bird, in a grove of tall puka trees where the wind moans with a pleasing dolorousness and a dozen species of sea birds squawk discordantly from their perches in the branches.
Translations:
discontinuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discontinuous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discontinuously
From discontinuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discontinuously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discontinuously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
pos: adv
Antonyms: continuously
Translations:
disconcertingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disconcerting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English disconcertingly
From disconcerting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more disconcertingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most disconcertingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a disconcerting manner; upsettingly.
pos: adv
examples: As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.
At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
Translations:
devastatingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English devastating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English devastatingly
From devastating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more devastatingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most devastatingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a devastating manner.
pos: adv
examples: Grimsby doesn’t ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it’s a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.
Translations:
upsettingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English upsetting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English upsettingly
From upsetting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more upsettingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most upsettingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an upsetting manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
discerningly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discerning
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discerningly
From discerning + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discerningly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discerningly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discerning manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
deviously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English devious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English deviously
From devious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more deviously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deviously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a devious manner.
pos: adv
examples: Shirley worked deviously, of course. Having, under a name not her own, achieved fame by Tarbellizing the plutocrat in a book, and having (still in disguise) been given by the simple minded great man command of his most private papers […]
And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one.
If you are fooled by the surface you start thinking about internet browsers. But in this case it deviously refers to an animal that feeds by browsing, which is a longer standing use of the word.
For as much as the Downton Abbey alum has capitalized on his leading-man presentability—how suited he is to wearing suits—his best performances play deviously on that quality.
Translations:
determinedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English determined
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English determinedly
From determined + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more determinedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most determinedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a determined manner.
pos: adv
examples: where closeness, when it does manage to show itself, usually falls victim to outside forces that seem determinedly hostile to any manifestation of happiness.
Translations:
detrimentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English detrimental
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English detrimentally
From detrimental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more detrimentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most detrimentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a detrimental manner.
pos: adv
examples: Moreover an idol in a temple if situated straightway to our main entrance as if persistently gazing posture; thus emits detrimentally harmful vibes. Vaastushastra, therefore, says that such idols emit highly charged damaging energies.
Translations:
diagnostically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)
▲
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
▲
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.
Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis)
▲
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
Ancient Greek δῐαγνωστῐκός (dĭagnōstĭkós)bor.
English diagnostic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English diagnostically
From diagnostic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a diagnostic manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
disadvantageously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disadvantageous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English disadvantageously
From disadvantageous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more disadvantageously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most disadvantageously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a disadvantageous manner.
pos: adv
Antonyms: advantageously
Translations:
diabolically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English diabolical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English diabolically
From diabolical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more diabolically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diabolically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a diabolical manner.
pos: adv
examples: Two recent books, one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations.
Translations:
discernibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discernible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discernibly
From discernible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discernibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discernibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a discernible manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
diffusely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English diffuse
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English diffusely
From diffuse + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more diffusely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diffusely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a diffuse manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
diplomatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From diplomatic + -ally or diplomatical + -ly.
Base: diplomatic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more diplomatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diplomatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a diplomatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: He dealt with the problem very diplomatically
Frito smiled diplomatically, but was suddenly stricken by a severe stomachache.
gloss: From the perspective of diplomacy
pos: adv
examples: Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
Translations:
didactically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English didactic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English didactically
From didactic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more didactically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most didactically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a didactic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Mary had to explain. "The natural instincts of sex . . ." she began didactically. But Anne cut her short.
Translations:
decreasingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decreasing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English decreasingly
From decreasing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more decreasingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most decreasingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a decreasing manner; progressively less.
pos: adv
Translations:
developmentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English development
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 developmental
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 developmentally
From developmental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In terms of development.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Between 6 and 12 months, babies are more open to new foods — and new experiences — than they will be later on as toddlers, when a certain amount of “neophobia” or “new means no” is developmentally normal, Ms. Lipner said. “Normal kids transition through a normal pickiness phase,” around 18 months, she said, when “they’re also learning autonomy and control.”
Translations:
digitally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English digital
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 digitally
From digital + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more digitally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most digitally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a digital manner.
pos: adv
examples: The film was shot digitally.
Translations:
decorously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decorous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English decorously
From decorous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more decorously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most decorously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a decorous manner.
pos: adv
examples: […] below them, men and women, and boys and girls, sinners all, loitered; sometimes one of the church-members passed and saw them and waved. Then, for the moment that they waved decorously back, they were intimidated.
Translations:
diffidently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English diffident
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English diffidently
From diffident + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more diffidently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diffidently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a diffident manner; without confidence in oneself.
pos: adv
examples: The author too keenly feels that he has no further claims than these, and he therefore most diffidently asks for his work the indulgence of his readers.
The same evening John Rossitter wrote to the Bishop of Nawaub, and very humbly and diffidently offered himself, his young life, his health and his strength, his talents and energies, his younger son's portion, all that God had given him, for his Master's use;
"May I see you sometimes?" he asked diffidently.
Translations:
devilishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English devilish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English devilishly
From devilish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more devilishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most devilishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a devilish manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Very, problematically.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: Without volunteers, a community radio station could function: but it would be expensive, devilishly expensive; and it would be far less varied and interesting.
Translations:
diagrammatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English diagrammatical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English diagrammatically
From diagrammatical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a diagrammatic manner
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Armstrong goes on [sic] discuss the psychologist Abraham Maslow's "hierarchy of needs", which he again presents diagrammatically, and again modified somewhat.
Translations:
diagrammatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma)der.
Italian diagrammader.
French diagrammeder.
English diagram
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)bor.
English -tic
English -atic
English diagrammatic
From diagram + -atic.
Inflected forms:
form: more diagrammatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diagrammatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the form of a diagram.
pos: adj
examples: Moreover, a diagrammatic map of the electrified area is repeated at the top of every page.
He sits facing a diagrammatic wall map of the area under his supervision.
What we need is some way of representing all this information about constituent structure in diagrammatic form. In fact, this can be done in terms of a tree diagram [...]
gloss: Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.
pos: adj
examples: diagrammatic accuracy
Derived words: nondiagrammatic
semidiagrammatic
Translations:
dependability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English depend
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English dependability
From depend + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: dependabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being dependable; the ability to be depended upon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
dreaminess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dreamy
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 dreaminess
From dreamy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: dreaminesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being dreamy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.
Translations:
scleral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sclera
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 scleral
From sclera + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the sclera.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cheongsam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cantonese 長衫／长衫 (coeng4 saam1, “long robe”).
Inflected forms:
form: cheongsams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cheongsam
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tight-fitting Chinese formal woman's dress, usually brightly coloured, patterned and/or embroidered, with a split at the thigh.
pos: noun
examples: France Nuyen, and later Nancy Kwan, sexualized the cheongsam. Though people remember Kwan's movie portrayal of Suzie Wong, before her Nuyen earned fame and plaudits playing the prostitute with a heart of gold on Broadway.
A white velvet cheongsam! Except for people in movies, I've never seen anyone look as good in a cheongsam as she does.
gloss: A plain coloured, tight-fitting dress with a short split at the thigh, worn as a school uniform by schoolgirls.
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
examples: [C]otton cheongsams are still the uniform at several colleges and secondary schools.
gloss: A long formal dress-like garment or robe worn by Asian men.
pos: noun
Translations:
unpleasing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English un-plesyng, equivalent to un- + pleasing.
Base: pleasing
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unpleasing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpleasing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not pleasing; unpleasant.
pos: adj
examples: It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
‘[…] Be assured, my dear, that these were the harshest words, and to me the most unpleasing that ever escaped your lips!’
This looked peculiar at first, but not unpleasing when one gets used to it.
Zander took out a silk handkerchief and vented some unpleasing odour from his mouth.
Translations:
separative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin separativus.
Inflected forms:
form: more separative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most separative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: separatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to separate.
pos: adj
examples: […] that much more full and eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made, against their Wills, by the […] Dutch men that Winter’d in Nova Zembla;
We have hitherto only observed the colouring substance itself, we ought now to consider the preparation of the ground which receives it: to inquire how it comes that every object hath this separative power over the particles of light; how it imbibes one colour, while it copiously reflects another?
Jews christianizing—Christians judaizing—puzzle me. I like fish or flesh. A moderate Jew is a more confounding piece of anomaly than a wet Quaker. The spirit of the synagogue is essentially separative.
He concluded very naturally that the boy had come to some crisis in his unfortunate entanglement with Madeleine Philips, and he was flattered by the trustfulness that brought the matter to him. He resolved to be delicate but wily, honourable, strictly honourable, but steadily, patiently separative.
gloss: Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Pye had never forgotten or forgiven the ingenious fraud. It had taught him secretiveness, made him even more lone and separative. He had withdrawn from the world of men, academic and otherwise.
I was working hard, and living a rather separative existence, without realizing at the time what this aloofness meant for me.
gloss: Something that serves to separate.
pos: noun
examples: 1853, A. F. Lendy, The Principles of War, London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, “Strategy,” Chapter 4, p. 117,
[…] as for the distance between [the roads], it varies according to the strength of the army and the nature of the ground, the essential point being not to leave between them obstacles acting as separatives, such as rivers, &c.
He […] independently identified the oblique wedge as a separative of words [in cuneiform writing] […]
Related words: separational
Derived words: separative error
separatively
separativeness
Translations:
unmapped
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 mapped
English unmapped
From un- + mapped.
Inflected forms:
form: more unmapped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unmapped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not mapped; uncharted; unknown.
pos: adj
examples: His objective then was archaeology, his hero Evans, and his heart he had set upon exploring the labyrinth at Gortymna which remains unmapped to this day because of its great extent.
Translations:
mopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: moppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of cleaning with a mop.
pos: noun
examples: Even as it buckled over the years and the nail heads at the edges popped up and rusted from repeated moppings, that floor symbolized her unyielding independence.
gloss: An application of molten asphalt to a roof etc.
pos: noun
Related words: hot-mop
Translations:
bagging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: baggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of putting anything into a bag.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cloth or other material for bags.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: baggings used to cover cotton bales
gloss: Use of BVM to ventilate a patient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: peak bagging
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
Derived words: she-bagging
Translations:
squashed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more squashed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most squashed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp
pos: adj
examples: Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.
gloss: suppressed or silenced
pos: adj
Derived words: squashed fly biscuit
squashed frog
unsquashed
Translations:
serigraph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin sericum (“silk”) + -graph.
Affixes: -graph
Inflected forms:
form: serigraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a silkscreen print made by serigraphy
pos: noun
gloss: an autographic device to test the strength of raw silk
pos: noun
Related words: photoserigraph
seriolithograph
Derived words: serigraphic
serigraphy
Translations:
serigraphy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: serigraphies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Screen printing, silk-screen printing (printing method).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Screen print, screenprint (artwork).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: serigraph
Derived words: microserigraphy
photoserigraphy
serigrapher
Translations:
rehouse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
English rehouse
From re- + house.
Inflected forms:
form: rehouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rehousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rehoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rehoused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give a new house to; to relocate someone to a new house.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To store in a new location.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The existing collection of paintings will be rehoused in the new gallery.
Translations:
lang: French
word: reloger
lang: Portuguese
word: realojar
lang: Walloon
word: rilodjî
Alt-A
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Short for Alternative-A paper.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a mortgage loan, that does not conform to the traditional standards of Fannie Mae, but is presented as having an A credit rating, based on the borrower's FICO credit score.
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
fangirl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From fan + girl.
Compound parts: fan
girl
Inflected forms:
form: fangirls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fangirls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fangirling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fangirled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fangirled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It's often an all or nothing world for the fangirl who has yet to learn to bridle the imagination. She is notorious for being incapable of passively enjoying stories.
gloss: To behave like a fangirl; to be obsequious, star-struck, boy crazy, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I bought the magazines, ran home after work, filmed myself flipping through the pages—half legitimately fangirling over the boys, half making fun of people like myself who fangirl over the boys.
Letterboxd, armed with the tri-colour microphone which has become their viral go-to, recently attended the red carpet of the BAFTAs. As one TikToker put it, on seeing the famous mic, Paul Mescal fangirled.
Translations:
salaryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Japanese サラリーマン (sararīman), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from salary + man.
Inflected forms:
form: salarymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours yet has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy.
pos: noun
examples: In this way, the salaryman was both a progressive social stratum and an intellectual class.
2017 May 30, NTT Solmare, Moe! Ninja Girls, Season 6 Chapter 2, iOS and Android
― Yamabuki: “Okay... *Sigh*... I thought l'd get to go home and sleep after taking the Principal back...but here I am, still at it, like an overworked salaryman!”
― John: “What? Salaryman?”
Translations:
cavus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin cavus (“a hollow, hole”). Doublet of cave and cavum.
Inflected forms:
form: cavi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In planetary geology, an irregular steep-sided depression that does not seem to be an impact crater.
pos: noun
Translations:
columella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
chemistry
malacology
medicine
microbiology
mycology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin columella (“small column”).
Inflected forms:
form: columellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: columellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape.
pos: noun
gloss: The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils.
pos: noun
gloss: In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear.
pos: noun
tags: comparative
gloss: In gastropods, the structure that extends down the middle of the whorls of the shell.
pos: noun
gloss: The structure at the center of the calyx where the septa join together.
pos: noun
gloss: The central sterile portion of the sporangium in various fungi.
pos: noun
gloss: A rod-shaped reinforcing element of the sexine layer of a pollen grain.
pos: noun
Derived words: columella nasi
columellar
columellate
columelliform
columelloid
pseudocolumella
Translations:
investigational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English investigacioun
English investigation
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 investigational
From investigation + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of, or relating to an unapproved drug or chemical entity being studied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An expanded access protocol allows patients to benefit from an investigational drug prior to FDA approval.
Derived words: investigationally
noninvestigational
Translations:
exceedance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exceed
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English exceedance
From exceed + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: exceedances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The extent to which an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by recommended practice, legislation, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A region is considered "nonattainment" of an air quality standard (NAAQS) if its estimated exceedance rate of the NAAQS is more than once per year over three years. Exceedances are counted in terms of days.
1997 December, US General Accounting Office, Aviation Safety: Efforts to Implement Flight Operational Quality Assurance Programs, GAO/RCED-98-10, Report to Congressional Requesters, page 24,
On a periodic basis, airlines aggregate and analyze exceedances over time—for example, the number of unstabilized approaches at a particular airport per month, over the last 12 months.
As defined in Chapter 2, an exceedance probability curve is a graphical representation of the probability that a certain level of loss will be exceeded over a future time period.
"Exceedances are decommissioned while they undergo remediation," Ms Hammat said.
Translations:
farmworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English farm
English worker
English farmworker
From farm + worker.
Inflected forms:
form: farmworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
pos: noun
examples: Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.
Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers
Purdue University researchers estimate that more than 149,500 farmworkers had contracted Covid-19 as of Oct. 16. […] “It’s illogical. We wear masks and take the same precautions as everybody else,” a farmworker called Juan said.
Translations:
paraphernalia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin paraphernālia (“goods which a wife brings over and above her dowry”), use as noun (short for paraphernālia bona (“paraphernal goods”)) of neuter plural of paraphernālis, from Late Latin parapherna + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), from Ancient Greek παράφερνα (parápherna), a compound of παρά (pará, “beside”) + φερνή (phernḗ, “dowry”). In the propertied classes, a dowry was placed under the control of the husband, while the paraphernalia which she brought with her remained the wife’s property.
Compound parts: παρά
φερνή
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: drug paraphernalia
He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.
Then the boys arrived, with their camping paraphernalia, and in such bubbling good spirits that the girls were infected with them, for they had become rather lonesome of late.
People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia—including stations.
gloss: Objects that a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
plural-only
examples: So she told her what her husband had said and sat with her awhile; but, presently, up came porters, who brought all her clothes and paraphernalia and what not else belonged to her of goods and vessels from her husband’s house and deposited them in that of her mother.
Related words: parapherna
paraphernal
paraphernals
Derived words: paraphernalian
Translations: