yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lecherous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lecherous, licherous, from Old French *lecherous (attested in Old French lecherousement (“lecherously”)), from Old French lecherie, licherie (“gluttony, sensuality, lewdness, lechery”), from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekkōn, *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”), equivalent to lecher + -ous. More at lick.
Base: lecher
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more lecherous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lecherous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.
pos: adj
examples: Adam was a perfectly satisfactory dinner companion, if not a bit damp and blandly lecherous (he revealed he had looked at my Instagram before we met and “really liked the photos of me in a bathing suit.”) And now, standing on the street corner, it was unclear how I was going to walk away from this without an awkward shutdown.
Translations:
deviant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”.
* (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.
Inflected forms:
form: more deviant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deviant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deviants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
pos: adj
examples: At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.
He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.
gloss: A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
pos: noun
examples: He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
gloss: A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
pos: noun
examples: As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.
gloss: A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).
While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.
Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters.
Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).
“Deviants continue to own their own works,” [Angelo] Sotira wrote. “In the future, there's a possibility Wix might provide opportunities for you to license your work — only if you want to — to more people around the world.”
Synonyms: nonconformist
irregularity
outlier
Derived words: deviantization
deviantize
nondeviant
phenodeviant
Translations:
levitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1673; borrowed from New Latin levitātus, perfect passive participle of levitō (“to levitate; to have one's motion directed upward, as opposed to the downward motion induced by gravity”) (first attested c. 1670), modeled on gravitō (“to gravitate”) (← Latin gravis (“heavy”)), from levis (“light”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: levitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: levitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: levitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: levitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The magician levitated the woman.
gloss: To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The guru claimed that he could levitate.
Derived words: levitation
levitator
Translations:
meanwhile
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English menewhile, equivalent to mean (“intermediate”) + while. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the mean while, noun being conventionally written as one word after the adjective.
Compound parts: mean
while
Inflected forms:
form: meanwhiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The time between two events.
pos: noun
examples: In the meanwhile, the surveyors carried the line three miles, which was no contemptible day's work, considering how cruelly they were entangled with briers and gallbushes.
gloss: During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: There was a party going on downstairs. Meanwhile, I was reading a book.
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
gloss: During an intervening time; from now until a future time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We’re going on holiday next month; meanwhile, keep working on the project.
The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.
“[…] I’m not ignoring you, I’m very sorry, I’ll talk to you soon. Meanwhile, get your tickets.”
gloss: In contrast to aspects previously mentioned.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some songs on the album are beautiful. Meanwhile, others are quite forgettable.
When you are in the studio you don’t have anybody to feed off of, meanwhile when you are playing live you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room.
Translations:
obviously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obvious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English obviously
From obvious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more obviously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most obviously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.
pos: adv
examples: She was in floods of tears and obviously very upset.
She'd obviously not gone to sleep yet: her eyes were bloodshot with sleepiness.
The plane has obviously been delayed.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
“Temu is gone! What I saw today completely convinced me!” the user wrote. “Local sellers, despite obviously buying some items in advance in a bulk, don’t have all these items I was interested in.”
gloss: Used as a filler word, or to introduce information even when not obvious.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: You weren't to know, but I've spoken to, obviously, Jim about this, and ...
Synonyms: clearly
evidently
manifestly
obvi
blatantly
baitly
eyely
glaringly
noticeably
obviously
openly
observably
overtly
plainly
visibly
Antonyms: clandestinely
covertly
secretly
subtly
unobviously
Related words: obvious
duh § Synonyms
Derived words: obvi
obvs
Translations:
newborn
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From new + born.
Compound parts: new
born
Inflected forms:
form: new-born
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: newborns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: newborn
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: new-born
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Recently born.
pos: adj
examples: newborn baby
newborn child
gloss: Born anew, reborn.
pos: adj
gloss: A recently born baby.
pos: noun
examples: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
Derived words: innocent as a newborn babe
newbie
Translations:
demolish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin dēmōlior (“to tear down”). Displaced native Old English tōweorpan (literally “to throw apart”).
Inflected forms:
form: demolishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demolishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demolished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demolished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
pos: verb
tags: literally
transitive
examples: They demolished the old mill and put up four townhouses.
The station did not have a long life, as it was demolished between 1884 and 1888 to make room for a new and larger station which forms part of the present Liverpool Exchange Station.
The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges.
At Hawick, nothing remains of the station, and the viaduct over the River Teviot is one of a number of bridges that were demolished or removed following closure.
gloss: To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
Andrew Johnson scored a hat-trick as Fulham demolished London rivals Queens Park Rangers to win their Premier League fixture of the season.
The table opposite me is occupied by a young couple with a table full of alcohol and snacks. In a role reversal, he is drinking Smirnoff Ice while she steadily demolishes a six-pack of lager!
gloss: To devour; to eat up
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Thanks, Raj.” Frank was too hungry to worry about Raj’s gob gloop on the bar, and happily demolished it in seconds.
Derived words: demo
demolishable
demolisher
demolishment
demolition
redemolish
undemolish
undemolished
Translations:
gastroenterology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “belly”) + Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, gastro- + enterology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the digestive system, from the mouth to the anus, which may also include the study of accessory organs: pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: One insurance company, UnitedHealthcare, has announced that starting in June, members with commercial plans seeking gastroenterology endoscopy services – including colonoscopies – will be required to have “prior authorizations” for those services.
Translations:
reasonably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English resonably, equivalent to reasonable + -ly. Piecewise doublet of rationably.
Base: reasonable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more reasonably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reasonably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with reason.
pos: adv
examples: They were able handle their disagreements reasonably.
Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Its nightmarish fictional world is now 37 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality.
gloss: Fairly; satisfactorily; not extremely.
pos: adv
examples: The shoes were reasonably priced.
Fanny said she would drive to Center Campobello, but Dubin in his laryngitic voice told her he was reasonably sure he could make it to her after another week.
gloss: Quite; to some extent.
pos: adv
examples: That car goes reasonably fast.
Translations:
hereupon
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From here + upon. Spelled as two words before the 16th century.
Compound parts: here
upon
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Immediately afterwards; at this.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.
Again, be it that some nocive or hurtful thing be towards us, must Fear of necessity follow hereupon?
Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]
Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.
Translations:
invested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more invested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most invested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involved, having a personal interest.
pos: adj
examples: How invested are you in this idea?
Translations:
seafood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sea
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *fōdô
Old English fōda
Middle English fode
English food
English seafood
From sea + food.
Inflected forms:
form: seafoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.
Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.
gloss: Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
Derived words: nonseafood
seafood boil
seafooder
seafood fork
seafoodie
seafood queen
seafoody
seagan
Translations:
inexistence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English existence
English inexistence
From in- + existence.
Inflected forms:
form: inexistences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of not being, not existing, or not being perceptible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Our inexistence indeed was a condition, wherein nothing in us was capable of being a motive of God's love; but our enmity proceeded further, and made us worthy of his detestation; […]
In order to prove the inexistence of God, he challenged Him to strike him down in five minutes while timing himself with a watch.
Axiomatics (namely, that everything that will be used for the purposes of a demonstration is explained) does nothing more than formalizing this wiping clean — in other words, inexistence is posed as the condition for necessity to emerge.
gloss: The state of existing in something
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: that there is a mutual inexistence of one in all, and all in one; […]
She distinguished as to this, the inexistence in God from eternity, and the figurative manifestation in time.
Berkeley's theory of the creature's permanent inexistence in God evoked a suspicion of pantheism.
gloss: That which exists within; a constituent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
where could they find such receptacle for their inexistence
Synonyms: absence
lack
existlessness
inexistence
mu
nihility
nonbeing
nothingness
notness
unbeing
unexistence
Antonyms: existence
Related words: inexistent
annihilation
obliteration
Translations:
metempsychosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek μετεμψύχωσις (metempsúkhōsis).
Inflected forms:
form: metempsychoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…].
The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis, and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.
Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.
To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring up any metempsychosis: only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.
Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.
Faiths and philosophies the world over have entertained prospects of some existence beyond the grave (perhaps in metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls), and belief in ghosts, shades or the wandering spirits of lost souls has been ubiquitous. Any culture crediting supernatural powers is likely to entertain an afterlife of sorts. But this Christian identification of the self with a 'separate soul' which transcended the flesh was especially indebted to theosophies rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Translations:
charitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French charitable.
Inflected forms:
form: more charitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most charitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to charity.
pos: adj
gloss: Kind, generous.
pos: adj
examples: St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!
Pakistan can sometimes be a cruel environment, its residents caught between the dual pressures of poverty and violence. Yet it is also a place of great kindness, with a strong culture of charitable giving.
gloss: Having a purpose or character of a charity.
pos: adj
Synonyms: eleemosynary
Related words: principle of charity
Derived words: charitableness
charitable organisation
charitable organization
charitable purpose
charitable trust
charitably
noncharitable
overcharitable
pseudocharitable
uncharitable
Translations:
throwing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: throwings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is thrown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
gloss: The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: axe throwing
cock throwing
flamethrowing
nonthrowing
shadow-throwing
stone-throwing
throwing ax
throwing axe
throwing knife
throwing star
throwing stick
throwing stone
throwing table
throwing wheel
Translations:
exhibitioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exhibition
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English exhibitioner
From exhibition + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: exhibitioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student at secondary school or university who has been awarded an exhibition. The exhibition usually involves a financial prize and may include the right to wear a distinctive gown, especially at the University of Oxford.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
shhh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of shh.
pos: intj
Translations:
begging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English begging, beggyng, beggynge, equivalent to beg + -ing (gerund ending).
Base: beg
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: beggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who begs.
pos: noun
examples: The Brahmans were very annoying in their beggings for money […]
gloss: Money or goods acquired by begging.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Then a thin old hag […] moaned out, "Twopence for two ounces!" and had to go out of the shop unmeated, since her earnings — or her beggings — had not brought her enough to have that small price to spare.
Derived words: e-begging
Translations:
parasitology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parasite
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
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
English -ology
English parasitology
From parasite + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: parasitologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of parasites.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
parasitism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From parasite + -ism. Cognate with French parasitisme and Portuguese and Spanish parasitismo.
Base: parasite
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: parasitisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A similar interaction between people or things.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: We accused her of parasitism in taking his hard-earned money for new dresses.
These devices' energy consumption is parasitism upon the electrical grid.
Either theſe men imagine themſelves to be marvelouſly high ſet and exalted in the chair of Belfaſt, to vouchſafe the parliament of England no better ſtile than Servants, or elſe their high notion, which we rather believe, falls as low as court paraſitiſm ; ſuppoſing all men to be ſervants, but the king.
Derived words: adelphoparasitism
alloparasitism
autoparasitism
brood parasitism
ectoparasitism
endoparasitism
epiparasitism
holoparasitism
hyperparasitism
kleptoparasitism
monoparasitism
multiparasitism
mycoparasitism
nonparasitism
polyparasitism
pseudoparasitism
self-parasitism
superparasitism
xenoparasitism
Translations:
perceptible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.
Inflected forms:
form: more perceptible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perceptible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perceptibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
pos: adj
examples: Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
gloss: Anything that can be perceived.
pos: noun
Antonyms: imperceptible
Translations:
sensed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a specified number or kind of senses.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: Humans are five-sensed beings, having touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell.
Translations:
introspective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin intro "inward, within" (see intro-) + Latin specere "look at".
Inflected forms:
form: more introspective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most introspective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.
pos: adj
examples: All of a sudden Syme, who was standing as if blind with introspective thought, swung round and cried out, like a man waking from sleep—
Translations:
invidious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin invidiōsus, from invidia (“envy, ill will”), from in- (“upon”) + videō (“to see”); the meaning developed from “look back at” to “look askance at” to “envy.” Doublet of envious, from Old French.
Inflected forms:
form: more invidious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most invidious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing ill will, envy, or offense.
pos: adj
examples: To think highly of ourselves in comparison with others, to assume by our own authority that precedence which none is willing to grant, must be always invidious and offensive; […]
‘I didn’t make use of the word in any invidious sense, ma’am,’ replied Mr. Benjamin Allen, growing somewhat uneasy on his own account.
[…] when the interposing barriers of earth and time, and a sense that the events had been somewhat shut into oblivion, would deaden the sting that revelation and invidious remark would have for Bathsheba just now.
He lingered on the bridges at sunset, and knew that the light was enchanting and the mountains divine, but there seemed to be something horribly invidious and unwelcome in the fact.
I should be very reluctant, as head of His Majesty's Government, to place such an invidious responsibility upon a British officer.
gloss: Offensively or unfairly discriminating.
pos: adj
examples: But the rich man—not to make any invidious comparison—is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
There were so many drinks to be drunk, and as the warm magic poured through our veins and mellowed our voices and affections we knew it was no time to make invidious distinctions—to drink with this shipmate and to decline to drink with that shipmate.
gloss: Envious, jealous.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Detestable, hateful, or odious. (Often used in cases of perceived unfairness, or when facing a difficult situation or choice — especially in the phrase invidious position.)
pos: adj
examples: The sales representative was in an invidious position: she could either get to the meeting on time but with nothing to show the client, or pick up the product samples while the client was kept waiting. Neither one would make a favourable impression!
Related words: invidiously
invidiousness
indignation
Derived words: noninvidious
uninvidious
Translations:
sentient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
Inflected forms:
form: more sentient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sentient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sentients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
pos: adj
examples: Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.
Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status.
gloss: Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
pos: adj
gloss: Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: While I had heard such talk before, I had always felt that sentient robots were in the realm of science fiction. But now, from someone I respected [Ray Kurzweil], I was hearing a strong argument that they were a near-term possibility.
Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.
[Blake] Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light.
After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher[…]Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense.
gloss: Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
pos: noun
gloss: An intelligent, self-aware being.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
Synonyms: intelligence
sentient
sapient
sophont
Antonyms: automaton
insensate
Related words: conscient
self-aware
Derived words: cosentient
hypersentient
insentient
nonsentient
omnisentient
presentient
pseudosentient
semisentient
sentiently
unsentient
Translations:
parasitic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
law
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parasite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English parasitic
From parasite + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more parasitic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parasitic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: parasitical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: parasitics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parasitical
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite.
pos: adj
gloss: Drawing upon another organism for sustenance.
pos: adj
gloss: Exploiting another for personal gain.
pos: adj
examples: While some companies seem largely indifferent to gold farming, others see gold farmers as unfairly extracting value from property that they do not own. Gold farming is often described as a parasitic business practice that undermines the stability of virtual economics.
gloss: Of emotional damages: accompanying a physical or pecuniary injury.
pos: adj
gloss: A component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior.
pos: noun
Derived words: alloparasitic
antiparasitic
autoparasitic
biparasitic
brood-parasitic
chemicoparasitic
circumparasitic
ectoparasitic
endoparasitic
entomoparasitic
epiparasitic
extraparasitic
haemoparasitic
hemiparasitic
hemoparasitic
holoparasitic
hyperparasitic
imparasitic
intraparasitic
kleptoparasitic
macroparasitic
mesoparasitic
microparasitic
monoparasitic
multiparasitic
mycoparasitic
neuroparasitic
nonparasitic
parasitical
parasitically
parasiticalness
parasitic drag
parasitic element
parasitic gap
periparasitic
phytoparasitic
polyparasitic
postparasitic
preparasitic
self-parasitic
semiparasitic
superparasitic
uniparasitic
unparasitic
xenoparasitic
zoöparasitic
zooparasitic
Translations:
sustenance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia. Equivalent to sustain + -ance.
Base: sustain
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: sustenances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that provides support or nourishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
Translations:
symbolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”), equivalent to symbol + -ic.
Base: symbol
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more symbolic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most symbolic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a symbol.
pos: adj
examples: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
gloss: Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
pos: adj
examples: a symbolic gesture
They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.
As a sign-off, they played the video for 1979 new wave classic, a symbolic choice at it was also the first video that MTV ever aired when it launched in the US in 1981.
Derived words: antisymbolic
asymbolic
Blissard's symbolic method
concolic
ethnosymbolic
multisymbolic
neurosymbolic
nonsymbolic
postsymbolic
presymbolic
shambolic
sociosymbolic
sound-symbolic
subsymbolic
symblematic
symbolical
symbolically
symbolicate
symbolic constant
symbolic expression
symbolic interactionism
symbolicism
symbolic language
symbolic link
symbolic logic
symbolicness
symbolics
symbolic speech
unsymbolic
Translations:
polished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more polished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
pos: adj
examples: polished shoes
But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
gloss: Refined, elegant.
pos: adj
examples: a polished performance
We may be well assured, that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country to public ridicule, had they not already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society.
"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
At 62, the world’s eighth richest man [Jensen Huang] is compact, polished, and known among colleagues for his quick temper as well as his visionary leadership.
Derived words: impolished
nail-polished
perpolished
polishedly
polishedness
polished rice
subpolished
unpolished
well-polished
Translations:
bitterly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bitterli, biterli, biterliche, from Old English biterlīċe, bitterlīċe (“bitterly”), equivalent to bitter + -ly. Cognate with German Low German bitterlik (“bitterly”), German bitterlich (“bitterly”), Swedish bitterligen (“bitterly”).
Base: bitter
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more bitterly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bitterly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bitter manner.
pos: adv
examples: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
Heidi threw herself down beside Clara's chair and began to cry bitterly.
Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.
gloss: Extremely
pos: adv
examples: On a bitterly cold evening at Wembley, the Lionesses knew only victory would be enough to keep alive Team GB's hopes of competing in Paris.
Translations:
teme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of technological + meme; introduced by Susan Blackmore in 2008.
Compound parts: technological
meme
Inflected forms:
form: temes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.
pos: noun
Translations:
man-made
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From man (“human”) + made. First attested in 1615. According to the OED the pronunciation with primary stress on man, /ˈmænˌmeɪd/, is older.
Compound parts: man
made
Inflected forms:
form: manmade
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cheerfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cherefully; equivalent to cheerful + -ly.
Base: cheerful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more cheerfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cheerfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cheerful manner.
pos: adv
examples: That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […]
'Well, what have you done this time?' asked Sebastian cheerfully.
Translations:
preeminent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French preeminent and its source, Latin praeēminēns, present participle of praeēmineō (“to stand out, excel”), from prae- (“pre-”) + ēmineō.
Inflected forms:
form: præeminent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pre-eminent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preëminent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: China is still preeminent for its Goldfish, of which Pennant informs us that the most beautiful kinds, both for elegance of shape and richness of tinting, are taken in a small lake in the Province of Che-kyang.
Translations:
dinar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: From Arabic دِينَار (dīnār) and Serbo-Croatian динар (also from Arabic), derived from the Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, diner, dinero, and dinheiro.
Inflected forms:
form: dinars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.
pos: noun
examples: Standing near Joseph, carrying a bag of taboon flatbreads, was Olivier, from Ivory Coast. He arrived a year ago and has been trying to save the 3,000 dinars (£780) he said it would cost to make the trip to Europe.
gloss: An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: denarius
Derived words: dinarization
Translations:
pharmacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pharmacy, borrowed from Middle French pharmacie (“the art of creating drugs; a drug, especially a laxative”), from Old French farmacie, from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía, “the use of drugs”), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “a drug, charm, enchantment”), of uncertain but likely Pre-Greek origin. Attested since late 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: pharmacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The role or occupation of a pharmacist.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: drugstore
chemist
chemist shop
chemist's
chemist's shop
dispensary
druggist's
druggist's shop
apothecary's
apothecary's shop
apothecary
Related words: pharmacian
pharmacist
pharmacology
pharmacopole
pharmacopolist
apothecary
chemist
drugstore
Derived words: community pharmacy
compounding pharmacy
ethnopharmacy
hospital pharmacy
megapharmacy
nonpharmacy
phytopharmacy
polypharmacy
prepharmacy
psychopharmacy
radiopharmacy
retail pharmacy
zoopharmacy
Translations:
lunatic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.
Inflected forms:
form: lunatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lunatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more lunatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lunatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lunatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An insane person.
pos: noun
examples: While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.
You may be right
I may be crazy
Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
gloss: Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to the Moon; lunar.
pos: adj
tags: literary
rare
examples: As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.
That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.
gloss: Influenced or affected by the Moon.
pos: adj
tags: literary
rare
examples: This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.
Synonyms: crazed
insane
mad
demented
maniacal
psychotic
Related words: lunatic soup
de lunatico inquirendo
Derived words: lunatically
Translations:
incision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle English inscicioun, from Middle French incision, from Late Latin incisiō from the verb incidō (“to cut into”) + action noun suffix -iō.
Inflected forms:
form: incisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;
Let’s purge this choler without letting blood:
This we prescribe, though no physician;
Deep malice makes too deep incision;
Gunch was so humorous that Mrs. Babbitt said he must “stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision.”
In the midst of the men a black upright stove sends out its heat. On the glowing holes at the top Ya‘qub Artin has carefully placed some chestnuts, each with a neat incision in its side.
gloss: The act of cutting into a substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The parte of Euacuation by lettyng of blud, is incision or cuttyng of the vayne, wherby the bloud, whiche is cause of syckenes or grefe to the hole body, or any particular part therof, doth most aptly passe.
Never considering […] that these miseries of the people are still his own handy work, having smitt’n them like a forked Arrow so sore into the Kingdoms side, as not to be drawn out and cur’d without the incision of more flesh.
Mnesarchus, early as a sculptor known,
From nice incision of the costly stone,
Slowly, as meticulously as if engaged upon a surgical incision, Mr Nox opened his mail.
gloss: Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A cut-back
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Riyad Mahrez also dragged wide after a De Bruyne incision.
Derived words: bikini line incision
counterincision
endoincision
incisional
incisionless
Kerr incision
microincision
Pfannenstiel incision
Pfannenstiel-Kerr incision
preincision
reincision
single-incision laparoscopic surgery
subincision
Translations: