yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lyrical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lyric
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 lyrical
From lyric + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more lyrical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lyrical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Appropriate for or suggestive of singing.
pos: adj
gloss: Expressive of emotion.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the lyrics of a song
pos: adj
examples: lyrical content
lyrical genius
Related words: lyric
Derived words: lyrical dissonance
lyrical I
lyricality
lyrically
lyricalness
nonlyrical
unlyrical
wax lyrical
Translations:
waxing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: waxings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of applying wax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The wanings and waxings (of the sun and moon) occur according to the (twelve) pitch-pipes.
The building interior was Gothic and finished by multiple waxings of the commercial coast woods, redwood, sugar pine, white pine, and Douglas fir.
Are these metaphorical descriptions just the subjective waxings of the critic or are they aesthetic properties really (but metaphorically) true of the wine?
gloss: A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Coordinate term: sugaring
gloss: A recording intended for a phonograph.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Except for "Washing Machine Blues," a 1952 side for the King label, Carson's waxings went largely without notice.
Derived words: bikini waxing
Brazilian waxing
hot waxing
Persian waxing
waxing die
waxing iron
waxing up
Translations:
stature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stature, from Old French stature, from Latin statūra.
Inflected forms:
form: statures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Respect (social standing) coming from achievement or development.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mount's cool finish from Kane's pass after Raheem Sterling intercepted Berat Djimsiti's pass was another illustration of his growing stature and Chelsea's rising star must surely be a certain starter when England open their Euro 2020 finals campaign against Croatia at Wembley on 13 June.
gloss: Statue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The golden ſtature of their feathered bird
That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,
Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.
Derived words: outstature
statured
Translations:
surprised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more surprised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most surprised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.
pos: adj
examples: genuinely surprised
pleasantly surprised
look surprised
She was surprised to see him at the party.
I was surprised by how helpful he was.
Translations:
treated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more treated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most treated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subject to treatment or an action.
pos: adj
Translations:
interested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more interested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity).
pos: adj
examples: I'm very interested in going to see that play.
gloss: Having an interest (stake); being a stakeholder; motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: all interested parties [≈ all stakeholders]
I was even mortified at those instances of his liberality, which my situation compelled me to receive, lest, being but little acquainted with my disposition, he should suspect me of being interested in my love […].
[…] they impressed my youthful mind with a sincere aversion to the northern inhabitants of Britain, as a people blood-thirsty in time of war, treacherous during truce, interested, selfish, avaricious, and tricky in the business of peaceful life, and having few good qualities,[…].
"Oh, you are quite wrong!" cried his mother; "no love of fortune, nor of ambition, could have tempted Norbourne to desert you. Little, indeed, do you know his high and generous nature, when you suppose that he could be actuated by an interested motive."
He maintained -- the thought is not unnatural in a royal historiographer -- that the generous actions of great princes are often twisted and misrepresented by interested critics.
gloss: Having an interest (stake); being a stakeholder; motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
Derived words: disinterested → disinterestedly
disinterestedness
I'm not interested
interestedly
interestedness
noninterested
overinterested
self-interested
uninterested → uninterestedly
uninterestedness
Translations:
provided
Part of speech: conj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only if (the stipulation that follows is true).
pos: conj
examples: You can go to the party provided you finish all your homework first.
Translations:
similarly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English similar
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English similarly
From similar + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more similarly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most similarly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a like style or manner.
pos: adv
examples: The sisters dressed similarly.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
gloss: Used to link similar items.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
Synonyms: agreeably
alike
equivalently
in kind
likewise
otherways
reciprocally
similarly
Antonyms: contrarily
differently
dissimilarly
Translations:
placing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: placings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning.
pos: noun
examples: There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.
gloss: The condition of being placed.
pos: noun
gloss: The position of a competitor at the end of a race.
pos: noun
Translations:
dingleberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
Etymology: A (possibly dialectal) alteration of dangleberry.
Inflected forms:
form: dingleberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry.
pos: noun
examples: dingleberries, or mountain-cranberries (Huge'ria, syn. Oxycoccoi'des), cranberries (Oxycoc'cus)
Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew.
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the dingleberry, sometimes produces berries of excellent flavor, which are used locally for jellies; Uphof (1968) reports that this species has been recommended for cultivation.
gloss: A stupid or foolish person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: Dried fecal matter adhering to anal hair.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: Any residual irregularity following processing.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The contour of the root bead is very irregular and solidified drops of metal, "cherries" or "dingleberries," extend therefrom evidencing burn-throughs.
That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries"—the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities."
It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries."
Translations:
cherubs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Hebrew כרוב (“cherub”) + English -s plural suffix
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Synonyms: cherubim
Translations:
boliviano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bolivianos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the unit of currency in Bolivia, divided into 100 centavos
pos: noun
Translations:
sia
Part of speech: particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay sialbor.
English sia
Borrowed from Malay sial.
Inflected forms:
form: siah
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: sial
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: siol
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tagged at the end of a sentence to express discontent, shock, surprise, exhaustion or exasperation.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: — If you can’t find your pencils, maybe someone stole them.
— For what sia?
[…] Really disappointed siah […] The damage is done and no explanation will be accepted...... damn stupid!
Wah. Really damn shag [exhausting] sia, everyday. But I'm really glad to be able to contribute😄
As soon as the sentence was handed down, I saw my Mum crying. I was given 5 minutes to talk to them and after that, I thought to myself what the fuck am I going to do sia! […]
And we fucking panic sia. We kept saying, "No no no!" And they kept shouting […]
Translations:
egotism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ego (“I”) + -t- (perhaps modelled on dogmatism, despotism, idiotism) + -ism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: egotisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A belief that one is superior to or more important than others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The result or product of being egoistic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: pride
vanity
conceit
narcissism
egocentrism
egoism
Related words: alter-egotism
egotist
egotistic
egotistical
solipsism
Derived words: unegotism
wegotism
Translations:
solipsism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin sōlus (“alone”) + ipse (“self”) + -ism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: solipsisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The idea that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literally
uncountable
gloss: Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The solipsism that too frequently infects high commands has no place on a battlefield.
Self-mythology has always been part of The Darkness’ shtick, but here Hawkins and crew forget to back it up with music catchy enough to transcend the solipsism.
gloss: Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: solipsistic
solipsistically
solipsist
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وَحْدَة الْأَنَا
lang: Armenian
word: սոլիպսիզմ
roman: solipsizm
lang: Catalan
word: solipsisme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 唯我論 /唯我论
roman: wéiwǒlùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 獨我論 /独我论
roman: dúwǒlùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 唯我主義 /唯我主义
roman: wéiwǒzhǔyì
lang: Czech
word: solipsismus
lang: Danish
word: solipsisme
lang: Dutch
word: solipsisme
lang: Estonian
word: solipsism
lang: Finnish
word: solipsismi
lang: French
word: solipsisme
lang: German
word: Solipsismus
lang: Greek
word: εγωμονισμός
roman: egomonismós
lang: Italian
word: solipsismo
lang: Kazakh
word: солипсизм
roman: solipsizm
lang: Malagasy
word: sôlipsisma
lang: Malagasy
word: fandavanjava-hita
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: solipsisme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: solipsisme
lang: Polish
word: solipsyzm
lang: Portuguese
word: solipsismo
lang: Russian
word: солипси́зм
roman: solipsízm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: солипсизам
roman: solipsízam
lang: Spanish
word: solipsismo
lang: Swedish
word: solipsism
decal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of decalcomania.
Inflected forms:
form: decals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: decalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: decaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: decaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: decalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: decalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.
pos: noun
gloss: A decorative sticker.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.
But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. / They're already overcrowded From your dirty little war.
gloss: A texture overlaid on another texture to provide extra details.
pos: noun
gloss: To apply decals to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
hepatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English epatik, from Late Latin hepaticus, from Ancient Greek ἡπατικός (hēpatikós, “of the liver”), from ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).
Inflected forms:
form: hepatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the liver.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Acting on or occurring in the liver.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a deep brownish-red color like that of the liver.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Polyhydrite, a silicate of oxide of iron from Breitenbrun, Saxony, is of a hepatic color, vitreous lustre and opaque
In fact bis weakness was for alcoholic stimulants. Hence his liver was carefully examined. It was not of the usual hepatic color ; in this case it presented a deep purple-black
Among the most striking ot the internal modifications is the gradual change of the liver from the characteristic hepatic color to a bright green.
gloss: Any compound that acts on the liver.
pos: noun
gloss: A liverwort (kind of plant)
pos: noun
examples: There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
Related words: hepatectomy
hepatica
hepatitis
liverwort
Derived words: adipohepatic
anhepatic
antihepatic
cardiohepatic
cholehepatic
cystohepatic
duodenohepatic
enterohepatic
erythrohepatic
extrahepatic
gastrohepatic
hemihepatic
hepatic air
hepatical
hepatically
hepatic cancer
hepatic capsulitis
hepatic cinnabar
hepatic duct
hepatic flexure
hepatico-
hepatic portal vein
hepatic tanager
hepatic vein
infrahepatic
intrahepatic
neohepatic
nonhepatic
pancreaticohepatic
parahepatic
perihepatic
portohepatic
posthepatic
prehepatic
retrohepatic
splenohepatic
steatohepatic
subhepatic
suprahepatic
transhepatic
unhepatic
hepaticology
Translations:
lang: Japanese
word: 肝臓色の
roman: kanzō shoku no
emetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.
Inflected forms:
form: more emetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: emetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: emetick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing nausea and vomiting.
pos: adj
examples: [...] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.
gloss: An agent that induces vomiting.
pos: noun
examples: As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.
Translations:
cathartic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin catharticus, from Ancient Greek καθαρτικός (kathartikós).
Inflected forms:
form: more cathartic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cathartic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cathartick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cathartics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cathartick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.
pos: adj
examples: Shaving, my favorite activity, is very cathartic.
gloss: That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.
pos: adj
examples: "So, there are real opportunities to create real change with enforcement." Prosser describes how some of that change is also cathartic to those who have been directly affected by incidents on the railway, such as the families who have lost loved ones.
For some, Saturday’s protests were cathartic, a show of force and solidarity by progressives who had struggled to pick themselves up from last November’s election defeat.
I don’t know if [Kamala] Harris found writing 107 Days cathartic, but reading it certainly wasn’t.
gloss: A laxative.
pos: noun
examples: The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.
Derived words: anacathartic
anticathartic
cathart
cathartical
cathartically
cathartine
emetocathartic
hemocathartic
uncathartic
Translations:
todger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant of tadger, perhaps related to dialectal todge (“anything of a thick consistency”), todgey (“short and fat”).
Inflected forms:
form: todgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
UK
colloquial
examples: 2005, Alexis James, Into the Woods: Erotic Fairytales and Other Stories, Lulu, US, page 150,
A virgin you are and a virgin you will remain until your 18th birthday, whereupon you shall crave your first cock, taste your first todger, knuzzle your first knob and this shall be your undoing.
2008, Ashley Hames, Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter, Tonto Books, UK, page 66,
I′ve even been in bed with a girl who, on clapping her eyes on my todger, looked up at me. ‘Your willy′s not very big is it?’ she said.
2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, AuthorHouse, UK, page 8,
As stated previously, boys think with their todgers and I had become a decent looking young girl, so I naturally understood my vagina had magnetic charms to a penis.
I showed him my todger, softened by Elizabeth Arden.
Translations:
rogering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English roger
English -ing
English rogering
From roger + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: rogerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse, especially one that is rough.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: When I get you home I'm going to give you a good rogering.
Translations:
cirque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French cirque (“circular arena; cirque”), from Latin circus (“circle, ring”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring; racecourse, circus”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”). Doublet of circus.
Inflected forms:
form: cirques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Roman circus.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Nero exhibited theſe Spectacles in his own Gardens, impiouſly joining to them the Diverſions of the Cirque, and appearing himſelf publicly in the Habit of a Charioteer, ſitting in his Chariot[…].
gloss: A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.
pos: noun
examples: Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? toads in a poisoned tank, / Or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage— / The fight must so have seemed in that fell cirque.
Of course it's going to be bad whenever the clouds let loose, but up here pussyfooting along the perimeter of toothy cirques and dead drops of anywhere from eighty to three hundred feet, it would be a disaster.
When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water.
Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
gloss: Something in the shape of a circle or ring.
pos: noun
tags: dated
literary
examples: Saturn has supplied to the Greeks and Romans the source of a beautiful personification; they have represented him as Time, […] thus with his scythe is he considered to cut down in endless succession every ripened race of man; and as the serpent is annually renewed by the cast of its skin, so is every falling race of man held to be renewed by a young and succeeding progeny; from hence arose the fiction, that Saturn devoured his own children, and hence also is the continuous cirque of imposts at Stonehenge an apt representation of this well imagined emblem.
[T]here our camp / Lay pitched that day beneath the sun's wide glare, / Amid the omnipresent desert wastes, / And few men stirred abroad. […] [A]nd the tents / Sagged lifeless all around their dusky cirque, / Whose every rope shone burnished in the glare, / And every tent-pin.
Derived words: semicirque
Translations:
heteroscedasticity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From hetero- + scedasticity.
Base: scedasticity
Affixes: hetero-
Inflected forms:
form: heteroscedasticities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heteroskedasticity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The property of a series of random variables in having differing variances of residuals, instead of a uniform variance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: homoscedasticity
Translations:
jean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle English Gene (“Genoa”), from the Old French Jannes. Bleu de Gênes (“Genovese blue”) was a blue dye made in Genoa used to tint the denim cloth produced in Nîmes (de Nîmes). Doublet of Genoa and Geneva and distantly related to knee.
Inflected forms:
form: jeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Denim.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: She wore a tattered jean jacket.
Lastly, he took out a common frock of coarse dark jean, which he drew over his own under-clothing; and a felt hat—he had purposely left his own upstairs.
Translations:
bubblehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: * From bubble + head.
* (diver): Inspired by the shape of the old spun-copper diving helmet.
Compound parts: bubble
head
Inflected forms:
form: bubbleheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I rather enjoyed it, but my niece said Audrey Hepburn was a “bubblehead”.
gloss: A submariner; bubble-head.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A navy hard hat or salvage diver.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
aw
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Natural exclamation.
Inflected forms:
form: aww
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: awh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: aws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aww
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: awh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express disappointment or dismay.
pos: intj
examples: Aw, that's too bad...
gloss: Used to express mild protest, entreaty, consternation, or disapproval.
pos: intj
examples: Aw, dad, why can't we go to Legoland?
gloss: Used to express affection.
pos: intj
examples: Aw, you've got such a cute baby bird!
gloss: Used to anticipate reporting to a person in authority that the listener has done something wrong.
pos: intj
tags: childish
examples: Aww, you said a bad word!
gloss: An instance of aw.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. McGuire, 64, a retired science teacher and two-term incumbent on the Town Council, selected a card, the six of hearts, drawing approving oos and aws from his supporters.
Derived words: aw man
aw shucks
aw well
Translations:
eh
Part of speech: intj
verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Natural exclamation; first recorded mid-16th century. Perhaps an unstressed variant of aye (“yes, yeah”).
The Philippine sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog e and/or Spanish eh.
Inflected forms:
form: ay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ehh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ehhh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ehs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ehing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ehed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ehed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ehh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ehhh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ay
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ehh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ehhh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ay
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ehh
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ehhh
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
Canada
Commonwealth
Hong-Kong
India
Ireland
New-Zealand
Singapore
South-Africa
UK
informal
examples: These hot dogs are pretty good, eh?
Well, what dost thou think then of seeing the world? Do ye wish to go round Cape Horn to see any more of it, eh? Can’t ye see the world where you stand?
gloss: In isolation, a request for repetition or clarification of what has just been said.
pos: intj
examples: —I've been studying Graphiurus murinus. —Eh? Studying what?
gloss: In isolation, expressing surprise or confusion.
pos: intj
examples: —You're going to be a dad! —Eh? You're joking!
gloss: An interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of someone addressed by the speaker.
pos: intj
tags: Canada
examples: I went to the restaurant, eh, but my friends didn't show up.
gloss: Expressing apathy or lack of enthusiasm; meh.
pos: intj
examples: —Do you feel like going out tonight?
—Eh, I don't know.
“Look, Mom; I made the real rocket, based on the macaroni prototype!” “…Eh.”
gloss: Expressing apprehension following or preceding a reasoning or excuse; uh.
pos: intj
tags: Philippines
examples: —Why is it like this?
—Eh, It's like that eh.
gloss: To use the interjection eh.
pos: verb
gloss: Of mediocre quality; unremarkable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
predicative
examples: My French fries were eh.
gloss: Used to negate the following verb; (am/are/is/do/does) not.
pos: adv
tags: Caribbean
Singapore
Trinidad-and-Tobago
not-comparable
examples: And she: "Ay man, watch you one foot ass. Wen I want a man, I want a good man. Me eh want man like you."
Translations:
shh
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From hush. Likely imitative of a nonverbal utterance. Compare Scots whisht (“hush!”).
Inflected forms:
form: sh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: shhh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ssh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: shhes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shhs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shhh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ssh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shhes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shhs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shhing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shhed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shhed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: shhh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ssh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Demanding silence.
pos: intj
gloss: Comforting one who is crying.
pos: intj
gloss: An utterance of shh.
pos: noun
examples: “Shh,” says Jenny’s mother, “shh. / Give a shh and a giddyap with your borscht.” / A knock is heard on Gloria’s door. / “Remember is someone asleep in the house!” / Jenny gives a shh and laps up her borscht.
Twenty-five million dollars each?! There were hmms and shhs around the table.
And, unlike with a film, or a TV show, or a dreary drinks party, you can’t just leave when the boredom descends like an itchy blanket. You are imprisoned by the etiquette of theatre. You can’t even commit suicide without attracting a chorus of shhes as you splash arterial blood all over the orchestra pit.
gloss: To utter shh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: “Hey,” the test-taker who’d shhed sat up, glared, saw the exec, shut up, and hunched down over the test.
‘No!’ Matt shhes.
Deep breathing in your baby’s ear is just as effective as white noise, if not more. Try to avoid ‘shhing’ your baby as this can become more violent if done frequently and loudly. The other drawback is that shhing involves your stomach muscles and when you shh you become tense; the more you shh the more tense you become.
“I brought coffee,” Landon says but Aurora shhs him.
Synonyms: hush
shush
Translations:
karaoke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Japanese 空
Ancient Greek ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρᾰ (-tră)
Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra)bor.
Latin orchēstrabor.
English orchestrabor.
Japanese オーケストラ
Japanese カラオケbor.
English karaoke
Borrowed from Japanese カラオケ (karaoke), from 空(から) (kara, “empty”) + オケ (oke, “orchestra”), a clipping of オーケストラ (ōkesutora), from English orchestra.
Inflected forms:
form: karaokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: karaokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: karaokeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: karaoked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: karaoked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The karaoke has been well received by those who frequent the oriental cabaret scene and adopt its particular social behaviors such as conversation, companionship, being seen, and showing off.
American Idol will always have a place in my heart. It's where I met Clay. And what could be more exciting than televised karaoke?
I was always split on Henley. Then I found out that he doesn’t want people to sing his songs at karaoke. In fact, Henley actually forbids karaoke companies from rerecording songs in his catalog.
A country that's enriched the world with sushi, karaoke and manga, Japan has many devotees, especially among gamers and geeks.
gloss: A karaoke session.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A karaoke parlour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An exercise in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other while walking sideways to stretch various parts of the lower body and core.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: to perform karaoke
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: karate
a cappella
amateur hour
amateur night
bathroom singer
KTV
open mic
Derived words: bandaoke
karaoke bar
karaoke box
karaoke club
karaoke lounge
karaoke machine
karaoke parlour
karaoke system
movieoke
PowerPoint karaoke
videoke
Translations:
technophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From techno- + -phile.
Base: techno
Inflected forms:
form: technophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is enthusiastic about technology, especially the technology of emerging fields such as aeronautics, space engineering, computing, or communication technology, during their respective phases of introduction and development.
pos: noun
examples: 1966 Editor. Ingenor, Autumn 1966 p.30, College of engineering, University of Michigan
Most of us simply ignore technology in its depth effects; the few who don't ignore it tend either to glow with technophilia. . . or to glower with technophobia. . . But both technophilia and technophobia are superstitious relapses in which, let me repeat, we impute to the dynamic a direction that it does not have. Our one hope of humanizing technology is by humanizing ourselves: gaining the courage and the humility to get a hold on ourselves, we might gain the wit and the will to get a hold on it. In this bootstrap effort, neither the technophile nor the technophobe is likely to be helpful, for what we need is not a simple assessment of how technology affects the world "out there" or the world "in here." We need, rather, an assessment of how it affects both, in interplay. And for that effort, both the technophile and the technophobe have disqualified themselves — the one by his dogmatic fixation on what he claims to be objective certainties, the other by his equally dogmatic fixation on what he claims to be subjective imperatives.
It is naive to think it likely that technology can be phased out in a smoothly managed, orderly way, especially since the technophiles will fight stubbornly at every step.
Translations:
platypus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin Platypus (originally a genus name already in use for a type of beetle), from Ancient Greek πλατύπους (platúpous, “flat-footed”), from πλατύς (platús, “flat”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Piecewise doublet of flatfoot.
Inflected forms:
form: platypuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: platypus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: platypi
pos: noun
tags: common
hypercorrect
plural
form: platypodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A semiaquatic monotreme from eastern Australia with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).
pos: noun
examples: Victoria's Healesville Sanctuary is celebrating the births of two baby platypuses, in a major milestone. […] "They are in fact the offspring of captive-bred platypus, so this is actually the first time we've ever been able to breed from captive-bred parents," she [Paula Watson] said.
Translations:
tawdry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from tawdry lace; originally a corruption and rebracketing of Saint Audrey lace (from Old English Æðelþrȳð). The lace necklaces sold to pilgrims to Saint Audrey fell out of fashion in the 17th century, and so tawdry was reinterpreted as meaning “cheap” or “vulgar”.
Inflected forms:
form: tawdrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tawdriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of clothing, appearance, etc., cheap and gaudy; showy.
pos: adj
examples: The rest of his dress—a dress always sufficiently tawdry—was overcharged with lace, embroidery, and ornament of every kind, and the plume of feathers which he wore was so high, as if intended to sweep the roof of the hall.
This wasn't really a room for me; the green curtains before the windows were rather tawdry, and there was anything but an abundance of nails on the walls for hanging one's wardrobe.
It was all cheap and incredibly tawdry, from the festoons of paper roses on the walls to the flash of paste jewels in make-believe crowns.
So now you just want cheap thrills and plenty of 'em and it don't^([sic]) matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new, as long as it's new, as long as it flashes and fucking bleeps in 40 fucking different colours.
gloss: Of a character, behavior, or situation, etc., unseemly, base, mean-spirited, shameful.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he "greaser" was a dirty, idle, shiftless, treacherous, tawdry vagabond, dwelling in a disgracefully primitive house, and backward in every aspect of civilization.
The woman's passion by his side seemed suddenly tawdry and unreal, the seeking of her lips for his something horrible.
After months of flat-out lying to the public, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally copped to having a sleazy extramarital fling […] The tawdry affair has dogged Edwards over the past few months.
Derived words: betawder
tawdrily
tawdriness
untawdry
Translations:
ism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the suffix -ism (“belief”), particularly (in the 19th century) in the sense of "social movement". Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Inflected forms:
form: isms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
pos: noun
examples: […] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is Abbot Samson’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!
If it gives way to sentimentalism, or sensibility, or political mysticism, or adopts an affectation of radicalism, or any other ism, or molds its institutions so as to round out to a more complete fulfillment somebody's theory of the universe, it may fall into an era of revolution and political insecurity […]
An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a deviant or heretical member.
In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism.
Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism – he should believe in himself.
It is important to distinguish between an ism and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not isms. An ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.
Dwight Eisenhower, a president not particularly remembered for his wit, once remarked that "all isms are wasms." He was presumably referring, rather presciently, to the largely forgotten isms that were once perceived as a threat to truth, justice, and the American way: Marxism, socialism, communism.
gloss: An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
pos: noun
examples: Parents and educators play a critical role in helping children of all ages navigate current events and talk openly about the historical roots of the various ‘isms in our country.
Related words: ideology
ist
philosophy
wasm
Derived words: isms and schisms
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 主義 /主义
roman: zhǔyì
lang: Faroese
word: isma
lang: Finnish
word: ismi
lang: Finnish
word: oppijärjestelmä
lang: German
word: Ismus
lang: Hungarian
word: izmus
lang: Polish
word: izm
lang: Portuguese
word: ismo
lang: Russian
word: изм
roman: izm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izam
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: изам
lang: Vietnamese
word: chủ nghĩa
lang: Vietnamese
word: học thuyết
sectarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sectarius + -an. Its corresponding etymology per the first sense is sect + -arian.
Base: sectarius
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more sectarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sectarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sectarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or partial to a sect.
pos: adj
examples: We were discussing solutions to the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.
gloss: Dogmatic or partisan.
pos: adj
examples: The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.
gloss: Parochial or narrow-minded.
pos: adj
gloss: Bigoted.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of a sect.
pos: noun
examples: An American sectarian, who has always lived within the high walls and in the close atmosphere of our intense sect-life here, and has always been accustomed to the dragonism of sect-authority and sect-jealousy, —is utterly amazed when for the first time he looks over his native sect-walls and comes to see the freedom of thought and utterance within the old churches of Europe.
gloss: A bigot.
pos: noun
Antonyms: nonsectarian
Related words: sectarianism
sectarianize
Derived words: anti-sectarian
asectarian
bisectarian
counter-sectarian
ethnosectarian
intersectarian
multisectarian
polysectarian
postsectarian
presectarian
sectarianist
sectarianly
unisectarian
unsectarian
Translations:
illegible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English il-
English legible
English illegible
From il- + legible.
Inflected forms:
form: more illegible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illegible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.
pos: adj
examples: illegible handwriting
illegible scribbles
illegible symbols
illegible writing
Translations:
unreadable
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 read
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English readable
English unreadable
From un- + readable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unreadable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unreadable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
pos: adj
examples: unreadable handwriting
unreadable charts
a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments
Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete kyūjitai kanji have become unreadable to more and more readers over time, thus making texts including them difficult for modern readers, but at least there is a recognized mapping from new form to old form.
gloss: Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
pos: adj
examples: an unreadable book
unreadable rants
gloss: Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.
pos: adj
examples: The scratched CD is unreadable.
Antonyms: readable
Derived words: unreadability
unreadableness
Translations:
diablo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.
Inflected forms:
form: diablos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The or a devil.
pos: noun
tags: Southwestern
US
gloss: Synonym of diable (“flavored with hot spices/sauces”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
sometimes
examples: a diablo pizza
a diablo burger
Translations:
mentum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
entomology
malacology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mentum (“the chin”). Doublet of menton.
Inflected forms:
form: menta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chin.
pos: noun
gloss: A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
pos: noun
gloss: The central part of the labium in insects.
pos: noun
gloss: A projection in front of the flower in some orchids.
pos: noun
Related words: mental
mento-
Derived words: postmentum
prementum
submentum
Translations:
diabolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English diabolik, from Middle French diabolique, from Late Latin diabolicus, from Ancient Greek διαβολικός (diabolikós, “devilish”), from διάβολος (diábolos, “devil”). First attested in 1350–1400.
Inflected forms:
form: more diabolic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diabolic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: diabolick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, being, or pertaining to a devil or the Devil.
pos: adj
examples: diabolic magic square
"The Sovereign Council of Wisdom," or the Order of Palladium, founded in Paris, was a diabolic order claiming masonic origin.
gloss: Having qualities traditionally attributed to devils.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Having qualities traditionally attributed to devils.
pos: adj
tags: especially
figuratively
examples: a cunning and diabolic plot
fires lit up a diabolic scene
Derived words: diabolical
nondiabolic
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: дяволски
roman: djavolski
lang: Bulgarian
word: сатанински
roman: sataninski
lang: Czech
word: ďábelský
lang: Esperanto
word: diabla
lang: Finnish
word: paholaismainen
lang: Finnish
word: pirullinen
lang: French
word: diabolique
lang: German
word: teuflisch
lang: German
word: diabolisch
lang: Latvian
word: velnišķs
lang: Latvian
word: velnišķīgs
lang: Portuguese
word: diabólico
lang: Russian
word: дья́вольский
roman: dʹjávolʹskij
lang: Turkish
word: şeytanca
lang: Turkish
word: şeytani
lang: Ukrainian
word: дия́вольський
roman: dyjávolʹsʹkyj
addictive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1914. Addiction in modern sense is first attested 1906, in reference to opium. There is an isolated instance from 1779, with reference to tobacco.
Inflected forms:
form: more addictive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most addictive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: addictives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
pos: adj
examples: These are addictive drugs.
gloss: Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
pos: adj
examples: There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive […]
gloss: Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
pos: adj
examples: He has an addictive personality.
gloss: A drug that causes an addiction.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that is very habit-forming.
pos: noun
Synonyms: habit-forming
moreish
Antonyms: nonaddictive
Related words: addict
addicted
addicting
addiction
Derived words: addictively
addictiveness
addictive personality
addictivity
antiaddictive
subaddictive
unaddictive
Translations:
congenital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin congenitus + English -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a trait or a disease, present since birth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: