text:
bourgeois

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from , from , ultimately from (whence ). ; compare also.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to the middle class,  their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
 * 2)  Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
 * 3)  Of or relating to the capitalist class,  the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
 * 1)  Of or relating to the capitalist class,  the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

Translations

 * Arabic: بُرْجُوَازِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: burges
 * Belarusian: буржуа́зны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: buržoazní
 * Danish: borgerlig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: בּוּרגָנִי
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:, orang borjuis,
 * Irish: meánaicmeach, buirgéiseach
 * Italian:
 * Kapampangan: burgis
 * Kazakh: буржуазиялық
 * Macedonian: буржоа́ски
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: borgerlig
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: буржујски, буржоаски
 * Roman: buržujski, buržoaski
 * Slovak: buržoázny
 * Slovene: buržoazen
 * Spanish: burgués
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: arianin, burgis
 * Ukrainian: буржуа́зний

 * Arabic: بُرْجُوَازِيّ
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: borgerlig
 * Finnish:, poroporvarillinen
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, nyárspolgárias
 * Irish: buirgéiseach
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: burgués,
 * Swedish:

 * Arabic: بُرْجُوَازِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: буржуа́зны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: buržoazní
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: בּוּרגָנִי
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: buirgéiseach
 * Kazakh: буржуазиялық
 * Macedonian: буржоа́ски
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: буржујски, буржоаски
 * Roman: buržujski, buržoaski
 * Slovak: buržoázny
 * Slovene: buržoazen
 * Ukrainian: буржуа́зний

Noun

 * 1)  The middle class.
 * 2)  An individual member of the middle class.
 * 3)  A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
 * 4)  An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
 * 5)  A capitalist,  an exploiter of the proletariat.

Translations

 * Arabic: بُرْجُوَازِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: burges
 * Belarusian: буржуазі́я, мяшча́нства
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: buržoazie
 * Esperanto: burĝaro
 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: meánaicme
 * Macedonian: буржоазија
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: буржоа́зија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: buržoazija, meščanstvo
 * Tagalog: burgis
 * Ukrainian: буржуазі́я, міща́нство

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: буржуа́, буржу́й, мешчані́н, мяшча́нка
 * Bulgarian: буржоа́
 * Czech: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: buirgéiseach
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: буржуј, буржујка
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, burguesa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̀ржӯј
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: meštiak, buržuj
 * Slovene: buržuj
 * Tagalog: burgis
 * Ukrainian:, , міщани́н, міща́нка

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Tagalog: burgis
 * Turkish: ,

 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: burgis

 * Czech: buržoa
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Tagalog: burgis

Verb

 * 1)  To make bourgeois.

Etymology 2
From, from , probably from +  but possibly from bourgeois above or after Jean de Bourgeois who worked as a printer in Rouen c. 1500.

Noun

 * 1)  A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小五
 * Dutch: borgis, burgeois,
 * French: ,
 * German: Borgis,
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
, from, from , ultimately from , from.

The path from Proto-Germanic to Old French is unclear. Perhaps via or, or possibly both, and probably through the  intermediate. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

.

Noun

 * 1) A member of the middle class
 * 2)  an inhabitant of a town or city
 * 3)  someone who belongs to neither the aristocratic, clerical, nor military classes
 * 1)  an inhabitant of a town or city
 * 2)  someone who belongs to neither the aristocratic, clerical, nor military classes

Etymology
, name for a wealthy class of French citizens in the late 18th century.

Adjective

 * 1) bourgeois
 * 2) snobbish, elitist (in the context of the upper middle class)

title: bourgeois


text:
browse

Etymology
, from, , from , from a source, perhaps , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. .

Verb

 * 1) To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
 * 2) To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
 * 3)  To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
 * 4)  To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
 * 5)  To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
 * 1)  To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
 * 2)  To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
 * 1)  To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَصَفَّحَ, اِسْتَعْرَضَ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 隨便看,, 逛一逛
 * Czech: prohlížet si,, bloudit očima
 * Danish:, gennemse , bladre , ose
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დათვალიერება
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Maori: pūtirotiro, whakaraprapa
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: прегледати
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:,  ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: đọc lướt qua
 * Yiddish: אַדורכן

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 隨便看,, 逛一逛
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * Galician: petiscar
 * Indonesian:
 * Swedish:

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: browse, gennemblade
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: დათვალიერება
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: brabhsaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: brskati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 吃草, 啃綠葉
 * Danish: græsse
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Latin: tondeō
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: beite
 * Nynorsk: beite
 * Portuguese: ramonear
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Yiddish: פּאַשען

Noun

 * 1)  Young shoots and twigs.
 * 2)  Fodder for cattle and other animals.
 * 3)  That which one browses through; something to read.
 * 1)  Fodder for cattle and other animals.
 * 2)  That which one browses through; something to read.
 * 1)  That which one browses through; something to read.
 * 1)  That which one browses through; something to read.

Verb

 * 1)  to

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title: browse


text:
candor

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  Whiteness; brilliance; purity.
 * 2) The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
 * 3) Impartiality.
 * 1) Impartiality.
 * 1) Impartiality.
 * 1) Impartiality.

Usage notes
Sense 2 can be used as the abstract noun equivalent of, i.e. “the state of being candid”.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: candor
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , , , Offenherzigkeit
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Latin: candor
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppriktighet, frimodighet, åpenhjertighet,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

 * Bulgarian: безпристрастност
 * Czech: nestrannost, bezpředsudkovost
 * Dutch: ,,
 * German:, Unparteilichkeit,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

 * Indonesian:, , ,

Etymology
..

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
 * 2) fairness, beauty
 * 3) glow, heat
 * 4)  splendor, brilliance
 * 5)  frankness, openness, candor, purity

Etymology
.

title: candor


text:
capricious

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.

Usage notes

 * The word capricious can describe both a person and the decisions which they make.

Translations

 * Belarusian: капры́зны
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, , непредвидим
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 反复无常的, 善变的, 任性的
 * Czech:, vrtošivý, , kapriciózní
 * Danish: uberegnelig, uforudsigbar/uforutsigbar, lunefuld
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kapricema
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჭირვეული, ახირებული, თვითრჯული, თავნება
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hindi:, , , , मन-चला, मुतलव्विन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: duttlungasamur,, , dyntóttur, duttlungafullur
 * Indonesian: sulit diduga, ,
 * Irish: meonúil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: inconstans
 * Lithuanian: įnoringas
 * Macedonian: непо́стојан, каприцио́зен, непре́двидлив
 * Maltese: kapriċċuż
 * Norwegian: uberegnelig, uforutsigbar, lunefull
 * Persian: دمدمی‌مزاج
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: капри́зний

title: capricious


text:
charlatan

Etymology
From, from , a blend of +  (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).

Noun

 * 1)  A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street;, an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
 * 2) A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
 * 1) A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

Translations

 * Arabic: دَجَّال
 * Armenian: ընդվայրաբան,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: charlatan,, snydepels, fidusmager, , platugle
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: charlatán
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀχλαγωγός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 薮医者
 * Korean:, 허풍선이, 돌팔이
 * Latin: magus
 * Maori: tohunga kēhua
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sjarlatan
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , vendedor de crecepelo
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, пройди́світ

Etymology
. Pejorative meaning first recorded 1668.

Noun

 * 1)  a streetseller of medicines
 * 2) a charlatan (trickster)
 * 3) a quack

Noun

 * 1) a street-seller of medicines

Etymology
From. Cognate of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) fraudster, deceiver

title: charlatan


text:
circuitous

Etymology
First attested in 1664. From, from , from , from +.

Adjective

 * 1) Not direct or to the point.
 * 2) Of a long and winding route.

Synonyms

 * : indirect, roundabout
 * : roundabout, tortuous

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , , umschweifend
 * Italian:
 * Maori: āwhiowhio
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, kaarteleva
 * French:
 * German:, , , sich windend
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Yoruba: kọ́lọkọ̀lọ

 * Indonesian: ,

title: circuitous


text:
cogent

Etymology
From, from , present active participle of , from +.

Adjective

 * 1) Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
 * 2) Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
 * 3) Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
 * 1) Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.

Synonyms
compelling, conclusive, convincing, indisputable

Antonyms
debatable, irrelevant, uncogent

Translations

 * Breton: gonidus, gounidus, kendrec'hus
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: overbevisende
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, , coherente,
 * Norman: cogent, conveincant, creyable
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , , ubjedljiv
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,

 * Danish: overbevisende
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: overbevisende, slagkraftig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: làidir
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ikna edici

 * Indonesian: ,

title: cogent


text:
congregation

Etymology
From, from , from , itself from. Adopted (1520s) by the English Bible translator, to render the 🇨🇬 (hence 🇨🇬) in his , and preferred by 16th century Reformers instead of.

Noun

 * 1) The act of congregating or collecting together.
 * 2) A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
 * 3) A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
 * 4) A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
 * 5) Any large gathering of people.
 * 6) A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
 * 7)  The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
 * 1) A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
 * 2)  The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
 * 1)  The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: forsamling,
 * French:
 * German: Versammeln, Zusammenführen
 * Maori: ikapahitanga

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: (kerk)gemeente, ,
 * Esperanto: kongregacio
 * Finnish:
 * French: assemblée des fidèles
 * German: Gemeindeversammlung, Gemeindetreffen
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃, 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: söfnuður
 * Interlingua: congregation
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakaminenga
 * Norman: congrégâtion
 * Plautdietsch: Vesaumlunk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, adunare de fideli, organzație fondată religios
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: coitheanal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: kongregacija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

 * French:
 * German: Kongregation
 * Italian:
 * Latin: congregatio
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * German: versammelte Gemeinde, ,
 * Hebrew:

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:,  , , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌿𐌼𐌸𐍃
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: congregation
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: minenga, whakaminenga
 * Old English: samnung
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:

 * German: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:

 * Indonesian:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: (Modern Latin), (Classical Latin) fourth declension
 * Norwegian:
 * Spanish:

title: congregation


text:
diminutive

Etymology
From (1398), from, from.

Adjective

 * 1) Very small.
 * 2)  Serving to diminish.
 * 3) * 1711,, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175,
 * They cou’d, perhaps, even embrace P OVERTY contentedly, rather than submit to any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
 * 1)  Serving to diminish.
 * 2) * 1711,, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175,
 * They cou’d, perhaps, even embrace P OVERTY contentedly, rather than submit to any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

Translations

 * Arabic: ضَئِيل
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: diminut
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Irish: bídeach
 * Italian:
 * Maori: nepi, nepinepi, ngorangora, ngihongiho
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: diminutiv
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meanbh
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:

 * Arabic: تَصْغِيرِيّ
 * Bulgarian: умали́телен
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, kisebbítő,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:, diminuidor
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Arabic: تَصْغِيرِيّ
 * Bulgarian: умалително име
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: minkingarorð, smækkanarorð
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑποκοριστικός
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 지소사
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: diminutiv
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , деминути́вный
 * Slovak:, deminutívum
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: зме́ншувальний
 * Vietnamese: sự giảm nhẹ
 * Welsh: bachigol

 * French:
 * Indonesian:, , , ,

Noun

 * 1)  A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَصْغِير
 * Armenian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: умали́телно и́ме
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , , Verkleinerungswort, Diminutivbildung, , Deminutivum
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑποκοριστικόν
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: kicsinyítő képzős alak, kicsinyített alak
 * Icelandic: smækkunarending
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 지소사
 * Latin: (nomen) deminutivum, (nomen) diminutivum
 * Luxembourgish: Diminutiv
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: diminutiv
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, diminutive
 * Russian:, уменьши́тельное сло́во, уменьши́тельно-ласка́тельное сло́во,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meanbhan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: pomanjševalnica, manjšálnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Volapük:, smalamavöd
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: דימינוטיוו

title: diminutive


text:
filibuster

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , ultimately from , from +  +. The alteration in the first syllable in French is due to the word's being somewhat conflated with when it was borrowed into French or another language from Dutch. The word is cognate and analogous to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the  in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
 * 2)  A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
 * 3)  A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.
 * 1)  A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
 * 2)  A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.
 * 1)  A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
 * 2)  A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.
 * 1)  A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.
 * 1)  A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:mercenary

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: fribytter
 * Esperanto: flibustro
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: fribytter
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 拉布
 * Mandarin: 冗長辯論, 費力把事拖
 * Danish: filibuster
 * Finnish:, jarrutuspuhe
 * French:
 * German: Dauerrede, Ermüdungsrede,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 議事妨害
 * Korean: 필리버스터
 * Norwegian: filibuster
 * Yiddish: אָבסטרוקציע

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: jarruttaja
 * German: Dauerredner
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: obstruáló, obstrukcionista

 * Indonesian: (1)

Verb

 * 1) To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
 * 2)  To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.
 * 3) * Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/
 * 1) * Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/
 * 1) * Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/
 * 1) * Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/
 * 1) * Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Obstruktion betreiben, , eine Verschleppungstaktik betreiben, eine Hinhaltetaktik betreiben, eine Verzögerungstaktik betreiben
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Yiddish: אָבסטרויִרן

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A, a tactic to delay Congressional procedures.
 * 2)  A, an American mercenary who operated in Central America or the Spanish West Indies seeking to gain wealth or political power.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , as.

Noun

 * 1) a tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body.
 * 2) a private military action.
 * 1) a private military action.

title: filibuster


text:
dupe

Etymology 1
From, from , alteration of , from ,.

Noun

 * 1) A person who has been deceived.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: лековерник,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: napálený, oklamaný, podvedený
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: trompito, trompato
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, несообрази́тельный челове́к, жертва́ обма́на, легкове́рный челове́к,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Yiddish: יאָלד

Verb

 * 1) To swindle, deceive, or trick.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: يخدع
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: trompi, dupi
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , palira vesz
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: dolum facio, fraudo
 * Norwegian: dupere
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,  ,  ,
 * Slovak: podviesť, oklamať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, , keklemek ,
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  A duplicate of a photographic image.
 * 2)  A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
 * 3)  A duplicate.
 * 4)  A counterfeit; a fake.
 * 5)  A cheap consumer product intended to imitate a more expensive product.
 * 1)  A cheap consumer product intended to imitate a more expensive product.

Verb

 * 1)  To duplicate.

Noun

 * 1) ghost

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) a person who has been deceived

Usage notes

 * A negative polarity item, very often found in the construction ne pas être dupe.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  ass
 * 2)  ass, jerk, dipshit; an annoying, contemptible, obnoxious person
 * 1)  ass, jerk, dipshit; an annoying, contemptible, obnoxious person
 * 1)  ass, jerk, dipshit; an annoying, contemptible, obnoxious person

Usage notes
May be construed as endearing rather than vulgar when used by a romantic couple.

Verb

 * 1)  to throw away
 * 2)  to drop (an anchor)

title: dupe


text:
empirical

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to or based on experience.
 * 2) Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
 * 3)  Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
 * 1) Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
 * 2)  Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
 * 1) Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
 * 2)  Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَجْرِيبِيّ
 * Belarusian: эмпіры́чны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: empíric
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: empirisk
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: empírico
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: अनुभवजन्य, तजरबी, तजुर्बी, आनुभविक
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Malay: ايمڤيريکل
 * Persian:, آروینی
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: masirin
 * Ukrainian: емпіри́чний
 * Urdu: تجربی
 * Vietnamese:

 * Arabic: تَجْرِيبِيّ
 * Belarusian: эмпіры́чны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: अनुभवजन्य, तजरबी, तजुर्बी, आनुभविक
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: masirin
 * Ukrainian: емпіри́чний

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi: अनुभवजन्य, आनुभविक
 * Korean: 실증적인
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: masirin
 * Vietnamese:

 * Indonesian: ,

title: empirical


text:
emulate

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To attempt to equal or be the same as.
 * 2) To copy or imitate, especially a person.
 * 3)  To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
 * 4)  of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
 * 1)  To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
 * 2)  of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
 * 1)  of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: söka efterlikna

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Latin: aemulor
 * Manx: eiyr
 * Occitan: emular
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: emula,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:

 * French:
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: étaigidir
 * Turkish: ,

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Malay: melagak
 * Romanian: emula
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Indonesian: meniru, menirukan, membeo, memimik
 * Turkish:, ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

title: emulate


text:
engender

Etymology 1
From, from , from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
 * 2)  To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
 * 3)  To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
 * 4)  To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
 * 5)  To copulate, to have sex.
 * 1)  To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
 * 2)  To copulate, to have sex.
 * 1)  To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
 * 2)  To copulate, to have sex.
 * 1)  To copulate, to have sex.
 * 1)  To copulate, to have sex.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:copulate
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 引起, 產生, 造成
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:, , donner le jour à,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: churiyay
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: vyvolať, vyvolávať, plodiť, splodiť
 * Spanish:, dar a luz,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tocharian B: täm-

 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Indonesian:, , ,

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

title: engender


text:
ephemeral

Etymology
From, from , the more common form of , from +.

Noun

 * 1) Something which lasts for a short period of time.

Adjective

 * 1) Lasting for a short period of time.
 * 2) * 1821-1822,, Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools
 * Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
 * 1)  Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
 * 2)  Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
 * 3) * 1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80:
 * The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
 * 1)  Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
 * 2)  Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
 * 3) * 1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80:
 * The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: эфемерны, мінучы, недаўгавечны, мімалётны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 短暫, 一時
 * Mandarin: 短暫的, 一時的
 * Czech:, , efemerní
 * Danish:, kortlivet
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: momenta
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: skammvinnur, skammær, skammlífur, hverfull
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: breacshaolach, gearrshaolach
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:, 束の間
 * Korean: 재지 않는
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: кратко́траен
 * Maori: rangitahi
 * Norwegian: kortvarig
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Slovene: kratkotrajen, začasen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Turkish: efemera,
 * Ukrainian: ефемерний, швидкоплинний
 * Welsh:, undydd

 * Bulgarian: еднодневен
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 朝生暮死的, 昙花一现的
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, eendags
 * Finnish:, , päivän kestävä
 * German: Eintags-
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: tiszavirág-életű
 * Icelandic: dægurlangur
 * Macedonian: едно́дневен
 * Maori: rangitahi
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Ukrainian: одноденний
 * Welsh: undydd

title: ephemeral


text:
euphoria

Etymology
From, from , from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِبْتِهَاج, نَشْوَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: euforia
 * Azerbaijani: eyforiya
 * Belarusian: эйфары́я
 * Bulgarian: еуфо́рия
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: euforie
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: eŭforio
 * Estonian: eufooria
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ეიფორია
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: suka cita,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 多幸感, ユーフォリア
 * Kazakh: эйфория
 * Korean: 다행감(多幸感), 행복감(幸福感)
 * Kyrgyz: эйфория
 * Latvian: eiforija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: еуфорија
 * Maori: manahau, harikoa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: eufori
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ра́достное настрое́ние, припо́днятое состоя́ние
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀схит, усхиће́ње, еуфо̀рија
 * Roman:, ushićénje,
 * Slovak: eufória
 * Slovene: evforija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ейфорі́я
 * Uzbek:

title: euphoria


text:
fortuitous

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) ing by chance; coincidental, accidental.
 * 2) ing by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
 * 3)  ing independently of human will.
 * 1) ing by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
 * 2)  ing independently of human will.
 * 1) ing by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
 * 2)  ing independently of human will.
 * 1)  ing independently of human will.
 * 1)  ing independently of human will.
 * 1)  ing independently of human will.
 * 1)  ing independently of human will.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hazarda
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: შემთხვევითი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, , tesadüfî

 * Bulgarian: по щастлива случайност
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: შემთხვევითი
 * German:, ; durch (einen) glücklichen Zufall
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: şans eseri olarak

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,

 * Indonesian: ,
 * Japanese:

title: fortuitous


text:
freight

Etymology 1
From Late, , , a variant of , , from , , and , from , , from (from ) +  (from , ultimately from ).

The English word can be analysed as, and is a.

Noun

 * 1)  The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also  by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
 * 2)  Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
 * 3)  Payment for transportation.
 * 4)  A burden, a load.
 * 5)  Cultural or emotional associations.
 * 1)  Payment for transportation.
 * 2)  A burden, a load.
 * 3)  Cultural or emotional associations.
 * 1)  A burden, a load.
 * 2)  Cultural or emotional associations.
 * 1)  A burden, a load.
 * 2)  Cultural or emotional associations.
 * 1)  Cultural or emotional associations.
 * 1)  Cultural or emotional associations.
 * 1)  Cultural or emotional associations.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:, ფრახტირება, ტვირთის გადაზიდვა
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 貨物輸送
 * Macedonian: пре́воз
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: transporte de mercancías
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: переве́зення, транспортува́ння

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , , rahtitavara
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian:, ტვირთი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γόμος, φορτίον
 * Ingrian: rahti
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: то́вар
 * Maori: utanga
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: luchd
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: fraktgods
 * Ukrainian:

 * Bulgarian: фрахт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲛⲁⲩⲗⲟⲛ
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: kuljetusmaksu, rahtimaksu
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 貨物輸送運賃
 * Latin: onus
 * Macedonian: брода́рина
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, пла́та за прово́з
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, fraktavgift
 * Tagalog: plete
 * Thai: ค่าระวางสินค้า
 * Ukrainian: фрахт

 * Esperanto:, ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Korean: ,

Etymology 2
The is derived from Late, , a variant of , , and then either:

 * from, (see etymology 1) + ; or
 * from, , from , (see etymology 1) +.

The is:

 * derived from, , , the  of  (see above); and/or
 * a, the past participle of the verb.

Verb

 * 1) To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
 * 2) To transport (goods).
 * 3)  To load or store (goods, etc.).
 * 4)  To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
 * 5)  Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
 * 1) To transport (goods).
 * 2)  To load or store (goods, etc.).
 * 3)  To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
 * 4)  Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
 * 1)  To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
 * 2)  Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
 * 1)  To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
 * 2)  Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: заванта́жувати, заванта́жити

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 貨物輸送
 * Maori: taritari
 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: перево́зити, перевезти́, транспортува́ти

Adjective

 * 1)  Freighted; laden.

title: freight


text:
gargantuan

Etymology
From, a giant with a very large appetite in . Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and.

Adjective

 * 1) Huge; immense; tremendous.
 * 2)  Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
 * 1)  Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
 * 1)  Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
 * 1)  Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.
 * 1)  Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

Translations

 * Danish: gigantisk, enorm
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:, hiigelsuur
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 巨大な, 膨大な,
 * Kannada:, , , ,
 * Macedonian: гига́нтски
 * Malayalam: വളരെ വലിയ
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,

 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ガルガンチュワの
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: gargantuesc

title: gargantuan


text:
gregarious

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
 * 2)  Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
 * 3)  Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
 * 4) Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
 * 1)  Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
 * 2) Pertaining to a flock or crowd.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 喜爱社交的
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: selskabelig
 * Dutch:, , gregarieus,
 * Esperanto: grega
 * Finnish: seurallinen
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: társaságot kedvelő
 * Indonesian: suka bergaul
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: selskapelig
 * Nynorsk: selskapeleg, selskapleg
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: greigheach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: друштвен
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: cymdeithasgar

 * Bulgarian: събиращ се на ята
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: stádní
 * Dutch: in kudde levend,
 * Finnish:, laumassa elävä
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Maori: noho rōpū
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: greigheach
 * Serbo-Croatian: čoporski
 * Cyrillic: друштвен
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: sürü hâlinde,
 * Ukrainian: ста́дний
 * Welsh: heidiol

title: gregarious


text:
iconoclast

Etymology
Borrowed from, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.
 * 2) One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm.
 * 3) * 2010 The Handbook of Texas Online, William Cowper Brann, Texas State Historical Association, Austin :
 * In February 1895 he [William Cowper Brann, 1855-1898 ] revived publication of the Iconoclast. This time it was successful and eventually attained a circulation of 100,000. Brann took obvious relish in directing his stinging attacks upon institutions and persons he considered to be hypocritical or overly sanctimonious.
 * 1)  One who attacks cherished beliefs; a maverick.
 * In February 1895 he [William Cowper Brann, 1855-1898 ] revived publication of the Iconoclast. This time it was successful and eventually attained a circulation of 100,000. Brann took obvious relish in directing his stinging attacks upon institutions and persons he considered to be hypocritical or overly sanctimonious.
 * 1)  One who attacks cherished beliefs; a maverick.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: billedstormer, ikonoklast
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Bilderstürmer, Bilderstürmerin,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εἰκονοκλάστης
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:, obrazoburca
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh: delwyddrylliwr, eiconoclast

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: billedstormer, ikonoklast
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Bilderstürmer, Bilderstürmerin,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh: delwyddrylliwr

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: polgárpukkasztó
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: delwyddrylliwr

 * Greek:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:

Etymology
.

title: iconoclast


text:
impetuous

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.
 * 2) Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence.
 * 3) * 1917 rev. 1925,, "Canto I"
 * Unsheathed the narrow sword,
 * I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead
 * 1) Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence.
 * 2) * 1917 rev. 1925,, "Canto I"
 * Unsheathed the narrow sword,
 * I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead
 * 1) * 1917 rev. 1925,, "Canto I"
 * Unsheathed the narrow sword,
 * I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead
 * 1) * 1917 rev. 1925,, "Canto I"
 * Unsheathed the narrow sword,
 * I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead
 * I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead

Translations

 * Armenian: իմպուլսիվ
 * Basque: odolbero, oldartsu, oldar handiko
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: impetuós
 * Czech: unáhlený,
 * Danish: impulsiv
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὁρμητικός
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: tobann
 * Italian:
 * Maori: takahorohoro, manawarere, kowheta
 * Norwegian: impulsstyrt
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Slovak: zbrklý, impulzívny
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Yoruba: oníwàdùwàdù

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: impetuós
 * Danish: opfarende, heftig, fremfusende
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θούριος, θοῦρος
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: totoa, taikaha
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppfarende, fremfusende, brysk
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: prudký
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Yoruba: oníwàdùwàdù

 * French: ,
 * Indonesian: ,

title: impetuous


text:
inconsequential

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
 * You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential.
 * 1) Not logically following from the premises.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant
 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant
 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant
 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant
 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 无足轻重的
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: sans conséquence
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 하찮은
 * Macedonian: незначи́телен
 * Maori: kūrapa, korokororiki, hauarea, hanganoa
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) Something unimportant; something that does not matter.

title: inconsequential


text:
incontrovertible

Adjective

 * 1) Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

Translations

 * Belarusian: неабве́ржны
 * Danish: ubestridelig
 * Finnish:, kieltämätön,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: dobhréagnaithe
 * Italian:
 * Manx: neuchaghlaaee, neureggyrtagh
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:, necontroversabil
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: impepinable
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: неспросто́вний, незапере́чний

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) undisputable

title: incontrovertible


text:
increment

Etymology
From, , from , from (whence ), from  +. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The action of increasing or becoming greater.
 * 2) * 1835, (d. 1834), Specimens of the Table Talk
 * A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
 * 1) The amount of increase.
 * 2)  An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report,  think on these things."
 * 3)  The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
 * 4)  A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
 * 1)  An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report,  think on these things."
 * 2)  The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
 * 3)  A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Synonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Antonyms

 * ; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, suba,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: breisíocht, incrimint
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian: inkrementere
 * Scottish Gaelic: ioncramaid
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, , ,

 * Bulgarian:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: breisíocht, incrimint, breis
 * Japanese: 増分, 増加分, 増加量
 * Swedish:, inkrement
 * Tagalog: dugang
 * West Frisian: tanimming

Verb

 * 1)  To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Usage notes

 * Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

Translations

 * Esperanto: alkrementi
 * French:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , increase

Etymology
.

title: increment


text:
jubilant

Etymology
From Latin iubilans ("shouting for joy").

Adjective

 * 1) In a state of elation.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Esperanto: jubila
 * Finnish: riemuitseva,
 * Georgian: მოლხინე, მოზეიმე
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, penuh kebanggaan, bersuka cita
 * Kazakh: масаттанған, мәз-мәйрам, шаттанған
 * Maori: harikoa
 * Norwegian: jublende
 * Russian:

title: jubilant


text:
longevity

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.
 * 2) Duration over time; persistence.
 * 1) Duration over time; persistence.
 * 1) Duration over time; persistence.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: даўгале́цце
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: longevitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: longviveco
 * Estonian: pikaealisus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μακροβίωσις
 * Hungarian: hosszú élet
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: buaine, fadsaolaí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: អាយុវែង, ទីឃាយុភាព
 * Korean:
 * Latin: longaevitās
 * Maori: mauriroa
 * Mizo: damreina, daihreina, tlona
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: longevidade
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་པོ
 * Turkish: ömürlülük
 * Ukrainian: довголі́ття, довгожи́тельство
 * Vietnamese: sống lâu, tuổi thọ cao
 * Welsh: hirhoedledd

title: longevity


text:
mollify

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
 * 2) To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
 * 3) To soften; to make tender
 * 4) * 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
 * "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."
 * 1) To soften; to make tender
 * 2) * 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
 * "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."
 * 1) To soften; to make tender
 * 2) * 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
 * "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:calm
 * See also Thesaurus:calm
 * See also Thesaurus:calm
 * See also Thesaurus:calm

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Indonesian: menghibur, menenangkan, meringankan
 * Latin: lēniō
 * Middle English: mollifien, melten
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: mildigi
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Kazakh: жұбандыру
 * Latin: lēniō
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,

title: mollify


text:
ominous

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
 * 2) Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
 * 3) * California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
 * 1) * California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
 * 1) * California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011

Usage notes

 * Formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshadowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.

Collocations

 * ominous sign
 * ominous silence
 * ominous warning
 * ominous cloud
 * ominous note
 * ominous sound
 * ominous shadow
 * ominous threat
 * ominous music
 * ominous tone
 * ominous implication
 * ominous message
 * ominous presence
 * ominous development
 * ominous voice
 * ominous portent
 * ominous turn
 * ominous sky
 * ominous figure
 * ominous dream
 * ominous event
 * ominous trend
 * ominous change
 * ominous day
 * ominous beginning
 * ominous growl
 * ominous cry
 * ominous signal
 * ominous pattern

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: varslende
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ავბედი
 * German:, ahnungsvoll, schicksalsschwer, unheilschwanger
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: злокобен, зловестен
 * Maori: tamaki
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: అరిష్ట సూచకమైన
 * Ukrainian: прові́сницький, проро́чий

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: zlověstný
 * Danish: ildevarslende, uheldsvanger
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kurjakuulutav, pahaendeline
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: de mauvais augure,, ,
 * Georgian: ავბედი
 * German: unheilsschwanger, verhängnisvoll,, unheilbringend
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀπαίσιος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: malaugurante, ,
 * Latin: dīrus
 * Macedonian: злокобен, зловестен
 * Maori: tamaki
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, de rău augur
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: అశుభసూచకమైన
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: злові́щий

 * Indonesian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Latin:

title: ominous


text:
ponderous

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Adjective

 * 1) Heavy, massive, weighty.
 * 2)  Serious, onerous, oppressive.
 * 3) Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
 * 4) Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
 * 5)  Characterized by or associated with pondering.
 * 6)  Dense.
 * 1) Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
 * 2) Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
 * 3)  Characterized by or associated with pondering.
 * 4)  Dense.
 * 1) Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
 * 2)  Characterized by or associated with pondering.
 * 3)  Dense.
 * 1)  Characterized by or associated with pondering.
 * 2)  Dense.
 * 1)  Dense.
 * 1)  Dense.
 * 1)  Dense.
 * 1)  Dense.

Translations

 * Arabic: ثقيل
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: آغر, وزین
 * Russian: ,

 * Finnish: ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * German:
 * Maori: māngaingai
 * Plautdietsch: schwoafalich
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , , ,

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , , , ,

 * Finnish:, raskassoutuinen

 * Indonesian: ,

title: ponderous


text:
procrastination

Etymology
From, from , from , from + , from.

Noun

 * 1) The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:deferment

Translations

 * Afrikaans: uitstel
 * Arabic: تَسْوِيف,
 * Armenian: պրոկրաստինացիա
 * Asturian: procrastinación
 * Azerbaijani: ertələmə, yubatma
 * Basque: prokrastinazio
 * Bulgarian:, , прокрастинация
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: odkládání,
 * Danish:, , prokrastinering
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: prokrasto
 * Estonian: prokrastinatsioon
 * Finnish:, , , , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, larcha, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דחיינות
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:, prokrastinasi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 先延ばし,
 * Kannada: ವಿಳಂಬನ
 * Korean: 지연행동
 * Latin: morōsitās, prōcrāstinātiō
 * Lithuanian: atidėliojimas, vilkinimas
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tonanawetanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prokrastinering
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰੋਕ੍ਰਾਸਟ੍ਰੀਨੇਸ਼ਨ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: màirnealachd
 * Sinhalese: කල් දැමීම
 * Slovak: prokrastinácia
 * Slovene: prokrastinacija
 * Spanish:, dejar algo para más tarde, para mañana...,
 * Swedish: förhalning, ,
 * Tagalog: pagpapaliban, pagpapabukas-bukas
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ertelemecilik
 * Ukrainian: прокрастина́ція, відкладання на потім
 * Uzbek: prokrastinatsiya
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: אָפּלייגעכץ

Etymology
.

title: procrastination


text:
pugnacious

Etymology
Borrowed from, from a derivative of , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:combative

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pugnaç
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 好戰的, 好鬥的
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: taistelunhaluinen
 * French:
 * Galician: pugnaz
 * German:, , streitlustig, rauflustig, , ,
 * Irish: trodach
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: сотқар, төбелескіш, төбелесшіл
 * Latin: pugnāx
 * Maori: pukungangare, ririhau
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stridslysten
 * Occitan: pugnaç
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: pugnaz, pugnace,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ратоборан
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

title: pugnacious


text:
volatile

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1)   Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
 * 2)  Explosive.
 * 3)  Variable or erratic.
 * 4)  Quick to become angry or violent.
 * 5) Fickle.
 * 6) Temporary or ephemeral.
 * 7)  Potentially violent.
 * 8)  Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
 * 9)  Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
 * 10)  Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
 * 1)  Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
 * 2)  Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:ephemeral

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vlugtig
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: volàtil
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 易揮發的
 * Czech: prchavý, těkavý
 * Dutch:, licht ontvlambaar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: აქროლადი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: asiri, mudah menguap
 * Irish: luaineach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 揮発性
 * Javanese:
 * Korean: 휘발성의
 * Macedonian: и́спарлив
 * Malay: meruap
 * Manx: so-ghaalagh
 * Maori: tākohukohu
 * Norwegian: flyktig
 * Ossetian: сысгӕ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: prchavý
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ลบเลือนได้
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: літки́й
 * Vietnamese: dễ bay hơi
 * Welsh: hydarth, anweddol

 * Finnish: räjähdysherkkä
 * Georgian: ფეთქებადი, ასაფეთქებელი
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: peledak
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 動蕩不定的
 * Czech: nestálý
 * Finnish:, volatiili
 * French:
 * Georgian: ცვალებადი, არამდგრადი, არასტაბილური
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: naik turun, mudah berubah
 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 易變的
 * Czech: nestálý, přelétavý
 * Finnish: häilyväinen
 * Georgian: ფიცხი, ფხუკიანი, მერყევი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Indonesian: rentan
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: непо́стојан, про́менлив
 * Russian: ,

 * Czech: náladový, prchlivý,
 * Finnish: räjähdysherkkä
 * Georgian: ფიცხი
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian: darah tinggi
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pūkākā, kirikawa

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: prchavý
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: häilyväinen,
 * Georgian: დროებითი, წარმავალი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Indonesian: sementara
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: при́времен, кратко́траен
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 易怒的
 * Czech: výbušný
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: მერყევი, საშიში
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: kisruh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: volatil, meruap
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

 * Esperanto:
 * Spanish: ,

Noun

 * 1) A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
 * 2)  A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.

Adjective

 * , as a masculine singular
 * , as a masculine singular

Noun

 * 1) fowl, bird

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) flying
 * 1) flying

Noun

 * 1) bird, fowl
 * 2)  penis
 * 1)  penis

title: volatile


text:
rancorous

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.

Translations

 * Belarusian: злапа́мятны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: katkeroitunut, kaunaa kantava,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: aiciseach, domlasta
 * Italian:
 * Norman: rantcheunyi
 * Polish: rozgoryczony, rozżalony,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: rencoroso
 * Ukrainian: злопа́м'ятний

title: rancorous


text:
recuperate

Etymology
Borrowed from, alternative form of. . The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb.

Verb

 * 1)  To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
 * 2)  To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
 * 3)  To recover; to regain.
 * 4)  To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
 * 1)  To recover; to regain.
 * 2)  To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
 * 1)  To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
 * 1)  To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: възстановявам се
 * Finnish: ,
 * Maori: whakamāui
 * Middle English: warysshen
 * Polish: ,

title: recuperate


text:
repeal

Etymology
From, from , from , from and. .

Verb

 * 1)  To cancel, invalidate, annul.
 * 2) * 1776,, letter to , cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, p. 8,
 * As manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.
 * 1) To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
 * 2) To suppress; to repel.
 * 1) To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
 * 2) To suppress; to repel.
 * 1) To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
 * 2) To suppress; to repel.
 * 1) To suppress; to repel.
 * 1) To suppress; to repel.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, , prohlásit za neplatný
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:,  ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aisghair, cuir ar ceal
 * Italian: ,
 * Malay: mansuh
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh:

Noun

 * 1) An act or instance of repealing.
 * 2) * Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
 * When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.

title: repeal


text:
sedentary

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
 * 2)  Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
 * 3)  Not moving much; sitting around.
 * 4)  inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
 * 5)  Caused by long sitting.
 * 1)  inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
 * 2)  Caused by long sitting.
 * 1)  Caused by long sitting.
 * 1)  Caused by long sitting.
 * 1)  Caused by long sitting.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:stationary
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:inactive
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:inactive
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:inactive

Translations

 * Arabic: حَضَرِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: oturaq
 * Belarusian: асе́лы
 * Bulgarian:, непрелетен
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vähän liikkuva
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: sambil duduk
 * Irish: neamhaistreach
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 정착성
 * Norwegian: stillesittende
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: sedanter,
 * Ukrainian: осі́лий

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: istuma-, paikallaan pysyvä
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kyrrsetu-, hreyfingarleysis-
 * Ido:
 * Korean:, 앉은
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stillesittende, sedat
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కూర్చున్నట్టు చేసేపని
 * Turkish: sedanter,

Noun

 * 1) a sedentary person

title: sedentary


text:
simulate

Etymology
, from, past participle of , from. See.

Verb

 * 1) To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:imitate

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: simulere
 * Esperanto: simuli
 * Eton (Cameroon): bád
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: menirukan, mensimulasikan
 * Japanese: シミュレートする
 * Latin: simulo, similo, simis sum,
 * Luganda: okopa
 * Malay: mensimulasikan
 * Maori: whakatau
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: simule etmek, benzetmek
 * Ukrainian: симулюва́ти

Adjective

 * 1)  Feigned; pretended.

title: simulate


text:
spurious

Etymology
Borrowed from, possibly related to or from.

Adjective

 * , not authentic, not genuine.
 * , stray; not relevant or wanted.
 * , illegitimate.
 * , stray; not relevant or wanted.
 * , illegitimate.
 * , illegitimate.
 * , illegitimate.
 * , illegitimate.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:fake
 * See also Thesaurus:illegitimate
 * See also Thesaurus:illegitimate

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vals
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: võlts
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πλαστός, νόθος
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: óekta, falskur, falsaður, tál-, fals-
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Japanese: にせ物,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin: reprobus
 * Maori: tipatipa
 * Norwegian:, uekte
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meallta, mealltach
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,

 * German:, , , nicht erwünscht

 * Bulgarian: незаконнороден
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νόθος
 * Icelandic: óskilgetinn
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

title: spurious


text:
stevedore

Etymology
From (cognate with 🇨🇬, and compare 🇨🇬), from, , from ,  (compare 🇨🇬, ), the present active infinitive of , derived from , which is from the root. It is cognate with through 🇨🇬.

According to the , the word was attested in 1788 in the early form (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.

Noun

 * 1) A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: докер
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 碼頭工人, 碼頭裝卸工人,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: stivisto, dokisto
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: stíbheadóir
 * Italian: stivatore
 * Japanese: 港湾労働者
 * Norwegian: havnearbeider,
 * Bokmål: sjauer
 * Nynorsk: sjauar
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , порто́вый гру́зчик
 * Spanish:, arrumador
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: estibador

Verb

 * 1)  To load or unload a ship's cargo.

title: stevedore


text:
tout

Etymology 1
From a dialectal form of, itself from , , from. Merged with, from , related to 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
 * 2) A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
 * 3)  An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
 * 4)  A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
 * 1) A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
 * 2)  An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
 * 3)  A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
 * 1)  A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
 * 1)  A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

Translations

 * Bengali:
 * French:, vendeur ambulant, ,
 * German: Drogenvermittler,  Drogenvermittlerin,  Kartenschwarzhändler,  Kartenschwarzhändlerin, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: biljettförsäljare (illegal), kundvärvare
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: впа́рювальник

Verb

 * 1)  To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
 * 2)  To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
 * 3)  To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
 * 4)  To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
 * 5)  To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
 * 6)  To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
 * 7) * March 1, 2016, Ben Judah on BBC Business Daily:
 * To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.
 * 1)  To look upon or watch.
 * 2) * 1600,, The  of , X, lvi:
 * Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout.
 * To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.
 * 1)  To look upon or watch.
 * 2) * 1600,, The  of , X, lvi:
 * Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face, / But still upon the floor did pore and tout.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: vnucovat, podstrkovat, (dotěrně)
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian: menawari, menawarkan, membujuk
 * Italian:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: pracka (på ngn en vara)
 * Turkish:,  ,
 * Ukrainian: нахва́лювати
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 2
Probably from.

Noun

 * 1)  In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Etymology
, from, from , alteration (likely via expressive gemination) of. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) all
 * 2) totally; completely
 * 3)  however; no matter how

Usage notes
When modifying a feminine adjective, the form tout is used preceding a vowel or muted H, or otherwise changes to agree with the adjective. When modifying a verb, tout is invariant.

Determiner

 * 1) all

Noun

 * 1) whole, entirety, total

Pronoun

 * 1) everything

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) all

Adverb

 * 1) all
 * 2) every

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) all; all of

Adverb

 * 1) all (intensifier)
 * 2) completely; totally; entirely
 * 1) completely; totally; entirely

Usage notes

 * Like Modern French, when used as an intensifier it may inflect according to the gender and the number of what it is describing:
 * The uninflected form tout is always used for describing terms that don't inflect with gender, such as verbs, adverbs and prepositions:
 * (tout qualifies the preposition )
 * (tout qualifies the preposition )

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  all

Adverb

 * 1)  all

Verb

 * 1)  To pout.

Noun

 * 1) A fit of sulking; a pet.
 * 2) A sudden illness.

title: tout


text:
ambiguous

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Adjective

 * 1) Open to multiple interpretations.
 * 2)  Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
 * 1)  Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
 * 1)  Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
 * 1)  Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.

Translations

 * Albanian: i dykuptueshëm
 * Arabic: غَامِض
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ambiguu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 歧義, 曖昧
 * Hokkien: 歧義, 曖昧
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , dobbelttydig
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:, plursenca
 * Finnish: moniselitteinen,, tulkinnanvarainen
 * French:
 * Galician: ambiguo
 * Georgian: ორაზროვანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀμφίβολος
 * Hebrew: דו משמעי
 * Hungarian:, , nem egyértelmű
 * Icelandic: óskýr
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 모호한
 * Latin: ambiguus
 * Macedonian: двосмислен
 * Maori: rangirua
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: flertydig,
 * Plautdietsch: dobbeldiedent
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, cu multe sensuri
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Slovene: dvoumen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: talohimig, taluhimig
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , ,
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: ,
 * Vietnamese:

title: ambiguous


text:
adulation

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) Flattery; fulsome praise.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:flattery

Translations

 * Arabic: تَمَلُّق, مَلَق
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: adulació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: pochlebování, vychvalování
 * Danish: smigreri
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: puji-pujian, puja-pujaan, pujian, pujaan
 * Italian:
 * Latin: adulātio
 * Maori: enenga
 * Norwegian: smiger,, smisking
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: adulaziôn
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: kryperi, rövslickeri

Etymology
From.

title: adulation


text:
anachronistic

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
 * If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
 * 1)  Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:anachronistic
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: анахранічны
 * Catalan: anacrònic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 不合時代,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: anakronisma
 * Finnish:, , aikaan sopimaton
 * French:
 * Galician: anacrónico
 * German:, fehldatiert, zeitwidrig
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אֲנַכְרוֹנִיסְטִי
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: mí-aimseartha
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 시대 착오
 * Latin: anachronicus, anachronisticus
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: anachronistesch
 * Manx: mee-emshiragh
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: laos na
 * Ukrainian:

 * Galician: anacrónico
 * German:, , , , , , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Spanish:

 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Swedish: ,

title: anachronistic


text:
contemporary

Etymology
From, from + , an adjective derived from.

Adjective

 * 1) Belonging to or occurring in the same time period (whether past, present, or future)

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: суча́сны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: samtidig
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Georgian: თანამედროვე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σύγχρονος
 * Hebrew: בן דור
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: comhaosta
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 同時代
 * Korean:
 * Latin: aequālis, coaevālis
 * Lithuanian: šiuolaikinis
 * Macedonian: современ
 * Malay:
 * Manx: co-emshiragh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: samtidig
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: co-aimsireil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: са̀времен, су̀времен
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: dobový, súdobý,, vtedajší
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: contemporario,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kapanahon, alinsabay
 * Telugu: సమకాలీన
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: суча́сний
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: عَصْرِيّّ, حَدِيث,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: суча́сны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, nutids-
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: თანამედროვე
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew: עכשווי, בֶּן זְמַנֵּנוּ
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: nykyaikain
 * Irish: nua-aimseartha
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , モダン
 * Kazakh: заманауи
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: модерен, современ
 * Malay: kontemporari
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: onāianei
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: samtid
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: co-aimsireil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мо̏де̄ран, са̀времен, су̀времен
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: moderen,
 * Spanish:, contemporario
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kasalukuyan, kapanahon
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: суча́сний
 * Vietnamese:

 * Breton:
 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Persian: ,

Noun

 * 1) Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
 * 2) Something existing at the same time.
 * 3)  A rival newspaper or magazine.
 * 1) Something existing at the same time.
 * 2)  A rival newspaper or magazine.
 * 1)  A rival newspaper or magazine.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: съвреме́нник, съвреме́нница
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, současnice
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თანამედროვე
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σύγχρονος
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, samtíðarmaður
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Macedonian: современик
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: comhaois
 * Tagalog: kapanahon
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: сучасник, сучасниця

title: contemporary


text:
brusque

Etymology
The is borrowed from, from ; further en.

The is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

 * 1) Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
 * 2)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.
 * 1)  Sour, tart.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: brusko, suplado
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: bryskní
 * Danish: brysk
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: abrupta
 * Faroese: hvassorðaður, kvettorðaður
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: უხეში
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: byrstur,, , , óheflaður, , , stuttur í spuna, þurr á manninn
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: borb
 * Italian:, , spicciativo,
 * Japanese:, ぶっきら棒, , , , , 素気無い, 素気ない,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: abscīsus
 * Macedonian: о́тсечен
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:, obcesowy, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: affhand
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Veps: huiktelmatoi

Verb

 * 1)  To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.

Translations

 * Korean: ,

Etymology
..

Adjective

 * 1) abrupt sudden or hasty
 * 2) curt
 * 1) curt

title: brusque


text:
carp

Pronunciation

Etymology 1
From Late, from , from , possibly from (possibly due to the introduction from the fish from the Danube into England in the 14th century; whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, ); further etymology unknown.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of various freshwater fish of the family ; specifically the common carp,.

Translations

 * Abenaki: wôbhagas
 * Afrikaans: karp
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شَبُّوط
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܫܒܘܛܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Middle Armenian: շապութ
 * Asturian: carpa
 * Azerbaijani:, çəki balığı,
 * Basque: karpa
 * Belarusian: карп
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: karpe
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: karpa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჭანარი, კობრი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κυπρῖνος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: vatnakarfi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ikan mas
 * Irish: carbán
 * Italian:, reina
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: тұқы
 * Korean: 잉어(鯉魚)
 * Latin: carpa
 * Macedonian: крап
 * Manchu: ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ
 * Maori: morihana
 * Norman: carpe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: karpe, karpefisk
 * Nynorsk: karpe
 * Nuosu: ꆹꒄꉛ
 * Ottoman Turkish: سازان
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кра̏п, ша̀ран
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: karpa
 * Upper Sorbian: karp
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: karpa
 * Tamil: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: (𩵜鮿)
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: קאַרפּ
 * Zazaki: kapır, sazan

Etymology 2
The is derived from, , and then partly:

 * from, further etymology unknown; and
 * from, or influenced by,, the   of , ultimately from.

The is derived from the verb. (🇨🇬,, from 🇨🇬, did not survive into modern English.)

Verb

 * 1) To criticize or complain about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons; to cavil.
 * 2)  To speak, to talk; also, to talk about a subject in speech or writing.
 * 3)  To talk much but to little purpose; to chatter, to prattle.
 * 4)  Of a bird: to sing; of a person (such as a minstrel): to sing or recite.
 * 5) To say or tell (something).
 * 6) To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.
 * 1)  To speak, to talk; also, to talk about a subject in speech or writing.
 * 2)  To talk much but to little purpose; to chatter, to prattle.
 * 3)  Of a bird: to sing; of a person (such as a minstrel): to sing or recite.
 * 4) To say or tell (something).
 * 5) To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.
 * 1)  Of a bird: to sing; of a person (such as a minstrel): to sing or recite.
 * 2) To say or tell (something).
 * 3) To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.
 * 1) To say or tell (something).
 * 2) To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.
 * 1) To say or tell (something).
 * 2) To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.
 * 1) To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Esperanto: kritikaĉi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Icelandic: finna að,, gagnrýna smugulega, , vera með sparðatíning
 * Macedonian: се бу́ни, приго́вара
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) An instance of, or speech, complaining or criticizing about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons; a cavil.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) carpus

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) carpus

title: carp


text:
curtail

Etymology
Alteration of, from , itself from (from ) +

Verb

 * 1)  To cut short the tail of an animal
 * Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
 * 1)  To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
 * When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
 * 1)  To limit or restrict, keep in check.

Synonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:shorten
 * ,, , ; See also Thesaurus:curb
 * ,, , ; See also Thesaurus:curb

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, , , , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: derrabar
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kupere
 * Portuguese: derrabar
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ，
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: recortar, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: συντέμνω
 * Hebrew: קִצֵּרקִצֵּר,
 * Ido: ,
 * Maori: auporo, tauporo, auporo, totope
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forkorte
 * Nynorsk: forkorte
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: giorraich
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ，
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, kort houden, ,
 * Estonian: piirama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, coartar,
 * German:, , ,
 * Maori: totope
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: avgrense
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:

 * Indonesian: ,

Noun

 * 1)  A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

title: curtail


text:
decorous

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Marked by proper behaviour.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Irish: oiriúnach
 * Manx: beasagh
 * Romanian:, decoros
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:

 * Indonesian:, , , , ,

title: decorous


text:
denigrate

Etymology
From, the past participle of , from +  (from ).

Verb

 * 1)  To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
 * 2)  To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
 * 3)  To blacken.
 * 1)  To blacken.
 * 1)  To blacken.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 詆毀
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, , , , in Verruf bringen
 * Hungarian:, , , , , , ,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: оцр́нува
 * Maori: whakarōriki, whakahahani, whakatoihara, whakatakē, whakahāwea, whakatakē
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sverte, rakke
 * Polish: uwłaczać,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: svärta ner, racka ned på
 * Turkish: ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: znevažovat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,
 * Macedonian: омаловажува, понижува
 * Maori: whakatūtūā, whakamanumanu
 * Polish: pomniejszyć,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dèan dìmeas air
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,

 * Arabic: سَوَّدَ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: оцр́нува
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: ,

 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Turkish: ,

title: denigrate


text:
disdain

Etymology
From, from (modern French ).

Noun

 * 1)  A feeling of contempt or scorn.
 * 2)  That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
 * 3)  The state of being despised; shame.
 * 1)  That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
 * 2)  The state of being despised; shame.
 * 1)  That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
 * 2)  The state of being despised; shame.
 * 1)  The state of being despised; shame.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:contempt
 * See also Thesaurus:contempt
 * See also Thesaurus:contempt
 * See also Thesaurus:contempt
 * See also Thesaurus:contempt
 * See also Thesaurus:contempt

Translations

 * Arabic: اِزْدِرَاء
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Belarusian: пага́рда
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: pohrdání,, despekt, přezírání
 * Danish: despekt,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: malestimo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, (disrespect),  (contempt)
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑπεροψία
 * Hebrew: בוז
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: dímheas
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: despectio, fastus
 * Middle English: disdeyne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: forakt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tàire, dìmeas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: презир, пријезир
 * Roman:, prijezir
 * Sicilian: sdincu
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:

Verb

 * 1)  To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
 * 2)  To be indignant or offended.
 * 1)  To be indignant or offended.
 * 1)  To be indignant or offended.
 * 1)  To be indignant or offended.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:despise
 * See also Thesaurus:despise
 * See also Thesaurus:despise

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: احتقر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: לבוז
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:,  ,  ,
 * Italian:, sprezzare,
 * Japanese: 見下す,, , ,
 * Latin: despicio, dēdignor, aspernor
 * Maori: whakatoa, whakatoatoa, tamatama, tokoreko, whakareko, whakakurīmōri, whakapuw(h)eto, whakamanumanu
 * Middle English: disdeynen
 * Norwegian: forakte, kimse av
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tàire
 * Sicilian: sdincari
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

title: disdain


text:
dogged

Etymology 1
From the verb to dog.

Etymology 2
From, , , equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1) stubbornly persevering, steadfast

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 持續不懈, 持续不懈
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: pervicax
 * Maori: whakakiriūka, kiriūka, pikoni, manawaroa, pūkeke
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leanailteach
 * Spanish:, ,

Adverb

 * 1)  very

title: dogged


text:
dogmatic

Etymology
From, from , from Hellenistic , from.

Adjective

 * 1)  Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
 * 2) Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
 * 3) Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
 * 1) Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.

Derived terms

 * dogmatic theology

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَقَائِدِي
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: doqmatik
 * Basque: dogmatikoa
 * Belarusian: дагматычны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dogmatisk
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, dogmema
 * Estonian: dogmaatiline
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დოგმატური
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דוגמטי, פסקני
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ?, ?, ?
 * Irish: dogmach, dogmatach, diongbháilte, ceanndána
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 独断的
 * Korean: 독단적인
 * Latin: dogmaticus
 * Latvian: dogmatisks
 * Lithuanian: dogmatiškas
 * Macedonian: догматски
 * Manx: bun-chredjuagh
 * Maori: kakī mārō
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: dogmatisk
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: догматски
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: dogmatický
 * Slovene: dogmatičen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: หัวรั้น
 * Turkish:, öğretisel
 * Ukrainian: догмати́чний
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * 1) One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.

Etymology
and. Equivalent to.

title: dogmatic


text:
unusual

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Not usual, out of the ordinary.

Translations

 * Armenian: արտասովոր
 * Belarusian: нязвы́чны, нязвы́клы
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: nekutima, neordinara
 * Estonian: veider
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: უჩვეულო
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀήθης, ἄτοπος
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: ēnormis, insuētus, insolens
 * Latvian: neparasts, svešāds, savāds
 * Macedonian: нео́бичен
 * Manx: neuoayllagh, neuchadjin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: unġewunelīċ
 * Plautdietsch: besonda
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Seraiki: اَݨہوْوَݨاں
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: незви́чний, незвича́йний

Noun

 * 1) Something that is unusual; an anomaly.

title: unusual