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noun
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
adj
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- associated with academia or an academy
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
noun
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- an educator who works at a college or university
noun
name
adj
noun
adj
- unimaginatively conventional
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- avoiding excess
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
noun
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- (countable, uncountable, figurative, derogatory) Something overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
- (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).
- (by extension, uncountable) Mushy, easily digested food; pap; (countable) a specific type of such food.
noun
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- the small projection of a mammary gland
- a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- (informal) Clipping of paparazzo.
- (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
- (uncountable, colloquial) Pablum or nonsense.
- (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
- (informal) Pa; father.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
- (South Africa) Porridge.
adj
verb
adj
- (informal) Characterized by excess or the utmost folly; ridiculous; impractical.
- (slang) Extremely good; incredibly amazing.
- Causing insanity or madness.
- (informal) Enraged; furious.
- Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
- Used by or relating to insane people.
- afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
- very foolish
adj
noun
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
- (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
- any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)
- a device regarded as providing amusement
- an artifact designed to be played with
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
verb
- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
- (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
adj
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- lavishly elegant and refined
- of extreme beauty
- delicately beautiful
- intense or sharp
noun
adj
- Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
- (colloquial, somewhat derogatory) Of a person, Unable to do well at a particular task or endeavor.
- (derogatory, of a person) Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Without use or the possibility to be used.
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
adj
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
noun
adj
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- lacking fresh air
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
noun
adj
noun
- A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
- (informal) A failure of any kind.
- (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
- (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an explosion that fails to occur
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
noun
noun
adj
- Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
- Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
- Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
- (philosophy, of a proposition or belief) Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
- Incurably depraved; not reformable.
- impervious to correction by punishment
- difficult or impossible to manage or control
noun
adj
noun
noun
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
name
noun
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- (countable, uncountable, figurative, derogatory) Something overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
- (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).
- (by extension, uncountable) Mushy, easily digested food; pap; (countable) a specific type of such food.
noun
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- the small projection of a mammary gland
- a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- (informal) Clipping of paparazzo.
- (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
- (uncountable, colloquial) Pablum or nonsense.
- (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
- (informal) Pa; father.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
- (South Africa) Porridge.
adj
verb
noun
noun
adj
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- associated with academia or an academy
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
noun
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- an educator who works at a college or university
adj
noun
adj
- unimaginatively conventional
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- avoiding excess
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
- (informal) Characterized by excess or the utmost folly; ridiculous; impractical.
- (slang) Extremely good; incredibly amazing.
- Causing insanity or madness.
- (informal) Enraged; furious.
- Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
- Used by or relating to insane people.
- afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
- very foolish
adj
noun
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
- (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
- any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)
- a device regarded as providing amusement
- an artifact designed to be played with
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
verb
- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
- (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
adj
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- lavishly elegant and refined
- of extreme beauty
- delicately beautiful
- intense or sharp
noun
adj
- Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
- (colloquial, somewhat derogatory) Of a person, Unable to do well at a particular task or endeavor.
- (derogatory, of a person) Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Without use or the possibility to be used.
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
adj
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
noun
adj
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- lacking fresh air
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
noun
adj
noun
- A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
- (informal) A failure of any kind.
- (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
- (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an explosion that fails to occur
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
adj
- Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
- Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
- Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
- (philosophy, of a proposition or belief) Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
- Incurably depraved; not reformable.
- impervious to correction by punishment
- difficult or impossible to manage or control