English words for 'A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.'
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noun
- A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
- a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
- Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
- (programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
- Maintenance; vindication.
- (finance) The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.
- The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
adj
- Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
- Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- with no effort to conceal
- without the natural or usual covering
noun
verb
verb
- To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
- To be contrary to (something).
- (reflexive) To say things that conflict with each other.
- To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- be resistant to
- be in contradiction with
adj
- An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
noun
- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
noun
- An unsupported claim made or implied.
- Intention or purpose not real but professed.
- (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
- An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
- (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
- an artful or simulated semblance
- pretending with intention to deceive
- the act of giving a false appearance
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
verb
- To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
- To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
- (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.
- To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- be in contradiction with
verb
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- To demand ownership of.
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
noun
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- a demand
- demand for something as rightful or due
- an established or recognized right
- an informal right to something
- an assertion that something is true or factual
- an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
noun
adj
noun
verb
verb
- show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
- drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
- destroy by exploding
- show a violent emotional reaction
- burst outward, usually with noise
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- (intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
- (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
- (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
noun
- the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)
- renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
- (logic) The negation in logic.
- Refusal to believe that a problem exists.
- (psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
- An assertion of untruth.
- A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
- A disownment or disavowal
- Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
- Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
noun
- A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
- The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
- (law) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
- the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
- (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- not yielding a return
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
noun
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- The independent variable of a function.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- a document showing credits and debits
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
- A declaration or remark.
adj
verb
noun
- a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand
- (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds)
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.
- That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
- (law) A solemn pledge (to tell the truth, to bear allegiance, etc.), legally equivalent to an oath, taken by people who are forbidden to take a religious oath (such as Quakers) or otherwise prefer not to do so.
adj
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
adv
noun
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
verb
adj
noun
- An assertion or affirmation.
- A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
- (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
- (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
noun
- (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
- (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
verb
noun
- A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
- a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
- Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
- (programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
- Maintenance; vindication.
- (finance) The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.
- The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
noun
- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
noun
- An unsupported claim made or implied.
- Intention or purpose not real but professed.
- (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
- An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
- (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
- an artful or simulated semblance
- pretending with intention to deceive
- the act of giving a false appearance
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
verb
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- To demand ownership of.
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
noun
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- a demand
- demand for something as rightful or due
- an established or recognized right
- an informal right to something
- an assertion that something is true or factual
- an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
noun
adj
noun
verb
noun
- the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)
- renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
- (logic) The negation in logic.
- Refusal to believe that a problem exists.
- (psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
- An assertion of untruth.
- A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
- A disownment or disavowal
- Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
- Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
noun
- A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
- The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
- (law) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
- the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
- (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- The independent variable of a function.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
noun
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- a document showing credits and debits
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
- A declaration or remark.
adj
verb
noun
- a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand
- (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds)
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion.
- That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true.
- (law) A solemn pledge (to tell the truth, to bear allegiance, etc.), legally equivalent to an oath, taken by people who are forbidden to take a religious oath (such as Quakers) or otherwise prefer not to do so.
noun
- An assertion or affirmation.
- A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
- (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
- (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
noun
- (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
- (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
verb
verb
- To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
- To be contrary to (something).
- (reflexive) To say things that conflict with each other.
- To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- be resistant to
- be in contradiction with
verb
- To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
- To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
- (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.
- To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- be in contradiction with
verb
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- To demand ownership of.
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
noun
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- a demand
- demand for something as rightful or due
- an established or recognized right
- an informal right to something
- an assertion that something is true or factual
- an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
verb
- show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
- drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
- destroy by exploding
- show a violent emotional reaction
- burst outward, usually with noise
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- (intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
- (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
- (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
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adj
- Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
- Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- with no effort to conceal
- without the natural or usual covering
noun
verb
adj
- An argument or assertion with little in the way of substance or supporting evidence.
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- not yielding a return
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
noun
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
adj
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
adv
noun
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law