to
prepositive adjective
be
adjective
-assed
of
postpositive adjective
-er
so
as you please
pronunciation
-lytic
-ize
hell
descriptive
description word
adnoun
in the world
why
-ass
you
thing
phrasemic
if you will
other end of the ball
-ess
-static
deadjectival
adjectival noun
-ory
the hell
suffixation
attributive adjective
-ary
on God's green earth
on earth
ostensive definition
descriptive adjective
-etic
descriptor
descriptional
homological
-splain
appositive
adjectivize
-cidal
-ial
-astic
-ic
-esis
-cratic
patient
verbalism
wordly
-dom
remark
nouny
couch
isofucosterol
-dar
apposition
by
synonymy
adjectively
-ive
epithet
the
old
-ferous
bloody hell
endearing
e-
more like
-istic
lexicalised
OK
lexicalisation
lexicalization
lexicalized
as opposed to
-trophic
how about
-rific
-riffic
fuck
glossatory
instantiate
the heck
vocal
-eous
something
so
phrasemic
deadjectival
descriptional
homological
wordly
nouny
old
lexicalised
lexicalized
glossatory
vocal
why
if you will
the hell
adjectively
bloody hell
how about
the heck
something
prepositive adjective
postpositive adjective
pronunciation
hell
descriptive
description word
adnoun
thing
adjectival noun
suffixation
attributive adjective
ostensive definition
descriptive adjective
deadjectival
descriptor
appositive
patient
verbalism
remark
isofucosterol
apposition
synonymy
epithet
endearing
lexicalisation
lexicalization
be
adjective
adjectivize
couch
instantiate
prep
- Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
- Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
- Used to indicate result of action.
- Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
- Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
- At.
- Preceding the next hour.
- Indicating destination: In the direction of, so as to arrive at.
- Denotes the end of a range.
- Often used without the hour
- Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
- according to
- Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
adv
particle
verb
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.
- Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to form the continuous aspect.
- To occupy a place.
- Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- To exist.
- Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate the time of day.
- Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- To exist or behave in a certain way.
- Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- Used to form the passive voice.
- Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.
- Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
noun
suffix
prep
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
suffix
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- Used to form diminutives.
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- More; used to form the comparative.
- Person or thing connected with.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually a portion of the given name.)
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
adj
- In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- True, accurate.
intj
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
- Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
conj
- Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
- Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
- With the result that; for that reason; therefore.
noun
- A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
adv
prep_phrase
noun
- Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- A place for gambling.
- An extremely hot place.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
name
intj
- Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
- Used to emphasize.
- Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
adv
verb
noun
adj
noun
det
- Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
- The individual or group spoken or written to.
pron
- Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
- (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
- The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
noun
verb
noun
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
- A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- Corporeal object.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- A romantic relationship.
- Alternate form of ting.
- One's typical routine, habits, or manner. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A living being or creature.
- A penis.
- Whatever can be owned.
- Girl; attractive woman.
- Clothes, possessions or equipment.
- That which matters; the crux.
- A romantic couple.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
verb
noun
- Nouns that have the form of adjectives (often originally adjectives used as nouns).
- A specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi).
- A noun that functions as an adjective
suffix
- Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning “of or pertaining to”.
- Used to denote certain chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a higher oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ous. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃).
verb
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
noun
- The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
prep
- Following an adjective.
- Following a passive verb.
- Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- At, with, among
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- Near or next to.
- Following a noun.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
adj
adv
noun
- The study of synonyms.
- The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
- The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym
- The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
- A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
- A system of synonyms.
- The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)
adv
article
- Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
- Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
- Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
- Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
- Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
- When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
- Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it hints at is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already completely specified.
- Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
- Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
- Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
adv
- With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
- With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.
prep
adj
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Former, previous.
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related others
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Indicating affection.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- Familiar.
noun
prefix
- Used to form adjectives with the sense of something being lacking or removed.
- Electric
- Used to prefix product names, to indicate an electrified or all-electric variant of the product, particularly cars.
- Used to prefix items that are embedded into devices, instead of being discrete or removable elements.
- For emergency purposes.
- Used to prefix product names, to indicate a battery-powered or onboard electric power source variant.
- In an electronic form, usually and especially computerized and digital; often in association with the Internet.
intj
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
name
verb
noun
adj
- All right, acceptable, permitted.
- In good health or a good emotional state.
- Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
- Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
adv
particle
adv
intj
- Expressing surprise.
- Expressing dismay or discontent.
- A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
verb
- To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
- To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
- Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- To be very good, to rule, go hard.
- Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- To break, to destroy.
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
- To scold.
noun
adj
- Synonym of expressive.
- Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Used in the production of speech sounds.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Full of voices.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- Synonym of vocalic.
noun
- A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- A musical performance involving singing.
- A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
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