karu

form karu (noun)
Causative
mongaru
-ba'e
i karuba'e
-sab
-saba
karûaba
karusaba
Singular
Singular & Plural
Plural
1ˢᵗ person
2ⁿᵈ person
3ʳᵈ person
1ˢᵗ person exclusive
1ˢᵗ person inclusive
Indicative (active)
xe karu (active)
i karu (active)
oré karu (active)
îandé karu (active)
Imperative (active)
Permissive (active)
ta xe karu (active)
ta nde karu (active)
t'i karu (active)
t'oré karu (active)
t'îandé karu (active)
ta pe karu (active)
Negative indicative (active)
na xe karuî (active)
na nde karuî (active)
n'i karuî (active)
n'oré karuî (active)
n'îandé karuî (active)
na pe karuî (active)
Negative imperative (active)
nde karu umẽ (active)
pe karu umẽ (active)
Negative permissive (active)
ta xe karu umẽ (active)
ta nde karu umẽ (active)
t'i karu umẽ (active)
t'oré karu umẽ (active)
t'îandé karu umẽ (active)
ta pe karu umẽ (active)
Affirmative (gerund)
xe karuramo (gerund)
nde karuramo (gerund)
o karuramo (gerund)
oré karuramo (gerund)
îandé karuramo (gerund)
pe karuramo (gerund)
Negative (gerund)
xe karue'ymamo (gerund)
nde karue'ymamo (gerund)
o karue'ymamo (gerund)
oré karue'ymamo (gerund)
îandé karue'ymamo (gerund)
pe karue'ymamo (gerund)
Affirmative (infinitive)
karu (infinitive)
Negative (infinitive)
karue'yma (infinitive)
same as gerund (infinitive)
xe karuû (infinitive)
i karuû (infinitive)
oré karuû (infinitive)
îandé karuû (infinitive)
xe karue'ymi (infinitive)
i karue'ymi (infinitive)
oré karue'ymi (infinitive)
îandé karue'ymi (infinitive)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔru, from *kar- (“thing”) + *ʔu (“to eat”), literally “to eat things”.
Cognate with Awetí kat-ʔu, Guaraní karu.


frágil

es-adj

frágil m or f (masculine and feminine plural frágiles, superlative fragilísimo)

frágiles (feminine masculine plural)
fragilísimo (superlative)

frail, brittle, fragile (personality trait)


good-natured

en-adj

good-natured (comparative more good-natured or better-natured, superlative most good-natured or best-natured)

more good-natured (comparative)
better-natured (comparative)
most good-natured (superlative)
best-natured (superlative)

“It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children.[…]”

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 22:

For the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball—better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest—laughing heartily if it went right, and not less heartily if it went wrong.

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 81:

There are a good many of these girls whom it is quite enough to spoil the temper of the best-natured woman in the world to have in the house with them.

1852, [Richard Hildreth], chapter LI, in The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Boston, Mass.: Tappan and Whittemore; Milwaukee, Wis.: Rood and Whittemore, page 332:

Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Mackerel Trolling”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 181:

However, the immediate howls of outrage from the industry were in many cases less than good-natured.

1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, in Modern Railways, page 76:

I had a rival for Marcel’s affections, a boy who later became the king of recorded classical music and confrère of Herbert von Karajan. I was vile to this poor chap who, like a cheerful Papageno, was much better-natured than I was.

2017, Charles Duff, “What About the Linen?”, in Charley’s Woods: Sex, Sorrow and a Spiritual Quest in Snowdonia, London: Zuleika, →ISBN, page 145:

Having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition.

дабраду́шны

having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition


swashbuckling

swashbuckling (comparative more swashbuckling, superlative most swashbuckling)

more swashbuckling (comparative)
most swashbuckling (superlative)

Back-formation from swashbuckler, as though that had been formed as swashbuckle + -er.

Brecel's swashbuckling style has endeared him to fans across the world, in particular the manner of his famous victories over O'Sullivan and Si Jiahui on his run to the final.

2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:


guileless

guileless (comparative more guileless, superlative most guileless)

more guileless (comparative)
most guileless (superlative)


party pooper

Call me anti-social, call me a holiday-hater, call me Scrooge, call me a party-pooper—call me anything, but please don't call me about a party you're giving because I won't come.

1971 December 19, Robert Yoakum, “Scrooging up courage for a party”, in Eugene Register-Guardian, page 11A:

Still, it's not something that any country can easily walk away from—not even a Bush administration that has made a habit of being the party pooper in international forums.

2001 August 1, Tony Karon, “Who's a Racist? Can a UN Conference Decide?”, in Time:

(informal) One who dampens fun; especially, one who declines to participate in or enjoy a party or some other group activity; one who does not agree with the opinions of a group.


reclusive

reclusive (comparative more reclusive, superlative most reclusive)

more reclusive (comparative)
most reclusive (superlative)

Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.

2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:

And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
As best befits her wounded reputation,
In some reclusive and religious life,
Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.


Stepford

From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel.

“He called you a boring Stepford wife.”
A boring Stepford wife, Molly thought. For a moment it seemed to her that she was once more in prison, eating the tasteless food, hearing the click of locks, lying awake for sleepless night after sleepless night.

1999, Mary Higgins Clark, We'll Meet Again, page 131:

So, when in a dorky Christmas town with Stepford people and themed shops, do as they do. Smile and act like you gave two shits about the person next to you.

2008, Karin Tabke, Have Yourself a Naughty Little Santa, page 150:

Were the Nazis trying to infiltrate the U.S. Navy with an army of gonorrhea-infected Stepford clones?

2011 July 18, Matt Culkin, “The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements”, Cracked.com


short-tempered

short-tempered (comparative more short-tempered, superlative most short-tempered)

more short-tempered (comparative)
most short-tempered (superlative)

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She is so short-tempered that people avoid her company.

Easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.


grundy

Derived from Mrs. Grundy, a prudish character from the play Speed the Plough (1798) by the English playwright Thomas Morton.

A narrow-minded person or group that is overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct.

Spießer

narrow-minded person(s), censoring personal conduct

Spießigkeit

the tendency of society to criticize personal conduct


freethinking

en-noun

freethinking (usually uncountable, plural freethinkings)

The principles of a freethinker; free thought


frat boy

(US, somewhat derogatory) A member of a fraternity in a college or university.


self-sufficient

en-adj

self-sufficient (comparative more self-sufficient, superlative most self-sufficient)

more self-sufficient (comparative)
most self-sufficient (superlative)

From self- + sufficient, a calque of Ancient Greek αὐτάρκης (autárkēs).

clq

In spite of these conscientious reflections, he was too self-sufficient to think he should find any difficulty in obtaining forgiveness for these sins of omission […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

To rescue London from this short-termism, Byford has put forward a deal that would fill the current gap of £500m annually, explaining: "If we can fill that gap, we can get back to being self-sufficient by 2023."

2021 October 6, Christian Wolmar, “Both sides must work together to get London back on track”, in RAIL, number 941, page 35:

(obsolete) Overconfident in one's own abilities; arrogant.


well-behaved

en-adj

well-behaved (comparative better-behaved or more well-behaved, superlative best-behaved or most well-behaved)

better-behaved (comparative)
more well-behaved (comparative)
best-behaved (superlative)
most well-behaved (superlative)

(mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.

良態 /良态

mathematics: having easy to handle properties


encantador

es-adj

encantador (feminine encantadora, masculine plural encantadores, feminine plural encantadoras)

encantadora (feminine)
encantadores (masculine plural)
encantadoras (feminine plural)

[ẽŋ.kãn̪.t̪aˈð̞oɾ]

Inherited from Old Spanish encantador. Analyzable as encantar (“to enchant”) + -ador.

Juan es un hombre encantador. Tienes suerte de tenerlo.

John is a lovely man. You're lucky to have him.

charming, captivating, enchanting, lovely

Fue una noche encantadora.


encantador

es-noun

encantador m (plural encantadores, feminine encantadora, feminine plural encantadoras)

encantadores (plural)
encantadora (feminine)
encantadoras (feminine plural)

[ẽŋ.kãn̪.t̪aˈð̞oɾ]


caddish

en-adj

caddish (comparative more caddish, superlative most caddish)

more caddish (comparative)
most caddish (superlative)

To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age. It is caddish because it is irrelevant. The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Case for the Ephemeral”, in All Things Considered:

'I think it's absolutely—absolutely caddish of you to mention such things!'

1934, George Orwell, chapter 17, in Burmese Days:

Characteristic of a cad, discourteous, ungentlemanly, dishonorable.


superbus

la-adj

superbus (feminine superba, neuter superbum, comparative superbior, superlative superbissimus, adverb superbē); first/second-declension adjective

superba (feminine)
superbum (neuter)
superbior (comparative)
superbissimus (superlative)
superbē (adverb)
superbus (masculine nominative singular)
superba (feminine nominative singular)
superbum (neuter nominative singular)
superbī (masculine nominative singular)
superbae (feminine nominative plural)
superba (neuter nominative plural)
superbī (genitive masculine singular)
superbae (feminine genitive singular)
superbī (genitive neuter singular)
superbōrum (genitive masculine singular)
superbārum (feminine genitive plural)
superbōrum (genitive neuter plural)
superbō (dative masculine singular)
superbae (dative feminine singular)
superbō (dative neuter singular)
superbīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
superbum (accusative masculine singular)
superbam (accusative feminine singular)
superbum (accusative neuter singular)
superbōs (accusative masculine singular)
superbās (accusative feminine plural)
superba (accusative neuter plural)
superbō (ablative masculine singular)
superbā (ablative feminine singular)
superbō (ablative neuter singular)
superbīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
superbe (masculine singular vocative)
superba (feminine singular vocative)
superbum (neuter singular vocative)
superbī (masculine singular vocative)
superbae (feminine plural vocative)
superba (neuter plural vocative)

Catalan: soberg, superb

English: superb

French: superbe

German: superb

Italian: superbo

Occitan: supèrb

Portuguese: soberbo

Romanian: superb

Spanish: soberbio

Inherited from Proto-Italic *superiðos; equivalent to super (“above”) + -idus.

(in a bad sense) proud, rude, supercilious, arrogant, haughty, uncivil, insolent, discourteous

(in a good sense) proud, superior, superb, excellent, distinguished; splendid, magnificent


generoso

es-adj

generoso (feminine generosa, masculine plural generosos, feminine plural generosas)

generosa (feminine)
generosos (masculine plural)
generosas (feminine plural)


blyg

blyg (indefinite positive)
blygare (comparative indefinite)
blygast (indefinite superlative)
blygt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
blygare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
blygast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
blyga (indefinite plural positive)
blygare (comparative indefinite plural)
blygast (indefinite plural superlative)
blyge (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
blygare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
blygast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
blyge (definite masculine positive singular)
blygare (comparative definite masculine singular)
blygaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
blyga (definite positive)
blygare (comparative definite)
blygaste (definite superlative)

From Old Swedish bliūgher, blȳgher, from Old Norse *bljúgr. Cognate with Danish bly, Norwegian blyg, Icelandic bljúgur, Old High German blūgo (from Proto-Germanic *bleuga-, *blūga-, “shyly”), Middle Low German blūc, bliuc and dialectal German blug, plug, blaug. Probably ultimately related to blöt (“wet”), from Proto-Germanic *blautaz.


bullish

en-adj

bullish (comparative more bullish, superlative most bullish)

more bullish (comparative)
most bullish (superlative)

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It [the plan] was bullish about the prospects for BR winning new business and retaining what it had, but recognised that this would depend on the extent to which equipment would enable improved services at lower costs.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 41–42:

Optimistic; overly or foolishly optimistic or hopeful.


impur

fr-adj

impur (feminine impure, masculine plural impurs, feminine plural impures)

impure (feminine)
impurs (masculine plural)
impures (feminine plural)


street-smart

en-adj

street-smart (comparative more street-smart, superlative most street-smart)

more street-smart (comparative)
most street-smart (superlative)

Coordinate term: book smart

For Liverpool, it capped six days of desperate disappointment after missing out on the Premier League to Manchester City by a single point then losing to this experienced, street-smart Real team.

2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:

Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.


driftig

head

driftig (comparative driftigare, superlative driftigast)

driftigare (comparative)
driftigast (superlative)
driftig (indefinite positive)
driftigare (comparative indefinite)
driftigast (indefinite superlative)
driftigt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
driftigare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
driftigast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
driftiga (indefinite plural positive)
driftigare (comparative indefinite plural)
driftigast (indefinite plural superlative)
driftige (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
driftigare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
driftigast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
driftige (definite masculine positive singular)
driftigare (comparative definite masculine singular)
driftigaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
driftiga (definite positive)
driftigare (comparative definite)
driftigaste (definite superlative)


principled

en-adj

principled (comparative more principled, superlative most principled)

more principled (comparative)
most principled (superlative)

Based on, having, or manifesting principles

strongly adhering to, or heedful of, guiding beliefs or moral rules


coquet

fr-adj

coquet (feminine coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)

coquette (feminine)
coquets (masculine plural)
coquettes (feminine plural)

→ Afrikaans: koket

→ Catalan: coquet

→ Dutch: koket

→ German: kokett

desc

→ Thai: โก้เก๋

→ Thai: โก้เก๋


dopey

en-adj

dopey (comparative dopier, superlative dopiest)

dopier (comparative)
dopiest (superlative)

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Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette.

1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 164:

We were all convinced there was a poltergeist in David's flat and had the dopey idea of taking it as a present to Jimmy. We “captured'” the ghost in a paper bag […]

2010, Nicky Haslam, Redeeming Features, page 211:


coltish

coltish (comparative more coltish, superlative most coltish)

more coltish (comparative)
most coltish (superlative)

From Middle English coltyssh. By surface analysis, colt + -ish.

Commeth he in the morning to do his dutie and bid thee good morrow, belching sowre and smelling strongly of wine, which the day before he drunke at the taverne with companions like himselfe? seeme to know nothing. Senteth he of sweete perfumes and costly pomanders? Hold thy peace and say nothing. These are the means to tame and breake a wilde and coltish youth.

1603, “The Education of Children”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, page 16:

Plants rais’d with tenderness are seldom strong,
Man’s coltish disposition asks the thong [i.e. whip],
And without discipline the fav’rite child,
Like a neglected forrester runs wild.

1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems,, London: J. Johnson, page 59:

[…] the batsmen were running and stretching bats, and the ball flying away, flying back, and others after it, and still the batsmen running, till it seemed that the ball had escaped control and was leading the fielders on a coltish innings of its own, defiant of bowlers.

1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways, volume 3, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 231–232:

Lively, playful and undisciplined (often in a manner judged to be immature).


perspicace

→ Romanian: perspicace

Near-synonym: clairvoyant

perspicacious, insightful, perceptive, observant (showing keen insight)


self-centered

self-centered (comparative more self-centered, superlative most self-centered)

more self-centered (comparative)
most self-centered (superlative)

[A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:

Concerned or relating to the self, and not necessarily the greater good of one's group, community, tribe, etc.; individualistic.


cool-headed

cool-headed (comparative more cool-headed, superlative most cool-headed)

more cool-headed (comparative)
most cool-headed (superlative)

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The best headteachers are like submarine captains – cool-headed, astute decision-makers – who trust their colleagues and surroundings to indicate where their ship is headed.

2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:

Calm and imperturbable, especially under pressure.


curmudgeonly

curmudgeonly (comparative curmudgeonlier or more curmudgeonly, superlative curmudgeonliest or most curmudgeonly)

curmudgeonlier (comparative)
more curmudgeonly (comparative)
curmudgeonliest (superlative)
most curmudgeonly (superlative)

In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.

2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:

Since Swift and Kelce debuted their relationship early in the season, certain (curmudgeonly) NFL fans grumbled over the numerous camera shots of the singer’s private box.

2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish.


skoningslös

skoningslös (indefinite positive)
skoningslösare (comparative indefinite)
skoningslösast (indefinite superlative)
skoningslöst (indefinite neuter positive singular)
skoningslösare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
skoningslösast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
skoningslösa (indefinite plural positive)
skoningslösare (comparative indefinite plural)
skoningslösast (indefinite plural superlative)
skoningslöse (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
skoningslösare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
skoningslösast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
skoningslöse (definite masculine positive singular)
skoningslösare (comparative definite masculine singular)
skoningslösaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
skoningslösa (definite positive)
skoningslösare (comparative definite)
skoningslösaste (definite superlative)

From skona (“spare”) + -ing + -s- + -lös (“-less”). Compare German schonungslos.


elak

elak (indefinite positive)
elakare (comparative indefinite)
elakast (indefinite superlative)
elakt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
elakare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
elakast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
elaka (indefinite plural positive)
elakare (comparative indefinite plural)
elakast (indefinite plural superlative)
elake (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
elakare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
elakast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
elake (definite masculine positive singular)
elakare (comparative definite masculine singular)
elakaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
elaka (definite positive)
elakare (comparative definite)
elakaste (definite superlative)

From Old Swedish elaker, from e- (“always”) + *laker (from Old Norse lakr, cognate with English lack).

Jag ska börja bli elak. Jag ska odla mitt hat. För om hatet är tillräckligt kallt, så ser man världen så klart. Och jag ska skapa intriger. Jag ska inte gå att lita på. För om dom vet att jag går bakom deras rygg, så känner dom sig så små.

1982, Lustans Lakejer (lyrics and music), “Diamanter [Diamonds]”, in Diamanter / Sång om syrsor [Diamonds / Song about crickets]:

I'm going to [shall] start being mean. I'm going to cultivate my hatred. For if the hatred is cold enough, you see the world so clearly. And I will create intrigue [intrigues]. I will not be able to trust. For if they know that I go behind their backs [back], they feel so small.


digne

Inherited from Middle French and Old French digne, a borrowing from Latin dignus.


magnanime

Borrowed from Latin magnanimus, from magnus (“great”) + animus (“soul, mind”).


demurely

English: demurely

From demure (“demure”) + -ly (adverbial suffix).


birdbrained

en-adj

birdbrained (comparative more birdbrained, superlative most birdbrained)

more birdbrained (comparative)
most birdbrained (superlative)


self-confident

self-confident (comparative more self-confident, superlative most self-confident)

more self-confident (comparative)
most self-confident (superlative)

This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:


unlikable

unlikable (comparative more unlikable, superlative most unlikable)

more unlikable (comparative)
most unlikable (superlative)


untactful

untactful (comparative more untactful, superlative most untactful)

more untactful (comparative)
most untactful (superlative)


swaggering

swaggering (comparative more swaggering, superlative most swaggering)

more swaggering (comparative)
most swaggering (superlative)


cinglé

fr-noun

cinglé m (plural cinglés, feminine cinglée)


mulish

en-adj

mulish (comparative more mulish, superlative most mulish)

more mulish (comparative)
most mulish (superlative)

[…] a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working."

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable


obrăznicie

obrăznicii (plural)
obrăznicie (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
obrăznicia (accusative definite nominative singular)
obrăznicii (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
obrăzniciile (accusative definite nominative plural)
obrăznicii (indefinite singular)
obrăzniciei (definite singular)
obrăzniciilor (definite plural)
obrăznicie (singular vocative)
obrăznicio (singular vocative)
obrăzniciilor (vocative)

impudence, cheekiness, insolence, impertinence


goodhearted

goodhearted (comparative more goodhearted, superlative most goodhearted)

more goodhearted (comparative)
most goodhearted (superlative)

From Middle English gode herted; equivalent to good + hearted.

She saw that Velvin, if a stubborn man, was a very simple and very goodhearted one, and she prided herself on her skill in sweetly reasonable persuasion of the lower classes.

1921, Anthony Wharton, chapter 3, in Joan of Overbarrow, pages 45–46:


good-humored

good-humored (comparative better-humored or more good-humored, superlative best-humored or most good-humored)

better-humored (comparative)
more good-humored (comparative)
best-humored (superlative)
most good-humored (superlative)

Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.

1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC:


good-tempered

good-tempered (comparative more good-tempered, superlative most good-tempered)

more good-tempered (comparative)
most good-tempered (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-good-tempered.wav


strong-minded

strong-minded (comparative more strong-minded, superlative most strong-minded)

more strong-minded (comparative)
most strong-minded (superlative)

Recognising that we are strong-minded is not the same as accepting ourselves to be stubborn or obstinate.

2009, Emmy van Deurzen, Everyday Mysteries: A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy, →ISBN:

Having a vigorous, independent will and views.

Then there was the widow of a deceased brother of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit, who being almost supernaturally disagreeable, and having a dreary face and a bony figure and a masculine voice, was, in right of these qualities, what is commonly called a strong-minded woman; and who, if she could, would have established her claim to the title, and have shown herself, mentally speaking, a perfect Samson, by shutting up her brother-in-law in a private madhouse, until he proved his complete sanity by loving her very much.

1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:

(archaic, of women) Mannish, lacking softness and femininity


strong-willed

strong-willed (comparative more strong-willed, superlative most strong-willed)

more strong-willed (comparative)
most strong-willed (superlative)

The railway faces a line-up of strong-willed metro mayors with four-year terms and a new big-majority government covering the same period.

2024 November 13, Peter Plisner, “Rail's role in Labour's "devolution revolution"”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 61:


travailleur

fr-noun

travailleur m (plural travailleurs, feminine travailleuse)

travailleurs (plural)
travailleuse (feminine)


travailleur

fr-adj

travailleur (feminine travailleuse, masculine plural travailleurs, feminine plural travailleuses)

travailleuse (feminine)
travailleurs (masculine plural)
travailleuses (feminine plural)


buzzkill

From buzz + kill. See buzz (“feeling of energy or excitement”).

dampener

something or someone who spoils an enjoyable event

(slang) A person who attends a social event and occupies his or her time with unsociable activities.


Pollyannaish

en-adj

Pollyannaish (comparative more Pollyannaish, superlative most Pollyannaish)

more Pollyannaish (comparative)
most Pollyannaish (superlative)

Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively.

2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics”, in The Review of Metaphysics, LIII, № 4, § iii, page 819:

Even long before this choice of character of the year was made, critics were complaining about the [Chinese] government’s Pollyannaish touting of mèng 梦, saying that the dreams of most people were in vain.

2012 December 25, Victor Mair, “Chinese character of the year: mèng 梦 (‘dream’)”, in Language Log:

If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience[…]must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners.

2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

On this basis, Bridle argues, it’s possible to conceive of a new kind of “guardianship” of our frazzled planet and its poisoned wells, one in which we all work together. This seems Pollyanna-ish as much as Panglossian to me […]

2018 June 30, Will Self, “New Dark Age by James Bridle review – technology and the end of the future”, in The Guardian:


kompleks

kompleks (nominative singular)
kompleksy (nominative plural)
kompleksu (genitive singular)
kompleksów (genitive plural)
kompleksowi (dative singular)
kompleksom (dative plural)
kompleks (accusative singular)
kompleksy (accusative plural)
kompleksem (instrumental singular)
kompleksami (instrumental plural)
kompleksie (locative singular)
kompleksach (locative plural)
kompleksie (singular vocative)
kompleksy (plural vocative)

(psychoanalysis) complex (psychologically based dislike or fear)

(chemistry) complex (psychologically based dislike or fear)


ignavus

la-adj

ignāvus (feminine ignāva, neuter ignāvum, comparative ignāvior, superlative ignāvissimus); first/second-declension adjective

ignāvus (canonical)
ignāva (feminine)
ignāvum (neuter)
ignāvior (comparative)
ignāvissimus (superlative)
ignāvus (masculine nominative singular)
ignāva (feminine nominative singular)
ignāvum (neuter nominative singular)
ignāvī (masculine nominative singular)
ignāvae (feminine nominative plural)
ignāva (neuter nominative plural)
ignāvī (genitive masculine singular)
ignāvae (feminine genitive singular)
ignāvī (genitive neuter singular)
ignāvōrum (genitive masculine singular)
ignāvārum (feminine genitive plural)
ignāvōrum (genitive neuter plural)
ignāvō (dative masculine singular)
ignāvae (dative feminine singular)
ignāvō (dative neuter singular)
ignāvīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
ignāvum (accusative masculine singular)
ignāvam (accusative feminine singular)
ignāvum (accusative neuter singular)
ignāvōs (accusative masculine singular)
ignāvās (accusative feminine plural)
ignāva (accusative neuter plural)
ignāvō (ablative masculine singular)
ignāvā (ablative feminine singular)
ignāvō (ablative neuter singular)
ignāvīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
ignāve (masculine singular vocative)
ignāva (feminine singular vocative)
ignāvum (neuter singular vocative)
ignāvī (masculine singular vocative)
ignāvae (feminine plural vocative)
ignāva (neuter plural vocative)

[ɪŋˈnäːu̯ʊs̠]


faineant

From Old French fay neant, alteration of feignant (“idler”), present participle of feindre, modelled on fait (“does”) + neant (“nothing”).


trustful

en-adj

trustful (comparative more trustful, superlative most trustful)

more trustful (comparative)
most trustful (superlative)

From Middle English trustful, trystefull, equivalent to trust + -ful.


pieux

fr-adj

pieux (feminine pieuse, masculine plural pieux, feminine plural pieuses)

pieuse (feminine)
pieux (masculine plural)
pieuses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French pieux, from Old French piu(s) (later changed on the basis of adjectives ending in -eux), from Latin pius.


self-effacing

en-adj

self-effacing (comparative more self-effacing, superlative most self-effacing)

more self-effacing (comparative)
most self-effacing (superlative)

Clark Kent's self-effacing behavior is to purposefully make people ignore him.

His personality was also extremely endearing, his interviews were very self-effacing (and), he came over as gentle and was generous in his praise of others.

2007 January 3, Ian Gillan, “DEEP PURPLE Frontman: ELVIS PRESLEY 'Was The Greatest Singer That Ever Lived'”, in blabbermouth.net:

[…] When asked about this, Muldoon's self-effacing response is: “I don't think so!”

2001 May 12, Robert Potts, quoting Paul Muldoon, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

I'm sorry if I seem self-effacing / Consumed by selfish thoughts / It's only that I still love you deeply / It's all the love I got

2010, “Age of Adz”, in The Age of Adz, performed by Sufjan Stevens:

Shy, extremely humble and modest; making oneself seem unnoticeable.


dominante

es-adj

dominante m or f (masculine and feminine plural dominantes)


logique

Learned borrowing from Latin logicus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek λογικός (logikós).

C’est logique !


fusspot

My teacher is such a fusspot, he marks us down for handwriting!

(informal) A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.


freewheeling

en-adj

freewheeling (comparative more freewheeling, superlative most freewheeling)

more freewheeling (comparative)
most freewheeling (superlative)

We are confident that such a provision will be drafted such that it will not allow the President to vitiate the intent of the bill through "freewheeling" negotiations.

1967, Donald M. Counihan, “Statement of American Producers of Italian-type Cheeses Association and Universal Foods Corp., Stella Cheese Division, Milwaukee, Wis.”, in Import Quotas Legislation: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on Proposal to Impose Import Quotas on Oil, Steel, Textiles, Meat, Dairy Products, and Other Commodities: Part 1: October 18 and 19, 1967: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 142:

To begin with, the advisory panel did not operate in the freewheeling fashion that the plaintiff's brief seems to suggest. There was not a disregard by SIDG [Subsystems Integration Design Group] of the contractual implications of the action that it was generating.

1977 December 14, John P. Weise (trial judge), Audrey Bernhardt (reporter), “The Singer Company, Librascope Division v. The United States [No. 132-75; 215 Ct. Cl. 281]”, in Cases Decided in the United States Court of Claims: September 1, 1977 to February 28, 1978: […], volume 215, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1979, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:

De Mandat-Grancey's interest in America was whetted further by a dashing and somewhat mysterious ex-Confederate soldier named Gifford F. Parker. […] Later, the Baron found this freewheeling soldier of fortune living as a nabob merchant in Hong Kong; and yet again the two met in Paris.

1984, Howard R[oberts] Lamar, “Introduction”, in E[dmond] de Mandat-Grancey, translated by William Conn, Cow-boys and Colonels: Narrative of a Journey across the Prairie and over the Black Hills of Dakota […], Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

In the movie industry, the promise of windfall profits at the box office had encouraged his freewheeling spending. Now [David O.] Selznick feared that the entire budget for Light's Diamond Jubilee would barely cover his company's typical operating expenses during the months of production.

1994, Christopher Anderson, “David O. Selznick and the Making of Light’s Diamond Jubilee”, in Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties, Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 109:

Donald Trump sounded off on presidential pardons, international tensions over trade and his embattled environmental chief, Scott Pruitt, on Friday as he departed Washington for what is likely to be a combative G7 summit in Canada. Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, the freewheeling president also said he would like to meet with the NFL athletes who he has sharply criticized for kneeling during the national anthem.

2018 June 8, Sabrina Siddiqui, “Freewheeling Trump sounds off on tariffs, pardons and NFL ahead of G7: Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, the president also discussed international tensions and EPA chief Scott Pruitt”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-06-18:

Unbounded by rules or conventions; unrestrained.


rigida

eo-head

rigida (accusative singular rigidan, plural rigidaj, accusative plural rigidajn)

rigidan (accusative singular)
rigidaj (plural)
rigidajn (accusative plural)

Derived from Latin rigidus, from rigēre (“be stiff”).

Ĉi tiu ligno estas tro rigida por fari pafarkon; vi bezonas ion pli fleksebla.

This wood is too rigid to make a bow with; you need something more flexible.

Ĉi tiuj ŝuoj estas tiel rigidaj, ke mi ne povas bone piediri.

These shoes are so stiff that I can hardly walk in them.

Nia matematika instruisto estas tre rigida kaj atendas, ke ni laboru pene.

Our math teacher is very harsh and expects us to work really hard.

Nia patro estis tre rigida kaj ne lasis nin eliri dum la semajno.

Our father was very strict and wouldn't let us go out during the week.


altruiste

fr-noun

altruiste m or f by sense (plural altruistes)


avide

Borrowed from Latin avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).


frolicsome

en-adj

frolicsome (comparative more frolicsome, superlative most frolicsome)

more frolicsome (comparative)
most frolicsome (superlative)

A rollicksome frolicsome rare old cock / As ever did nothing was our dog Jock; / A gleesome fleasome affectionate beast, / As slow at a fight, as swift at a feast […]

To some, the very word "playsuit", with its frolicsome associations, will induce the conviction that this is not an item of clothing to be seen alive in.

2007 May 10, “Pick of the week - playsuits”, in The Guardian:

Characterised or marked by frolicking; playful.


pessimiste

→ Ottoman Turkish: پهسیمیست (pesimist)

Turkish: pesimist


stupide

Borrowed from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”).

bor+

Un hamster stupide se balade au bord d’une rivière. Tout à coup, il aperçoit son copain le hamster crétin de l’autre côté de la rive. Il veut le rejoindre et l’appelle :
- Eh ! Hamster crétin, comment faire pour passer de l’autre côté de la rivière ?
- Hamster stupide… T’es déjà de l’autre côté !

2005 November 1, “Humour de rire : Zoo Zin Zin [Humor for Laughs: Zoo Zin Zin]”, in Picsou Magazine (fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 144:

A stupid hamster is walking on the riverside. All of sudden, he sees his buddy, the cretin hamster, on the other side of the bank. He wants to join him and calls him:
- Hey! Cretin hamster, how can I get to the other side of the river?
- Stupid hamster… Yer awready on the other side!


jaloux

fr-adj

jaloux (feminine jalouse, masculine plural jaloux, feminine plural jalouses)

jalouse (feminine)
jaloux (masculine plural)
jalouses (feminine plural)

Louisiana Creole: jalou

Inherited from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelōsus, from zelus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Compare Italian geloso, Spanish celoso. However, the final form in -oux is now held to come from Old Occitan gelos, rather than the expected -eux being inherited from Latin.

der

Je suis jaloux de lui, je l’avoue.


self-sacrificing

en-adj

self-sacrificing (comparative more self-sacrificing, superlative most self-sacrificing)

more self-sacrificing (comparative)
most self-sacrificing (superlative)

Mother Teresa's self-sacrificing nature made her world-famous.

It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.

1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

Making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice.

fədakar

making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice


accommodant

fr-adj

accommodant (feminine accommodante, masculine plural accommodants, feminine plural accommodantes)

accommodante (feminine)
accommodants (masculine plural)
accommodantes (feminine plural)


conformista

es-adj

conformista m or f (masculine and feminine plural conformistas)

conformistas (feminine masculine plural)

From conformar (“to conform”) + -ista (“-ist”).


conformista

es-noun

conformista m or f by sense (plural conformistas)


coquin

fr-adj

coquin (feminine coquine, masculine plural coquins, feminine plural coquines)

coquine (feminine)
coquins (masculine plural)
coquines (feminine plural)

From Old French coquin, of obscure origin.


maldestre

ca-adj

maldestre (feminine maldestra, masculine and feminine plural maldestres)

maldestra (feminine)
maldestres (feminine masculine plural)

From mal- + destre. Compare English and French maladroit.


zen

(colloquial) extremely relaxed and collected


control freak

From control + freak. First use appears c. 1970 in the Los Angeles Times.

(informal) A person who is excessively controlling and domineering.


tapper

head

tapper (comparative tapprare, superlative tapprast)

tapprare (comparative)
tapprast (superlative)
tapper (indefinite positive)
tapprare (comparative indefinite)
tapprast (indefinite superlative)
tappert (indefinite neuter positive singular)
tapprare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
tapprast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
tappra (indefinite plural positive)
tapprare (comparative indefinite plural)
tapprast (indefinite plural superlative)
tappre (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
tapprare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
tapprast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
tappre (definite masculine positive singular)
tapprare (comparative definite masculine singular)
tappraste (definite masculine singular superlative)
tappra (definite positive)
tapprare (comparative definite)
tappraste (definite superlative)

From Old Swedish dapper, from Middle Low German dapper, tapper. Further origin disputed. Possibly cognate with Old Norse dapr (“heavy”), German tapfer (“dauntless”) and English dapper.


cortés

es-adj

cortés m or f (masculine and feminine plural corteses)


perfeccionista

es-noun

perfeccionista m or f by sense (plural perfeccionistas)


workshy

en-adj

workshy (comparative more workshy, superlative most workshy)

more workshy (comparative)
most workshy (superlative)

Workshy benefits claimants should stop watching daytime television and get a job.


bébête

Hypocoristic formed from bête (“stupid / beast”) via reduplication.


mure

From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.


discret

fr-adj

discret (feminine discrète, masculine plural discrets, feminine plural discrètes)

discrète (feminine)
discrets (masculine plural)
discrètes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French discret, borrowed from Latin discretus (“separate”).


traître

fr-noun

traître m (plural traîtres, feminine traîtresse)

Inherited from Old French traïtre, nominative singular of traïtor, from an adaptation of Latin traditor.


simpático

es-adj

simpático (feminine simpática, masculine plural simpáticos, feminine plural simpáticas)

simpática (feminine)
simpáticos (masculine plural)
simpáticas (feminine plural)

(anatomy) sympathetic (related to the sympathetic nervous system)


tierno

tierno (feminine tierna, masculine plural tiernos, feminine plural tiernas)

tierna (feminine)
tiernos (masculine plural)
tiernas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Latin tenerum, with metathesis. Compare Portuguese terno and English tender.


high and mighty

en-adj

high and mighty (comparative higher and mightier or more high and mighty, superlative highest and mightiest or most high and mighty)

higher and mightier (comparative)
more high and mighty (comparative)
highest and mightiest (superlative)
most high and mighty (superlative)

To the High and Migthie Lords States-Generall at The Haghe. (…)
 Most High and Mightie Lords,
 After I had my dispatch from the king of Barbary Muley Sidan, the same day I was to embarke, came to me the alkaid of Saffia with a packet of letters directed to Your High and Mightie Lords, whearin one (as he told me) for the king of Frannce, which he said the King commanded him to deliver unto me with his owne hands, and that I lykewise should deliver them my selfe.

1615 March 16, John Harrison, “Lettre de John Harrison aux États-Généraux”, in Henry de Castries, editor, Les sources inédites de l'histoire du Maroc de 1530 à 1845. 1e série: Dynastie saadienne, published 1906-1923, page 506:

High and Mighty Lords,
 My lords, I could not omit adviſing of your high and mighty lordſhips, that here arrived two ambaſſadors from the great duke of Muſcovy, who have yet had no audience, it being but four days ſince.

1657 January 26, James Strycker [Giacomo Strijcker], “Conſul Strycker to the States General.”, in Thomas Birch, editor, A collection of the state papers of John Thurloe, Eſq;, volume 5, published 1742, page 791:

High and Mighty Lords
 The Subscriber has the Honour to propose to your High Mightinesses, that the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, have lately thought fit to send him a Commission (with full Powers and Instructions) to confer with your High Mightinesses, concerning a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an authentic Copy of which he has the Honour to annex to this Memorial.

1781 April 19, John Adams, “Memorial to the States General, 19 April 1781”, in Gregg L. Lint, Richard Alan Ryerson, Anne Decker Cecere, Celeste Walker, Jennifer Shea, C. James Taylor., editors, The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, volume 11, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, published 2003, pages 272–282:

(historical) A courtesy title applied to members of the States General of the Dutch Republic


coqueto

es-adj

coqueto (feminine coqueta, masculine plural coquetos, feminine plural coquetas)

coqueta (feminine)
coquetos (masculine plural)
coquetas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French coquette, from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (masculine diminutive suffix); meaning "little cockerel".


coqueto

es-noun

coqueto m (plural coquetos, feminine coqueta, feminine plural coquetas)

coquetos (plural)
coqueta (feminine)
coquetas (feminine plural)


ill-humored

en-adj

ill-humored (comparative more ill-humored, superlative most ill-humored)

more ill-humored (comparative)
most ill-humored (superlative)


ill-natured

ill-natured (comparative more ill-natured, superlative most ill-natured)

more ill-natured (comparative)
most ill-natured (superlative)

Synonym of malevolent: wishing bad upon others.


aguafiestas

es-noun

aguafiestas m or f by sense (plural aguafiestas)

Verb-object compound, composed of agua (“to spoil”) + fiestas (“parties”).

es-verb-obj

No seas aguafiestas

party pooper, wet blanket, spoilsport, killjoy


cobby

en-adj

cobby (comparative cobbier, superlative cobbiest)

cobbier (comparative)
cobbiest (superlative)

So I may middle life enjoy, And jaunt about, my lovely toy; We'll spend our time so cobby, Now thus, be in our hobby, And so enjoy the fashion

1847, John Wright, “A Young Esquire's Arrival At Manhood”, in Anacreontic Poems, On Religious, Moral, and Pastorial Subjects, page 191:

Each one should be master now, of his own nose, But I pray you don't thus, take too strong a dose; -- A circumstance here allow me to mention, The subject of which is all good intention: The thing is so cobby, and just to the point, Of a nose, with the snuff, well nigh out of joint ---

1849, John Wright, “The Snuff subject”, in Second Work of Poems, Entitled A Gem for Every-one, page 71:

As it was, the two at head of the class were cobby in action.

1896, Farmer's Advocate and Home Magazine - Volume 31, page 156:

Give them the third task. If succeed, You'll make them very cobby.

2013, Милеева Марина Николаевна, Радость дарить знания: Английский язык со вкусом химии, page 156:


aggressiv

head

aggressiv (comparative aggressivare, superlative aggressivast)

aggressivare (comparative)
aggressivast (superlative)
aggressiv (indefinite positive)
aggressivare (comparative indefinite)
aggressivast (indefinite superlative)
aggressivt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
aggressivare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
aggressivast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
aggressiva (indefinite plural positive)
aggressivare (comparative indefinite plural)
aggressivast (indefinite plural superlative)
aggressive (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
aggressivare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
aggressivast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
aggressive (definite masculine positive singular)
aggressivare (comparative definite masculine singular)
aggressivaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
aggressiva (definite positive)
aggressivare (comparative definite)
aggressivaste (definite superlative)


self-denying

en-adj

self-denying (comparative more self-denying, superlative most self-denying)

more self-denying (comparative)
most self-denying (superlative)

Without concern for one's own advantage; selfless or self-sacrificing.


cariñoso

es-adj

cariñoso (feminine cariñosa, masculine plural cariñosos, feminine plural cariñosas)

cariñosa (feminine)
cariñosos (masculine plural)
cariñosas (feminine plural)


astuto

astuto (feminine astuta, masculine plural astutos, feminine plural astutas)

astuta (feminine)
astutos (masculine plural)
astutas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin astūtus. Cognate with English astute.

cunning, crafty, sly, wily, slick, foxy, artful


espiègle

Borrowed from German Eulenspiegel, based on the folklore character Till Eulenspiegel; from Middle Low German Ūlenspēgel.


individualistic

en-adj

individualistic (comparative more individualistic, superlative most individualistic)

more individualistic (comparative)
most individualistic (superlative)

From individualist + -ic or individual + -istic.

It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.

People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.

2001, David Matsumoto, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, page 395:

More interested in individual people than in society as a whole.

individualista

more interested in the individual than in society as a whole


débile

→ Romanian: debil

desctree

→ Russian: деби́л (debíl)
→ Armenian: դեբիլ (debil)
→ Estonian: debiil
→ Georgian: დებილი (debili)

→ Turkish: debil


pénible

→ Danish: penibel

→ Dutch: penibel

→ German: penibel

→ Romanian: penibil

→ Swedish: penibel

Inherited from Middle French penible, from Old French peinible. By surface analysis, peine + -ible.

Mon frère est si pénible lui!


têtu

fr-adj

têtu (feminine têtue, masculine plural têtus, feminine plural têtues)

têtue (feminine)
têtus (masculine plural)
têtues (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French testu, from teste (“head”) + -u. Morphologically, from tête + -u. Compare Walloon tiestou.

Il y avait en lui tout un petit homme têtu qui haïssait Napoléon.

1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in Les Misérables, Tome III : Marius, book 3:

There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon.

Les pirates nord-coréens ne sont pas nécessairement les plus compétents, ni les plus pointus – quoique certains soient de très haut niveau –, mais ce sont les plus disciplinés et les plus têtus.

2020 August 28, “Corée du Nord : l'armée secrète des hackeurs [North Korea: the secret army of hackers]”, in Le Monde:

North Korean hackers are not necessarily the most competent, nor the most precise—although some are at a very high level—but they are the most disciplined and the most stubborn.


sincère

Inherited from Middle French sincere, borrowed from Latin sincerus, possibly compounded from the root of Latin semel, simul (“one”) + Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to grow”).


eager beaver

PULASKI: I am unfamiliar with this symbol.
DATA: It indicates a genetically engineered biological life-form.
PULASKI: About twenty percent of the specimens fall into that category. Some eager beaver at play.
DATA: Query: "eager beaver?"
PULASKI: Well in this case, eager beaver refers to some over achieving genetic engineer, who probably because of lack of anything better to do has forced this strain of virus to mutate, just so he can see how bad bad can get.

1988 November 21, Diana Muldaur, Brent Spiner, The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

An “eager beaver” in terms of computing, Gates apparently started programming at age eleven.

2007, Bernadette Hlubik Schell, The Internet and Society, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178:

(idiomatic, colloquial) One (especially a child) who is very excited or enthusiastic to begin a task; a person who is exceedingly assiduous in an enthusiastic manner


cérébral

cérébral (feminine cérébrale, masculine plural cérébraux, feminine plural cérébrales)

cérébrale (feminine)
cérébraux (masculine plural)
cérébrales (feminine plural)

A learned formation from the root of Latin cerebrum and the suffix -al.

Un accident cérébral.

Une personne cérébrale.


celoso

es-adj

celoso (feminine celosa, masculine plural celosos, feminine plural celosas)

celosa (feminine)
celosos (masculine plural)
celosas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Late Latin zelōsus, from zelus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Compare Italian geloso, French jaloux.


perfide

→ German: perfide

perfide Albion


astucieux

fr-adj

astucieux (feminine astucieuse, masculine plural astucieux, feminine plural astucieuses)

astucieuse (feminine)
astucieux (masculine plural)
astucieuses (feminine plural)


creativo

es-adj

creativo (feminine creativa, masculine plural creativos, feminine plural creativas)

creativa (feminine)
creativos (masculine plural)
creativas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin creātivus, from Latin creātus. By surface analysis, crear + -t- + -ivo.


shrinking violet

en-noun

shrinking violet (plural shrinking violets)

/ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪələt/

/ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪlət/

/ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪələt/

/ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪlət/

Possibly from the inconspicuous nature of the violet (genus Viola) flower and plant. The term appears to have been first used in the literal sense in the early 19th century.

June, no shrinking violet she, crossed the room and introduced herself to the newcomers.

Little Johnny Jones, he was a US pilot / And no shrinking violet was he / He was mighty proud when World War III was declared / He wasn't scared, no siree!

1965, “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)” (track 1, side 2), in That Was the Year That Was, performed by Tom Lehrer:

(idiomatic) A very shy or timid person, who avoids contact with others if possible.


heroico

es-adj

heroico (feminine heroica, masculine plural heroicos, feminine plural heroicas)

heroica (feminine)
heroicos (masculine plural)
heroicas (feminine plural)


inconsiderate

en-adj

inconsiderate (comparative more inconsiderate, superlative most inconsiderate)

more inconsiderate (comparative)
most inconsiderate (superlative)

/ˌɪnkənˈsɪdəɹɪt/

Not replacing the roll after using the last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate.

“It’s very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare,” said the lady, “to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I’ve been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there’s been such a tumult made ever since you came, I’m half dead.”

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Of Tom’s New Master, And Various Other Matters”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 241:

Bayliss and his father were talking together before dinner when Claude came in and was so inconsiderate as to put up a window, though he knew his brother hated a draft.

1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York: Knopf, Book 1, Chapter 16, pp. 89-90:

“Ann Landers claims drop-in visits are inconsiderate,” he said.

1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, New York: Knopf, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 13:


benigne

English: benign

Scots: bening (obsolete)

Borrowed from Old French benigne, from Latin benignus; compare maligne.

his pariſſhens / deuoutly wolde he teche / Benygne he was / and wonder diligent / And in aduerſitee / ful pacient[…]

1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 8, recto, lines 482-484:

He would devoutly teach his parishioners; / he was gentle, truly diligent, / and so patient in adversity […]


candide

Learned borrowing from Latin candidus (“white”).

lbor

Near-synonyms: franc, honnête


presuntuoso

es-adj

presuntuoso (feminine presuntuosa, masculine plural presuntuosos, feminine plural presuntuosas)

presuntuosa (feminine)
presuntuosos (masculine plural)
presuntuosas (feminine plural)


sauvage

Inherited from Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).

un enfant sauvage

asocial, recluse (living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others)

(North America, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian


sauvage

fr-noun

sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)


sportif

sportif m (plural sportifs, feminine sportive)


laconique

Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacōnicus (“laconic”), from Latin Lacōnicus (“Spartan”), from Ancient Greek Λακωνικός (Lakōnikós).


libidineux

fr-adj

libidineux (feminine libidineuse, masculine plural libidineux, feminine plural libidineuses)

libidineuse (feminine)
libidineux (masculine plural)
libidineuses (feminine plural)

→ German: libidinös

→ Romanian: libidinos

(literary, derogatory) libidinous, lustful


judgemental

en-adj

judgemental (comparative more judgemental, superlative most judgemental)

more judgemental (comparative)
most judgemental (superlative)


narav

nárav (canonical feminine)
на́рав (Cyrillic)
narav (nominative singular)
naravi (nominative plural)
naravi (genitive singular)
naravi (genitive plural)
naravi (dative singular)
naravima (dative plural)
narav (accusative singular)
naravi (accusative plural)
naravi (singular vocative)
naravi (plural vocative)
naravi (locative singular)
naravima (locative plural)
naravlju (instrumental singular)
naravima (instrumental plural)


mûr

fr-adj

mûr (feminine mûre or mure, masculine plural mûrs or murs, feminine plural mûres or mures)

mûre (feminine)
mure (feminine)
mûrs (masculine plural)
murs (masculine plural)
mûres (feminine plural)
mures (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French mëur, inherited from Latin mātūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to ripen, mature”). Doublet of mature.

der

mature (having reached the age of maturity)


honnête

Inherited from Middle French honneste, from Old French honeste, a borrowing from Latin honestus, from honor.

Il faut toujours être honnête, mais il y a des gens qui n’en ont pas conscience.

You always have to be honest, but there are people who don't realize that.

honest (scrupulous with regard to telling the truth)


mean-spirited

en-adj

mean-spirited (comparative more mean-spirited, superlative most mean-spirited)

more mean-spirited (comparative)
most mean-spirited (superlative)

My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.

1877, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 15, in A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century:

Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition; tawdry.


nerveux

fr-adj

nerveux (feminine nerveuse, masculine plural nerveux, feminine plural nerveuses)

nerveuse (feminine)
nerveux (masculine plural)
nerveuses (feminine plural)

→ Danish: nervøs

→ Norwegian Bokmål: nervøs

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: nervøs

Inherited from Middle French nerfveux, from Old French nerveus, a borrowing from Latin nervōsus.

elle était bien nerveuse


currish

en-adj

currish (comparative more currish, superlative most currish)

more currish (comparative)
most currish (superlative)

more enfierced through his curriſh play,
 Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro,
 To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Gratiano:
O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:


malicieux

fr-adj

malicieux (feminine malicieuse, masculine plural malicieux, feminine plural malicieuses)

malicieuse (feminine)
malicieux (masculine plural)
malicieuses (feminine plural)


sociopathic

en-adj

sociopathic (comparative more sociopathic, superlative most sociopathic)

more sociopathic (comparative)
most sociopathic (superlative)

Having the characteristics of a sociopath.

soziopathisch

having the characteristics of a sociopath


slimeball

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sley-
Proto-Germanic *slīmą
Old English slīm
English slime
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal
English ball
English slimeball
From slime + ball. Sense 1 (“a round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance”) is a calque of German Schleimkugel, from Schleim (“mucus, slime”) + Kugel (“ball”), while sense 1.1 (“a mucus-coated lump containing the cercariae of a liver fluke”) may be a calque of German Schleimball (from Schleim (“slime”) + Ball (“ball”)).

Schleimkugel

round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance which came from outer space

(biology) A round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance such as mucus.

The eggs [of a lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum)] that pass out with the manure of an infested sheep do not hatch in the open. When eaten by the snail, they hatch and finally give rise to larvae that pass out of the snail's body in gelatinous "slime[-]balls."

1957 May, J[ohn] T. Lucker, A. O. Foster, “Adult Tapeworms”, in Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep (Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 1330), Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 38:

The cercariae contain massive glands, formerly considered to be penetration glands, but now believed to produce the slime responsible for the formation of these balls. It is likely that the slime produced by the snail itself may contribute, at least partly, to the formation of a slimeball.

1976, J[ames] D[esmond] Smyth, “Digenea: Bucephalidae, Fasciolidae, Opisthorchiidae, Dicrocoeliidae”, in Introduction to Animal Parasitology (Biological Science Texts), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 181, column 2; 3rd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1994, →ISBN, page 215, column 2:

These flukes have three hosts. [...] As the infected snail crawls along it leaves slime balls containing cercaria on grass. An ant, Formica fusca, the arthropod host for D. dendriticum in the United States, is infected when it ingests the slime balls. Mammals are infected by consuming ants containing encysted metacercaria.

1995, A. M. Marty, E. M. Andersen, “Helminthology”, in Wilhelm Doerr, Gerhard Seifert, Erwin Uehlinger, editors, Tropical Pathology (Spezielle pathologische Anatomie: Ein Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk [Special Pathological Anatomy: A Teaching and Reference Work]; 8), 2nd edition, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 827:

(helminthology, specifically) A mucus-coated lump containing the cercariae (“parasitic larvae”) of a liver fluke (of the phylum Platyhelminthes).

Schleimball

mucus-coated lump of the parasitic larvae of a liver fluke

Even slimeballs were entitled to representation, though.

1987, Daniel Lynch, A Killing Frost, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 10:

And I put my hands on her jugs. She goes crazy. She says 'Take your hands off me slimeball!' So I go, 'Rona, watch your language!' And she goes, 'If you wanna have fun with your hands, why don't you pass the time playin' solitaire.'

1993, John Lahr, The Manchurian Candidate: A Play [...] From the Novel by Richard Condon, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, page 72:

[T]here will always be spies, and spooks, and counterspooks. Some of these slimeballs are perhaps breaking into Pentagon computers at this very moment, finding the dirty pictures some bored programmer stored on a corner of the hard disk.

1995, Dinty W. Moore, “Back to Nature”, in The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:

He cursed Flak, then watched with horror as the slimeball explained to the world exactly how he, Kerber, had obtained the confession.

2010, John Grisham, The Confession: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN; Bantam Books trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 342:

He said it would be good for me, going to Grimsby; my hideous, horrible, sewer-minded, greeneyed slimeball of a two-faced, felonious bastard of an uncle.

2012, Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:

Meanwhile, the film's villain, played by Ben Mendelsohn, is a bigwig slimeball who wants to monopolize and monetize The Oasis through excessive pop-up ads. His true crime, though, is that he's a total noob who doesn't know his stuff.

2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-05-31:

(figuratively, originally US, colloquial, derogatory) A person who is slimy (that is, sneaky or underhanded) or otherwise undesirable.

slijmbal

person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable


galant

fr-adj

galant (feminine galante, masculine plural galants, feminine plural galantes)

galante (feminine)
galants (masculine plural)
galantes (feminine plural)

→ Catalan: galant, galà

→ English: gallant

→ German: galant

→ Romanian: galant

desctree

→ Russian: галантный (galantnyj)
→ Georgian: გალანტური (galanṭuri)

→ Spanish: galante, galán

Present participle of Old French galer, from Frankish *wala (“well”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(h₁)- (“to choose, wish”).


courageux

fr-adj

courageux (feminine courageuse, masculine plural courageux, feminine plural courageuses)

courageuse (feminine)
courageux (masculine plural)
courageuses (feminine plural)

→ Romanian: curajos

From Old French corageus, corresponding to courage + -eux.

courageux mais pas téméraire


hardi

hardi (feminine hardie, masculine plural hardis, feminine plural hardies)

hardie (feminine)
hardis (masculine plural)
hardies (feminine plural)

From Old French hardi, past tense of hardir, of Frankish origin.
Compare Catalan ardit.

Near-synonyms: courageux, brave


audacieux

audacieux (feminine audacieuse, masculine plural audacieux, feminine plural audacieuses)

audacieuse (feminine)
audacieux (masculine plural)
audacieuses (feminine plural)


tålmodig

tålmodig (indefinite positive)
tålmodigt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
tålmodiga (indefinite plural positive)
tålmodige (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
tålmodige (definite masculine positive singular)
tålmodiga (definite positive)

patient (not losing one's temper while waiting)


élégant

élégant (feminine élégante, masculine plural élégants, feminine plural élégantes)

élégante (feminine)
élégants (masculine plural)
élégantes (feminine plural)

→ German: Elegant

→ Romanian: elegant

→ Turkish: elegan


créatif

créatif (feminine créative, masculine plural créatifs, feminine plural créatives)

créative (feminine)
créatifs (masculine plural)
créatives (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: creatief
→ Indonesian: kreatif

→ Romanian: creativ

→ Turkish: kreatif

Formed from the root of Latin creatus and the suffix -if, or borrowed from Late Latin creativus.


mélancolique

→ Romanian: melancolic

→ Turkish: melankolik


chciwość

chciwość (nominative singular)
chciwości (genitive singular)
chciwości (dative singular)
chciwość (accusative singular)
chciwością (instrumental singular)
chciwości (locative singular)
chciwości (singular vocative)


käck

head

käck (comparative käckare, superlative käckast)

käckare (comparative)
käckast (superlative)
käck (indefinite positive)
käckare (comparative indefinite)
käckast (indefinite superlative)
käckt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
käckare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
käckast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
käcka (indefinite plural positive)
käckare (comparative indefinite plural)
käckast (indefinite plural superlative)
käcke (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
käckare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
käckast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
käcke (definite masculine positive singular)
käckare (comparative definite masculine singular)
käckaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
käcka (definite positive)
käckare (comparative definite)
käckaste (definite superlative)

From German keck (“spirited, cheeky, lively”). Doublet of kvick.

bor

2016, Nils Edvard Hammarstedt, translation of Tacitus' Germania, Ch. 13:
Stor är ock tävlan såväl mellan följesmännen om närmaste platsen hos hövdingen som mellan hövdingarna om de flesta och käckaste följesmännen
Great is also the competition amid followers for the closest place next to the chieftain, and the same goes amid the chieftains regarding who shall have the most and keenest followers


bavard

fr-adj

bavard (feminine bavarde, masculine plural bavards, feminine plural bavardes)

bavarde (feminine)
bavards (masculine plural)
bavardes (feminine plural)

Ces jeunots n’ont pas l’air du genre bavards.

These young people do not seem to be the talkative type.


bavard

fr-noun

bavard m (plural bavards, feminine bavarde)


bootlicker

(derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady


loquace

Learned borrowing from Latin loquax (“talkative”).


impoli

fr-adj

impoli (feminine impolie, masculine plural impolis, feminine plural impolies)

impolie (feminine)
impolis (masculine plural)
impolies (feminine plural)


вежливый

ru-adj

ве́жливый • (véžlivyj) (abstract noun ве́жливость)

ве́жливый (canonical)
véžlivyj (romanization)
ве́жливость (abstract-noun)
ве́жливый (masculine nominative)
ве́жливое (neuter nominative)
ве́жливая (feminine nominative)
ве́жливые (nominative plural)
ве́жливого (genitive masculine neuter)
ве́жливой (feminine genitive)
ве́жливых (genitive plural)
ве́жливому (dative masculine neuter)
ве́жливой (dative feminine)
ве́жливым (dative plural)
ве́жливого (accusative animate masculine)
ве́жливое (accusative neuter)
ве́жливую (accusative feminine)
ве́жливых (accusative animate plural)
ве́жливый (accusative inanimate masculine)
ве́жливые (accusative inanimate plural)
ве́жливым (instrumental masculine neuter)
ве́жливой (feminine instrumental)
ве́жливою (feminine instrumental)
ве́жливыми (instrumental plural)
ве́жливом (masculine neuter prepositional)
ве́жливой (feminine prepositional)
ве́жливых (plural prepositional)
ве́жлив (masculine short-form)
ве́жливо (neuter short-form)
ве́жлива (feminine short-form)
ве́жливы (plural short-form)

Ru-вежливый.ogg

Inherited from Old East Slavic вѣжливои (věžlivoi, “experienced, versed”), itself from вѣжливои (věžlivoi, “knower, competent”), from Proto-Slavic *věďa, from *věděti (“to know”). Compare Old Church Slavonic невѣжда (nevěžda, “ignorant”). See also -ливый (-livyj).

cog

вѣ́жливый — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


infantil

es-adj

infantil m or f (masculine and feminine plural infantiles)

[Los duendes] son pequeñitos, tienen caras infantiles y visten hábitos de tres colores distintos.

1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 52:


obtus

fr-adj

obtus (feminine obtuse, masculine plural obtus, feminine plural obtuses)

obtuse (feminine)
obtus (masculine plural)
obtuses (feminine plural)

From Old French obtus (14th c.), a borrowing from Latin obtūsus.


melankolia

eo-head

melankolia (accusative singular melankolian, plural melankoliaj, accusative plural melankoliajn)

melankolian (accusative singular)
melankoliaj (plural)
melankoliajn (accusative plural)

melancholic ("filled with or affected by melancholy")


ctižádost

ctižádost (nominative singular)
ctižádosti (nominative plural)
ctižádosti (genitive singular)
ctižádostí (genitive plural)
ctižádosti (dative singular)
ctižádostem (dative plural)
ctižádost (accusative singular)
ctižádosti (accusative plural)
ctižádosti (singular vocative)
ctižádosti (plural vocative)
ctižádosti (locative singular)
ctižádostech (locative plural)
ctižádostí (instrumental singular)
ctižádostmi (instrumental plural)

ambition (personal quality similar to motivation)


highflier

under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words

c. 1711, Jonathan Swift, Some Remarks Upon A Pamphlet, Entitl'd, A Letter To The Seven Lords Of The Committee, Appointed To Examine Gregg:

A beautiful woman juggled expensive shopping bags while taking a call; friends gathered clinking glasses in celebration; a young man coyly slurped noodles; a gaggle of suited highfliers shook hands over a boardroom with views across the city. Everything screamed: “We are no longer in recession! We are a beating heart of London’s future!”

2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.


generös

head

generös (comparative generösare, superlative generösast)

generösare (comparative)
generösast (superlative)
generös (indefinite positive)
generösare (comparative indefinite)
generösast (indefinite superlative)
generöst (indefinite neuter positive singular)
generösare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
generösast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
generösa (indefinite plural positive)
generösare (comparative indefinite plural)
generösast (indefinite plural superlative)
generöse (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
generösare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
generösast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
generöse (definite masculine positive singular)
generösare (comparative definite masculine singular)
generösaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
generösa (definite positive)
generösare (comparative definite)
generösaste (definite superlative)

From French généreux, from Middle French genereux, from Latin generōsus, from genus (“birth, origin”) + -ōsus.


villano

es-adj

villano (feminine villana, masculine plural villanos, feminine plural villanas)

villana (feminine)
villanos (masculine plural)
villanas (feminine plural)

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Inherited from Late Latin vīllānus, from Latin vīlla. Cognate with English villain and villein.


atento

atento (feminine atenta, masculine plural atentos, feminine plural atentas)

atenta (feminine)
atentos (masculine plural)
atentas (feminine plural)


grosero

grosero (feminine grosera, masculine plural groseros, feminine plural groseras)

grosera (feminine)
groseros (masculine plural)
groseras (feminine plural)

rude, crass, uncouth, cheeky, fresh, boorish, loutish, coarse


prétentieux

fr-adj

prétentieux (feminine prétentieuse, masculine plural prétentieux, feminine plural prétentieuses)

prétentieuse (feminine)
prétentieux (masculine plural)
prétentieuses (feminine plural)


agressif

agressif (feminine agressive, masculine plural agressifs, feminine plural agressives)

agressive (feminine)
agressifs (masculine plural)
agressives (feminine plural)


educado

es-adj

educado (feminine educada, masculine plural educados, feminine plural educadas, superlative educadísimo)

educada (feminine)
educados (masculine plural)
educadas (feminine plural)
educadísimo (superlative)


givré

fr-adj

givré (feminine givrée, masculine plural givrés, feminine plural givrées)

givrée (feminine)
givrés (masculine plural)
givrées (feminine plural)

frosted; covered with frost or a thin pale layer resembling frost


hésitant

hésitant (feminine hésitante, masculine plural hésitants, feminine plural hésitantes)

hésitante (feminine)
hésitants (masculine plural)
hésitantes (feminine plural)


dommy

en-adj

dommy (comparative more dommy, superlative most dommy)

more dommy (comparative)
most dommy (superlative)

Rita said she thought she’d be a sub, but found in the scene she was ‘getting a bit dommy’.

2010, Stephanie Clifford-Smith, “A Dynamic Duo”, in Kink: A Straight Girl's Investigation, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Crows Nest, →ISBN, page 88:

I don’t usually get that wet, but apparently, all I was missing before was a hot dommy man slapping my ass.

2022, Renee Rose, chapter 2, in The Cleaner (Chicago Bratva), →ISBN:

He anchors his hands on his hips, one of my favorite moves of his, because he looks all dommy.

2023, Jane Henry, chapter 16, in Adoration (Montavio Brotherhood), →ISBN:


réservé

fr-adj

réservé (feminine réservée, masculine plural réservés, feminine plural réservées)

réservée (feminine)
réservés (masculine plural)
réservées (feminine plural)

→ Turkish: rezerve


radin

radin (feminine radine, masculine plural radins, feminine plural radines)

radine (feminine)
radins (masculine plural)
radines (feminine plural)


accesible

es-adj

accesible m or f (masculine and feminine plural accesibles)

Borrowed from Late Latin accessibilis (“accessible”), from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”).


obéissant

fr-adj

obéissant (feminine obéissante, masculine plural obéissants, feminine plural obéissantes)

obéissante (feminine)
obéissants (masculine plural)
obéissantes (feminine plural)

Present participle of obéir. Compare obédient, a borrowing from Latin oboediēns, oboedientis.


dépendant

dépendant (feminine dépendante, masculine plural dépendants, feminine plural dépendantes)

dépendante (feminine)
dépendants (masculine plural)
dépendantes (feminine plural)


entreprenant

entreprenant (feminine entreprenante, masculine plural entreprenants, feminine plural entreprenantes)

entreprenante (feminine)
entreprenants (masculine plural)
entreprenantes (feminine plural)

/ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁə.nɑ̃/


affectueux

affectueux (feminine affectueuse, masculine plural affectueux, feminine plural affectueuses)

affectueuse (feminine)
affectueux (masculine plural)
affectueuses (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin affectuōsus. Doublet of affettuoso


plaisant

fr-adj

plaisant (feminine plaisante, masculine plural plaisants, feminine plural plaisantes)

plaisante (feminine)
plaisants (masculine plural)
plaisantes (feminine plural)


assidu

assidu (feminine assidue, masculine plural assidus, feminine plural assidues)

assidue (feminine)
assidus (masculine plural)
assidues (feminine plural)


lugubre

Borrowed from Latin lūgubris (“mournful; gloomy”).


commonsensical

en-adj

commonsensical (comparative more commonsensical, superlative most commonsensical)

more commonsensical (comparative)
most commonsensical (superlative)

Washington devised an eminently commonsensical plan for attacking British outposts at Germantown.

1973, Samuel Redsecker II Slaymaker, Captives' Mansion: An American Family Chronicle Covering Nine Generations and Two Hundred Years in a Pennsylvania Rural Manor, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 39:

All the bowing and scraping was enough to make a cat laugh, but the Princess took it all in her stride — her demeanour commonsensical (didn't everyone who went by train get this sort of treatment?) and a shade demure.

2013, Robert Barnard, Death and the Princess:

And that is precisely the point—frames have the power to obscure the bigger picture, to narrowly and misleadingly define the problem, and to make imaginable only certain solutions. The commonsensical frames of fear, values, standards, and competition make it easy to overlook the deeper problems and to place all blame on teachres.

2015, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture, page 43:


offensant

fr-adj

offensant (feminine offensante, masculine plural offensants, feminine plural offensantes)

offensante (feminine)
offensants (masculine plural)
offensantes (feminine plural)


suffisant

suffisant (feminine suffisante, masculine plural suffisants, feminine plural suffisantes)

suffisante (feminine)
suffisants (masculine plural)
suffisantes (feminine plural)


mean

en-adj

mean (comparative meaner, superlative meanest)

meaner (comparative)
meanest (superlative)

From Middle English mene, imene, from Old English mǣne, ġemǣne (“common, public, general, universal”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamainī, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz (“common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange, share”). Doublet of common.
Cognate with West Frisian mien (“general, universal”), Dutch gemeen (“common, mean”), German gemein (“common, mean, nasty”), Danish gemen, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (gamains, “common, unclean”), Latin commūnis (“shared, common, general”) (Old Latin comoinem).

cog

a mean motive

It was mean of you to steal that little girl's piggy bank.

Can you imagine I ſo mean could prove, / To ſave my Life by changing of my Love?

1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, page 50:

Prince John: Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?
Ivanhoe: That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.

низък

low-minded; acting without consideration of others

He's so mean. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.

(chiefly UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.

Watch out for her, she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.

Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.

لَئِيم

intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise

We were sitting in Poetta’s candlelit kitchen waiting for some of her gut-burning chili to get done. Everybody that knows Poetta knows that she makes a mean chili that if you eat it by lunchtime, it can clean out your entire system by the end of the day.

2003 July 7, Debra Phillips, The High Price of a Good Man: A Novel, New York City: St. Martin's, page 29:

She wasn’t the most accomplished cook in the world but she cold make a mean stew, she knew how to roast a chicken, and she could whip up eggs at least three different ways.

2021 July 7, Margaret Loudon, A Fatal Footnote, New York City: Berkley, →ISBN, page 109:


fat

fr-adj

fat (feminine fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

fate (feminine)
fats (masculine plural)
fates (feminine plural)

From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.


extravert

As a verb, from New Latin extrāvertō, from Classical Latin extrā- (“outside”) + vertō (“to turn”). As a noun and adjective, a back-formation from extraversion. Popularized in psychology by translations of German works by Carl Jung. By surface analysis, extra- + -vert.

An Extravert can hardly conceive the necessity which compels the Introvert to conquer the world by means of a system.

1916, Constance Ellen Long trans. Carl Jung as Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, p. 349


extravert

en-adj

extravert (comparative more extravert, superlative most extravert)

more extravert (comparative)
most extravert (superlative)

The personality which thus combines introvert and extravert reactions... can be... called an ‘altrovert’...

1924, A.G. Ikin, The British Journal of Medical Psychology, number 4, page 214:


extravert

en-verb

extravert (third-person singular simple present extraverts, present participle extraverting, simple past and past participle extraverted)

extraverts (present singular third-person)
extraverting (participle present)
extraverted (participle past)
extraverted (past)

It is not the moist air that extraverts any preexistent nitrous parts from the body of the minerals.

1669, William Simpson, Hydrologia Chymica, page 52:

An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.

1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 397:

Alternative spelling of extrovert, especially (early chemistry, obsolete) so as to be visible.


generosus

la-adj

generōsus (feminine generōsa, neuter generōsum, adverb generōsē); first/second-declension adjective

generōsus (canonical)
generōsa (feminine)
generōsum (neuter)
generōsē (adverb)
generōsus (masculine nominative singular)
generōsa (feminine nominative singular)
generōsum (neuter nominative singular)
generōsī (masculine nominative singular)
generōsae (feminine nominative plural)
generōsa (neuter nominative plural)
generōsī (genitive masculine singular)
generōsae (feminine genitive singular)
generōsī (genitive neuter singular)
generōsōrum (genitive masculine singular)
generōsārum (feminine genitive plural)
generōsōrum (genitive neuter plural)
generōsō (dative masculine singular)
generōsae (dative feminine singular)
generōsō (dative neuter singular)
generōsīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
generōsum (accusative masculine singular)
generōsam (accusative feminine singular)
generōsum (accusative neuter singular)
generōsōs (accusative masculine singular)
generōsās (accusative feminine plural)
generōsa (accusative neuter plural)
generōsō (ablative masculine singular)
generōsā (ablative feminine singular)
generōsō (ablative neuter singular)
generōsīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
generōse (masculine singular vocative)
generōsa (feminine singular vocative)
generōsum (neuter singular vocative)
generōsī (masculine singular vocative)
generōsae (feminine plural vocative)
generōsa (neuter plural vocative)

Catalan: generós

Galician: xeneroso

Ido: jeneroza

Italian: generoso

Middle French: genereux

→ English: generous

French: généreux

→ Dutch: genereus

→ German: generös

→ Norwegian: sjenerøs

→ Swedish: generös

Norman: génétheux (Jersey)

Occitan: generós

Portuguese: generoso

Romanian: generos

Spanish: generoso

[ɡɛnɛˈroːs̠ʊs̠]

Generosus equus non curat canem latrantem.

Source: Strauss, Emmanuel (1998) Dictionary of European Proverbs, Routledge, page 340

"A well-bred horse does not attend to a barking dog."


bête à manger du foin

fr-adj

bête à manger du foin (plural bêtes à manger du foin)

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-bête à manger du foin.wav

Literally, “(so) dumb as to eat hay”. A pun on bête, which means both "dumb" and "beast".

(simile) Very stupid; dumb as a rock; dumb as a doorknob


con comme un balai

con comme un balai (feminine conne comme un balai, masculine plural cons comme des balais, feminine plural connes comme des balais)

conne comme un balai (feminine)
cons comme des balais (masculine plural)
connes comme des balais (feminine plural)

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(simile, vulgar) thick as a brick; dumb as a post (very stupid)


couard

couard (feminine couarde, masculine plural couards, feminine plural couardes)

couarde (feminine)
couards (masculine plural)
couardes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French couard, from Old French cuard, from cüe, coue (“tail”); equivalent to queue + -ard.