"rheumy" meaning in English

See rheumy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈɹuːmi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹumi/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rheumy.wav Forms: rheumier [comparative], rheumiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -uːmi Etymology: From rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*srew-}}, {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{suffix|en|rheum|y|id2=adjectival|pos2=suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’}} rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’) Head templates: {{en-adj|rheumier}} rheumy (comparative rheumier, superlative rheumiest)
  1. Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery. Synonyms: rheumatic, rheumic Translations (of, relating to, or made of rheum): räkä- (Finnish), kuola- (Finnish), rähmä- (Finnish), nyálkás (Hungarian), nyálka- (Hungarian), на́влажнет (návlažnet) (Macedonian), urduros (Romanian), реу̀матски [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), reùmatski [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-rheumy-en-adj-qpg8HpPv Disambiguation of 'of, relating to, or made of rheum': 63 30 6
  2. Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery. Synonyms: rheumed Translations (producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery): lleganyós (Catalan), rähmäinen (Finnish), chassieux (French), wässrig (German), csipás (Hungarian), wäterig [German-Low-German] (Low German), гу́релав (gúrelav) (Macedonian), kaprawy (Polish), surögd (Swedish), molog (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-rheumy-en-adj-sBPx04QW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German Low German translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 58 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 36 52 12 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 39 55 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 58 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 59 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 36 53 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 36 53 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 39 53 8 Disambiguation of Terms with German Low German translations: 34 52 13 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 37 55 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 35 52 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 36 53 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 37 47 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 36 53 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 36 53 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 36 53 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 39 53 8 Disambiguation of 'producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery': 19 78 4
  3. (literary, poetic, obsolete) Especially of the air: damp, moist. Tags: literary, obsolete, poetic
    Sense id: en-rheumy-en-adj-zW7uq2K5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: rheumily, rheuminess

Inflected forms

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          "text": "So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […]",
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          "text": "But were it not curious to know how Sieyes, now in these days (for he is said to be still alive) looks out on all that Constitution masonry, through the rheumy soberness of extreme age?",
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          "ref": "1929, Robert Dean Frisbie, The Book of Puka-Puka, London: Eland Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 100:",
          "text": "Her lips were clammy, but in her rheumy eyes there still burned the light of a vague desire.",
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          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, “Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "[…] Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner’s rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment— […]",
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          "ref": "1998, Jascha Kessler, Rapid Transit: 1948: An Unsentimental Education, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 224:",
          "text": "Awoke calm in the morning, clearheaded. Lungs rheumier than usual, though.",
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          "ref": "2014 January 20, Rebeccah Apling, chapter 5, in The Gutenberg Connection, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "Her wizened face beneath straggling gray hair gathered in a bun, held the kindest, but rheumiest of faded blue eyes.",
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          "ref": "2022, Hugh Bonneville, “Hidden on the Hard Drive”, in Playing under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru, New York, N.Y.: Other Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Roll Sound), page 282:",
          "text": "Eventually we'd find a date and we'd meet up, his eyes a little rheumier, his untrained eyebrows even more adventurous than last year.",
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          "ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 116, column 1:",
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    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "rheumier"
      },
      "expansion": "rheumy (comparative rheumier, superlative rheumiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rheumatic"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatically"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatic fever"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumaticky"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatism"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatismal"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatiz"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatize"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatoid"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatological"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumatology"
    },
    {
      "word": "rheumed"
    },
    {
      "word": "bleareyed"
    },
    {
      "word": "bleary-eyed"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "made",
          "make#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "rheum",
          "rheum#English"
        ],
        [
          "thin",
          "thin#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "watery",
          "watery"
        ],
        [
          "discharge",
          "discharge#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "mucus",
          "mucus"
        ],
        [
          "serum",
          "serum"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "rheumatic"
        },
        {
          "word": "rheumic"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First VVeek, or Birth of the VVorld: […].] The Second Daie of the First VVeek.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 28:",
          "text": "So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 12:",
          "text": "The Northern Breath, that freezes Floods, he binds; / VVith all the race of Cloud-diſpelling VVinds: / […] / From his divided Beard tvvo Streams he pours, / His Head and rhumy Eyes diſtill in Shovvers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Procession”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General), pages 144–145:",
          "text": "But were it not curious to know how Sieyes, now in these days (for he is said to be still alive) looks out on all that Constitution masonry, through the rheumy soberness of extreme age?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Robert Dean Frisbie, The Book of Puka-Puka, London: Eland Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 100:",
          "text": "Her lips were clammy, but in her rheumy eyes there still burned the light of a vague desire.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, “Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "[…] Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner’s rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment— […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Jascha Kessler, Rapid Transit: 1948: An Unsentimental Education, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 224:",
          "text": "Awoke calm in the morning, clearheaded. Lungs rheumier than usual, though.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 January 20, Rebeccah Apling, chapter 5, in The Gutenberg Connection, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "Her wizened face beneath straggling gray hair gathered in a bun, held the kindest, but rheumiest of faded blue eyes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Hugh Bonneville, “Hidden on the Hard Drive”, in Playing under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru, New York, N.Y.: Other Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Roll Sound), page 282:",
          "text": "Eventually we'd find a date and we'd meet up, his eyes a little rheumier, his untrained eyebrows even more adventurous than last year.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Producing",
          "produce#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "mucous membrane",
          "mucous membrane"
        ],
        [
          "eyes",
          "eye#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "filled",
          "fill#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "rheumed"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English literary terms",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 116, column 1:",
          "text": "And vvill he ſteale out of his vvholſome bed / To dare the vile contagion of the Night? / And tempt the Rhevvmy, and vnpurged Ayre, / To adde vnto hit^([sic – meaning his]) ſickneſſe?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, signature G, recto:",
          "text": "The reumy vault vvill force your eyes to vveepe, / VVhilſt you behold true deſolation: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Thomas Hardy, “The Royal Academy—The Harefield Estate”, in The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 287:",
          "text": "Avoiding observation as much as they conveniently could, the two sisters walked from the long wooden shed which formed the station here, into the rheumy air and along the road to the open country.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Especially of the air: damp, moist."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "damp",
          "damp#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "moist",
          "moist#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary, poetic, obsolete) Especially of the air: damp, moist."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "obsolete",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹuːmi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹumi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "roomy"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rumi"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːmi"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "räkä-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "kuola-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "rähmä-"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "nyálkás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "nyálka-"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "návlažnet",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "на́влажнет"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "word": "urduros"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "реу̀матски"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "of, relating to, or made of rheum",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "reùmatski"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "lleganyós"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "rähmäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "chassieux"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "wässrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "csipás"
    },
    {
      "code": "nds-de",
      "lang": "Low German",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "tags": [
        "German-Low-German"
      ],
      "word": "wäterig"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gúrelav",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "гу́релав"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "kaprawy"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "surögd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "producing rheum from the mucous membranes; especially of the eyes: filled with rheum — see also watery",
      "word": "molog"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rheumy"
}

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