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adj
Remiss, lax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: at fault, blameworthy, neglectful, negligent, reprehensible
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Relaxed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: airy, at ease, at peace, carefree, careless, casual, chill, cool, devil-may-care, easy-breezy, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, indifferent, insouciant, laid-back, leisurely, lighthearted, loose, mellow, nonchalant, pococurante, relaxed, serene, solute, tranquil, unanxious, unbothered, unconcerned, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, unworried, wanton, calm, steady, collected, composed, cool-headed, equable, equanimous, equanimitable, even-keeled, even-minded, even-tempered, imperturbable, level-headed, pacate, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, quiescent, quiet, roolie, sedate, still, unexcited, unfazed, unflappable, unflustered, unperturbable, unruffable, untumultuous
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Soft, watery, wet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: spongy, squidgy, bewatered, damp, drenched, dripping, drunk, humid, irriguous, madid, moist, moisty, overwatered, plashy, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy, soppy, spewy, thoan, thone, undried, watered, waterlogged, watery, wet, wetter than an otter's pocket, wiery
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Excellent, wonderful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ulster
Synonyms: ace, admirable, amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, badass, bang on, bang-up, studly, based, beatific, beneship, bitching, blissful, bomb, brilliant, bully, celestial, cher, choice, chronic, chur, cock on, commendable, cool, copacetic, crackerjack, cushty, dank, def, delightful, divine, dope, epic, excellent, exceptional, exemplary, exquisite, extraordinary, fab, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantastic, fierce, finger-lickin' good, fire, fireball, first-rate, fly, frabjous, glorious, gnarly, goated, great, grouse, heavenlike, heavenly, immaculate, impeccable, incredible, kick-ass, kicking, killer, lash, lautitious, lit, magnificent, marvelous, nang, outstanding, out of sight, phat, peak, peng, phenomenal, pog, poggers, priceless, pukka, quality, rad, radical, remarkable, rum, sensational, sick, slap-up, slick, spectacular, spiffing, splendid, spot on, stellar, sterling, stunning, super, superb, superior, sweet, swell, terrific, tight, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, topping, tubular, tuff, well-done, wicked, wicked pissah, wonderful, worldie
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Drunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Acronym of lighter-aboard-ship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An attempt; a go at something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, informal
Synonyms: bash
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: engineering, machining, mechanical, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Synonyms: backlash, play, lost motion
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: berate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To ply the whip; to strike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To strike vigorously; to let fly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: whip, whiplash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blow
noun
leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: thong
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leather strip
noun
any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: eyelash, cilium
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hair
verb
bind with a rope, chain, or cord
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unlash
Broader terms: tie, bind
Narrower terms: frap
verb
strike as if by whipping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: whip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: strike
Narrower terms: urticate
verb
beat severely with a whip or rod
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flog, welt, whip, lather, slash, strap, trounce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: beat, beat up, work over
Narrower terms: flagellate, scourge, leather, horsewhip, switch, cowhide, cat, birch
verb
lash or flick about sharply
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: swing, sway
History
From Old French lasche (French lâche).
From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”). Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”).
Across languages
103 source translations are retained for this English entry.
