pedantic

pedantic (adj)

1. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

2. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

3. Often used to describe a person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary; ostentatious in one’s learning.

4. Being finicky or picky with language.

sanguine

sanguine (adj)

1. (color) Having the color of blood; red.

2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.

3. Warm; ardent.

4. Anticipating the best; not despondent; confident; full of hope.

5. (Obsolete): irresponsibly mirthful; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.

sanguine (n)

1. (colour) Blood color; red.

2. Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.

3. Bloodstone.

4. Red crayon.

sanguine (vt)

1. To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

lilliputian

lilliputian (adj)

1. Very small, diminutive.

2. Trivial, petty.

lilliputian (n)

A very small person or being.

eleemosynary

eleemosynary (adj)

1. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity.

2. Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.

3. Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.

bellicose

bellicose (adj)

1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

anthropomorphic

anthropomorphic (adj)

1. (of inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human entities) Given human attributes.

amative

amative (adj)

1. Pertaining to love; amorous.

boustrophedon

boustrophedon (adv)

1. Of writing, in a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right every line.

boustrophedon (adj)

1. Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

2. (figurative) Changing direction, going back and forth.

algedonic

algedonic (adj)

1. Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.

indelible

indelible (adj)

1. Having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.

2. Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.

3. Incapable of being annulled.

roborant

roborant (adj)

1. Invigorating, strengthening, or energizing.

excarnate

excarnate (adj)

1. Deprived of flesh.

excarnate (vt)

1. To deprive of flesh.

abrogate

abrogate (adj)

1. (obsolete) Abrogated; abolished.

abrogate (vt)

1. To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.

2. To put an end to; to do away with.

affine

affine (adj)

1. (mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities.

2. (mathematics) Describing a function expressible as f(x)=ax+b (which is not linear, but is similar).

2. Of or pertaining to a transformation that maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points.

affine (n)

1. (genealogy) A relative by marriage.

affine (vt)

1. To refine.

heuristic

heuristic (adj)

1. Pertaining to how something is discovered.

heuristic (n) (plural heuristics)
1. Any method found through discovery and observation.

2. A method known to produce incorrect or inexact results at times but likely to produce correct or sufficiently exact results when applied in commonly occurring conditions.

diacaustic

diacaustic (adj)

1. Relating to the caustic curves formed by the refraction of light.

diacaustic (n)

1. A refracting lens, which can be used to cauterise.

2. The curve or surface formed by the intersection of refracted light rays.

dioptric

dioptric (adj)

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to a diopter.

2. Acting as a medium for sight; making use of refraction (of lenses, etc.).

3. (obsolete) Capable of being seen through.


dioptric (n)

1. (in plural) The branch of optics concerned with refraction.

2. A dioptric telescope.

insuperable

insuperable (adj)

1. Impossible to achieve or overcome or be negotiated.

2. Overwhelming or insurmountable.

indomitable

indomitable (adj)

1. Impossible to subdue or overcome or vanquish.

leet

leet (adj)

1. Of or related to leetspeak.

2. Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.

3. Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.

4. Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.

leet (n)

1. (Scottish) A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office.

2. (British obsolete) a regular court in which the certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.

3. (zoology) The European pollock.

4. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of leetspeak.

leet (vt)

1. (obsolete) Imperfect of let (to allow).