| pejorative |
| 1. adj. Disparaging, belittling or derogatory. | |
| 2. n. A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression. | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| grossly |
| 1. adv. In a gross manner; without delicacy. | |
| 2. adv. (archaic) Roughly; approximately; inexactly; sketchily. | |
| inferior |
| 1. adj. of lower quality | |
| Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades. | |
| 2. adj. of lower rank | |
| an inferior officer | |
| 3. adj. located below | |
| 4. adj. (typography) Printed in subscript. | |
| an inferior figure or letter | |
| 5. adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx. | |
| 6. adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior. | |
| 7. adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is. | |
| the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus | |
| 8. adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon. | |
| the inferior part of a meridian | |
| 9. n. a person of lower stature to another | |
| As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want. | |
| imitation |
| 1. n. The act of imitating. | |
| 2. n. (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing. | |
| imitation leather | |
