| figurative |
| 1. adj. Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs". | |
| 2. adj. Metaphorically so called. | |
| 3. adj. With many figures of speech. | |
| 4. adj. Emblematic; representative | |
| worthless |
| 1. adj. Not having worth and use, without value, inconsequential. | |
| Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless. | |
| The committee's decision is worthless and not going to be acted upon. | |
| Don't be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| trivial |
| 1. adj. Ignorable; of little significance or value. | |
| 2. adj. Commonplace, ordinary. | |
| 3. adj. Concerned with or involving trivia. | |
| 4. adj. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic. | |
| 5. adj. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case. | |
| 6. adj. (mathematics) Self-evident. | |
| 7. adj. Pertaining to the trivium. | |
| 8. adj. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. | |
| matter |
| 1. n. Substance, material. | |
| 2. n. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume. | |
| 3. n. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter). | |
| 4. n. A kind of substance. | |
| vegetable matter | |
| 5. n. Written material (especially in books or magazines). | |
| printed matter; He always took some reading matter with him on the plane. | |
| 6. n. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substa | |
| 7. n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern. | |
| What's the matter?; state matters | |
| 8. n. An approximate amount or extent. | |
| I stayed for a matter of months. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing. | |
| 11. n. (dated) Pus. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To be important. | |
| The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich. | |
| Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important. | |
| 14. v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. | |
