- bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative:
he can be a cantankerous old fossil at times.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
Category: Words That Strike My Fancy
- a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned:
the town is a throwback to medieval times, an anachronism that has survived the passing years. - the action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong:
it is anachronism to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
- Christian Theology: belief in a system of historical progression, as revealed in the Bible, consisting of a series of stages in God’s self-revelation and plan of salvation.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
Exclamation
- used to represent the sound of someone crying noisily:
‘boohoo, nobody loves me!’
Verb
- cry noisily:
I managed not to boohoo, even when they crowded around my chair.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
- the distance between a camera lens and the closest object which is in focus when the lens is focused at infinity.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
- relating to or focusing on matters concerning a small community or geographical area:
an app which provides hyperlocal weather forecasts;
Chicago’s leading hyperlocal news source;
consumers demand content that is highly personalized and hyperlocal.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
: (especially in prehistoric times) a person who lived in a cave.
- a hermit.
- a person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned
— Oxford Dictionary of English
transitive verb
- to bring back to the level of conscious awareness : [remember] trying to recollect the name
- to remind (oneself) of something temporarily forgotten
intransitive verb
- to call something to mind
— Merriam-Webster
- (of online content, merchandise, information, etc) selected, organized, and presented using professional knowledge:
- individuals still desire curated news content
- a curated alternative to the world’s most popular video portal.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
- the science of measuring time
- the art of making instruments for indicating time