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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
Efkar The boredom of the soul. A lovely moment, that you need to be so happy, but instead you feel with a deep sorrow. Turkish feeling adverse
Tampo Behaviour in which a person withdraws his or her affection or cheerfulness from a person who has hurt his or her feelings; when you're disappointed with someone yet do not express it directly Tagalog adverse emotion
Han Sorrow, regret, grief, resentment, "a dull ache of the soul", yet passive and not revenge seeking; waiting for the injustice to be righted Korean society persistence adverse
kataṟu (கதறு) Helplessly shaking and crying Tamil action adverse
Nuchshlepper Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on Yiddish awareness adverse persistence
Obhimaan (অভিমান ) Anger, or something close to it, at being upset with a loved one. Abhiman is not anger or sorrow. It is a temporary expression of a feeling about a loved one that he or she is supposed to address. Bengali adverse feeling
Zechpreller A person who leaves a restaurant without paying German adverse action food
Tenyérbemászó Literally "palm crawler"; a face begging to be punched Hungarian funny adverse
Desvelarse To wake up in the middle of the night. Be unable to fall asleep. Spanish event adverse
Sielvartas Literal translation as “soul tumbling” used as grief or resentment Lithuanian adverse thinking emotion
Spätzünder A person who needs a long time to understands sth/ so who makes belated progress of personal development German adverse
poshlost (пошлость) Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" Russian adverse extreme
Schnapsleiche So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") German adverse event friends
Zažitjsja (зажиться) To keep living beyond the point where one feels they would be better off dead Russian death adverse
Lebensmüde Weary of life German adverse life stress
Zgabalj Mixture of all the bad things in the world, combined Serbian adverse society
Sokaiya A man with a few shares in several companies who extorts money by threatening to come to the shareholders' meetings and cause trouble Japanese adverse
Ngaobera A slight inflammation of the throat caused by screaming too much Pascuense adverse action health
Handschuhschneeballwerfer A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance German adverse attribute interaction
Nementia Feeling nervous or anxious in your own skin English feeling adverse
moņ (моң) Sadness; melody; lyricism Bashkir adverse music
Gula Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). Spanish adverse
Avoir la molle A listless unwillingness to do any work French adverse
Koshatnik A dealer in stolen cats Russian adverse character work
Yuputka A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin Ulwa nature adverse




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