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you must realize that in English there are many possible additions to words in the standard lexicon; nearly any word can take suffixes or prefixes altering its meaning, intenseness, part of speech, &c. &c. The number of possible permutations is nearly unlimited. Therefore most dictionaries and reference works do not contain entries for many words which are, strictly speaking, allowable in standard English; words which do not usually, but may conceivably, have additions like -ish, -ment, -ness, -ly, -liest and so forth. For a reference work (or website) to omit such entries is not a failing. It is your responsibility as an informed reader or student to deduce any definitions that may be missing in such cases from the combined definitions of the base word and the combining form/suffix/prefix/whatever (or seek out a more comprehensive reference, such as the OED or another unabridged dictionary). Please do feel free to add comments here offering any such deductions, under the word's entry as you have been doing, but comments in a continuous stream expressing surprise that this or that bizarre term is "missing," may become wearisome to others who are viewing them all over the Community page.
Also it helps if you ensure you are spelling the word correctly.
July 21, 2013
