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Nimby can be an acronym, an adjective or a noun.
nimby used as an adjective:
- Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.
"Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
nimby used as a noun:
- Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.
"politically correct green (as in vegetation) nimbies (may object to nuclear power plants, polluting factories, etc.)"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is nimby?
- Adjective usage: Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.
- Noun usage: politically correct green (as in vegetation) nimbies (may object to nuclear power plants, polluting factories, etc.)
- Noun usage: socially conservative brown (as in shirts) nimbies (may object to the building of jails, prisons, housing for ex-convicts, drinking or adult entertainment establishments)
- Noun usage: fiscally conservative green (as in money) nimbies (may object to the building of anything which may decrease preexisting property values)
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of nimby are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of nimby, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
