Finnish–English dictionary

ylemmäs

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface. [first attested before 1150]

ylemmyys

High importance; superiority.

ylempänä

Higher in rank, power, or position. [first attested around 1150–1350]

ylempänä (oleva)

(by ellipsis) Being located higher on the same page or on a preceding page. [first attested in the mid 18th century.]

ylempi

Superior in rank.

ylen

To a great or unusual degree, extent, etc.; extremely

ylenkatse

(uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

ylenkatseellinen

Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.

ylenkatsoa

(transitive, idiom) To regard or treat as inferior.

ylenmääräinen

Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

ylennetty nuotti

(music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.

ylennys

An advancement in rank or position.

ylenpalttinen

Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

ylenpalttisuus

An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

ylensyödä

(transitive, intransitive, often with on) To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol or media consumption.

ylensyönti

The vice of eating to excess.

ylensyönyt

Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking.

ylentää

To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. [from 14th c.]

yletä

(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

yletön

Exceeding the usual bounds of something; too much (of amount); extravagant; immoderate.

yletön määrä

(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.

ylettää

(transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

ylettömyys

The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.

ylettyä

(transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

ylevä

Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.

ylevöittää

To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

ylhäällä

In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream. [first attested around 1150–1350]

ylhäällä mastossa

(nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

ylhäinen

Of, pertaining to, or favouring, an aristocracy

ylhäisyys

(used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.

yli

More in number. [first attested around 1350–1470]

yli nollan

Above zero; above freezing. [first attested in the mid 20th century.]

yli-

over, above

yli-ihminen

(chiefly, philosophy) An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development; an übermensch, an overman. [from 1903.]

yli-ikäinen

Obsolete, antiquated.

yli-inhimillinen

Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

yliääni-

(of a speed, aviation) Equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, five times the speed of sound.

yliääninen

(of a speed) Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).

yliääninopeuksinen

(of a speed) Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).

yliajatella

To think or analyze too much.

yliaktiivinen

having an increased state of activity

yliampuva

Egregiously; beyond compare.

yliannos

An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

yliarvioida

To judge or calculate too highly.

yliarviointi

Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

yliarvostaa

To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.

yliarvostettu

Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity.

yliaste

(grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).

ylienkeli

A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).

yliherkkyys

(medicine) A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor.

ylihinta

An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.

ylihintainen

Priced higher than its real worth.

ylihoitaja

A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.

ylijäämä

An excess, too much.

ylijäämäpala

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

ylikansallinen

Beyond the borders or scope of any one nation.

ylikansoitus

The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.

ylikäytävä

A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.

ylikierrokset

(uncountable, figurative) A state of heightened activity.

ylikierroksilla käyvä

(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

ylikriittinen

(physics) heated above the critical point

ylikulku

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, Philippines) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.

ylikulkupaikka

A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.

ylikulkusilta

A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.

ylikuorma

An excessive load.

ylikuormasuoja

(engineering) A mechanical cutout device.

ylikuormata

(intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

ylikuormittaa

(transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.

ylikuormittua

(intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

ylikuormitus

An excessive load.

ylikuuma

Heated above the boiling point

ylikuumeneminen

A condition of being overheated.

ylikuumennettu

Heated above the boiling point

ylikuumennut

Heated above the boiling point

ylikuumentaa

(transitive) To heat excessively.

ylikuumentua

(intransitive) To become excessively hot.

ylikuumeta

(intransitive) To become excessively hot.

ylikypsä

Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.

ylilämmittää

(transitive) To heat excessively.

ylilämpö

A condition of being overheated.

ylilento

(US) A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.

yliluonnollinen

Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.

yliluonnollinen olento

(countable) A supernatural being

ylilyönti

An unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.

ylimaallinen

Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

ylimaallisuus

(uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.

ylimäärä

The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.

ylimääräinen

Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory. [from 1550s]

ylimääräinen liitos

(Britain, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.

ylimääräinen numero

A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.

ylimainonta

(marketing) Promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims.

ylimainostaa

(transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

ylimalkainen

Vague or unclear.

ylimatruusi

(nautical) A seaman, especially one in the merchant navy, who has been trained or certified in all routine duties; a member of the Royal Navy rated between ordinary seaman and leading seaman or boatswain's mate.

ylimielinen

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

ylimielisesti

Without sympathy; unfavorably.

ylimielisyys

(usually, in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.

ylimiettiä

To think or analyze too much.

ylimys

One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).

ylimyynti

(commerce, finance) The practice of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess.

ylin

Superior in rank.

ylin johto

(archaic) The highest level of political leadership.

ylinopeuden ajaminen

(uncountable) Driving faster than the legal speed limit.

ylinopeus

Speed that exceeds a reasonable or permitted rate.

ylinopeutta ajava

Travelling very fast; moving at speed.

ylinumeroituva

(mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

yliolkaisuus

Indifference, unconcern; carelessness; coolness; disregard, detachment.

yliopisto

Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

yliopisto-opiskelija

A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

yliopistollinen

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. [from late 16th century]

yliopistomaailma

(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. [from 1956]

yliopistoon kirjoittautuminen

Enrollment in a college or university.

yliopistosta valmistunut

A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

ylioppilas

(US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.

yliote

(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

ylipäänsä

Generally; with everything considered.

ylipääsemätön

Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable

ylipaino

(pathology) The state of being obese.

ylipainoinen

Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

ylipalvelija

(UK, historical) Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household. [from 19th c.]

ylireagoida

To react too much or too intensely.

ylistää

(transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner.

ylistäen

In a high or esteemed manner.

ylistävä

Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.

ylistävästi

In a high or esteemed manner.

ylistys

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

ylistys-

Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.

ylistyslaulu

Hymn of praise.

ylistyspuhe

(rhetoric) A general category of oratory.

ylisuojeleva

excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children)

ylitäyttää

To fill beyond capacity or beyond what is appropriate.

ylitse

From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.

ylitsepääsemätön

Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable

ylitsevuotava

Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

ylitsevuotavainen

In excess of what is required or sufficient.

ylittää

(transitive) To surpass or outdo.

ylittää este

(intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.

ylittää rajoitus

(computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.

ylittää tarjous

(transitive) To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction.

ylittää tärkeydessä

(transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).

ylittäminen

A voyage across a body of water.

ylityö

(uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.

ylityökorvaus

(uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.

ylityöllistetty

Subjected to too much work.

ylitys

A voyage across a body of water.

ylivaihde

(dated, automotive) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the traditional top gear, mainly to allow better fuel economy at highway speeds. In the 21st century, such gears are no longer viewed as "extra" and thus rarely called by this name.

ylivalta

Power over all others.

ylivarovainen

Excessively careful; cautious.

ylivertainen

(frequently, postpositive) Unequalled, unrivalled; unique. [from 15th c.]

ylivertaisuus

That which is intellectually, morally, or spiritually superior in human life or human nature.