Elfin Too!
OK, I have looked through the whole thread, and here is a list of what we have so far, with the dubious words omitted:
A- alluring, appealing, attractive,
B- bewitching,
C- captivating, charismatic, charming,
D- darling, delectable, delightful,
E- enchanting, engaging, entrancing, enticing,
F- fascinating, fetching,
G- glamorous (also glamourous),
H- heartwarming, heavenly,
I- inviting, impeccable,
J- juvenescent,
K- kissable,
L- luring, lithesome,
M- magnetic,
N-
O-
P- pleasing, prepossessing,
Q-
R- radiant, ravishing,
S- seductive
T- tempting,
U-
V- voluptuous,
W- winsome
X-
Y- yummy, youthful,
Z- zesty
As for "Zeldaesque":
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zeldaesque
A- alluring, appealing, attractive,
B- bewitching,
C- captivating, charismatic, charming,
D- darling, delectable, delightful,
E- enchanting, engaging, entrancing, enticing,
F- fascinating, fetching,
G- glamorous (also glamourous),
H- heartwarming, heavenly,
I- inviting, impeccable,
J- juvenescent,
K- kissable,
L- luring, lithesome,
M- magnetic,
N-
O-
P- pleasing, prepossessing,
Q-
R- radiant, ravishing,
S- seductive
T- tempting,
U-
V- voluptuous,
W- winsome
X-
Y- yummy, youthful,
Z- zesty
As for "Zeldaesque":
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zeldaesque
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Good for you, Audi, you obviously see this list
as going somewhere......I would still like Bill O'D
(who started it) to explain his goals, if any.
O - I know this does not fit, but OBERON, is from
'auberon' a Germanic word related to "elf" -this list's theme.
O -perhaps "oneiric", 'of a dreamy quality'.
And thanks for the zelda-esque. Someone must play
video games to come up with that. Zelda must be
some kind of elfish creature in the game. I don't play
so have no frame of reference.
Thanks for your work, however.
as going somewhere......I would still like Bill O'D
(who started it) to explain his goals, if any.
O - I know this does not fit, but OBERON, is from
'auberon' a Germanic word related to "elf" -this list's theme.
O -perhaps "oneiric", 'of a dreamy quality'.
And thanks for the zelda-esque. Someone must play
video games to come up with that. Zelda must be
some kind of elfish creature in the game. I don't play
so have no frame of reference.
Thanks for your work, however.
-----please, draw me a sheep-----
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Elfin redux
Only a few left to go...
Apologia:
In general I'm hostile to neologism, but there are times when it's irresistible, e.g. Slava's Elfin Adjective Challenge.
In keeping with "2. Small and sprightly or mischievous.
3. Having a magical quality or charm; fairylike"
(from thefreedictionary.com):
Xenophilic is meant to convey a tendency to the foreign or exotic.
Yeasty conveys a lightness or evanescence, which, come to think of it, we could add to the list.
Zelda-esque refers of course to American literature's quintessential elfin, Zelda Fitzgerald.
Happy Ball Drop to All !!!
A- alluring, appealing, attractive,
B- bewitching,
C- captivating, charismatic, charming,
D- darling, delectable, delightful,
E- enchanting, engaging, entrancing, enticing, evanescent
F- fascinating, fetching,
G- glamorous (also glamourous),
H- heartwarming, heavenly,
I- inviting, Impeccable
J- juvenescent
K- kissable,
L- luring, lithesome
M- magnetic,
N-
O-
P- pleasing, prepossessing,
Q-
R- radiant, ravishing,
S- seductive
T- tempting,
U-
V- voluptuous,
W- winsome
X- xenophilic
Y- yeasty, yummy, youthful
Z- Zelda-esque, Zesty, Zestful
Apologia:
In general I'm hostile to neologism, but there are times when it's irresistible, e.g. Slava's Elfin Adjective Challenge.
In keeping with "2. Small and sprightly or mischievous.
3. Having a magical quality or charm; fairylike"
(from thefreedictionary.com):
Xenophilic is meant to convey a tendency to the foreign or exotic.
Yeasty conveys a lightness or evanescence, which, come to think of it, we could add to the list.
Zelda-esque refers of course to American literature's quintessential elfin, Zelda Fitzgerald.
Happy Ball Drop to All !!!
A- alluring, appealing, attractive,
B- bewitching,
C- captivating, charismatic, charming,
D- darling, delectable, delightful,
E- enchanting, engaging, entrancing, enticing, evanescent
F- fascinating, fetching,
G- glamorous (also glamourous),
H- heartwarming, heavenly,
I- inviting, Impeccable
J- juvenescent
K- kissable,
L- luring, lithesome
M- magnetic,
N-
O-
P- pleasing, prepossessing,
Q-
R- radiant, ravishing,
S- seductive
T- tempting,
U-
V- voluptuous,
W- winsome
X- xenophilic
Y- yeasty, yummy, youthful
Z- Zelda-esque, Zesty, Zestful
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Creaky, Rickety but Complete
Nice little holiday lark...
Now how many synonyms can we come up with for 'pointless'?
thesaurus.com has
absurd, aimless, around in circles, fruitless, futile, going nowhere, impotent, in vicious circle, inane, inconsequential, ineffective, ineffectual, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, needle in haystack, nongermane, nonsensical, not pertinent, on treadmill, powerless, purportless, remote, silly, stupid, trivial, unavailing, uninteresting, unnecessary, unproductive, unprofitable, useless, vague, vain, worthless
A- alluring, appealing, attractive,
B- bewitching,
C- captivating, charismatic, charming,
D- darling, delectable, delightful,
E- enchanting, engaging, entrancing, enticing, evanescent
F- fascinating, fetching,
G- glamorous (also glamourous),
H- heartwarming, heavenly,
I- inviting, impeccable
J- juvenescent
K- kissable
L- luring, lithesome
M- magnetic
N- nymphal/nymphean. numinous
O- outlandish, obscure, oneiric
P- pleasing, prepossessing,
Q- quirky
R- radiant, ravishing,
S- seductive
T- tempting,
U- uninhibited
V- voluptuous,
W- winsome
X- xenophilic
Y- yeasty, yummy, youthful
Z- Zelda-esque, zesty, zestful
Now how many synonyms can we come up with for 'pointless'?
thesaurus.com has
absurd, aimless, around in circles, fruitless, futile, going nowhere, impotent, in vicious circle, inane, inconsequential, ineffective, ineffectual, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, needle in haystack, nongermane, nonsensical, not pertinent, on treadmill, powerless, purportless, remote, silly, stupid, trivial, unavailing, uninteresting, unnecessary, unproductive, unprofitable, useless, vague, vain, worthless
A- alluring, appealing, attractive,
B- bewitching,
C- captivating, charismatic, charming,
D- darling, delectable, delightful,
E- enchanting, engaging, entrancing, enticing, evanescent
F- fascinating, fetching,
G- glamorous (also glamourous),
H- heartwarming, heavenly,
I- inviting, impeccable
J- juvenescent
K- kissable
L- luring, lithesome
M- magnetic
N- nymphal/nymphean. numinous
O- outlandish, obscure, oneiric
P- pleasing, prepossessing,
Q- quirky
R- radiant, ravishing,
S- seductive
T- tempting,
U- uninhibited
V- voluptuous,
W- winsome
X- xenophilic
Y- yeasty, yummy, youthful
Z- Zelda-esque, zesty, zestful
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Right!
You're absolutely right!
Pointless but fun... a bagatelle!
(bauble, bibelot, bric-a-brac, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, device, embellishment, flummery, frill, furbelow, gadget*, miniature, notion, novelty, objet d'art, ornament, plaything, showpiece, souvenir, thingamajig, toy, trapping, trifle, whatnot, whimsy)
Pointless but fun... a bagatelle!
(bauble, bibelot, bric-a-brac, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, device, embellishment, flummery, frill, furbelow, gadget*, miniature, notion, novelty, objet d'art, ornament, plaything, showpiece, souvenir, thingamajig, toy, trapping, trifle, whatnot, whimsy)
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Perhaps you could do a new Amplified Bible. If you don't know it, it strings together multiple translations in series, so if you don't read the original languages, you can get a better sense of the nuances of the Greek or Hebrew. You could go a step further and amplify the amplified with the thesaurus!
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