Elfin Too!

[Audiendus]

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

[LukeJavan8]

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.

[wsodonnell2]

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

[Slava]

How's about nymphal/nymphean for N?

[Perry Lassiter]

Uninhibited, unless elves' miscievousness is somehow inhibited.

[LukeJavan8]

N - slava, above,
or "numinous"

[wsodonnell2]

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

[LukeJavan8]

A word game.....and I enjoyed it. I would not call it
"pointless", just an exercise and one which fulfilled
a sort of holiday fun.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BE IT ELFIN OR HUMAN, TO ALL.

[wsodonnell2]

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)

[LukeJavan8]

You seem delightful: a walking thesaurus.
Do you do this in conversation or just here?
Great for parties ! !

[Perry Lassiter]

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!

[LukeJavan8]

Good idea PL. I like it.

[Perry Lassiter]

It's a bit tongue in cheek. I've heard many laity comment they looked up such and such a word in Webster's, which can be very misleading. For example, "patience" in KJV would most often be better translated "endurance."

[LukeJavan8]

That's where a "concordance" especially one with
definitions, would be most apopros. I have several.

[Perry Lassiter]

Concordances with definitions are good.