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- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Luftmensch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 807
Luftmensch
• luftmensch • Pronunciation: luft -mench • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. An airhead, a contemplative person whose head is in the clouds and has little if any idea of practical matters, like earning a living. 2. A petty tradesman, peddler, unsuccessful businessperson. Notes: Today's wor...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Prestige
- Replies: 3
- Views: 315
Prestige
• prestige • Pronunciation: pres- teezh • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural) Meaning: High level of respect, importance, great influence, high standing in the eyes of others, commanding position. Notes: Here is a French word copied by English so recently (early 19th century) that the F...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Contrary
- Replies: 1
- Views: 149
Contrary
• contrary • Pronunciation: kahn -trer-ri • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Opposed, counter, extremely divergent. 2. Willful, perverse, tending to be far away from general behavior. Notes: This word is often confused with opposite. Opposite refers to things that are altogether diffe...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Egoist
- Replies: 2
- Views: 225
Egoist
• egoist • Pronunciation: ee -go-ist • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Someone who is conceited, self-centered, wrapped up in him- or herself; a person with an inflated ego. 2. A person who subscribes to the theory of egoism, the philosophy that self-interest is the basis of all morality....
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dehiscent
- Replies: 1
- Views: 172
Dehiscent
• dehiscent • Pronunciation: dee- hi -sênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Gaping open, wide open. 2. (Botany) Bursting open at ripening to allow seeds to escape, as 'a plant with dehiscent pods'. Notes: Today's word is the adjective from the verb dehisce "to gape or burst ope...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Continual
- Replies: 0
- Views: 465
Continual
• continual • Pronunciation: kên- tin -yu-êl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Repeated over a long period of time, continuing at intervals. Notes: Continual is often confused with continuous . However, the meanings of these two words differ significantly and they cannot be used correct...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bathos
- Replies: 1
- Views: 401
Bathos
• bathos • Pronunciation: bay -thos • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass Meaning: The major dictionaries fail to agree on the meanings of today's word, but they seem to hover about these: 1. Lowest depth, bottom. 2. A dramatic or ludicrous fall from the exalted to the ordinary. 3. Banality, triten...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Flourish
- Replies: 3
- Views: 273
Flourish
• flourish • Pronunciation: flê -rish • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb, noun Meaning: 1. To grow luxuriantly, thrive. 2. To prosper, blossom, succeed excessively, to fare extremely well. 3. To make bold, sweeping movement, brandish, wave boldly. 4. (Noun) A decorative frill, ostentatiously ornamenta...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ad-lib
- Replies: 0
- Views: 393
Ad-lib
• ad-lib • Pronunciation: æd-lib • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective, adverb, verb, noun Meaning: 1. (Adjective, adverb) Impromptu, spontaneous, as one pleases without preparation. 2. (Verb) To speak or otherwise present spontaneously, without preparation. 3. (Noun) Anything spoken or played spont...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: President
- Replies: 0
- Views: 342
President
• president • Pronunciation: pre -zê-dênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A person elected or appointed to preside over an organization, the highest ranking member of a management team, as 'the president of the New York Stock Exchange'. 2. The chief officer of the executive branch of a ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Abrogate
- Replies: 6
- Views: 295
Abrogate
• abrogate • Pronunciation: æb -rê-gayt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb, transitive Meaning: 1. To repeal, annul, cancel, or abolish something, such as a law. 2. To obviate, do away with, put an end to. Notes: This word has a large and happy family. The person who abrogates is an abrogator who carr...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Vulgar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 217
Vulgar
• vulgar • Pronunciation: vêl -gêr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Of the unwashed masses, plebian, related to common people, the riff-raff, the hoi-polloi. 2. Common, base, ordinary. 3. Bawdy, foul, immodest, immoral, impure, indecent, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lice...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Rivalrous
- Replies: 0
- Views: 364
Rivalrous
• rivalrous • Pronunciation: rai -vêl-rês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: Related to rivalry, competitive, adversariality. Notes: Today's is a word whose infrequent usage belies its beauty. It is the adjective of rivalry, which reflects the attitudes of rivals. Rival may be used as a verb,...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dust-up
- Replies: 1
- Views: 317
Dust-up
• dust-up • Pronunciation: dê -stêp • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: A quarrel, a fight, a fracas. Notes: Today's Good Word is a derived noun consisting of dust and up. Usually, such nouns from verbs with prepositions come from verbs with the same prepositions, e.g. sit-in comes from the ve...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Amorous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 163
Amorous
• amorous • Pronunciation: æm -ê-rês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Filled with love, in love, expressing love—anything having to do with romantic love. Notes: Yes, tomorrow is the day of love, St. Valentine's Day. We cannot let the occasion pass without acknowledgement. Amorous is t...