What's the most pretentious word you can think of? I'll start. >erstwhile

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Anonymous Wed Mar 23 20:50:53 2022 No.20110658 [Reply] [Original]

What's the most pretentious word you can think of?

I'll start.
>erstwhile

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 20:51:36 2022 No.20110663 Perchance.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 20:54:32 2022 No.20110674 >>20110658 lugubrious

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 20:55:17 2022 No.20110675 If abbreviations count than it is OP.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 20:55:34 2022 No.20110677 Anfractous

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 20:56:09 2022 No.20110678 >>20110658 Verisimilitude

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:01:47 2022 No.20110700 Autochthonous

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:08:17 2022 No.20110722 >>20110678 >>20110700 How the fuck does someone learn these words and how could you ever use it correctly without looking like a giant pseud.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:09:34 2022 No.20110727 >>20110722 I'm French

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:19:00 2022 No.20110751 Gravitas

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:29:36 2022 No.20110799 Orgiastic

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:38:36 2022 No.20110838 Diaphanous

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:43:24 2022 No.20110865 Precipitously

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:45:39 2022 No.20110874 Sesquipedalian

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:46:53 2022 No.20110878 >>20110658 >to "unpack" something

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:48:27 2022 No.20110891 >>20110678 this one is useful

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 21:57:52 2022 No.20110934 Vicissitudes

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:00:07 2022 No.20110945 Legerdemain

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:09:09 2022 No.20110977 >Ackshually... Inb4 thread over

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:14:16 2022 No.20110990 indubitably

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:14:49 2022 No.20110991 >>20110658 Athwart Whilst Methinks Splendiferous Heretofore

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:18:43 2022 No.20111006 >>20110658 HOwEvER.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:22:19 2022 No.20111025 Oeuvre

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:25:32 2022 No.20111038 >>20110674 >>>20110658 damn came here to post this

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:49:27 2022 No.20111133 >>20110658 Countenance, Beckoned.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:52:17 2022 No.20111145 Hitherto, Here in.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:52:40 2022 No.20111146 >>20110722 College, niche internet communities

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 22:55:23 2022 No.20111157 >>20110700 Allocthonous

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 23:00:08 2022 No.20111176 zeitgeist

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:04:42 2022 No.20111423 >>20110663 fpbp

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:06:00 2022 No.20111430 Euphoric

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:07:25 2022 No.20111439 Dialectic

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:11:46 2022 No.20111458 >>20111133 What's wrong with countenance? What word would you use instead?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:12:47 2022 No.20111461 >>20111133 and what would you use instead of beckon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:28:34 2022 No.20111512 I see absolutely nothing pretentious in any of the words listed so far.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:29:29 2022 No.20111514 >>20110658 African American

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 00:30:14 2022 No.20111516 Milieu

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:05:19 2022 No.20111635 >>20110990 >>20111439 winners

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:11:53 2022 No.20111657 I think its a cool concept and having a word for it is good but when i was at my uni town someone used “ouroboros” in conversation. I thought to myself damn i gotta get back into the real world

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:21:49 2022 No.20111681 >>20110663 You can't just say "perchance".

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:30:06 2022 No.20111709 Obliged

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:33:14 2022 No.20111718 nonesomuch

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:33:22 2022 No.20111719 Quite

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 01:57:52 2022 No.20111772 >>20110663 >>20111681 christ, I knew this exact exchange would be here when I saw this thread in the catalog, I need to use the internet less

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 02:02:01 2022 No.20111785 >>20110658 whilst >>20110991 this nigga gets it

Sage Thu Mar 24 02:12:00 2022 No.20111814
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>>20110658
I don’t think it’s pretentious I just hate the word “to wax”
It doesn’t make sense. When I think of wax I think of a candle and candle wax melts. Why is it when something waxes it increases?? It’s odd and counterintuitive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 02:13:17 2022 No.20111818 >>20111814 Sorry didn’t mean to sage, I was in a call of the crocodile thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 02:17:50 2022 No.20111829 I hate the word animadversion. Sounds like some portmanteau even Joyce wouldn’t have used because it sounds so stupid

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 02:21:10 2022 No.20111839 People who use pretentious are stupid. They use a fancy ass word to bitch about fancy ass words.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 03:19:42 2022 No.20111996 >>20110991 athwart is a legitmare nautical term

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 03:40:52 2022 No.20112056 >>20110658 Lackadaisical

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 03:48:38 2022 No.20112075 >>20110658 Circumlocution, of course.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 03:49:43 2022 No.20112076 >>20111006 Are you an esl?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 03:50:59 2022 No.20112084 >>20110722 I read books occasionally

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 03:51:32 2022 No.20112085 >>20110700 Common vernacular where I live

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 04:46:52 2022 No.20112263 File: 26 KB, 471x628, 387378.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20110658 >>20111133 >Erstwhile he deigned not countenance being beckoned, notwithstanding the erumpent and pulchritudinous booba

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 04:59:46 2022 No.20112327 >>20112263 Ah, you present the timeworn tale of recalcitrant concupiscence.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 04:59:49 2022 No.20112328 >>20110658 >Intersectionality >hirsute >opprobrium >unctuous >anodyne >sanguine >perambulation >Non-Ergodic and the absolute worst of all. The perfectly pretentious word in that it is all pretense and no substance: >Empowerment

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 05:03:11 2022 No.20112341 Serendipitous, only people that need to take their meds use serendipitous

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 05:11:35 2022 No.20112372 File: 2.76 MB, 500x348, JobDone.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20112327 Astute apprehension pertaining to the problematic petrifying of private parts, my fellow anonymous interlocutor

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 06:22:23 2022 No.20112630 >>20110658 >whilst There was no need to revive this word, Brits. While does the job just fine, and doesn't look and sound as ugly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 06:24:25 2022 No.20112638 Women

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 06:27:34 2022 No.20112651 >>20110674 BITCH BITCH I'M MOROSE AND LUGUBRIOUS IMMA LET THE UZI SPIT TURN HIS FACE INTO GOOEY SHIT

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 06:30:02 2022 No.20112657 I'm so horny I could fuck a horse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 08:49:16 2022 No.20113055 brevis

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 09:54:05 2022 No.20113261 Gestalt

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:03:00 2022 No.20113289 >>20111439 kek I wasn't expecting to see this word here but after reading it I couldn't help from laughing my ass off.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:08:11 2022 No.20113308 'reified'

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:13:29 2022 No.20113317 File: 882 KB, 680x713, 1599991693796.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I use most of these words, without irony.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:14:22 2022 No.20113320 >>20110658 kitsch

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:14:48 2022 No.20113323 Perspicacity

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:17:48 2022 No.20113338 Ignominious

Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:18:40 2022 No.20113342

>>20110658
In brevis, I have reified the Gestalt. Whilst serendipitous, lackadaisical circumlocutions have quite obliged, nonesomuch as the African American milieu, in the zeitgeist of euphoric dialectic, hitherto beckoned allocthonusly. However indubitably Legerdemain vicissitudes precipitously fell in sesquipedalian and diaphanous, orgiastic similitude of gravitas. Lugubrious and anfractous, perchance.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 10:19:58 2022 No.20113349 >>20111657 Aurora Borealis?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 15:55:16 2022 No.20114731 >>20113342 10/10 prose.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 15:56:30 2022 No.20114741 parsimonious

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:06:42 2022 No.20114800 >>20112085 Dutch?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:44:40 2022 No.20114962 >>20110700 >>20110722 >>20110678 Use them in a mild ironic context: >refer to africans as the autochthonous population >kebab as autochthonous dinner in Paris

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:47:31 2022 No.20114979 >>20113342 Sounds like the Finnegans Wake

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:53:47 2022 No.20115004 >>20110700 We use this as much as anglos use 'indigenous' in modern greek.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:28:52 2022 No.20115137 >>20110658 Not one word but I hate when socialists say >Status quo

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:47:22 2022 No.20115205 >>20110658 summer as a verb

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:52:06 2022 No.20115227 >>20110678 >>20110700 American hands typed this

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 18:34:08 2022 No.20115351 >>20110658 Whomst've:ve

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 18:35:29 2022 No.20115357 Per.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 19:26:52 2022 No.20115549 >>20110658 "Please", especially when used in a non fiction work

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 19:29:55 2022 No.20115557 Any word that is used in place of another word or expression with less ambiguous meaning.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 19:55:08 2022 No.20115661 >>20110658 >utterly I fucking hate that word thanks to my classmates in college. Close second tho: >merely I will sew your asshole closed and feed you nothing but cabbage

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 19:56:14 2022 No.20115666 Vainglorious Approbation

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 21:59:04 2022 No.20116152 >>20111133 Both of those are fine

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 22:47:43 2022 No.20116324 >>20110658 Bourgeoisie

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 22:49:45 2022 No.20116334 File: 33 KB, 657x527, 1648104159139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 22:49:53 2022 No.20116335 File: 281 KB, 640x480, RDT_20220219_1007023034602846182208514.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20110663

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 22:50:45 2022 No.20116337 >>20110663 Peradventure

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 22:51:15 2022 No.20116339 Ostensibly

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 22:52:46 2022 No.20116345 File: 195 KB, 602x378, asfa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >née

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 00:09:49 2022 No.20116562 File: 90 KB, 794x668, b11.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Hencewhile, Jeremy quizzed the captain uponst wherehaps we might demburse some currency and sinceby progain some lodgings for the fortnight.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 00:23:36 2022 No.20116604 >>20110700 nah

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 00:41:57 2022 No.20116675 Dimatoid

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