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Post your top 3 favorite words. Define them too, if you want.

transmogrify: process of transformation or metamorphosis

pugnacious: eager to fight or cause conflict

phantasmagorical: something created by the imagination; changing or shifting subjects; an optical illusion

>> No.4126178

>>4126177
"`ayb"?

>> No.4126179

Miasmic
Mephitic
Mellifluous

>> No.4126180

just discovered transmogrify in Midnight's Children, great word

Thoroughly

And (when it starts a sentence)

Space

>> No.4126187

Malevolent
Aether
Boorish

>> No.4126210

Betwixt
Venerable
antediluvian

>> No.4126225

only have one: t'wasn't

>> No.4126227

>>4126210

Dat anteliuvian

>> No.4126229

truculence
pugnacity
belligerence

>> No.4126243

>>4126177
Convergence
Intergration (the mathematical function definition)
Infinitesimal

>> No.4126261

I don't have 3 immediately at hand. I feel dumb

>> No.4126270

Megan

love

Boobs

>> No.4126272

Love
Metempsychosis
Yes

>> No.4126280

magniloquent
redolent
vicissitude

>> No.4126295

>>4126227

Done fucked up.

>> No.4126302

'pataphor

acquiescence

fuck

>> No.4126311

Myriad
Transcend
Conflagration

>> No.4126380

>>4126243
*integration

>> No.4126426

mendicant
pontificate
ointment

>> No.4126448

Callipygian - having a great ass

Usufruct - the right of using someone's else property as long as you don't waste/destroy it. (Definition isn't cook, but the word sounds awesome)

Sixths - four consecutive, consonant phonemes. Good luck pronouncing it perfectly.

>> No.4126472

petrichor
arbitrary
majestic

>> No.4126513

nubile
poignant
tumescent

>> No.4126538

structure is my favorite word

>> No.4126543

Only have one also; Zany

>> No.4126544
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4126544

shore
perish
doppelganger

>> No.4126547

The words don't have to be English right?

秀: handsome and refined (Chinese)

feu: Fire (French)

Sobre: Lets roll! (Spanish)

>> No.4126552

>>4126547
wow! so eclectic! you're totally cool!!!!!

It doesn't look at all like you purposefully sampled from different languages.

>No, it's just so happens my three favorite words are from three languages not English.

Uh-huh.

Tell me, where does "sobre" mean "let's roll!"? Which country, I mean?

>> No.4126654

>>4126552
easy now, guy

>> No.4126666
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4126666

White

Pride

Worldwide

>> No.4126668
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4126668

tits
ass
pussy

>> No.4126672

>>4126177
Spiraling
Crescent
Symphony

It could work for an anime-tier technique.

>> No.4126673

>>4126552
trying too hard

>> No.4127807

>>4126552
y u so fuck you?

>> No.4127810

cadence, perpicacious, vast.

>> No.4128175

entropy
enigma
forlorn

>> No.4128179

cerulean
precipice
timbre

>> No.4128188
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4128188

>>4126243
>your favorite word not being homeomorphism

>> No.4128189

>>4126547
>sobre: let's roll
What the fuck? Sobre means "on" most of the time or "envelope" if it's a noun...

>> No.4128190

aghast
wisp
aether

>> No.4128192

>>4126280
Are you sure you're not thinking of grandiloquent? Magniloquent is a nice neologism, although its purpose is already served by grandiloquent.

>> No.4128195

>>4126302

"'pataphor." NOICE.

>> No.4128198

serendipitous
effulgence
lacuna

>> No.4128201

syzygy: A word with no vowels, plus it's fun to pronounce

I'm a sucker for compound words in general. (goose-fed, knock-kneed, you get the idea)

parse is a nice word.

turpitude can be fun once in a while.

>> No.4128220

Glide
Hiraeth
Ham-fisted

>> No.4128223

pinto
caralho
porra

>> No.4128225

As a non-native English speaker i have always loved the onomatopoeic verbs. I also think that some English compound words sound very cool

So my top English words would be
>splash
>footstep, bloodshed
>tangerine

And my favourite word is probably pinpilinpauxa which means butterfly in basque

>> No.4128228

>>4126180
did you never read calvin and hobbes?

>> No.4128231
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4128231

>>4126177
fling
sprinkling
vagina

>> No.4128233

>>4126177
implying
feels
patrician

>> No.4128234

Although this is kind of a pretentious thing to do:

Grit
Marinate
Normalize

>> No.4128235

Goodly
Profligate
Antediluvian

>> No.4128239

>>4128225
>pinpilinpauxa

Beautiful. Butterfly seems to be a great word in several languages because I'm also partial to papillon, the french word for butterfly.

>> No.4128432

Agerasia- youthful appearance in an old person
Limerence- an involuntary state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated
Schadenfreude: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others

Not really 3 favorites, but they're high up there.
Their.

>> No.4128438

And
But
So

>> No.4128517

Hypocrisy
Always
Thus

>> No.4128523

Plow
Run
Strive

>> No.4128551
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4128551

Asymptote
Paragon
Pariah

>> No.4128569

OP
A
Fag

>> No.4128570

It's quite interesting on this thread how a lot of people have preferences for words that have similar sounds or portions of sounds and particularly vowel sounds. I'm sure there's a correct term for it but I don't know what it is. It suggests to me that it's less the meaning than the actual particular sound of them that seems to resonate and in quite individual ways.

>> No.4128605

>>4128570
People prefer soft sounds, generally. Or something.

>> No.4128614

>>4128605
It seems so. Combined with fluctuating rhythms that seem to go up and down. Again, I have no idea about the correct terminology.

>> No.4128622

>>4128614
Cadence? Diction? Iambs, Trochees, Spondees, Dactyls, Anapests?

>> No.4128625

>>4128614
euphonious

>> No.4128627

prosopopoeia
poiesis
scrotum

>> No.4128637

>>4128625
Yeah, that's a good way to describe it. Also, a word that is both pretty sounding and sounds a lot like what I'm attempting to say. I'm going to keep it. Thanks.

>> No.4129027

eructation
haruspicate
whirlwind

>> No.4129045

my least favorite word is "people".

i hate when a very common idea has no anglo-saxon word to refer to it.

>> No.4129055

trol, shiggy, kek

>> No.4129078

Gargantuan
Tree
Antepenultimate

>> No.4129084

WIilliwaw - wind from a mountainous coast to the sea.
Turgid - Swollen
Ethereal - intangible, not of The Universe

I'm awful at defining things

>> No.4129133

tangent
it
attenuate

>> No.4129178

>>4129133
Those are some awfully tinny words

>> No.4129184

>>4129178
What about them is tinny?

>> No.4129206

>>4129084
You should expand on ethereal to include incredibly delicate, soft, fragile, etc. It doesn't just mean foreign to the universe.

>> No.4130690

>>4126448
strengths has a higher consonant to vowel ratio, but is somehow easier to pronounce

>> No.4130698

>>4129045
was probably just "menn"
>dat patriarchy

>> No.4130777

Agape
Pusillanimous
heretic/heretical

>> No.4130783

>>4130698
>>dat patriarchy

nope, you know nothing about the history of the english language

>> No.4131272

>>4128201
y is quite obviously a vowel in the case of syzygy.

>> No.4131308

Melektaus
Quandary
kerfuffle

>> No.4131311

will
burn
do

>> No.4131318

>>4130783
enlighten me

>> No.4131331

>>4131311
Schopenhauer, pls go.

>> No.4131338

Hearth
Tittle
Ticonderosa

>> No.4131345

>>4128225
I might be based, but euskera is such a beautiful language:

Iluntzean (sunset)
Txantxangorri (robin)
Urki (birch)
I also like pinpilinpauxa but I prefer the other word for butterfly, Tximeleta

>> No.4131350

>>4131345
basque looks so cool but its hard to justify learning it. Oh well.

>> No.4131360

>>4131345
Some of my favourite Spanish words have basque origin

chubasco
aquelarre
pizpireta (I think this one is spanish but it sounds basque enough)

>> No.4131443

Hilarious
Knowledgeable
Frank

>> No.4131472

Chucklefuck
Ineffable
Salient

>> No.4131493

Schiamachy
Lapidary
Paraprosdokian

lots of good taste in this thread

>> No.4131520

weltmännisch
Widerworte
kleinbübisch

>> No.4131535

Vacuous
Apocryphal
Candid

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4131604

Piss
Shit
Cunt

>> No.4131617

>>4131272

ok. yes. you got me.

>> No.4131620

>>4126177
Qualia
Highfalutin
vertiginous

>> No.4131637

>>4126177
bordello
intonations
chancres

>> No.4131765

>>4129206
I've never see/heard the word used that way.

>> No.4131811

gaggle
of
faggots

>> No.4131872

Velleity - an inclination or want not strong enough to pursue/ such being existent in the most minimal extent possible

Veridical - true/prescient

Verditure – the faintest green

Firefox doesn't believe me that any of these are words.

>> No.4131874

>>4131765
Well that's odd given its etymological source, the ether, is a heavenly substance of the aforementioned nature.

>> No.4132183

>>4126178
'ayb = means shame in arabic

>> No.4132194

Apotheosis: The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

Didactic: Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

Nascent: Emerging; just coming into existence.

"Pretentious" is also a favorite, in that I love using it to describe authority figures who believe I'm the luckiest son of a gun to be under their wing.

>> No.4132414

>>4126179
>Miasmic
>Mephitic

Nasal retentive

>> No.4132434 [DELETED] 

Melancholy: A deep sadness
Nostar: Welsh for goodnight, makes me feel safe and at home
Ambivalent: When you feel two emotions that clash with each other

>> No.4132435

Iconoclast
Ethereal
Phantasmagoria

>> No.4132440

Melancholy: A deep sadness
Nos da: Welsh for goodnight, makes me feel safe and at home
Ambivalent: When you feel two emotions that clash with each other

>> No.4132451

Bear in mind English is not my first language:

Everything: an all-encompassing pronoun. I have always loved this word on its phonetic alone, the v, the r and the th in conjuction are three very beautiful sounds.

Brobdignanian: huge, enormous, very big, very not small. Comes from Brobdignan, the name of the giants in Gulliver's Tales.

Awe: usually positive feeling of surprise upon regarding something excepcionally beautifull or unexpected. What I like about this word is its pronunciation, a single phoneme, the perfect example of the lack of connection between what you write and what you say; it's almost an onomatopoeia.

>> No.4132458

Eloquent
Clutch
Nigger

>> No.4132460

>>4132451
> bear in mind English is not my first language.

Jesus. I'd hate to know what your idea of being proficient in it is.

>> No.4132469

>>4128239
I still prefer the German word for butterfly, Schmeterlinge. The sch can sound so soft when pronounced with love... I still don't get why German is regarded as a harsh and ugly language. Hitler

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4132474

>>4132460
I'll take that as a compliment

>> No.4132490

My favorite Spanish words:
Cerrojo - Lock. This word has three sounds VERY typical of the Spanish language, at least in Spain, the C (as the th in with), the RR and the J. The etymology and folk etymology behind the word is very interesting as well.

Quijada - old word for jaw. For some reason it sounds very strong (say that to Abel :trollface:)

Caricia - (noun) Caress. It sounds very beautiful, but I don't honestly like it if it's not pronounced with a Castillian C (statisically speaking 90% of spanish speaker would say carissia, and that's awful).

Captcha: seaker connection

>> No.4132523

>>4132474
Well, it was certainly intended as one so that's cool.

>> No.4132575

Conflagration
Phantasm
Coil

>> No.4132584

Ignoramus
Calamity
Paragon

>> No.4132593

there was this word in lolita that i like a lot but lost it somewhere in my notes

it meant "a discreet person"

i remember h.h used it to describe himself, it wasn't "shy"

any help?

>> No.4132609

Paroxysm
Xenophobe
Victory

>> No.4132951

>>4132593
timid?

>> No.4133116

river
windmill
home

>> No.4133124

>>4132490
do you even ladino?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3BrNCfRLE
protip:llave dura-->cerradura--->cerrojo

>> No.4133151

Sesquipedalian
Jejune
Atavistic

>> No.4133156

>>4133151
Seraphim is my honorable mention.

>> No.4133728

cunt
mightn't
shan't
inasmuch
otherwise

>> No.4134967

solemn
entice
incredulous
when i write i also like to describe all emotion as a being blanketed, it just gives an adjective an aesthetic feel

>> No.4134970

>>4126177
are you a lulu player?

>> No.4134973

>>4126177
sable is the new black
fain
genuflect

>> No.4134981

obfuscate: to make something less clear
ostensibly: seeming to be so on the surface
irascible: quick to anger

>> No.4135002

>>4126177
any chance you could tell me the source of that image?

>> No.4135711

Apocrypha
Ataraxia
Throttle

>> No.4136165

petrify
surreptitious
black

>> No.4136202

>>4126177
Entfremdung
Entzauberung
Entartung

>> No.4136217

>>4126229
I like you!

>>4132194
Apotheosis is my favourite word too.

I also like asbestos, which in Greek means unquenchable, and hence the carcinogenic mineral's name.

>> No.4136230

>>4132183
That's a good word.

Also, gyltendum.

>> No.4136245

>>4132593
Diffident?

Also a good word.

>> No.4136261

Lilliputian - guy up the thread reminded me how much I like this word when he mentioned Swift.
Zeroth
Sesquipedalian

>> No.4137432

Azure
Cataleptic
Liquescent

>> No.4137439

Cunt
Ass
Ho