Words that should be in mainstream society but aren't (150)

1 Name: Bookworm : 2006-10-10 21:51 ID:rW3Ey0qz

Name some!

Example: vicarious

2 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E : 2006-10-11 01:56 ID:Heaven

metacognition

3 Name: Bookworm : 2006-10-12 23:48 ID:hDfdiSiI

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Spice

Cymek

DRM

Fnord

4 Name: Bookworm : 2006-10-13 19:23 ID:gaHxzabF

Monetize

Revenate

5 Name: The Chairman of the Bored : 2006-10-14 02:16 ID:0e38QK9O

Hyperbole

Phoenixity

Philocalist

6 Name: Bookworm : 2006-10-15 21:49 ID:RX0K20V5

Jiggerypokery

7 Name: Bookworm : 2006-10-16 17:58 ID:gaHxzabF

Cattywampus. Everything was cattywampus.

8 Name: Bookworm : 2006-10-25 07:03 ID:bW2lZ3uI

We need to start a thread called "words in mainstream society that should fuck off and die".

In that case, I would be voting for anything with "blog".

9 Name: Soulrebel : 2006-11-01 07:12 ID:hEDULKwN

Ignomoron

10 Name: Bookworm : 2006-11-24 21:02 ID:kUYTa7Eq

I'd reccomend anything with over three syllables, actually...

11 Name: Crystal Raye : 2007-01-25 03:03 ID:rs1vrCF+

Sometimes it's good to have an esoteric word now and again. It seperates the fans from the poseurs and the geniuses from the ignoramuses.

Speaking of: "esoteric", "poseur", and "ignoramus" should be used more often. I know "poseur" is used a lot but people always spell it "poser" which is technically correct but just sort of lazy and blasé.

12 Name: Bookworm : 2007-01-26 02:29 ID:ATk7hnR9

>I know "poseur" is used a lot but people always spell it "poser" which is technically correct but just sort of lazy and blasé.

In other words, it's not pretentious enough? Oh the horror.

13 Name: MAC_BETH : 2007-01-26 03:41 ID:jLzZNq9h

"sesquipedalian"

works well when followed by "motherfucker" and preceded by either "gtfo" or "stfu" and then a comma

14 Name: Bookworm : 2007-01-27 22:30 ID:Heaven

I've always been partial to "niggardly", if only for the off-hand juvenile troll aspect.

15 Name: Bookworm : 2007-01-28 00:07 ID:HHuX/gkq

>>3
"spice" isn't used in mainstream society? And "fnord" seems a bit silly because, outside of some little literary injoke, it doesn't serve any useful purpose in modern day society.
>>5
and the corallary, "hypobole." It's really fun to say outloud. Try it!

16 Name: Bookworm : 2007-01-31 08:46 ID:KUTD34Rv

flotsam
fjord
picaresque
miasma
indelible
melancholy
alabaster
chambarral
destitute
scourge
cad
rake

17 Name: Bookworm : 2007-02-04 21:21 ID:FYsXSQdI

a-splode

18 Name: Bookworm : 2007-02-06 21:29 ID:DiUShyeA

19 Name: the feared postmodernist : 2007-02-12 07:25 ID:Cwwyffnb

>>15

"Fnord" is actually useful. I'm pretty sure that in your life you've sometimes felt like referencing 1984 in a political context but couldn't because just naming the Big Brother isn't enough and constructing a sentence in Newspeak is too long and it's difficult to make a funny one. Well, "fnord" comes in handy in that kind of situations.

20 Name: Bookworm : 2007-02-13 03:42 ID:d+FS3Wyc

pungent

21 Name: Bookworm : 2007-02-13 03:58 ID:HgpLqt68

Puerile.

Or maybe it's better off being uncommon, because that way, when you use it your contempt is more clearly conveyed.

22 Name: Nox Puss : 2007-02-15 16:28 ID:XuqAVTkZ

Macabre
Delectable
Flibbertigibbet
Asinine
Eponymous

23 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-11 23:27 ID:bHOMYFS9

pernicious
lugubrious
smarmy

24 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-14 05:00 ID:WW5OqRd+

I think betwixt sounds better than between.

25 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-17 23:16 ID:L1fMF/G9

PARBLES!

26 Name: Nox Puss : 2007-03-20 13:15 ID:hgn4uNq0

>>24
Oh, good. I'm not alone.

27 Name: Kenji : 2007-03-20 23:12 ID:uYT2kzqz

Absquatulate

28 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-22 05:43 ID:Z+ud5v5P

Penultimate.
Obfuscation.
Sesquipedalian.
Riparian.

words pwn.

29 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-22 05:44 ID:Heaven

>>23
I agree with smarmy, 100%.

30 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-25 13:37 ID:UcZrtfLJ

>>22 A world having to use the word "macabre" more...is not a pretty world.

And after looking at all the ridiculous words in this thread, I have to say that being verbose doesn't mean you're smart.

I give my vote to smarmy.

31 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-25 22:31 ID:pTDMHUst

lolilicious

32 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-26 06:49 ID:WO8IesRv

refrobnicate!

"Let's refrobnicate the defoobarizer!"

33 Name: Bookworm : 2007-03-31 19:43 ID:TbFy9l1v

Vexed

34 Name: Bookworm : 2007-04-11 01:17 ID:hHHfsKwI

Plasmic

35 Name: Bookworm : 2007-04-11 23:54 ID:kgiXQEfR

>>33

in the uk that has become quite common, mostly among urban kids/teenagers in the poorer areas. and the rich kids who try to copy them.

36 Name: Bookworm : 2007-04-14 09:31 ID:jFyzCHgP

Taciturn

37 Name: Bookworm : 2007-05-13 14:44 ID:yGtKbXvm

Verisimilitude and Avaricious. I'm surprised avaricious isn't used too often...

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39 Name: Bookworm : 2007-05-25 13:40 ID:a6wXIezw

Mastication

40 Name: Bookworm : 2007-05-27 19:18 ID:tIVA0YKN

vicissitude

41 Name: Bookworm : 2007-05-30 12:12 ID:VFwiNfnU

Genuflect.

42 Name: Bookworm : 2007-06-01 16:52 ID:DcNl1RJI

Semen.

43 Name: Bookworm : 2007-06-01 21:58 ID:Heaven

Sermon

44 Name: Bookworm : 2007-06-05 08:35 ID:aWiNB9Ss

persnickety

45 Name: Bookworm : 2007-07-19 10:27 ID:JQFbe5Z5

"scumcunt"

46 Name: Bookworm : 2007-07-21 05:54 ID:My7RUiV8

Fuck.

47 Name: Bookworm : 2007-08-06 18:39 ID:Heaven

>>46
That's in mainstream society.

48 Name: Bookworm : 2007-08-07 13:40 ID:L+h41KnB

>>47
Silly, this thread has obviously de-railed.

49 Name: Bookworm : 2007-08-07 19:14 ID:dMDwjsaH

monastic

50 Post deleted by moderator.

51 Name: Bookworm : 2007-08-13 06:21 ID:7ss44S1w

>>22

> asinine

For some reason I hear and see this word way too often among teenagers, and it seems out of place in their otherwise terrible sentences. I wish they wouldn't use it, and I also wish they would stop spelling it 'assinine.'

52 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-04 03:28 ID:o5ybSjNl

imho. just as a word.

53 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-04 04:58 ID:My7RUiV8

>>52
So you want people advertising their employment status as a prostitute.
Are you some kind of narc?

54 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-05 11:13 ID:9IexZM7Y

Gnarly

Cowabunga

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Cromulent

55 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-05 17:02 ID:My7RUiV8

> Antidisestablishmentarianism

This is not really a word in modern English, so it's floccinaucinihilipilification is justified. Please stop using it as an example of a hippopotomonstrosesquipidelian word.

56 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-05 17:26 ID:TnSQh7qG

dokkyun.

57 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-06 02:23 ID:8kQe7hFY

dagnabbit

58 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-09 01:27 ID:hDfdiSiI

Quasar

59 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-12 20:07 ID:sq6fbAA3

Milquetoast

60 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-14 13:49 ID:npnVlC1t

Kameda

61 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-14 13:55 ID:npnVlC1t

thumbing

62 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-21 18:00 ID:b3ey7G2R

yea

no word is badass like yea

63 Name: Bookworm : 2007-10-22 22:23 ID:My7RUiV8

Sugar Tits

64 Name: Bookworm : 2007-11-30 05:07 ID:bwO5HMTQ

childlove

65 Name: iLikeThis : 2007-12-19 03:22 ID:5jOQtfAw

Ablution.

(God damn, I feel like a nerd...)

66 Name: Bookworm : 2007-12-19 07:04 ID:dMDwjsaH

>>62
The internet has ruined that word for me. I now assume it's "yeah" written by some idiot who can't spell.

67 Name: Bookworm : 2007-12-27 03:19 ID:+PcoUBHm

>>66

has the internet left you in....despair?

68 Name: Bookworm : 2007-12-28 05:41 ID:Vsrjpodi

>>63
Sports Racer?

69 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-04 03:44 ID:elCldQ+F

Brouhaha.

70 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-08 14:41 ID:ppaT8LUW

>>69
This one is mainstream where I live...

I really like 'Obliteration'.

71 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-08 21:32 ID:gshIeKTo

gynofascism

72 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-10 04:40 ID:Heaven

androfascism

73 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-13 04:24 ID:Pc/JAIC7

>>54

I second "cromulent".

74 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-17 05:15 ID:ZzBtjyNT

Dapper

75 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-20 22:19 ID:gshIeKTo

Sanguine
Choleric
Phlegmatic
Melancholic

76 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-21 01:22 ID:Zz9Xntdf

>>70

Obliteration/obliterated is good. Thank you for reminding me of it, I shall try to use it more often.

>>74

Yup, I like this one. I use it quite a lot as a compliment when somebody has dressed up nice.

77 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-21 03:39 ID:gshIeKTo

shit-ticket

78 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-22 04:58 ID:Heaven

Exsufflation
Tawdry
Lurid
Deplorable
Sordid

79 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-28 15:58 ID:zDVOguNt

"childlove"

80 Name: Bookworm : 2008-01-28 19:46 ID:pl/+LI9+

"outwith"

81 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-01 02:45 ID:zPpKdk1y

to forlese

82 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-03 21:23 ID:oXXVhslj

Thirding "Cromulent"

83 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-04 16:52 ID:qqnBRlrz

bloviate.

bloviated.

bloviation.

overblovation.

overdebloviated.

overdebloviation.

It means full of hot air.

84 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-06 20:25 ID:V/KUJVKQ

Corpulent

85 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-07 03:14 ID:YEh8zk4V

>>75
Sanguine is one of the neatest words on earth, imho.

86 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-09 02:52 ID:AjEsdvjW

Bitchtits.

It's in circulation, but clearly not used enough.

That and hiatus.

87 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-12 03:00 ID:YEh8zk4V

"Malaise" always struck me as pretty neat.

>>86
What about sugartits?

88 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-14 02:28 ID:qMJYpiKd

Whither, whence, thence, hence

I third the call for betwixt ('twixt is fine too, of course).

89 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-14 17:36 ID:akKuzm73

Antidisestablishmentarianism FTW.

90 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-17 02:40 ID:e1178TkD

Alas.

91 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-17 05:51 ID:Z/jW9nj9

Cornucopia

92 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-20 14:28 ID:9DaYvpte

>>90
Seconded! I've no idea how to express that meaning without that word.

93 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-21 13:36 ID:8LCainne

Many, maybe even most of these words are used in mainstream society enough to make it unfair to claim they 'aren't in it'.

94 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-26 22:00 ID:pl/+LI9+

Outwith.

95 Name: Bookworm : 2008-02-27 15:04 ID:cFTvi82f

Gnarly.

96 Name: Bookworm : 2008-03-01 03:28 ID:9ggEBDRh

>>94 What's the difference between "Outwith" and "Out with?"

97 Name: Bookworm : 2008-03-02 10:23 ID:F61l2m7g

>>96

Here's some examples to illustrate the differences:

"Tonight I'm going out with some friends."

"This discussion is outwith the realms of formal linguistics."

"Outwith" is similar in meaning to "outside of".

98 Name: Bookworm : 2008-03-02 15:38 ID:CLb0MLwm

>>92
Where I'm from, "well, fuck!" is a perfectly acceptable alternative.

99 Name: Bookworm : 2008-03-31 14:14 ID:9DaYvpte

tumescence

100 Name: Bookworm : 2008-03-31 19:15 ID:cUjuQvP5

burgher

101 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-02 15:04 ID:WUfd38ZK

Abderian

102 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-02 19:12 ID:cUjuQvP5

abcidarian

103 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-11 20:29 ID:+G78zmJ1

>>102
abecedarian?

stentorian
omphaloskeptic
celerity

104 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-11 22:25 ID:G6shMNaC

People should say "Make haste!" more often.

105 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-11 22:28 ID:ZoiPvQ1n

>>104

I like that, but it's a bit awkward to say. Gonna have to practice it

106 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-12 02:04 ID:o3TBrZI9

I'm trying to use "Godspeed" more often with my friends. This salutation sounds great.

107 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-12 07:11 ID:ZEzDFk9y

I enjoy Elizabethan cursing. Christ's feet!! See, it's fun.

108 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-14 17:32 ID:vU8PH3N5

dalliance

109 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-14 20:38 ID:oOtYuzmc

Poppycock!

110 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-15 04:15 ID:t6J3yUiM

I'm going to start biting my thumb at people.

111 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-15 08:41 ID:Cp+xYbr1

>>75
Agreed

Laconic

sardonic

hep (the corruption, hip, is in common use, but I just like hep better)

cat

grass (n. informent[s] or spie[s], v. to inform on)

112 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-15 11:46 ID:Heaven

Newspeak

Doublespeak

Doublethink

Duckspeak

Bellyfeel

Any other Newspeak words.

113 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-19 02:33 ID:Heaven

114 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-19 22:41 ID:qIZhIyMM

>>111
stop being 14 and listening to ska.

115 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-20 02:15 ID:Heaven

vapid

116 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-22 04:46 ID:Heaven

>>114
...No, I just like to 50s and 60s.

117 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-22 19:22 ID:vU8PH3N5

Floccinaucinihilipilification!

118 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-23 04:38 ID:Heaven

Mycoxafloppin

119 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-27 08:48 ID:Heaven

>>113

Why?

120 Name: Bookworm : 2008-05-03 10:56 ID:/kk2eHA/

Autochthonous, and its antonym allochthonous.

121 Name: Bookworm : 2008-05-06 23:43 ID:4MSWFhFX

Pulchritude.

122 Name: Bookworm : 2008-05-09 20:31 ID:1ux9YuU+

Lawfull

123 Name: Bookworm : 2008-05-09 21:38 ID:V/KUJVKQ

doughty

124 Name: Bookworm : 2008-05-12 21:58 ID:LsmteFGJ

Suffice

125 Name: Bookworm : 2008-05-13 02:43 ID:LsmteFGJ

balderdash

126 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-27 14:06 ID:VF3RW9Wk

Callipygian - Adjective describing a perfectly formed ass.
Sesquipedalian - Pretentiously verbose.
Satyriasis - Male version of 'nymphomania'

127 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-27 17:15 ID:ox5TiQRp

ecdysiast

128 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-28 21:18 ID:LNx70ZC1

Crapulous
Squamous
Feculent

129 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-30 04:25 ID:eieWaqCS

But if we all talk about them, they will get famous, and then we'll all have to condemn them as over-rated, badly-written crap.

130 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-30 04:55 ID:j/rtExJE

Wat?

131 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-30 12:24 ID:mxc82CxA

deliquesce

132 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-30 13:06 ID:Vi0HMO8X

paroxysm
pinnacle
nadir
woe
godspeed
derelict
expurgation

133 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-30 23:52 ID:YC+BK8gU

niger

134 Name: Bookworm : 2008-07-31 14:10 ID:SCixqGqq

I don't know what you guys are talking about, here in the south we use most of these words every day.

135 Name: Bookworm : 2008-08-01 04:35 ID:hsS+KwoC

lol,d

136 Name: Bookworm : 2008-08-01 08:24 ID:S4FbEuUF

Someone compile these words and their meanings and make it out official list of words!

137 Name: Bookworm : 2008-08-03 18:30 ID:C8oXhedl

rhetoric

138 Name: wordverificationsucksass : 2008-08-03 20:49 ID:yWncwIBE

mierdebiel

139 Name: Bookworm : 2008-08-06 20:23 ID:Heaven

>>136

OP said mainstream society, not dictionary.

140 Name: Bookworm : 2008-08-11 18:36 ID:vU8PH3N5

lilliputian

141 Name: Bookworm : 2008-08-28 05:20 ID:jlPr6HcY

brobdignagian
phallic
cuckold
juxtaposition
despot
dipsomaniac

142 Name: vocabularist : 2008-09-23 00:23 ID:2ODdoU1N

tetradecagon
voluminous
expedite
philosophic
lethargic
necrophiliac
flora
fauna
Australopithecus
catatonic
fisticuffs
irate
livid
colossal
despondant
caliber
centrifuge
anthropological

143 Name: Bookworm : 2008-09-24 06:12 ID:yzhMoA0w

Here is a few good general emphatics. Try to replace some of your very''s, really''s, etc. with them!

startlingly
quite
truly
stupendously
does + verb
indeed

144 Name: Bookworm : 2008-09-24 17:47 ID:Heaven

>>143
I say all of those except stupendously. I don't say startlingly often, though.

145 Name: Bookworm : 2008-09-25 21:50 ID:tpGhrFyE

Every known word society views as negative. Cuss words naturally included.

146 Name: Bookworm : 2008-10-01 22:36 ID:2Eo5g42Y

orthogonal

147 Name: Bookworm : 2008-10-08 12:59 ID:vccE+xpl

Saphic
Cunt

148 Name: Bookworm : 2008-10-19 02:50 ID:yzhMoA0w

"evil-smellin"

149 Name: Bookworm : 2008-12-21 05:43 ID:t/l3qbpQ

>>133

FUCK. YOU.

150 Name: Bookworm : 2008-12-24 00:05 ID:QkwoQDq8

>>149

Why do you hate Niger?

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