Beautiful English words

Möbius · Post by **Möbius** » Fri May 13, 2011 11:29 pm

vitriol, verbose, tranquil, sophistry, exacerbate, genial, foreboding, transient, soliloquy, opaque, facetious, enamor, hoodwink, billow, wilt, milieu, sentient, gravitas, crescendo, virulent, antithesis, pseudonym, nebula, mitigate, blasphemous, corrosive, heliocentric, morose, frigid, fickle, Philistine . . .

Words are fun.

Guido · Post by **Guido** » Sat May 14, 2011 9:32 pm

Those are some really nice ones Mobius. I especially like tranquil, transient, soliloquy and enamor.

I also like 'myrrh' a lot.

krs · Post by **krs** » Sun May 15, 2011 1:10 am

Bollocks

lackerz · Post by **lackerz** » Mon May 16, 2011 11:44 pm

krs wrote:Bollocks

but whose? i've heard good things about the dog's..

Yellow Records · Post by **Yellow Records** » Tue May 17, 2011 10:45 am

subset wrote:Yellow

...capitalized like that it always looked to me like a bunch of friends cheering you from across the street.

DAMN STRAIGHT.

asymmetrical head · Post by **asymmetrical head** » Fri May 27, 2011 11:46 pm

BLACK... especially said a little louder when used in a sentence.

Quillian · Post by **Quillian** » Sat May 28, 2011 2:46 am

Pulchritudinous

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:01 pm

It's not english (like many english words) but Noir is awesome

lackerz · Post by **lackerz** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:38 am

Incandescent [ inkənˈdesənt ]

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:41 am

I know not everyone's gonna agree with this one, but..... Vagina

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:42 am

ANTHROPOMORPHIZE!

One of the rare and awesome cases where I get to break out the Z!

machinea · Post by **machinea** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:39 am

saturdayindex wrote:
Mexicola wrote:I've always been find of 'moist'. No idea why...
I'm pretty sure that "moist" has won awards for being one of the least liked English words.

I burst out laughing I was going to pretty much say the same thing..

some that immediately come to mind are (but too many to name)

Pyrrhic
Evocative
Demure
Diaphanous
Love
Talisman
convey
creature
sepulchre

hahah and definitely not vagina.. vulva maybe.. but penis and vagina are both a little garish.. and not because of their meaning.. they just sound a bit off. (the Peeee in penis and the hard Va GY Nuh.. it almost sounds like a chant)

one of the things I do love about english is writing in it.. there are so many words that mean similar things and as a writer it makes it far easier to look for a word that fits poetically because of the sound. I think there are languages that sound nicer to the ear (Portuguese being my favorite) and languages that have a singular words with far more meaning conveyed such as Chinese but for writing I really love english. And guido I had noticed a similarity between english and dutch in many respects. When I'm watching dutch films with subtitles I forget more easily that I'm reading the dialog.

ETA yeah Myrrh is good.. also why I like Mirth.. and Philistine gets my vote. I love that word. Madeline Kahn used it in What's Up Doc and I burst out laughing.

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:49 am

Surreal

Acclivity

Glorious

And two very simple ones that still ring out so nicely to me: Rain and Prime

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:59 am

reprieve

fondle

elementary

Cryabetes · Post by **Cryabetes** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:43 pm

Soliloquy

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:15 pm

Transcendence.

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:34 pm

ethereal
crunch
superlative

Xtal · Post by **Xtal** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:24 am

abyss
labyrinth
quake
transparent
invisible
thought
void
infinite

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:04 am

adjective

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:10 am

waterlike