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CrazyStat · 2024-02-16 14:18:36

perchance, ledger, tallying, coffers, ponders, arsenal, remnants, tally, scales, colossal, amidst, perplexing, enigma, benefactor, patron, coffers, benefactor, defies, coffers, denouement

Do you always write like this? It reads like something from the 19th century.

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starpilot | karma 5518 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2020-05-13 14:56:34

Yeah I got comicbook, nonreferential, barleywine, geophile, which could all be compound words, maybe hyphenated today but perhaps not tomorrow.

goto11 | karma 5786 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2020-06-16 06:36:37+00:00

You are thinking of homonyms.

pbhjpbhj | karma 20396 | avg karma 1.24 · | 2018-03-15 09:47:58

I do this too, it's an ironic word that resembles its meaning. Like a textual onomatopoeia.

Parallel might be another example - are there others?

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marginalia_nu | karma 21123 | avg karma 4.08 · | 2023-10-14 03:08:29

These words are some of them.

tcskeptic | karma 1255 | avg karma 5.92 · | 2022-03-15 07:56:08

Ah! Contronyms! Words that can mean a thing... and it's opposite (or nearly so).

Dust, cleave, overlook... many others. One of those enjoyable corners of the language.

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qompiler | karma 230 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2013-04-18 11:03:04+00:00

Hm yes, I know some of these words

NaturalPhallacy | karma 1685 | avg karma 1.96 · | 2021-03-19 23:58:48+00:00

This is one of those fascinating cases where the written word was created before the spoken one, whereas most other human words are the opposite, so it's hard to say which is 'correct' definitively.

I always went with 'WARES'.

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tptacek | karma 394296 | avg karma 6.04 · | 2010-05-17 17:37:59+00:00

Here's another cool list, very similar; the standard on this list is, "words so interesting that David Foster Wallace circled them in his dictionary":

http://www.slate.com/id/2250784

(Teaser: conchoidal, corvee, demulcent, exergue, gramnvirous, etc etc etc).

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boublepop | karma 1167 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2020-12-30 18:36:08+00:00

I+personally+quite+like+the+word+dividers+used+in+runes.

ben_w | karma 20467 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2021-06-23 09:29:01+00:00

Also: ignorable, commonplace, ordinary

breezeTrowel | karma 199 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2024-03-23 16:03:46

I know some of these words.

Nezghul | karma 7 | avg karma 0.39 · | 2024-04-06 19:00:03

I know some of these words.

robotomir | karma 130 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2014-06-27 21:48:03+00:00

I know some of these words.

chilledheat | karma 27 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2018-10-29 15:49:32+00:00

I know some of these words.

jlawson | karma 688 | avg karma 1.02 · | 2019-08-26 04:28:36

I know some of these words.

Kye | karma 8088 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2019-12-03 17:51:37

They read like synonyms to me.

BigFish12 | karma 24 | avg karma 1.14 · | 2019-05-04 19:52:02

These are synonyms to some.

akomtu | karma 1122 | avg karma 0.52 · | 2022-10-04 12:28:13

I think these are synonyms.

rvba | karma 920 | avg karma 0.77 · | 2023-04-07 07:46:03

Some people like to embiggen their vocabulary with cromulent words.