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S - Z
- Abscotchalater: Someone who hides from the police.
- Abibliophobe: Someone afraid of running out of reading material.
- Aeolist: Someone who is a pompous bore who pretends to have inspiration.
- Aesthete: Someone with a deep sensitivity to art or nature.
- Afterclapper: Someone who is clapping after everyone else stops.
- Agelast: A person who never laughs.
- Agog: Someone who is highly excited by curiosity, eagerness or anticipation.
- Aibohphobic: Someone afraid of palindromes.
- Ambitchous: a Bitch striving to be the best bitch.
- Anchorite: Someone who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
- Anglophile: Someone who loves anything British.
- Antistalker: Someone who learns somebody’s routine so they can avoid running into them.
- Askhole: Someone who asks many stupid or obnoxious questions.
- Atelophobic: Someone afraid of not being good enough.
- Autophobe: Someone afraid of being alone.
- Autophoby: The fear of referring to yourself. The fear of using the pronouns "I" or "Me."
- Bablatrice: A female babbler. Chaterestre is another term for a talkative woman.
- Battologist: Someone who repeats the same thing needlessly
- Bawbag: Someone who is stupid.
- Beamish: Someone who is bright and cheery.
- Beerboarder: Someone who gets you drunk on purpose to get information out of you.
- Blamestormer: Someone who casts blame on others
- Blaguer: A person who talks pretentiously.
- Blesiloquent: Someone who speaks with a lisp or a stammer.
- Blinker: person who is narrow minded and subjective, not able to see a different viewpoint.
- Bloviate: Someone who speaks in a pompous or overbearing way.
- Bogglish: Someone who is uncertain, doubtful or a wee bit skittish about something.
- Bouquinist: A person who deals in second-hand books.
- Cabotin: Quack Doctor
- Callipygian: Someone with a perfect behind.
- Cellfish: Someone rude who talks on their cellphone and disturbs other people.
- Ceraunophile: Someone who loves thunder and lightning.
- Cereologist: A person who specializes in investigating crop circles.
- Chadband: A person who is hypocritical.
- Churlish: Someone who is rude, boorish and vulgar.
- Clinophile: a lover of laying around in bed.
- Coimetrophile: Someone who loves cemeteries.
- Comadre: a female friend. Equivalent to a bro to a man.
- Coulrophobe: Someone afraid of clowns.
- Couthy: A warm and friendly person (Scottish term).
- Cumber-ground: Someone who just takes up space.
- Deipnosophist: master at the art of fine dining. Or, a good conservationist at meals.
- Deuterogamist: Someone who marries for a second time.
- Diglot: A bilingual person.
- Doolally: A person who is insane, irrational or crazy.
- Eccedentesiast: Someone who fakes s smile.
- Ergophobe: Someone afraid of work.
- Erinaceous: A person with prickly or bristly manners.
- Epirot: Someone who lives inland and not on the coastal shores.
- Errorist: Someone who makes a lot of mistakes.
- Fabulist: someone who invents elaborate stories.
- Fagin: A person who trains others in crime, esp. children.
- Faineant: A person who is a do-nothing, loafer; or, someone who is idle.
- Faitour: A cheat, an imposter.
- Farouche: Someone with a fierce and wild cranky temperament.
- Flamfoo: A woman who wears gaudy outfits but thinks she is fashionable.
- Flawsome: Someone who embraces their flaws and knows they are fabulous anyway.
- Franion: A habitual pleasure seeker
- Funambulist: A tightrope walker. Figuratively it means someone who thinks quick on his feet.
- Fustilug: An ill-natured and foul person
G - I
- Gaberlunzie: A harmless hobo or wandering beggar.
- Galoot: An awkward and eccentric person.
- Gammerstang: A tall, awkward woman.
- Ghoster: Someone who disappears from someone’s life, especially in romantic relationships.
- Gilly-gaupus: Awkward person, foolish or silly person.
- Gongoozler: An idle person or rubbernecker.
- Gradgrind: Someone who is interested in only the cold, hard facts.
- Grimgibber: A Lawyer
- Harassenger: Someone who is overtly critical of your driving. A backseat driver in the passenger seat.
- Heimganger: A person who stays at home; a stay-at-home mother.
- Hoddypeak: Someone who embraces the lack of sophistication.
- Honeyfuggler: Someone who deceives with sweet talk.
- Illecebrous: Someone who is pretty, attractive , alluring.
- Illeist: A person who refers to himself in the third person.
- Imperturbable: Someone who is calm and steady.
- Impish: Someone mischievous or inclined to do naughty things.
- Inaniloquent: Someone prone to foolish talk.
- Incompt: Someone with grace and eloquence.
- Indoorsman: Someone who prefers to be indoors. Opposite of outdoorsman.
- Insouciant: Someone who is free from anxiety or concern.
- Irrightional: Someone who thinks they are always right.
P -R
- Paranymph: Someone who advocates for another in matters of love.
- Peacocker: Someone who is acting flashy and flamboyant in order to attract someone.
- Persnickety: Someone who is excessively precise with attention to detail. Fussy.
- Philiophobe: Someone afraid of falling in love.
- Philopolemical: Someone who loves to fight.
- Philoxenist: Someone who loves to entertain strangers in their home.
- Phlyarologist: A person who talks gibberish or nonsense.
- Pistoriophile: Someone who loves baked goods.
- Podsnapper: Someone who is complacent and refuses to accept facts.
- Pogonophile: Someone who loves beards.
- Polyhistor: A well-educated person; widely learned.
- Procrasturbater: Someone who masturbates instead of taking care of pressing matters.
- Profiter: Someone who makes the most of a situation.
- Pronk: A weak or foolish person.
- Psilosopher: A person with a petty or shallow philosophy.
- Quaintrelle: A well-dressed woman.
- Quisquous: A difficult man to deal with.
- Rastaquouere: A social climber who tries too hard to be in fashion.
- Rhyparographer: An artist whose subject matter is sorrowful or unpleasant topics.
S - Z
- Sapiosexual: Someone who is attracted to intelligence.
- Scaramouche: A cowardly buffoon.
- Scofflaw: Someone who contemptuously breaks the law, especially a law that's difficult to enforce.
- Singletasker: Someone who excels at doing just one thing at a time. Opposite of multitasker.
- Sisyphean: Someone who is difficult to the point of futility.
- Slackumtrance: A slovenly dirty woman.
- Snollygoster: A dishonest politician, especially shrewd or calculating.
- Somnambulist: Someone who sleepwalks.
- Sortable: Someone you can take anywhere without fear of being embarrassed.
- Soulsexual: Someone who is attracted to another’s soul.
- Squintifego: A person who squints a lot.
- Stigmatophile: Someone who loves tattoos and piercings.
- Stalko: A poor person who pretends to be rich.
- Sybarite: A person who is devoted to the life of luxury and sensual pleasure.
- Sycophant: An informer. Could also mean a slanderer.
- Textrovert: Someone who prefers to text rather than talk on the phone.
- Thelemite: Someone who does as she pleases.
- Tidsoptimist: Someone who is always late because they think they have more time than they actually do.
- Tommyrot: Someone full of utter nonsense of foolishness.
- Troglodyte: A person who is primitive and brutal.
- Underthinker: opposite of overthinker. Someone who doesn’t think something through.
- Unkeyboardinated: Someone who makes a lot of typing mistakes.
- Vespine: A woman who doesn’t meddle in anyone’s business and hates it when anyone meddles in hers.
- Vulgarian: a vulgar person, especially one with good breeding and should know better.
- Wastrel: A wasteful person
- Wazzock: a bumbling idiot. Also called a numpty.
- Whiffler: Someone who frequently changes their opinions or viewpoints.
- Windbagger: Someone who talks at length about nothing.
- Winebibber: A person who habitually drinks a lot of alcohol.
- Winsome: Someone who is attractive and appealing.
- Yonderly: Someone who is distant, vacant or absentminded.
- Xanthippe: An ill-tempered woman.
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