Wordie: Pulchritude: Comments

Comment by Asativum, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:09:40 +0000

Somehow I missed this. Antiaurosemantonym is luverly!

Comment by logophile, 8 months ago

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:15:03 +0000

Asativum: how about antiaurosemantonym?

Comment by skipvia, 10 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:23:00 +0000

I once started a list on that very topic, Asativum. I'll see if I can revive it a bit with this word.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:52:32 +0000

I like it, too. It does come in handy on occasion, as you so vividly point out, c_b. :-)

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:37:55 +0000

I use this word a lot. Nobody seems to know that it means I'm leering at that jogger passing my car at the red light...

Comment by Asativum, 10 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:00:45 +0000

I have to agree with snowswim. It's a candidate for the word that sounds least like its meaning. (Is there a word for that?)

white teeth

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:40:22 +0000

Pulchritude. From the Latin, pulcher, beautiful. That was the word that first struck Joyce when Millat Iqbal stepped forward onto the steps of her conservatory...

Pulchritude-- beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection. Beauty in a tall brown young man who should have been indistinguishable to Joyce from those she regularly bought milk and bread from, gave her accounts to for inspection, or passed her checkbook to behind the thick glass of a bank till.

Comment by snowsim, about 1 year ago

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:25:50 +0000

Such an ugly word for beauty.