pulchritudinous

We have to have something to rhyme with multitudinous.

Titan arum, yarb? Wow! That's just tits!

I'm with c_b, but I don't think that hard about the word. I just like the way it sounds. :-)

I couldn't deny any word the right to exist, assuming words have rights, but this is still a sickly, cloying titan arum of an adjective.

I've got no problem with its retronymity or otherwise, however. It's not a badly-constructed word; Shevek's diagram should read as follows:

Beauty -> Beautiful
Beauty = Pulchritude
So Pulchritudinous = having the attribute of beauty

'Beautifulness' is a red herring.

I'm with c_b on this. I'm not an avid fan of this word, but it certainly has as much right to exist as any other adjective, and more than some, Shevek's somewhat specious-looking little diagram notwithstanding.

I love this word. I will love it no matter how many other people hate it. *shouts defiance to the skies* Pulchritudinous!!

What an atrocious retronym!

Beauty -> Beautiful -> Beautifulness
Beautifulness = Pulchritude
So Pulchritudinous = having the attribute of beautifulness

Yarb, don't hold back--tell us how you really feel.

I can't stand this word - it sounds grotesque; it makes me think of pustules and puke! And those lurching trochees!

I said this just today, when a bunch of college students jogged by us wearing next to nothing. :)

Interesting. I didn't know the word is supposed to be confined to people only as Burger King or some other chain used it to describe their hamburgers in a commercial.