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What big brain words do you like, /lit/?
>Pulchritudinous
Adjective referring to a person of inhuman beauty
>itt big brain vocabulary

>> No.11848081

>>11848062
megacephalous

>> No.11848136

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

>> No.11848148

Multitudes

It means many

>> No.11848156

>>11848148
multitudinous is agood word

>> No.11848161

>>11848062
Mom, dad, meet my pulchritudinous robotic girlfriend Samantha 6..

>> No.11848167

>>11848081
nice

>> No.11848168

>>11848062
nothing about pulchritude has to do with inhumanity

>> No.11848174

Unironically:

effluvium
antipode
diphthong
supervocalic
monocotyledon
gubernatorial

those are at least the ones i'm willing to share

>> No.11848396

broomhandle

>> No.11848414

>>11848148
'lots and lots' is a good phrase as well

means many

>> No.11848416

>>11848414
i prefer 'thing more than 1' personally

>> No.11848420

>>11848396
handle of the broom, in biblical terms

>> No.11848426

>>11848062
hamdangler

>> No.11848444

extraordinary is good spoken word, loses its impact in print

>> No.11848446

Literally any German word that's used in its original form:

Ersatz
Zeitgeist
Blitz
Ansatz

German is a fucking cool tongue

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11848454

>>11848062
persiflage
Light good-natured talk; banter. Light or frivolous manner of discussing a subject

procrustean
marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances

dereistic - Living in imagination or fantasy with thoughts that are incongruent with logic or experience

>> No.11848498

>>11848148
>big brain words
>multitudes
Are you fucking mental? I knew that word when I was 6

>> No.11848512

Blepharophimosis

>> No.11848514

>>11848062
The word A is a pretty good one.

>> No.11850032

>>11848062

Dithyramb

It's not in the glossary of the Poetry Foundation's website and typical spell-checkers, but deserves to be.

Kitsch
Schtick
Schmaltz

These priceless pieces of Yiddish are going out of fashion for no good reason.

Sublime

The finest critical essay written in antiquity is about this quality, which though always much abused by whom it cannot possibly pertain, is perpetually useful to whom it does.

Synesthesia

One of the most telling and enjoyable experiences in life and art, I've been doting on the term since teenhood, and will never tire of it.

>> No.11850042

>>11848062
>tfw lost elementary school spelling bee when this bullshit word came up

end my life senpai

>> No.11850081

>>11848454
"Procrustean" reminds me how much fun it would be to revive "perfidy".

>> No.11850089

>>11848446
As a German, I can assure that to any German speaking person you will come across as a fucking idiot

>> No.11850101

>>11850089
I don't doubt that. All I'm saying is that those words have a certain ring to them

>> No.11850104

>>11850032
>These priceless pieces of Yiddish are going out of fashion for no good reason
it's because everything is art in postmodernity. everything is good in someone's subjective view, and therefore these words don't refer to anything. why would you use words that describe past epochs' phenomena, and are now nothing but phantasms?

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11850236

>>11850032
Lets go take a schwitz

>> No.11850239

>>11848062
southernplayalisticcadillacfunkymusic

>> No.11850376

>>11848062
thanks latin, pulchritudinous comes from pulcher that means beautiful in latin.

>> No.11850387

>>11848062
Words of greek derivation are the best

>> No.11850458

Anasyramenos
Terpsichorean
Paraprosdokian
Palimpsest
Esquivalence

>>11850042
>elementary
What kind of asshat teacher throws "pulchritudinous" at kiddos that size?

>> No.11850512

>Anachronistic
>Grandiloquence
>Guadalquivir

>> No.11850985

>>11850089
nobody cares fritz

>> No.11850997

Cerebrate
Cogitate
Ratiocinate
Acclimatize
soliloquize

>> No.11851006

parablepsis occasioned by homoioteleuton

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>>11848062
callipygian

>> No.11851150

Loquacious
Bombastic
Pedantic
Superfluous
Didactic
Turgid
Magniloquent
Grandiloquent
Prolix
Highfalutin

>> No.11851708

>>11848444
Never thought of it this way. You're right.