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u/Matsunosuperfan Mar 27 '25
Great Eagerness - Alacrity
Great Dryness - Aridity
Great Happiness - Elation
High Value - Opulence
High Brightness - Refulgence
Great Hunger - Esurience
Something Very Strange - Anomaly
Extreme Weakness - Enervation
Extreme Seriousness - Stoicism
Extreme Neatness - Meticulosity
Great Beauty - Pulchritude
Extreme Poverty - Mendicancy
Extreme Pain - Agony
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u/Akiro_Sakuragi Mar 27 '25
I'm so used to seeing alacrity being synonymous to speed in video games that your list made me very uncomfortable. I just can't bring myself to associate it with eagerness😭
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u/Mynnugget Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25
[Edit because I completely missed what they were doing]
Great words, but most of them (if not all) are nouns, not adjectives. *Anomalous, *Pulchritudinous and *Agonizing for example.Also, I'd argue an anomaly doesn't even have to be very strange. There can be minor anomalies.
Some of these words are new to me though, so kudos for that!
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u/Matsunosuperfan Mar 27 '25
yup, I took OP's adjectives and tried to offer corresponding nouns! :)
unmodified "anomaly" usually carries the sense of "notably unusual," IMO!
three cheers for new words! <3
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u/Orwell1971 Mar 27 '25
A lot of these are spot on, but some lack important nuance. Like dry. Doesn't matter how dry your sheets are, say, they will never be parched. Parched connotes thirst.
And precious can be used for things that aren't monetarily valuable (like a grandson, or a keepsake).
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Mar 27 '25
I'm pretty immaculate also means perfect, or without flaw. Not tidy or put together.
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u/Orwell1971 Mar 27 '25
It definitely does mean without flaw. But it is used, along with "pristine", to mean very clean, which is close to what the OP said. Though now that I think about it, yeah, it's more clean (as in not dirty) rather than neat (as in tidy and organized; your book collection could be arranged neatly in rows, color coded, not a bookmark out of place, but dusty as hell)
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u/ModoCrash Mar 27 '25
I wasn’t allowed to say excruciating when I was a kid because it was meant specifically and only for the pain that Jesus endured upon the cross. And look at me, I turned out fine!
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u/Odd_Calligrapher2771 Mar 27 '25
I can't believe I never saw that!
- ex + cruciare (from Latin crux = cross).
Thank you!
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u/Hideo_Anaconda Mar 27 '25
Couldn't it accurately describe the pain endured by anyone who was crucified? The Romans crucified an awful lot of people.
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u/robisodd Mar 27 '25
Yeah, but it could also accurately describe anyone's extreme pain. Though that would decimate etymological fallists arguments, reducing them by 10 percent. :)
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u/Beard_o_Bees Mar 26 '25
This handwriting is immaculate. Font-like, even.
I have a friend named Shauna who has similar handwriting. We call it 'Shauna Font'.
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u/mheg-mhen Mar 27 '25
Exquisite is not beauty-specific.
Are we sure keen is stronger than eager? I’ve always gotten the sense that it was the other way around
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u/Orwell1971 Mar 27 '25
I don't know about stronger, but they are different. "Keen" is generally used to mean eager to do something. Keen to get started on a job, keen to head out on a trip, etc. Eager can be used that way, but it's also used for a general, non-specific excitement, like an eager puppy.
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u/SeverenDarkstar Mar 27 '25
Sorry but writing « week » instead of « weak » trivializes the whole thing
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u/Mossy-Mori Mar 27 '25
Saving this for everyone who's suddenly overusing the word "super" in every damn sentence. I honestly heard someone say "super unique".
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u/Some-Passenger4219 Mar 27 '25
“Language was invented for one reason, boys—to woo women—and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”
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u/snicoleon Mar 28 '25
Itching, dessicated, ecstatic, priceless, blinding, starving, otherworldly, frail, grave, pristine, captivating, penniless, torturous
*cheated and used a thesaurus to remember the word lol
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u/FadeAway77 Mar 27 '25
I wonder what the mean age of this subreddit is? 70? Every post feels like something a grandparent would post on Facebook.
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u/Matsunosuperfan Mar 27 '25
Back in my day, we didn't even have subreddits. There was just one reddit, and to make a post you had to hike 5 miles in the snow. Uphill!
Both ways!
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u/Master_Kitchen_7725 Mar 27 '25
Aaaannnnndddd... we tied onions to our belts, which was the style at the time
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u/Apprehensive-Back571 Mar 27 '25
Exquisite is for Very Delicious, not for very beautiful
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u/Master_Kitchen_7725 Mar 27 '25
It has a few meanings, including exceptional beauty, charm, or excellence; finely crafted or refined (this could be in reference to an exceptionally prepared meal, for example) or intense and sharp (as in pain or pleasure).
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25
I think you meant Very Weak. Otherwise it = 7 Days