Post words you find beautiful

Language doesn't matter, although you might want to add a translation or definition to unusual and/or non-english words. Meaning doesn't have to matter, but it can.

Just post your words.

I'll start.


Cerebral
I find this word synaesthetically pleasing... It gives my brain a tingling feeling and I see colours.

Aivot
Finnish for brain(s). And just now I realized how many brain-related favourite words I have. I just like the way they sound. I have a special thing for the diphtong "ai".



Neural
More of these. This is warm and runs all over my skin. I like it better written than spoken, but both are wonderful anyway.

insomnia

arpeggio

lamentation

After my grandma's funeral, when I was in my 20s, we had a get-together at my parents' house, and my cousin went on and on about how the most beautiful word in the English language is chlamydia, and how unfair that such a lovely word should belong to that.

absconding
mercurial
sylvan
sable
decadence
labyrinthine
iridescent
+ many others that I can't think of right now.

Twig

Brandish

Clinic

Staple

how do you find a word beautiful? I do, however, know a really ugly word. Facetious. OMG.

I like the words myth and rhythm. Something about using Y as the only vowel.

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how do you find a word beautiful? I do, however, know a really ugly word. Facetious. OMG.

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for me, it's usually the way it sounds that makes it beautiful (to me).

girls

vagina

boobs

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Originally Posted by jessica129

... Facetious...

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WOOT! Add that to my list! :D

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Originally Posted by Capitalist Pig

girls

vagina

boobs

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ROFL

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Originally Posted by Capitalist Pig

girls

vagina

boobs

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Pillu – finnish for pussy. Usually considered vulgar, but I think it's just gorgeous. Also, kulli – equivalent for "cock".

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Neural
More of these. This is warm and runs all over my skin.[/FONT] I like it better written than spoken, but both are wonderful anyway.

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That's a very nice word. To me it's like butter.

There's a lot of words I find beautiful. A couple of anatomical ones for me are ganglion and alveoli.

Awesome thread.

Decadence (surprisingly)
Charlatan (surprisingly)
Oblivion
World-weary
Nemesis
Fruition
Hubris
Jaded
Abyss
Agape
Venus
Era
Decade
Solitude
Whore
Redeem
Repent
Nihil
Perish
Forsake
Coup
Mimic
Oni
Rejuvenation
Wherein
Baby
Doll
Loathe
Lutunen
Lucifer
Slit
Lust
Aflame
Terse
Mistress
Romance
Epiphany
Roam
Wreak
Havoc
Ensue
Pursue
Abuse
Dosage
Intimidation
Affection
Aggression
Sanity
Refer
Betwixt
Quote
Quota
Quantum
Continuum
Cue
Sensual
Similarity
Insignificance
Transgression
Amends

Now that I think about it, this might seem a bit too revealing about me but I don't know whether it actually is.

Most words with an addition of a- or -th such as asleep or fucketh in dost thou fucketh off. And I like many many Latin/Greek words, especially compound words that make use of them being fairly isolating languages. I also like to use plural of some -us ending words when it changes to -i like "octopi", "fungi" and "cacti". Also some Christian concepts because I like Christian romanticism and Satan.

Please don't quote the whole list.

Ascetic
Aesthetic
Visceral
Veracity
Cunt
Archipelago
Crescent
Facade
Obfuscation
Walrus
Launder
Turpitude
Vigor

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Ascetic
Aesthetic
Visceral
Veracity
Cunt
Archipelago
Crescent
Facade
Obfuscation
Walrus
Launder
Turpitude
Vigor

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Oh mama

Justice
Faith
Poula (Spelling is assuredly wrong, it was a word mt faroese ex taught me, i quite like the meaning *grins*)

oath
soliloquy (sp?)
forsooth
guerra
bolero
cherie
pique
geese
korarenakatta
longing
aspire
whim
cattywampus
tempestuous
epiphany
anschauung
quail
quiver
abyss
harmony
debris
song
chimera
dream
estrella
santiago
esprit d'escalier

Cow.

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girls

vagina

boobs

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Long time no see, Parkster.

god damn mother fucking son of a bitch

Vicissitude
Implicit
Scallywag
Thunder
Wee
Fellatio
Rose
Cooter
Imbecile
Cumquat

lol with definitions? hahaha Ashton, that looks like you tore a page out of a dictionary.

Miserable
Moreover
Wondrous

I just don't get this. I'm lost. They're just words. Words can't be beautiful.

"The sweaty scrotum sack swelled facetiously and clandestinely in the facade of the cellar door*"

God IEIs pick the best words

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Apperception The action or fact of becoming conscious by subsequent reflection of a perception already experienced; any act or process by which the mind unites and assimilates a particular idea (esp. one newly presented) to a larger set or mass of ideas (already possessed), so as to comprehend it as part of the whole.
Concinnity Skilful and harmonious adaptation or fitting together of parts; harmony, congruity, consistency.
Internecine Mutually destructive, aiming at the slaughter or destruction of each other.
Ossifcation A process resulting in bony formation or concretion.
Praxeology The study of such actions as are necessary in order to give practical effect to a theory or technique; the science of human conduct; the science of efficient action.

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Thanks for these

twilit
recoil
inter
crepuscular
illicit
cid

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Originally Posted by octo

I also like very sharp, knocking words, like eastern European surnames ending in "ich".

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russian nomenclature system :love:

sinuous
kayak
cubicle
cloister
vermillion
oubliette
bristle
ooze
scour
crescendo
solo
calcify
alma
subterfuge
terrain
firmament
panopticon
russet
tremulous
somnambulation
mortar
glossolalia
glockenspiel
gegenüber (so fun to say!)
ei
gouge
quixotic
corpuscle
catastrophe
supernova
apocalypse (“poca” sounds cute to me)
yes

Ftr, since most of the words given here are of latin origin, I use them on a daily basis. Yes, I'm c00l.

JUST TOO MANY AWESOME WORDS.

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I just don't get this. I'm lost. They're just words. Words can't be beautiful.

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Light-refracting dildo of awesomeness.

lapanen (knitted mitten)
lutunen (cute/lovely)
aava (large/wide open sea)
ulappa (also open sea)
laiva (ship)
lintu (bird)
hilla (cloudberry / a woman's name)
sara (sedge / a woman's name)
valo (light)

I love you Finnish language Agarina and Avinuona.

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Ftr, since most of the words given here are of latin origin, I use them on a daily basis. Yes, I'm c00l.

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Ive never really found the latin I know or see (scientific language, etc) to be beautiful, specifically. I think this is because I have to translate everything in my mind before thinking about it or expressing it.

loquacious
antananarivo (capital of Madagascar)

Aivo-nuha, noniin, taas tuli aivo-nuha. Atsiii!

http://kotiliesi.fi/s/files/vanhat/12572-nuha.jpg

Galen.

freedom

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Originally Posted by Nowisthetime

Aivo-nuha

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aivonuha*?

I think the sound of the following words corresponds to their content to a certain degree.

Battle (in bulgarian - битка)
Raven (in bulgarian - гарван)

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Originally Posted by Agarina

lapanen (knitted mitten)
lutunen (cute/lovely)
aava (large/wide open sea)
ulappa (also open sea)
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No offense, but Finnish sounds like baby talk to me. :lol:

Pa3s.

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No offense, but Finnish sounds like baby talk to me. :lol:

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Maybe Agarina just likes baby talkish words. :D Try imagining a baby saying purnukka or perämies... And no, I do not find those any specially beautiful! :D

Or saying "vittu perkele."

Here's a short Finnish beer commercial and the talk is a bit rougher than those cute words Agarina posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKVD5LxtWKo

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Originally Posted by Aquagraph

Or saying "vittu perkele."

Here's a short Finnish beer commercial and the talk is a bit rougher than those cute words Agarina posted:

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There was, what, like five words of Finnish? :lol:

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Originally Posted by aivonua nainini

There was, what, like five words of Finnish? :lol:

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We laconic Finns don't speak much do we? :p

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Originally Posted by Aquagraph

We laconic Finns don't speak much do we? :p

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YEA RIGHT

Haha, yeah I see.

Maybe just because we use so ridiculously complicated words in German. Like "Spitzenrefinanzierungsfazilität", "Großtafelbauweise", or "Inkompetenzkompensationskompetenz" (my favourite, but not because of the sound of it. However, it's party a joke)


Words I like are:

empire
valerian
cascade
rivet

Fanal - beacon (uncommon, elevated)
füttern - feed
Versorgung - supply
Technik - technology
Festung - fortress
Hälfte - half
Splitter - splinter
Jänner - January (used by Swiss/Austrians)
Scheck - check/draft

Optimus Prime
Omega Supreme
Ultra Magnus
Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker
Soundwave: Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Ratbat
Blaster
Fortress Maximus
Bumblebee
Hot Rod
Stunticons: MotorMaster, Dead End, Drag Strip, Wildrider, Breakdown...and Menasor
Constructicons: Scrapper, Scavenger, Hook, Bonecrusher, Mixmaster, Longhaul...and Devastator

http://i46.tinypic.com/b7apep.jpg

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image

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePFwsZsRz0

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Originally Posted by aivonua nainini

*video*

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I can play this game, too.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0oBhS_Hx8

Doesn't the word sound cute enough for the animal or what? :lol:

surreptitious

crystalline

limerence

osmosis

diaspora

serendipity

vernacular

sienna

arohanui -
http://www.arohanui.co.nz

Arohanui is a Maori word and, as with many Polynesian words, there is no direct meaning or translation into English. The literal meaning is "BIG LOVE"

It appears to me that this "Arohanui" (or big love) can be beyond a person, beyond a family and even a community or race. It could be all encompassing of the earth; it's people, animals, plants, our oceans and our universe plus everything within and beyond. Possibly interrelationships between all that is.

if only intellectualism was as easy as posting in this thread :(
i could be a genius!! i could be so impressive.

Rancid
Blast
Bolt
Sashay
Bedeck
Spangle
Akimbo
Noontide
Antipodal
Anemone
Bullish
Crotchety
Gangrenous
High-falutin'
Rictus grin
Swine
Popover
Jungle gym
Valence (verb)
Wriggle
Sheepish
Stump
Wrought
Pinhead
Clotted cream
Maidenhead
La poubelle
Sidewinder

argumentum ad populum

sabbatic

mass hysteria

synesthesia

suede

embroidery

phallus

reductio ad ******um

Endoplasmic reticulum
Argent
Augmented
Auxiliary
Maximum

As of late:

Akolasia - the vice of excess, when desires are not corrected by reason.
Antanaclasis - repetition of a single word, but with different meanings.
Antiperistasis - resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
Aposiopesis - breaking off or pausing speech for dramatic or emotional effect.
Casuistry - specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, especially in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; sophistry.
Causal Nexus - cause and effect, chain of reactions, concatenation of effects.
Chiasmus - two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point.
Exegesis - is a critical explanation orinterpretation of a text.
Hysteron Proteron- reversal of anticipated order of events; a form of hyperbaton.
Iconomatic - using pictures to represent sounds of words.
Negentropy - also negative entropy or syntropy or extropy or entaxy; it lies at the intersection of entropy and life.
Paraprosdokian - phrase in which the latter part causes a rethinking or reframing of the beginning.
Paroemion - alliteration in which every word in a sentence or phrase begins with the same letter.

+ a plenitude of dicta et sententiae

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As of late:

Akolasia - the vice of excess, when desires are not corrected by reason.
Antanaclasis - repetition of a single word, but with different meanings.
Antiperistasis - resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
Aposiopesis - breaking off or pausing speech for dramatic or emotional effect.
Casuistry - specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, especially in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; sophistry.
Causal Nexus - cause and effect, chain of reactions, concatenation of effects.
Chiasmus - two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point.
Exegesis - is a critical explanation orinterpretation of a text.
Hysteron Proteron- reversal of anticipated order of events; a form of hyperbaton.
Iconomatic - using pictures to represent sounds of words.
Negentropy - also negative entropy or syntropy or extropy or entaxy; it lies at the intersection of entropy and life.
Paraprosdokian - phrase in which the latter part causes a rethinking or reframing of the beginning.
Paroemion - alliteration in which every word in a sentence or phrase begins with the same letter.

+ a plenitude of dicta et sententiae

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Are you a greek literature teacher or what? :D

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Are you a greek literature teacher or what? :D

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lol, yes, literature and linguistics -- and most figures of speech/tropes have greek names (:

onomatopoeia
Emily
lighthouse
swan
rhapsody

coax
marvel
rapture
shadow

Macedonia
Placebo
Scarlet
Provocative
Prestige
Lolita
Euphoria
Jehovah
Misogyny
Glamour
Bourgeoisie
Blizzard
Promiscuous
Lullaby
Nostalgic
Luscious
Electric

vintage
marble
emergent
demure
mesmerize
slender
elusive
palimpsest
epistemology
oxymoron
chiasmus
hieroglyph
ambrosia
ellipsis
tantalizing
mimesis
chimera
vixen
pseudonym
euphemism
lustrous

Aquiline
Illustrious
Subsequent
Portmanteau
Saffron
Asphyxiate
Sublimate
Leonine
Ossify
Hysteria
Bereft
Sehnsucht
Stag
麓 - Fumoto - Mountain base
すれ違う - Surechigau - To pass by (each other)

calendula

scheme

schema

semantics

angular

leverage

chasm

hegemony
parvenu
protean
saturnine
cadaverous
sybarite

Here are some of my favorite German words.


Pracht
Immense splendor.

Glück
Luck.

Lichtblick
A bright, new perspective that helps you.

Schlummern
Sleeping innocently.

Himmelszelt
Literal meaning: The sky becomes a tent for the stars.

Geborgenheit
The feeling of being protected, or giving protection.

Behutsam
Showing care.

Zufriedenheit
Contentment.

Liebe
Love.

Tautropfen
Dew.

Anschmiegsam
Cuddly.

Schönheit
Pulchritude.

Sehnsucht
An intense yearning.

Heldentat
An act of being heroic.
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Durchhaltevermögen
Perseverance.

Vorstellungskraft
The power of imagination.

Unermesslichkeit
Unfathomability.

Traum
A dream.

Überfluss
Cornucopia.

I'm jealous that there is no equivalent expression in my language for the word fucktard
I also like the words microcosm, epiphany, oblivion and nitwit

incognito
virtuoso
quixotic
rōnin
shibui
equanimity
paradigm
syntax

Allah

Ataraxia

Benedict Cumberbatch

Noodle

tsunami
vortex
maelstrom
cyclone
typhoon

Moist

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Allah

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الله‎

The best word

Abstract
Cordillera
Adage
Guyana

Truth be told though, I like these words and the way they roll off the tongue but I don't know what it would take for me to call them beautiful.

Exogenous
Entwined
Catharsis
Death
Dread
Knight
Azure
Gaze
Edge
Echo
Fade
Shadow
Implosion
Retaliation

English is probably my favorite language. It all sounds good.

Imbecilic

Gladiator
Candle
Reflection