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here are 10 of the most beautiful words in the human language. try sprinkling them throughout your next conversation & admire the way they feel rolling off your lips. watch how the listener’s eyes light up.
1. adroit: dexterous, agile
2. adumbrate: to very gently suggest
3. aestivate: to summer, to spend the summer
4. ailurophile: a cat-lover
5. beatific: befitting an angel or saint
6. beleaguer: to exhaust with attacks
7. blandiloquent: beautiful & flattering
8. caliginous: dark & misty
9. champagne: an effervescent wine
10. chatoyant: like a cat’s eye
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i so agree. they are stunning ❤
also; ‘flamboyant’ and ‘petrachor’.
1 – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flamboyant
2 – http://www.reference.com/search?q=Petrichor
AMAZING list!!! Thank you so much for posting it!
3. aestivate: to summer, to spend the summer
i LOVE this. i’m teaching it to my 9th graders.
I take issue with the top word on your list. Adroit comes from the French word for “right”, as in “right handed”. It is the direct antonym of gauche, both in English and in its native French where it means “left”, as in “left handed”. As a non-right-hander I find both of these words to be handist and offensive.
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effervescent – exciting, giving off bubbles, fizzy.
Caliginous is the color of my mind.
Thanks for reminding me!
How nice! Thanks for the list!
Those are wonderful.
they are images not words…they seem beautiful like a beautiful image…but they don’t have content…
Great list.
I am reminded of when I was out to dinner with my spouse and another couple, and the other guy dropped his fork on the floor. As he leant down to pick it up he apologized, saying “Sorry, how gauche of me.” Quick as a flash, my hubby replied, “But how adroit you were picking it up.” That tickled my funny bone with the play on words (ref Jim above).
Libertine is my favorite, even if its not in the list.
“adumbrate: to very gently suggest” – my dictionary says 1. to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
2. to foreshadow; prefigure.
3. to darken or conceal partially; overshadow.
Hmph.
Huh?
Personally, I’ve always found “vehemently” to sound rather lovely. But nice post!
hm…what does that mena?
Eek! Took me long enough to reply…just got back on WordPress after a ridiculous hiatus.
vehement: Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion.
با اجازه فارسی زبان ها هم از این افزونه بهره مند شده اند
haseen! right? wow i can read what you wrote, thats so cool(:
what about absquatulate? meaning, to leave abruptly under suspicious circumstances.
thank you for this list.
the words make my heart tremble & leap & thrill.
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This was great to stumble upon. Thanks!
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Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
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wow this is very helpful! thanks alot(:
the words r to big fer me.. i dont understand them
Wow!!! omg! Those words made me feel like I never went to school! They were great though. I was actually looking around for baby names with really beautiful meanings (just happened across this list). If any of you have names to suggest, omg, do feel ogliged!
awww….thats cute.
I always thought Lyric was beautiful for a girls name..was planning on using it myself if the time ever came =)
Very nice, it made my day to say these words. Thanks for posting them.
that is nice and a little weird.
some of these words on here i have learned in school alike the beging of the year.
i meant “like the beging of the year.”
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These words are great! Some of them helped me, but I made a band called, “Your Remarkable Words” But, thanks!!
i need some hyphaluting words tnx
amazing
to each our own…..
this world is beautifu…..
we all have special words we find meaning in…..
words that make our hearts bleed….
astounding, individuality, melodic, unique, grateful, unusual, touch, hug, love, friendship, family, radiant, patience, delicate. caress, creative, thoughtful, memories,reminising, friendly, smile,
But depending on your intonation even words defined in a derogatory sense can be concidered beautiful…….
doesn’t estivate/aestivate mean to sleep in the summer, as opposed to hibernate?