What Words Do You Use To Impress? Can You Use It In A Sentence?

Ersatz. It means a cheap knockoff. A poor imitation of the genuine thing.

The Thanksgiving Otter is an ersatz holiday mascot.

One of the thinks I like about DataLounge is that it stretches my vocabulary.

Moribund.

I don't know what it means.

For all intensive purposes

R2 me, too. I absolutely practice my writing using DL. I really value DL feedback.

The grammar and words used are very impressive, at least to me.

DL May be cunty, but honestly it makes me want to be a better writer.

R3 Lmao

mor·i·bund /ˈmôrəˌbənd/ adjective (of a person) at the point of death.

Ostentatious.

R3 R4 R7 are those words directed at me? Got it. I still love DL.

os·ten·ta·tious /ˌästənˈtāSHəs/ adjective characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice. "books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish"

[quote]R3 R4 R7 are those words directed at me?

Nope.

I always thought that the phrase was "for all intensive purposes" instead of the correct "for all intents and purposes".

Someone used the word "moribund" in the "UK Xmas Election Thread". I thought it was a very fancy word and did not know what it meant.

My students love the words "perfidious" and "squabble." They heard them in a documentary we were watching and have been using them all year.

eleemosynary

You’re so eleemosynary.

Nacreous

Samizdat

Oleaginous

Fucktard

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious.

[quote]mor·i·bund /ˈmôrəˌbənd/ adjective (of a person) at the point of death.

Example: Kamala Harris needs to end her moribund campaign.

Fucking DL

Verificata

Sartorial

Obsequious

Anodyne

Schadenfreude

Some of my favorite words

Dictioneer

planchette

R11 wow, that sentence really helps me figure out the definition.

Chicanery, tricks and lies to forward one’s purpose or political ends.

I’m so fucking shit of this Trumpian chicanery!

Ever since hearing Charles Ryder's narration in "Brideshead Revisited," I've had the word "jejune" lurking in the back of my mind.

Unfortunately, there has never been an occasion when I could have said "jejune" without sounding - well - jejune.

jejune - naive, boring.

I like to throw in "efficacy."

Ambivalent - not necessarily to impress but just makes my general feeling known and I don’t care if people understand what it means.

soupçon. I detect a soupçon of sarcasm in your praise.

halcyon. The turn of the last century were the halcyon days of the British Empire.

R26

Racist.

R27 how?

behemoth

Compared to my old Honda Civic my new car is a behemoth.

obsequious

Stop kissing my ass, you obsequious little cunt.

sagacious: good judgement, i.e., He was sagacious enough to avoid outright conflict.

eventuate: occuring as a result, i.e., Despite her friendly overtures, an invitation did not eventuate.

Some DL fuckwit perceived one of my posts as "odious", a word that brings to mind 90 year old racists.

Recondite as in OP is searching for recondite words.

Cunt.

Pixie.

You know what it means.

peignoir

Snatch

Skulduggery.

The backbencher has been investigated for fraud and other skulduggery.

Malarkey.

No malarkey.

Diddle

Dear. As in Oh, Dear!

en·nui /änˈwē/ noun.

a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

"he succumbed to ennui and despair."

synonyms: boredom, tedium, listlessness, lethargy, lassitude, languor, restlessness, weariness, sluggishness, enervation

I don't use to impress because these words are simple but they convey my prissy side when warranted.

Nary

Akimbo

Lest

Also, the make me giggle a little, lest you are not aware.

[quote]Verificata

Except, r16, "verificata" is always spelled wrong on Datalounge. It is almost always changed to "verificat[bold]i[/bold]a" (note the bolded "i").

"Verificata" means "verified" in Italian.

The only definition I can find for "verificat[bold]i[/bold]a" is "checkers" in Romanian.

You decide.

It's probably Latin, R43.

Analingus

Sizemeat

Irregardless

Etiolated

Chthonic

Borborygmic

Nihilist

Ontic

Merkin

I like "plethora".

r43 "Verificatia" is correct, in DL-speak. It arose from Erna's propensity to convert "-ion" words to "-ia" to be clever. Therefore "verificatia" is DL for "verification."

Sesquipedalian = "having many syllables."

I love “irregardless”, R46. Sometimes I use it on DataLounge to generate responses in a thread, because it never fails to excite the hoi polloi.

Purview. The scope of the influence or concerns over something. I learned this one from John-Luc Picard of Star Trek, Next Generation.

Non-punctuation grammar errors are outside the purview of the Evening Punctuationist.

R52 nice word.

My word and I thank you, R53.

"Evidence-based" usually gets nods of acquiescence in any argument.

floccinaucinihilipilification (uncountable) (often humorous) The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.

Inextricable. My feelings are inextricable from the facts.

I’m hoping everyone uses our new words in DL threads. Especially R56’s word.

I like that German word that means “a face that calls for being slapped”. I can’t find it now.

Disabuse.

The right to brevity.

alacrity - noun. Promptness in response : cheerful readiness

desuetude - noun. Discontinuance from use or exercise : disuse

"whizbang" - noun. One that is conspicuous for noise, speed, excellence, or startling effect.

pestilence - noun. A contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating; especially : bubonic plague. Like when AOL members were let loose on the internet.

R62 I challenge you to make a sentence using all your words.

Bill Clinton once used the word “Disabuse”, and for the next year or two, it kept popping up regularly on TV.

R64 I noticed that with SNL and complicit.

Antithesis

Built-in fancy-schmancy cooktops with grills, griddles, deep fryers, etc.

The challenge to create a whizbang of a sentence was not met with alacrity; but rather than bury the thread under the pestilence of jejune tattle, the commentator did his best to delay the "What Words Do You Use To Impress?" topic from falling into desuetude.

Obfuscate.

Paradigm.

Exposition (as a verb).

This is not my personal favorite, but I know of someone who is fond of "riparian entertainments."

R67 Sorry guys we needed to take a quick commercial break to view the latest cooktops. Carry on...

R70 Yeah, that is straight from Hyacinth Bucket.

R64 Yes, I remember "disabusing" people of "misapprehensions" was experiencing a Renaissance.

R68 Well done.

R68 nailed it!

Schadenfreude

Fandangled

Googlefritz

Schadenfreude

Fandangled

Googlefritz

Marry me, R68.

Quantum entanglement

Rapprochement

Soi disant

Potemkin

Parsec

Epigenetic

Fractious

Yo!!

Flummoxed.

I am flummoxed by all the stupid cunts here on Datalounge.

liminal

Flummoxed?

The vast majority of posters on this website are slightly off kilter.

We don’t play by the rules.

That means that we will occasionally come across as obnoxious cunts, but rarely stupid.

There are a few people that still think that Stalin was a great man, that Keynes was a deep thinker, and that Krugman makes sense. Ever. Read one column from this year, and then read about his opinions on the same subject 10 years ago, and they will be fundamentally different, if not diametrically opposed.

R81

I actually started to include the word, but only because I had just read about the root word with regards to subliminal messaging.

Great word, but I’d never use it conversation.

Quantum entanglement, rapprochement, epigenetic and Potemkin show up...far too often.

I used it in a text exchange with a friend with a philosophy degree. I don't remember the context, but I remembered the word.

I don't use words to impress; I'm impressed when people understand the words I use.

If you want to be super pretentious, use the word "callipygian" --- an adjective that means having well-shaped buttocks.

I came across it in an article whose author was quoting Conrad Black.

Crepuscular is a nice word, and useful, too.

"Bats are crepuscular creatures; they come out at twilight."

"He seemed attractive enough in the dim, crepuscular light of early evening."

Scintillating Queen Anne

Impetus, quantitative, and bamboozle.

I use whilst and whom

R90 I get so Flipping confused when to use those words appropriately.

Evidently...as in, “Evidently, I am smarter than you.”

I don't get OPs meme. What it mean?

Dichotomy

Pejorative. The word liberal is used as a pejorative term by conservatives, and the word conservative is used as a pejorative term by liberals. Decrepitude. Once upon a time I attached this descriptive state to men over 60, but now that I'm 60 I attach it to men over 70. For musicians: Appoggiatura. (pronounced uh PAH jah TOO ruh). He could have shaped that appoggiatura much more beautifully.

Glenn Close thought she was a "shoe-in" for the Oscar.

Swell

Lousy

Execrable

Venality

Diatribe

Mendacity

Dissembling

Artless

Borygmus

Backpfeifengesicht

Lumbering

Fungivorous

Mycophagy

Spiv

Supperative

caseation

"Kummerspeck" consistently received ooh-la-las every time I used it this year.

hoax. witch hunt

[quote]I use whilst and whom

Using "whilst" is a crime. It's not the 18th century.

sycophant

perfunctory

rapscallion

malefactor

imbecile

R101 People in Australia use it all the time. I imagine England as well.

Chiaroscuro - strong contrast between dark and light in an image, particularly in art or film.

"Chiaroscuro lighting is characteristic of film noir."

[quote]R101 People in Australia use it all the time. I imagine England as well.

People in Canada and the U.S. don't use "whilst". Therefore it's a crime. The correct term is "while".

[quote]Supperative

Did you mean SUPPURATIVE?

[quote]R101 People in Australia use it all the time. I imagine England as well.

It's like the Brits using "pudding" to refer to all desserts, just because they hate the French. Infuriating.

"You are now a sailor in His Majesty's service."

Whoa!

Chatoyant: (of a gem, especially when cut en cabochon) showing a band of bright reflected light caused by aligned inclusions in the stone. More generally, glittering, sparkling and indicative of flaws, in either appearance or character.

Nicolia, at evening play Welds a fan of gilt brisé Her wantonesse, chatoyant prattle Incensed and censored by its rattle

Catamite.

"Kevin Spacey offered his new catamite an Xbox and a bag of skittles in exchange for a blow job."

Backpfeifengesicht?

Schwachsinn!

You’ve never used that word in a real conversation.

I like to throw in "antidisestablishmentarianism" whenever I get the chance. So people usually just shrug it off, like the other day when I said I was reminded of it by the new sundae at Friendly's.

A really fun word is "supercalifragilisticexpialidicious,' because anyone who knows what you're talking about is left wondering whether you meant to use an adverb or an adjective.