I love using long complicated words that people don't understand... Please teach me some? lol?

Answer 1

I love using obscure words too, so I signed up for the Merriam-Webster word of the day email on the advise of a fellow Answers user. I've been really impressed with the words they've sent me, and they have a pronouciating helper so you know you are using the words correctly! If you think you might be interested, check out:
http://www.m-w.com/word/subscribe.htm

My word of the day today was sinuous (intricate, complex). One good one that I keep finding use for is boondogle (a wasteful or impractical project or activity often involving graft).

Answer 2

My pet word is "lapalissian" ... something so blindingly obvious that it doesn't need to be said. I imported it from Italian and since I started using it a couple of years ago, everyone else in my office has caught it like a cold. That's even better than flummoxing people ... play with their minds and engineer their language ... bwahahahaaahhh!

To say that I'm a geeky weirdo and a bit of a tosspot would be ... lapalissian. But I don't give a monkey's what anyone else thinks!

The ultimate irony ... I'm the Plain English expert in my office. I check everyone else's writing and lecture them about talking straight!

Answer 3

Me too! Rock on, wordsmith! www.dictionary.com has a word of the day everyday and that is where I get some of my amazing words:
Plethora- a lot of something
Limpid- easily understandable
Taciturn- habitually silent; shy
Sagacious- wise
Agog- excitement
Petulant- easily irritated
Abnegate- refuse
Ambiguous- vague
Aplomb- self-confidence
Bailiwick- field of knowledge
Ken- range of knowledge
Jocund- jolly
Paucity- scarcity
Superfluous- beyond what is necessary
Temerity- recklessness
Cogitate- ponder
Animadvert- criticize
Entreat- ask earnestly
Bereft- lacking something
Desultory- aimless

Answer 4

pejorative

A word or phrase is pejorative if it implies contempt or disapproval. The adjective pejorative is synonymous with derogatory and dyslogistic (noun: dyslogism) (antonyms: meliorative, eulogistic, noun eulogism). Dyslogisms such as "pea-brain" and "bottom-feeder" are words and phrases essentially pejorative by their nature. Although pejorative means much the same thing as disparaging, the latter term may be applied to a look or gesture as well; in the evocative language of gesture, it may not be easy to distinguish a disparaging gesture from a dismissive or merely skeptical one

Answer 5

Try using the longest English word!! a 45 letter word

pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis

refers to a lung disease...check it out on the link!!!

There are many more to look at as well...

Major dictionaries

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of fine silica dust. Research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.[1]

The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

The longest non-technical word in major dictionaires is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[2][3][4] In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [5], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.[6]

[edit] Other notable long words

Anti­dis­establishment­arianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in colloquial currency for being one of the longest words in the English language.

* The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorific­abilitud­initatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), only because it was Shakespeare who used it.
* The humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish.[7] At 22 letters (including the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is occasionally quipped that the name is longer than the fish.
* Although only fourteen letters long, sesquipedalian deserves a mention. It was used by the Roman author Horace to refer to words that are "a foot and a half long."

Answer 6

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes, It is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary.

Answer 7

ENTREDENTOLIGNUMOLOGIST (23)

One who collects toothpick boxes.

GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILIA (23)

A proclivity for nibbling on women’s earlobes.

LLANSANTFFRAIDYMMECHAIN (23)

A place in Wales, UK.


PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY (23)

One of the two longest words to Have all six vowels in order.


PARASKAVEDEKATRIAPHOBIA (23)

Fear of Friday the Thirteenth.

PSEUDOLAMELLIBRANCHIATA (23)

Bivalve molluscs.

QUASIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER (23)

A 128th note.

USSOLZEWIECHINOGAMMARUS (23)

A small crustacean
Longest word with each vowel exactly twice.


BLEPHAROCONJUNCTIVITIS (22)

A disease of the eyelid.

CHOLEDOCHODOCHORRHAPHY (22)

Has 5 H’s
The operation of suturing the ends of a divided common bile duct.


HEXAHYDROXYOXYHEXALEAD (22)

The word with the most X’s (4)
An inorganic chemical compound obtained from the hydrothermal reaction of lead oxide with rhenium trioxide.


HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUAAS (22)

The word with the most U’s (9)
A small Hawaiian triggerfish, the unofficial state fish of Hawaii.


RHOMBICOSIDODECAHEDRON (22)

An Archimedean solid composed of sixty two faces.



COMICONOMENCLATURISTS (21)

Those who collects funny names.


ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH (21)

Instrument for measuring the brain’s electrical impulses.

Answer 8

My favourite word, that I try and work into sentences (which you can't do with scientific terms) is floccinaucinihilipilification, which means 'the act or habit of judging something to be worthless'. It comes from several different latin words, humorously juxtaposed (that's another one I like) together. For example, "What did you do at the art gallery?" "Oh, just some floccinaucinihilipilification".

Answer 9

The word quintessentially is great
example: Harry has a sense of humour that is quintessentially British.

Answer 10

Please do not do this. There are already too many others doing it. In the end none of us will understand anything.

What is the point of language if people do not understand what you are saying.

If you really want to know you should read the 'Notes for guidance on how to complete your tax return'.