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"Someone who's vulgar has bad taste ... From the Latin vulgus, meaning "the common people,"
Populist from Latin populus "people"
That's just the meaning of them though.

One word I like that is valid in english and probably other language but I never see used, and I grew up with it, is "fabulist" meaning a person that creates fables from everyday experiences. It is well known that small children can be fabulists, they're telling the tale of what happened, not the true story of what happened. It is not lies in the traditional sense, it can be lies but it can also be something where emotions and impressions trumps reality in the retelling of what happened.
 
I listened to a lot of Bal-Sagoth when i was younger, and they goddamn overdosed on the purple prose. I'll just do a handful of words, either from sung lyrics or the enormous walls of text Byron occasionally buried them in. I think that at most 5% of all this is sung or narrated. the rest is fluff.

The meanings are taken off of Merriam-Webster.

1: of, relating to, or occurring in the evening
2: active, flowering, or flourishing in the evening
1: admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion
2: reflecting light evenly from all surfaces
3: easy to understand
often capitalized
1: of or relating to the river Styx

2: extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
1: of, relating to, or characteristic of a Cyclops
2: huge, massive
3: of or relating to a style of stone construction marked typically by the use of large irregular blocks without mortar
a bristling of the hair of the head or body (as from fright or excitement)
1 a: sooty
1 b: obscure, murky
2: having a dark or dusky color
 
I enjoy the word niggardly, meaning stingy or spiteful about giving. If some hobo tries to make you feel bad about taking his change hat then he's just being niggardly, call him a niggard.
 
The word verisimilitude is used nowadays as a literary term, and refers to the believability of a story's internal world. As an example, a story set in the stone age would probably lose its verisimilitude if a caveman made a call on a telephone.

However, the term more generally means the appearance of truth. It's derived from the Latin UĒRĪSIMILITŪDŌ, a feminine word meaning probability and the appearance of truth and like things. The very form of the word is basically the concatenation of truth, UĒRUS or UĒRITĀS, with similarity, SIMILIS or SIMILITŪDŌ. That word is declined thus:

SINGULĀRISPLŪRĀLIS
NŌMINĀTĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDŌUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINĒS
ACCŪSĀTĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINEMUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINĒS
GENETĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINISUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINUM
DATĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINĪUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINIBUS
ABLĀTĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINEUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINIBUS

Those headings are singular, plural, nominative (subject), accusative (object), genetive (possessive), dative (indirect object), and ablative (by so-and-so).

AMHOLIO said:
meliorism (n.)
the belief that the world tends to improve and that kiwis humans can aid its betterment
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The word MELIOR MELIUS is the comparative form of BONUS, so that word is betterism, basically.
 
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UERISIMILITUDO said:
The word verisimilitude is used nowadays as a literary term, and refers to the believability of a story's internal world. As an example, a story set in the stone age would probably lose its verisimilitude if a caveman made a call on a telephone.

However, the term more generally means the appearance of truth. It's derived from the Latin UĒRĪSIMILITŪDŌ, a feminine word meaning probability and the appearance of truth and like things. That word is declined thus:

SINGULĀRISPLŪRĀLIS
NŌMINĀTĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDŌUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINĒS
ACCŪSĀTĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINEMUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINĒS
GENETĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINISUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINUM
DATĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINĪUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINIBUS
ABLĀTĪUUSUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINEUĒRĪSIMILITŪDINIBUS

Those headings are singular, plural, nominative (subject), accusative (object), genetive (possessive), dative (indirect object), and ablative (by so-and-so).



The word MELIOR MELIUS is the comparative form of BONUS, so that word is betterism, basically.
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Lets Learn Latin Together thread when?
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Persnickety adj. overly obsessed with minor details etymology from the Scotts pernicky of further unknown origin, maybe derived from particular.
Example sentence, Null is very persnickety about the forum.
 
Bandersnatch. I like the way it sounds, it just rolls off the tongue very well. Along the same lines, Jabberwock is another one I like.

Luchador. Big fan of Lucha Libre, and it's another word that has a nice sound to it.

Plenty of prehistoric animals with unique names. Some personal favorites that come to mind are Anomalocaris, Dimetrodon, Diplocaulus, and Thylacine.
 
My favourite word for quite a few years now has been polydactyl, meaning that the individual it describes has one or more extra digits. I just love the way it feels on my tongue, and how it is a very rare word in that it has very few alternative meanings, while at the same time it conjures images of pterodactyls and extinct animals.

I also like requiem and threnody. I love saying quokka and dunnart.
 
Sundae said:
Bandersnatch. I like the way it sounds, it just rolls off the tongue very well. Along the same lines, Jabberwock is another one I like.
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Anything from Jabberwocky should go in this thread:

chortle: a noisy chuckle
frabjous: fabulous; wonderful
mimsy: delicate; lightweight; feeble
portmanteau: A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two or more different words. Yes, Lewis Carroll came up with this word and concept!
slithy: Slimy and lithe
snark: Originally an imaginary animal coined by Carroll, now means something sarcastic and disrespectful.
Manxsome: An unpleasant characteristic of an enemy.
Vorpal: Sharp; deadly
galumph: To move clumsily and noisily.

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Chaos Sundae said:
Anything from Jabberwocky should go in this thread:

chortle: a noisy chuckle
frabjous: fabulous; wonderful
mimsy: delicate; lightweight; feeble
portmanteau: A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two or more different words. Yes, Lewis Carroll came up with this word and concept!
slithy: Slimy and lithe
snark: Originally an imaginary animal coined by Carroll, now means something sarcastic and disrespectful.
Manxsome: An unpleasant characteristic of an enemy.
Vorpal: Sharp; deadly
galumph: To move clumsily and noisily.

Edit: Added more words.
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Nonce words are always fun, weeaboo and skub are more modern examples.
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Nonce Word: a word coined for one single occasion only.
For words that are supposed to be for use only once, nonce words have a nasty habit of growing legs.
 
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