Our digital world is swarming with recently made-up words like YOLO and SWAG, plus misappropriated words like ‘awesome’ to mean pretty much everything. This demands that literary types everywhere come out of the woodwork in protest! Here are some luscious and fulsome words to sprinkle liberally into your communications. Alternately you could wield these words as Gandalf would a protective talisman.
All of these words have been hand selected for their dulcet and evanescent beauty. They are not guaranteed to win you any sort of real world success, but they simply exist as objects of far-reaching felicity. Like treasures in museums, some words are so beautiful that they deserve our attention and persistent use.
So find a cosy inglenook or seraglio, preferably in a bucolic setting. Settle down with a cup of tea. There’s a certain natural ebullience that comes with writing like an 18th century dandy.
1. Ailurophile: A cat-lover
2. Assemblage: A gathering
3. Becoming: Attractive
4. Beleaguer: To exhaust with attacks
5. Brood: To think alone
6. Bucolic: In a lovely rural setting
7. Chatoyant: Like a cat’s eye
8. Comely: Attractive
9. Conflate: To blend together
10. Dalliance: A fleeting love affair
11. Demure: Shy, sheepish and reserved
12. Denouement: The resolution of a mystery
13. Diaphanous: Filmy and transparent
14. Dulcet: Sweet, sugary
15. Ebullience: Bubbling enthusiasm
16. Efflorescence: Flowering, blooming
17. Evanescent: Disapearing quickly, lasting only a short time.
18. Evocative: Suggestive
19. Fetching: Pretty and attractive
20. Felicity: Bliss, pleasantness, pleasantness
21. Gossamer: The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk
22. Halcyon: A defined period of happiness and carefree peace
23. Imbroglio: An altercation or complicated situation
24. Imbue: To infuse or instill
25. Incipient: The beginning, in an early stage
26. Ineffable: Unutterable, inexpressible
27. Ingénue: A naïve young woman
28. Inglenook: A cozy nook by the hearth
29. Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning
30. Lagniappe: A small gift given gratuitously
31. Lilt: To move and shimmy in a lively way
32. Lissome: Slender and graceful
33. Lithe: Slender, elegant and flexible
34. Mellifluous: Melodious and sweet sounding
35. Moeity: Two things which can be divided
36. Mondegreen: When two similar words are misunderstood
37. Murmurous: Murmuring
38. Opulent: Lush, luxuriant
39. Petrichor: An earthy smell of the dirt after rain
40. Quintessential: The most essential
41 Redolent: Aromatic, fragrant
42. Riparian: By the bank of a stream
43. Ripple: A tiny wave
44. Scintilla: A sparkling object or tiny thing
45. Sempiternal: Eternal, everlasting
46. Seraglio: Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem
47. Susurrous: Whispering, hissing
48. Talisman: A good luck charm
49. Tintinnabulation: Tinkling
50. Wafture: Waving
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Used many of these very words in my two recently published books, which I hope yo can view on my blog home page. Still, I’ve learned some new ones. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 Best
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Thanks for your lovely compliment. Really glad you loved the new words and I’ll be following what you’re doing from now on to see your work too 😉
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Aww…thank you so much. Wishing you well 🙂
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I actually use quite a few of these–but there are always new words to love! Thanks for the list.
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Thanks Dabaudoin, glad there was at least a couple you didn’t know then. I will be delivering more obscure ones soon. Have a lovely day xx
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These delicious words. As for using them for flirting? Maybe not. Too few have a command of the English language. Thank you for offering this wonderful list!
I just discovered your blog. It is such a treasure trove!
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Hi Roxann, you are welcome! Thank you for stopping by 🙂
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