Which words do you guys find beautiful? Can be names or anything really. I don't know why but Thermopylae just has such a sweet ring to it.
Which words do you guys find beautiful? Can be names or anything really...
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Unrelated but I find certain words ugly, like the word delicious or poop. Makes me want to kill myself
Barcelona
Superfluous
I'll double down on this — words that have a protracted "-er" sound (chicken tenDERs, busTER poindexTER, etc.) make me want to kill the person speaking.
I also hate the word "treat."
Hart Crane's poem The broken tower has a lot of beautiful words
The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn
Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knell
Of a spent day - to wander the cathedral lawn
From pit to crucifix, feet chill on steps from hell.
Have you not heard, have you not seen that corps
Of shadows in the tower, whose shoulders sway
Antiphonal carillons launched before
The stars are caught and hived in the sun's ray?
The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower;
And swing I know not where. Their tongues engrave
Membrane through marrow, my long-scattered score
Of broken intervals… And I, their sexton slave!
Oval encyclicals in canyons heaping
The impasse high with choir. Banked voices slain!
Pagodas, campaniles with reveilles out leaping-
O terraced echoes prostrate on the plain!…
And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.
My word I poured. But was it cognate, scored
Of that tribunal monarch of the air
Whose thigh embronzes earth, strikes crystal Word
In wounds pledged once to hope - cleft to despair?
The steep encroachments of my blood left me
No answer (could blood hold such a lofty tower
As flings the question true?) -or is it she
Whose sweet mortality stirs latent power?-
And through whose pulse I hear, counting the strokes
My veins recall and add, revived and sure
The angelus of wars my chest evokes:
What I hold healed, original now, and pure…
And builds, within, a tower that is not stone
(Not stone can jacket heaven) - but slip
Of pebbles, - visible wings of silence sown
In azure circles, widening as they dip
The matrix of the heart, lift down the eye
That shrines the quiet lake and swells a tower…
The commodious, tall decorum of that sky
Unseals her earth, and lifts love in its shower.
Ponder
Wonder
Wounder
Thunder
Blunder
Sunder
music related words like Adagio, Apassionato, Allegro, Staccato, etc
I also like the word Providence
oblast
marquee
Phantom
Molest
Trounce
Stubble
soliloquy
raison d'être
staccato
boy
It's not too offensive if the "er" syllable isn't stressed. "Blunder" might be one of the worst utterances ever conceived.
Barthelona
Friend
Egret
Cimmeria
Zephyr
Daring
Chevalier
Can relate. Fiancée, listicle, just fucking shoot me.
Colloquialism is fun to say.
προτογονος
some of the most purely aesthetically beautiful words i know:
paradox, perennial, European, Anglican, Uranian, focal, mathematician
nova
inform
discern
dawn
rubenesque
shimmer
enshrine
genesis
Sublate and subsume. Phenomenology
Cyкa ыyaт
European gets me off
nigger
skylark
my all time favorite
love soliloquy also
>raison d'être
nice, can't wait to use it somewhere
Focal is spot on.
Interferometer, candle, sinew, furnace, trace, deep
extremely bad taste every single one of you
Moist
Literally the best word
Plexus, fornix, sperma, sulcus, diaphysis, halux, digitus, os, sclera, vena, chiasma, sinus, commisura, septum, anastomosa, membrana, perimetrium, vertex, intima
fuselage
Creosote
Germaine
Afflatus
Necrophilia
Lumbago
Screed
Rambunctious
Tomato
That's a good one
Indignant
Sepulchre
Licentious
Vicarious
Antedeluvian
When that word was made they really made a blunder
Notice how all these words are etymologically from the Latinate and often French side of English rather than the Anglo-Saxon cognates
Great choice I'd never have thought of Thermopylae myself!! Hmm spitball
Voluptuous, menacing, satisfying, gomorrah, feign, calamity, hierarchy, synopsis, syndicate. Idk I love all words
Lineage
Ancestry
Serpent
really makes you think doesn’t it!?
ya know, they say one of the most interesting phrase in the english language is "cellar door"
Basilisk
Sword
Cornice
Camp
crap selection
no, and they don't.
You're more than entitled to that opinion my friend :)
Igry. Romance language speakers detected.
lugubrious
grace
fathom
poor, sad, but, in, you, must, a, killed, ends, not, effect, epistle, two
Superb
Hellfire
Lamborghini
Christianity
Stallion
Howitzer
Thunder
Fantastico
Molto
Battered
Tactician
Clavicle
Destiny
Eden
Also agree with Providence, Antediluvian, Serpent, and Grace.
Generally classical latin words, especially names like Titus or Flavius.
I keep repeating the name Germanicus to myself anytime I do something badass or manly, like those Veeky Forums anons who hype themselves up by saying "im fucking zyzz bruh" ever since I read about Germanicus and his general badassery
>tfw you will never live in the timeline where Germanicus becomes Emperor
Nightingale
auspice, augur, rosaceous, odalisque, patrimony
Lacedaemon. Fascinating word, it's a fucking shame i will never get a chance to use it.
L E T E A
O B L I V I O S A
Catharsis
Melancholia
Insomnia
Entropy
Schwarzwald
Bastardized
Soyuz
Scheiße
Obliteration
Megalomaniac
Coagulation
Cunnilingus
Imposition
Supernova
Dissonance
Posthumousness
Enlightenment
And of course, cunt
Eldritch
Using it incorrectly brings a smile to my face because I imagine incomprehensible nightmarish qualities applied to whatever I'm describing.
"Bruh I just finished an eldritch shoulder workout"
Same with Kafkaesque, my friend hated when it was used incorrectly by pseud so I made a point to say it inappropriately at least daily.
ayyyyy.
Halicarnassus
Autarch
Icarus
Daedalus
The entire language of Ovid's Metamorphosis is just...moist with delicious words
Auspicious is like suspicious’s sweet cousin
Polynomial sounds cool
Avogadro sounds like Avocado’s Spanish cousin
Gabriel, Daniel, Raphael, basically all the angel names that end with -el
Francesca, Margo, May are my favourite female names
Nero, Maximus, Artemis, Are my favourite pet names
Bartholomew, Jethro, Jebediah, Marcus are my favourite male names
Ew
I raise you auspex and hierophant
Eleanor
Curses — you're truly the worst-est.
you all have fucking awful taste
Acquiesce
Usurp
Prosper
Just some from the top of my head
My two favorite words are
>Beyond
and
>Beautiful
beyond is so soft and yet it describes things that are majestic and transcendent.
I like beautiful more so because I like beauty, real beauty.
Fuck is the most aesthetically pleasing word.
what
anise
What about "err" or "error"?
praxis, telos, tellurian.
this board is for over 25's preferably. fuck off back to /b/
Obnoxious
Not at all, it's only the "er" sound that invokes a caveman going "DUH-ERRRRR." Properly, "err" sounds like "air," which is above reproach.
French:
Anamorphose
Adroitness
Balustrade
Languid
Licentious
desassossego
nausea
ataraxia
I really hate the following words to the extent that i despise the people who use them:
Tantrum
Jigsaw
Poop
Pony
No-brainer
Sebastian
Saragossa
Hyazinthe (ger)
rêve (fr)
Gestade (ger)