Wednesday, January 7, 2009

I'm not even being facetious!

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":

tremendous
–adjective
1. extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
2. extraordinary in excellence: a tremendous movie.
3. dreadful or awful, as in character or effect; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.

horrendous –adjective
shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.

stupendous
–adjective
1. causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
2. amazingly large or great; immense: a stupendous mass of information.

hazardous
–adjective
1. full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
2. dependent on chance.



There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:

abstemious
–adjective
1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
2. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life.
3. sparing: an abstemious diet.

facetious
–adjective
1. not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
2. amusing; humorous.
3. lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.

**** I had no Idea what abstemious meant so i technically learned 2 things today.
and just as a side note, facetious is my favorite word of all time.

1 comment:

  1. I didn't even know how to spell facetious! I like it, too.

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