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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by fzil on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:18PM (#33199267)
> pulchritudinous

wow, that's some word of the year type shit. it means "beautiful" for those who were about to look it up.

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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by dmitriid on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:59AM (#33201205)
To my non-native ear it sounds/looks like a word that means anything but beautiful.

Basically, what does horgous look like https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791

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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by chrismorgan on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:13AM (#33201293)
Fear not, there’s basically universal agreement that pulchritude is an ugly word.
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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by marginalia_nu on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:43AM (#33201456)
A lot of basic first-250-words-of-latin vocabulary has become pretentious English words for some reason.

Pulchritudinous [ pulchre = beautiful ]

Virile [vir = man]

Tacit [tacite = quietly]

Ossify [os = bone]

Stultify [stultus = dumb]

Puerile [puer = boy]

Amicable [amice = friendly]

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