An open list of 24 words by yaybob.
- pulchritude appears on 227 other lists and has 20 comments
- enervate appears on 123 other lists and has 3 comments
- restive appears on 55 other lists and has 2 comments
- puissant appears on 80 other lists and has 10 comments
- redoubtable appears on 66 other lists and has 3 comments
- spendthrift appears on 38 other lists and has 5 comments
- quean appears on 27 other lists and has 6 comments
- matriculate appears on 31 other lists
- tripping appears on 2 other lists
- gainsay appears on 59 other lists and has 1 comment
- nonplus appears on 35 other lists
- prosaic appears on 128 other lists and has 1 comment
- temerity appears on 127 other lists and has 3 comments
- cupidity appears on 90 other lists and has 2 comments
- libertine appears on 93 other lists and has 2 comments
- meretricious appears on 172 other lists and has 5 comments
- inflammable appears on 14 other lists and has 3 comments
- firmament appears on 87 other lists and has 3 comments
- ingenuous appears on 62 other lists and has 4 comments
- toothsome appears on 76 other lists and has 2 comments
- wizened appears on 42 other lists
- licentious appears on 84 other lists and has 1 comment
- dissever appears on 6 other lists
- noisome appears on 96 other lists and has 2 comments
yaybob I suspect that until they know better, most people wouldn't trust a person described as ingenuous or redoubtable, but might be attracted to one that they were told possesssed cupidity, was libertine or licentious. Wouldn't you rather meet a meretricious, nonplussed, queanly spendthrift with a wizened face and her feet planted firmly in the firmament more than a tripping one with a pulchritudinous face? Temerarious and puissant sound frightened and reserved. Restive and enervated sound calming and charged up respectively. Prosaic speech sounds like it might be flowery, lofty or lauditory, and inflammable sounds a lot safer than flammable. Dec 4, 2008
yaybob Admittedly, this is a very subjective quality in a word. Still, there must be a degree of objectivity to this trait, since many people will agree that many of these words fit this description. Dec 3, 2008