Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A morbid aversion to labor. Compare ergasiophobia.
Wiktionary
- n. An irrational fear of work.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ergophobia’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
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word list
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Most Obscure Words
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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φόβος
ablutophobia, acarophobia, acerophobia, agliophobia, batophobia, bibliophobia, brontophobia, bufonophobia, cacophobia, caligynephobia, catoptrophobia, chaetophobia and 221 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Look Busy
Get to work!
ergophobia, elucubrate, karoshi, dogsbody, forswonk, moil, deft, assiduous, panurgic, paperasserie, bumf, blackleg and 91 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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extirpate, ebullition, eisegesis, elide, enervate, ephemeron, ergasiophobia, ergophobia, execrate, epicaricacy, effluvium, eupnoeic and 31 more...
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Words I liked from "Totally Weird an...
"Weird and Wonderful Words" by Erin McKean
autophoby, autological, aspectabund, blandiose, carriwitchet, choronymy, codology, elaqueate, eagre, eutrapely, expergefaction, exonym and 81 more...
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Interesting ones
As a second language, thank you.
ergophobia, quoz, pope, wobble, logos, vertebrate, masterpiece, mu, billabong, mojo, merkin, milieu and 76 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM wants a Selection Criteria that demands demonstrated evidence that the applicant does not have ergophobia Feb 24, 2009
bilby *runs* Nov 12, 2008
whichbe The fear of work. May 12, 2008