Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The use of literal as opposed to figurative expressions, or of words in clear and definite senses.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kyriolexy’.
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phrontistery - k
from phrontistery.info
kyrielle, kyrie, kyphosis, kyriolexy, kymograph, kyloe, kyllosis, kylin, kvass, kurtosis, kyphorrhinos, ktenology and 189 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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-lexia, -lexis, -lexy
speech
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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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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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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50 K for 50K
A list of 50 words featuring the letter K to mark listing my 50,000th entry at Wordie/Wordnik. The 50,000th was kerasine because I'm fond of arcane adjectives. The Irish term kitthoge is a nod to m...
kerasine, killcow, kinkhab, kirking, kinetheodolite, killcrop, klendusic, kitthoge, kish, kistvaen, knickpoint, knosp and 38 more...
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Any cool words
oneiric, ostrobogulous, nebulochaotic, ludic, misoneism, katzenjammer, accipitrine, hebephrenic, writhen, escutcheon, ramose, quixotic and 14 more...
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K -- L words
lachanopolist, loxoma, levulosuria, kedotherapy, kymotrichous, laurophile, lienocele, lienomyelogenous, kolyseptic, kimbly, keedug, kiyoodle and 45 more...
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sionnach the use of literal expressions Apr 14, 2008