Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘micawber’.
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[Open] Correctly-spelled words that l...
Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
(Here’s the original list with a slo...orignal, refect, collum, lightening, manakin, neumatic, mutch, miosis, radicle, tryptic, kyack, apatite and 119 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 234 more...
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A Time of Gifts
lambent, gonfalon, ait, eyrie, haberdashery, belfry, capstan, spinney, barbican, hobnail, wharf, waterlogged and 64 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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Namesakes
Words derived from names, be they historical, literary, or mythological.
quixotic, cereal, odyssey, jovial, mercurial, erotic, achilles' heel, confucianism, lovecraftian, narcissism, echo, fallopian and 101 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 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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Specific
philtrum, subitize, agelast, abderian, tyro, zenocratically, logorrhea, aceldama, micawber, foyer, hircine, losel and 95 more...
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What the Dickens!
Words and phrases coined or made popular by Charles Dickens.
Sources: http://thewordmaven.wordpress.com...Scrooge, Pecksniffian, Pickwickian, Faginesque, Bumble, Dolly Varden, Uriah Heap, Dickensian, micawber, podsnappery, A-1, ain’t and 18 more...
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Eponymous Words
Words derived from people's names
micawber, McGuffin, Cassandra, Pangloss, Jeremiah, quisling, Mitty, rhadamanthine, morphean, bacchanal, icarian, Xanthippe
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Alex's List
placebo, aestival, aethereal, misoneism, micawber, lascivious, quotidian
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SwanySwan's Words
funner, squircle, synchronicity, micawber, forb, mell, psilanthropy, digerati, looby, nabob, noob, xerosis and 17 more...
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swanyswan one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune --- oh yeah, that's totally me! Oct 25, 2007