Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin venustus, from Venus the goddess of love. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In a copy now before me, lately the property of one of our most eminent critics, Mr. Fark, I read the following very just quotation, in his handwriting: 'Multa venust ` e, multa tenuiter multa cuni bile.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘venust’.
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Verbophile's Words
callidity, evirate, calcitrate, periplus, versipel, dout, putanism, subvene, repristinate, impleach, ferruginate, incrassate and 153 more...
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Beautiful, Pretty or Comely
Words meaning beautiful, pretty or comely.
attractive, pulchritudinous, pulchrous, pulchrious, venust, belle, gorgeous, specious, formose, formous, splendid, magnificent
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bolster that prose
abject, abeyance, acumen, aplomb, apothegm, argot, avaunter, Diderot, invidious, nacreous, pavonine, hackney and 53 more...
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New to me
baronial, cruas, ita palm, magnifical, sea cocoa, solempne, magnific, twirlingly, voxel, venust, amaranthine, eximious and 45 more...
Tweets
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seanahan The t really takes away from the beauty of the word. Nov 6, 2007
pavonine From the goddess Venus - beautiful;pleasant Nov 6, 2007