Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism.
Examples
“I suppose frustration and despair was always part of the condition of the football fan, but there were times reading through the non-jokey suggestions when the radioactive weltschmertz seemed to subsume everything.”
The Guardian: Readers are so right: football fans need a bill of rights | Marina Hyde
“If it's the old stockbroker syndrome, the suburban fin de siecle ennui, angst, weltschmertz, call it what you will, will it reenjoy?”
“It’s the old stockbroker syndrome, the suburban fin de siècle ennui, angst, weltschmertz, call it what you will.”
Do you ever get that feeling - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘weltschmertz’.
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Side effects may include...
Before you take that medication, you'd better read the warning label.
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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pamelad's Words
lugubrious, antediluvian, decrepitude, anomaly, regurgitate, apoplexy, prolix, incapacitate, discontinuity, bellicose, inclement, frangible and 158 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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tiffani's Words
commentariat, hibakusha, nonpareil, nonplussed, jerrybuilt, lodestar, soi-disant, rout, shtick, pols, supplicant, diffident and 49 more...
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karyotype's Words
weltschmertz, weltanschauung, atavistic, otaku, unguiculation, osculate, heresiarch, hikikomori, genki, maieutic, pamir, osmotheque and 2 more...
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Words I Think Are Awesome
The name is self-explanatory, in my opinion
schadenfreude, demagoguery, rigmarole, morose, laconic, litigious, specious, fallacious, acerbic, scathing, surly, melancholy and 22 more...
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian's Words
hippopotomonstros..., sesquipedalian, yamzetz, dissolute, gelid, indolent, bloviate, conapt, ululate, jeremiad, machinery, gobbet and 29 more...
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swiss's Words
perseverate, ostensibly, recondite, palimpsest, egregious, vociferous, bathos, eviscerate, disambiguate, jubilee, hootenanny, auspicious and 62 more...
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sunhee21's Words
arrears, keen, logophilia, tetrapyloctomy, ahn, crayon, crown, caramel, petty, augury, flotsam, allopathic and 12 more...
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pretty meanings
weltschmertz, ichor, niveous, ersatz, pulicose, mystacal, zeitgeist, sturm und drang, bildungsroman, gravitas, segue, pilcrow and 45 more...
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Words I Love
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