By Eugene Ehrlich
Adjectives have lengthy suffered from undesirable press. for a few years, English lecturers were keen on telling scholars that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of every little thing else."
While it truly is nonetheless a good idea to heed your English teacher's suggestion on so much different issues, The hugely Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the terribly Literate proves that breaking convinced principles could make written and spoken language that a lot livelier, including much-needed colour, variety, and adornment. With this addition to the preferred Highly Selective sequence, the "golden" adjective, finally, will get the superstar therapy it merits. From adventitious to zaftig, well known lexicographer Eugene Ehrlich has amassed greater than 850 of the main fascinating and interesting adjectives within the English language and has supplied concise definitions and instructive utilization examples. no matter if you are a author, a speaker, or a note buff, this compendious, trenchant, laudable, and all-around fantabulous quantity may also help you place panache again into your prose.
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Disinclined; discreetly cautious because of inherent slowness in granting compliments, etc. ” Related words: charily (CHAIR-i-lee) adverb; chariness (CHAIRee-nis) noun. ” parsimonious; miserly. ” Related word: cheeseparer (CHEEZ-pair-er) noun. chimerical (ki-MER-i-kel) From English chimera, literally meaning “she-goat,” + -ical, a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns. Golden Adjectives Churlish / 29 The adjective is also given as chimeric (ki-MER-ik). whimsical; given to fantastic schemes; unreal, imaginary; wildly fanciful.
Injurious; mentally or morally harmful. ” Related words: deleteriously (del-i-TEER-ee-es-lee) adverb; deleteriousness (del-i-TEER-ee-es-nis) noun; delete (di-LEET) verb; deletable (di-LEET-e-bel) adjective. Delphic (DEL-fik) From Latin Delphicus, from Greek Delphikós, both referring to the ancient Greek city of Delphi, which was the site of an oracle of Apollo. ” Of greater importance for the modern reader, however, is the meaning given below. also given as delphic: oracular, obscure, ambiguous.
Deprecatory See deprecative. depreciative See deprecative. ” scoffing; contemptuous; mocking; expressing derision. ” Related words: derisively (di-RI-siv-lee) adverb; derisible (di-RIZ-ebel) adjective; derisiveness (di-RI-siv-nis) and derision (di-RIZHen) both nouns. ” Also given far less frequently as derogative (di-ROG-e-tiv). disparaging; disrespectful; lowering the reputation of someone. ” Related words: derogatorily (di-rog-e-TOR-i-lee) and derogatively (di-ROG-e-tiv-lee) both adverbs; derogatoriness (di-ROG-e-tor-eenis) noun.