Impress your friends with these words!
 

I'm posting some unusual words and phrases here, in case anyone needs to impress someone with their language skills ;) I know only English, but other languages are welcome.

First we have my favorite:
Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act of deeming something worthless

Tortuous - do not confuse this with torturous! - full of twists and turns, basically complicated

Inevitable - I know some of you may know this, but I love this word and thought it deserved a place here - cannot be avoided

Aargh... I'm drawing a blank here. I'll remember more later. Sorry for not having a longer list.

inevitable is quiet common isn't it? or maybe it's just used a lot in Sweden's eng class.
I'll never be able to pronounce that Flocc.. wow XD

when i was a kid they use to teach us this word by song, it has a tune but i dont remeber it now


superfragilisticexpialidocious

it was a fun kids song lol, but i dont know what it means, if i had to guess id say "love" maybe.....shrug* if you think about it, lol

"the sense of speedy fragilism expressed in emotion...." maybe...lol

OMG! :eek: I was thinking the same thing :D

You don't hear these either. They were on SAT's.

perplexed : puzzled, confused

sordid : filthy, dirty.

Okay, but I still love inevitable...

I forgot Perturbation, which is something that causes agitation.

Perplexed is on a what?! I thought those were harder than that...

i have a hard time pronouncing inevitable

Those aren't that uncommon.

Other than "floccinaucinihilipilification"... None of them seem all that uncommon to me.

Makes me wonder just how many people out there don`t understand me when I use some of these in regular conversation.

lol thats a made up word from mary poppins... :D

hey now, thats not very nice...

I just like inevitable, okay? I thought no one knew tortuous...

we use those words in Italian too (except the flocc thing) so to me they are easier than other English words. they're almost the same: toruous-tortuoso, inevitable-inevitabile, perplexed-perplesso, sordid-sordido

Sorry for the really easy ones; I couldn't think of any really hard words. Even floccinaucinihilipilification is easy once you memorize it.

Okay, I realized something. You are all intelligent, but I come from a school where most people couldn't tell you what "reprimand" means, even if their life depended on it. I know; it's so unfortunate, all those minds wasted in teenage life...:pinkcry: I can't wait to be rid of this country.

I didn't know it until I was 13. My parents used it a lot, but I never asked the meaning.:o

I like Melancholy, that is rather common. It means gloomy/sad.

Misanthrope means a distrust/hate/dislike for humans.

And I also like Juxtaposition, hard to describe but it sort of means comparing two things that are of a different standard, like a binary opposite,

Misanthrope and Juxtaposition aren't reall used much, only in school essays >.<

I have one I think is also quite uncommon (in normal English speaking...as J.K.R. used this as the language of goblins...you may heard it alreday^^) gobbledygook ~ don't know how to explain what it means^^' ~ maybe something like nonsense...

woahhh some new words there eiy, here's what you can to someone if they say something bad to you

how dare you insinuate that i would tolerate such a diabolical statement
from a dimutive scrap of society such as you,
if you persist in such an annoyance
i will summon all of my physical & mental powers
ang pulvurise you & your pugnacious tounge
in other words.......shut up! :D

That would thoroughly discombobulate someone.

Or just leave them dumbfounded.

use Oxymoron in a sentence & expound it' meaning

My friend actually found this out, totally bizarre:

--Longest word.

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosy -
lglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminy -
lleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycyla -
lanylphenylalanylvalylprolyphenylalanYlvalythre -
onylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylg -
lutamylglutaminylsErylleucyllysylisoleucy -
laspartylthreonylleucylIsoleucylglutamy -
lalanylglycylalanylasparthlalanylleucylg -
lutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylse -
Rylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylp -
RolylthreOnylisoleucylglutaminylasPfraginylal -
anylthreonylleucylarfinylalanylphenylalanylalany -
lalanylglycylvalythreonylprolylalanylglutaminy -
lcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucy -
lalanylleuOylisoleucylarginylglutaminy -
llysyhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylproly -
lisoleucylglycylleucylmethionyltyrosylalany -
lasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginy -
llysyglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalany -
lthrosylalanylglutaminylcsteinylglutamyllysylva -
lylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalny -
laspartylvalylprolylvalylglUtaminylglutamylsery -
lalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalany -
lalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginyvalylalany -
lprolylisoleucylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucy -
lphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalany -
laspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginy -
lglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycy -
larginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrOsylleucyl -
leucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreony -
lglycylalanylglutamYlasparainylarginylalany -
lalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidy -
lleucylValylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamy -
ltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylpro -
lylleucylglutaminylglgycylphenylalanylglycy -
lisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminy -
lvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalany -
lglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylsery -
lglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoIeucy -
lisoleucylglutamylglutaminylHistidylasparaginy -
liSoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionyl -
leucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanyl -
calylglutaminylprolylmethionlysylalanylalanylt -
hreonylarginylserine.

I wouldn't really count chemical compounds as the longest word personally.

God, you gotta be so picky!

Yeah longest words tend to be chemicals. The longest one I know that isn't is antidisestablishmentarianism.