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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.
I never wish to be easily defined.
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
this word needs to be reworded ==========
I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.
Indecision is a decision.
abstruse (ab-STROOCE), adjective Complex and difficult to comprehend. Abstruse refers to something complex or specialized that requires special effort to grasp.
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning - and evidently does - quite opposite to my intention.
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.
You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first
Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.
First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.
I don't like the intellectual label.
Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
You are the capital U in Unhelpful.
You're incorrigible," she said. Gathering up his socks and shoes. he crawled into the driver's seat and said, "No, I'm recidivous." Katie blinked at him. "What does that mean?" Giving her a smacking kiss, he said, "Incorrigible."
-Katie & Chase
I am pretty unextraordinary.
The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described.
The world is full of incomprehensible words
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
But he found himself rounding syllables like stones in his mouth, silently. He knew he was shy, and thought to be stupid; he was beginning to suspect, thought, that he wasn't stupid. Perhaps not even slow. Merely uneducated. But not, he hoped, uneducable.
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
This is the antonym of excellent.
Unforgettable" is an adjective that one use with regard to certain people, places, or incidents on the way to "forgotten.
Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
Unpunctuality is a vile habit.
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
ADVENTITIOUS (ADVENTI'TIOUS) adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
Impossibility is a dictionary word.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and
Just another four-letter word.
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
Don't use language instrumentally
There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
Better untaught than ill-taught.
In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.
Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.
Unsentimental and heartless aren't the same.
Resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz! Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,
Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.
The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.
I always choose to use the word often instead of (unintelligible). Just changing it up, changing it up.
A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!
Negative words other than not are usually strong:
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
that word. He was twenty-eight years old and
The genius of the word is that it's more of an expression than a word. Nook
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge.
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
Decisive is definite.
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
I'mHereBecauseIHearYou'reDatingMySister.-- Kyra Davis
I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.
ANIENTED (A'NIENTED) adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing.
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
There were the years - years of childhood and innocence - when I had believed that carminative meant - well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life - a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.
You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective, I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard.
There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.
When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.
one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
I don't want to be easily defined.
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
A word is not simply a word.