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> pulchritudinous wow, that's some word of the year type shit. it means "beautiful" for those who were about to look it up.

• dmitriid 4y ago
  To my non-native ear it sounds/looks like a word that means anything but beautiful. Basically, what does horgous look like https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791
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  • marginalia_nu 4y ago
    A lot of basic first-250-words-of-latin vocabulary has become pretentious English words for some reason. Pulchritudinous [ pulchre = beautiful ] Virile [vir = man] Tacit [tacite = quietly] Ossify [os = bone] Stultify [stultus = dumb] Puerile [puer = boy] Amicable [amice = friendly]