Author: Paul Schleifer
Word of the Day: Aeolian
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of www.dictionary.com, is aeolian, an adjective meaning “pertaining to Aeolus, or to the winds in general,” or “(usually lowercase) of or caused by the wind; wind-blown.” […]
Word of the Day: Incredulous
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of www.wordthink.com’s word of the day, is incredulous. Believe it or not, the adjective does not mean the same thing as incredible, which means […]
Word of the Day: Hapless
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of WordSmith.org, is hapless, an adjective meaning “unfortunate,” according to Anu Garg at A.Word.a.Day. He says that the etymology is “from Old Norse happ […]
Word of the Day: Pragmatic
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to WordThink.com, is pragmatic. Pragmatic is an adjective that means “More concerned with practical results than with theories and principles.” According to www.dictionary.com, it […]
Word of the Day: Saturnine
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary’s Online Word of the Day, is the adjective saturnine. The OED’s definition is long: “In regard to a person’s […]
Word of the Day: Wistful
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to the Word Genius website, is wistful. Wistful, according to Word Genius, means “Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing.” According […]
Word of the Day: Mutable
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Bronx Chronicle, is mutable, an adjective meaning “Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature…changeable” (https://thebronxchronicle.com/). According to www.dictionary.com, it means, “liable or subject to change or alteration; given […]
Word of the Day: Villain
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Swynfen Jervis’s A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare, is villain, a noun meaning a servant or a slave, according to Jervis. He […]
Word of the Day: Diplomacy
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary, is the noun diplomacy. Diplomacy means, “1. the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between […]
Word of the Day: Love
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary (Walter Neale, 1911), is love. The website www.etymonline.com has three paragraphs on the word: “Old English lufu ‘feeling of love; […]
Word of the Day: Gimcrack
Today’s word of the day, thanks to A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare by Swynfen Jervis (John Russell Smith, 1868, p. 143) is gimcrack. A gimcrack is, according to […]
Word of the Day: Advice
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Foolish Dictionary by Gideon Wurdz, is advice. Advice is a noun which, according to www.dictionary.com, means 1. “an opinion or recommendation offered […]