What is a five dollar word?
Conversely (five-dollar word), the most valuable word in the English language is “no”. (There is a difference between expensive and valuable.)
What does ten dollar word mean?
Filters. A long and uncommon word used in place of a shorter and simpler one with the intent to appear sophisticated. noun.
What is a four dollar word?
I’m interested in the etymology of the term “four dollar word”. I know it means roughly “big pretentious word” – what I’m curious about is when it became a popular term and why “four dollar” and not “three dollar” or “five dollar” or “one hundred dollar” word.
What is a dollar word?
A dollar word is one whose total value is exactly 100 when each of its letters is assigned a value according to its position in the alphabet: a=1, b=2., z=26. Some examples of dollar words are: contented, cookout, mittens and shadowing. Can you think of a dollar word?
What is a fifty cent word?
According to Merriam-Webster, a fifty-cent word is “an obscure word used to describe a simple idea thus making the user self-important.” Despite the negative connotation, I don’t think using such words is always a bad thing. They can help you say what you mean and challenge your reader, just a bit.
What is a ten cent word?
ten-cent word (plural ten-cent words) (idiomatic) A short and common word used in place of a longer and more uncommon one.
What is a million dollar word?
To make “word choice” sound a little more exciting, I started using the phrase “Million Dollar Words” which means use words that are beyond “blah” and “boring” to make your writing POP with exciting words and interesting synonyms instead of those boring, blah, and overused words.
What is a 50 cent word?
What is the longest dollar word?
adiabatically
Apparently longest of all is the 13-letter word adiabatically, a term from meteorology and thermodynamics referring to any process that occurs without a loss or gain of heat.
What is a 25 cent word?
An uncommon word, often used in place of a more common one with the intent to appear sophisticated. The old man chuckled. “Well, you can bandy twenty-five cent words all you want, but— Say!
Which word has the most Z’s?
zenzizenzizenzic
As well as being a mathematical oddity, it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.