What are some words that sound heavy? (not mean heavy...sound heavy)
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June 29th, 2009
I have to make a list of ten words that SOUND heavy, light, ugly and beautiful. Not words that mean those things. This is harder than I thought.
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So we should do it for you?
Conundrum
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Curmudgeon
Schoolwork? Try browsing a thesaurus, some poetry, and some print advertising and think about the word choices. I’m sure part of the point of the exercise is for you to do your own thinking.
Borrow
Cog
Tournament
Thud
Suet
Dung
Parka
Dolorous.
Brown.
Conundrum.
Phantasmagorical
Onomatopoeia
Infinitesimally
Defenestrated
Androgynously
Legerdemainist
Superciliousness
Reciprocity
Linguistical
Necromancer
These are just examples. You are forbidden to use them in your homework assignment. If you do use them, I’m turning you into the principal for plagiarism and you will be banned from Fluther. This is your only warning.
doom and gloom mean and sound heavy…...now give me lots of lurve…...
@Bluefreedom: You get the A. Tadpole gets a “time out” for groveling.
ex-wife
bloodsucker
liar
stain
useless
I’m sorry. What was the question again?
@gailcalled like i think about it real hard then give it to him for free?? :)
To me, Phantasmagorical, Onomatopoeia, Infinitesimally, Androgynously, Legerdemainist,
Superciliousness, Reciprocity, Linguistical and Necromancer sound light weight.
Words like dunderhead, thump, debauch, dubbed, angharad, and kasortsiab are heavy words.
wow you guys are real literate..i feel ashamed i asked for lurve….
okey dokey then. Thanks to all. I will keep working. Can’t use a thesaurus… I appreciate your input. Have a good one!
One of my favorite words that sounds heavy, light, ugly and beautiful all at the same time is crepuscular. It actually means something kind of beautiful though, of or pertaining to twilight. BTW why can’t you use a thesaurus?
Heavy- brute stomp moon ominous
Light- whisper drift list
Ugly- elk yolk finger
Beautiful- lace Hawaii pearl ivory
One day [Max Beerbohm] said to [Robert] Hichens, “Do you think, Crotchet, that a word can be beautiful, just one word?”
“Yes,” Hichens said, “I can think of several words that seem to me beautiful.”
“Ah?”
A pause.
“Then tell me, do you think the word ‘ermine’ is a beautiful word?”
“Yes,” Hichens said, I like the sound of it very much.”
“Ah?”
Another pause.
“And do you think ‘vermin’ is a beautiful word?”
David Cecil, Max (1965) p. 108
Can we talk about how sexy a word “lozenge” is? Anything with that ndÊ’ sound.
Edit: How neat that it’s also a math term!
Stonehenge, unhinged, change, strange, enjoy,engine. Stonehenge would surely be considered heavy rather than sexy.
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