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by fzil 1348 days ago
> pulchritudinous

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

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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

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]